What is Documenting Communities?
In my opinion, I think that when we are documenting our communities we take pictures of the people around us and the people we see everyday, in this project I will be taking pictures of my classmates, my community and surroundings.
Documenting School / Out of School Community
When taking these pictures we had to make sure we were taking portraits of our partners, when taking these ones I took them from a high angle so the buildings would be included as a good background.
Portrait Pictures
When I was taking these pictures I used different angles and different backgrounds, in some of the pictures I used portrait mode so the background was blurred and the subject was clear. While taking these pictures I took them when the person was not looking so it was unexpected. The person was my younger brother.
Siân Davey |
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This photographer takes pictures of family, friends and special events. She loves to photograph because she likes to make memories. She said she wants to "share the stories that need to be seen". She wanted to talk and communicate about everything using photography. She used it to get away with everything else.
Dawoud Bey
"I began photographing in the streets of Harlem in 1975. At first these visits were just weekly excursions. On those occasions much of what I did was not photographing, but spending time walking the streets, reacquainting myself with the neighbourhood that I wanted to again become a part of, seeing up close the people and the neighbourhood I had glimpsed from the car window years before as a child. As I got to know the shopkeepers and others in the neighbourhood, I became a permanent fixture at the public events taking place in the community, such as block parties, tent revival meetings, and anyplace else where people gathered. The relationships and exchanges that I had with some of these people are experiences I will never forget. It is in those relationships and the lives of the people that these pictures recall that the deeper meaning of these photographs can be found"
-Dawoud Bey, 1979
-Dawoud Bey, 1979
Independent Portraits
In School Portrait photos
Steps for Photoshop
1. First you open photoshop and pick the image from your last photoshoot you want to edit.
I used this photo I took of my class friend before.
2. Then you can play around with the image using the "crop" feature, the crop changes the size of the picture and you can use it to cut around the picture.
In this image I decided to crop the top off because there was too much space between the subject and the top end of the image.
3. After that, you can press "image", "adjustments", black & white to make the image black and white.
4. After the black & white you have to invert it. The invert makes the black and white swap.
5. After inverting the image you need to press "file", "save as", name the image and make sure it's saved a "jpg" onto your desktop.
I used this photo I took of my class friend before.
2. Then you can play around with the image using the "crop" feature, the crop changes the size of the picture and you can use it to cut around the picture.
In this image I decided to crop the top off because there was too much space between the subject and the top end of the image.
3. After that, you can press "image", "adjustments", black & white to make the image black and white.
4. After the black & white you have to invert it. The invert makes the black and white swap.
5. After inverting the image you need to press "file", "save as", name the image and make sure it's saved a "jpg" onto your desktop.
Tyler Mitchell
In this photograph I can see someone and i think they took this picture for fashion purposes. I think this photograph is good because it is bright the thing that strikes me the most is the outfit because it is colourful and makes the image stand out. For example the image they used "Everyones Voice Counts". I think this photograph is a neutralistic photo. The photographer has used props like a big sheet to cover up some of the background.
Documenting Community in School
In this photoshoot our task was to use Tyler Mitchells techniques and recreate our own pictures using colour and light. I took photographs of my friend, Syeda. We wandered around the school to look for good places to take pictures, around our school was flags so I thought it was a good idea to take some useful pictures there as the flags were vibrant. Then we went into the blocks where we saw a cool piece of artwork that also had loads of colours and we took some pictures there. While we were there I worked with the sunlight and made the subject almost as if it was walking into the sunlight. I think my photographs work well because our task was to aim for colourful/bright things and I used things like art work. I think that next time I could use props.
Homework
Week 1 - Photos of your local area
Week 2 - Photos of the type of photoshoot you would like to create
For this I used the photographer we used as a class because I started on it and it was pretty enjoyable so I think I'd recreate these again at home.
Week 3 - Evidence of my research
Tyler Mitchell is a photographer and film maker working across many different genres to explore and document a new aesthetic. In 2018, he made history as the first black photographer to shoot a cover of American Vogue for Beyoncé's appearance
Week 4 - Experiments
In my photoshoot I took a picture with a filter and i really liked it because it made the colours a different shade, the detail is more noticeable.
Tyler Mitchell
This was our last photoshoot on Tyler Mitchell, in my opinion this was the most successful one. In this we used fabric that included: Green and pink. Most of the time we used it as costumes and some as a background I think we could have more time to do this because we were rushing throughout.
Selected Photos
In this task we has to choose our favourite pictures from all of the photoshoots was have previously done this year and print them our onto A3 paper then trim them down. I chose these 21 pictures from my documenting communities section and changed the formation every time. I only ended up liking two of the formations because they were both neat I ended with picking one.
Project for Gallery
In this project I made a collage hanging from string, I came up with this idea after trying to do the concertina method. On my first try I gave up. Then I came up with the idea of my photos sticking back to back and hanging from string from ceiling. I used black card and stuck my photos that fit perfect to the side on the card. After that I measured string in equal parts and stuck it to the edge of every card so it could hang equally.
Statement
I picked these photos from my documenting communities project because I believe they describe my community. This shows the two different lives I live at home and at school with my family and friends. My aim was to show that and I think that I have achieved it
Statement
I picked these photos from my documenting communities project because I believe they describe my community. This shows the two different lives I live at home and at school with my family and friends. My aim was to show that and I think that I have achieved it
Documenting Place
I took these photos in different places and I didn’t pick a theme for mine, all my pictures were of random shops. At first when doing this project I wanted to do a group of corner shops but it was hard to find loads so I decided to do mixed.
Peter Mitchell
-Where does Peter Mitchell take most of his photographs?
Mitchells work is held in: Royale Photographic Society, Leeds art gallery, Tate modern
-What does he depict within his photographs?
-What sort of mood to do his photographs portray?
In his photographs I think its showing a boring setting
-Why do you think that?
I think its a boring setting because the places he is photographing are shops which are closed and there are no people around
-Do you think that he uses a film or digital camera?
Mitchells work is held in: Royale Photographic Society, Leeds art gallery, Tate modern
-What does he depict within his photographs?
-What sort of mood to do his photographs portray?
In his photographs I think its showing a boring setting
-Why do you think that?
I think its a boring setting because the places he is photographing are shops which are closed and there are no people around
-Do you think that he uses a film or digital camera?
Documenting Communities Evaluation
In my documenting communities project I have taken pictures of places, things and people around me. The whole point of this was to show people in my surroundings and my area, for example, in my last project I photographed the front of shops and printed them, made them stand up and look 3D.
A few tasks before we used photoshop to edit portraits we took outside of our classmates we turned them black and white then inverted them.
A photographer I researched was Nick Mayer, 'The Local'. In the project he is photographing random places around him this is where we got the 'documenting communities' idea.
Another photographer I researched about was Zoe Leonard, She also photographs shop fronts and makes them into a collection using collages.
I quite liked this project because its a good way to show others your community, your surroundings, where you live and the people in it.
A few tasks before we used photoshop to edit portraits we took outside of our classmates we turned them black and white then inverted them.
A photographer I researched was Nick Mayer, 'The Local'. In the project he is photographing random places around him this is where we got the 'documenting communities' idea.
Another photographer I researched about was Zoe Leonard, She also photographs shop fronts and makes them into a collection using collages.
I quite liked this project because its a good way to show others your community, your surroundings, where you live and the people in it.