Documentary Challenge!

This challenge is all about developing confidence, relationships/ people skills, preparation/ planning, persistence and Independence. As well as developing our technical considerations for our camera: shutter speed, aperture, lighting, flash and focus.

So below are photos from my task, this shows how I interpreted what place I was given.

The place I was given was a the RSPCA: the cattery. :)

When completing part of this challenge it helped me develop my people skills when interacting and talking with the person or people at your specific place, as well as general confidence, and Independence. I was there long enough to be asked if I would like to see the laundry/ and shower room. With persistence this was possible. Luckily the lady of which was supervising me was very nice and chatty.

While I was there I was trying to develop my people skills and relationships while there as I found out a lot of information while there:

• Any animals that are brought in will be immediately scanned for a ownership chip, if unchipped they will eventually be chipped prior adoption. Meanwhile they will be flied and vaccinated and if necessary neutered prior to re-homing. Some animals that may have been ill-treated or may have been stray for a long while may need greater veterinary attention. it is always the RSPCA to rescue and re home animals, but sometimes this isn't always possible.
  



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  The cages get cleaned after cats removed




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  They are handled, stroked, cuddled many times everyday

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  They sometimes rename cat
  



• They complete a was every 45 minutes from all the bedding etc

Below are the photos i took:

As well as visiting the RSPCA I also went to a home run cattery which looks after cats for families when they are away on holiday etc. So here are photos of Bournemouth Boarding Cattery: this place was a lot different from the RSPCA but cared and catered for the cats just the same.

DUCK!

When away on the Cornwall weekend trip, we were given a task to do; which involved a plastic duck. We were asked to take it with us everywhere because at any moment 'DUCK' could have been called, which meant we needed to get a photo of it in 60 secs! Overall we should have 10 photos in 10 different locations.

Cornwall! :)

While we were at Cornwall, we visited many places and i took many photos :) So here are a few contact sheets of my photos to show an overview of the weekend!

Eden Project

Newlyn Harbour

Barbara Hepworth Gardens

Minack Theatre

St Ives

St Michaels Mount

Staged street photography task! (Mockumentary work)

Another task we were asked to complete was a Staged street task. This was linking back to our other task which was to do mainly with just street, not planned and spare of the moment photography. This is slightly different as its all about thinking and planning your ideas and what you could do.
Here are a few of my own photos...

Doing this task is linked to Jeff Wall, his work is all staged; he is a photographer as an artist. His photos are contrived and cultivated. But when taking a photo is to capture and show a moment.

From his work's, Jeff wall said: "When creating the destroyed room, i worked in reference to the design of commercial windows displays of clothing and furniture"

Again Jeff Wall said "The 'mimic' in Mimicis a tragic figure, in part, to me, because, as I mentioned, mime sis is the gem of art, here turned into a weapon of war. These little gestures of hate are precursors of worst things to come"

Hearing what Jeff Wall says himself; gives an understanding of why he did certain thing but I like observing and thinking of my own perception of his photographs as they give out questions like mainly "What's going on?"

These are two examples of his work; as you can see they are both very different but staged. His work is very different and slightly strange, but that's what makes it so interesting.

Film Poster!

In a lesson, Friday afternoon, we played around with characters and photography to create a film poster. It also was mainly practise for Photo Shop.
So once we got into groups and took the photos, we started to play around with the photos we took and other peoples to create a realistic but film like poster.
At first I found this difficult to create due to little knowledge of actually using Photo shop.
But once getting into using it again, and all the techniques and details I was familiarising myself to it more easily.

Here is an initial start of my film poster; the 'story' is meant to be along the lines of pirates etc.

As you can see at the moment it is very basic and simple with a lot more work needed.

Each section needed special details of which I am still getting the hang of doing throughout the process of everything else.

Below are a few screenshots of what the process was like and how I did it and so on. It mainly just shows what as going on while I was creating the poster.

As you can see, both of these screenshots are slightly different but are a tool used for the same section of the poster. The first one shows a step to changing the colour and brightness/contrast of the image to change the effect of the 'sailor' to make sure he doesn't stand out to much and looks effective and realistic. And the next one shows the rubber tool of which helps blur and smudge the edges quicker. To get the right intensity, you would need to fiddle round with the controls like opacity, brush size and so on.

As you can see, these screenshots are of mainly myself working around how I was going set it out and what I was going to name the poster. For me this was a good learning stage of more tools of photo shop and working my way through it helped me gain more skills in those things.
One of the screenshots shows me fading the orange face/ monster, this was to show the ship more in the background and to help add a effect to the orange monster and poster altogether. Looking back at the shots shows me how I worked through it and gives me a recap of how I did it and what I could do to improve in the future.

During our film poster task we also looked at Mimmo Rotella, and his work which was mainly torn advertising posters, that then links towards our task of simply creating our own poster.

Above are two of Rotella's work and two of mine; as you can see Mimmo would tear through many previous posters and layers on a advertising board to create his torn effect. He would do this not knowing how it would end up; it was unplanned.

Doing these tasks on photo shop have really helped me photo shop with certain elements on it; layering, adjusting, selecting, cropping, fading etc. To use photo shop more for different tasks helps continue to give me more of an in site on how to use it.