UNUSUAL FAMILY PICTURES

 

 

 

I have been looking in books and on line and found some unusual family pictures taken by professional photographers and amatures...Some of them are comical but show their families how they see them.  While I have been taking pictures of my kids suing the same techniques just capturing them the thing that they normally do at home these pictures below show that your family pictures don't have to be staged but can be caught in the moment or showing that persons true self :0

 

 

Photographer unknown - Date unknown

 

This image shows children sleeping on the floor all trying to keep warm..I like this picture and it doesn't make me feel sad for them because they are all together with arms over each other extra. 

 

 

 

This picture below by Van Es taken of a solider re united with his family after Vietnam - very moving family picture

 

 

 

I love this below kids in a bath outside - Photographer Unknown although this image is more than likely over 50 years old its probably been copied many time using the same idea with kids sitting metal baths & plant pots etc..

 

 

 



Family pictures at home

This weekend I have been taking pictures of my family around the house.... My family consists of me and my two lovely children James age 11 & Robyn age 10.... The rest of my family don't live in Liverpool and I don't see them very often... I will be getting more pictures later today with my children and their dad and grandparents after school.... This should be fun as all the boys in the family hate having their pictures taken and more to the point my Ex (Kids Dad) doesn't like me even without a camera in my hands ha....  I class our dog Charlie as part of the family and I will be taking some pictures of her with James & Robyn. :0 xx

These are images taken at home of my children just doing what they normally do.... Eat,sleep and play on the laptops or watch films.....

We was waiting for a bus here and as usual they where playing about at the bus stop so I took the camera out and just snapped them while they was playing about drawing pictures on the glass .

This is one of my son telling me to do one! He doesn't like me taking pictures of him and wanted the camera out of his way as you can see on his hand gesture here above!

Typical Robyn my little girl she is always messing about and playing the show off....

These are not of my son but show his personality - he's taken these himself of the game he's always on as he said to me these are me mum this is what I like...

Pictures I have taken while they are upstairs blanking me while im shouting them for their dinner! I went to and took pictures to show how they are in their own little world and happy.

Again James way of telling me to leave him alone!

My little girl came into my room after steeling bubbles from her brothers bath... This is usual that she would wined him up and she came in my room to show off by blowing bubbles..

This is my son leaving for school in morning & then as usual looking behind him as he has forgotten something!

Waiting to bake cakes..... : )

Portraits and use of light in our task.

Last week we got the chance to take pictures of other students and experiment with light and different places to take interesting images of each other. Some of these images below are of fellow students and pictures of students taking pictures...

This was a fun task and we also used the light reflector to adjust the light levels and then had the chance to take our own portrait pictures in the studio. To be fair I had such a laugh and it was good practice.... I really didn’t know how much of a poser Fanni was until we got started as you can see from these images she was loving it and made the task fun and an enjoyable practice around people who you feel comfortable working with as this may not always be the case.

 All the pictures below have been taken by Julie Morrison on the 13th November 2012 - Un-Edited.

 

Shapes & Mass

Shapes can symbolise signs, language, meaning. You can find shape everywhere we look some man made and some organic. Shapes in everyday life that we see can be 2D or flat, signs can give warnings, meaning, religion.

 

Shapes can be changed from volume to Mass creating a positive shape, there can be powerful shapes like a Crucifix or the swastika sign.

 

Mass - By Julie Morrison Date Oct 2012

 

This is my picture taken by St Helens Town Hall showing a 2D image of a Crucifix above the memorial stand. This is a strong sign and is world known as the religious sign for Christianity.

 

There are also more relaxed shapes that would create a more relaxed image. Jackson Pollock uses lines in his artwork to create abstract art work by using lines and shapes in his paintings. In this picture by Jackson he's using lines to draw the eye around his image by using Curvilinear lines bending around the picture and cross hatching to make arrears of the picture stand out more by making them darker.

There are arrears of light and dark adding tine and depth to the image. The line is broken in arrears and not always a continuation.

 

Jackson Pollock - Date Unknown

 

Value

We can add value to an image by shading it in, by creating a shadow, turning something on a different angle. By doing this we can get the image to appear 3D more value, shape & tone. This is a sample of shades of colour to show you the value of the lighter shade to the darker shade of Yellow. From the top of the scale going down the yellow gets brighter & more saturated at the bottom. You can add value to a picture by using a more saturate colour than a less saturated colour or by adding dots or cross hatching & shading.

This Ink Picture by Yousuf Karsh shows value whereby the darker tones in the picture take form of Einstein's Face coming out of the picture and you don't need to see his whole head just his face. The lips and the eyebrows are a darker shade by adding tone the picture has more value.
By adding Value images appear more real with shadow's and reflecting light on them to create a Shadow you can make an object or a shape have more value & volume.

 

 

Dan Gheno Artist & Teacher 2006

The use of mass in this picture makes it look 3d and human with the shading & the cross hatching. The bone structure is so strong on the face and the shape and tone give it volume.

This is a picture I have copied from Man Rays book of images at home by sketching it from upside down. I was having a go at this with my children at home I must admit they were much better than me!

Man Ray - Top Image

Julie Morrison Bottom sketch 08/11/2012

 

I have crosshatched on some arrears of the picture to create volume and tone. I should have shaded in lighter arrears to shape the face more and get more light so that you could see the structure of the face more and the cheek bones and under the eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Self Portraits 

A portrait can be a photograph or a painting of yourself or indeed someone else. To capture a portrait of yourself in a moment in time. That day, what you were wearing, how you hair was that day capturing you or your subject in that moment.

These are some of the pictures we have been taking today in and around the college with natural light and using the studio.


Date 12th November 2012 Taken By Fanni 

 

Date 12th November 2012 taken by Julie Morrison

Date 12th November 2012 Taken by Julie Morrison

By Julie Morrison - 14th November 2012

Edited in Photoshop using the history tool and then sharpening my eyes and hair.

I have edited some of the images in photoshop and then printed one of. These are my screen shoots to show what I had done to change the image slightly. 

When taking this picture I set my camera up on the tripod and adjusted the settings to Auto Focus, ISO 400 aperture F.8 & the shutter speed was at 125th of a second. I set the camera on timer for 30 seconds so that I could get in position and take the picture myself. If I'm taking pictures of myself I would try to make them look happy or funny. This shows my personality more and reflects on the person that I am or the person friends & family know me as.

 

While we was in the studio yesterday we got to have a go at Light trails t do this we had to set the camera settings to. ISO 100, Aperture F.11 with a 30 second exposure time. We turned all the lights of so and I used a small light from the end of a lighter for the light trail. I had a great time doing this and had the opportunity to try lots of different ideas as we was working in pairs or groups and bounced ideas of each other. 

 

Getting there haha!

Yaaaaaaaaaaa!

Not all of the images came out strong enough or they where too light as shown above. The help one took about ten goes Ste had to keep trying to get the letters smaller to get it in the frame. 

This one below is one I took of myself in the studio and I have then sharpened it and put some inspirational words next to it. 

The spooky picture was done using the light trails and the I have edited it later in photoshop. I don't like this picture of myself at all!  I have used the red and the black from the light to make a boarder around the picture and put some words underneath.