Presentation: 2 Areas of Photography

SHALLOW & LARGE DEPTHS OF FIELD

Shallow Depth of Field:


Large Depth of Field:

Shallow Depth of Field

To create a 'Shallow Depth of Field', the Aperture must be set to a low 'F' number so that the Aperture becomes large referring to the size of the hole in the lens otherwise known as the 'Iris'. The effect will be that you will be able to focus close to the camera and the background will be blurred or vice-versa.

Large Depth of Field
To create a 'Large Depth of Field', the Aperture must be set to a high 'F' number so that the Aperture becomes small referring to the size of the hole in the lens otherwise known as the 'Iris'. The effect will be that you will be able to focus on everything in the shot as well as being able to capture landscape photos.

Video Installation (3 Artists)

Video Installation

 

Video Installation is the experimentation of video as a medium through a creative outlet. It's a non-mainstream form of video production thats mainly used in galleries and exhibition spaces to create an creative and artistic atmosphere.

Tony Oursler

 

Tony Oursler is a native New Yorker, born in 1957. He received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA, in 1979. His art covers a wide range of media, including video, sculpture, installation, performance and painting. He created some controversy mainly through his installations, e.g. at Documenta IX in Kassel (1992). He also made a name for himself by producing a large number of music videos.

Tony Oursler's artistic creations consist of his work involving rather strange and unorthodox faces and figures which are vastly seen as controversial in the art/creative media industry because of the disfigurement and constructive demolition of the human face. His work portrays . Examples of his work include using projectors onto various objects to form artistic creations which branch away from the usual.

 

Samantha Taylor-Wood

Samantha Taylor-Wood is an 47 year-old artist who is renowned as a English Filmmaker, Photographer and Visual Artist. Her work in the Film industry involves directing a feature film which debuted in 2009 named 'Nowhere Boy', a film revolving on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon. The vast majority of her work is broadly admired and appreciated amongst people in the art/film industry given the level of creativity and individuality which is distinguishable from other artists/filmmakers.

One of Taylor-Wood's previous  projects includes a video installation which is considered slightly controversial given the grotesque nature of it's content. 'Still Life' conveys the concept of how death/time coincide with a heir being decomposed and disfigured  by maggots. The film represents the life-cycle and acceptance of mortality although not being universally appealing because of it's sensitive, grotesque nature. It also emphasises the process of self-disappearing life with the heir being eaten by maggots although upon closer inspection, I had noticed the plastic ballpoint pen, a cheap contemporary object. One that doesn’t seem to decay and doesn’t seem to be a part of the universal process of self-disappearing life.