Project Proposal

My idea for this assignment is to take images of a factory that my dad works in. Nestlé.

 At the moment my ideas has not really changed.
I am going to go to the street that he works on and take images of the street to start and then hope to get inside.
 If I cant get in there is also construction work going on outside of the factory because they are making the street wider so that the delivery lorries can pass through.

My target audience would be probably be to a magazine or Gallery,
I am going to document this project and show the different aspects of working there.

I am influenced by Thomas Struth, I really take to his images because of the way that they look, they look old and the colours of the images looks slightly green which give a sense of age and a great amount of composition in them.

The equipment i will require is a Canon 1100D.
I will photograph this landscape wise and portrait wise. When I take images of the street it shall be portrait wise because it instantly makes the street look longer which gives great depth.

When i get to the sight, there might not be enough room to take photos of the area.
If i stand away away then i could get the image but then theres the main road so there would always be cars passing by.
   I think to overcome this would be that i should take the images when the train barrier is down because on that road is a level crossing.
To get the images I would like I should wait until the barrier is down to gain full advantage of an empty road.

There will be many health and safety restrictions when I go to the shoot,  the road that I will be crossing to get to the road where the factory is will have a main busy road on it, there is also current construction work going on during the day there so I may be asked to stand far away whilst they work.

Through the factory I may be asked to wear overalls as there may be contaminent materials they use in the air like dust, I may be required to wear goggles.

If my plan backfires then I shall hopefully just take the images of the people constructing the street. if not I shall take pictures of the factory as close as I can.

Week by Week Plan

Week 1-
             Write out and compose a Brainstorm which allows me to make and create ideas on what I want to be photographing.

Week 2- Ring nestle to confirm if I can visit the factory.
                            Continue researching artists and write up about those artists.  

Week 3-
Visit the factory and take pictures.
                Take images of people on the street and the road on which it lays on.


Week 4- Edit the images and refer to artist research.


Week 5- Start to work on Criteria UNIT 31.
Start making posts and start writing and creating each P1 M1 D1 for each post.


Week 6+ Continue working on UNIT 31 and 4.
 - Also start uploading images of factory work and include them in your criteria work.
(Overtime halfterm week) - Complete Units 31 and UNIT 4 for Marking.
Complete Evaluation.

Mini Task 3 Work Objects.

Work Objects Task.


My task for today was to go outside and take images of 3 objects what would strongly represent the world of work.
These are the images I took:

I have chosen £notes and coins because it represents what a job is about. It is about earning your wage. And earning money. I placed this on a plain background as I felt that if i had placed it on a textured or patterned background then it would be too much going on and the audience would not be looking at the appropriate picture.

 

When i took this image first it wasn't a bad image. When I started to edit it I didn't think it would quite end up like this. I am pleasantly surprised by the effect and what it has came out like.
 I changed the image to monocrome and slightly turned up the contrast levels.
I think is a good final image because it looks like an image you would get off the internet.
So a pleasant surprise.

 

 I was walking past a shop when i noticed this sign to the side of the shop. I saw the assistant cleaning the shop and thought well Health And Safety is all about work and one of the most important aspects of any job type you are given. I decided to edit this picture because trying to use the spot healing brush just was not enough. 

I used the effect of getting rid of colour for the whole image and then placing the yellow back onto the board which makes it stand out of the image much more.

UNIT 4.

I have stumbled across one artist who really inspires me for Unit 4 in this assignment.
His name is Eric Drooker.

During this assignment I have been looking at the grading criteria and have came across how I can illustrate my ideas into my work to project a stronger theme and sense of knowledge about what I am doing.

Eric Drooker began to sell illustrations to more mainstream publications, and became more widely known as a cartoonist when his short story "L" appeared in Heavy Metal. "L", along with two other stories, his first made up graphic novel, ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures'' a wordless, dream-like narrative of powerless citizens' struggling with authority in a rapidly deteriorating New York City—which won an American Book Award.

In 2006, the Library of Congress wanted the original art for ''Flood! A Novel in Pictures,'' including preliminary drawings, sketches and cover paintings. ''The complete Flood'' Archive is housed in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, which is open to the public.  

              
P1: 
In his work, Eric creates his images using various materials, this can include, paints, pencils, liners etc. This connects to various Medias and to the specific media what he works for and also what his work is mainly about.
For example he works for a magazine and draws about people working in city life. he mentions how he was born in Manhattan and how he draws this idea of the area being so full of buildings. a world of economics.
This relates to media because the media and press mainly talk and broadcast the downfalls the economy has which is city life and pollution etc, his images of people working in a city life or wandering in one is always depressing (hence his weather images and drawings) he gives a sense of meaning that the city life is like a concrete jungle of greyness because of the going ons in it. 

