GCSE Photography Sketchbook 1 of 2

Compare and Contrast

The structure of the equipment in the two
images is quite different.
The portrait on the left has been stuck to a
square shape and every piece of equipment is
in frame, whereas, the image on the right has
equipment going of the frame and is a
random, neat but unorganized layout.
The colour schemes of the two images are also
quite different as well. The portrait on the left
is more of a dark neutral tone, whereas, the
colour scheme on the right hand side is quite
bright and the opposite of the left portrait. The
colour scheme is what makes the two portraits
contrast the most because the first thing you
really notice is the colours of each piece of art.
The backgrounds are also different in both of
the portraits.
The artist who created the portrait on the left
has used a textured background which looks
like wooden floorboards and has used
different types of wood objects – such as the
handle on the hammer - placed on top to give
the image its contrast. The artist who created
the artwork on the right has just used a plain
white background but as plain as it may be,
the background contrasts the neon coloured
objects which have been placed on top of the
background.





Basic Edit and
Image Analysis

I have chosen this image as the most successful because it is one I decided
to arrange the tools randomly but there’s something about the image that
seems very organized. I like it because its unorganized but in a neat way.
If I had to do something differently it would probably be re-arranging the
top of the image by the drill and tape measure and angle them differently.
This image is more effective compared to taking a simple picture because
you’ve used your creativity to place the tools where you think they would
look good and it’s more interesting to look at.



Basic Edit and
Image Analysis

I have selected this image as the most successful for a similar
reason to the last one, I like how it is unorganized but neatly.
If I had to do something different it would be to add more
equipment so they’re would be less negative space.
I think this image is better that taking a simple image because
you can see all the different shades and shapes of the equipment
from a birds eye view.



Pete Ashton -
Homework

Pete Ashton is a British artist who lives and works in Birmingham. He
has opened a photo school.
Ashton’s images have a visual link to all the artists we have previously
looked at and have researched. He photographs architecture and
transforms the images into something unique and different. His images
are always shown to be looking up at a building but the angle the
buildings are in the image are all different, some seem more slanted than
others.

Simply Monumental

To create these
images I had to use
a multiple different
viewpoints and
angles.
Personally I found
that looking up at
the bottle made the
bottle increase in
height. I did this by
placing the bottle
on the edge of a tall
surface, my dining
room table, lying
on the floor and
explored the
different angles the
pictures could be
taken of. Some of
them I took directly
under the bottle
but they weren’t as
successful so I tried
moving out a bit
and either to the
left and right and
they came out
better, more
successful,
compared to when
I was directly under
it.

APERTURE

Aperture is all about the focus and the light in an image. It
controls the amount of brightness that passes through the lens
and reflects on the image.
Some people call the aperture the ‘eye’ of the camera.
The smaller the iris, the more light is coming through and the
image is more focused and the details are sharper. However, the
larger the iris the less amount of light will come through and the
image wouldn’t be as focused and detailed as it would be if the iris
was smaller.

Shutter Speed

The shutter speed all depends on the amount of times the shutter
opens and closes in a certain amount of time.
The higher the speed the more focused the image will be.
Contrasting this, the lower the speed the less focused your image
will be.

Exposure

Exposure is another way to say ‘the image’.
An exposure is made up of aperture and shutter speed.
It could be a dark background with a bright image in the middle or a light image containing a dark object in the middle.

ISO

ISO is all about the sensitivity of the sensor, or the film.

The brighter it is outside the lower your ISO film would be. The
opposite of this would be the darker it is outside the higher your
ISO film would be.

Basic Edit and
Image Analysis

I have chosen this image as the most successful because
I like how all the equipment has been placed into the
shape of a square/rectangle and isn’t like the other two
images where the objects were placed randomly.
If I had to do one thing different it would be to remove
the pizza cutter and replace it with the ice cream scoop.

