ORDER: The arrangement or disposition of people or things in relation to each other according to a particular sequence, pattern, or method.
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DISORDER: a state of confusion
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Over the summer holidays we were supposed to take two pictures every day; one depicting order and the other showing disorder. Here are some of mine:
Taken on an iphone
Taken on my DSLR
Mind Map
Exhibition
SMALL TOWN INERTIA - J A Mortram
For this task, I decided to visit a smaller, more local gallery (The Camden Image Gallery) to see an exhibition.
All the photographs are part of a series by J A Mortram (an English photographer) and are in the styles of portrait and/or documentary photography. Mortram photographs in black and white and uses shadows and highlights to enhance his pictures. His images are aimed to open minds and promote empathy for those living outside of society's welcoming arms. He believes that "photography has never had the opportunity to do such important work" so he regularly sells his images in order to give the profits to charity. |
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Symmetry
Symmetry is often used in modern architecture and often shows order within the disorder of cities. With a mirror we photographed architectural symmetry around school, displaying order within our compositions. Some of the environments were already symmetrical but most were made with the use of the mirror next to the lens.
3D Image
GIFs
How To Make A GIF
1. Create a document in photoshop. Open all the frames you intend to use in separate layers on one tab by adding a new layer each time a new photo is uploaded.
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2. Click the Window tab and choose Animation from the drop down menu. (i.e Window -> Animation)
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3. Create frames for each individual layer by 'viewing' one at a time as you click each new animation frame.
4. Alter the timing of each frame to 0.1 seconds (or faster\slower depending on how much of a delay is needed between frames) |
Todd Mclellan - Things Fall Apart
In Things Come Apart, the Canadian photographer, Todd McLellan exposes the inside of 50 objects with 21,959 individual components. He attempts to reflect the permanence of everyday machines built several decades ago, he shows that they are meant to be broken and repaired. This can be compared to today's trend of technology with a limited lifetime. In one of two pictures (of each collection) from the series he shoots high-speed photos in which the pieces are shot in midair and come crashing down, creating impressive visual explosions and a sense of disorder. In the second picture he carefully arranges the dismantled objects and photographs them against a constant white background in his studio.
My response
My responses show both order and disorder.
The smashed phone shows disorder as it has fallen apart and is fragmented, there is no symmetry or neatness to the image except the background which exaggerates the lack of order created by the broken phone.
However, the phone when lined up has been ordered and made neat as if it wasn't broken, making it far from disorderly.
The lighting is different in the images so the background is less constant. This could be improved by using a studio light rather than natural light from the window.
The smashed phone shows disorder as it has fallen apart and is fragmented, there is no symmetry or neatness to the image except the background which exaggerates the lack of order created by the broken phone.
However, the phone when lined up has been ordered and made neat as if it wasn't broken, making it far from disorderly.
The lighting is different in the images so the background is less constant. This could be improved by using a studio light rather than natural light from the window.
Three strands
3D images and portraits
Examples by Matias Troncoso I want to recreate 'normal' 3d but with images by moving layers over eachother further and introducing surrealism into my images with order and disorder, because the layers are the same next to eachother (order) but in the middle where they merge disorder is created. I feel that portraiture represents order and disorder in 3d images more simply rather than a landscape photograph which is often crowded.
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Symmetry - Within the city
Examples by photographer Duncan George. He often photographs architectural details and symmetry within buildings
He says, cities are cluttered places. You should narrow your field of vision and seek out smaller scenes playing with or picking out architectural details. The more you walk around looking for points of interest the more you see. You could walk the same busy road in London every day and there would always be something new to capture.
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Typology - Similar objects
Examples by British photographer Patricia Pastore
The idea of getting a number of objects that people see every day and dismiss adds some importance to the object and allows people to see it differently, whether thats in a positive or negative light.
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Cigarette Typology - Strand 3 Response
Firstly, I photographed cigarette butts against a white background with a light to try and keep the exposure the same but I had to adjust my camera and as a result most pictures came out differently. So, I edited them in photoshop to try and achieve continuity in the setting which contrasted the different cigarettes.
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3D Portraiture - Strand 1
Born January 15th 1955, Gursky is a German Photographer and Professor. The perspective in lots of his photos is from an elevated vantage point, allowing the viewer to encounter scenes which are ordinarily beyond reach. Gursky is drawn to large man made spaces, office lobbies, stock exchanges and interiors of large retailers. He often repeats or reflects symmetrical images to make them on a larger scale.
Symmetry - Strand 2 response
This is my favourite strand because the whole image is simply ordered even if the landscape itself seems disordered, the other side is exactly the same.
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I've decided to change my theme of symmetry to portrait symmetry as I found the work of Julian Wolkenstein (i.e challenging social ideas of beauty) more interesting
Portrait Symmetry
This photographer and researcher has created two artistic projects in recent years that have explored the ideas of symmetry and beauty and attempted to challenge our perceptions of each. In 2010 he cast a "test group" of models and asked that they display no emotion while photographing them straight on. He released two photographs for each model -one which used the right side of the face as a template from which to mirror the other side, and vice versa. He found that the two images produced were very different from each other and from the model’s true expression.
Wolkenstein's portrait collection gathered plenty of press attention and many fans of his work were asking if he'd take symmetrical images of them.
This public interest encouraged him to create the Echoism app in 2011 which allows people to mirror their own faces
Wolkenstein's portrait collection gathered plenty of press attention and many fans of his work were asking if he'd take symmetrical images of them.
This public interest encouraged him to create the Echoism app in 2011 which allows people to mirror their own faces
My Response
This is my contact sheet of the portraits i took initially. I deviated away from the usual 'portrait' style by taking the pictures landscape to be a little more different to Wolkenstein.
Some images look too unrealistic because I didnt edit them from the exact middle of the image, I need to find a more suitable middle point
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'Both sides of' series
Portrait symmetry continued
FIRST: I took photographs of people in the studio in front of a white background, I demanded that they look straight forward with no expression to create the same composition in images. I improved the lighting since my last set of observations in the studio by making the light brighter and slowing down my shutter speed
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SECOND: I edited the pictures in photoshop to reflect each side and create 2 symmetrical portraits for each person. I used a ruler in photoshop in order to maintain a constant middle of the face and made layers of each side of the face to put on top of the original image.
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I decided to incorporate my symmetrical portraits with my 3d images, to create the same look as the 3d portraits while having both sides of one person reflected on one image. This shows order (i.e symmetrical faces) with disorder when they are placed together and slightly overlapping.
FINAL IMAGES (slideshow)
I used images 9 from both sets of observations, as odd numbers have a more appealing aesthetic. I edited them to make the lighting the same to keep a constant background