M1:

D1:

P2:

I have been on a website named Pikmonkey and uploaded the entrance to the road where the factory is. I have chosen this image to show how i have used different medias to create my own visual language.

I have edited this image on a setting called Draw. I first started to colour the sky a much darker grey than it was because of the inspiration i took for Drooker. Some of his images are quite deep and meaningful and not always positive and as working in a factory isnt the happiewst of placest as well as the road on which it lies on i thought i would turn it grey to give it more of a downwards feel.

I then clicked on the types of efffect i could give it and wanted to give it more of a depressed look. I found an edit named Nosferatu Dawn which i covered over and really gave it a little bit of paleness to the photo which makes the whole location look quite grim as well and it pushing the contrasts of the black and white up allot. I have turned the black up so it defines the lines of the buildings on either side more. 

M2:

These images are also edited to give a clear meaning to the audience of how I have used the language of art and design,

 have came up with ideas of how i can relate my editing to the artist inspiration of Eric Drooker.

In his images he portrays children playing on a street which is quite a relaxed feel about it and in the background looms this big economic world with factories and pollution behind.

I have chosen this street as the direction going into the factory gets smaller and smaller so its like you are being drawn into some sort of warp,

The image has many types of languages of art and design in it for example the compositions throughout it as the main one are direction and another is lines.

The way it leads you into the factory, it makes you want to go down to that street to see whats at the bottom. with this I have edited it so it looks like quite a gloomy place, though factorys arent exactly the happiest place to work so the ironic ness of this image shows well to the viewer why I have tried to adress this.

P3:

    Similar to P1, Eric Drooker always publishes his work with several visual languages  
going on at a time, for most of his images what show immensly high sky scrapers in the background and like the other image with all of the books; he uses lines with his pencil or crayon what he uses in them.
Another image of where he shows this is where the man is looking up and it really gives you a great sense of how these city buildings and lifestyle can dawn on you. With this included it shows how tall they really are.

Another visual language I would like to point out what Eric uses is the sense of Motion. throught out all of his drawing images, there is always something in the picture what is moving, he can really perfect this by varying it, such as the man on the construction sight, it might not be his faviurite job what is coming over to the viewer and seems theres no life or enjoyment working in the city but with the image of the butterfly which also brings colour into it refreshes the viewer and give sus hope that there is something full of life out there,

Another picture shows this well how it shows people walking to their jobs, people walking from their jobs leaving, the mood is low the weather he has brought into the image represents that the city life isnt what people sometime think it is, (a happy bright up staged area) this can show its the oppositewhere its raining, people have hung backs to show their mood isnt great and the form of colour shows the with the dark blues, but gives us an insight that not all is lost in this area where you can see the mans heart, how ever big it is.

P4:
This image below is one of the favourite images I have from Eric Drooker. This image is intended on viewer to know what it is, and what it is about. The way he portrays it is amazing, there are several aspects of visual language included in this image and also parts of Design language.

For the Visual language and also the Design Language there is colour, because everybody knows that the rainforest and jungles are bound with colour everywhere you go, the leaves are full of life which the city would be, this image can portray night time as well with the dark colours being used mainly so the lampposts are on and glowing.
 I think this drawing can be took from the song Empire State Of Mind. In this song it describes New York to be a 'Concrete Jungle' and this shows in this image just that.

The man who walks up the tube station into this city Jungle life, which shows motion such as the man, the insects buzzing around, like cars or children or adults would be on a typical morning, the trees represents lampposts or buldings, which are everywhere on each corner near and far. The aspect of design language is used here from the colour schemes which I have mentioned before, how it is dark so he has used the vaiation of blue colours, on the trees which give a great dark shadowy effect also.

 The design prospect of the things in order of the image, the business man at the front with a forward tree then more trees what fade into the background.
Another Design layout would be the forreground and background similar to what i jave just mentioned, how at the foreground you have these massive large wild shrubs with then a main palm tree located in the middle of the image and then in the background you would find more trees going off into the distance.  

www.MOCP.org - Research.

I have been searching on the websites for various artists what can inspire me to go out and take images.

