Glass Research

Vladimir Milivojevich is a photographer who shoots almost exclusively in black and white film and does in unusual places and dangerous areas in New York and his home town in Serbia. He photographs gang life, skinheads and protests. His nickname is Boogie and he has been featured in many popular magazines. His photos are powerful and real. They make you think about the world we live in.








Amanda Friedman is a well known film photographer who specializes in celebrity portraits and landscapes. She usually shoots with medium and large format and she doesn't use any digital manipulation or effects. She says she loves using film for low light long exposures as she can't get the same kind of quality and exposure latitudes with digital.







Simon Brutnell is a freelance photographer who specialises in glass art.





Christophe Gilbert a self-described detail-maniac freak, he truly believes that small details can make a huge difference. He is a belgian photographer and one of the most quoted in the advertising world. He uses many softwares, mainly PhotoShop to produce the final images. He makes all of it look effortless and real. I picked the photos that caught my attention, I really like how smooth the liquid looks. 

Final Evaluation

For this project I had to prepare album covers for thee different decades, 60s, 70s and 80s.
I didn't enjoy this project as much as the previous ones, mainly because I didn't learn anything new and I didn't have a chance to explore anything exciting or useful.

I was trying to do the best I could to make the final photos look good and neat even though I didn't have a chance to take many photos because I had problems with my camera. If I had an opportunity to do this project again and if nothing was standing in the way of me completing it, I would.
We didn't have that much time to finish this project so in the end , I didn't produce exactly what I wanted.

I enjoyed making album covers, adding fonts and editing my final images. I think it was quite interesting.

Final album covers

This is one of my final album covers. I decided to use this photo because I like the contrast in it. I like the blue sky at the bottom and the way it makes its way to the inside of the building. I used a yellow filter to make the photo look a little bit older.

This is another one of my covers. I used a photo of an old wall because the name of the album contains a word 'destruction'. Because I used a normal, typical font I decided to use a 3D effect so the writing doesn't look boring.

For the last one of my covers I decided to experiment a bit, using different filters and effects. I made it look more interesting by adding a purple filter and different font. I decided to use a Starbucks cup with cream in it in the first place because the name of the album is 'fresh cream'.

Typography

1960s
was one of the most popular fonts used in 1960s. It looks quite interesting and feminine but it's not delicate or subtle.












1970s


 was a popular font used in the 70s. It reminds us of old, ancient fonts and it looks quite mysterious.








1980s



was a popular font used in 1980s. It looks a little bit messy and a little bit like handwriting.

Appetite for Destruction

Appetite for destruction

Guns N' Roses

Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. I think this album has the best heavy metal sound of any album before and since its release.
For a while, "Appetite for Destruction" was also the biggest selling debut record in history. I am not sure if it still is, but it was at one point. In terms of sheer attitude and intensity, I don't think anything else in rock and roll can really match it's excessive vibe.

1	Welcome To The Jungle
2	It's So Easy
3	Nightrain
4	Out Ta Get Me
5	Mr. Brownstone
6	Paradise City
7	My Michelle
8	Think About You
9	Sweet Child O' Mine
10	You're Crazy
11	Anything Goes
12	Rocket Queen

Made in Heaven

QUEEN

Made In Heaven

Made in Heaven is the fifteenth and final studio album by British rock band Queen. Until the release of Queen Forever in 2014, it was the final album containing original material featuring the band's original line up. 























"It's a Beautiful Day"  
2. "Made in Heaven"  
3. "Let Me Live"  
4. "Mother Love"  
5. "My Life Has Been Saved"  

6. "I Was Born to Love You"  
7. "Heaven for Everyone" (Single Version)
8. "Too Much Love Will Kill You"  
9. "You Don't Fool Me"  
10. "A Winter's Tale"   Queen (Mercury)
11. "It's a Beautiful Day (Reprise)"  

12. "Yeah" (unlisted)

Fresh Cream

CREAM

Fresh Cream

Fresh Cream represents so many different firsts, it's difficult to keep count. Cream, of course, was the first supergroup, but their first album not only gave birth to the power trio, it also was instrumental in the birth of heavy metal and the birth of jam rock. That's a lot of weight for one record and, like a lot of pioneering records, Fresh Cream doesn't seem quite as mighty as what would come later.. In retrospect, the moments on the LP that are a bit unformed -- in particular, the halting waltz of "Dreaming" never achieves the sweet ethereal atmosphere it aspires to -- stand out more than the innovations, which have been so thoroughly assimilated into the vocabulary of rock & roll, but Fresh Cream was a remarkable shift forward in rock upon its 1966 release and it remains quite potent. Certainly at this early stage the trio was still grounded heavily in blues,

1.	"N.S.U."
2.	"Sleepy Time Time"
3.	"Dreaming"
4.	"Sweet Wine"
5.	"Spoonful" 1. "Cat's Squirrel" 2. "Four Until Late" (Lead vocals: Eric Clapton) 3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'"   4. "I'm so glad"   5. "Toad" (Instrumental)

Research

Shirley Baker
was a British photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester. She worked as a freelance writer and photographer on various magazines, books and newspapers, and as a lecturer on photography.


















Chris Killip
is a Manx photographer who has worked at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts since 1991, where he is a professor of visual and environmental studies. Killip is well known for his gritty black and white images of people and places.





Peter Kaye
A photographer from Liverpool who undertook hundreds of sessions during which he documented and created images of the most popular bands.

Mood boards

LP Record Covers

1960s

Elvis Presley

Movies and soundtracks ruined Elvis' musical career for the large part of the 60s, but after his 68 Comeback Special, Presley got serious and he made a ton of great music to close out the decade. 

Best songs: In the Ghetto; Little Less Conversation; Suspicious Minds
The Rolling Stones

I like the Stones a lot. They didn't get caught up in hippie crap. They were just pure rock n' roll, they stayed true to the music. 

Best songs: Paint It Black; Satisfaction; You Can't Always Get What You Want
Cream

I think Cream was Eric Clapton's best band. And his guitar playing automatically puts this band on the map. 

Best songs: Crossroads; I Feel Free; Sunshine of Your Love
1970s
ABBA
ABBA is without a doubt the best music group ever, with a sound that is completely unique. I have not yet come across a song by them that is not in its own way enjoyable. 
Queen
 As a band, their voices blended with such ease and perfection that you can't help but be mesmerized. Easily the greatest band ever, not just of the 70's.
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd put out their best work during the 1970s. it has the strongest, most down to earth, brilliant and honest lyrics I have ever heard.
1980s
Guns N' Roses
an American hard rock band from Los Angeles formed in 1985. The classic lineup consisted of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Steven Adler.
U2
Some albums that are produced, you like one song here and there. U2 reminds me of Journey. Every song on the album is great... So there is no skipping, you just let it play on through from start to finish..

Poster

Final Evaluation

I really enjoyed this task and all the aspects of it. For the first time I had an opportunity to do a lot of extra work and it was a very good experience.
All the images I've put on my blog and selected as my final prints are my favourites. I've taken a lot of photos but decided to only pick the best ones and share them with everyone else.
My project was aimed at capturing the still life and the beauty of food and all the things around it like people preparing food and enjoying it.
The compositional aspects of my images throughout the project were based on my preferences and mixing still life and movement together to get the best results and make my photos look interesting.
I've edited some of my photos in Photoshop because I wanted to make them a little bit brighter and eye catching. I still find it quite hard to use Photoshop correctly so sometimes I use a different software.
Throughout the project I was trying to experiment with the depth of field as much as I could. I wanted to make my images look more appealing and I wanted all of them to look a bit different.
Sometimes it was hard for me to find and use good lighting as I've taken most of the photos inside.
I was trying to use the rule of thirds because I wanted my photos to look good when I print them out.
Next time I will try to use more angles and different lighting and I will also try to take more photos outside.
Overall I enjoyed this project and I hope it's going to be useful for me in the future.

Photo shoot plan

I decided to take photos in a pub. I will have an opportunity to photograph different types of food before someone eats them. I think it's a really good idea and it's different to everything I've done before. I will do it upstairs, in a separate area which will be quiet and comfortable. I will bring all the important equipment with me so I will be able to create good lighting and photos are going to look more professional.
All the images will be taken during the day so I will be able to use some of the natural lighting and all the shadows are going to look better.
I will be putting all the food on a white table cloth and white plates but I won't include any cutlery in the photos.
The equipment I will need includes my camera, flash, different lenses, tripod and lights.
I won't have to spend any money because someone is going to take me there and pick me up and I don't have to pay for to food I will be photographing.
I am going to take photos on Thursday because that's the only day when I have a chance to do it.

Risk assessment

Posters Research

        

I decided to do a research on food posters for bars and restaurants to have an idea on what I have to include in my poster. I really like an idea of a plain, easy to read poster like the first one I picked. Also I think it's good when the poster includes some appetizing, good looking food because that's the main thing that draws peoples attention to it.

Food posters should be colourful and eye catching not dull and boring.

Task 1 - Research

Historical photographers

George Lance


1834

• a painter who specialized in panting still life (fruit and flowers). 
• I like this painting although I think it's a little bit bland and would look better if it was more colourful.
• the painting shows that the room was not light enough because you can see the shadows on the left side.

Frans Snyders

1650

• a painter of animals, hunting scenes, market scenes and still life.
• I like this painting more than the first one because it's bright and catches the eye straight away.
• the painting shows motionless food as well as people and animals.

Contemporary photographers 

Andrew Scrivani

• a photographer and food stylist from New York.
• I like this photo because you can see the egg coming down the side of the sandwich which looks pretty good and not boring.
• it's not that colourful but the lighting was good.

Benoit Levac

• a food photographer who likes working with artificial light.
• I find this photo interesting because there's so much to look at, you have to try to focus on one thing at a time.
• it's a very messy photo but I like it.

Fish Market

I had a chance to photograph a fish market. It was very busy so I managed to capture only a few of items available there. I think photos came out quite good because they are eye catching and interesting to look at. I enjoyed doing it as it was something different than what I usually photograph.

Fruit & Veg

I've taken a few photos at Leeds market and thought they looked quite interesting. I was trying to capture still life as well as people and movement. I really liked all the colours and contrasts. I really enjoyed doing it because I love photographing colourful objects and making the most of it.