PAINTING2PHOTOGRAPHY Assignment : Task 2 & 7 : Research : Jim Patterson

Jim Pattersons work is mainly focused on landscapes and seascapes. His images are often very colourful but moody at the same time. I love how his images with water in are captured on a slow shutterspeed so the water looks almost seamless, softly flowing over rocks/sand. I think he often must choose to go to these places that he photographs either at sunrise or sunset. This helps him to capture the beautiful pinks, purples, blues and oranges. I think that his passion for seascapes and water really shows through his work and he does an excellent job of showing the Earth's beauty. From the way he captures colours in the sky, combined with the compositions and the time exposures, Patterson portrays these places as very quiet and tranquil, and almost mysterious. I think the thing that attracts me to Patterson's work the most are the stunning colours in his imagery. I also love his photographs taken underwater. The images fascinate me as I look at the interesting creatures that live down there. It's like Patterson is showing us a hidden world which we may forget about whilst we are living on land. He also uses lines quite a lot in his images of landscapes, from the lines in the sand on the dunes to the cracks in the dry land in the desert. 

PAINTING2PHOTOGRAPHY Assignment : Task 2 & 7 : Research : Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau was a french photographer born in Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne. He lived from 1912 to 1994. Robert Doisneau's work is always black and white and mainly shot in Paris, France. His images often have people in them and make the audience wonder that is going on. I think Doisneau is very good at narrative imagery as I think that there appears to be a story behind most of his photographs. I think his images appear as though they are an insight into Parisian/French culture/way of life. His images portray that Paris is a city associated with love and often takes photographs with kissing couples in them. His work is all done on film which I often think makes the images more raw and aesthetically pleasing. I think that some of Doisneau's images look real and some look staged - this is slightly disappointing as the ones that are really and morew natural look better in my opinion. I think that the only thing I slightly dislike about Doisneu's work is that it is quite dark - this may have been intended but I think some of his images are a little too dark. His images often have a lot going on in them which can sometimes be distracting on the eye. 

BOOK FAIR PROJECT : Test images : Inspired by Phillipp Klinger

At first I had an idea that I would like to take pictures looking up at buildings and showing the shapes in the architecture that way but now I see the pictures together like this I don't think I like it as they are all from the same perspective and I would like my book to be more abstract than this.

I really love this building and it is a great example of shapes in architecture.

Here are some test images inspired by the work of Phillipp Klinger. I have tried to capture buildings and architecture in an abstract way. I wanted to capture things that you wouldn't normally notice or things that you would notice but you'd look at them in a different way. I quite like these images but I think I would like to try and work in a square format of imagery which I really like. This will put my own spin on things as Klinger doesn't work in a square format. I also want to capture lots of geometric shapes in my images. You don't realise how many things/buildings are made up of lots of different interesting shapes until you look at them closely. 

BOOK FAIR PROJECT : Book Mock-ups

1: Tied with a bow

Here I have bound my book with a single piece of string. I used a needle to poke a hole at the same height in all the pages, at two points of the book. I then threaded a reasonably thick piece of thread through the book and tied it in a bow on the outside. An alternative to this would be to tie the bow on the inside but I thought that looked slightly messy and I liked the way it looked on the outside. This is a quick and simple way of how to bind a book/zine and is a good idea when we are going to be making hand made books and paper.

2: Cross Book

To create this book I chose 8 of my photographs and put them into an A4 photoshop document. I resized them to fit 8 equally on a page and put 4 one way and 4 facing another way. I then folded it so all the images had folds for edges. I then cut down the two folds in the centre of the paper to create what almost looks like an open mouth. When folded down this creates a cross book. This book is slightly harder to make and I would be worried about attempting this for a final book incase it went wrong.

3: Concertina

To create this concertina mock up I did the same thing again with the photoshop file and the 8 images. I then folded them so that each image had folds as edges. I then cut a line between the first 6 images leaving the piece of paper held together by the last 2 images. I then folded it so that it would stand up like a concertina door/privacy screen. I like how this mock up is different and it is a unique way of displaying images but I don't think it is very professional looking so I don't think that I want to use this as my final book style.

4: Japanese Stitch

This is another mock up that I used a needle and thread to sew together. For this one I pushed the needle and thread through the top 3rd of the edge of the paper/book and brought it back over top of the book. I repeated this process lots of times changing between that and pushing the needle through the bottom 3rd and bringing the thread round the bottom of the book. I found this very complicated and the string really restricted the movement/opening of the book so I will definitely not be using this method of book binding for my final book. I think the other way of sewing the book together which was the first one I tried looked a lot cleaner.