Federico Muelas was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1974 where he obtained his bachelors degree in fine arts in 1999. In 2002 he received his fine arts master degree in Computer Arts from the school of visual arts in New York, where he currently holds a position as a professor of physical computing and electronics in the Masters and Bachelor program. Since1997 his awarded work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Unites States, Scandinavia, Asia and South America, having being recently awarded a prestigious grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in Computer Arts and the Third Price at Life 7.0 International New Media Art competition. This is from one of his works "Field Of Waves" Elisabeth Charlotte "Pipilotti" Rist a swiss artist who works with video, film, and moving images which are often displayed as projections. From 2005 to 2009 she worked on her first feature film, Pepperminta. Later in life she studied video at the School of Design (Schule für Gestaltung) in Basel, Switzerland. In 1997, her work was first featured in the Venice Biennial, where she was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize. From 1988 to 1994, she was member of the music band Les Reines Prochaines. Her most famous works were Pepperminta, I'm Not The Girl Who Misses Much, Pickleporno, Ever is Over All. Image (Below) - Pepperminta
Sonia Falcone was born on March 27 1965 in Santa Cruz. Who is a Bolivian painter and artist, video art installation is a major piece of her work.
“Passions of the Soul” is one of her most recent piece's. it achieves a relationship between art and game, trying to reach the adult and the child within by creating metaphors that express a philosophy of life. So far Sonia has appeared in several collectives, mainly in Phoenix City Government Convention Center - Civic Plaza, invited by the National Hispanic Woman Corporation. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Phoenix, Calvin Charles Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Also “The Gallery” in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
For my photography project i decided to do Night time events, being in the festive period there was many events across London that would allow me to capture the scenery. I chose to do mine on winter wonderland as it is one of the most popular attractions in London at winter time, with thousands of people and a variety of things to do from rides to food stalls and amusements it was the place to be. I was able to capture some of the things that caught my eye and later slightly edit them to make the picture brighter and exciting. I would like these photographs to be used in London newspapers, magazines such at timeout and TNT also travel blogs. These will help highlight the events and show the audience what they could expect to see, by advertising them on not just articles but the internet it allows them to be recognised more quickly and on social sites to be shared around to world too. It gives an insight of London and gives the audience expectations by wanting to go for themselves to judge how good it is.
As i was able to take pictures of what interested me i had the opportunity to go out and find a place i thought appealed to me, which made me feel more comfortable and know what exactly i wanted to capture a moment off. The advantanges of this were i could look around and enjoy myself while still sticking to what i needed to do, im quite happy with the way some of these pictures have turnt out so am pleased with the outcome of this experience, I think they show a lot of detail and are clear to the audience what they would expect to see if they was to visit themselves. By using the effects it let me play around a bit with the keys to know what looks best and to make the picture more eye-catching.
The disadvantages of this photography was as this is an event that looks better in the night time the flash may not work as well or have a couple of difficulties to get the right light balance and as for the weather its quite cold. I think i could of improved by showing more shot angles such as close ups of food for example, this would of defined the detail and not just mid shots of the object i was trying to capture. It would of gave a wider range of pictures in which would of showed different sizes and perspectives to give the audience more of the feel of the texture and a feel of what it would be like.
The idea i have for my mood board is Night market, so as this is a very busy and festive period of the year many attractions and events will be on around London. One of the scenes i will be capturing is winter wonderland and the aspects of it such as food and attractions. The second place i will be visiting is West end/South bank as of the christmas lights and food markets, as well as the London eye and scenery of the river Thames/bridges. This feature can be used in timeout magazine, London newspapers, TNT.
I found this technique quite easy and unique as it showed what the main detail and the audience would be focusing on by taking a picture of the object surrounded by a frame such as the handle bars, window. As this has something to frame the main focus its more effective and by focusing the camera it can blur out the outside edges and gives a good effect. The 3 grid rule is a useful technique, this is that an image should be imagined as divided into nine parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines, and that important compositional elements should be placed along these lines or their intersections, this shows the importance of the object and not just taking a picture where it would be simple centering. Both techniques make the pictures a lot more interesting and real life.
For this task we done fast shutter, this was by capturing still images of a moment we might not recognise when we see it in real life and letting the images show more detail for example dripping water, this was an effective way of capturing something which will be seen more clearly and makes it interesting as it makes it look unique and points out something you wouldnt see so clearly in real life. The disadvantage of this was trying to get it in the right timing as the drops will move quickly it can take some time to get the perfect picture or the effect.
This was a fun task as not only could we play around with the lights and think of ideas to make different effects/images the outcome would be interesting to see. By using a piece of string and attaching a small torch at the end we had to position ourself and make a mark on the floor, using the camera to film we would walk around the mark in a circle while spinning the torch continuously until we had walked back to our original spot and it would make a 3d ball effect.
