Compositional Research Ranking

Rankin.

Rankin is a  portrait and fashion photographer. He was born in 1966. Rankin has captured all different portraits of different celebrities such as; Britney Spears, Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls and many more different celebrities. As well as this Rankin has worked on a number of advert campaigns for big companies such as Nike, as well as chairty work raising awareness of the issue of HIV in Africa. He has been influenced by successful fashion photographers such as Cecil Beaton and David Bailey and remains one of the most well-known and influential contemporary photographers, even being asked to photograph the Queen in the year of her Golden Jubliee.

Rankin has captured this image of Madonna holding her jacket closed together. The amount of light used for this image shows the sharpness detail on her face but mainly around her eyes. The thing I like about the use of this light is that it makes her face stand out clear then anything else in the image.

Rankin has used a certain amount of lines in her hair and on her jacket, the use of lines gives the image a lot of detail. The subject dominats the space which creates a composing image as well as this the use of white space allows the subject to be use to create and clear and pure feel to the image.

The subject is postioned in the centre; large and looking directly into the camera to make the audience focus mainly on her.

Second Idea

For my second Idea I have chosen to focus on creating a step by step make-up collage which means, taking pictures of each step of make-up. e.g. no make-up on to bit by bit and then to a final image of all make-up on. To complete this collage I'm going to be taking images of my sister, putting on make-up.



This is the type of experiment I'm wanting my idea to come out like. I also want it clear to show each step and how you actually apply the make-up on until the final image.
To complete this Idea I'm going to be experimenting this with my sister. I'm taking pictures before the make-up has been applied, then stage by stage and then show the out-come of it.

I've chosen this for one of my idea because this is one of the things I love which is also shown on my love and hate brainstorm.

The reason I've chosen to do a step by step image is because I like the way they do the close-ups of the model of how they apply the makeup I also like the way they show the different transformations and ways for each bit.



This is the kind of transformations that I am quite interested in and this image is showing the similar things of before and after.



Daniel Gbenga

Daniel Gbenga.

From looking at Daniel Gbenga's work you can see the sharpness of the bus on the right hand side. The reason why I like this image Is the way Gbenga has not only captured the side of the bus but also has captured the underground sign in the far distance; i like the use of sharpness to make the bus stand out more; seems to look like the main focus of this image. Gbenga has blurred the back-ground to make the audience focus mainly on London’s main transports.

My first responce is that I was attracted to this image as the London Bus seems to be directing your eyes to the bus itself but also directs you towards the underground sign in the far distance. Tthe thing that drew me more closer into this image is the use of the blurred back-ground which means that everything else doesnt need to be focused on or even paid attention to.



I have taken these images of different London landmarks e.g. Big Ben and London Eye.

I took these images is all different directions, from taking these images I could experiment on using different effects such as ray lights going through or in a certain direction to add a lot of detail. This relates to my theme by the things I love which mainly is London, were I live and expresses how much I love being a true Londoner.

Andrea Fenininger Research.

     Andrea Feininger.

           Coenties Slip, Circa 1940

From looking at Andreas Feininger’s work I can sense the theme of power, especially from her use of overpowering and domineering images such as towering buildings, representing a dominant and powerful country.  I wanted to represent this theme in my own work, taking photograph’s of the city I love -London, focusing on historical and iconic London landmarks such as Big Ben, London Eye and Houses of Parliament. I am going to experiment with both black & white and colour photography to capture the life and experience of living in London. I want to use the over towering portrayal to represent the strong state of London.

My first response

I was initially attracted to this image as the train tracks acts as a visual line sweeping across the page guiding the eye across the image and central to the main object within the photo, focusing on the immense building. What drew me in more was the harsh contrast between the black track against the white building, juxtaposing both objects together, making the building seem more prominent. The juxtaposition is emphasised by the black and white format heightening the different shape and tone of the two subjects and the bright light luminates the authority and length of the building. I can see that Andrea Feininger’s work is based on an architecture which gave me the idea to focus on London's buildings and design. 

I carried out some research about different photographers to get a brief idea about different styles and techniques. i used a website called www.thphotographyteacher.com , which had different types of photograpers.
I selected a photographer from abstract, i choose this certain type of photography because i was reall interested in some of the work photographers developed especially David Hockney who's work caught m eye first. I chose to Hockney's work because I found his work interesting by the way he sets his work out and the amount of detail he puts into his work.
I searched for other images of Hockney's work by using Google, and also search for some information about him as well on wikpedia so i could understand some of the things he was inspired by; see some of his ideas he has to create some of these photomontage.




David Hockney.

David Hockneys was born in 9th July 1937 and is currently still alive.

David's style of photography is mainly pop art, he also choses to paint most of his portraits. he also has been regarded as the 'playboy of the art world'.

In the eighties David then decided to turn his way of creating portraits and went from painting to photo collage. Hockneys became fascinated by seeing things through a window frame; Hockneys also art to express his feelings towards people he loved in his past.

hockney has taken pictures of all different things such as: portraits of people, different types of objects put together also pictures of the woods. with these pictures he has cut the image up and enlarged certain parts of the image and placed the image back to the way the imaged first looked. he also likes to add the detail of space around him or the sort of things happening around him.



this is one of David Hockneys collage of a man in his house sitting on a sofa. you can see the certain area's where he has enlarged and the way the image fits together; the detail behind the man.

WHILST DAVID WAS WORKING ON A PAINTING OF LOS ANGELES LIVING ROOM, HE DECIDED TO START TAKING PICTURES OF WHAT HE FOUND INSPIRED HIM A LOT. HE FIXED THEM TOGETHER IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STYLE SO HE COULD PAINT THE IMAGE.

WHEN HE FINISHED THE IMAGE AND PAINTED THE IMAGE. SINCE HOCKNEY CREATED THAT IMAGE HE HAS BEEN CREATING MORE IMAGES IN THE SORT OF SAME WAY AS THE FIRST ONE HE CREATED.

I like this picture because it shows that he really focused on everything and tried hard to put every piece of detail in.In this image our eyes focus maninly on the pathwa as it is in the centre of the picture also the amount of detail used it very bright and eye-catching.this image for me seems to be a very peacful place to go.



Love or Hate Brainstorm.

We created a powerpoint to say the things we love and hate.

we created a slide and split the page into two sides for love and hate. we then listed the inanimate objects that we love and hate.

After the second slide we then enetered the names of the images we need that realt to the words on the lists. We then entered two more slides and labelled them love and hate.

I wanted to create myself a starting point and use my ideas of love and hate to help me guide my way through the unit we are currently starting. I also wanted to create a clear and visual response to hep me move forward in this unit and also to help me list the things i love and hate.

This relates to the theme of love and hate because the words and images display what its about.what i have learnt is that i mainly love things that makes me happy, and hate things that make me cheerless.