Welcome to taking photos of the animal kingdom! Which animals interest you? What are your photos for? Who will see them? Which animals do you have access to? Where will you photograph them? Studio or enclosure or outside/ in the wild. Pre work- How to take a fantastic portrait using natural! Practice on a toy […]

Victorian era photography was all about capturing the ‘spirit’ of an ancestor, the aura and the general creepiness through the tricks of photography. This was before anyone knew how it was happening. Find 3 examples of Victorian Era spirit photography Find 3 examples of contemporary ghost photography – Try emulate one of each. INTRO https://theconversation.com/spirit-photography-19th-century-innovation-in-bereavement-rituals-was-likely-invented-by-a-woman-164033 […]

There was a famous movie in the 80s called Honey I shrunk the Kids which opened up many ideas and hilarious scenarios based on scale. Aim: To be able to use Photoshop to cut out images, blend realistically and make a creative digital artwork. As with all art – the Idea is what makes it […]

Want to know what colours look good together?     Create a colour wheel with 12 colours IN YOUR WORK BOOK Find 2 photos which use each of the following: Complimentary colours Monochromatic Canva’s Colour Wheel makes colour combinations easy.     https://www.canva.com/colors/color-wheel/ Images With Complementary Colours https://www.canva.com/learn/monochromatic-colors/     https://www.canva.com/colors/color-wheel/ https://www.canva.com/learn/monochromatic-colors/ EXERCISE https://www.canva.com/colors/color-wheel/ EXERCISE: […]

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/appropriation aim is to create a new situation, and therefore a new meaning or set of meanings, for a familiar image. What are you saying, who are you in the history of art? YASUMASA MOIMURA Yasumasa Morimura is a fan of role-play—in fact, one could say it’s his primary medium. Since the mid-1980s, the Japanese conceptual […]

  Strobe flash- how many times did the flash go off in the below photo? https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/slide-show-lights Constant light   Three point lighting There are many lighting set ups – http://photo.pelicandd.com/ this is an interactive website where you can try out these looks. The below was for Paramount Studio back in the 30s and 40s Studio […]

Surrealism is said to go from 1916 to 1966 approximately with many contemporary artists being influenced today. “I have finally freed myself from the sticky medium of paint, and am working directly with light itself.”  Man Ray Surrealism overview- Characteristics of Surrealism Surrealist photographs of Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Brassai, Salvador […]