I chose the theme fragments because in a way I see the world in fragments with everything split up into pieces like memories which you can only remember part of and some people who don't show all their fragments of personality and keep things hidden, this is why I chose photography as a hobby in the first place since there is certain aspects of my personality that I can only show though pictures and very few people have seen this side to me since I am shy and very secretive, and I prefer to keep everything inside of my head. I've always liked splitting things up and put them back together in different ways that other people would not so I could stand out and everyone has different fragments of memory which they can remember and others that they do not and I think fragments in photography are like different parts of memories put together to make a single picture which can remind you of all the memories at once. I also picked it because I knew that it would give me a challenge and it was the one that would be hard to find and photograph anything for.
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Fragments during the day
Other attempts and ideas. these photos are the photos that was n able to make the cut or just simply had a mistake in. around 5 of the photos in here I was going to use but ended up taking a better photo instead so they were replaced.
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First experiment. for this experiment I took 3 photos in the morning and afternoon 3 photos at sunset and 3 photos at night and I will split them up in a rule of thirds grid and take one part of the grid of all of the photos and put them together in another grid to make a mixed and mashed photo. this is a idea that I've had for a while now and I wanted to try this idea out with very different backdrops at different times of day, morning and afternoon backdrops 3-4pm sunset backdrops 6-8pm nighttime, mars and moon backdrops 10pm to 0.00am.
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This is the end product of my project I am planing to do two other projects like this and also try to improve this picture but this is the sort of thing I wanted to get across from the pictures but in a better rule of thirds way but splitting the photos up on a grid then taking a piece of one photo ad putting it with the next until I get a improved version of this picture. this picture is one of my attempts at one of my final pieces and I wanted to show a single picture out of 9 others in a rule of thirds fashion and I wanted to show 3 different times of day in the way I did to fragment the photo in to simular but different pieces and make the viewer not sure what to look at and what everything is. all of the photos were taken on my street so the photos show fragments of my everyday life, the pictures above are the full photos that I took apart.
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Joe Wright
Joe Wright is a photographer who takes photos of fragments in autumn backdrops and posts them on his web page to show the world the fragments that we tend to miss in the places where we live and wants them to be noticed by everyone not just a few photographers and he mentions them being "all we need to see to understand the place we are within."
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This is my favourite photo that joe wright has taken this is because of the amount of colours in the leaves and how each leaf is a very different colour to the leaf next to it and for me this represents autumn due to the amount of colours there. You can look at his website by clicking here: http://www.joewrightphotography.com/fragments/
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Fragments during the day cont.
This is my final piece. I cropped the photos differently this time by using photoshop and measuring out the photos instead of hoping they where the size and I also changed where I cropped the photos with some looking completely different. the photos below are the process to this image though photoshop and what I did to to make sure they where the same size and in the same place.
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These are the steps towards my final piece and how I made it what it is through photoshop on the computer and how I took parts of the nine photos and put them together to form my final piece.
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With these fragmented pictures I always looked for broken objects or looked for places where a person or object would be near unrecognisable and look fragmented by a object in the way. most of the time I would kneel on the link and take photos thought the floor below me usually of people. But waiting for people to walk under the spot you standing over takes a lot of time but it pays off once you take a photo of someone you had been waiting for. three of the photos I made out of focus so the target would look like something out of a fragmented recording and the reason I took a photo of the word watching was to show where the target is on each picture and the string represents the object in the way.
David Niddrie
David Niddrie is a photographer who is from canada who takes photos of urban fragments as well as traveling the world to take photos of different urban scenes and street art than he is used to. He has finished numberous Collections,Projects,Fine Art and travel photos as well as a Archive and has traveled to countries such as Cuba, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile and South America. the photos to the right are photos of urban fragments taken by David Niddrie. You can look at his website by clicking here:
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This is my favourite urban fragment photo taken by David Niddrie because of the brilliant sunset backdrop with the towns shadow only just visible in the background with the cloud just above taking the same colour as the sunset. I also like how all of the buildings shadows fragment into each other creating a gloomy shadow at the bottom of the photo.
Fragments in everyday life
These are fragments I found on a day out, I found it intresting that everywhere you look is a intresting photo opertunity and sometimes in ways you don't expect and I did not releise how many fragments I would find from a single trip out, but it shows how often fragments apper in our everyday life.
These are fragments I found on a day out, I found it intresting that everywhere you look is a intresting photo opertunity and sometimes in ways you don't expect and I did not releise how many fragments I would find from a single trip out, but it shows how often fragments apper in our everyday life.
