Explanations

Explanations 

I was inspired by Lucas Oleniuk and Benjamin Rondel's photography work, which you can see their photography work on my blog. However, their photographs are completely black and white. The black and white is meant to take away the realism of the image and the red is meant to attract the viewer to this homeless man who is crippled. I also like the way everyone is going on with their everyday life and he is in this particular moment.

I really like this image as it contrasts with the the first image. I tried to focus on the man with a suite holding a cigarette as I want my first image to have a great impact. I also like how everyone seems to be relaxing and in a sense ignorant to any issues. 

images taken

Editing on PS

Editing on PS

 I inserted my image on Photoshop.

 I use the select tool to select the mans collar.

 I had to go on inverse in order to prevent the mans collar to be affected by the black and white filter I am going to place in.

 From under the layers I selected the black and white filter.

 As you can see everything but the man's collar is affected by the black and white filter.

 I wanted to empathize the colour of the collar so therefore I had to re-select  it.

Went on properties and change the hue and satisfaction to a more red tone to increase the red tone.

My photography of homelessness

My Photography of Homelessness 

My Photographs Of Homelessness 

I was astonished in the plenitude of homelessness in London particularly when I went to Stratford. It was also heartbreaking to see people in these situations too. 

Whilst taking my images I was able to speak to some of these individual's as I wanted to ask for their permission to take their photos but most were reluctant.
I remember talking to one man who was homeless, I recall him telling me that a particular newspaper, I can't remember, was helping him, which is really good. 

Thumbnail Of My photographs Of The Homeless

Booking form

Department Of Media Studies 

Booking Form for Digital Video Equipment

Name: Lorentina Belle

Year Group: 13

Type of Production: Photography

Equipment needed (please change text colour to RED):

• Video camera
• Nikon DSLR                                                                                    
• Green Screen
• White screen
• Lighting Equipment
• Tripod                                                                          

When will you collect?

I will collect it today, Monday 15^th November 2014.

Terms:

1.    Camera equipment can be borrowed for up to one week.

2.    Lighting can be borrowed for 24 hours only

3.    Ensure that footage is uploaded before return as all footage will be removed

4.    Office hours are Monday 3-3:30 and Thursday 3-3:30

Shooting schedule

Shooting Schedule For Final Images 

Date	Objectives	Location	Who Is Involved	Equipment Needed
11/11/14	Take photographs of homeless people	Trafalgar square and Westminster	Myself and Renai	SLR Camera
14/11/14	Take photographs of homeless people	Stratford	Myself and Renai	SLR Camera
18/11/14	Take photographs of the men in suits in Canary Wharf	Canary Wharf	Myself and Renai	SLR Camera
19/11/14	Take photographs of Fella in a suite	Canary wharf	Myself, Sarah and Fella	SLR Camera

Risk Assessment for Locations

Risk Assessment For Locations

Stratford 

Risk	Who and why am I at risk?	Level of risk	How am I going to prevent the risk?
Robbery	I am at a higher risk of being robbed as I will go to a few not so pleasant areas to take pictures of homelessness. Also carrying a Nikon DSLR camera will only increase the chances of being robbed in those areas.	H	To prevent the risk of being robbed I will bring a friend with me. I will also, not bring anything valuable with me and anything that is valuable I will not put it on display, such as the Nikon Camera. As any valuable displayed will only attract it to being stolen wherever I am.
Assault	As me and my friend are going to a few unpleasant areas we are more likely to be attacked. Particularly from people who are homeless as they will dislike their images being taken.	L	When going to these areas I will only go during the day to reduce the likelihood of being assaulted. I will also take the images of homeless people secretly.
Tripping	Whilst looking for pictures to take I risk my chances of tripping over and hurting myself.	L	I will try to prevent myself from tripping by focusing on my walking.
Run over	I could be hit by a car as I may have to stand in the road in order to take a good picture.	H	I will only go on the road when there is barely any cars and I will tell my friend to look out for me to reduce chances being run over.

