In Transition Through Drugs - Photos

Call Sheet

CALL SHEET No:
Title of shoot: In Transition from Drugs

Name of student: Alex Armstrong

Date of shoot: 30/11/10

Time of shoot: 3pm

Location details/directions:
I am going to be taking photos from different angles on various ramps of my model smoking


Props:
Joint

Talent:
My good friend, Marie Mead and for the odd photo Shaun Piper

Description of location: (Please explain what the picture is about)
Skate park, contains ramps and dips, which allows me to take photos from various angles




Lighting, Daylight or Artificial light

Artificial light



Additional information about how the photo will be shot: Filters, Tripod, Fast slow shutter speed etc

fast shutter speed to capture the smoke


Equipment needed
Fuji Fine Pix camera

In Transition - Treatment

In Transition

I want to show transition through drugs and how you go from perhaps a state of feeling low, to the "high" feeling you can achieve after smoking weed, i will show this in my photography by showing the change that my models feel mentally, to also how they are physically, using the skate park ramps to show that sense of being high or low. I am basing some ideas on the Larry Clark work, and i want to show how drugs can become a major part of someone's life, and having to keep the habit of your addiction to yourself and other addicts. Example of Larry Clark work below.

 

For this production i will need a Fuji Fine Pix camera, then i may need photoshop after to touch up any errors or show the effects of the drugs more to show the style that i want. In order to hire the equipment needed, the camera would cost about £25 per day. For my project, i am using my friends as models, which they have agreed to do for me already. The use if drugs may break moral ights, because it may offend people. The pictures will be presented in a powerpoint that will be projected onto a board.

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Shutter Speed

Art Photography

Art photogrpahy is something i would consider more creative and unique than other styles of photography. Art photogrpahy could contain any number of things, from people to nature or any objects. Art photography often uses different lenses to capture an interesting style of photo, for example a wide angle lense is used to create the image below.

Art photogrpahy does not have to be of buildings and in black and white though, it could also incorperate more colourful ideas. Art photogrpahy is such a wide idea that it could be anything.

Art photogrpahy could be taken anywhere, from outside, seeing something that you think would make a wonderful photo (like the photo of the ladybird on the left), or it could be a set up studio, either inside or out, where the photogrpaher already has an idea and sets up a way to take a photograph of it. Effects can also be added to a photgraph to make it more interesting and make the display more interesting (example - below the ladybird photo on the left).

These images or shown in a number of ways, they can be posted online for people to see, or they could be shown in galleries. When they are shown in galleries they could be shown using projections, or in the standard way of putting the photograph on a wall, either straight on the wall or in a frame, depending on the style of the photo and the style of the collection in general.

Fashion Photography

Fashion photography has been a highly popular type of photography in the last century. Developed paticularly through the ages, fashion changes constantly and never grows old, it is simply given more and more exposure as technology develops through time for example magazines, television and then the internet. Fashion is a huge multi-billion dollar industry, and photography is a massive part of this, as there obviously has to be a way for people to convey thier new collection. Fashion through time has changed from very formal styles to a more casual free style of clothing, like bright psychedelic colours in the 60's combined with the mini skirts fashion. much has changed in fashion through the ages. Models being one, there's a lot of contreversy over fashion model's weight, often being pressured to wear size 0 clothing, which means practically starving themselves, as the image of what is "beautiful" has changed so drastically through the years. The photo below shows a fashion photo from the 60's.

The man who is considered the founder of fashion photography is Adolph de Meyer, he became the first official photographer for the major fashion magazine Vogue in 1913 and then worked in fashion photogrpahy untill 1922, where he worked at Vogue and Vanity Fair. Fashion magazines themselves, have always been the public's favourite way of viewing the fashion photography, often seeing thier favourite celebrities on the front covers and the models for the magazines. (Below - Vogue front cover featuring Kate Moss).

Cecil Beaton is considered a famous and succesful fashion photographer from a few decades ago, he became the photographer for British Vogue in 1931, and also worked for the magazine Vanity Fair and often took photographs of famous celebrities from Hollywood and the Royal family.

Technology is used to ensure that the quality of the photographs come out as highly as possible. The set up of the photograph set with backgrounds and lighting set up to get light at the perfect angles to see every detail needed, also if the photos wanted have a certain style it can all be set up with lighting and high quality cameras in order to achieve the perfect effect for what is desired.

Macro Photogrpahy

Portraiture

Application

Portraiture was originally where rich and powerful people had their portraits painted by an artist, where they controlled how they appear in the painting. However with the invention of the camera it has developed to be more open and cheaper, so poorer people could also afford to have their portraits taken as a photograph. The camera has allowed the artist to be more in control of how the person appears in the portrait, as opposed to the person being portrayed being in control, as it used to be. Diane Arbus was a photographer who took portrait photos that were different and captured angst in people and emotions they did not wish others to see, showing the person inside, such as the photo she took in 1969 of Marcella Matthaei, where she was commissioned to take family portraits of them one christmas (photo above). This photo captures the teenage angst and frustration in the eyes of Marcella, which shows how her work could capture the spirit and inner emotions of people, despite their attempts to hide it, as Marcella is doing in her posture.
Tony Vaccaro took celebrity portraits, and he liked his portraits of people to reflect his opinion of them; for him to think of a word that most suits their personality and to then capture that word in an image of the person, showing their personality as he sees it; as opposed to the typical photo poses people use when their photograph is being taken. Portraits have developed from paintings, with photographs they can now be used to capture the true essence of a person as opposed to what they would like you to see. An image that Tony Vaccora took that shows how he captures a person's personality is one of Jackson Pollock, an American artist, taken in 1953 (photo below).

Another photographer that challenged the boundaries of acceptable photography was Larry Clark, who took portrait photos through his life, of how he lived, documenting life with photos as he went along, which he later published in a book called Tulsa. Larry Clark's photography contained images of drugs, sec and guns. Graphic images are shown of people shooting heroin and of people holding guns and of pain and nudity; (as shown above, below the Jackson Pollock photo). The first Larry Clark photo shows a man and a woman, laying naked together shooting heroin, capturing the integrity and lifestyle of Larry Clark and the people in his life. the second shows the effects and trouble of the guns they played around with (which is shown in other photos); the image is evidently of a man who has been shot in the leg. The photo captures his pain and the woman next to hims fear and distress and the event; which is exactly what fascinates me about Larry Clark's photography; that he captures something real that he knows about that a lot of photographers wouldn't dare show.

Photo Journalism

Photo journalism was started by a French painter/photographer named Henry Cartier-Bresson. It was started in 1933 when Henry Cartier-Bresson took a photograph of a man jumping over a puddle in Paris. The idea that photo journalism was based on the decisive moment, which is a split second in which you take a photo that captures the action of the scene (examples of which are below). Two other photographers that developed photographic journalism were Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro. These journalists developed this during World War Two, taking photographs in the Battlefield. Robert Capa was a professional war photographer, who followed soldiers round capturing events. Whereas Tony Vaccaro, was a soldier, who carried a camera round, taking photos of the devastation as he went. Tony Vaccaro's photos were destroyed by the army because they contained images of dead G.I.s which the world was not yet ready to see. This new wave of journalism was captured by the new revolotionary camera the Leica, which was an expensive but improved camera. it was a camera that was poortable and could take quick shots as opposed to the old style of camera. The Leica camera changed the way photography was usually used for very set up images, and it now allowed it to be a quick precise picture that can capture an image in a split second.