With this task that we was given to write 6 different blog posts I really struggled to get started originally, I did start when I started getting them but I struggled to start with.

I have referenced some of the blogs but some I did myself with my own photographs it was a struggle until I started reading back the notes I did in the lectures each week to jog my memory.

I feel in future I will write the blogs every week I get them even though I know next term it is a essay so I have started to think what I could do there for that one to get started on the research side so I can get ahead.

During these blogs I also found out I do analyse photographs or films, I also struggle to analyse my own work which I need to do to learn from what I did.

In this lecture we was told about miss en scene which is where you looked deeper into a film or photograph and guess or write down the main parts of the film we watched ten minutes of which was ‘fight club’, the 5 most important elements are:

-settings and props.

-costume, hair and make up.

-Facial expressions and body language

-lighting and colour

-positioning of characters/objects within the film.

These are the 5 most important things below is the main things I spotted whilst watching fight club I thought it be handy to add them to this blog.

 These are the main pointers I found whilst watching the ten minutes of watching the beginning of the film.

Most of the notes I wrote down in the lecture on the Friday morning, with every film or photograph we see we slowly analyse it without realising it we always wonder the kind of mood the photographer or film star is in during that scene or that position in the photograph.

We slowly analyse the little things also in film making and the photographer ‘Gregory crewdson’ because he’s photographs are in big stages with a lot of team, so he gets his models or props in certain scenes like a film set and large scale.

https://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2012/november/13/gregory-crewdson-laid-bare-in-new-film/

Gregory seems to always use low light in his photographs like this one states and this photographs looks like it was taken on a film set but he set this up with his small team that he has with him everywhere he goes.

With this lecture we was asked to go out to take some photographs on our phone and play around with them with experimenting, the three images below are the three I took and played around with to get the style I wanted at the time on my phone.

One of them I really like and the main photographers that experiment with photographs are:

Maurizo Aneri http://www.escapeintolife.com/artist-watch/maurizio-anzeri/

Patrick Rochon https://petapixel.com/2013/04/11/experimental-light-painting-photographs-with-lights-strapped-to-wakeboards/

This is just a couple of photographers that have done experimental photographs and links to the work I looked at and liked of there work

 For this image I was sat in the tower bar when I spotted on the window that there was tracks on the window I messed around with the contrast on my phone editing that I have on my phone at the time, I really like this image and how it has turned out with just changing certain settings on your phone. I made it look like the photograph was taken in low light when it wasn’t that is how I edited it.

 With this photograph I was walking back to the seminar room and put instagram on my phone I thought I would screen shot the way I editing this photograph to show that I used the settings of lofi setting in the instagram settings, it shows line and shape. I thought I would edit this one a simpler way to the other one above to show how easy it is in instagram to change your image quickly.

 with this photograph I used shadow I didn’t get chance to experiment with this image at the time but I like the shadow, during our street photography I got in to using shadow and colour so thats why I only used shadow here but it was just a quick snap.

There is 10 main examples of genre photography. The main ten that we know are in the list below, with a couple of the photographers that specialise in that genre of photography. All genres are known but the photographers may not be, and in the lectures we looked at examples of the genre and ideas on where to look for ideas.

Art- Paul strand, David LaChapelle

Advertising- Fernando Decillis, Jaime Travezan, Nadav Kander

Architecture/interior- Eugene Atget, Ansel Adams,Robert Adams, Walker Evans

Documentary/Photojournalism- Robert Frank,Weegee,Don Mccullin,Dorothea Lange.

Fashion- Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Mario Testrino

Scientific/Medical- Lennart Nilsson, Albert Londe.

Industrial/Corporate- Megan Cunningham.

Architecture- Randy Scott Slavin,Victor Enrich, Nick Guttridge, Dennis Gilbert.

A quote from the lecture notes during the lecture for genre that stood out to me was,

‘Photographic genre groupings are based on institutional differences’.

this was a line from the lecture notes that I had written down that mostly stood out to me.

My interest for genre is mainly industrial because I love old buildings and have taken photographs of buildings, a example is below of one of my images that I took for the project of street photography.

 I took this photograph on the walk back to my car I stumbled across it accidentally, but the textures and colours caught my eye,I’m not to sure what the building was or the reason for it to be pulled down, for this I also researched the photographers here is a couple of links to some photographs I looked at after I had taken these photographs,

http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/dusseldorf-photography-bernd-hilla-becher-and-beyond-ben-brown-fine-arts-london/

This is a link on the photographers I looked in to after taking this photograph I really like there work I am going to look deeper in to there work.

Every photograph or film that we see is a genre of some type and the setting whether it be landscape, portrait, advertising, industrial etc.

 An example of semiotics in a photograph, I got this example from https://theoriesofvisualcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/image-1.jpg

This is to reference where I got the photograph from it also outlines the example of semiotics work in a photograph and shows you the horizon line in the photograph also the motion blur.

‘Saussure went further, dissecting how the sign and its components construct meaning. ‘ (Bate,The Key Concepts Of Photography,2016,20,second edition)

This quote best represents the semiotics in a photograph, there is also a rumour that this photograph was staged and that the photographer had two models to do the pose.

The analysis of this photograph is it shows a horizon line that your eyes are drawn to, the hand is strained also there is motion blue in her hand, so to analysis a photograph with semiotics is important to spot certain things in the photograph or what you are viewing and looking at it at different ways to other.

