Flavim

Flavim is a website I found when researching ideas and thoughts for my extended project and to be a bit different I am going to use them as my artist research as I think they're are some really good photos on there which I really like and can talk about.

This photo I think is really cute and different as the dress really adds detail to not just the tights and shoes. It goes with the 50's/vintage effect which links with my man made theme. It looks like a wind machine would have to been used for the effect of it moving but also a very fast shutter speed so it didn't blur.

This photo I think is good aswell as the effect of it is very vintagey. The different shoe types and socks is a look I want for my final piece using different types of generations to represent fashion. This photo looks like it has been taken with a film camera or edited to look like it.

Inspiration

This is a website of photos for my inspiration of my extended project. When I have some time to go back into my work I might try out some different shots with more varitety and context behind it for example childrens feet on grass with flowers as it will be summer time or legs coming out of a car.. something a bit different.

http://www.redbubble.com/explore/legs+shoes+photography

Shoe Stock 2

This shoot I looked at lighting and really like the way the light is positioned as it shows the detail on the shoe really well. The sharpness of the photo makes the detail look really good aswell. Against the black background to it emphasis the shoes to make them stand out. As I wanted these photos to look professional and sharp I used a ISO around 400/300 so it was in focus and clean.

This photo I think looks a lot like a picture in show rooms or studios as the lighting is equal. The lighting shows the detail of the shoes perfectly and against the black background it makes the shoes stand out.

Jordan Weeks 1&2

These are the pictures for my final image of extended project. I will now edit on the pictures of the legs and feet to show people waiting at a bus stop. I would also like to try this edit with cyanotype as I think it would look like different and have a nice effect with the natural daylight.

Iphone pictures

These are some pictures I took on my iphone and edited on a editing app I have. I just wanted to add them into my work as they show different types of shoes (urban american look) of girls and boys feet. I also like the way I edited them being quite deep/dark urban colours matching the shoes.

Shutter Stock

http://www.shutterstock.com/s/shoes/search.html

This is a website of all different types of shoes which I am using for my inspiration of my shoes and socks shoot. A lot of them use depth of field which I will do in my shoots and try out different angles. I also think it's quite a good base for my final piece of showing different types of shoes and styles as this website shows different types and camera angles.

I like this photo to try out for a shoot of using actually someone with their feet in shoes but also using shoes by the side as I think it looks quite cool. Using different types of colours represent girliness and feminim which is what my theme is (different types of shoes between women and male and age) I also might try a black or white background and try out some different types of lighting so I experiment using this idea but going off in my own way.

Jordan Weeks

Jordan Weeks is an English photographer who focusses on Sport, Tourism and Travel photography. Jordan struggled to find exactly what it was that he wanted to photograph. He tried experimenting with Musician Photography, Fashion Portraits and even Weddings but didn't like any of them so took up the theme of his career. He focusses on all types of angles which is going to work really well with my outside shoots for my final piece as I am taking photos at a low angle (floor level) he also takes all of his photos outside (landscapes) which I am looking at doing.

I really like this photo as it shows the low angle really well. A very fast shutter speed has been used on this photo to keep the foot in focus as it's moving. I haven't experimented with shutter as I am not focussing on movement. I might try a shutter speed shoot (a short one) with different colours of shoes so it's like a blur of colour representing gender. 

This could link with Uta Barth and Louise Gains (my first project, natural form)

Van Leemputten 1 (Sally Mankus inspiration)

These images I took with studio lighting and I love how they came out. I love the way the shadowing falls onto the feet and the sharpness of the image you can see hairs. The aperture is around 4.6. This helps and I used it because it works for the style of the photo. It makes the foot seem more sharper and in focus against the black background and then works for the shadowing. This shoot was done to show different parts of the body as my project was on legs/feet/shoes/clothes so I am pleased with the outcome of this.

Van Leemputten

Van Leemputten focusses on Human Form which I am doing as a back up for my final piece of my extended projuct. His photos also focus on the dark room so if I have enough time I might use some final images and try out some development in the dark room. His photos are always in black and white with amazing lighting so I am going to try out a shoot at home with lighting on feet/ankles to get some great shadows.

http://www.leemputten.be/gallery/view/the_human_form

This is an image from the gallery on his website which I really like as the persons hand is fully in focus as it grabs your attention but the rule of thirds is used as you can see the side of the body on the right. The lighting has been based on the left as you can see the shadows of his fingers on the body. The colour of the skin also matches the background which looks like an embross effect.

