Creative Production Photography - Josee Mallon

For this task, I used a photo I had already taken previously in a photography workshop and adapted it with photos from google to create an imaginary landscape. The main tools I used for this is the Lasso tool and the use of layers, so I could precisely cut out the images I wanted as well as placing them in the order that suited me. Here is the construction video of what I made and how I made it: And here is the final result: This was a fun activity to do and it expanded my skills on Photoshop. However, this is not something I want to incorporate into my final project - I do not think I need to make my photos any more 'fun' by adding an imaginary landscape, as I am already focusing on a fun theme.

In week 6, I presented to the group my Elevator Pitch. This was 3 slides, which talked about my research ideas and inspiration for my project, a 50 word outline or statement and a test shot for my final project. I got positive feedback on my chosen ideas, which is Brighton After Dark. This is my Pitch: It clearly shows the outline of my thinking and where it is I want to go with my Final Project. For example. I had 2 ideas of what I wanted to focus on: community or Brighton night life. After consideration, I realised that community may have practical issues in terms of accessibility, etc that would refrain me from getting the photos I want and that I am interested in. This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office Online .

In Week 4, Anneka, Ofelia and I done a successful presentation on Gender, Gaze and Otherness. Overall, the class engaged with our presentation as they were interested and were asking us questions about our photographers and the photos we presented. This is the layout of our presentation: We used Google Docs so we could efficiently contribute to the powerpoint equally. Here is the powerpoint we made. The powerpoint was well composed and neat; we only put notes on the slideshow so we could give our class more information by speaking to them. Here is our powerpoint. Everything was clearly laid out and the class were able to easily engage with it.                                                                           Here is the script we used for the powerpoint. Anneka, Ofelia and I cl...

At the beginning of the class, Anneka, Ofelia and I done our presentation on Gender, Gaze & Otherness.We believe that the presentation went really well and the class seemed to engage with what we was telling them. Overall it was an interesting project to do as I learnt about new photographers and was able to analyse and understand the theories to do with Photography in a greater depth. We went down to the market in Falmer Square to shoot a series of portrait photos of my peer, Ofelia, and some of the workers down in the stalls. We had to capture a head & shoulders photo, a close-up and an interaction. I found this task quite fun and particularly easy to do. I have realised that I am getting more and more use to using the manual camera settings. I really like the colours in this photo. The rich tones of purple and pink stand out against the dark tones of the shopkeepers coat. I like the colours in the photo...

In this week, the readings were tough but I worked my way through them in order to understand the concepts that were being put across, as these were the readings I used in my presentation with my group. Stuart Hall: The Spectacle of the Other In Chapter 5, Hall focuses on what a stereotype is and what this means exactly. He uses Dyers analogy, in which we are always making sense of something in terms of wider social categories, which in result may emulate a stereotype. However, this deploys a strategy of splitting and excluding things that do not fit or that are considered different. "Stereotyping is part of the maintenance of social and symbolic order". It creates an 'us' and 'them' mentality, that splits people apart. This can be related to Arbus' work, who constantly photographed people who are seen to be the 'other'.  Interestingly, her photography was not to make fun or marginalize these people: it was to celebrate the diversity. Robert ...

Shop Task After doing the street photography task, we was posed with another task that involved interacting with people within Brighton. We were given a list of shots to get - a head and shoulders shot of the worker, a wider shot of them in the workplace, a shot of them working, a shot of them interacting and also a contextual shot using the Nikon D7000. At first, I asked a small burger van outside the shopping centre if I could use them, clearly explaining the purposes and offering them a copy of the photos, however this was declined. I then went into the shopping centre and asked a Fudge stall, who were optimistic and open about the idea. This was the end result. This was a fun task to do, and I enjoyed interacting with the friendly staff who were enthusiastic about being used in my Photography. It also taught me more about portraits and how to capture natural reactions. The focus on this photo is really nice and the colours are rich.

In this week, we were given more readings to help us understand further the ways in which photography helps everyday life and and its different affiliations with different areas. Although the readings prove to be quite difficult at points, I found that they were really insightful and helped develop my critical understanding of Photography. Ways of Seeing: John Berger Berger suggests that a photograph may have a different interpretation for each of it's reader, as we all have different ways of seeing and understanding an image. Photography was also one of the first concepts that actually revealed the truth, of what is in front of people; Berger even goes as far to state that Photography is more rich than art and literature, which can be argued to be true to some extent. "The invention of the camera changed the way man saw". This suggests that with the development of the camera, the development of peoples critical thinking and analysis soared. This holds photography in ...

In week 3, we began to expand our photography skills further, as we was introduced to the Tripod and began to think about how to take our photos using a tripod. We went into the woods in Stanmer Park and took photos of our surrounding settings, having a low shutter speed of 1/100 sec and an aperture of around 5.6 to ensure that are photos weren't overexposed. I like the simpleness of the photo. Also, when this photo is closely looked at you can notice the two tripods against the blue sky. This can surprise an audience. I think this is a really nice photo. The exposure of the sun compliments the woods perfectly.