 

Nov 14th- Jan 31st:

 

 This image is by Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, this image tells me that there is a sense of freedom in this workplace, the positioning of thw subjects is well used and how every individual workman is in a different position or pulling a different pose.
This gives an insight of what perhaps men are hoping to do when working in a office job, everything is restricted to do the same thing everyday but inside sometimes they want to break lose for a few moments and this could be a rare sight although it is set up.

 Lars Tubnjork  portrays what he sees as the melancholy and absurdity of modern-day office life and the struggle of the individual against corporate homogeneity. He observes individuals tailoring their environments to their needs—a shoeless man stretching his legs under his desk, another man talking on the telephone tucked under his desk.
Lars Tunbjörk also uses body language and formal constructions to capture the hierarchal levels of office life.
A woman crouches under a desk organizing papers while her boss stands above by the window, for example. In many of his pictures there is a sense that something is festering under the surface or behind closed doors.

 

 Looking at this image, seeing that it is someones office or cubical with snapshots of loved ones and pets is another way workers venture to fight the uniformity and impersonality of the workplace, often revealing more of their personal lives than intended.
Karen Yama's photographs of such different arrangements are odd still lifes that expose our desire to modify our work spaces to feel more like home.

 

 

 Thomas Demand re-creates media-based photographs by painstakingly making and photographing full-scale, three-dimensional models of his subjects.
Although Demand’s subject may seem boring and commonplace, his work often carries cultural or political relevance and offers a smart critique of mass media. In much of his work the relevance of the paper itself is the subject of the picture.This office copy machine is also laden with cultural myths concerning fraud and breaks in confidentiality.

 

Edwards Burtynsky

 

 

 

 

The massive scale of the transformation that has taken place in China is visualized in Edward Burtynsky's photographs of enormous manufacturing plants employing thousands of workers.
Edward used a large-format camera and filling the frame with rows and rows of production lines, the factories and the workers become almost infinite. In some of his images, such as Manufacturing, Youngor Textiles, Nigbo, Zhejiang Province, one person visibly stands out alone.

This image, along with certain others in the series, disclose the presence of a personal story behind each of the millions of factory workers and provide a reminder that individuals are implicated in these seemingly autonomous processes.

Specialist Location UNIT 31

UNIT 31

P1:

When you do certain location photography, depending on what you are doing for example the different types of photography they require different things.

If you are going on a fashion shoot outside in a specialist location you would probably take a Camera which is a medium format digital DSLR camera and perhaps some lighting depending on where you are going.

If you are going to picture still life shots outside with a background behind it to set the scene you would probably not need any specific lighting as if it is daytime you can change the cameras settings lighting and white balance to day time so you would not need additional lighting.

Sometimes when you go to a location photo shoot it can be similar to still life as you wouldn't need additional lighting but if its a dark sky or grey then you need an extra boot sometimes you can add box lighting to a situation, this can really highlight what you want to stand out. Annie Leibovitz specialises in uses lighting photography for location shoots.

In the factory work I could have used a macro lens which is specialist as well because I was taking close up shots, through out the photoshoot at the factory I could have used a tripod which was really needed when I wanted to watch a fast moving conveyor belt.
This would have been easier because the I wouldn't have camera shake even though I did lean on the side lightly.  I did rely on and use the given lighting of the factory which was very good.

Specialised Location Images: 

There are a few selected images which show why sometimes I needed accessories than what I originally had..

 

For example for the first image there was hard to picture and I used the flash on my camera to brighten the image up.. I think it if it was lower down I could have used a tri-pod against it and additional flip gun lighting would have helped massively.

This second image could have been much better of what I wanted it to look like because it was moving so fast and I didn't have a try pod it was harder to get the result I wanted.
 

  When I spoke to my tutor about this image he noticed that I could have had extra light on the sides of the men but it wouldn't have exposed the men. 

 

M1:

When you go to specialist locations depending on where you are going different types of photography expects different things from you. when you go to a fashion photoshoot on location it would probably look like this which is one from Annie Leibovitz;  this as you can see would be quite a dull day as it is grey so she would need additional lighting.






Comparing this to a different type of specialist location would be different because even though the weather at the time would be completely different you would need higher knowledge of what camera settings you need so when you take the photo even if you haven't got the additional lighting it would still be down to the photographer to come up with the goods.

 

D1:

 There are several types of specialist locations. These vary from outside lighting locations to also indoor lighting locations. from reading an artists work named Chris Wray, he uses location photography to sell commercial products: http://www.chris-wray.com/commercial_photography/root/blog/ this is his blog work and describes to us how yoiu need location photography all year round. He talks about how the product he sells can contrast with the walls behind and most of it is using natural light. In one image the guy is lying on the grass like its a hot summers days with his phone in a T-shirt with the brand of earphone next to him, even though the reader does not know that the image was took in october so had to use as much light as they could before the sun set. This typical location was shot in a park.

