Photography Session

We has a workshop today which taught us the basics of using manual functions on the digital SLR cameras. We used different coloured lenses and backgrounds and played with lighting and composition. 

Photoshop Workshops

 

 

 

 

From this we used the images to make postcards.

Visual Language- 12/01/10

Looking at language skills..

Noun

- A naming word

eg. on sunday lizz went to the church  

Adjective

-A describing word

 eg. on sunday lizz went to the beautiful church

Verb

- A doing word

eg. on sunday lizz strolled to the beautiful church

Pronoun

-A word that replaces a noun

eg. on sunday she strolled to the beautiful church

Objective personal pronoun

-You I Him Her It Us

Personal- Lizz lives with me

Objective- Lizz lives in my house

First Person

-Talking about yourself

Singular- I got up at 7am

Plural- We got up at 7am

Second Person

-Talking about the reader

Singular- You got up at 7am

Plural- The alarm woke us up at 7am

Third person

-Talking about another person or people

Singular- One would like a cup of tea

Plural- They would like a cup of tea

First person singular verb

 I/We went running

Second person singular verb

You are running

 

Third person singular verb

One went running

They went running

Minimizing text- we had a few exercises where we had to shorten a passage of writing so it could be sent on a single text, we had to keep all the information which we thought was the most important.

 

Visual Communications- Timelines

We used events in our lives to show different ways of laying out information using shapes and symbols.

We started with our own timeline then compared ours to another persons and thought about ways of joining the information together.

Group of 2- use same symbols when recorded together

Group of 4- Collating lager amounts of information 

Visual Language 02/12/09

I had to record Letter A's around the college, i decided to focus on signs and information boards. I found a lot of the photographs were of flyers as they used more interesting fonts. I tried to record a selection of font and colour.

Visual Language- 9/12/09

Exploring how colours work together with each other.. how colours can appear to change stand out or subdue.

Visual Language 10/11/09

Looking at how colours work together



Photographing our objects on coloured papers showed us how important it was to experiment with coloured backgrounds as they could change the appearance of the object dramatically. Contrasting colours made the object 'pop' stand out where as similar hues made the objects appear more subtle. The colours could also make the objects appear a different hue, eg. placing a green object on yellow made the green appear more yellow than if it were to be placed on a blue background.

The objects appear more saturated colour in the top image, when placed on the opposite colour they stand out more but appear a different hue

The chip on the right appears more saturated colour and has more warmth to it, the white background on the left appears to drain the object of its colour

We can see how the red stand out more on the black background, it pushes the colour forward

When the bottle top moves onto the yellow side its hue appears more yellow and it appears to tint the yellow background to a green-ish yellow, where as when it is on the blue side the bottle top appears a blue-ish green.

Visual Vocabulary 03/11/09

Our group had to collect 10 green objects each

from this we had to arrange them in some sort of order

we decided to arrange them in hues first (above) and then objects to each side represented the tones whether it was lighter or darker (below)

we then chose 10 of the objects that showed the broadest range of colour and tone

we used pantone charts to find and record each of the coloured objects

it was really interesting to see the vast array of colours in the pantones

All the groups arranged the objects together to make a colours spectrum

this showed how the colours connected to each other

Colour Theory

Colour Theory

Primary Colours

Red, Yellow & Blue

These colours cannot be made

Secondary Colours

Orange, Green & Violet

These colours are made by mixing equal quantities of 2 primary colours

Tertiary Colours

Yellow Orange, Red Orange, Red Violet, Blue Violet, Blue Green, Yellow Green.

These colours are made by mixing a secondary colour with one of its primary colours so the hue becomes closer to the primary colour.

Complimentary Colours

Red & Green. Yellow & Violet. Orange & Blue.

These are colours that lay opposite each other on the colour spectrum.

Shade/ Hue/ Tint

However ...

RGB (Red, Green, Blue) is used for computer based images as in images for the web and television, where as CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Key) are used for printed images.

Visual Language - Visual Illusions

For this session we were asked in groups to collect and bring boxes of a variety of sizes. Our task was to create a Letter over an arrangement of boxes, we had to create the illusion of a letter. This had to be viewed from one point, we could only use white or black card and had to change the opacity of pieces of the letter so they all appeared the same tone.

We started by taking a photograph of the collection of boxes from the viewpoint, from this we drew on the letter to the photograph to see where the pieces of the letters would need to be placed. With one person at the viewfinder we carefully crafted the shape, the viewfinder person giving us directions on where the letter would be. The furthur back the letter the larger it needed to be also the darker it needed to be to counter act its length from the viewfinder.

I did a similar session to this last year on my foundation course where we had to create a shape that could only be seen from one point.

 

 

We had a camera on a tripod for this which was a lot easier to use then guessing where to look.

Visual Language

Today we had to create 4 variations of the word 'Scale' thinking about the layout of the type. We then swapped our 4 pieces with another person and had to create 3 adaptations of each of their 4 pieces inkeeping with the word 'Scale'.

This piece explores the change in quantities of the 2 scales of type.

This piece shows editing to the typeface used in the smaller scale type. The scale is shown by making a large letter out of numerous smaller ones.

 

This piece shows a decreasing differentiation in scale by increasing the scale of one of the letters.

 

Images of collections of 'Scale' by the class.