Pop Art Evaluation
· Introduction – The
purpose of this assignment was to create a piece of Pop Art, using images that
we took earlier, I have made a contact sheet of the photos that I took; which
is below:
I found the photo shoot to be very productive,
my photography skill may be slightly improved since I last did one.
The first picture I took ended up being
very blurred due to the fact that I didn't have a very steady hand, the rest of
them ended up being out of focus.... the photographs after that one were
okay(ish) but I found that 90% of them were not in focus, the 6th photo took
P1110038I was the best out of all the photos I took.
·
Research
– The images that inspired me to create my Pop Art project are below:
Pop Art first came about in America in
about the 1950’s, Andy Warhol was the person who put Pop Art into the public,
he first started creating Pop Art by taking pieces of newspaper and comic
strips… then making the Pop Art effect by duplicating the images in the kind of
way shown above in the images I found on the internet.
As I have mentioned above I researched Andy
Warhol as one of the Artists that I was supposed to research as part of my
assignment, I also researched Roy Lichtenstein to find out about some of the
work that he was doing as part of Pop Art to find out what kind of work he did,
some of the images that I found are below:
“Roy
Lichtenstein was an American artist who
defined the Pop Art aesthetic”
·
What were your ideas? Refer to your proposal – outline what it was you
intended to produce.
What I intended to make was a Pop Art piece, made from the images I took
of my Bass Guitar; hopefully I was going to be able to create my image pretty
easily, without many crashes on Photoshop and hopefully I’d be able to make
something that resembled Pop Art in some shape of form… I’d be able to use the
“Warhol Effect” to make my image and hopefully the background and the guitar
itself would change colour as I messed around with the filters and the “Hue” of
the image.
·
Planning
- How did you manage your time effectively? What considerations did you
have to account for?
My time
management would have to be pretty good, making sure that I got everything done
on time, I could make a schedule so that I could remind myself what I was doing
on a specific day… so that, again everything was on time and I didn’t have to
deal with stress knowing that I was behind on work.
·
What
considerations did you have to account for?
The things I might have had to take into consideration might have been;
Crashes from Photoshop resulting in me not being able to complete my work on
time; I’d have to get a laptop from the media office in collage so that I could
continue my work, possibly at a better rate than if I was using a computer.
Also; if the worst should happen and I lose all my work; I’d have to
restore the lost files from my backup drive to my main drive or if I lost all
my information off my backup drive I’d have to make sure that all the
information is updated and to make sure that this was the case even if my work
hadn’t been lost in the first place.
If I should loose/break my Bass Guitar during transit, I’d have to carry
something else with me to make sure that I still had something to do when all
the other students were product shooting their items that they had brought in
from home.
·
Photography. What did you have to take into account, ie, lighting,
location, ISO and apature?
In the Photography part of the project, I found that the ideas that I
had matched the ones I suggested in my proposal, unfortunately I did forget to
bring in some soup cans from home… luckily, the friend I was working with
kindly allowed me to sue some of their stuff so that my Bass Guitar wasn’t the
only thing I took pictures of… I also managed to grab something our tutor had
kindly brought in as well (games console controller).
As far as taking pictures was concerned, I didn’t make the best job…
there were a few picture that were blurred and therefore they weren’t suitable
for making into a Pop Art image, I should next time make sure to focus the
camera to make that there aren’t any mistakes, but mainly the lighting was good
for product shooting and the work surface was reasonably suitable for product
shooting, but I did find that my Bass Guitar didn’t quite fit the A3 page I was
given to shoot my products……
·
Editing techniques - What Photoshop skills/techniques did you employ?
How were they used to enhance the shots you produced?
I used an ISO of 80, so that If the camera was still and didn’t wobble;
my image of the guitar would have had a lot of detail, and may have been easier
to turn into a Pop Art image, but instead; I didn’t hold the camera very still
so as a result I lost a lot of quality, which I would have kept if I hadn’t
have done that, the exposure of the camera was “1/8 sec” (one eighth of a
second), which was a good exposure to have for that particular situation and
the focal length was “6.00 mm (in 35mm: 34mm)”, which in my opinion was not
good enough to make a decent image.
· Photography
analysis
From a photographer’s perspective, My work would be considered poor,
most of my photos are blurred or out of focus, I could have kept the camera
still or increased the ISO so that the shutter speed is faster; and so; the
image wouldn’t be as blurred, as for the picture being out of focus, I need to
make sure all the settings are what they need to be and also I need to check
the camera to make sure it isn’t out of focus.
Apart from that, some of
the images are reasonably good, there are a few that I should try and replicate
as far as shooting is concerned, because they’re pretty good and are just about
fit for purpose.
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