L3 Photography UAL Alex

Born on the 4 th of March 1967, Sam Taylor Johnson is an English Photographer and filmmaker. Originally known as Sam Taylor Wood, she started to display her fine art photography in the 1990s. One of the series on her website that I found quite interesting was a group of photos under the title “lone rider”. The photos are taken of lone isolated cars and motorcycles from a side view and the images are all black and white with the shadows and vignetting increased. Looking at the photos I get the feeling of peacefulness and tranquillity as the car is in the centre of the frame, this reflects the simplicity of life. These vehicles are made to be on busy roads, driven at speed and constantly used, which is why it’s peaceful to see them at rest, to see them standing alone. To try and recreate this I will be locating lone cars which are situated in front of a brick wall or a simplistic . I will then try and get the best composition to try and get a similar outcome to Sam Taylo...

Muybridge Recreation In preparation for the photographs I adjusted the focal length to 100 mm and the shutter speed of 1/2500, the fast shutter speed enabled me to get a crisp image. However, because of the fast speed it let in less light making the image slightly more darker. So I new  thatwouldn’t be able to go up to 3000 th of a second. As the photo wouldn’t be visible. The camera I used shot at three frames per second which was fine as there wasn’t to much of a gap. What I like about the image is that it has similarities to Muybridge's showing the different stages of the body  as they run and also the black and white effect. By  adding  black and white to the photo gives the image a old look which looks cool to me it also brings out the black in the dogs fur and therefore makes it stand out from the bland background.

This is my attempt at a narrative sequence. To create this sequence I used a scrabble board that showed my name as it moved around the board.  I did this as it resembles different situations throughout your life and any problems that you may face. This can be shown by having the letters move upwards and downwards and flip back to front.  This represents the highs and lows you may experience. To create this sequence I used a tripod as this ensured that the camera remained still. I also chose to tilt the camera downwards as this created a birds eye view, And due to this choice of composition. I had to use a wide focal length of 10mm in order to obtain the whole of the board. The frame speed for the narrative sequence is set to 0.1 so that there was a smooth transition between the frames. If the speed was set at the standard rate of 0.05 the sequence would become too fast and the viewer would be unable to read the words spelt. However, if the frame speed was any slower than...

This is my Gif that shows an example of decay, which I created using a strawberry. For six days I captured a photo once in the morning and once in the evening, from the exact same position, so there wasn't a noticeable frame difference.  There are 12 photos in total. The reason why I chose a strawberry is because they are very quick to decay and therefore would be a good subject to capture for this experiment.  The frame speed is set to 0.05 which is standard for a Gif video. To experiment further I reversed all the frames so that the length of the Gif was extended and would show more colour differentiation between ripe and rotten. 

This is the Gif that I created that is a great example of movement. Due to the snowfall recently I thought that it would be a good opportunity to go out and take some pictures. After watching a variety of videos,  Gifs and time lapse videos it became apparent to have a focal point that doesn't move and lets the background move behind it. As you can see I have taken that into consideration whilst shooting. For my Gif I focused my camera on a tree at a focal length of 35mm, this is because I wanted a lot of background blur so the snow would create bokeh. I shot sixty photos on a tripod and then went into photoshop to construct the Gif. Once I was in photoshop I pasted all the photos into a frame animation. I changed the time from 0.5 to 0.03 so that the snow would pass the tree at a faster rate. 

Erhan Asik is a Turkish photographer who I came across whilst looking for ideas to do with water based long exposures. After looking through his work i figured that some of his photographs could be recreated. not by taking the photo in the exact same place. but by using the same concept of filters and the use of a tripod. this is the photo that inspired me to go out and capture my own long exposures. I like the way that the water looks in this photo. It can come across as looking like clouds or mist. the way Asik has created this is by using something called an neutral density filter which allows the cameras shutter to be open for longer without the photo becoming over exposed. Here is my recreation. the shutter speed for this particular photo was set to 10 seconds which allowed the water to blur and create the misty effect that i wanted to achieve. I  made sure that the orientation of the camera was set to portrait so that i could include the full length of the water ...

Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge was an English Photographer born in the 19th century , important for his photographic studies of motion and picture projection. This is the photo that Muybridge is most famous for. The sequence of photos was for an experiment. The question was "When a horse gallops, does it ever become fully airborne?".  The way Muybridge set up his shoot was buy having 12 cameras along the track of Stanford's estate, when the horse ran passed, it triggered the camera to flash. He developed the photos on site and proved the question to be right.  If I were to recreate this photo I would take a series of photos of my dog running in a field. I would take a burst of photos as he runs and hopefully if I have the right shutter speed it should come out sharp and not blurry.  Once the photos have been taken I will edit them and hopefully it should turn out to be something similar to Muybridge's. Since that shoot he has experiment...