My Final Image

This is my final image, im really pleased with the overall look of my shot, it took a while to get it just right with the lighting and everything seens as i had not had a go at taking photographs at night before, but it was well worth it!

I decided that for my final image i would use a shot where you could still tell that it was a bell but half of it was smashed. I think this works well as people will still wonder what it is, but it wont be too hard for them to tell when they look at it for a few seconds.

Overall im happy with this image and may use it in my portfolio.

Some of my Images

Conclusion

After researching Picasso i decided to go with the idea of photographing at night, i bought my bell that i was going to smash from a charity shop and i was then ready to have some fun and smash away!! I went out after it has been dark for a few hours and i smashed the glass bit by bit and took photographs of this whilst i was doing it. I enjoyed doing this assignment and would like to try some more night photography in the future as it's very different to shooting in the day. I am very happy with the overall affect that i have created with my image by shooting it at night under a street lamp and using the Tungsten setting on my camera to get the lighting correct and so that it was not too dark.

I'm definately doing to try more night photography!!! I am very happy and would not do anything differently if i was to do this same assignment again.

My idea following my research of Picasso's work

After researching into Picasso i have decided that i am going to base my work around the key work "Broken". From seeing within Picasso's work that he used alot of shatterd fragments and shapes within his paintings i want to create something involving those things within my photograph.
Using the word "Broken" i have decided to focus on glass as my main object, as when broken i think glass would be a good choice for an interesting object with different shapes that will be made from the broken fragments of glass.

After going out today and looking in various charity shops i have found a piece of glasswear that is red and i thought this would add extra effect to the image rather than just plain glass. I am going to buy this glasswear from the charity shop and then smash it into fragments to get an interesting look. Earlier on in my blog i said that i wanted to try my hand at night photography as Picasso liked to work at night, so i have decided that i am going to place my shattered glass object under a street lamp at night and see what effect this gives to my image as i think it will make it more interesting that just being taken in the daytime.
The project is called "Signs of Life" and i think this will refer to signs of life in a way because you see smashed glass alot in communitys these days on the floor and around the streets so photographing it on its own and from a different perspective will show that there has been people there because of the smashed glass but there are no longer people there within my images.

My Conclusion on my reseach of Picasso

After researching Picasso's work i have really been influenced by his Cubism movement and the way they look at fragments and different perspectives of objects. He also look at there shape and the way objects look from different viewpoints. I am very keen to explore this within my photography. Although Picasso did paintings and i am going to be taking photographs he has still influenced the way in which i was to construct my images. After finding out that Picasso worked on his paintings during the night i am also interested in doing my shots at night and trying my hand at some night photography as i have never done this before i think it may be quiet a challenge for me and will help give me images more of a difinitive out of the ordinary look to them. although within some of his paintings you could tell what the objects were they were still very abstract and fragmental i would like to try and achieve this within the subject that i photograph.

Links to Cubism - Piet Mondrian

Some work that links with the Cubism movement is Piet Mondrian who linearized Cubism in 1912 with his painting of "The Apple Tree" this led to the first really none figure paintings which was known as pure abstract art from 1914 onwards.

Links to Cubism - Piet Mondrian's Apple Tree