Wednesday 1 February 2012

Basic Photoshop













I used Lasso Tool which is L, Modify = Select/Modify/Expand, Turn the selection into a layer= cmd J, Scale the layer= cmd T and Copy the Layer= cmd J

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Risk Assessment Form



Risk Assessment Form                                                                                                             page 1/2

Location: Crawley Town



Student

Charlotte Tamplin 
Signature

Date
16th November 2011
Tutor Signature




Hazards
Persons at Risk
Severity of Hazard
(S)
Likelihood of Hazard
(L)
Risk Rating
(S x L)



A
S
C
V
3
2
1
3
2
1

1

Tripping

1



1


 1
1
2

Getting hit by a Car                                                


1


1



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2
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Tutors must sign this form before  you start filming                     
A: Actors                           3: Death or major injury          3: High (near certain)                               9: Unacceptable
                                                   S: Students                       2: Over 3 days injury                                  2: Medium (frequent)                6: Urgent             
C: Crew                            1: Minor injury                                          1: Low (seldom)                         4/3: Important
V: Visitors                                                                                                                                      2/1: Low priority
Complete this Table for all Hazards with a risk rating of 3 or more.                            Page 2/2

Hazard Number

Specific hazard description
Additional controls required
Responsibility


 1

 Tripping
 Having laces tied.
Paying attention to the surroundings
 Students own.


 2

 Getting run over.
 Paying attention to the road.  Not listening to music when crossing the street.
 Students own.
























Friday 16 December 2011

Location Recce

Location Recce Sheet

Location Name: Crawley Town.
Power SocketsPermission(s)
N/A


N/A
Set design / Items requiredProps. Costume.
Memorial Garden



N/A
Preperation NotesHealth & Safety Notes
Be aware of what’s happening around me.





Watching where people are, is there are things on the floor. Making sure not to trip.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Solitude

The Old Guard Battered but not Beaten Fly Away Beaten Clear SkyRed Berry
Crushed Last of the Autumn Colours Lonliness isn't always a bad thingSun StarBright Shadows Losing the light
In my own company

Solitude, a set on Flickr.

On Wednesday 16th November I went out into Crawley town and took some solitude photographs. These are my favourite from the collection I took.

Wednesday 9 November 2011

Solitude Research and Ideas Part 1

RomanceOnTheTarmac 
Royaa

A selection of ideas from other photographers to help me to achieve a good collection of photographs that represent Solitude. All photographers have been credited.





zariazinza
even




serni

2D2F

Thiago Lopes
Thiago Lopes
This photograph reminds me of this photograph by Thomas Hoepker.  
Romeo Koitmäe




gregd-photography 




Wednesday 2 November 2011

Treatment Photography

1. Type of production and brief details on Subject/Concept:
Solitude(see post below)


2. Facilities: What facilities do you need for this project list all including software and hardware for the whole project? 
The kind of software I would possibly use photoshop.
I would want to use a Cannon 400/500D, so I would be able to use the manual zoom and with the Cannon 500D I would be able to manual focus as well, also it is easier to change the shutter speed and the f numbers.As well as a tripod o steady myself.
I would also hopefully be using the studio, some indoor scences as well as some outside shoots.

3. Finance: If you produced this project outside of the college you need to show how much would it cost to hire the equipment that you intend to use.
The camera would cost about £500+ 
I would also be using software like Photoshop which would cost about £33 
Models would cost £100 roughly 


4. Contributors: Who do you need to help this for you project? This includes talent and crew.
Talent - three people maximum
Crew- Possibly one or two.



5. Presentation: How will you present the pictures? Will you include a soundtrack, think about copy write issues etc.
Possibly a slide show with Creative Commons soundtrack. 
Also the pictures will be presented on my blog. These may be edited or raws depending on if I feel that the photo needs to be changed either contrasting the colours or editing the photograph black or white. 


Solitude

Solitude can be a personal isolation, a person removing themselves from everyday life, for meditation, to be able to concentrate on projects, having time to reflect on ideas, or just sometime for themselves. This can help the person more capable of being able to stay absorbed in their work instead of being distracted by the modern world. Sometimes people that get used to solitude/being recluse don't or will rarely interacted with the external psychical world, they like their world. Happy in their own bubble. For some people, having time of short solitude or isolation to recharge from the world.

Fashion Photography

The fashion photography is a high pressured industry.  The shoots that come out are often very expensive. Fashion photography while mainly taken in a portrait style is differentiated only by the context in which the photograph is displayed. Portrait photography seem in either family/private albums or in galleries. Fashion photography is most commonly seen in the pages of fashion magazines Vouge, Elle etc. However some times these are always as clear. There are portrait head shots of editor, designers etc in the magazines and fashion photography can sometimes be seen in galleries.
Fashion photography was and is still used

















Some of the problems that people find with fashion photography is that the image that ends up in the fashion magazine is altered, manipulated post-shoot in a program like Photoshop. These kinds of alterations are generally only seen in fashion, music and film photography, however in all photography there can be a bit of modding.

However the alterations that occur in fashion photography greatly changes the look of the model in the image, their faces are nipped and tucked, neck elongated, eyes made bigger etc this happens for both male and female models, see image below for an example.


Fashion magazines, Vogue, Elle etc would clear blemishes, add tan, the image would be airbrushed creating an more perfect looking image of the model, actor music,  however gossip magazines would leave the pictures as they are to highlight this and have caption lines underneath and puff words to grab the readers attention and  show the celebs looking more like everybody else.

Having the constant bombardment of the "perfect" man or woman, airbrushed, perfect hair and make up to the nines then altered. Some women from all around the aspire and wish to achieve this image of the "perfect" woman that the fashion magazine portray. However this has averse effect on women, it can lead to emotional problems and body issues such as anorexia and bulemia.


However this isn't just a issue for women, the constant ideal of the "perfect" man also has an effect on it's male audience. Male health magazines, having toned, tanned and good looking men as their front cover, promoting beautiful ripped men, leads to men having many of the same problems that women have.

The fashion photography that promotes the super skinny women or the super toned men to the point that the models are ill or pressured into this image. It can not be achieved by everybody, because some models have a high metabolism or have certain dietary carefully selected food and the size of their meals.

However there are some fashion magazine that are challenging the established views of having stick thin models everywhere. Italian Vogue (June 2011) had plus sized models (women that are sizes 10,12,14 onwards. Instead models that are size 4 and under) these models were on the front cover and show women of a more realistic size, being just a beautiful or being even more beautiful than super skinny models. I believe that it is better for many women's self confidence to see curvy models than tiny ill looking women.

There are some that criticise having plus sized models. They believe that this sets a bad example for women, that plus size models would lead women to lead unhealthy lifestyles. However I personally feel that stick thin models has lead women having so many problems and issues with their bodies trying to achieve this tiny size. I feel that plus size (which I think is ridiculous to call models of size 10 up, when they are a more natural size) is better in the long run as these women aren't obese, they are just a normal healthy weight.



Marilyn Monroe, one of the sex symbol of the 20th century was roughly a modern size 12. Below is a picture of her at her smallest, this is a much better image than that of stick thin models we have today.

















In fashion photography there can sometimes be a clash between the creative side, art directors and photographers, versus commercial side of fashion.











Cecil Beaton