O. Winston Link

O. Winston Link

One of the Photographers I looked at was O. Winston Link, an American photographer. He worked mostly in the late 1950s for which most of his photographs are known; he worked at the end of the steam railway age. He worked only in black and white. The use of black and white in his work adds age to work and makes it easier to known when they were taken, his use of technology such as trains also add a romantic age to them. In one photograph the Hotshot Eastbound he uses three forms of transport, the cars, the plane and the train. This is very good as he has been able to get them all on at the same time almost unrealistic. In one of the cars is a couple watching a movie (foreground), the cars are heading off the photograph with the eye being lead that way, but the plane leads the eye to the left on the movie screen which points to the train also going of the image. This photograph looks very complicated to get right; it looks like it is staged. The photograph is very well done and must have taken a lot of planning to get right. I like this photograph as it looks almost unreal and is focused on a man-made subject matter. There is chilling feeling to this photograph; the usage of the train feels out of date with its steam which really make the picture interesting took at.

Final Major Project

For this unit, I need to create my own brief, its unsual as I am used to be given the ask, I feel like I am overthinking ideas or even trying to force ideas. I am unsure on what I want this piece to be but the point of the brief being open is to come up with ideas and also being able to change direction if needed. I quite like the idea of using graphics, because I enjoyed this in my view point unit and also in the mermaid unit. For the idea, I thought about two things anxiety, which is quite personal to me and is something I have death with over the last few years. The other idea is based on an idea similar idea to my location photography, which I used the inteior and exteior idea of protraying the inside and outside of my house, so in a way it was quite personal, I thought the focus of this idea could be on an enviroment that can't be controled, or because the mind of the person doesn't feel they can be organised or are deserving. I want to know why some people have an ideal but others are very much stuck in there own poverty and ideas. For this I can create a supture using both graphics and photograpghy. The sculpture can be of a house and it can include an inside.

Some books for Narrative Image Making

Photoshop, Halloween and fireworks

portrait photography

Portrait Photography, For this part this I was helped by Ivy who sat for me too take her picture. I did enjoy portrait photography and its not as easy as it seemed to be. The pictures were taken in the studio with lighting with a dark background, which helped make the pictures more dramatic. I think some turned out well at a certain angle.

This one is was using shutter speed you can see the movement of the camera

 

I am unhappy with this picture it came out blurred,

as I had not focused it.

I quite liked the shadow and the lighting on this one.

I think the black and white pictures turned out quite well.

this one I also did not like because of the lighting.

This photograph of ivy, I took close up from a angle from the side, I took it in black and white. I like the shadow and how the light comes in.