Stephen Gill inspired investigetion

Orange Squash

In this project I used a hammer, a tripod, sheets of paper, stones, orange pieces and a camera. It was a windy day and so I had to use rocks to hold the piece of paper in place. This effected the pictures because I had to zoom in more so that the rocks couldn't be seen. I would get the hammer and then hit the oranges, some very hard and some not so hard. The tripod was very useful in this experiment because it held the camera still and over the oranges so that it could get the whole of the juice created.

This project is about chance. We don't know where the juice is going to go and so we want to find out. This is what engages the viewer to these photos. Here are the photos that I took.

The orange in this picture was not hit hard which meant that the juice travelled less and a lot of it went in one direction.

The orange in this picture was hit very hard which meant that the juice travelled farther and all around it.

I did have a problem because The way that I hit the orange pieces with the hammer meant that I was controlling the direction of the juice. Because of this I got a flat stone and put it on top of the orange and then hit the stone with a hammer. This was much better because the juice went in lots of different directions then.

I enjoyed doing this project because I liked smashing the oranges and I liked finding out what would happen to the juice.

Orange Peel

This project was inspired by Stephen Gill A Series Of Dissapointment.

For this project I went into the school cafe at lunch, had lunch and asked my friends if they could peel their oranges and give the peel to me. I then got the orange peel, put it on a white peice of paper and took a photograph.

This project is demonstrating the chance in a series of disappiontments but with orange peels, what is normally thrown away and isn't expected to be seen is photographed. I did't ask the people to peel the orange and give it to me before they peeled it because this could effect how they would peel it.

Clark Little

Clark little is a photographer who is based in Waimea Bay. He was born in 1968 and his work started by his wife asking him for a picture of some local water to go in a frame in the house. So he swapped his surfboard for a waterproof camera and started taking pictures of the sea. Now he has gained nationwide recognition for his photographic work.  Here he is with his equipment. He gets these photos by standing in the sea where the waves are about to break. He then waits for a wave and then when the wave is just about to hit him he takes the photo. This results in him getting hit by the wave. He uses a fast shutter speed to capture the waves at their best. The waves he takes pictures of are very high and powerful.
The sun plays a big part in some of his photos as it shines on the water creating an even better picture. Such as in this photo the sun creates a line along the wave which is used t o lead the eye in the direction of the wave and the end of the tunnel/barrell.

In this photo, the wave has dragged the sand up into the wave meaning there is a cloud of sand inside the wave. This photo makes the viewer feel as if they are there because of the angle.


In this photo, the texture is a key part becasue the beginning of the wave is smooth but as it gets nearer to the end the water gets more bumpy and rough. I like the way that the barrell suddenly ends to show the sun and the beach because it gives the photo placement, we feel as if we are there.
 
In this photo the start of the wave is like a wall becasue there isn't any water underneath it. This creates a feeling of how powerful the wave is. I also like the contrasts of colour in the sky and the wave, the blues and the whites.


This photo creates a 3D feel. This is because the sun is in the center and creates a shining light on the water and makes a line leading to the veiwer. Because we look at the sun, the wave almost becomes 3D aswell.


I like this photo becasue the texture of the waves make us think that it's soft but of we look to the left then we see a wall of water which makes us think that it is powerfuland dangerous. We can then see a small hole in the wave which makes us feel as we we have a chance to escape the danger of the wave. I also like the different shades of blue, How it starts of dark and then gets lighter until it turns white.


The wave is red in this photo and we don't know why. Becasue of this the veiwer tries to figure it out. It is a very unique shot becasue we have never' seen anything like this before and so we appreciate it a lot more. There is also a show of the different shades of orange.

With a high shutter speed Clark caught the brilliant fanned effect of two waves intersecting each other and throwing out this spectacular fan of water. The high shutter speed makes the water look like glass. This is a very rare photo because it is hard to spot them and then take the photo of it happening at the right time because they happen so quickly and we can't tell where they are going to happen. Clark is very lucky to have had that chance.


Overall I think that Clark little is a very good photographer as his pictures are unique and give the veiwer a feel of the sea. His photos have a 3D effect which brings the viewer into the picture. I also like the way that he makes the waves have texture and the different shades in the picture.

Stephen Gill research

Stephen Gill was born in 1971 and was introduced to photography at an early age by his farther. His projects show consistency in each picture so that we can work out the connection between the photos in the project and then put them together. His work is also very subtle.

One of his projects was called Outside In.
In this project he used a box camera. He would then find something small and put the things inside his camera. He would then take a photo of the things inside his camera and something in the background but they weren't always related.

