10: Assignment 2 Elements of design. Street.

My own subject.
Culture. Or nature . It covers most things here in Borneo.

This theme. City life. In a way its Street.

10 photographs showing all that I have discovered in this course to date.
Took the camera out on a number of times,  still I cannot get to that wow factor.
What I see others taking. This it not what I want.
Where do I go from here.

Single point, the dominating composition : With the wet weather in Borneo, I had to move indoors for some Ideas.
Top of the shopping mall.  : Giving a single point perspective from the top floor.
Looking for all the elements, then breaking them down. First I saw the curves that  led to the man. One point of focus.:

                                                        
 Diagonal lines

 The sky light in a shopping mall

                                           
Several point in a shape : This was allot harder . Everything seem so out of shape and confused in KK City. My hope to see people gathered, or cars parked from an above view.
I came up with this of the mosque . Shapes making a shape. a curve . A triangle.

Curves 

Curves Many . But nothing artistically attractive. 

Centre point car park  

Implied triangle :


Again in the mall . I waited for a pattern. crating a match with the street lamp.Triangle. 

Curve

steel hanging from a crane 

Pattern:

At the ground floor of Centre point

Taxi cabs : out side centre Point, forming a pattern

2 Point and contrasting colour Hydrants 

Implied Triangle 

Curve: Late evening. The setting sunlight on this fly over. 

Implied triangle : This one I played with. As the two men looking at the big screen were to close . So using the clone tool I moved them apart . To make this applied triangle. there are two. the bottom two men connecting with the screen. or the three men. 

irregular Shapes: I think this one speaks for its self . The irregular shapes made in the walk way that is badly worn. 

Not sure if this is what I am looking for . 

Several points in a deliberate shape :

Another example. 

                                A combination of vertical and horizontal lines
KK Sea front. I liked this one as the boards take yore eye to the back of the photo to the many lines of the hotel.

Triangular line 

Three people making a connection.

Further reading And Observing of others work.

Often looking at new work through the internet. I find my self wondering. how to gain my own style?
I see work that I like, that i hate, that I want to say something about. And i do on blogs, However there are those who create, those who have full advantage of Time place and money to crate. then those who repeat others, I hate that.
 This course encourages criticism of my own and others work.

But even top pros I see fault with.     http://michaelgrecco.com  take a look at his work and see how Un natural the models look. He gets them into such uncomfortable poses. Its like he is pushing to hard. To much to make the impression.  i did notice how he worked when watching Final cut.  OK demanding and time is money. Got the money for the props Knows what he wants But i feel a bit Rush Rush and could do a little better.
One of his photo on his site shows a girl standing on rocks. her legs look so strained to hold the pose.
Its looks unbalanced.

Again I see I am merging into this sat on a desk top photoshop it thing again.  Said it before. A good photographer gets what he want as soon as he looks through that view finder. Sees light and shade takes in the detail . Makes adjustments and the shutter clunks.

I know I say I want the above cameras. But if they produce a compact 20 to 30 MP I can do wonders with that. I must say I have a long way to come against some . But its my own style I am trying to discover. And not mimic and copy cat others work.  Picky I will be, Nevertheless reason for doing is something els.

Iv been watching the wedding scene as well. This to me has been quite disturbing especially in the chinese format of what they see as good photography. As when I was with GOWP and MPA they would have thrown out what some a pushing to claim is good photography.
 The bride and groom  stuck in the corner or bottom of a photo looking at nothing and a vast amount of back ground. Or for grounds. Photos that to me, the camera has gone of accidentally , What is this all about ?  http://adpixstudio.com

Are they selling, or just getting a self ego that impresses them selves and not the on looker.

I did not take the picture . I have done something like this, long time ago. It did not work . So Is photography now becoming like music? Stretched for new idea's , Anything goes?

9:Rhythm And Pattern

 Exercise: 2 photographs :

This in turn is one I looked forward to. Life has Rhythm In music and in sight.
light its self has waves , But to see the world and see pattern is something els.

