David Bailey

He is a British photographer who was born in East London. He shot for vogue several times, who then he became very eager to experiment with his work. He also loved to shoot with women, to do this he got to know the person this was so he could get something from them to create the picture. He would fine the bad and good side of the models face also he would capture their personalities. Style is dangerous as he didn't want to be classed as having a style so his main focus would be on the person. He says photography is about a death which is close to reality especially when looking at old photos were the people in them have passed away. He had an inserts in birds which he then linked into his own photography. His ability has grown from interest and ability to learn as he was dyslexic. He was an assistant for John French fashion photographer who used the white background which then he began to  work for Daily Express which Vogue saw who and then offered him  job. He was interested in an 'outsider' working for vogue.
Bailey worked at vogue and his audience became younger. He understood the coded language of the fashion and clothes. He started photographing and developing when he was young which he was attracted by magical chemical process. His influences were Visconti and Picasso,
1960 - Jean Shrimphon - model had a democratice beauty
- the face of the time
- is photographed her on the streets of New York.
1963 - Photographed her in the studio
- sexually changed although with respect - mutual respect.
He had a friendship with Mick Jagger. He then photographed a variety of famous people, some of them were coloured by Catherine Deneave.
Antomoni - Blow up (film)
This was based on Baileys style and lifestyle.
"Goodbye Baby and Amen" was a series of portraits. In 1970 he done a series of documentaries, interviews with artists. He traveled world since 1970's e.g Brazil, Hong Kong, being inspired by other subjects and styles that are his own. In 2010 Afghanistan, he supported soldiers for charity for what they do.
Still life - Momento Mari, dead roses, skulls, bones was a recognition  of own death and the time running out. There was a similarity of living Penn, which linked into John Lennon and Paul Maccaory.

Lives and walls surrounded by people who he loves. He has an in shoot and vision in his work. There was a silent language between the model and photographer, he also adores beauty and women and bring the beauty out in the shoot from their best side. Life is the main subject in his work, he photographs anything and everything.

Evaluation

Evaluation

For this assignment we were given 6 weeks to complete it. The assignment was call 'The colour of' therefore we could take photographs of whatever we wanted as long as it related to the theme. Also it had to be photographed on both fujifilm and digital this is because we were entering a competition.
I have photographed people with different kinds of animals painted onto their lips, my work its about colour and how animals can looks the same somewhere other than their natural habitat.
My idea developed and changed because at first i thought about doing bright coloured lips and make-up on my models and found that a few people were doing the same. I then went away and researched more into it and found that i could draw animals onto people lips in bright colours to make my work different to other peoples.
I had to use the studio, a 5D digital camera, Fujifilm camera, Paints, Models, reflectors, Studio lighting and also i asked the hair and beauty if they would like to paint the animals onto their lips for me as then it gives them images fr their portfolio and also they have had more experience and i think that the animals will look better.
I had one problem on this shoot which was relaying on my models and then they couldn't make it so then i had to ask more people on the day if they would be comfortable helping me out. Next time i will ask more people in advance so that i have a good range of people on the day. This is because i think its better to over book people as not everyone will turn up.
Rankin influenced me on this assignment because of his beauty work were he has the models with bright lips holding objects into their mouths and also how creative his work actually is. I love all of Rankin's work because its never the same and he always has amazing ideas that are creative.
I am very pleased with my final images because hair and beauty were well organised and my shoot went well. This is because in the studio i had the hair and beauty people doing my models lips while i was taking the photographs of the models that had already been done. If i were to do this again i would have asked more people to model for me. 

Final Images

For this assignment i have painted animals onto my models lips. 

I photographed them both on digital and on fujifilm so if my film images didn't turn out then i still had my digital.
Below are my digital Images:

Bee, Crab, Cat, Dolphin, Fox, Tiger, Panda, Panda.

Some of my film images didn't come out as good as i thought this is because you cant rely on the film cameras. However a few images came out good. Here are the full faces shots and the lip shots next to each other:  

  

I am really please with these images and the way that the shoot went.

Animal Lips

For this fujifilm colour assignment i have decided to do Animal Lips.

I have book in with the hair and beauty so that they will be painting the animals on to my models lips. I have got 3 models to do this shoot for me. I will be shooting on both film and digital so that i can get all of the camera settings right on the film camera. These are the animals that will be on my models lips they will be having 3 different designs each. Once one is done i will be shooting them whilst the other 2 models are getting there lips done and will be doing this thorough out the shoot so it runs smoothly and none will be waiting around.

I have chosen to do this because its different and very colourful and nobody that i know of has done this before. I will be using face paints to create these animals using very thin and thick brushed so that i can get into a lot of detail. 

 

FujiFilm "The Colour Of..."

For this assignment we have been given 5 weeks to produce 3 images on fujifilm. The theme of this assignment is "the colour off...." which means that we can take images of whatever we want based around the theme of colour. I have some ideas which are fashion based so i could get my models with bright and over the top make-up on and photograph them in the studio, also i would like to ask hair and beauty wether they would like to be involved. I have got inspiration to do this from Rankin this is because i really like his beauty/fashion shots i think that they are really strong and meaningful. A few images that i have looked at from Rankin are:

I really like all of these images because they are dull images which makes the make-up and various colours stand out more.

I have been looking at all of Rankin's work and i have found a few pictures that i would like to replicate or do something simular to. I have chosen to do this because its easy and simple and it looks really good. What i will have to complete this images is get a few different coloured lipsticks and a few different flowers. I will be doing this in the studio so that the main focus isnt lost. To make it easy i would use one model and just change there lipstick and flower on each shot. The images i got insperation from are:

After looking at the Fujifilm website i have screen grabbed some of the pages:

Another idea i have thought of is making the lips of my models into different animals. I found images from google that people have already done that have inspired me. I think this is good because its different and unusual. Also it is very colourful so it stands out very well.

Pinhole Photography

A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. The human eye in bright light acts similarly, as do cameras using small apertures.

Up to a certain point, the smaller the hole, the sharper the image, but the dimmer the projected image. Optimally, the size of the aperture should be 1/100 or less of the distance between it and the projected image.

Here are some images of peoples work, who have made pinhole cameras out of a wide variety of different objects:  

Pinhole out of an egg

 

Pinhole out of a pringles tube

Pinhole image out of some ones mouth

Pinhole out of a spam tin

Pinhole out of a camper van

Pinhole out of a peanut

Pinhole out of a potato 

Pinhole refection of Woody

Pinhole made out of lego

Today we made our own Pinhole cameras and then went out and done an exposer of our own, and then developed them in the dark room. After doing this we scanned them onto the computer inverted them so that they were opposite to the negatives. Firstly we done this for 30 seconds and we found out that it was too dark, so we then knew we had to expose the paper for longer, so after that we went out and done another test shot and exposed it for 1 minute and this image and after developing it, it turned out better so then we then done an exposure for each of us filling the tin we made into the pinhole camera.

Below are the test pictures and my final negative and developed image.

This is the test one that we exposed for 30 seconds

This is the second one we did and exposed it for 1 minute

This is the negative to my final exposure

This is my final inverted image.