Semiotic shows what is going on in the photograph and what is going on around the main image or what the photograph is trying to show.

Semiotics also means a visual language in a image so you look deeper in to the photograph then you normally would, It can also be confusing at times but really doesn’t have to be if you try.

You look deeper in to the photograph above and try analyse the image the best you can, you wouldn’t think the image was staged but there is rumours going around that he got models to walk around New York and do the pose of the sailor and his lady as he came back from war.

For this task we was asked to read a article on the ‘Reading Media Theory’, There is certain techniques you picked up as you read in university there was a few examples in the article that we read and that was quite helpful that I wrote them down so I remember.

1, pre-read- Means pre read before you take notes of the work or book that you reference and scan reading it

2, read- means you read or print the work and read how you can read whether it be skim read or highlight the main points of the book or article.

3, analyse what you read- is going over what you have highlighted whether it be your print or photocopy of the article you are referencing

4, remember what’s important- remembering what you think is the important part of the paper you are reading.

5, make use of what you read- use what you have read has part of your research

and 6, evaluate your critical thinking skills.

These was a few examples of the article we was asked to read and write about, I seem to find it easy to skim read to start with, Only issue with that is you don’t process all the words in the book you are reading, so you have to go back to the start  and start again.

I also find it easy to photocopy the pages you found useful and go over again and highlight the key words that you want, that type it up also taking a note of the book for the bibliography at a later date so if need be you can go back to the book.

I have noticed when I get a book out at the library that someone has used pencil in the book for there note taking.

Referencing:

For this blog I used the article that was on the reading list for reading

 I took this photograph at Statford at war of a soldier with a camera, there was soldiers that took photographs during the war.

I picked this photograph to analyse I think it could be just off the rules of third because his foot is slightly off from the edge, it makes me feel did war photographers were they given weapons or just given pistols, they have to keep safe themselves just like the rest of the men, at the time of the war.

What is happening in this photograph is a gentle documenting the war through the eye of a camera to show the world or for himself the terror that was during world war 2, I also noticed he doesn’t have a weapon on him, I took this photograph in landscape so I only focused on him and not what was happening around at the time I took it.

I made sure he was in focus and not the background, you can still kind of see what is happening in the background with bit of the tank, the setting I did for this photograph was at a re-enactment I went to called ‘Stanford at war’ and this was on the battle field. They tried to do it realistic but kind of changed it to let the germans win. I would say it was historic because of what it is.

The main story and the clues with this photograph is the camera, we don’t see it much of the people that took the photograph or those that tell the story or who did we only mainly see the bad of the war but not those that put there life on the line to document it.

My main interest for this is Roger Fenton that was a war photographer at the time who took photographs also he was in the army during the Crimean war and his famous photograph called ‘valley and the shadow of death’ this is the photograph that got me interested in war photography.

Referencing:

Roger fenton https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/terrible-beauty

Carol ann duffy http://national5english.wixsite.com/carol-ann-duffy/war-photographer

David Douglas Duncan https://www.usabreakingnews.net/tag/leica-s-magazine/

I researched these photographers during this blog on the internet by typing in war photography in google and these names came up..

All About Me.

I have studied photography for 2 years doing a national diploma for 2 years, but to get me to that I did bit in college doing a first diploma in art and design, I am in to all kind of genre of photography from gigs, landscape, wildlife, aviation to name a few I will add a couple of examples a little further down.

I chose to do a BA hons in photography at Lincoln, because of the facilities are the best I have seen, and the fact I have always had a thing about Lincoln.

This was one of the first lot of photographs I have taken for a touring show called Steve steinmans vampires rock, whilst at college I managed to get a photo pass to take photographs for him, and this is one of those. there was a guy in the pit also taking photographs called ‘Henry Murphy’ that helped me get the settings and iso right on my camera for this one because of it being my first official time.

I then went to Birmingham pride where I took this photograph of ms dynamite, I didn’t know at the time that she was looking towards the camera, so I was happy with the outcome of this image. I wasn’t in the pit for this photograph I took it from the other side as someone at the show so I was a distance but still happy.

I later after college got asked to take photographs of a friends wedding this is one of my favourite of the set of photographs I took, I stumbled across taking wedding photographs by accident I never wanted to get in to it. This was taking from the set of photographs from the second wedding I photograph so I was still learning as I went along.

I also love wildlife and again this is one of the first photographs I took at Cardiff castle, the fact I managed to get the texture of the feathers and the detailing shocked me.

I am a huge iron maiden so to be able to see there aircraft ‘ed force one’ at East Midlands airport whilst they played at download on the Sunday made my year to say the least.

I managed to capture this image whilst away at Blackpool with the missus and really happy and get a lot of complements from this one image itself, I can’t believe I managed to capture the beauty of the sun set.

after finishing university I wasn’t to find a job in photography, its always been a dream to manage to get a job in what I love doing, so that is my goal.

I took these this year the other weekend at a ww2 event at Newstead abbey, the one of the German soldier I did ask him if I could photograph him and he said I could, He also was saying about the history of the German soldiers which I wish I could of recorded but didn’t think at the time.

The one of the soldier walking was one he didn’t pose or know about, really happy with the set of photographs I took this weekend.

these photographs can be found on my facebook photograph page which is: Dawn Barker Photograph, I also have a instagram account .

I love going to places with history to it and old buildings.