Photography Exam
2015
Question Preparation
The following slides are for the
exam questions recommended by
Mr Inglis/Mrs Archer for the exam
Make Sure You
- have a title slide
- type in the question
- research named photographers but
should add your own – at least 4 in total
1. Food
• Nickolas Muray pioneered the advertising of food
products using colour photography. Clare Barboza and
David Loftus both specialise in photographing food.
They creatively explore the visual qualities of food
using selective focus by controlling depth of field and
camera position. They carefully choose viewpoint,
lighting and setting to display the prepared dishes and
ingredients.
• Research appropriate sources and produce your own
images that explore the visual qualities of Food.
Nickolas Muray
Close up
Intense contrast of colour
Use layer settings and alter
the opacity.
Human interaction with food
Symmetry
‘Vintage’ look
Consider the background
the photographs retain a vibrancy close to the way they appeared some
seventy-five years ago, thanks to built-up layers of pigments and the lack of
any tarnishing silver halides.
Clare Barboza
Close up
Intense contrast of colour
Think about the ‘stage set’
Focal point
Reflections
Shallow depth of field
Repetition
Camera position
Cropped Images
High contrast but natural
Think of the skills learnt from your CLOSE UP
project & the Chocolate photo shoot
David Loftus
Close up
Intense contrast of colour
Focal point
Shallow depth of field
Camera position - Tripod
David has done a lot of Jamie
Oliver’s cook book photos
Enhancing the colours
How do the surroundings
affect the style of imagery?
2. Fantastic and strange
• Many photographers and filmmakers create fantastic and
strange images. Mari Mahr and Jerry Uelsmann made
surreal images using double exposure and overprinting.
More recently, Igor Morski used digital technology to
produce surreal images for his graphic products, and Penny
Jensz uses mixed media with photographs to create
fantastic and strange portraits. In ‘A Game with Stones” by
Jan Svanmajer and ‘Canon’ by Norman Mclaren, stop-frame
animation is combined with film to produce fantastic and
strange sequences.
• Investigate relevant sources and create your own response
to Fantastic and strange.
Mari Mahr
Could you print
out images to
create a fantastic
effect?
Think about the use of layers
in Photoshop to create the
‘weird’ look
Do they have to
be B&W or can
you keep the
same contrast in
colour?
Jerry Uelsmann
Combination of
close up &
distance shots
Think about the
set up of the
photoshoot to
create the final
layered effect
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Photoshop Layers
Clipping paths
High contrast (B&W or colour?)
Depth of Field
Igor Morski
Combination of
make up &
Photoshop work
– how could you
do it?
How could
you combine
images and
create the
‘painting’
look?
Could artwork
be used? Ie.
Painting, hand
sketches? Then
scanned in
Penny Jensz
Mixed media –
photographs,
prints, layers,
pen & ink
Could artwork be
used? Ie. Painting,
hand sketches? Then
scanned in
Background kept
simple, focus on the
portrait.
Portrait starts
‘normal’ before
being edited.
4. The human condition
• Many photographers, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sandra Eleta,
Dorothea Lange and Peter Turnley, capture a moment in time that
expresses emotion or records an event that is part of the rich
variety of our human experience. Sometimes, they explore how we
relate to others and moments that are important to us.
• Investigate relevant sources and produce your own work in
response to one of the following:
• companionship
• achievement
• relaxation
Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Notice how Cartier-Bressons photos capture a
moment in time, events, how people relate to
each other.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Notice how Cartier-Bressons photos capture a
moment in time, events, how people relate to
each other.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Notice how CartierBressons photos
capture a moment in
time, events, how
people relate to each
other.
Notice how Eletas photos story captured in a
moment in time, events, how people relate to
each other.
Sandra Eleta,
Notice how Langes
photos capture a
moment in time, events,
how people relate to
each other.
Dorothea Lange
Peter Turnley,
Notice how Turnleys photos capture
a moment in time, events, how
people relate to each other.
Now decide on one of these categories
and do a spider diagram to plan out
the project – some thoughts in italics
• companionship – think of different generations,
genres, relationships with pets?
• achievement – celebrations? birthdays,
sport/music/dance awards, certificates etc
• relaxation – leisure activities outside e.g. walking,
climbing, any sport, inside shopping at
Meadowhall? parties? family occasions
6. Spirals
Photographers are often inspired by the qualities and
characteristics of spiral forms. Andy Goldsworthy has
created spirals in the natural environment and
photographed the results. Yuval Cadmon has
photographed spiral forms by recording the movement of
light. Many photographers produced images of spiral
forms found in architecture.
Research appropriate sources and produce your own
work inspired by Spirals.
Would be a good idea to do both of the following….
Andy Goldsworthy has created spirals in
the natural environment and
photographed the results.
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy has created spirals in the
natural environment and photographed the
results.
Collected some natural materials together then..
…look to make your own then photograph them
by
a. practising indoors, in the garden,
b. outdoors maybe in a variety of locations
Yuval Cadmon
Yuval Cadmon has photographed spiral forms by
recording the movement of light
Yuval Cadmon has photographed spiral forms by recording the movement of light.
Experiment with a range of light sources that can re-create the spiral shapes that
Cadmon takes photos of.
Think of;
the size of the light source,
e.g. torch – some have variable beams, lamp, led lights
multiple uses of the same light sources,
e.g. led lights can be used collectively like xmas lights
blackout where appropriate,
using models to help create.
experiment with different exposure times to get different effects.