BIRDS EYE VIEW ROOM PHOTOS

Good one to show when teaching students about angles in photography!

Beautiful Bird's-Eye View Room Portraits

Use Light Stencils To Create Amazing Light Paintings

I would love to do this with students but need to try it out myself - could be quite difficult seeing as we don't see them at night.  Is there enough room in our tiny darkroom?

These images are by Light Stencil artist....

TigTab 


A step by step guide on how to can be found here:
Light stencil how to.

Dust and Dance - Using Powder As a Creative Tool

Photographer Thomas David's latest project Dust And Dance incorporates the freezing of motion using fast shutter speed. A dancer is covered in powder/dust and is shot in front of a black backdrop while making brief dance motions.

Exquisite imagery. See the full photos and BTS video below.

View the photographs from Flickr HERE

VIDEO: [Behind the Scene] Séance "Farine et Danse"

DIY shooting liquid flow

Just found a step by step guide on how to shoot coloured liquid (such as below in Fast Shutter Speed post)


I am SO borrowing my friends remote flashes and doing this with seniors!

How To Shoot A Liquid Flow

p.s. the website this came from has a thousand awesome tutorials and guides on how to shoot using various techniques etc.

The built environment - Greek to Po Mo

We teach year 8 art a unit on "The Built Environment". It begins with a study of historical buildings (Parthenon, Colesseum, Notre Dame), relevant architectural movement/styles and how these buildings related to and functioned in their current society. (I do an extension activity on the Sydney Opera House).  There is also a little bit of Howard Arkley thrown in there for good measure.

BUT THEN we look at modern/contemporary design - Daniel Libeskind! Frank Llyod Wright! Frank Gehry! Integrated green spaces! Vertical gardens!

And the students make tiny model houses/buildings - some highly detailed and carefully constructed, others roughly put together out of rubbish and found objects.  The entire year groups work will be placed together in an installation on the school oval.

We also introduce them to the idea of post modern art through the practice of artists who incorporated buildings/houses/built environments in their work.

The three following artists and particular works are who we are going to focus on:

1. Rachel Whiteread,  

"House"(1993) and "Place (Village)" (2006-8)

"House"

"Place (Village)"

2. Song Dong,  

"Eating the City" (2006) (various locations)

 

3. Hema Upadhyay "Where the bees suck, there suck I" (2009)

And I also just found this article, about artist Sergio Cezar's installation work based on Brazillian favelas: 

Another kind of model village…

 

Fantasy Photo Shoots / The surreal

I'm exploring the concept of dream/constructed identities with year 11 in photography through a body of work they create on the topic "When I grow up".

A few photographers/artists we have looked at include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura and Orlan in terms of concept, but visually/stylistically I want to show them these....

1. The Storybook Fantasies of Dara Scully  (also here)

2. The Surreal Photography of Oleg Oprisco (and here)

Examples of slow (long exposure) and fast shutter speed

Here are a few photographs/ photographers who create unique images through the manipulation of shutter speed. (These are good examples for the Year 9 Photo Challenge)

Long exposures/ slow shutter speed

1. Lincoln Harrison

Star trail long exposures in Australia desert.

2. Joel James Devlin

Capturing the effects of moving light through long exposure photographs.

(Super) fast shutter speed

 1. Alberto Seveso

Underwater ink photographs caught on high speed camera.

 

2. Mark Mawson

Again, capturing ink mixing with water on high speed.

3. Jonathan Robert Willis and Tadao Cern

 Wind (JRW) /  gale force winds (TD) blown directly to the face and frozen with fast shutter speed.

JRW

JRW

TD