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final piece edited

after looking at my final piece i felt that i could still improve them greatly. I decided to stick with the idea of having feet from different aged people i have also decided to improve all 3 of my photos. my first one of the young feet i decided to change the background from leaves to grass to show just like the grass this person is young and full of life and has his whole life ahead of him i also edited his toes to have leaves in them this is to represent the fact like the leaves he is starting to age and he cant stop this.

This is a picture of a teenagers feet i decided to keep the leaves as the background as it helps show that this person is old just like the leaves i decided to edit grass into this persons toe nails as it shows that although he is older and has matured there is still a little kid inside of him.

This is a photo of a feet as an adult the leaves in the background are there to represent the age of the person and as you can see there are no leaves in this persons photo at all this is to represent that now they are an adult that the child inside of them is gone.

Feet Final Piece

this is a picture of my final piece in its photo frame. the background for all 3 of the photos are the same although they have been edited differently for each of the photographs. The top photo is a picture of a child feet and the picture of the leaves in the background are saturated. the middle photo is the picture of the teenagers feet the background that photo

Feet Experimentation pin hole camera

one of my main types of experimentation i did for my exam was a pin hole camera but unfortunately when i developed the photos from this camera they had all been exposed to light so they were unusable so i plan to keep using my digital camera for my final piece rather that using an analog one. The image to the left shows me building my pin hole camera.

Contact sheet

these are all the photos that i have currently taken for my feet final idea these are mostly full of photos of my 2 main ideas "aging of feet" and "shoe identity" and not all of these photos will be used i am planning to use only 3 for my final piece

Feet Final Idea Photos

This is a photo of a young childs feet this photo is in the normal setting the reason i have this photo is because of my "aging of feet" idea this will be my child's feet photo i am still planning to get a teenagers and feet and an adults either a old persons or a babies feet. i am currently undecided on whether to have this photo in full colour, black and white or in sepia if i do decide to change the way the image is displayed i will have to keep that as a common theme through out my photos.

This is the first picture for my "shoe identity" idea in this photo there are 3 shoes and they are : a formal shoe, a sandal and a trainer. these 3 shoes all give off different messages for example the formal shoe gives of a very formal feel as well as a feeling of order while the sandal gives of a more relaxed feeling while the trainer gives of a more energetic feel and a feeling of freedom. these shoes all juxtapose each other as they are all contrasting opposites of each other. I have also taken another photo with the exact same shoes in the same position the only thing that is different is the lighting.

This is the second photo of my "shoe identity" idea as you can see it is essentially the same as the other photo the only difference is that in this photo I have introduced more artificial light. I did this because i felt that the previous photo didn't have enough light in and i can now see that thanks to extra light introduces the colours seem more crisp and vibrant. I prefer this photo to the other one.

Final piece ideas

i have recently had some ideas about what my final piece could possibly be about the first idea i have had is to take 4 different photos of feet the first is of would be a young child feet then a teenagers feet then an adults and finally a old persons feet this is to show how the human body, specifically the feet, age with time in future blog refrences i will call this my "aging of feet" idea.

Another idea i have had is to instead of taking photos of actual feet that i could take photos of foot prints for example i could take a photo of a trail of footprints made in the ground i was thinking with this i could use soil this is because i was originally going to use sand as that is the typical ground used in these types of photos but as i  have no sand at hand i feel that soil can also do the job to the same effect.

Another idea i have recently had was that i could take a picture of a group of shoes with each meaning a different thing for example i could have a child's trainer that would symbolize youth and freedom when a middle aged posh shoe would symbolize order and peace when a soldiers boot would symbolize war and death in future i will reefer this on my blog as my "shoe identity" idea this is because in my opinion you can tell what type of person someone is by the type of shoes they were.

Sayings about feet

Getting cold feet:
This is the most well used saying about feet it means that you are worried about a change and that you back out it is usually used in when describing a man running away from there wedding. I don't really think there is a way that i can fit this saying into my final piece.

Standing on you own two feet:
This saying simply means that you are independent and don't rely on anyone else there are many ways which i can adopt this for m final piece for example i could have a successful business man walking down a street and have everything apart from him in black and white to show that he is one of a kind and independent.

Dancing with 2 left feet:
This is simply a saying that means that someone cant dance i can use this in many ways such as a photo of a man or a woman dancing badly of even a picture of 2 left shoes.

Off to the right foot:
This saying just simply means that what ever you are doing is the first step to achieving your goal i can only think of is by having a picture of someone's foot with there left foot ahead of there right

Carbon Footprint:
this is a phrase that means what we are leaving behind in the environment i plan to further this phrase into my final piece 

Examples Of Feet In Culture

While studying feet in both fine art and photography i have noticed that feet also play an important role in most cultures.

This is a picture of a foot binding shoe. Foot binding is a technique used in china it commonly involves women wearing these shoes this stops there feet from growing any further but it can also cause there feet to be disfigured. this method started in china in the late 19th century and soon became a mark of beauty and even became and important right of passage in finding a husband. But in 1874 women started to protest and ended the practice due to the large amount of women unable to walk due to there feet disfigurement.