Van Leemputten 2

Again this shoot was a trial to show different types of legs. Here I have used a womans and a mans. I looked at texture and structure of legs, as the womans on the left is much more tanned and smooth where as on the right the legs seem more bukly and around the knee area (older)

Shoes stock photos

These photos were a quick shoot experimenting with different types of shoes for context of my main final piece. I experimented with black and white and rule of thirds mainly to see what photos looked the most effective as when using the rule of thirds it can catch peoples attention as it stands out against from everything else.

Sally Mankus 2

These shoots I like because I used the depth of field in them in them which give them a sort of edgy effect. I used the rule of thirds on the first photo and using a low angle so it's on the same level as the foot I think makes it seem more realistic. I am going to use a film log to show the depth of field I used on some photos.

Inspiration - Jurgita Remeikyte

Jurgita Remeikyte is a photographer I came across when talking to my teacher about the project I would be doing and looking at her photos they seem to be more art and 3D than photography but the way her photos have appeared such as the same person but repeated everytime for the illusion effect and for my final piece I think I am going to do that with having a shoot of different legs but in the same place repeated.

These photos aren't prossenial ones he has taken they are photos of his work he does. I really like this affect because it looks different and unique to other photos. I have never experimented with anything like this before and I want to develop in my photos so I might do an experimentation like this on photoshop with images I have taken.

Sally Mankus

Sally Mankus works with mixed media installations and sculpture. Her work integrates photography, domestic objects and materials such as rust and carbon. She now lives and works in Shalimar, Florida and her work has been included in newspaper articles, catalogues and publications.

This photograph is such a different cool image as it's a montage of lots of images been put together. I have chose this image as an inspiration kind of image as when I am taking pictures of tights and legs I thought I could do a montage of legs all together with different styles of legs. You could always try this on photoshop with layering but also in the dark room on a piece of fabric mixing photos together.

I love this photo because it's so plain and simple but again I could link the style of this photo with my shoot on tights when editing on photoshop I will use a black background so the tights/legs stand out the most like the hands and white top do. I don't know what the black background is, to me it looks like a black cloth or piece of fabric because if you look around the white sleeves on the arm they look so fine and perfect but also they have the shape of an arm it's self. It's very clever.

Sally Mankus shoot 1

These images are inspiration by Jurgita Remeikyte with the repetition of the legs and using a black background base. I edited these on photoshop by cutting around the legs with the lazer tool then copying them six times. I wanted to try this and experiment as I haven't before and thought it would like quite effective and it would fit into my project.

http://legfashionclub.deviantart.com/favourites/1484849

http://favim.com/image/60025/

These are some websites I found which gave me some examples and inspirations of different types of tights. I will try black and white and colour and different angles to make them look more different.

Extended project

For our extended project we had to think about which project we thought we could improve the most on and I thought about man made as my theme is so different to what photography I have done in the past I wanted to exceed it a bit more. I am focussing on different types of shoes/clothes from female to male to young and old and then photoshopping/layering onto a background. I am going to take a background shoot but focussing on having my angles on the floor (low angle) and I do the same angle for the shoes so I can layer them on but still look realistic.

Cassia Beck 2

These photos were taken on my camera with my retro mode to warmen it and make it come across 'vintage' style like the photos of inspiration. I tried out loads of different angles and psoitions to take the photos of the shoes to experiment.

When taking the photos of the heel I used depth of field on my camera and focussed on the heel clostest to the camera so it stood out against the others and looked effective.

When taking photos I always now try to focus on ISO or depth of field, rule of thirds to get an effective photo and to show my experimentation.

Alexandra Zaharova

http://alexandrazaharova.com/

This is an artist I found on google images and went into her website and looked at her couple pictures and thought how much it links with my John Rawlings shoot as I focus on colour such as the orange hat and orange clothes but also the bold prints such as the blue coat shoot.
Her link is above and she focusses on fashion and art and I think her work is amazing. The link I am about to put really focusses on matching colours with little things such as hair colour, make-up and clothes. > http://alexandrazaharova.com/portfolio/beauty/color-blow#1

She uses shutter speed in her 'colour blow' pictures to capture the movement of the paint or dust, but as I am focussing on texture of fabric and clothes I can't use this. Her photos are always taken in studios so she uses studio lighting which links in with my shoots I do at home especially in my John Rawling shoot with the black fabric over the models face and red lipstick.

