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Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Tone
Tone
Theory and definition:
•This
refers to the lightness or darkness of something. This could be a shade or how
dark or light a colour
appears.
•Tones
are created by the way light falls on a 3D object. The parts of the object on
which the light is strongest are called highlights and
the darker areas are called shadows.
There will a range of tones in between the highlights and shadows.
•Without
tone Form does
not exist, tone is therefore an important aspect in the visualisation of
3D objects.
Image Bank:
Research:
Peter Martin was born in Toronto, Canada and developed his first pictures at the age of 13. He became a professional at 16 when a photo was published on the front page of a Toronto daily newspaper. At 17 he began free-lancing and continued his career as a staff photographer for newspapers in 3 Canadian cities: Toronto, Edmonton and Montreal. He has since covered more than 10,000 assignments over a 40-year career and has traveled extensively on assignment throughout North America, Europe, the Orient and the South Pacific photographing sports, fashion, portraits and in depth features. In 2004 he resigned from the Montreal Gazette after 16 years on staff to pursue personal projects .Peter has won significant critical recognition for his work including a Canadian National Newspaper Award and Recognition of Achievement Awards from both the Ontario and Alberta News Photographers Association.
(from the gallery website)↓
(from the gallery website)↓
The Constellation Series
The Lockheed Super Constellation. One of the most beautiful and iconic commercial aircraft ever built. This model, on display at the Munich Airport made its maiden flight on April 19th, 1955. Its last flight was March 9th 1967.
Photographed on 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 (6x6 cm) black and white Tri-X film using a vintage Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera.
Martin in this series has used a range on tones within the zone system, from 0-10. This allows him to use the large contrast gradient to express the feelings of age and use of this aircraft, indicating the prowess and strength of this engineering marvel.
This series of black and white images are perfectly exposed and the shadowing exentuates details of the subject, along with the using the grayscale to create a sense of depth.
(AO:1. You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Contact sheet:
Series: Brick and steel
Images that require improvement:
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
I felt that this image needed improvement as it had poor tonal range as well as very poor framing and composition. I decided to put the image into photoshop and altered the highlights and shadows, in order to give more detail. Additionally I cropped the image to help fix its dead space and tighten the composition up. The following screenshots show the evolution of the
This series of black and white images are perfectly exposed and the shadowing exentuates details of the subject, along with the using the grayscale to create a sense of depth.
(AO:1. You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Contact sheet:
Series: Brick and steel
Series: Swan lake
Images that require improvement:
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
I felt that this image needed improvement as it had poor tonal range as well as very poor framing and composition. I decided to put the image into photoshop and altered the highlights and shadows, in order to give more detail. Additionally I cropped the image to help fix its dead space and tighten the composition up. The following screenshots show the evolution of the
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Inspirations and ideas
Series: Brick and steel
This inspiration was to create a series of images using building mainly built of glass , using the reflection to create a vast tonal range against the shadows. I attempted to use a 2/3rds rule when composing the images. the light was conveniently hitting the windows which allowed me to exploit that factor to open up the lower tones of an image then underexposing the image overall in order to create the darker for higher tones present in the zone system scale.
Series: Swan lake
On a family walk in the local woods in evening light i stumbled upon a family of swans. the water had the reflection of the sunset which I feel similarly to the glass in "Brick and steel". The white swans also where overexposed purposely to expand the tonal range. i tired to use a lower iso as light was limited but the image became slightly grainy so i had t sacrifice the amount of light.
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
Camera settings:
Series: Brick and steel
It was bright and sunny day so my ISO was set at 800 with an f stop of 11 to create a larger amount of detail, i struggled to use my tripod there fore the images were taken lying down with a shotgun hold. the shutter speed was at 1/2000 as light had to be limited to a certain point.
