Pop-Art Photography : March 2016

Monday 21 March 2016

Pop-Art Proposal

Proposal

This assignment has a theme of Pop-Art which is an image or a piece of artwork of an everyday object that is made to look colourful using bright and intense colours with clear lines and sharp paintwork. It is about capturing images or paining artwork which represents the media and culture of the modern day such as a cola bottle or Marilyn Monroe in the 1960's and Pop-art was first introduced in the 1950's but it became popular in the 1960's as it started in the UK but soon became a true art movement in New York City with different artists such as Andy Warhol and Jasper.

Our assignment is to create a Pop-Art image using any everyday objects we would like such as a can of soup, Cola bottle, etc. We are asked to bring in at least 5 objects which we would consider using to create our final pop-art image.

My 5 objects that I will bring for my next lesson to shoot will be 3 cans of drinks which will be Coke, Sprite, and Fanta in one shoot, second object will be sweets such as skittles, in a different shoot, Packets of Walkers crisps, an mp3 player, and a bottle of Frijj milkshake all objects in different shots. I decided to use these objects because all of them are colourful or have colourful packaging which will make my pop art image really bright as I can increase the contrast and decrease or increase the brightness.

When I finish doing my shoot, I will have to move on to Photoshop to create my Pop-Art image and the tools I will have to use to create this will be the pen tool which will be used to cut out my object to get rid of the background so I can add any background I want. If the background has no shadows or any other object behind it, I could use the Magic Wand tool which is used to also get rid of the background but only in a quicker way which only works if the background has one colour. I could use to Curves and Levels tool to make my image brighter or darker and change the contrast if I need to improve my image and add a bright colour for my background such as orange or green giving it a good Pop-art effect. After I do all this I will press Alt and hold on to the image of my object and then I will paste it on to the same page so I can have 6 of the same image on one page. Doing this will create the pop-art effect but just to make it better I will change the colour of each image making it look like a real pop-art image.

Here is how I will set up and here are the props I will use which are: Lights such as a red head, camera to shoot my images, tripod to support the camera, white sheet of paper for the background, and my object which will be used to edit on Adobe Photoshop CC.

Monday 14 March 2016

Test Shots

These are the 10 images I shot to create a Pop-Art poster from different objects which were cans of drinks, an mp3 player, headphones, skittles, and a Frijj milkshake. I chose to bring in these items because all of them have bright colours on them which stand out and will help me make my final Pop-Art poster better as the different colours will stand out.

The ISO on these images is 100 because I needed the images to be bright and exposed and as we were shooting inside the ISO was set low while it was on a tripod. The aperture was on f 8.0 so I can focus the camera on a specific object while the background is blurry which can help me edit my image better as it can be easier for me to crop the background while the object is in high quality and is in focus.

Some of these images will not be good enough for me to use, such as the image with the three cans of drinks on the second row is tilted, and the other image with the three cans at the bottom is too bright for me to use as I need images that are sharp and clear. Also the Frijj bottle will be hard to edit as there is a shadow in the background which I will have to cut out if I choose this image.

Although some of these images will not be used, some of them are really good such as the skittles packet and the mp3 player because they are bright coloured, without any blur, and they are sharp and clear which is good to use for a Pop-Art image.

While all of these are test shots, I will choose one or two of these images to edit and to create my final Pop-Art poster.

Monday 7 March 2016

Pop-Art Research

What is Pop-Art?

Pop-art was first introduced in the 1950's but it became popular in the 1960's as it started in the UK but soon became a true art movement in New York City with different artists such as Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Also pop-art was used to paint or take images of everyday objects and then making then very colourful using bright and intense colours so they would stand out. These objects include tomato soup, shoes, a toy duck, and drink bottles. Some objects were shot to advertise their brand as it brought everyone's attention from the genre they used which made them want to buy their product.

There were some famous pop art artists who brought this genre to life such as Keith Haring who is a New York artist and is famous for his cartoon like outlined pictures of people doing different things as his art was inspired by graffiti. Another famous pop art artist is David Hockney who is considered one of the most famous and important English artists of the 20th century as he played a major role in the development in pop art. The third famous pop art artist is named Jasper Johns who is famous for painting the American flag and paining the map of the United States as well as a paining with only numbers on them which was named "Numbers in colours"

The features of Pop Art artwork are having clear lines, sharp paintwork and clear presentation of symbols people, and objects found in popular culture. Pop Art artists were looking for inspiration from the world around them and making artwork from everyday objects around them and artwork about the media around them.

Pop-Art is capturing images or paining artwork which represents the media and culture of the modern day such as a cola bottle or Marilyn Monroe in the 1960's. Today pop up artists would create artwork which represents 2016 such as an X Box controller,

These are the props I will use when I shoot my objects

There are different kinds of images using the theme of pop art and here are 10 images which include it:

http://www.atissuejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/warhol-campbell-soup.jpg