Research Techniques

Researching the following Techniques


Scanograms

''Scanograms'', also known as 'scannography' too, this is referred to scanner in Photography. Scanograms is processing the captured. Digitalised images of objects for the purpose of creating printable art using a 'flatbed' photo with a CCD (charge-coupled device) array capturing device. 

Scanography Artist - Elena Kropaneva

''Elena Kropaneva'' was the first russian scannographer.
She studies for Masters at Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts in Russia, Ekaterinburg. She creates scannographies, with dreamy, soft and feeling-full elements.
Her scenografs are not just do with flowers, papers and other everyday-life things, but also portraits (mostly they are self-portraits) but sometimes she'll get her friends also to "pose" for her. She'd also use minimum of Photoshop, only for either cropping, brightness/contrast and saturation. 

When she is scanning, she tries to understand and imagine how things, emotion and feelings would look if to observe them by different ''eyes'' and different ''time''. 

Some examples of Kropaneva's work below and my opinion on the following pictures

Kropaneva's scanography work is more feminine, effortlessly and each different picture makes you feel different kind of emotions as they make you think deeply because the pictures come across unexplainable but yet also tells a story. 

Emulsion Transfers - 

''Polaroid Transfer'' is a photographic image-transfer process or you either could just use it as a print making technique, which uses ''Polaroid film''. By doing it this way, your image can be used on basically any surface you want it to transfer on. 

Emulsion Transfer Artist - Guy Archard

''Guy Archard'' studied Photography at London College of Communication and graduated in 2007. Since then, he has been producing works that deal with the tension between 'beauty and material decay', exploring the transformation of surfaces during the photographic process. He sometimes often produces unique one-off pieces, with notions of loss and the effects of time at the core of his practice.
In January 2013, his first book ''almost'' was published by 'Bemo Jake Books'.

Some examples of Archard's work below and my opinion on the following pictures 

Most of Archard's work is his personal creation, but his story is open.
Archard seems to apply various modes of reproduction in his work, projecting his own manipulation on physical objects. The images combine with each other as if Archard is 'drifting between reality and unconsciousness'.

Projection Photography -

''Projection Photography'' is something which you'll be needing use of equipment. For example, a projector and any kind of pattern to be printed. This will then cause an image to be reflected on either a person or an object. 

Projection Photography Artist - Sixto-Juan Zavala

''Sixto-Juan Zavala''  is a graphic designer, illustrator, and video jockey. He has a B.F.A. in Communication Design from Texas State University. He limits himself in identity work, poster design, illustration, and their application in social media. He worked at BradfordLawton, LLC, a San Antonio based graphic design firm from 2010–2013. 
Zavala also works as art director and VJ for Essentials, a multimedia applied arts collective. 

Some examples of Zavala's work below and my opinion on the following pictures

Zavala’s work seems to reflects his interest in fashion, art, and music. For example, fashion is used within Zavala's Projection in Photography. This suggest that Zavala has a more creative side to his work then just using random images to project that don't have no explanations to why they like or have a great amount of interest on a certain something. 

Double Exposures

''Double Exposure'' is where photographic technique that combines two different images into a single image. This technique is more common and really easily to accomplish as you can edit both of the single photos in Photoshop by emerging the images together. With doing this kind of technique, you can all sorts of different, unique effects to change to your photo. For example, like an ghost image effect. 

Double Exposures Artist - Andre De Freitas

''Andre De Freitas'' is a photographer and illustrator. He studied in Full Sail University and got a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Animation. The concept of stillness captured his imagination, and he focused more on illustration. Instead of just drawing, Freita's tried to imagine himself taking photos of his subjects. That way, the illusion of stillness be a little more believable, almost like a photograph. After that, his insertion into the world of photography was almost based on instinct.

Some examples of Freita's work and my opinion on the following pictures

Majority of Freita's double exposed work mostly are in a black and white effect. This suggest to me that most of his pictures have a certain meaning. 
The images below come across to me as there is a 'better life' some elsewhere else for them and where they are now, is not the place for them. 
The images that I chosen below seem to have the city emerged into another more simple image. For example, a girl stood glazing out of a window. This double exposure seems to give that image that greater effect as it seems like it's showing you the positive side towards life but also the negative. 

Joiners 

''Joiners'' in Photography, usually involves the use of two or more separately taken images of a single scene to create a larger one by overlapping them or either by digitally merging them together.  

Joiners Artist - David Hockney

''David Hockney'' is known especially for his photo collages and paintings of Los Angeles swimming pool. Hockney was born in Bradford, England, in 1937. He attended art school in London before moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s. 
There, he painted his famous swimming pool painting and in the 1937, Hockney began working in Photography where he was creating photo collages. He called this ''joiners''. He still continues to create and exhibit art. In 2011, Hockney was voted the most ''influential British Artist of the 20th century''.

Some of Hockney's work and my opinion on the following pictures

The pictures of Hockney's work below are not the same, boring kind of photos you might normally see as they all have different 'perspectives' and was took at slightly different times. Hockney, explored and researched on what he was aiming for on his collages. Some of his collages show how the human vision works as that was one of his 'major' 'aims' to discuss. 

Abstract Images

''Abstract'' images comes from a more creative side of Photography. Abstract can lead to all sorts of different images. For example, this can lead to the  shape, form, colour, pattern and texture. The viewer is often unable to see the whole object as abstract can also lead to 'zoom burst'. The subject of the photo is often only a small part of the idea of the image.

Abstract Artist - Daniel Sroka

Photography and computers was a massive part of Sroka's life since he was young. He grew up with cameras around the house with remembering his childhood desk that his father made. Sroka's talent with art and computers helped his way through college, and lead him to his first careers as a graphic designer. He started out at a 'mom-and-pop print shop' and work his way from job to job. By making his way through jobs, he became the original director for 'Yahoo!', this is where he helped transform them into a globally-recognised brand. After he grew tired of helping others achieve their dreams and not his, he quit and turned back to his passion - Photography. He has now spent a decade carefully working on his 'unique' style of nature art.  By all this, he as been able to use his years of experience in design and marketing to go ahead with his art career, as well as run a internet business with his art. 

Some examples of Sroka's work and my opinion on the following pictures 

Sroka's work comes across as 'dreamy images' and this is out of simple basics of nature. For example, leaves, shells, flowers, and seeds. Sroka seems to have a lot of knowledge about nature so instead of just getting an abstract photo of something and leaving it as that, it comes across as he needs to experience every element of the photo to give it that special 'dream a like' image. 

Light Painting

''Light painting'' is photographic technique. In which, this includes moving a hand-held light source. For light painting, you'll be needing a dark room and a camera so you'll be able to change your shutter speed. 

Light Painting Artist - Aurora Crowley

''Aurora Crowley''  is a light painting photographer. He has beeen capturing light for more than 14 years. Before all this, he was originally doing hair, makeup, and styling on a photo shoot in 1996 when his 'good friend', and fellow artist, 'Patrick Rochon' introduced him to light painting photography. Crowley was immediately inspired by light painting, as soon as he got home that night, he began to create his imagery. Crowley focuses his photography work on he world of 'high fashion'. He shoots exquisite light paintings of some of the world's most beautiful people.  

Some examples of Crowley's work and my opinion on the following pictures 

Crowley's work comes across more of a ongoing theme than just one specific person. Majority of his shoots are of Women. Crowley has seem to shot a bunch of men for his work but when shooting women, it comes across like a completely different story as it has more elements to do it. For example, the wardrobe choice.