What is your opinion of these photographs? Click them to enlarge. Be prepared to justify your opinion. How might they inspire your own work? How to photograph the figure in an abstracted way.
When you are finished, upload your PowerPoint to your Human Figure page. Bring your camera to school on Thursday ready for a photoshoot p5. We will be planning your photos What do the following words mean? They are key words for the lesson and you should be using them with reference to the editing in the style of this photographer. Abstract Distorted Unfocused Contrasting
Upload your best 10-15 photos to a new gallery on your Human Figure page under the title 'Bill Armstrong Inspired Photo shoot' Edit TWO of your photos in his style. -Open your photos on Photoshop - start by changing the hue and saturation, brightness and contrast of the photo to ensure you have high contrast (between colours and lighting) in your photo. - Going for gold option: the advanced version of this would be to use the select tool/magic wand tool to select sections to change the colours/brightness contrast, rather than do the whole picture. I would recommend making your selection then copying and pasting to a new layer then editing so that you still have the original, in case you want to go back and make changes. - Next, experiment with the Gaussian Blur filter in - filters, blur. Drag the bar at the bottom of this section to the right, and see the blur. You want the same level of blur as the artist - not too much/too little. -save when happy as a JPEG then upload as single images so they are fairly large. If you have a DSLR camera - some of your photos should be good enough to be left unedited. Add these as extra outcomes, and write a brief explanation of how you took these photos and that they are unedited. Don't forget... When your planning page has been scanned, this also needs to be added to your Human Figure page, above your Bill Armstrong photo shoot gallery. Click the image below to download the scanned drawings, then open your planning sheet on photoshop and save it as a JPEG and upload it.
To finish, add a text box underneath your edited/final pictures and answer just this one question as a paragraph:
What did you learn about the idea of abstracting your work through this task and how could you apply it to your work in the future? Sentence starters if needed: Through this task I learnt that by abstracting my work... I could apply this idea to my future work by... Other things that I could do to abstract or distort my work could be...
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