Looking for asrtists who specilise in working in location photography I have came across Locations Photography LTD. This is a man who works for  acompany who takes images of commercial products but in location areas. his website mentions how he has to take out specilist equipment to different places and has to travel there etc. http://www.locationsphotography.co.uk/index.html   his work ranges from takign images of things on fire promoting the fire services to vans for the Royal Mail which all have to use different lighting techniques.
 

 Another Specialist Location photographer I have found is named Chris Taylor, he takes different and several types of photography images which include, Landscapes to Lifestyle, Portraits to Public Events. When he arrives at the location he holds a service so he can take his mobile studio (including light backdrops) Sometimes the difficulty with artists are that when you are at a location depending on what youre doing specificically its not easy to use lighting well. http://www.takenbychris.co.uk/portfolio/locations




P2:

As I have not been able to take any specialist lighting with me to the location I know what I should taken which was a tripod, outside lighting and a flashgun.  

M2:

As I havnt taken any specific lighting to the photoshoot I will write about what I would use if I did take it and where I would use it in what places and positions. The places I would be using are the flash gun would be used if I was photographing certain close up objects,  The main lighting would be used outside for the street lights or signs and construction men.

D2:

The flashgun gun ideas would be used as a close up as it is a direct flash to the object. If I used the flashgun specifically on the outside street lighting on signs it would make it excessively bright.
If iI was to photograph the construction men with the flashgun because it was during broadday light it would not have a massive effect. Although using the extra daylight and the outside location lighting can block out many colours
this is for example a coffee capsule from the Dulcho as the object is small itself.

Using the outside location lighting would be a good idea for using it outside of the workplace as well as inside. This will be effective because  if there are dark spaces inside then the light will brighten the room and will level it. If it is used outside then it would light up the area more and really highlight wants needs to be looked at mainly.
There are artists what use this such as Annie Leibovitz. When she takes her location lightin out sometimes you cant tell that it is actually there but it lightens up the whole areas for the actors to look flawless everytime.
Annie also uses a blend of natural light in her images as well and indoor lights like she used in the photoshoot of Her majesty the Queen, she was stood by the window gazing out aswell as having indoor lighting.

My ideas are to take several images throughout nestlé in the different work room and parts of the factory. I will be expecting to capture images of the jars in which the coffee will be in for exmaple either the packing and filling room, or the Dolche Gusto part where they make miniature capsules, the people working and the workers shall be working whilst I take images of them; they will preferably be at a computer controlling the machines or they will be at a desk working or looking at the camera, i am thinking objects on conveyor belts, which i will be capturing at a certain speed so my shutter speed setting will be different, and workers holding things, for example, tools so it shows to the audience how you are supposed to check something or hold something.

P3 IMAGES:

        
 M3:

 

 

D3:

these images are the images I have specifically chosen for D3, I will explain why each is as impirtant as the other and how I have produced location shots showing fully my planned intentions.

  This photo was one of the images where I caught them in the act of working. I was hoping I would get one of these images without me asking it to be set up. (it was already on going) this image shows team work

This image I have chosen to be in my D3 selection. I have chosen this because even though this is a man at his office I think it is effective because you would think everything is machinery but it isnt, instead its a man at work.  

One of my ideas was to try and photograph something in the location area what looked abstract, something different to everyday factory life. As other people are taking images of machinery which includes myself I came across this which I love about how the colours are always opposite eachother.

This would be my idea of photographing something that was really important to the factory which was this special keypad and lock. On a hanging wall there was loads of keys to this one lock which always had to remained locked unless there was a certain reason for opening it but the man who toured me persisted that this was a most important part of the factory.

I have icluded this image in one of my final images of the assignment because I like how I have prposely kept the colour in this image. One of the good things about dolche gusto was that the capsules were different coloured which made it fresh and great to look at so I kept this idea for the editing of this image.

This image is the same for why i have chosen it, I wanted (like I mentioned before) how I wanted images of the workers actually working as well as not working. This was a good action shot of the man on the left moving the boxes into this big container and I like how there is slightly a little bit of symettry how they are both facing each other as well.

This is my second abstract image i have chosen to go into my D3 because I do need variation. I like this image because of the fact you can see through so many wholes when you have seen the most it feels like you want to find more so it makes you look at the photo more and be more engaged with the image.