Canary Wharf 

What is the risk?	Who is at risk and why?	Level of risk	How to prevent the risk?
Tripping/ Slipping	I and Renai are at risk of slipping because we will take our images straight after school and therefore we will be wearing our school shoes which lack grip. Furthermore it could rain therefore making it more likely that we will slip.	H	We will wear shoes which have grip on it such as trainers.
Assault	Renai and I may be physically assaulted because we will be taking pictures of people without asking permission because will not allow us to take their picture if we do ask.	L	We will their image discreetly and we will do it together to reduce the this risk
Run over	Renai and I could be hit by a car as I may have to stand in the road in order to take a good picture.	H	I will only go on the road when there is barely   any cars and I will tell my friend to look out for me to reduce chances being run over.

Research Into Poverty

Research Into Poverty

Poverty in western countries is trivial compared to eastern countries, that is why people often ignore the poverty in western countries but this should not be ignored due to our affluence. No one should be homeless, under housed or go through intense hunger if we can help it.

I plan to make the public aware of the poverty in our country and show the huge contrast between the poor and the rich, and make people think ‘how can I let this happen?’.

However, it is a debatable topic as this is a country full of many possibilities that are handed to us from such a young age so how can society allow poverty, so a plausible reason is that it’s there decision to be homeless or be in any other unfortunate circumstance, so why should we help?

Conversely, there are many reasons why people are in these situations and I want the public to know. Poverty can be caused by factors such as mental illness; people who are mentally ill usually avoid social support. They are unable to work and unable to make good decisions which usually leads to them being homeless. Poverty and homelessness can be also caused by drug and alcohol dependency and family breakdown amoungst other circumstances. 

However, the UK government is trying to decrease the poverty in the UK, in 2012 they published ‘Social justice: transforming lives’ It explains the government’s plans for giving individuals and families facing multiple disadvantages the support and tools they need to turn their lives around.

Their strategies include actions to:

·         help troubled families turn their lives around

·         Improve mental health

·         reduce child poverty and make sure that children are properly supported so that they complete their education

·         make work pay, and help people to find and stay in work

The government now oppose that poverty is the result of low family income, but rather it be other circumstances individual's face. They are now not just tackling the issue of low family income but also factors suggested  up top. 

There are also organisations, photographers and people who do try to decrease the rate of poverty as well as offer their support. An organisation that is trying to decrease the poverty in the UK is the charity Oxfam, Oxfam ‘has a vision of everyone in the UK having enough to live on, and of all men, women and children being treated with respect and dignity no matter how much money they have.’

The Photographers that have caught my eye who are trying to tackle poverty are Lucas Oleniuk and Benjamin Rondel. 

Lucas Oleniuk is a 31 year old Photographer who covered a wide range of environmental issues, one of his works focused on child poverty in Canada. He not only let the audience be aware of the issues faced in Canada but the public were given the names of his muses and their circumstances, this is brilliant as the audience can feel empathy for the muses and see that they are more than just muses.

Kaitlynn and her sister Ellen were two arresting faces in Oleniuk’s exhibit. They are part of a large rural family in Ontario. Two of six children in the family, their parents find it a challenge to put food on the table.

Benjamin Rondel is a free-lance photographer; he specializes in location and travel photography. He worked on the same project as Oleniuk, on child poverty in Canada.

Here the image displays two little brothers Ian and Duncan feeding a colossal woolly sheep (in comparison to them) in their field. Just like Oleniuk’s image it is in black and white, the black and white creates a sense of desolation which works well as the overall idea is to let the audience be aware of the poverty in Canada and struggles as well as evoke a sense of emotion for the audience. The vastness and empty background implies to the audience the children have been forsaken from society and government which creates a feeling of pity for the audience which will make them offer help.

The story behind the image: Ian and Duncan are learning about farming in tough times. Their father John built his home himself about 100 km from Saskatoon. He decided to live off the land and raise sheep. Now, John is considering switching from sheep to pigs and chickens - maybe even crops - he doesn't know yet. In the meantime, he does a bit of farming with his brother and hopes for rain and a better year next year. 

