002 - 3D tasks

 Having reflected on your research, writing about how it may have given you ideas and how it has enabled you to show knowledge of digital materials, techniques and processes in Fine art and so meet that aspect of the criteria early in the assignment, you now need to move on to producing examples of how Photography can be use in 3D applications to produce a Fine Art outcome. 

Chritianne Feser - 'Modelle' portraits

Andy Warhol - 'Brillo Boxes' 

In college you'll make your own versions of similar 3D work based on the above. For each approach write your work up and record it in the following manner... This work should result in a minimum of 4 pages in response to these activities. 

Remember - Plan - Do - Reflect

You will need to write a plan... (See notes from lessons).

• When you plan to shoot.
• You'll need to produce a floor plan diagram with details of camera position and your light source.
• Where you're shooting the pictures.
• What camera you'll be using.
• What media your using.
• What focal length you'll be using.
• Whether you'll experiment with different focal lengths or change lenses.
• What kind of lighting you'll be using - soft,harsh, diffuse, point etc.
• If your copying someone's lighting techniques say who's.
• Who your model will be.
• Whether you're using tripods, reflectors, or any other equipment.
• Who your assistant will be.
• Any H&S issues
• What your Intention is, what you're trying to achieve or learn. 
• What you're testing out.
• Transport details
• Details about emptying SD cards - charging batteries.
• Contingency (Back up) plan in the event of any changes - models/light/weather
• When you intent to have films processed by and the work in your design sheet.

Included in your plan you will need to include research images of the artist whose work you're being inspired by, you can cross reference the artist to your earlier research in terms of written content or simply identify the artist and the name of the body of work. 

Contact Sheet_______________________________________________________________

Shoot more images that you need. You'll have been instructed to bracket your shots and to experiment with your white balance, so you'll have a range of images to use in your work to annotate and analyse when you come to reflecting on what you've learned and how you've met the criteria so far...

With a good range of images, you'll be able to put together a good contact sheet or two that shows how you've explored shooting your 3D object in terms of composition, exposure and white balance. 

Example with plan, floor plan, artist ref and contact sheets.

2 page of images or more? 

We would recommend that you produce 2 pages that feature the images that you've shot of your 3D models, the pages would consist of the details seen above and the remainder would be made up of variations of the main images showing the difference achieved by bracketing, use of white balance and your compositions and angles. The majority of the time your images will also need to be edited in Photoshop to potentially brighten up the images and neutralise any colour casts caused by the light or incorrect use of white balance. 

Other things you can add are annotations and screen grabs of your Meta-Data showing how you've set up your camera and shot the images... Whist on a PC right click the image, click show more options then click properties and then click details.  You can then screen grab the details that are relevant and include this among your images.

Once that's all done leave enough room to write up the reflection. In the reflection explain or analyse (What if) what you've learned in terms of your use of digital materials, techniques and processes in conjunction with producing a 3D fine art product. One of the things you could discuss at this point is the production values (See notes from the lesson) . Also explain how the work meets the criteria at this stage.