Focal Length and Perspective Workshop

In this workshop we started off by looking at different photographers who use different forms of lenses. We started by getting over the idea of zooming in with the lens and instead physically moving yourself in order to create the same photograph.
Richard Misrach's photograph on the beach uses a larger depth of field and has used a large format camera to portray his response to the 9/11 bombing.

Simon Roberts is a photographer who was also raised in the lecture he is a photographer that has used a standard lens for the below photograph. Unlike Misrach's photograph where you feel like you are looking over the photograph you feel like you are present in Roberts image. 

In this workshop I was asked to create two photographs. Frame one was using a lens of 180mm and frame two was using a 240mm lens we were asked to create an image identical to one another but just using to different focal lengths. Below is a copy of the negative of frame one. 

5X4 Studio Workshop

Using the 5X4 cameras and light meter I was asked to take two photographs of a set of objects to demonstrate the depth of field. For the first frame I used  an aperture of F.8 and a shutter speed of 400th of a second. These settings allowed one object to be in focus and the rest to be out of focus compared with frame two which was set at an aperture of F.32 which allowed the whole still life to be in focus.Below are the test Strips leading up to the final print.

Above of my prints from my  colour workshop. I found that working at a ten second exposure  and at an aperture of F.32 was going to give the best contrast of colour but also applying  magenta 61. 

Initial Research

The above two images are to different styles of photography but the aim of the photographer seems to be very similar. Image one by Sophie Calle ' The Hotel Series Room 28' the aim of Calle was to show items which people have left behind at a hotel and then photographed. In comparison to Laura Letinsky where she photographed left overs of a party at the scene not moving anything or repositioning which Calle did as everything looks neatly styled. Letinsky doesn't its a snapshot of a finished celebration. 

F.64 Group

Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham and Willard Van Dyke were the founders of the F.64 Group which was created in the year of 1932. Between these Californian based photographers they created photographs which enabled the viewer to see how clear the lens was. Ansel Adams's Invention of the tonal system enabled him to create photographs with large amounts of tone. This allowed his photographs to show great detail.

Unit 1: The Object

For the first section of the Project I have been asked to create a still life using a  5x4 large format camera. I have been asked to look at current debates in the news and create a still life on an aspect that concerns me. Starting this project I have started to look at the idea of memories and disabilities. Thinking about areas that I have come across in my life that have concerned me.

The below photographs are of Ideas for the still life project.