Nathan McCreey and Cassia Beck shoot

These pictures are a mixture between Nathan McCreey and Cassia Beck - Cassia Beck with the shoes but Nathan McCreey with the texture and using black and white.

This photo I choose for a final piece because I love the richness of the colours from the shoe. The beads and colours are the main focus and they are very sharp. They seem rich and I chose to go off the film/vintage look by making it seem more modern and bold.

I used depth of field with this picture so I was focussing on the heel and the leather material and used a vintage 1960's effect on Picnik to give it the film/old-fashioned effect like Cassia Beck.

Using the rule of thirds with this picture and I chose to use this fabric because it's black stiching and white background so using the black and white effect it contrasts the colours more which is like Nathan McCreeys style.

This photo I used some lighting techniques by putting the lamp over to the left so this shows light and dark bits of the texture. I really like this photo because it's quite different and I think resembles one of Nathan McCreey photos a lot as it seems quite abstract.

John Rawlings 4

These photos I really like because I used the retro effect and contrasted it so the black veil/fabric and the red lipstick looks really good and sharp against the black. Definately gives off the effect of 1940's/vintage way especially as I used the the retro mode on my SLR camera. Using a white background also contrasts against the other colours. I edited it and warmed it a bit on Picnik to make the photo have a 'soft' affect but to make it seem still like it was making a statement as back in the 1950/60's the women were inspirations.

Fashion merging

Fashion, a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear, or accessories. Fashion references to anything that is the current trend in look and dress up of a person. The more technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion" that the more general term "costume" has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term "fashion" means clothing generally, and the study of it.

An important part of fashion is fashion journalism. Editorial critique, guidelines and commentary can be found in magazines, newspapers, on television, fashion websites, social networks and in fashion blogs. At the beginning of the 20th century, fashion magazines began to include photographs of various fashion designs and became even more influential on people than in the past. In cities throughout the world these magazines were greatly sought-after and had a profound effect on public clothing taste. Vogue founded in the US in 1892, has been the longest-lasting and most successful of the hundreds of fashion magazines that have come and gone. Increasing affluence after World War 2 and, most importantly, the advent of cheap colour printing in the 1960s led to a huge boost in its sales, and heavy coverage of fashion in mainstream women's magazines—followed by men's magazines from the 1990s.

Film process

We worked in partners and my partner was Harriet. She used half of the film and I used the other film then we processed our images.

The steps...

• Entering the dark room with all your equipment and every object put on a table so you can feel what it is and know when to use it.
• Take out your film from your camera and cut off the ends.
• Put on your wheel entering a slip on the sides and making sure the silver dots are lined up with eachother then role the wheel around until the film is securely on the wheel.
• Put into your black tube/canister then a tube so the light can't get in and then lid.
• Then enter the developer chemicals for about 12-15 minutes shaking every 30 seconds lightly so the chemicals go on each picture of the film.
• Wash out with water.
• Then the fix chemicals for about 8-10 minutes and again shaking every 30 seconds lightly.
• Wash that out with water for about 5 minutes.
• Then un-do the lid and take out your film strip and hang in the heating film cupboard to dry.

Film

We did another workshop the other day during my photography lesson and we focussed on film. It went really well but it is a very long process!

My theme is texture so I took some pictures of fabrics. I used all different types of fabrics such as netting, velvet, etc. I used a white backdrop as you would for a lighting shoot and used lamps so it was a lighting shoot but instead of digital it was film. I moved the lamps around so I got some shadowing of the fabric such as the net because it had holes so would look different. I also focussed on rule of thirds and close up shots.

Eyelashes inspiration

My inspiration for eyelashes and makeup products for my 1940 John Rawlings shoot would be Maybeline or Max Factor, Rimmel as they focus on these products.

Here is their website:
http://www.maybelline.co.uk/products/134/eyes/mascara/volum-express-the-colossal-cat-eyes/black/1?shadeId=907

John Rawlings 3

I like these photos because of the boldness of the colour. Blue is very bright and sharp but also the style of the coat with the big buttons and the frilly part reminds me of a old-fashioned coat (war coat) which I think resembles 1940's well. I used depth of field and focussed on the button so the other parts were not in focus as much. I actually took the photos outside because I wanted the natural lighting to get the sharp natural effect and not a warm effect.

John Rawlings (mini)

I took a mini shoot of some fake eyelashes resembling the 1940's of beauty.