Their work can be found on: http://www.photosensitive.com/projects.php?id=8 

Mood board

Different Applications of Photography (past and contemporary)

  Different Applications Of Photography

Advertising

Using photographic images to advertise help to promote the product, it encourages, persuades, or manipulates an audience. The photographs are often used in advertising agencies to market a product. Photos that are used in advertisements are often manipulated (also called photoshopping or—before the rise of Photoshop software—airbrushing). In the 1820's the first permanent photograph was taken and interest in photography first began to get more popular. However, all though this is one photgraphs were used it wasn't for advertising purposes. In the twentieth century people becme aware of advertising photography because of an improvement in technology which meant the photos could be done quicker at a higher quality. 

Past

An example of a past photographic image used in advertisement, is an 1890s advertising poster for the drink Coca-Cola showing a woman in fancy clothes (partially vaguely influenced by 16th- and17th-century styles) drinking Coke.

Contemporary

An example of a contemporary photographic image used in an advertising poster is an image of Beyoncé to advertise the fizzy drink Pepsi. Beyoncé is wearing tight shorts, a blazer and high stilettos. The audience can see the market agencies has used Beyoncé’s best asset her bum to advertise the product seen by the side shot taken. The advertising market agencies have evolved as they now know what the audience are interested in, seen by the use of sex appeal and using a famous celebrity to advertise their product.

Promotional photography

Promotional photography is the use of photography to publicise, advertise or promote an artists, band, Night club, album etc.

Past

An old use of photography to advertise a wrestling championship is one used on a poster. The type of photography used is a black and white image of the wrestlers’ heads that is placed near their names. The photography is very simplistic compared to a modern wrestling championship poster that has a lot of colour, editing and graphics.

Contemporary

A modern day photograph used to promote an artist is a poster of Beyoncé to advertise her album. The audience can immediately see the photograph has been edited, through the artificial lighting.

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own beauty in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

Contemporary

This is a modern day fashion photograph displayed in a vogue magazine. Here they have added accessories, like a necklace to the outfit and they have placed the model in a pool. This is all very artistic and therefore suitable for vogue.

Past

This fashion photography is taken in the 1900s and less simplistic to the other image. It is taken in front of a plain wall, the model is just sitting on a chair but like the other image she is wearing a necklace.

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by complying with a rigid ethical framework which demands that the work is both honest and impartial whilst telling the story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists create pictures that contribute to the news media.

The first photo is in black and white, a man’s arm, which has a demonic tattoo, is in front of the lens, the photo is rough area. The other photo is in colour and is a picture of a car crash. Both images vary but still inform the audience and tell a story.

Portraiture

Portraiture is a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph: a gallery of family portraits.

The first portraiture is a modern day portrait which is used on a advertising poster and on the right is a 19^th century portrait which is displayed in a gallery. The modern portrait is clearly taken by a camera however; the other portrait is a painting because in those time there was no cameras.

High Street studio work photography

Street photography is an art photography that features the human condition within public places and does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. The subject of the photograph might be absent of people and can be object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.

Past
Past 
Bibliography

This is street work photography taken in 1889, there is no natural colour within the image as it was taken using an old Kodak camera of those times. A long shot is used to capture everything in its element.

Contemporary

This is also high street studio photography, however the location is in doors, shot in a studio and there is a child. This is set up as this is done for a family album. The colour in the image is natural as unlike the other image this is taken in the modern day. Also the concept has also changed of high street studio work photography as now images are taken in the studio.

Architectural

Architectural photography is the photographing of buildings and similar structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations of their subjects. Architectural photographers are usually skilled in the use of specialized techniques and equipment.

Past

This is an early architectural style photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot, taken in 1845.

Contemporary 

As building designs changed and broke with traditional forms, architectural photography also evolved. During the early-to-mid-20th century, architectural photography became more creative as photographers used diagonal lines and bold shadows in their compositions, and experimented with other techniques.