Thomas Lamadieu Thomas Lamadieu is a French artist who was born in 1985 in
Avignon, France. Originally he studied Art History and when
he completed that course he did a foundation course in
Topography and was known as Roots Art. Lamadieu now lives
in Germany.
Lamadieu was a member of a group of artists called the ACA,
Avignon where he participated in several collective projects
during the festival which held place at the Avignon Theatre.
He has been doing this ever since 2012.
One of Lamadieu’s focuses when it came to his work was his
use of photographic pictures of building to then integrate his
characteristic drawings in the sky. The technique he used in
his work was a fish eye lens to photograph the architecture
and used Microsoft Paint for most of his illustrations.

Thomas Lamadieu’s work is very bright and colourful. I like how he managed to find a way
to put art and photography into just one image and show that he has put a lot of thought
and imagination into his work. They are all unique in their own way because they are all a
different type of design. When I say design, I mean not every person and/or detail is
repeated more that twice at the very most. Every person has a different style or face design
but Lamadieu must have took a lot of time and thought into his artwork to make sure it
wasn’t the same. Lamadieu tends to use a lot of different shades/tones of blue in his work to
give the art some colour.

Thomas Lamadieu
Basic Edits

To make my Lamadieu pictures, I chose an image and used
the Quick Selection Tool to edit the sky and either erase it
using the eraser tool or fill it white if the eraser tool doesn’t
work. The Quick Selection Tool helps to only edit the sky, it
will outline the building and make sure that when you erase
it, it wont effect the building/s. Also, I made sure my image
had a lot of sky space and was a clear image that showed the
buildings details. The best images to use are one with a lot of
negative space that you can edit out and fill in with patterns
or illustrations.
Once I edited the image, I printed out the image and
practiced what I wanted to draw on a piece of scrap paper in
pencil. When I felt confident with the drawings, I then
illustrated that onto the image I previously printed. I mainly
used geometric designs; for example, in one of my images I
drew random triangle and squares and filled them in with
squares which gave the image a checkerboard appearance.
After all the squares were drawn, I outlined them with a thin,
black fine liner.



Thomas
Lamadieu
Advanced Edits

Once I was happy with my illustrations I scanned the image
through the printer. I opened the image on Photoshop and quick
selected the building, right clicked inside it and selected the
feather tab and type the number 1 into the box. I clicked the enter
button on my keyboard and right clicked inside the selected area
and select Layer Via Copy.



Studio Practice – Set
Up

Light stands
Studio flash is all about positioning the light source away from the camera, so stands are crucial.
They support the flash heads, which means they can be positioned at the right distance and angle to the subject.

Flash heads
Most kits have two flash heads. Along with a flash tube, there’s a modelling light.
Most have a switchable ‘slave’, enabling one flash to be triggered by another, so you

only need to have your camera connected to one of the heads.

Umbrella
A brolly is the most standard form of lighting accessory. The flash is directed into the
brolly so the light is reflected back onto the subject. They are available in different reflective
surfaces – typically white, silver or gold.

Studio Practice – Set
Up

Soft box
Soft boxes are slightly more sophisticated than brollies and, once you’ve worked out
how to assemble these tent-like devices, they create a softer and generally more flattering light,
with a more even illumination.

Snoot/honeycomb
Both of these tools help to concentrate or ‘focus’ the light.
They’re ideally suited for use as backlights or for isolating a particular part of an image.

Reflector
A simple reflector can be really useful in a studio lighting setup,
especially if you’re only using one light. You use it the same way you would with natural light –
to bounce light back onto your subject and fill in any hard shadow areas.

Basics of Studio Camera Use

A shutter is what allows light to pass through giving your image enough exposure and it is located over the camera lens.
Shutter speed is the amount of time the camera shutter is exposed to the light into the cameras sensor.
I like the effect on the image when the shutter speed is slower because it has given the image a blurry effect. Whereas, when there is a
faster shutter speed, it freezes whatever you are taking the photo of so you would use a faster shutter speed for something active like
sports.

Basics of Studio Camera Use

Aperture is a small hole in the lens which helps light travel through the camera body.
It is measured using an f – stop scale.
The smaller the aperture, the more focused the image will come out. If you wanted to show
off a certain expression you would use a wider aperture because it will bring out the
expression and blur out the background.
The first of the three images has a wider aperture,

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