First thoughts: Pinterest.
My favorite of the images are the 1st, 6th and 9th. All three of these images have three main things in common, these are that they are all of trees, they are all in black and white and finally, they all involve some kind of abstraction. I thought I would give it a try.
Firstly, I got up early one morning and went to take some of my own photographs, the reason I went early is because lately, the light has been extraordinary however i wasn't so lucky on the occasions that I went out as you can see.
Then, using photoshop, Began to mirror them in order to create some kind of abstraction, the effect was succesful...
The day after this, I Decided to move on to another area of abstraction, this was collage. I decided to move on as i found that, after looking at them for a while, they are not very original nor very interesting. Firstly, I went out and took images near my school but this time in warmer light.
These new images I took were more close up then my previous set and it seemed as though they fit together. With this in mind, I opened them up in photoshop and created a rough kind of collage with them
From here I decided to bring this back to the whole idea of my photography being in black and white. So, I grey scaled it and then played with contrast and brightness. Here is the end result of the process. However, I Still didn't think it was testing me particularly and again is not very interesting of a piece. Also, I dislike the sharp lines the image acquired between the images where they have been arranged. So, with this in mind, I thought I attempt to re create this idea but using a pinhole camera and then using the original negatives, after they had been developed, and either collage them as i have above or present them in a simplistic but nice way. I think That by doing tis, it would make my final piece seem delicate which could be a second meaning to my work. A sort of narrative for how trees are so
PIN HOLE PHOTOGRAPHY.
In order to bring a new feeling to my work, I decided to attempt to photograph trees using a pinhole camera I made (see my pin hole photography page for more info). I found that digitally editing my photographs was not as interesting as I'd hoped it to be. By using my home made pin hole camera instead, I was able to create simple images, that were more visually intriguing as when I collaged on Photoshop, you can clearly see the lines where I had cropped the images or where a new one started. Here are 15 of about 25 photographs I took using my camera over a day at school.
After I had taken these, I thought it was time to think of a way to display them. Seeing as the images are only roughly 3 inches long and 2 wide, I found that there were a lot of ways that I could do this. Most of which I really like. Take a look... https://uk.pinterest.com/harveycb/display-pin-hole-trees/ I think that i have improved my understanding if
After searching for a way to display them, I spoke to Mr Nichols. He mentioned using all of these along with a huge photograph I took using a pinhole camera made from a huge cardboard box I found in the art department at school. After speaking to him about it, I came to the conclusion that I would print the small photographs scattered randomly around the large one via exposure to light. I got two A3 pieces of light sensitive photographic paper and placed them side by side in order to fit the whole image onto them. I then, with some help, I turned on a light in the dark room over it and held it for a minute. This didn't work at first but the second one I did we held it for 40seconds. The second try was much better although neither were final piece standard so I just framed them separately.
After searching for a way to display them, I spoke to Mr Nichols. He mentioned using all of these along with a huge photograph I took using a pinhole camera made from a huge cardboard box I found in the art department at school. After speaking to him about it, I came to the conclusion that I would print the small photographs scattered randomly around the large one via exposure to light. I got two A3 pieces of light sensitive photographic paper and placed them side by side in order to fit the whole image onto them. I then, with some help, I turned on a light in the dark room over it and held it for a minute. This didn't work at first but the second one I did we held it for 40seconds. The second try was much better although neither were final piece standard so I just framed them separately.