In this photo, Stephen put little bits of clovers inside the camera and a piece of glass. He then took a picture of the scene in the background. There isn't really a point about these pictures as the photographer is trying to be playful and pioneering his idea. I like the way that is is very original and different. I am interested in discovering what will happen in the pictures. We have never put things inside a camera and so we don't know what the pictures will look like.



In this picture the square inside of the camera is used to frame the dog. Some of the scene is blocked by the objects inside the camera. I like this idea because it think it would be fun to do. I don't think there is much point in these photos but I think they are important because it is a different way of exploring photography.



In some of the photos they turned out blurred because of the objects inside them. This meant that the background was out of focus.


I like this project because it is a new way of exploring the different things people can do with cameras and the way that they use them. It is exploring a different side to photography.

Billboards

In this project Stephen Gill takes pictures of the back of billboards and what is behind them. He is making us look at the things that we wouldn't normally look at because we would look at the front and wouldn't care about the back.

Stephen is thinking outside of the box in this project because if we were told to photograph billboards almost all of us would take photos of the front.

I like this project because it is a very subtle type of photography but is also very effective. It is making us look at a different angle of things and so it makes us interested in what we don't normally see.

Buried

In this project Stephen takes a picture of a place and then he digs a hole at that place and buries the picture. After a week or so he would come back to the spot, dig and find the picture again to see how it came back.



I like this idea because the picture will have the same texture of the place that was photographed. The paper the photograph is on will have the same effect of the photograph.


Some of the photos were effected more than others. Weathering could have effected the photo a lot making a big impact on the photograph. However, the photo could be ruined by the soil and weather because it could cover up the actual picture and so we couldn't see the picture taking away the effect of the picture.
 
I like this project because it is interesting to see what all of the photos would look like. It makes us interested in the project because we haven't seen anything like it before.

Overall I think Stephen Gill is a good photographer because he is thinking of great projects that we wouldn't have thought about. He makes us interested in his projects as we haven't seen or thought about these projects and so we want to look at how they turn out. The pictures taken are abnormal. When I first looked at Stephen Gill I thought his pictures were a bit pointless because they had no meaning in them so I found them dull as well. Now I now that it is a very subtle photography that is interesting because no one has done them before. He is experimenting in what we can do with photography and is a very inspiring photographer.

Sophie Calle inspired investigation

For this project I went to the beach. Because it was a hot day there were lots of people there. This meant that I could find any type of person or people that I wanted to follow and then I could blend in with the rest of the crowd. This is great because the people that I would follow wouldn't know that I was taking photos of them giving me the desired effect of the project. Another good thing about there being lots of people around was that they created lots of noise and so the people who I was going to follow wouldn't hear me taking the photo and so they wouldn't know they were being followed. If the people I was following knew that  I was taking photos of them and following them they would react differently and  so the project would be ruined. There wouldn't be the natural feeling of them because they would pose for the camera.

 Here is a picture of the beach and some of the people there. On the right there is a path which I went a long to find, follow and photograph random people. I started at the top of the path and then found two people who were walking just in front of me and so I decided I will follow them and take pictures of them.





These people were great to photograph because they were walking slowly and so I could pace myself at their speed going behind them. This meant that I could follow behind them at a safe distance so that I could take a photo without them hearing me because of the distance and that they wouldn't notice me following them.

 While I was following them I tried to take as many photos as possible of their movements and where they went. It was hard to photograph them because they were moving and so to keep up with them I had to take photos while I was moving. This meant that some pictures would turn out at a bad angle. Another reason that it was a bad angle was because I couldn't look through the viewfinder or at the screen because my camera doesn't have that setting. I didn't do this because it would have made it obvious that I was taking a photo.

I tried to follow them for as long as I could to see where they went but all they did was walk. So I went away to see if there was anyone else better to photograph. so I went to follow a different starting point which was to follow a photographer and see what they took photos of. However, the couple from before came back again but walking in the opposite direction so I thought I would follow them again to see what they would do.

We followed them for a couple of minutes to see what they would do but all that happened was the man took his top off and so I photographed it. These are the photos.

In some of the photos I didn't know how much or how little I should zoom in because I didn't was to look like I was taking a photo. This meant that some photos would be zoomed in too much and some would be zoomed out too much. To make sure that they didn't hear me taking a photo, I pretended to sneeze or cough as I took the photo.

I enjoyed this project because it made me think of how easy it is for someone to take pictures of you and follow you without you knowing. I enjoyed doing this project because I liked seeing what normal people do.