~Statement of intent~
My current theme is colour, I aim to produce a website showcasing my ideas. I hope to be able to demonstrate my creative skills and progress throughout this period of time. At the beginning of my project I will create a mood board and coggle, both are a starting point for me building my website, representing my plan for the theme. As I am hoping to present my work on physical objects (such as bags and a dress) as well as putting the photographed objects with my images as the cover on my website. At the end of my project my images will be in galleries with my best and worst images underneath. My galleries should show the singular images I will take as well as my designed bag and dress that I have created using my own photographs. In order to gather a better understanding of this theme I have chosen to research two photographers linking with the work I aim to complete, the photographers I will be researching are Vanova Alicia, and Marine Taylor. I have chosen Alicia as she uses a range of coloured flowers in her photographs which I am definitely going to be doing, and the reason I have chosen Taylor is because they use a small range of pastel colours and make the photograph seem more interesting, I think her work is eye grabbing, the way they use less objects to make the image stand out from the others. Although I am not going to use the exact same techniques as these photographers I am going to use some aspects of their work on my own. I will create a mind map and a mood board expressing my ideas, this will give me the first step to developing my work further, although I have done a project in photography already, I have never explored colour, this is why it is important for me to have an idea of what exactly I am going to focus my work on. The mood board and mind map will allow me to see how my ideas fit together, and if they don't I will need to improvise and find ways that they do fit in with each other. The first shoot I am going to do is just photographing a range of different brightly coloured flowers, this shot will be a location shoot and does not need a backdrop or lights, I will simply just be using my phone camera and the flowers I find. However my next shoot will start to gather my ideas into a final outcome eventually. I intend to paint a selection of flowers and photograph them, after this process it will lead to one of my main ideas in this theme, which is creating a bag out of my own images. I will also develop my ideas in photoshop, my initial idea was using my pictures of my bag and other creations, I am going to put them into a magazine canvas, and my own canvas creation to create a magazine cover. I am going to experiment taking images with a manual camera, but also my iphone camera. I think this is an important process to show my ability to take photographs using a selection of different cameras. My progress will be shown by having my work in order, of course my first set of images will be at the very top, leading down to my newest images at the bottom.
~Vanova Alicia~
This is the website where I found the image: https://www.thephotoargus.com/20-beautiful-examples-photography-using-vibrant-colors/
~Context~
This is a photographer I have found on the website but I am unable to find much information about them.
~Composition~
Looking at this picture I can see that the foreground is close to the model and so we have a shallow depth of field. I can see the photographer has used the rule of thirds in this image, the photograph is split into thirds which you can see, her eyes and flowers are in one third of the photo, her lower face and neck is another third and the last third is her shoulders, this makes each part stand out individually. The colours in the photo are quite bleached, however as her necklace, lip colour and eyeshadow are a vibrant red they are able to stand out from the rest of the photo and are attention grabbing. The shapes of the flowers allow the image to have visible leading lines, I can see the flowers are pointing downwards into the corners, this creates almost a triangle shape around her face. The image is a studio shot and the model has the lighting pointed directly on her face, this is what creates the bleached out effect on the image. As the light is pointed directly on her face there are very little shadows making the image shallow, therefore her face looks quite flat. The background is also quite a dim bleached colour, this allows us to focus our attention on the model rather than the background.
~Connection~
I personally really like this image, I think that the difference between the colours makes the image stand out from others. The light pale blue of the backdrop in comparison to her vibrant lip colour is unique and possessing. The models pose is also very pretty and appealing. The flowers on her head look almost like a hot which I think is very unique and outstanding. I like how all the flowers above the model are also all bleached out and pale but hidden in the bunch there is a red flower which is matching her striking makeup and accessories. The image is also a clear example that the bleached out effect isn't always a bad thing and can be used for great photography. I think the photographer using a bleached out effect was perfect, if the photo wasn't as bleached there would be shadows which would perhaps make her face stand out more than the other importance pieces of the image.
~Comment~
I really like the use of colour in this image and the way the red stands out against the pale blue background, which is the opposite colour on the colour wheel. I might use this contrasting technique in my own photography work.
~Marine Taylor~