Monday, 24 May 2010
Evaluations – The Human Condition
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Sunday, 23 May 2010
Evaluations – Places
Evaluations – Places
For the places brief I started off with no concept at all and couldn’t find any inspiration. I decided to start by doing some wilderness/countryside images as this is the genre that’s most accessible to me. They didn’t turn out very exciting. I decided to have a go at the significant places, as I had a solid idea of what I wanted to do, I went to the street where I grew up and shot a roll of film using my Holga 120 GCFN. I planned on cross processing these images as I wanted them to have the feel of childhood memories, unfortunately this didn’t work and my negatives turned out black – apparently the chemicals had been left open for a while. Next, I had a short trip to the now abandoned Blackburn Royal Infirmary for the alien/foreign part of the brief, we only explored the bottom floor as we couldn’t find the stairs and it was very dark so I had to use a high ISO which made my images rather grainy, this prompted a second visit a few weeks later when we were more organised and well equipped. We managed to make it to the above floors and it was really worth it. I used a Sigma 10-20mm lens for these images as I think the wide angle distortion works really well for this genre. I then revisited the street where I grew up with my Holga once again and got all the images I wanted, this time I processed them normally in C-41 and they all turned out perfect. Next on the list was Urban or City Sprawl, I decided to shoot this around the area I live because I live in an urban area and I think it represents an urban area well – half of the houses are boarded up and derelict and half are perfect, which illustrates most urban areas – old out of date houses being closed and demolished to make way for more modern housing. The area I live in is mostly council houses and I think my photos represent this.
For my presentation of the images I decided to present my significant places images as a set because none of the images out of the 4 sets worked well enough together to present them together – they were all different shapes, formats and colours. I had enough images and a wide enough variation to present significant places as a set. I presented 15 images in a square book. We were told we could either present two of each category or eight as a set. I wanted the book to describe my childhood memories so I chose a childish font to go alongside some of the images.
Overall I think this project has been okay, although I could’ve put a lot more effort into it – I will admit places photography is not my strong point. I think the images I have come up with are technically good but I don’t find many of them very interesting, this is just my personal preference though.
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Thursday, 20 May 2010
Saturday, 15 May 2010
City/Urban Sprawl
For this section of the brief i decided to take pictures of the area of gallegrieves, it was a very sunny day, which created lots of nice long shadows. I used my Sigma 10-20mm lens, and edited the images in Adobe Lightroom.
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Friday, 14 May 2010
The Human Condition - Fine Art, Eating Disorder.
"People with bulimia nervosa have episodes of binge eating. This is followed by self-induced vomiting or other measures to counteract the excessive food intake. Treatments include cognitive-behavioural therapy, and sometimes medicines and self-help measures. Many people with bulimia get better with treatment.
Bulimia nervosa (often just called bulimia) is a condition where you think a lot about your body weight and shape. It affects your ability to have a 'normal' eating pattern. Bulimia is one of the conditions that form the group of eating disorders that includes anorexia nervosa. There are important differences between these two conditions. For example, in anorexia nervosa you are very underweight, whereas in bulimia nervosa, you are most likely to be normal weight or even overweight.
Bulimia mainly affects women aged 16-40. It most commonly starts around the age of 19 years. It affects around 8 in 100 women in the UK. Bulimia sometimes develops in men and children. Women are 10 times more likely to develop bulimia than men. However, bulimia is becoming more common in boys and men. Bulimia is more common than anorexia nervosa.
There may be some genetic factor, as the risk of developing bulimia in close relatives of people with bulimia is four times greater than in the general population.
Bingeing and purging are the main symptoms and are usually done in secret.
- Bingeing means that you have repeated episodes of eating large amounts of foods and/or drinks. For example, you may eat a whole large tub of ice cream or two packets of biscuits even if you are not hungry. You feel out of control and unable to stop eating. Binge eating is often done very quickly until you feel physically uncomfortable. This happens not just on one occasion, but regularly. Eating patterns typically become chaotic.
- Purging means that you try and counteract the 'fattening' effects of the food from the bingeing. Self-induced vomiting (making yourself sick) after a bout of bingeing is the most well-known, but not all people with bulimia do this. Other purging methods include taking lots of laxatives, extreme exercise, extreme dieting or even periods of complete starvation, taking diuretics (water tablets) or taking other medicines such as amfetamines.
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