Experiment towards my final piece

This is an experiment for my final piece.

            

 

 I decided to change some of their properties. This is how it turned out.

These are some of the tools that helped me change their properties-

Final Piece Images

These are the pictures I plan to use for my final piece.

Things I love:

Things I hate (I want these pictures to be black and white):

Compositional Visual Research

 

 

This is my first visual research into compositional devices used by Harold Edgerton. I used two cards, Queen of hearts and Ace of Spades where the hearts symbolises love and the spades symbolises hate (as it is an upside down heart). I placed the Queen of hearts on top right and the Ace of spades on the bottom left. I used a black A4 card as a background to my picture.Then I experimented with lights by changing its position but the light had to always come from the right side as Queen of hearts was placed there. I did this because I wanted the 'love' to be seen in a brighter light that 'hate'. The best position that light was coming from was when it would create a line between the two cards. This also showed the change of tone of the backgroud which is similar to Harold Edgerton's work. I also took pictures from different angles to see which one tured out the best. I took pictures from side view, front view and top view. I felt that the side view didn't work as well as the rest because the Ace of spades came out to be blurry. The best view that worked was the top view because you could clearly cards and the direction the light is coming from, also the use of space between two cards was equally seen.

Analysing Harold Edgerton's work

 
 
These are some of the pictures I like of Harold Edgerton.





This image really stood out to me because I like it how you are able to see the bullet go through the card in a slow motion. It's very detailed. The two sides so J can represent love and hate. Also, the background shows a gradual change from the dark blur colour to light. This also supports the idea of love and hate. I like the fact that the background has plain colours so the card is the subject that's focused in the picture. Furthermore, the card is placed on the darker side which emphasis it's importance. Overall, this image creates a straight lines as the sides of the cards as straight and the suit of the card is diamonds which is created by lines too. The bullet goes straight through the card which connects the two important subject together although they are seperate . The bullet is shown to be reddish/maroon which symbolises blood so, it personifies the card as a living being as it's bleeding to death; it makes it seem the card was alive. This is further supported by the colour of the card (red) which again shows a sign of blood and death. This image uses the rule of thirds and the space between the card and the bullet.
I think that this image creates a sense of danger also a warning.

Harold Edgerton Biography

Harold Edgerton

• Dr Harold Edgerton was born n Freemont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903.

• He was raised in Aurora, Nebraska.

• He was an electrical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• He was interested in capturing moments that the eye cannot see.

• Edgerton's work was featured in an October 1987 National Geographic Magazine article entitled, "Doc Edgerton: the man who made time stand still."

• On January 4, 1990, he died.

Final Images- Visual response

This is my first final outcome image of Converse trainers.

My Response to Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn-Vortograph

This is my response to Alvin Langdon Coburn's work, Vortograph. I used photoshop to create movement to these images. I took pictures of the things I love from different distance but same angle.

Converse

Cards

Using photoshop

  I used different opacity for each layer. This gave the images a sense of movement like Vortograph.

I also experimented with different styles for each layer to create different effects.

I used quick selection tool to cut out the background and used paint bucket tool to make my background black.

Hate Collage

This is the hate collage i created using photoshop.

Love Collage

This is the collage i created on the things i love using photoshop. I included food, music, dance etc. I got all the images from google.

As photoshop was new to me, i had a difficult time using it but eventually got hang of it.

The most common tool i used was the quick selection tool.

Quick selection tool helped me a lot as I could select the part of the picture i want and delete the rest. If the contrast of the subject and the backgroud was high then i simply used the magic eraser as it is easier to use.

After I was happy with my selection, I clicked 'Refine edge' . Refine edge helped me smooth out my image. I could change my smoothness to any level I wanted.

Initially, these layers were really confusing but after few trials, it was quite easy. The images u want to move and adjust, you had to make sure that's the one you selected. Also, the eye shows that the image can be seen on the screen. The rest are still there but hidden.

The history was extremely useful to me as I kept on making mistakes but I could go back to my previous work, simply by clicking on the step I wanted.