This is a diagram that demonstrates the theory that your feet can tell where you originate from there is some scientific evidence to back up this idea and i think that if this is true then it is a nice reassuring thing to know where your family background originated from. 

Feet Mind Map

Examples of feet used is photography

This is a picture of a foot decorated i got this picture from http://www.yusrablog.com/mehndi/eid-mehndi-designs-for-foot-trendy-selection-2010/attachment/foot-mehndi-art-collection/ 

Examples of feet used in art

This is a video i have found about an artist who uses feet to paint

http://www.famousfeetpaintings.co.uk/

this is a link to a site of an artist called Jen Rowlands who primarily paints shoes and other feet related art work.

This is a picture i have found of a homeless mans feet it was hand drawn and i got this picture from http://fineartamerica.com/

This is a picture of feet, it was drawn by Thomas H. Maguire it is unclear f these feet are based on an actual person or if he is jut drawing a generic foot from memory.

  

Preparation for Mock coursework

The theme that i have chosen to do for my mock course work is feet so i will now be exploring the different uses of feet not only in photography but in art as well.

Changing colour

This is a picture of the image before editing i decided to choose this photo as it looks very attractive so therefore i felt that i should try to make this photo more attractive and eye catching if possible.

This is the image after all editing has been finished. To edit this photo i increased the colour balance so everything seemed more red i then returned the path back to its original colour i did this as red made all of my image seem very attractive and eye catching but i felt that the path looked better how it was originally so i decided to return it back to its original colour. Overall my goal in this was to try and make the image more attractive and in my own opinion i think the image is more attractive and defiantly eye catching this is because in my picture not only does it show nature but as i increased the red colour balance it makes the images seem more warmer. 

texture and space photography

In this photo it shows examples of both texture and space i took this photo in my local town. It help shows texture as you can see the detail in the road so therefore you can see the texture of the floor. This photo also shows space this is because the cars in the photo look further away that they actually are so it gives the photo the illusion that there is plenty of space when there is actually less

In this photo the main thing that is very clear is the texture of the shapes on the tile. This is due to the crispness of the photo so therefore you can see the different textures in the patterns also if you look closely you can also see the texture in the bricks surrounding the tile.

This is a Photo i took myself it was taken in my local town this picture helps demonstrate space this is because in this picture the road is completely empty so this makes it look like there is plenty of space when in actual fact there isn't really that vast amount of space. I think people will find this picture appealing as it is a very simple picture that shows the stereotypical street in the UK. 

Selective Editing Photography

 

This is a picture of a flower i have selectively edited i decided to make the entire picture in black and white and to return the flower head back to its original colour. This is because i feel it makes the photo more attractive to the eye also it will intrigue the audience into wondering how it was created.

Shutter Speed Photography

This is a picture i took of shutter speed it was taken at night on a bridge above moving traffic. In the image you can see that there was currently only moving traffic on the right hand side. Using shutter speed on an image like this with moving cars in it removes the cars from the image and instead you just see a trail of white lights created by the front lights of the cars. I have another photo of traffic on the other side of the road i plan to use photoshop to combine these pictures.

This is a picture i took of shutter speed it was taken at night on a bridge above moving traffic. In the image you can see that there was currently only moving traffic on the left hand side. Using shutter speed on an image like this with moving cars in it removes the cars from the image and instead you just see there trail of red lights created by the cars rear lights.  I have another photo of traffic on the other side of the road i plan to use photoshop to combine these pictures.

This is a shutter speed photograph that i took myself. This photo is actually 2  photos that i edited together. I felt the 2 picture would be more appealing together rather than separate this is because the 2 pictures had one lane of traffic but on opposite sides of the road so i though i should take the opportunity and edit them together 

Colour Photography

This is the picture before i decreased the saturation it is a picture of a flower that i took at shrewsbury flower show. I decided to choose this picture because it is a colourful picture this is helpful because it helps when you are comparing the difference between the picture with colour and the picture without colour.

This is the image after i have saturated the colour out of it i think it makes the image look more appealing this is because it brings out the small features of the flower such as the hair on the flower also the colour differentiation is clear on the black and white picture but you cant see the colour.  

Still Life Photography

This is an example of still Life photography i took this image myself The purpose of having a Still Life photography is that you cant really tell if the image is a photograph or a painting most people including me find this type of photography very appealing. This is mainly due to the fact that most people are interested 

Aperture Professional Photograph

This is a picture of a lady bug on a twig it was taken by a professional photographer called Russ Burden. The center piece of this picture is the ladybird. The background of the photograph makes the photo seem more natural this is because it is a leaf so it makes the ladybird seem like it is in its natural setting. In this image you can see how the ladybird looks completely different in light than it does in dark you can see this because of the shadow of the man that is taking the photo covers the ladybird slightly.

This is a picture of a bird flying it was taken by a professional photographer called Another Eve. The background of the picture changes the entire picture as it is green we can presume it is a wild bird rather than a tame one that makes the photograph even more special as it tells us that this photographer managed to capture a bird i mid flight which even for a professional is hard to do.