Connecting Essay Five

This is my image from my sixth shoot, I really like how this turned out, the shadows are all pointing in the same direction and I like the birds eye view that I used in the shoot. I think it is a bit more childish than some of my other shoots because I used toys for it, however I think this relates to a lot of the research that I have done so I wanted to try it out. 

I like the colours in this photograph because it is a lot of bright primary colours. I used a white balance to make the colours a little bit more faded as I thought that this would give it a bit more of a retro effect, as well as reversing the orange tones of the photographs before.

This image by Andre Kertesz is of Volkswagen cars, they are all set up next to each other quite randomly, they aren't put there depending on colour or anything.

This image uses leading lines well, the cars are in a straight line which leads your eye up the row to the corner of the image. 

The two images are similar because they both have objects set up in lines and organised well, the difference between the two is that the cars are in black and white whereas my image is in colour. I also used shadows in my image, whilst Kertesz didn't really use shadows at all, he used natural lighting for his photography so he had less choice over the shadowing.

Connecting Essay Four

This is my image, I am not very happy with how this turned out, however it was my first shoot so it was something that I could progress from. So I am happy that I did this shoot because it taught me what works and what doesn't. I like how I laid this shoot out, although it looks more like an eBay advert than a photography piece. I wanted to try out lying out the objects that all related so that you could see them all, however it works better when the objects are more similar, for example, all controllers, or all discs, rather than things based around something like this was.

This is a photograph by Jim Golden. I love this image because of how much time and effort has gone into laying them out, it must've taken a long time as the photograph is very big so there are obviously a lot of cameras there. Golden has also used not many shadows for this image, which looks really good because the image looks clean and you can tell what every single object is and you can look at them properly. 

I love all of the colours that he has used in this image, he could've changed the photograph to black and white for emphasis between the dark colour of the cameras and the white background.

To compare the two, I would say that the photograph by Jim Golden is obviously technically better, my image was taken in my house and the lighting isn't very good because I used a lamp, I should've tried the shoot with natural sunlight instead to see if it improved how it looked. Or done it in the shoot in the studio where I could control it.

Connecting Essay Three

This image is by Jim Golden, I really like what he has done in this photograph because he has laid all of the locks out so that they are all visible, he has also made them fit into a square which could be quite difficult as the objects are not very square. He has used a lot of different coloured objects which makes the photo a lot more interesting than if it was just silver locks. In addition, the shapes are all different which means that rather than just glazing over the image, you are more inclined to focus on it to look at all the different locks.

This is my image, I really like this because you can't tell what it is from first glance, you have to focus on it a bit to work it out. I stood the screws on their heads so that the pointy bit was sticking up, I then took photographs from above, this was so that we could see the shadows, I also wanted to be able to see the different sizes from a new viewpoint. 

I turned this image black and white because I wanted it to be simplified slightly, it previously looked a bit too busy as it had so many colours in it, and this with the shadowing, didn't work very well.

To compare, I think that the two images are both good, however, personally, I prefer my image, I think that Jim Golden's photograph is much larger scale than mine, which could work, however with my limited time scale in the exam, I don't want to risk it not working well.

Both of the images are technically very good, I think that Jim Golden wanted people to know what his image was of exactly, whereas I wanted it to be more abstract.

Connecting Essay Two

This is a photograph by Andre Kertesz, Kertesz has used cutlery to make a shadow on the table beneath it, I like how this looks as the light source is directly above the fork, meaning that the shadow is very sharp and is the exact shape of the fork, rather than being slightly warped or anything. I also like how plain the image is, it isn't cluttered with lots of different objects that make it look too busy, whereas my image is slightly more warped.

I really like how Kertesz has used the bowl in this image, most of the shadowing from the fork is identical to the normal shape. However where it's leant up against the bowl. the shadow on the bowl is slightly warped, which makes the image a bit more interesting than it would be.

This is my image, I did this on a table in my house and I used a normal light, although, despite this, I think that these images are technically quite good. I was very happy with how they all turned out from this shoot, although at times the lighting was quite harsh.

In this photo, rather than putting the light directly above the spoons so that the shadows show less, I directed it to the side of the spoons, this meant that the shadows were warped to the left quite a bit. I think that this looked really good and made the photograph much more interesting as I think that it might've been quite boring before.

I think that both of these images are good and I am happy with the quality of my images. I edited my images to make them black and white as I thought that this would make it easier to see the shadows. However I couldn't get my image to the quality of Kertesz image, as the shadow looks a lot darker, I think that he must've used a brighter light which mean that the contrast was heavier.

Connecting Essay One

This is my image that I did for everyday objects, it is from my fourth shoot, I wanted to try and do a shoot similar to Irving Penn, which I think I have achieved as the images do look quite similar. There are a few differences between each photograph as my image has a bit more shadowing, it has also got more of a plain black and white filter, whereas the photograph by Irving Penn has a bit more of a yellowy tone. My photograph has focused on the entire cigarette as we can see because it has the entire cigarette in the image. 

This image is by Irving Penn, I like this series of photographs as they are very focused on the disgustingness of cigarettes, rather than the cigarettes as a whole like mine, all of the cigarettes are dirty and disgusting, they have stains all over them. I like how in his images, you can see the ash in the cigarette, whereas in mine you can't really see this. 

I think that this photographer has a better image than mine because he probably used a macro camera that meant that he can focus on a smaller part of the cigarette like the end where the ash is, whilst my photo is more focused on the entire cigarette. 

The photograph looks much older than mine, the image was presented in 1975 in New York, this means that it is quite a recent image, it was put in black and white for a reason, I think that he did that because it makes it look extremely old and decaying.

He may have done this to mock the effects that smoking has on you, as it makes you age quicker and it can make you feel dirty.

In comparison, I think they are both good photographs technically, however the connotation and denotation in the cigarette shoot by Irving Penn is much more detail, whilst he wanted to show what people felt like and looked like when they smoked, I just wanted to take a good image. So therefore, his photo has a lot more thought behind it than my images. 

In addition, I think that my image isn't as good as his technically, although I am still happy with how they turned out. Because my camera can't get as close as his obviously could, my images show the whole cigarette, further, they are in less detail than his images.