My Chosen Photographer - Martha Cooper

I decided to choose Martha Cooper because I saw her as an inspiration to my photographs in terms of her representation of graffiti and its importance in the world of art. This is why I see her as important due to the fact that I am really interested in street art and the way that it is portrayed in society because a lot of people see it as not being art. Martha Cooper shows the importance of it.

The photographs create wonderful depth and I incorporated this into my graffiti photographs.I wanted to portray the colour of the street art against the coldness of the concrete by making the graffiti colour and the rest black and white. This technique works well and speaks of the influence and need for more art to liven up our often bleak urban world.

This is her in action:

Here are some of her photographs:

Capturing Nature

I enjoy taking photographs of nature because I find it beautiful and relaxing.

Here are some photographs I took at a lake near my house this weekend. I edited them using different techniques on Bridge and photoshop such as the vibrance and saturation as well as the fill light and exposure.

Placement

I decided to take a few photographs at my Placement at Iramoo over the two week block. There was a beautiful rainbow which I though would be a good composition for my photographs. Also, there are a lot of native plants which look really beautiful.

Week 6

This week we focussed on Learning new editing tools on photoshop such as sharpening our photographs and using the burn tool as well as using our own techniques to edit our photographs. I found these techniques interesing especially in terms of refining our photos for presentation. I am continuing with my black/white and colour theme for my photographs.

Here are some photographs I have edited using the techniques from todays class:

Photo Montages

Self Portrait Task

Its hard taking a self portrait without your physical self, reflection or shadow being present. I guess its a way to think outside the square. After alot of thought, I decided to take a photograph of something that represents me and what I like. Butterflies are one of my favourite animals/insects and I like what they represent.

Butterflies Symbolise freedom, independence and transformation and these are some qualities that I believe I possess.

WEEK 4:

Last night I went into the city to take photographs to see the differences between the day and night in the city. I had trouble getting the correct photograph during the night, so I decided to try the manual setting because I knew it was one of the hardest settings to use. I was able to take some interesting photographs. I edited some of these in today's class by adjusting the curves and saturation etc.

Here are some edited examples: