Colour

Colour

Colour can indicate different moods and emotions within a photograph. For example, the colour yellow can present a very happy and bright mood to the picture. However, the colour blue can be seen as a sad, almost depressing effect applied when in an image. 

(Sad Photography)

(Happy Photography)

(Billie Eilish Music Video- Sad Photography)

(Little Mix Music Video- Happy Photography)

Definitions:

• Analogous colours next to each other on the colour wheel "get along" and are referred to as being harmonious. Analogous colours are often used in visual design and have a soothing affect.
• Complimentary colours exhibit more contrast when positioned adjacent to each other -for example yellow appears more intense when positioned on or beside blue or violet (see picture below).
  

(Analogous)

(Muted Photography)

(Intense Photography)

(Saturated Photography)

(Warm Photography)

(Cool Photography)

(Vivid Photography)

(Dull Photography)

William Egglestone

William Eggleston was born July 1939 and is an American Photographer. He is widely credited for increasing recoginition for colour photography as a lgitimate artistic medium.

I like the style of his work as it presents a wide variety of certain colours within very unique and different settings/objects. However, a majority of his work is setting quite a happy and vibrant mood within the photos. There is not a majority of dark colours or negative emotions within many of the photographs.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr was born May 1952 and is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, stratical and anthropological look at aspects. I enjoy his sense of comedy within the photographs but he also doesn't seem to produce many pieces of work with holding a negative mood or dark colours. Therefore, when taking my own photographs I plan to focus on both different moods/effects that can be created.

Contact Sheets:

Line

Definition & Theory

Research (of artists and techniques)

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

Peter Keetman

Peter Keetman was born in April 1916 and was a German photographer. He left behind a legacy of photography which focused on close-up photographs as well as his interesting taste for the abnormal. Aspects like the closeness and focus of Keetmans work interest me due to the fine detail. However, I would like to use clour in some of my own photographs when experimenting with lines.

Walker Evans

Walker Evans was born Novermber 1903 and he was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration cocumenting the effects of the Great Depression. I enjoy the different perspective of lines that Evans has found in different areas, but I would also like to iclude photographs that allow me to focus on the lines within nature. Due to a favourite theme of mine being nature and its natural looks.

Contact Sheets

My Best Images: (Non-Edits)

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.  

Images that Require Improvements:





 

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

• (Here you will discuss how you developed your work based on your research of e.g. artists/photographers, theory e.g. relating to the formal elements, an idea you had following a visit to an exhibition,  etc).
• You must critically analyse the your work (how good is it, how can it be improved)

Post the best 4 images after editing with Photoshop.

(At the end of the entry you will discuss whether you have produced a personal and meaningful response, this means  (are my images creative/relevant to the subject area studied/connected and influenced by any research undertaken).

Editing my Images:

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














When editing my photograps I focused on increasing the contrast and


Final Editing Results: