Mies-+Place

The [|first image] in the banner is the landscape photo that I chose, the mood that was evoked was peacefulness or serenity. David Swift was the artist of the photograph and he does mostly portrait and landscape photographs. My chosen image shows David Swift's work with landscape pictures. Compositional techniques that David Swift used in his photograph are level horizon, rule of third and leading lines. Swift used level horizon since it is a landscape and landscapes usually have a level horizon unless the artist is trying something different or portraying the picture from an unusual point of view. Rule of thirds was used with the forest on the left, the house and then the mountain. This also helped more with the calmness since when you often think of a cabin in the mountains or the woods you think of peacefulness or calmness. Leading lines was used with the river which led right to the cabin which with the calmness of the river also added to the feeling of serenity.

The [|second image] in the banner is the interior scape that I chose, the mood that was evoked was abandonment. This picture is interior scape since it was taken inside and it makes you feel abandonment since the picture is taken in The Pennhurst State School which is an abandoned school and hospital and especially in the picture you can see how the people in the hospital just got up and left. The artist that created this picture is Tom Kirsch, calling it simply Clothes, Kirsch takes pictures of abandoned places or places that are no longer used. The picture in my banner shows his artwork with the abandonment of the Pennhurst State School. The compositional techniques that Kirsch used in his photo were leading lines and framing. Leading lines were used in the clothes laying all over the floor which kind of leads you all over the place but it shows abandonment since it shows you how someone was staying in this room and then left to never come back. Framing was used in the window and the wall which helped frame the room.

The [|third image] in my banner is the cityscape photo that I chose. the mood evoked in this picture is loneliness. This is my cityscape picture since it shows the city in the background and also then shows loneliness since the chair is there all by itself just abandoned on the side of the road. Also the chair was abandoned right by the busy city. The artist that took this photo was Paul Raphaelson putting it in his Lost Spaces Portfolio. Some compositional techniques that Raphaelson used in his photograph were leading lines, level horizon and rule of thirds. Leading lines were used with the bridge crossing over into the city. Level horizon was used since the picture is like a landscape the photo would have to be level horizon for it to be correct. Rule of thirds was used with the city on the left the bridge which then led over to the chair and the side that the chair was on. This then helps express the loneliness or abandonment feeling the picture expresses.

I will be printing my final picture on wood, here is a website that helped me with [|steps] on how I am going to place the photo that I took and then place it on wood. Also here is a [|video] that showed me how to easy transfer a photo onto a piece of wood. The technique that I will actually use to transfer my photo onto wood is the example that is used on the steps on the website. This process seems pretty simple with just printing a picture cutting it out and then just placing it on a piece of wood. My concept for this picture is to convey the feeling that I get when I am at the place where I am by the lake. Which is the feeling of calmness and obviously wood would fit into this with the peacefulness of the wood but it also makes you think. The mood and lighting that I will convey in the picture is kind of darker but it also helps convey the feeling of calmness since night time is usually peaceful. The type of place that I will use in my project is landscape since I will take a picture of the lake. The final image won't be that large since I am putting it on a piece of wood but I also need to make sure that it is big enough so that you can actually see the picture.