In this image, exterior architectural photography is used; it usually takes advantage of available daylight, or if performed at night, uses ambient light from adjacent street lights, landscape lights, exterior building lights, moonlight and even twilight present in the sky in all but the darkest situations.

Clinical photographers

Clinical photographers provide essential professional and cost-effective photographic and graphic services for use in patient care, medical education and research. This will be used in specialist techniques,for example in ophthalmic imaging; they will use fluoresce in angiography (which is used to delineate retinal blood vessels) and the production of images for treatment planning in craniofacial surgery and surgical audit.Clinical photographers provide valuable aids in early diagnosis or for confirming the effective treatment of disease. Illustration has been an important feature of medical documentation since the time of Vesalius and thus has a long history. However, the first application of photography to medicine appears in 1840, when Alfred Donné of Paris photographed sections of bones, teeth, and red blood cells using an instrument called the microscope-daguerreotype. The range of equipment employed in medical photography will vary with the application and the institution. The standard setup includes the popular 35 mm single lens reflex (SLR) film camera with a comprehensive range of lenses, lighting equipment, and accessories or digital equivalents. The digital cameras may be of the same make as the film cameras to ensure the ability to share all the various accessories, especially lenses.

G.-B. Duchanne de Boulogne, Synoptic plate 4 from Le Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine. 1862, 

 In the upper row and the lower two rows, patients with different expressions on either side of their faces

Contemporary 

This is a modern day image, here practising clinical photographers have a gear in their mouths and they are practicing to take images of their mouths.

Illustration

An illustration is a visualization or a depiction made by an artist, such as a drawing, sketch, painting, photograph, or other kind of image of things seen, remembered or imagined, using a graphical representation. Printing is the current process for reproducing illustrations, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. 

Contemporary

This is an illustration by Jessie Willcox Smith, made in the 19^th century. This illustration is used in a children's book to decorate a story of textual information by providing a visual representation of something described in the text. This illustration was carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.

Past

Illustration Great Egret by John James Audubon.

The Chinese Sumi-E can be attributed to this technique, incorporating the use of paints and dyes. Navigational maps have been produced using this technique in the 14-15th century.

Fine art

From its very origins, photography can be the mechanical, scientific tool of the camera and the natural desire to use it for the creation of beautiful images. Essentially, the term fine art photography is used to refer work created with such a desire in mind, to articulate an impression, a feeling about, or relationship with the world.

Past

Alfred Stieglitz's photograph The Steerage(1907) was an early work of artistic modernism, and considered by many historians to be the most important photograph ever made.Stieglitz was notable for introducing fine art photography into museum collections. The photograph The Steerage is displayed in the metropolitan museum.

Contemporary

As printing technologies have improved since around 1980, a photographer's art prints reproduced in a finely-printed limited-edition book have now become an area of strong interest to collectors. This is because books usually have high production values, a short print run, and their limited market means they are almost never reprinted.

In addition to the "digital movement" towards manipulation, filtering, and or resolution changes, some fine artists deliberately seek a "naturalistic," including "natural lighting" as a value in it.

Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to story significant and historical events. It is typically covered in professional photojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or educational pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually straight photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.

Past

The development of new reproduction methods for photography provided motivation for the next era of documentary photography, in the late 1880s and 1890s, and reaching into the early decades of the 20th century. This period decisively shifted documentary from the past and landscape subjects to that of the city and its crises. The refining of photogravure methods, and then the introduction of halftone reproduction around 1890 made low cost mass-reproduction in newspapers, magazines and books possible. The figure most directly associated with the birth of this new form of documentary is the journalist and urban social reformer Jacob Riis.

This documentary photography showed people and still does how a minority of people lived in New York in 1890. This is displayed in his books, most notably How the Other Half Lives of 1890 and once in a gallery.

Contemporary

Nicholas Nixon extensively documented issues surrounded by American life.

Since the late 1990s, an increased interest in documentary photography and its longer term view can be observed.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/documentary_photography

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