Tim and Tom, Book Making. finished

Project Gas Mask.

My idea for my work is called project gas mask which is something I started myself out of college.

I am basically wanting to photograph people in modern day life wearing gas masks while doing every day things such as sleeping texting smoking all that lot.

I am wanting them all to be in black and white and I am going to add a Richard Billingham style to it with the direct flash and grainy style. 

I got my idea from this from 2 different subjects (Not all of them photography related) the first one was, Zed Nelson's 'Gun Nation'

I liked the idea of photographs just looking completely normal with a really messed up twist that you wouldn't expect to see in there.  A lot of Zed Nelson's shots were of people in a studio, I really didn't like the idea of that I felt it would look way too posed, obviously to my shots there are some degree of posing but because of the poses i gave they didn't look like portraits.


My other inspiration for this project wasn't from photography, It came from the band 'My Chemical Romance' and their video 'The Black Parade'

I liked the gothic characteristics of the atmosphere and also I got the idea to bring in the gas mask from this video.

I also got inspired by another Gothic music video by My Chemical Romance, Called 'Helena'.

What I liked best about this music video was how Gothic the scenes were i want to try and keep this Gothic style into my images, I want to use the dark clothes and alternative sets for my images as I think it will help make the images look more blended.

Both subjects together brought up this idea of crazy random people in normal every day situations also, the colours and lighting from both of them looked really old fashioned in a way so i wanted that in mt work to add the old fashioned twists in modern day life. 

Here are some random little sketches that I came up with to get poses and ideas for my final images.

Final images.

I'm don't believe this is my strongest image, what i like about it is i've shown modern day life into my old fashioned situation but i don't think it's that strong of an image.

This Image is a quick mock up of me trying to sew a mini book myself.

Evaluation. 

Looking at the Books themselves I think they really could of been edited a lot better and looked fairly rushed in my eyes, Also I think that the way my hand made book was put together quite rushed and could of been more neat, I was quite rushed with the whole putting the book together so it didn't look great and really showed on the hand made book. The book that I had printed looked a lot better although was a lot smaller than I was expecting. It was around 5 x 8. (The blog did originally have images of both books but due to the fact that the original post was deleted by accident, and now I cannot re photograph the books as they are not accessible to me). When I look back through the images and research I realized that due to the small time slot i din't get to stick to the similarities in research if i re did these images i would probably try to make the images more alternative than what they are and make them more like the research that i did. When I went and looked around the book fair I noticed there was so many nicer book than mine so I felt quite self conscious about the books, I think if I hadn't rushed both the editing and the making of the books they could have looked a lot better and I think that would have made my images in the fair look more up to the standards. The project as a whole I thought was really low standard because of the lack of quality editing and the book quality and I think that it wasn't as good as what I am capable of.

Interactive media - Hilary. Finished

Task 1.

Tom Bendtsen.

I couldn't find any information on this artist other than he is an english artist who uses books, and paper to create shapes and forms inside books, also he makes huge sculptures out of books too.

from: http://www.tombendtsen.com/

Ed Rucha 

Cutting book series with ED Rucha 

"Artists who make pieces,

Artists who make books"

 From: 

/www.norikoambe.com/biography/index.html

Very little information on this specific artist, but I really liked the idea of this book.

UnKnown Artist.

I cannot find anything on the person who made this I just found it on google. I just really like this as an Idea, It's simple its tasteful and its just really nice.

After looking at these images I got an idea of making a book out of clay with a sculpture coming out of the middle and then I am hoping to get a copy of my favourite book 'Relfex - Dick Francis'

I and wanting to burn edges of the book and stick them all over the sculpture.

My other Idea for the book thingy, is called 'The little book of madness', I am wanting to take a fiction book and maybe some of my mums old prescription journals and go through and change somme of the words to make drugs references, I'm also going to combine my other book project, 'Project Gas Mask' by adding photos to pop up in random places through out the book. For the front of the book I'm thinking spiders cobwebs and halloween type stuff, so basically it's going to look a little crazy.

My front so far.

Out of College Photography.

Maria Allen - Lo Fi Zine. Finished

Idea 1. Headingly Uni.

These are just random test shots of the place I call home :)

My student accommodation at Headingly Uni that I share with my partner.

So i ended up changing my idea because of complications.

My new idea is to take pictures of my room that i have at my mums.

i spend pretty much most of my time there so its quite fitting.

preferably, b + w macro.

These are pictures of what i think of when i think of my room.

These are examples of photographers from Google. 

These are like what I want to do but in black and white,

especially the ones of the animals because my dog is pretty much my life.

Task 1.

Shallow DOF

 Wide DOF

 Fash shutter

 And again

 Slow shutter (Motion blur)

 panning shots. 1/250 ss

 Panning 1/2 second ss

 Panning 150 ss

Video won't load, has been presented in class.


Final Images.

Contact sheet from my final shoot.

Final edits.

Final edit Mock Zine

After mocking all this up I decided my images weren't that strong, So i decided on doing my Dolls house in macro and room scape.

These are mock shots for my final shots I am hoping to move the house so photographing wise it is more 

accessible, then I am going to try get the lights to work for some slow shutter photography.

I wanted to take macro and fish eye shots of the furniture and get as much images of the detail as i can.

For my actual book I am not wanting to use any text I am wanting to just have a title and my name on the front cover that is all, I am going to have my lay out as 2 ribbons binding together I am going to buy some colourful ribbons so i can have different colours for each ribbon.

Final Images.

Using my macro lens I got this warped and distort affect on the clock and I just like how It worked out of focus.

I think this image could of done with better placement for its background.

I think the fish eye made this image look really nice because you have all the nice detail with out stretching the image too much.

I really like this image mainly for its depth of field but i think the composition of the pans work really well too.

I think this image stands out from the rest because its not internal like the others so its external and i think its quite out of the pattern and I'm not certain I like that idea.

I think these images worked really well because the black and white gave them a really nice old fashioned affect and the fish gave them more detail with out distorting the image all together. If I could change the image in anyway it would be that I would of done some long exposure pictures of the lights switched on but unfortunately one of the wires had frayed so they wouldn't switch on. But i would of also waited until the house was finished but I didn't have 6 years for my mum to finish it.

These are some examples of Zines I built in the past:

(Did these through photobox).

I have done portrait and landscape pictures so that when you look through you tilt your head as you go.

My final book 

Evaluation.

I really think my book went well i think the idea of using a dolls house as a home was a unique idea, the dolls house is pretty much a home in my house, because we've lived in loads of different places shut in every house we've had that dolls house was always there, my mum began to build it when she was pregnant with me and she built most things herself, so it has a lot of sentiment to me. If i had to change anything on this it would probably be that i would have tried to get the house finished totally finished and have the house lights working so i could have done slow exposure pictures also i would have tried to get better lighting for the images.