introduction to photography studio: light and shade , Camera settings
camera settings images from : (https://mcomarartist.weebly.com/2nd-year-blog/previous/9)
Hockney :
"David Hockney, (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century".
MY ATTEMPT TO CREATE SOMETHING SIMILAR :
Power point -interpretations
Edouard Manet , 1881, "A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres"
Wall's Version
portrait picture by journalist Steve McCurry , 1985, National Geographic . - (right): Reinterpreted by Jane Perkins
Jane Perkins using beads and toys to recreate Van Gogh's Night sky
--> Jane Pernkins's work is really interesting due to the fact that she uses such small objects/materials to create such pieces with almost a realistic feel that really portraits her dedication appreciation of/to the work.
''Crowd trying to enter Vasileostrovskaya Metro Station during the collapse of the Soviet Union 1992''
31.October.2018
Scannography:
". Scanography (also spelled scannography), more commonly referred to as scanner photography, is the process of capturing digitalized images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a flatbed "photo scanner " with a CCD array capturing device. Fine art scanography differs from traditional document scanning by using atypical objects, often three-dimensional, as well as from photography, due to the nature of the scanner's operation."
''At the age of 70 Peter M. Krohn, world war 2 refugee, decided to set up a studio with a "now or never" attitude. It wasn't until then then he realised the emphasis had been "on survival, getting educated, working hard and blending into the social and cultural ways of the new world. In my family, the arts were considered a luxury, not worth pursuing for a young boy in light of the other priorities for a family who arrived here with very little, other than a great deal of luck. And yet, fortunately the muse of creativity would not be deterred. She gradually found expression in my work life and hobbies -- whether through a multitude of international awards in advertising, or national recognition by the Government of Canada for our marketing work, the invention of a new type of pantyhose, accolades from the advertising community in Montreal who voted us the most creative agency in the city, to three-time grand champion at the Gravenstein Apple Pie baking contest or to my very biased family who believe there is no match for my Caesar Salad anywhere. [I} realized that something I had longed for had remained unrequited for a long, long time; my deep love of botanicals and desire to “paint” the beauty that I perceived in them. Also vital was, and is, my desire to inspire myself and others to gradually expand our capacity to be in touch with all that is observable and paradoxically, all that is mysterious and outside of our human limitations to sense or to know…to bring an artful presence and respectful observation to the universe of all that is unknown to us and invisible…forever un-Google-able! - www.photographicakrohn.com/personal-note/" "At the core of what many art lovers find so appealing is a marriage of two processes working together in perfect harmony: These are scanographic compositions of natural botanical objects and a special printing method known as dye sublimation which allows us to print on aluminum*. This process begins with printing dyes onto a special transfer paper. This paper is placed onto a sheet of aluminum that is covered with a clear polymer coating. These are then put into a heat press. When sufficient heat and pressure are applied, something magic happens. The sublimation dyes convert to a gas which infuses itself through the polymer coating and bonds with the aluminum substrate." - www.photographicakrohn.com/scanography/
examples
Stephanie Sieron-Aarten "a third year art student from Holland.
I started my scanning fascination about 7 years ago by accident. I left the lid open, and it scanned the sealing. Then it scanned the movement of my hand, closing the lid, and it gave quite a nice effect. I put a glass on it and moved it around, and the result was a space like long light shape, with all kind of colors and reflections.. My passion was born. It is very interesting to me how objects ‘melt’ in time. The shapes stretch out, become almost liquid when you move them while scanning. I think the scanner is a great medium for art, to experiment with. It’s an underrated instrument for photography. The beauty, for me, is in the creative possibilities of everyday household devices." - scannography.org/artists/Sierou-Aarten-Stephanie.html;
''We use the Extract command to make some difficult selections that require a sophisticated way to isolate a foreground object from its background. It's actually best suited for objects with wispy, intricate, or undefinable edges that need to be clipped from their backgrounds with a minimum of manual work. This one was a cakewalk, but first we need to duplicate the image to a new layer. Drag layer and drop it on the New Layer button at the bottom of the layers palette.'' Extract will delete the unwanted portions of the image. Ordinarily, when making a montage, you would Extract the subject from its background in one file, then (Move Tool "V") drag it into the destination Montage file, creating its own, new, layer. Here, we're extracting from the SAME file, so we have to work on a duplicate. (This is the way Dave will handle his montage project.)
Choose Filter> Extract
The Extract working window appears with the edge highlighter tool selected in the upper left area of the dialog box. Notice too, in version 7 you get a little "hint" window which prompts you for the next step. Sweet.
The Extract process is straight forward:
first highlight the edges of the subject to be modified or removed
then you define the object's interior with a special magic colour
and preview.
It's as simple as that. You can refine and touch up the selection to your liking, but most of the time the tool is accurate.
art piece by , Victoria Lynch showed by Nigel as an example .
PHOTOGRAMS:
"A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera by placing objects directly onto the surface of a light-sensitive material such as photographic paper and then exposing it to light. The usual result is a negative shadow image that shows variations in tone that depends upon the transparency of the objects used. Areas of the paper that have received no light appear white; those exposed through transparent or semi-transparent objects appear grey. The technique is sometimes called cameraless photography. It was used by Man Ray in his exploration of raygraphs. Variations of the technique have also been used for scientific purposes."