Work record 2

Contact sheets

Straight images

AO1: Develop ideas through sustained investigations informed by research and other sources

The photographer that I have influenced my work from is Alana Dee Haynes, just as I had done for the first shoot. She is a photographer/artist from New York City. Her style of photography is very artistic; she photograph's her subject and draws patterns on the images. 

I have decided to use a different set of images to those that I was influenced from in the first work record. The images that follow differ because they don't focus on people as whole, they are more unconventional of her work. The images focus on parts of the model, such as their hands or lips. 

My initial ideas for this shoot are the same as those in the previous work record. I intend to print out a small number of images from my straight images, which I will then print out and use a marker pen to draw on it. I will scan the printed photographs into the computer and edit them using Photoshop too. This plan had to change for the first shoot due to lack of equipment, and might also have to change for this shoot. I will use Photoshop in the same way by editing some of them to be black and white or other adjustments that I want to do. 

AO2:

For this shoot, I specifically asked the models what I wanted them to do, such as lock their fingers and put it in front of their face. I asked them to do these specific gestures as I was planning to recreate the images by Haynes but interpret them as my own creation. I used a studio for this, along with a tripod, backdrop, camera, soft boxes and light meter. I took the light meter reading and changed my camera to what it suggested, which was ISO 200, aperture f14 and shutter speed 1/60. 

My plan for editing the images from this shoot had, again, changed due to lacking in equipment, so I developed my work differently. I did the same thing as I had done for the first work record, which was to use tools in Photoshop to draw instead of physically drawing the patterns with a pen. 

The following screen captures show and explain how I used Photoshop to edit one of my images. 

For this image, I zoomed in so that I could see the hands better. I used the paint brush tool and set it to size 2. I then outlines the hands and fingers. I created lots of straight lines by holding down on the shift key when drawing. For hand, I drew diagonal crossed lines on the hand and fingers, and for the other hand, I drew vertical/horizontal crossed lines. This is to differentiate the hands, similar to what Haynes had done for one of her images. 

I changed this image to black and white by selecting 'black and white' from the adjustment panel. This automatically changes it to greyscale. I then selected 'curves' from the adjustment panel and experimented with the levels of black and white for the final outcome.

AO3: 

With reference to Straight images (also final pieces)


The first image is one that I used for my final pieces. I was inspired by one specific image by Haynes (second in research section). I interpreted this image by Haynes into my work by using the same idea of having a person lock their fingers together, and then add a pattern to only the hands, not the model's face. I used straight lines for this image and also outlined the model's hands, just like Haynes had done. I decided to make this image black and white, even though the image I inspired from was not. I did this because I thought it looked better, and it would still fit in with the style being the same as Haynes has many other images that are black and white. I also cropped the original image so that it showed the subject more closely than the background. 

The third image was, again, inspired by one of Haynes' images (fourth in research section), which I used for my final pieces. I selected this image as it shows a bare section of the model's skin with which I could edit. To create the same effect, I used Photoshop to cut out the section I wanted to keep plain, then I moved this to the side while I added the pattern. I once I had completed the pattern, I added the patch back so it was on top of the pattern, making it look even. Once I had done this, I cropped the image. 


I used the _____ image for one of my final pieces. I used the same idea that Haynes had used to capture only the model's model's mouth, then drew on just the lips. I selected this image out of all of the images that I had taken as it showed the lips most clearly. I used Photoshop to fill the lips in more with colour and then draw patterns on the lips. After doing this, I cropped the image for the same reason for the previous image, the viewer's focus will be more on the lips and not the background.