February 2018 - georgia freeman

Combining Person and Place

By Georgia - February 15, 2018

using Photoshop to explore layering of maps, newspapers and places to explore combining place with person

Using similar double exposure editing techniques, I combined maps, locations and newspapers together with the pictures from the fabric shoot previously to combine place + person. Much like linking the subject to their crime or scandal in the press. (Transparency in the media)

I love how they turned out, I feel that layering was a good method to use as it took the focus away from the appearance of the subject and rather showed the silhouetted, giving equal focus to the person and the place on the map/facts on the article.

For this next part, I used my own text projection pictures and newspaper to project the fabric photography on top of. I feel they came out very effectively and due to using the projector, it gave a unique blurred effect..could link to the idea of blurred lines/boundaries? Not knowing when to stop/when things are inappropriate?

- G

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Double Exposure Edits

By Georgia - February 15, 2018

previous pictures from exploring portraiture and the building photography, combined together to produce double exposure effects

This idea explored the concept of combining person with place. This could lead on to combining things in the media together, such as crimes/scandals with the scene where it happened/building. This would physically display the lack of transparency/truth in the media.

I further developed this working with monochromatic colour schemes. Such as all red/all black + white. This gave focus on the overall concept, merging the elements as one, rather than two separate things put on top of one another.

These below were some quick edits of monochromatic designs that I could use. I liked the red ones the most, I felt they worked well with the shadows and details, so used this when creating the double exposures in Photoshop.

- G

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Building Photography and Exploration

By Georgia - February 15, 2018

going along with the 'media' concept, I began to explore locations that may be prominent in the news and capture some general buildings

I took the images into Photoshop to edit them to be more effective, by increasing the contrast and decreasing the saturation, it allowed the structure of the building to be the focus, rather than the colours.

Below were some more photographs that I liked from the ones I took that day in London. I love the reflections of the building on the opposite mirrored buildings.

I would like to explore layering these building pictures together with portraits, or pictures from the previous shoot to create double exposure effects. To develop further, I would also like to do some drawings/paintings using the silhouettes of the buildings.

For this idea, I wanted to sketch the buildings in a way that it would be minimal/simplistic but you could still recognise what landmark it was, so I went with a continuous line drawing method.

To improve on this, I would try to laser cut this design onto wood or maybe emboss it into a material. I would like to try layering it onto text too and newspaper print. Also, I would like to try creating a pattern out of the design and use that to cut out of things such as perpex, newspaper etc.

- G

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Portraiture Exploration

By Georgia - February 15, 2018

exploring the title through use of portraiture photography, making use of lighting, composition, object placement and incorporating transparent objects

(below are some of my pictures displayed on my portraiture website: https://georgiafreeman.wixsite.com/portfolio/portraiture , where I'm able to display the full size images)

I started looking into transparency in identity, so in the pictures of my friend with the glasses on, I applied the question: what could be seen through glasses? The glasses act as a metaphor to our sight and what we actually see or choose to see in some cases.

I also explored how I could use objects to shoot through and manipulate the composition with. Using transparent/translucent objects such prisms, glass, plastic, windows, doors, I was able to choose where I wanted lighting to cast onto the subject and also created great shapes in the foreground that worked well in framing the model.

Above, I looked at exploring text again, this time on top of the photographs or surrounding the images. This could lead onto a link with people in the media/newspapers and how much of what they tell us is true, and how transparent are they actually being with the public?

Some of my favourite shoot images were the ones shot through windows, where the reflections of surrounding lighting would bounce around in the composition in different areas, allowing me to pick where I wanted the out of focus lighting 'bokeh' to be.

- G

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Fabric Shoot, Picture Edits and Experimentation

By Georgia - February 07, 2018

silhouette shoot using sheer fabrics and natural lighting in an outdoor setting

Inspired by some of my original ideas and the photographer Benjamin Askinas, I went out to an open field in Cambridge, taking some sheer fabrics with me and conducted this silhouette photo shoot.

I took with me some large sheer blue material and worked with a friend to get her to model in certain positions/poses and photographed her from different angles that I had planned out. I found the most effective lighting for this shoot was that where the sun/daylight was mainly behind her, this gave the body a detailed silhouette and the opportunity for the light to really shine through the fabric, producing lots of shadows and texture as a result.