Series: Swan lake
As the light was very limited i had to reduce the ISO to 200 which meant that the images would come out relatively grainy, to combat this i had to increase the shutter speed to roughly 1\125 and lower the ISO to around 7.8.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
Best images
Series: Swan lake
On a family walk in the local woods in evening light i stumbled upon a family of swans. the water had the reflection of the sunset which I feel similarly to the glass in "Brick and steel". The white swans also where overexposed purposely to expand the tonal range. i tired to use a lower iso as light was limited but the image became slightly grainy so i had t sacrifice the amount of light.
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
Camera settings:
Series: Brick and steel
It was bright and sunny day so my ISO was set at 800 with an f stop of 11 to create a larger amount of detail, i struggled to use my tripod there fore the images were taken lying down with a shotgun hold. the shutter speed was at 1/2000 as light had to be limited to a certain point.
Series: Swan lake
As the light was very limited i had to reduce the ISO to 200 which meant that the images would come out relatively grainy, to combat this i had to increase the shutter speed to roughly 1\125 and lower the ISO to around 7.8.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
Best images
Form
Form
Theory
•Sculpture and 3D design are about creating forms.
•In 2D artworks, tone and perspective can be used to create an illusion of form.
Image bank:
Series 2: "Home of the machines"
Theory
Definition
•Form
is a three
dimensional shape,
such as a cube, sphere or cone.•Sculpture and 3D design are about creating forms.
•In 2D artworks, tone and perspective can be used to create an illusion of form.
Image bank:
(AO:1. You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Contact sheet:
Best images/Series:
Series 1: "Retired birds"
Series 2: "Home of the machines"
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
Images that need improvement:
I feel this image of the aircraft hanger need a bit of improvement, this is due to the large lens flare which causes part of the photograph to be distorted and ambiguous, additionally it shows that the settings I was photographing on were not suitable for bright light there fore next time I should use a polarised filter in order to filter and block bright light and adjust or even underexpose the settings so that I can still get formal detail in black and white photography.
if i was to retake that image i would also use a tripod to improve clarity of the photograph.
Inspirations and ideas:
Series 1: "Retired birds"
The idea with this series was to capture old previous ww2 flying aircraft and to show their beauty and difficulty of engineering through form using black and white photography to extenuate curvatures and depth of photographs withe the recurring theme of the thought that one day the aircraft will eave its hanger once more and can spread its wings. The inspiration came from my love of aviation from a young ages as planes have always been such simply yet complicated machines.
Series 2: "Home of the machines"
Similarly in relation to aviation, this series focuses on where some of these machines are housed, in a amazingly designed bunker type hanger made of modernised glass and steel, contrasting with the old rustic nature of the aircraft living within its walls. the focus was to capture this strucutre using reflections and harsh light tot highlight its form using scale to show its size and hint at how man can construct such buildings
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
Camera settings
Series 1: "Retired birds"
This series was shot indoors in a restoration hanger, at RAF Duxford. The ISO was to set 1600 in order to create a slightly grainy set of images to give an old and vintage feel in relation to the wartime aircraft I was photographing. the f/stop at 10 was to achieve clarity as well as let slightly more light in as although the hanger was well lit with artificial lighting, it was a limited factor in the series. this shutter was therefore at 1/500 to capture just the right amount of light so i could use the reflections of the aluminium to show various forms. The focus of the composition was to capture these aircraft being worked on and being idle, for this i decided to use 2/3 rule to ensure that the framing was correct and there was plenty for the audience to interact with , including the hidden implication.
Series 2: "Home of the machines"
On the same day outside at Duxford it was rather bright with low cloud cover and a 60 degree angle of light, to combat this harsh light i had to max out ISO at 1600 and f/stop at 22 with a high shutter speed of 1/2000. This allowed me to capture this american aerospace hanger in its natural beauty and in extreme clarity. With composition i decided to play with scale, by including at least one humanoid figure through the series to show the sheer size of this engineering marvel.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements
Out of all the images I've taken I fee that these best capture my thoughts and ideas:
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