I wanted to bring in an image with different dimensions to it so I took this from quite a high view looking down and I had to use the flash which was already used on my camera, I like the way it shimmers the colours as without this flash the wole container was black. I love how there is a sense of direction in this image waswell with these cylinders going down which reminds me of a sand-dune,

 I have chosen this image because i really think it represents the factory and what it stands for. its one of those typical image where some one has their hands with the product in. this image would be closest to a commerical image. 

 

 

This is one of the images where I wanted the contruction men in it. It was a shame because I could only take the images behind the fence and i personally wanted to get inside of the fence.

I really like what the men were doing that day because when they saw me they all looked or turned their heads and the guy put his thumbs up so it shows the humour of what construction life can be like.

This is one of the images of a worker at a computer that I took. I like this because half of the viewers eye are on the worker Ken, and the other half is on the other side or mainly at the computer desk. I like how this image is different because you can only see half of him.

For one of the criteria i had chosen then i wanted to take images of the packaging and how it comes out, this includes the vases what coffe goies into which I have already photograped and also the boxes the dolche gusto comes out into also. This image is of the boxes on a conveyor belt which moves them all to the machine what they piles the capsuels into them.

This is a shot of a conveyor belt which I explained in my plans. I wasnt sure what the belt would look like and I was imagining it to be wider but it was quite thin so was a challenge to say the least. this was one of my better shots as I take to take it quite still whilst it was moving quickly.

 

 

P4:

Throughout the assignment if I had to review my own work I think the images I have placed forward are quite successful images. Some ideas changed on what I wanted to do and I think there are quite a wide variety of types of images I am happy with what I have produced; these images have been shot from different parts of the factory and not all just in one place. For example the rooms might have all the same things in but I have photographed all separate rooms.

 

M4:

My ideas for this assignment started when I wanted to take images of construction men at the start of the street, I got inspiration from Eric drooker who draws and paints images of city life in Manhattan and wanted to create a new look for this assignment.
I justified this in the end by going round the factory which was pretty late planned after I had to wait for permission to enter the site.
Inside I managed to take some of my working practises by photographing the construction sites but not how I wanted or expected.
The images were quite successful.

Another idea was to take images of still life and vary these images with different types of photography. This includes still life, location photography, and portraits. These practises were fulfilled when I was able to take shots of capsules in the factory, workers in the factory, some working and some not, portraits of factory workers but people in offices as well the main people running the site.

Comparing my construction site work to Michael Molloys work who I have been inspired by the main thing what let me down was where I was standing about; because there was a fence in front of the workers and the area they were in was going into the ground and was so small, I was unable to get in front of the fence unlike the artist I had researched that was open planned and quite a big area so I was unable to take images similar to his.

D4:

My ideas for the factory assignment came to me when I was thinking of the basics. Everyone would go to a factory or a place where a friend or loved one worked and took photos of them. I thought that people would be photographing people and machines. Mainly machine) so I didn’t want to copy the rest so I had to think of an idea what would set mine afar from the rest.

When I first came up with Eric Drooker and saw his work I was really inspired by it and thought; yeah I think this can work as a pass. Coming up with some creative drawings I realised that this wasn’t going to get me where I wanted to go with this assignment so I went straight in by looking at artists what deal with work.

When I came to an artist named Gabriele Basilico I noticed all of his images are photographed on a film camera always shot in black and white.
Many of his work have got various compositions in the images which I love. I most wanted to take images that would look really effective in black and white so they could like similar or have the same feel to the images Gabriele has created.

Another artist I loved looking at their work was Thomas Struth, his outside location photography work is amazing, I love the way he always seems to give a direction to his images whatever he is photographing. His images look like they have a sense of oldness to them and portraying this into my images would be really effective I think.
I have done this by changing a few of what I think would look effective in black and white and placing them in the post Photo Experiments where I put them in black and white

When I evaluate my work I think that I could have took certain elements and equipment to the photo shoot to maximise my picture quality allot better. The camera I used was great but I think if I had some additional lighting to the area then I think the exposure of certain images would have looked much better.
I also hoped for more things to photograph outside of the factory because on my artists research many of their photos where about the streets of the work place and how everything moves around it, for example what goes into the place and what comes out. Obviously I was restricted to what I could photograph and some things had to be kept confidential so I had to use that knowledge to my potential and photograph things what would really make people second look at a factory photo shoot because I didn't want to take photos of just machinery work and normally that’s what people would associate to the working life of factory people.
This is why I have varied my images from the objects coming out and what goes in.