Lorenzo Vitturi
Certain aspects of Lorenzo's photography show us different styles of photography such as disguise but I also noticed that in all of the photos there are fragments hidden from view e.g the yellow pastels on the end two pictures, the rotten food in the middle picture, the blue confetti in the first picture and the bag on the mans head in the second picture (which does not look like a bag at all).
My mind map connecting Lorenzo Vitturi's work to my theme fragments.
while watching the film Lorenzo Vitturi on Dalston anatomy (Below) in class I noted down similarities from Lorenzo Vitturi's work to my work and my topic fragments, I found lots of similarities some mentioned above but they were more towards my work since I take photos of things I find interesting then tie a topic into the picture though a obscure object that you have to look for in the photo. |
These 3 maps show my classes route to the photographers gallery where we will see Lorenzo Vitturi's display. First we will walk from charern cross to the photographers gallery then from the photographer's gallery to the south bank and finally if we have time south bank to London bridge. While walking I will be looking for fragments, reflections and street photos all the way though the trip.
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Reflections in fragments
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I had a thought that gave me the idea to find reflective surfaces and take photos of different objects and targets though the reflection of the surface to distort the picture completely and see things for around the corner, behind me and even down the corridor some of the photos you have to look really carefully to see the object of interest and some look nothing like a reflection at all since they are so clear. I also took photos of shadows in some cases and the lights making a odd patten if you look carefully enough or a small reflection.
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Objects of interest
these objects are things I did not realise would have such a good reflection or even have one at all such as a wall, light and even a soap dispenser. |
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Textured metallic surfaces.
these are surfaces I found with a interesting pattern/texture that did not have a reflection or a really small reflection that is hardly noticeable. |
My better photos out of the lot
The photos on the right hand side are the photos I feel came out the best with some of them not even looking like reflections and some of them being "out of the box" because very few people would of thought about them. |
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Fragments in fiction
I took multiple photos of different types of fragments in films, games and graphic novels unfortunately when I was taking photos of my computer screen with my camera the image would usually come out blurred making it hard to tell what I'm taking the photo of and what the fragment is in the picture (it did not help that D'ni is very dark), the graphic novel I used is called Grandville and the game I used is called URU Live as well as other fragments I found around.
I took multiple photos of different types of fragments in films, games and graphic novels unfortunately when I was taking photos of my computer screen with my camera the image would usually come out blurred making it hard to tell what I'm taking the photo of and what the fragment is in the picture (it did not help that D'ni is very dark), the graphic novel I used is called Grandville and the game I used is called URU Live as well as other fragments I found around.
Darwin Bell
Darwin Bell has been doing photography on and off though out his life but has only taken it seriously over the past 8 years and he thinks it saved him from a mid life crisis due to it adverting his attention and due to facebook flicker E.T.C instant feedback has made him want to challenge himself and take better photographs. you can visit his website by clicking here: http://sfist.com/2014/03/13/check_out_darwin_bells_urban_fragme.php#photo-1
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This is my favourite urban fragment photo that Darwin Bell has taken.I like this just because of how simple it is because it's just a bit of graffiti by some doorbells but the fact that a few days after this photo was taken the graffiti was painted back over never to be seen again, and how most people would dismiss this as " just another bit of graffiti" shows how little you see unless you have a camera with you and it's the beauty of this that makes me love photography.
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Photography school trip (september 30th 2014)
Fragments of a day
For these 24 photos I stayed up for 24 hours and made sure I took a photo per hour of what I was watching, looking at or listening to at the time. I think this shows part of someones personality since everyone does different things in their everyday life and the photos that repeat if any show the people like the same sort of things.
This image here is all of the 24 hour photos overlapped on each other the only problem was the image got progressively darker with each overlap but you can still see one or two of the images if you look closely enough. The image below is the improved version of this image.
fragments of a day final piece
This is my final piece of the 24 hour images idea, I put the previous image into photoshop and brightened it up by changing the image brightness levels this allows people to see the images more clearly than the one above and allows you to see each photograph overlapped on top of each other, this was the end result I wanted from this project.
Evaluation
The Two final pieces I have completed I am very proud of how they turned out at the end of my two projects. The 24 hour piece which is just above this took patience and persistence to complete in the end and it is not quite how I imagined it but I am happy with the turn out and how all the pictures I have taken have come together to form one final picture to show for it. The other final piece (see fragments during a day) was my first idea on the topic of fragments it was to make a collage of pictures of three different times of day (day, sunset, night) using 9 pictures and take a part of each picture in a rule of thirds fashion as put all 9 parts together to form a final image this took patience and imagination to complete the task and take a different photo each time.