6. Mood Board 1- Animals
My first mood board is based around animals, the images I have
chosen are all very vibrant and interesting to look at. I chose to only
have colourful images because I want my images to be very bright
and to stand out. I also based my mood board around more exotic or
not as spoken about animals, such as parrots, wolfs, owls and
bearded dragons. I think that having more unique and interesting
looking animals that arenât as commonly used in day to day images
will help to make my photos stand out against others. I also tried to
only chose images which were close up, I think that this makes them
look more direct and intimate. For my photographs I would want to
have a very close up images of colourful and unusual animals, I
would then apply a technique that could be relevant to it, for example
I could multimedia or the Harris shutter effect to help enhance the
images.
8. Mood Board 2- Religion
My second mood board is based around religion, I found it quite
difficult to find images that were very biased, so I collected images
that were symbols of the different religions, such as crosses, a
Buddha statue and a Menorah. I also collected images of people
praying and places where people would go to pray. I found that a lot
of these images were related to nature, featuring blue skies and
grassy lands, which I think is symbolic to every religion. I think that if I
were to chose religion as my theme for my discovery I would have to
go out and really research different places and things to photograph.
I would also want to take the colour out of the images, having them in
black and white. I think that having them in monochrome would be
different to how they would usually be photographed. I would apply
techniques like scanography and out of focus, to make the images
look more unique.
10. Mood Board 3- Locations
The third mood board I created was based around locations, I think that
the images I have chosen are all relatively colourful, and show many
different places. I like these images because they show how there are
so many different places that people can discover, which relates directly
to the theme we have ben given. I like the idea of doing locations for my
photos because I think itâs a very broad idea, and I could do pretty much
what ever I wanted with it. I like the images I have chosen because they
are a good mix of either large scenery images or smaller more intimate
scenes, such as the African lady in the dessert. I like the colours used in
the images as well, ranging from both very bright and bold to muted and
darker colours. I think if I were to use this theme for my photos I would
use multi media, out of focus or photomontage. I think photomontage
would look great, because separating the images and then laying them
back on each other would cause them to be disjointed, which would look
good for a location image.
12. Mood Board 4- Food
The next mood board I worked on was based around food, I though
this was a good idea to do because people are constantly
discovering new foods and new recipes, so it relates directly to the
theme we have been given for our final images. The images I have
chosen are all very colourful and draw the audience in, it features a
range of foods, including fast food burgers, vegetables and fruits. I
like these images because they are all vibrant and bright, and I think
that a range of techniques would work well with this type of image. I
like them because they are all different but they also all have a very
common look to them, they look professional. The type of techniques
I would use would be high speed photography, Harris shutter and 3D.
I think that high speed photography would probably be the best
technique to use because you could really experiment with the
images, the image layout and then the editing afterwards.
13. Proposal
This proposal will cover my subject, the
location I will be shooting in, the technique I
will be using and my reasons why.
14. Subjects:
The subject I will be photography will be anything to do with locations, which relates to
the bigger theme of discovery. I think that I will also need to get lots of varying sizes of
scene, making sure that I have both very large, almost landscape looking images, as
well as much smaller more close scene, such as sign posts. Due to my theme being
locations, I am able to use both small and large scenes, especially around college, so I
think that varying these scenes will be a good idea, and because the theme is locations,
I could use images such as signs on walls, the buttons in elevators, the staircase, and
then larger scaled ones such as the library, the atrium or the canteen.
Locations:
My main location will be college; I will be using many different viewpoints from around
college and possibly outside of college, in order to create different images to test my
technique out on. Once I have found locations that I wish to photograph, and then
appropriate viewpoints, I will take lots of close up images of the scene. I will do this for
many different locations around college so that I have a lot of choice. Although my main
location is college, if I feel that the images I am collecting from there arenât what I
expected then I would have to do them outside of college to get more of a variety.
15. Techniques:
My experiment will be based around photomontages, also experimenting with joiners in
the style of David Hockney. This technique will involve me taking lots of close up images
of a scene, which will be locations, and how we chose those locations, and then
rearranging them using Photoshop to create the image again, only this time disjointed or
collaged. I will use Photoshop to do this, going on file, and then automate and then
choosing photomontage. I will then set the preference to how I want, and create the
images. I think I want to have each image be different from the others in the sense that I
want one where you can clearly see what it is, one where you see what it is are but are
slightly unsure and then the third image be so disjointed that you really donât see what it
is. I also think I want to introduce mixed media into the images, printing off my
photomontages/ joiners and then adding other types of media on top of them,
experimenting with wax crayons and possibly small sections of fabrics.
Reasoning:
The reason I have chosen to use photomontage as the technique Is because I think that
it will be relatively easy to create, but also that I have will the chance to edit and change
the images drastically when post production times comes around. I also think that when
looking into the different techniques and researching them, I found photomontage to be
the one I enjoyed working on the most because of the final look of the overall image.
