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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Dan O' Day at M16
Another exhibiton at M16 and these works probably suited the warehouse studio even more.
The photographs were particularly low quality/res and showed people sleeping in different parts of the world.
The photographs were really effective and i think it was a unique idea.
The photographs were particularly low quality/res and showed people sleeping in different parts of the world.
The photographs were really effective and i think it was a unique idea.
HIlary Wardaugh at M16
The M16 space is really cool. Warehouse style gallery which was appropiate for this exhibition.
Some really good colour used, and black and white.
Some really good colour used, and black and white.
My Place
My Place was another exhibition held at Cafe Yala and again was photograph first year students.
There were shots from all over Canberra being exhibited, and it looked really good.
The space was used really well and not too cluttered.
There were shots from all over Canberra being exhibited, and it looked really good.
The space was used really well and not too cluttered.
Portraits
Portraits was an exhibition held at Cafe Yala from my fellow first year students.
It was cool to see our work being displayed where other CIT kids could come have a look.
A lot of the work in it was superb.
It was cool to see our work being displayed where other CIT kids could come have a look.
A lot of the work in it was superb.
Eat
Eat was an exhibition held at Design space at CIT by students.
The photographs were really clear and enticing and would fit quite easily into any cookbook.
There is a particular trend with using a low aperture on food photographs to get a particular depth of field effect in the photographs. I have been told this is a "fad" in food photography and in nearly any cook book from the past few years will have this style in most of the photographs.
I am quite over seeing this "fad" because it really drains out the creativity of the the photograph.
The students managed to have some of these photograph in the exhibition as well as some of their own styles.
I can't wait to start food photography as i think it would be an awesome field to work it.
The photographs were really clear and enticing and would fit quite easily into any cookbook.
There is a particular trend with using a low aperture on food photographs to get a particular depth of field effect in the photographs. I have been told this is a "fad" in food photography and in nearly any cook book from the past few years will have this style in most of the photographs.
I am quite over seeing this "fad" because it really drains out the creativity of the the photograph.
The students managed to have some of these photograph in the exhibition as well as some of their own styles.
I can't wait to start food photography as i think it would be an awesome field to work it.
40,000 + 40 by David Callow
This exhibition was held at the Watson Arts Centre and had a really small studio space to work with.
The images were incredible. They were mainly Aboriginal Portraits, but the photographs were awesome. They were really large in size and had some amazing texts to go with them which opened your mind to the photographs and the scenes shown.
The images were incredible. They were mainly Aboriginal Portraits, but the photographs were awesome. They were really large in size and had some amazing texts to go with them which opened your mind to the photographs and the scenes shown.
Chris Fortscue - Resonant Sites
This exhibiton was really quite weird. It was definately on the Artistic side of things. The photographs looked like cartoons and were not taken by the artist. It started a debate amoung the class as what constitutes art and the like. The Artist had added a block colour to certain images which blocked out a piece of the work. It made you think why he had blocked it out and what statement he was making.
My opinion is that it can be considered his work so long as he acknowledges the source for the original photograph. It was good to have the artist in the studio at the time because he talked and discussed his work with us.
Chris Morrison - Compressed
This piece was shown at Photoaccess when we went there a few months back.
Compressed was a 7 or 8 minute (ish) video that had been put together from thousands of still images.
The content was footage from Canberra and Sydney and it was absolutely incredible.
The clarity and detail from each little scene was awesome.
I have absolutely no idea how he managed to shoot that fast and continuarly get the correct exposure, unless he was shooting on auto, which seems very unlikely.
This piece inspired me to think outside the square and be original.
It was one of the best exhibition pieces i saw in the Vivid festival, which is proven because it is the only exhibition i have not needed to go back and think about what content was in it.
The Fuji ACMP Australian Photographer's Collection: A Decade of Showcasing Australia's Best Photography
This exhibition was incredible and had some awesome photographs.The colour and clarity used in the exhibiton was awesome.
The thing that stood out for me most about this exhibition was how creative and artistic the photographs really were. Which was a nice change from all the documentary exhibtions we had been going to see in the Vivid festival.
Iddid Djura
Iddid Djura was an exhibition by Sarah George held at the CSIRO (I think?)
The exhibition space was really small and the photographs were all really cluttered.
There was too many photos for the space that they were shown in.
The thing that came from this exhibition that everyone remembered was the mounting!
Now the fact that we have it in our minds that white mounts are the best to go with was proven in this exhibiton. The mounting was horrible. There was a range of coloured mounts including red, navy blue etc. Some of the coloured mounts worked okay with the photographs but as a whole they did not match at all.
The photographs themeselves were pretty interesting. The photographer had photographed an Aboriginal community and it worked quite effectively. The portrait style photographs worked really well and were quite effective.
Something i will say though, is work with the space you're given. The curator had packed more photographs in the space than required and the exhibition probably would have been more effective if there were less photographs in it. Less is more in this case.
The exhibition space was really small and the photographs were all really cluttered.
There was too many photos for the space that they were shown in.
The thing that came from this exhibition that everyone remembered was the mounting!
Now the fact that we have it in our minds that white mounts are the best to go with was proven in this exhibiton. The mounting was horrible. There was a range of coloured mounts including red, navy blue etc. Some of the coloured mounts worked okay with the photographs but as a whole they did not match at all.
The photographs themeselves were pretty interesting. The photographer had photographed an Aboriginal community and it worked quite effectively. The portrait style photographs worked really well and were quite effective.
Something i will say though, is work with the space you're given. The curator had packed more photographs in the space than required and the exhibition probably would have been more effective if there were less photographs in it. Less is more in this case.
Beyond Reasonable Drought
Beyond Reasonable Drought was an exhibition held at Old Parliament House.
Without a doubt this was my favourite exhibition through out the Vivid festival, (even though i may have said this about another exhibition or two)
The photographs were absolutely amazing. They ranged from pictures of desert and cracked earth to dried up lakes and sheep. The exhibition really opened my eyes to the drought that this country is in.
A photograph is Missing by Robert Billington
A photograph is Missing was an exhibition held at the Bungendore Woodworks upstairs in the Gallery.
For starters, the space was particularly interesting because of the lighting. The studio gallery was not lit like the National Gallery, it had a darker feel to it because the lights weren't as strong.
This enhanced the viewing of the photographs because they were in black and white. The prints were of a good viewing size, and best of all there were some film prints.
The photographs were really interesting as well. They were all different yet they flowed really well as you walked through the studio. The photographs had some really appropriate wall texts to go with them that were really interesting.
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For starters, the space was particularly interesting because of the lighting. The studio gallery was not lit like the National Gallery, it had a darker feel to it because the lights weren't as strong.
This enhanced the viewing of the photographs because they were in black and white. The prints were of a good viewing size, and best of all there were some film prints.
The photographs were really interesting as well. They were all different yet they flowed really well as you walked through the studio. The photographs had some really appropriate wall texts to go with them that were really interesting.
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
Woodbury Type Process
The Woodbury Type Process is an interesting one that has been described as mash and gravy.
If you spread mash out on to a plate of some description and use a fork to make a certain imagewith different levels of thickness and deepness then pour gravy on top you are left with a type of Woodbury image.
The parts of the mash where the indents are deeper will go a deeper colour and the more shallow areas will be lighter. You are left with a picture of different shades of brown.
The Woodbury type typically uses a machine that does carving to a chosen material.
The idea was formed by a photographer called Walter Woodbury, hence the name.
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