Assignment Ideas

After researching landscape photographers and documentary genres of photography. I like the idea of a reflection image. Creating that one image split in two. I can incorporate this into a surrealism/pictorialism image and then print onto wood for that textured affect.

A beautiful example by Gail Rainwater:

Photographic Genre; Documentary

After researching documentary photography. I took some wildlife photographs over the weekend showing kangaroos in their natural habitat;

Photographic Genre; Documentary

Documentary photography is a chronicle significant, historical event. Todays society is typically covered in photojournalism, reports, amateur, artistic and academic pursuits. A popular documentary photographer specialises in wildlife; animals. For example; Juliette Mills is a documentary photographer who specialises in wildlife around kenya.

Photographic Genre; Landscape

After researching the website 'National Geographic' I took a landscape photo of the Lake Lyell located in Rydal near the blue mountains.

Photo taken by me

This photo was taken with a gradient filter to trick my camera into thinking it was dark outside when infact this was taken at 1pm. Using a 10second exposure i achieved the water to look smooth.

Photographic Genres; Landscape

This particular genre of photography contains little or no human activity. Landscape are strongly defined landforms, weather, and ambient light. As with most forms of art, the definition of a landscape photograph is broad, and may include urban settings, industrial areas, and nature photography.

A great example of this genre is on the national geographic website.

This landscape shot called the 'sleeping giant' was taken by Hidenobu Suzuki located on the national geographic website

'Girls World' Taken by Gina Waga and published onto the national geographic website

Shooting in the style of blending modes;

It is still a struggle to take the perfect photo in one shot. For example; Locations with high contrasts and shadows can be difficult to see through your digital camera and appear black. If you bump up your ISO you will just lose detail in your highlighted areas. This is where photoshop comes in handy.

By using a lightening mode you can control these shadows

Using sam as the main subject we then created new layers with just only the background

Example of one of the backgrounds

We then masked each background layer to control, lighten and saturate certain areas of which the shadows dominate

When adding Sam back into the frame and then

Save the image

convert the size to smaller size

Final image

Post Modernism

When Abstract expressionism had already been falling out of the public favour for some time, many artist turned increasingly towards mixed media art forms such as conceptualism and super-realism.

Post Modernism is a movement away from the viewpoint of modernism. It emphasises the role of language, power relations, and motivations; in particular it attacks the use of sharp classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black and imperial versus colonial.

Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict some aspects of modernism or some aspects that emerged or developed in its aftermath. In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video are described as postmodern.

For example; Jeff Koons Sculpture puppy:

After researching different post modernism photographers and images, i took some modern photos to emphasise this; 

• MODERNISM with the aftermath of Post modernism

I have taken some modern 'aftermath' images to emphasise this:

personally i think post modernism is just an artistic way of showing modern styles in a different view of perspective

Grain waves. A modern/new way of eating chips yet they are a lot healthier way of eating chips with grains.

Orange juice shot similar to the brainwaves shot

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