All my life I have noticed Rhythm and Pattern . From travelling on a train watching the telephone line jump from pole to pole. To the clicking of the joints in the line. To the ploughed fields that flash by.
The ripples of sand from the waves on the beach, Wind blown rocks. Animal tracks . Man made tracks.
Nature its self, in flowers and creatures produce pattern and Rhythm. Flight.

From the exercises  previously done to this one. One can see how Natures natural Graphic Design flows through out life its self. Man for years has mimicked this and created his own. By repeating shapes and sounds. Animals, Birds sea life too. All do the same. If its weathered Naturally, it becomes life's own work of art, to be captured. If its displayed by plant or creature. Its for one reason. To be noticed!

One must be carful when photographing pattern not to get to rapped up in graphic repartition IE( the patterns that so repeat them selves in textiles)  These are seen by many and every day are in your face.

So what I tend to do is look for the un obvious. An angle or the wow factor. I know thats hard to do.  To make Pattern impress. It should show in a story, a Mood Or impact of contract and colour.

For this exercise just to photographs are required min. So here I am placing these .

Pattern may be much easier to see and find

Rhythm tends to be harder to portray to the onlooker, As we are now looking for a picture, expressing Thyme of Rhythm . Here I have been asked to show,
Graphically Rhythm:



A Good example But simple not to be confusing with colour and shapes. Foam lit from window lighting, Giving texture and shade. Looking directly down at the foam from above . the foam looks plain and consists af a basic pattern . Criss- cross. But with the use of a wide lens I have managed to capture the Pattern and sense of Rhythm . Although your eyes dance over the humps it gives a sort of Optical elution, Like the Ocean waves.
Like many patterns do. You can see lines moving left and right. Rhythm of bumps.

Rhythm can also be seen in the dragons humps. But the timing seem constant and not as a Rhythm, as I would like to show. Like music it does not have its highs and lows. like a rope . The fetch of a wave.

This picture has more Rhythm in is graphic spirit, as the Rhythm is broken, and then repeated again and again, Simply, a roof top from a road bridge. I have cropped this photograph.  I have seen this in another pattern. I hope to go back and photograph it again. Its like the bass sound, pounding from a loud speaker.

Pattern

Shadows in a car park exit, made by the setting sun. Often I get frustrated when travelling and missing the shot But this time, topped  the car to capture this contrasting pattern.

A banana leaf back lit from behind . Natures Own work.

8:Shapes : Real and applied triangles

Two sets of photos using 1 real triangles the other implied triangles.
6 photographs :

To find a subject in itself portraying a triangle .

I found many images, from volcanoes to wood. Roof tops and windows. This Umbrella I took in Jakarta, Indonesia.  Found most appealing with the colour and shape, with the back arching door way. 

F 10 1/50th sec iso 800 22mm 400d

Converging triangle, using a wide lens,  making the chimney reach higher into the sky .

                                  High rise buildings . Still an interesting perspective showing a triangle. As the far part Top. become smaller , as it moves away from the camera to the sky.

A triangle converging towards the camera at the bottom of the frame:

To get lines to converge to the bottom I would really need rafters in a roof or something of that nature. But even then it would depend on the angle, the photo was taken at, the under part of a stairway. So the bottom is leading away. 

 

Next Implied lines making a triangle in still life :

Apex top:
Taken on table top, using my black shirt as a back drop . Fishing flys . using what I had available.

Using ring flash over head, 17-40 L lens.   Wide lenses are better for deeper depth . However The flash was only giving me f4 iso 3600 1/ 60sec  some sharpening had to be done.

Apex bottom 

Similar method used here. But using available light from over head florescent blobs 

Focusing manually to get the closest part of the fruit sharp. 

F16 3.2 sec ISO 800 took a little arranging to get this just right to produce a triangle Apex at the bottom. More so to the front bottom. 

Now to photograph 3 people to make a triangle: 

I personally hate those static line up photos. I would love to show some of my work from previous. 

People can be fun if you smile .  but try to do something formal in a none formal setting . this is going to be fun. !

Ok Lack of willing subjects So for now until I can take an up to date photo. 

here are some I took a long time ago  

And implied horizontal & triangle