playing with colour and image

colour and light

After visiting the figure light colour and the intangible exhibition at the Djanogly art gallery, I have realised that colour can play a huge part in creating a mood, feeling or depth to an image. I looked at the work of four artist two of which really caught my eye ; Rebecca Partridge and Jane Bustin. All artist I looked at focused on colour and shape as their main aspect in their work.
Rebecca Partridge uses bright geometric forms that move around the centre of the painting that dissolve towards the edge of the page refracting colour. She makes use of contrasting colours overlapping them to create a more dramatic and eye-catching piece of work making it more visually interesting to look at.
AS you can tell by looking at the images below she has made the colours much more stronger towards the centre of the page fading them out towards the end giving the painting more depth and drawing the viewers attention to the middle. I personally preferred the paintings on black background I found the colours to become more bold and eye-catching




Rebecca Partridge - “in the white paintings when I overlay one colour over another it becomes darker, as in the subtractive colour wheel, where theoretically mixing the three primaries creates black. In the dark paintings I wanted to flip things , to create a kind of duality between the works. Here when colours overlay they get lighter , as it would if I were mixing beams of coloured light. In additive colour mixing theory is that mixing the three primaries creates white .
The second artist I looked into was Jane Bustin who held a very different approach in using colour.
She chooses to work with mainly block colours her work is often described as ‘emotional minimalism‘ . In comparison to Rebecca Partridges work her art is very flat there is no depth , or any sign of free dimensional shapes , although she does work with a range of different materials such as wood, aluminium, copper and Hessian giving texture to her work. One of my favourites from her collection ‘violet and the war’ there is clearly a contrast in texture with the Hessian to the left and the painted surface to the right The lights and darks , roughs and smooth seem to resemble her thoughts towards the actual meaning of the painting and the title.

painting pixilation done from bordom :)

progress on group shoot

we met at a specific location ( the pub) before heading off to the selected spot in which to shoot.
we started by running through the storyline with the camera in hand to get a clearer indication to what the final production would look like. after rehearsing we took a few shots picking out the best one.

we had to consider passers by and also lighting as the final shot was to be taken in the dark

group pregress on short

as a group we have agreed on a story board, the idea behind out short is a dugdealer picking up from what appears to be another junkie althou when in actual fact it is an undercover policeman. The location will be set to a well lit alley to enable enough light to shoot. We have all agreed to meet up at 4ish (when it is just about to get dark) next monday to start shooting

the rule of thirds

The rule of thirds is the most well known and commonly used rule in photography when it comes to composition. This rule is the key into gaining a good image and making the focus point more striking to the audience. It is one of the first things taught in photography and used to produce a well balanced photo. The theory of the thirds rule is to break the image into three, both horizontally and vertically leaving a grid of 9 squares each identical in size. Most professional photographer will do this automatically and will already know just by looking at a shot which angle and composition would work well when looking at there image, although beginners might result to viewfinders or the LCD display that you use to frame your shot. Once the grid is set up you now have the 4 focus lines “ the 4 individual lines that intercept make up the central square” .The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines, your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. The viewers eyes naturally go to the points of interest being the edges of the centred square there for photographers usually tend to work with the rule of thirds rather than against it . Although there is no saying that ignoring this rule will not produce a well balanced or visually interesting photo. Before shooting the photographer has to consider the points of interest in the shot and also where he/she is intentionally placing them, its best to know and understand what you are shooting to create a mood or a simple understanding of the feeling you are trying to create thought the image.

bubblehead web cam

The bubblehead web cam was created by a man named Eric Zhang who currently works for Nanjing OIOI Design Inc. Eric Zhang was asked to create a functional and unique web cam that would appeal to students and youths. His aim was to produce a web cam that was appealing to the eye more interesting than most and in my opinion he has successfully achieved this in his creation . This mini figured camera is 1.3 mega pixel working with 12 frames a second, has a built in microphone and a still capture button , nothing drastically different from an original web cam although this design is much more fun and creative in comparison to the everyday USB computer camera. It is made from a copper skeleton and coated in durable thermoplastic polyurethane that makes it bendable. The profile of the camera is in the form of a person and with its bendable arms it is able to clasp onto pencils, notes, monitors and screens and its head can be rotated a full 360 degrees. LED’s line the circumference of the camera, which syncs with the clients computer system’s clock to display the time in shiny lights, therefore has more functionality than just shooting a video. People prefer there gadgets to be moderately attractive these days giving the choice of an average web cam and a bubblehead webcam I’m sure the majority would choose the second option. So to answer the question “why is it that we want our belongings to do more than just function well ?” people base there first opinion on an object due to the way it has been created if the object is more appealing to the eye and shows the same functions as another less attractive they are more drawn to the more visually interesting model.

The Bubblehead webcam comes in two choice of colour, green or pink and is available to buy online for £24.95 (it’s about $43.00) from www.Gadgets.co.uk