Close Up Portraits

This is a Close up portrait of my sister.

Animal Photography

Both of these pictures were taken on my Canon camera and this was my friends dog. We went out to the park to walk the dog and I decided to take some pictures of Billy (the dog) and capture some expressions when he was shaking his head or action shots when he was running (or flying!!!) towards me. I chose a high FPS of 2000 when taking these pictures to take in enough light to make the picture look good and to also not take in any motion blur when he was in movement.

Roland Barthes: The Rhetoric of the Image

Roland Barthes: The Rhetoric of the Image

In the lesson today we read about Roland Barthes deconstructing a Panzani advertising image and extracted the types of messages contained within it. He did this to find the ‘rhetoric’ of the image. Advertisements have a deliberate meaning in order to sell a product, Barthes’ analyses can be used to understand how messages are conveyed in other types of images.

The whole advert is encompassed in the main colours of red, white and green. This symbolises the Italian flag and shows ‘Italianism’. All the items in the old Italian style market bag seems as if they have just fallen out, showing that someone has just come back from market and put down the bag onto a surface. The fruit and vegetables in the bag show that the food is fresh and also comes back to the whole idea of coming back from fresh market. The Italianism and fresh food from market means that the dried and tinned food is also just as good as food from a local market. This advert makes you take a bit of Italy home with you. All the Italianicity is encoded into the advert through the red, white and green which connotes the Italian flag and the fresh food represents an Italian market. The tinned and dried foods borrowed interest from the fresh products, all together suggesting that Panzani provides quick, fresh and home-made foods for all the family.

The whole picture is made in still life form meaning that it is conveyed in an art form and that the whole idea of the advertisement is encompassed in an art form which also can show a bit of Italianism. All the products shown are close together to show that Panzani are selling the customer everything Italian and a whole culinary package.

What Barthes is suggesting is that all advertisement and images have a certain ‘rhetoric’ that is trying to persuade people to buy the product through different features in each advertisement. Images have their own persuasive language.

Still Life - Fruit & ABC

Back-lighting & Chiaroscuro

Back lighting is a picture of something with light illuminating the back of the object and no light coming round to the front of the object in the photo. The object usually becomes a silhouette. This is a picture of my sister with the sun behind her head.




















Chiaroscuro is when light captures one side of the subject in a picture but not the other side creating a contrasting effect, Chiaroscuro is mainly taken in black and white. Chiaroscuro is used in many art forms as well as photography, but in photography it is used when creating art in a photo form. This is a picture of me.

Spot Healing tool

I used the spot healing tool in Photoshop to remove a mole that was on this person's face. You Alt+Lmb on an area you want to cover up the spot and you paint over the spot with this tool by just dragging over the spot with the Lmb.

Before

After

Photoshop Skills

Here I put a background image on this man's white T-Shirt. I did this is Photoshop with the Spot Healing tool. I first collected a picture of a person with a white shirt and a nice picture to put inside it. When I had found those I selected the whole shirt with the magic wand tool. I then clicked on the healing tool and switched over to the picture I was going to put in his shirt. I pressed Alt+Click on the picture where I wanted it to be and then changed back over to the man with the shirt and painted the picture into his shirt. I then selected the background with the magic wand tool and changed it to black.

Andy Warhol Style Picture: Photoshop

For my next task I had to produce an Andy Warhol style repeat picture using Photoshop. In this I used my sister when she was about 2 or 3 and also very cute. But i copied and pasted the picture of her multiple times, and then changed the saturation and hue to change the colour to make it look like a Warhol style picture with vibrant colours.