From my selections of the contact sheets below, I began editing them in Photoshop and Lightroom. I was intrigued to see how the pictures would look if I increased the contrast, exposure and saturation of the pictures, as well as duplicating and overlaying copies of the image and changing the opacity for the picture to have sheer elements to it.

I love the movement that I was able to capture with a slower shutter sped and the whole blue monochrome look seemed to be really effective and something I'd like to try again in the future. I tried to shoot from lower angles, to capture the majority of the figure and to make the movements of the subject come across as powerful. I feel this was successful and to improve in the future, I would like to try this angle technique again and also try with a different lens and lower angles.

- G

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Artist Research - Benjamin Askinas

By Georgia - February 06, 2018

researching potential shoot ideas with transparent/sheer fabric and looking to artist for inspiration

Exploring a different literal concept, I wanted to look into using transparent/sheer fabrics in a photoshoot. Beginning research into this and how I could go about it, I came across the photographer; Benjamin Askinas. His work really stood out to me, he had explored with sheer fabrics in the way that I wanted to; allowing the fabric to lay against the contours of the body, merging the subject with the material.

- G

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Transparency Materials + Exploring Text and Projections

By Georgia - February 06, 2018

gathering ideas for potential working materials and exploring use of text and projections

I began to look into different materials that could be transparent or translucent and started manipulating them by pleating/folding/cutting/scrunching etc, this enabling me to see how they work with the light and what textures I could create. Whilst keeping in mind how I could use these in my ideas.

At the beginning of this project, I started by exploring some literal approaches; such as the word itself and things/materials/objects/subjects being physically transparent or translucent. I also played around a lot with the word itself in the sense of seeing it as a word, so decided to use it in cutouts and projections and also layered it in Adobe Photoshop.

I worked a lot with perspex too, shining projections on it and seeing how things would appear on a transparent surface and by altering the work digitally and projecting it onto the perspex, I could create lots of ideas easily and explore the concept to its full potential.

I took these ideas further and edited them in Photoshop and other mobile editing apps to increase the contrast between the letters and the backgrounds and also I increased the saturation of the red perspex. I loved the effect this produced and it would be interesting to see what kind of effect I could then create by projecting the edits back onto a transparent surface.

- G

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Transparency Mind Map + Initial Ideas

By Georgia - February 06, 2018

mind mapping and collecting ideas for Transparency brief
writing down any words/phrases/ideas that I could think of to do with the word 'Transparent'. This is my initial collection of ideas for the project title.

I then went on to create a visual mind map of some of the main ideas that I liked and found online, a new way of displaying some ideas.

I'd like to explore more conceptual ideas and things to do with media, instead of doing the ideas I immediately think of and create more that are non-traditional.
- G

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Laser Cutting

By Georgia - February 03, 2018

using the laser cutter to cut out my designs from my thumbnail printing ideas

For this task, I had the chance to use the laser cutter to develop my designs further and learn a new technique to use in future projects.

Importing the initial thumbnail designs into adobe illustrator, I then continued to trace over the lines, saving these and importing them into the a 2-D Design programme, for the laser cutter to read and work. I enjoyed this process and found it interesting learning something new and gaining this skill to use again.

I loved how these designs came out, they look very similar to that of Kandinsky's work. This could be an opportunity for me to explore his work further?

As you can see above, I kept both pieces that were but: the negative space and the pieces cut out so that I could layer them, as seen in the pictures. I wanted to use contrasting colours, so went with red and an off-white pale green card stock to cut the design out of.
To improve on this, I would try to work more with different backgrounds and surfaces that I would cut into. For example, I would try to do a painting or drawings or a collage, then place that into the laser cutter for a different, textured effect. Also, if possible I would like to do this on a bigger scale and think more about the negative space areas whilst producing the design to cut out.

- G

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Combining Person and Place

Double Exposure Edits

Building Photography and Exploration

Portraiture Exploration

Fabric Shoot, Picture Edits and Experimentation

Artist Research - Benjamin Askinas

Transparency Materials + Exploring Text and Projections

Transparency Mind Map + Initial Ideas

Laser Cutting

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