Straight Images - 4th Plinth Object

Contact Sheet - 4th Plinth Object

Work Diary - Forth Plinth Object

In preparation for our 4th Plinth project, this week we were tasked with the object we would be placing on the 4th Plinth. Once they were photographed we were tasked with creating image using the images that we had taken. I really enjoyed this task because I like working on photoshop and enjoy learning new techniques and trying to create the perfect image. 

Below is an image that I really like

I like this image because it looks realistic while still having a sense of humour about it. I like this image because it took me a while to get right and to make the puddle look realistic. However I really like this image because once I had got the look right it looked very real and as though the bird had always been there. It took me a while to get the reflection in the puddle right but once I did I was happy that I had worked at it and made it look good. 

Below is an image that I don't like 

Don't like the image because I feel that it is unclear what the animal on the post is. I thought the animal would well due to the fact that it is a similar colour to the sign in the photograph. I think that the image would work better if the animal was bigger and therefore you could actually see what the animal was. I also think the image would work better if I had used the colour version of the image as the image is my own and I could have used the colour version of it. 

Progression 

The next step is to take photographs of the plinth and other places around London in order to create more images like these. I will also look more at the objects that I have photographs in order to make a clear plan of what I shall photograph during our trip to London.

Cedric Delsaux - Artist Research

Born in 1974

Created a series of images called Dark Lens. Dark Lens photographs introduced characters from George Lucas' Star wars into real life in the suburb of Lille Dubai in Paris. It is said to show how the perception of the city goes through the filter of fiction. 

First know for his advertising but is now widely know for his personal long-term series. 

I like this photo because the character in the scene fits really will and doesn't look out of place. The compostion of the photograph has been well planned out and I like that the character isn't in the centre of the picture so that it doesn't take over the whole photograph and the background can be appreciated along with the Star Wars character. The picture also works well because the colour of the ruins and the character are very similar and therefore they work really well together as it looks as if the character is part of the ruins.

I like this photograph because it looks like a beautiful landscape however there is something else going on in the distance. I like this because the object is barely visible and the viewer can only just about make out that the object is there. The composition of this shot has been well planned out and the position of the object in the photograph as well. The use of the leading line of the road draws the viewers attention to the object at the back of the picture. I like that the picture looks very basic and ordinary however there is something deeper going on in the background. 

Jeff Koons - Artist Research

Jeff Koons 

Born - January 21st 1955 

Known for - reproductions of banal objects 

Educated - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. 

Has had solo exhibitions since 1980

His most famous statue was shown at the Rockefella Centre and is now permanently in the Guggenheim Bilbao. 

I like this photograph as I think that the manipulation of the ballon dog works well and even though it does fit in with the location it still works well. I like that the manipulation looks realistic and therefore the photograph works really well. The use of the metallic effect on the ballon dog works well because if it was see through it wouldn't work as well as this does. I really like the look of the photograph and think that it works well because it looks like it belongs in the location that it is in. 

I like this image because the composition of the image as one of the animals is looking towards that camera and the other one isn't. I like the connotations that go along with the picture, suggesting that the these animals are trapped in cages and so therefore and being held captive. I like the background of the image has been left plain to really highlight the connotations of the piece. I also think that the fact that the only bright colours in the photograph are the animals because it makes them stand out and therefore draws the viewers attention to them right away. 

I like this image because it shows high levels of contrast because the main subject of the photograph is the hulk and then there are multiple blown up animals on it. The contrast is that the animals on the hulk are happy whereas the hulk looks angry. Again the composition of the photograph is well done and the hulk is in the centre of the photograph even though the piece is at an angle. I like that the photos composition has well planned out and pre-visuialistaion has been used in order to really show off the whole of the statue. 

Ideas for the 4th Plinth