Final Photographic Pieces for One Week Project

This is my original photograph for my Photography and Moving Image project which i took of the subway. It didnt turn out the way i wanted but i thought it was a perfect picture of my idea of Birmingham as i couldnt quite pin point what that was, so made it a bit of a mystery. 

With this i used the levels function to make the image darker, and give it more contrast.

I used the Hue feature with this image to give it more colour.

And with this i used the Saturation mode to take away the colour and make it look more like a memory.

Lecture 1

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Notions Of Originality
Originality is key part of an artists work as they grow and learn from the things around them. Most artists when creating a piece of art will research other artists who have done a similar thing, and use their work to inspire there own. Though doing this is helpful for coming up with ideas, it can lead to artist copying others work even if accidental. This is most common these days with artist such as Matteo Bertolio who did an image for an editorial piece which resembles Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe piece. Being completely original is hard to do as you have to get your inspiration from somewhere and creating your own art requires experimentation and imagination to create something which is special and unique.
Being original can make an artist and can break and artist as they have to create something influential and contemporary when they first show us their art because if the art isn’t original ten it will be cased off and forgotten about.

Reconceptualised Ideas And Concepts In Contemporary Culture
This is a good concept to talk about as i really like all the new ads and campaigns which use older artwork from history and famous artists who have used these concepts in their work. These are mostly from fashion shoots and from commercial campaigns. This can also relate to Notions Of Originality as artists use work by other artists, but these pieces are meant to be a copycat version but have a different turn on the image, to give it the uniqueness of the inspired artist. It is almost like they are using their artist inspired work from the sketchbook stage

lecture 2

Understanding and Knlowledge of "An Audience"
When it comes to understanding audiences, the artist has to know what and who they are looking at when designing or creating something, which may not interest certain types of ages or people. For example if an illustrator was designing for a car magazine they would have to look into who they are designing for which would most likely be guys aged 13-40, this would give them an insight into what this certain type of audience will want to see and what types of images they would and wouldn't enjoy and like the look of.
By knowing your audience as an artist, it can enhance the focus of the piece of art they are designing and increase the communication with this audience type, which will lead to the artist hitting the right spot when it comes to what that type of person would want, bringing them back and giving the artist more work and more coverage.
This would also increase the likeability of the artist and they could try focusing and getting to know other audiences to appeal to more types of people.

The Notion Of Inspiration
For an artist inspiration comes from the need to inquire and the want to learn more , this inspiration will lead them to creating better art and more art, as they will be able to look back at past work and research to find that something they need or have used before for future works. Also by experimenting the artist will go through ideas that may or may not work, which will eventually create a full proof idea to finalise. Being observant will increase the opportunity of coming across ideas which would not have arisen without going out and searching while recording your steps along the way both good and bad because all ideas even the least favourite can help. New artist will also learn new things and find out interesting facts about their subject which they didn’t already know, and add to their knowledge about their chosen field.