seventh artefact unit

this lesson i was only there for half the lesson because i had a exam.
First I helped jessica with her test shots and then i went to think about how i would shoot my test shots. I found after helping jessica with hers that they arnt as simple as they look and it could take quite alot of shots to get the right shot that you wanted. I decided to make little sketches of what i wanted my test shots to look like when i went out to take them. This was quite hard because i could see what i wanted them to look like in my head but i wasnt quite sure how to draw them. The reason why i did sketches of my ideas was so i could look at my book and at the pictures i had drawn and have a idea straight away of how i wanted it to be set up instead of thinking on my feet at last minuite.

sixth artefact lesson

Today we have been busy on independant working.
Before break I started by sticking in all the pictures that hadn't printed out last week so now im quite behind on some work like i need to write up about what we did for the pictures and how we got the ideas and what I feel went well with them but i will catch up on it when i get home. I also did my secondary picture research but it didn't print out so im going to have to do that next week aswell so i will still be behind on work.
After break I started looking for a photogroper to research who was along the lines of dream becasue all of my final ideas have dream in them. I started by trying the internet but i didn't really know what to type in so i asked and sir suggested Francesca Woodman but i had already done her so i couldn't do her again he also suggested Cindy Sherman but i had a look at her work and didn't like it. Its a bit creepy its a lady that dresses up as famous people and takes pictures of it and i dont like that so then he gave me THE PHOTO BOOK to look through and see if i could find anyone i like i was starting to loose hope because i had gone though nearly the whole book and hadn't found anyone but finaly i found Sarah Moon and her photo called Morgan and i loved it and then started to do some research about her and print out some photos and that took me all the rest of the day. I am proud of what i have done today i dont think i am too behind now but i still have a little bit of catching up to do.
Next week i will do some test shots for my ideas.

fith artefact lesson

This week we where doing photograpy with water. I worked with emily for this. Our plan was to get a shot of a glass bottle full of water smashing just as it hit the ground and started to crack. First we where experimenting with the way colours spread in water and what patterens it made and took quite alot of pictures of that. Then we dropped the bottle but because we hadn't done any test with objects before we dropped the bottle we didnt get the shot we wanted so we cleaned up the glass and did some tests with dropping some water and taking a picture and also with a stone to see if we could get the timing right. This wasn't very sucsessfull but we got a new glass and filled it with water and did some of the patterens with the food colouring in the water again and dropped the jar but again we didnt get the shot we wanted so we changed to impervising some ideas. I had the idea of tipping down a part in the wall that looked like some steps. We tryed this idea with normal water and coloured water aswell. They both worked really well and looked effective. Then we tryed it with other objects and because I was using the camera I was mainly saying what ideas to do when we couldnt think of anything to do. We went from throwing water at bins to walls to taking pictures of reflections and the way water ran down different objects and the way the water droplets hung. This was inrteresting to do because we found out what ideas worked and what ones we needed to do some tests with before we could do our final ideas.