Work Record 3

Shoot 3:

Plan:

My aim of this shoot was to photograph the clouds on a tripod, to produce strong individual images of abstract compositions that will allow me to produce a series of composite images in Photoshop.
This is the main style I would like to focus on for my exam pieces.

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.

Research:

I have taken inspiration from the portrait artist Amanda Clyne who paints portraits as a part of a composite image predominantly in strips.  By using the same technique of separating the image into different styles of stripes and shape I would like to achieve a similar effect as Clyne's portraits that give an eerie ambiguous feel about the identity of the people in her art works, where as i decided to contrast that theme but with the use of clouds.
This is a painting of hers and this style of image with slight variations such as inverting I will use to try and replicate in my own style with clouds.

contact sheets:

AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.

Camera settings:

The focus of this shoot was the extract the details of the clouds and pick up highlights on the feathers edges. as i was shooting into the sun to get highlights the ISO and exposure time had to be increase to 1600 ISO and 1/125s respectively. this is so that i could avoid much o the highlights and pick up the finer detail of the clouds whisky edges.  

the high f stop of 32 was present as i wanted to capture the full detail the the clouds-scape and ensure no part was out of focus.

these setting allowed me to capture clear crisp images which i further developed by putting them into Photoshop.

I was using a tripod so motion blur of any sort wouldn't occur as well as a lens shade that help to cancel out glare and sun marks on the images as I was shooting on a bright sunny day. However if redoing the shoot i would use a polariser and UV filter so manipulate the blue and haze the sky as some fuzzy images where taken where haze was corrupting the image. 

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.

after taking the images I began the meticulous task of editing them in the slice format that Amanda Clyneuses throughout her work. The ruler function helped me to mark out all the thin strips as you can see below and i selected then using the select tool, which then led me to inverting alternate sections. After doing this in the ao4 my final images have a 3d feel to them although they are flat images. This was a discovery I made after completing the edit below and I feel these would work well on a large scale gallery setting.

Similarly i created then other images using the same slicing technique in both strips and boxes for different effects.

I am very happy with the development of the images and feel that this is one of the main areas i will incorporate into my exam pieces specifically with the technique of inversion contrast at the for front.

AO4

These are my best edited images