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Test Strips

Before we printed our final photographs we created test strips to be printed to check the colour and type of paper we were using, as well as checking the image size for enlarged print. By doing this we now have an indication of what may need changing and altering before the final print. We chose areas of the photographs which included a variety of tones and details as well as shadow and highlight areas so we could get the best indication possible.

Here shows quick snaps I have taken of the test strips & how they turned out.

These test strips indicate the baby photographs. From this we noticed the colour of the white clothing the sim baby dummy was wearing was printed at a very close tonal and value shade to the baby skin colour, we felt this colour did not create the difference we had created initially and may need to be changed.

The portraiture photographs have turned out well how we had liked them.

The point of view test strips also allowed us to see how the outcome would be.

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Wall Visualisation

We measured the size of our photographs on the walls to see how they would fit and look in a way which would be appropriate.

This will be where the Baby Photographs will be displayed as you can see from the slight masking tape on the wall.

This will be where the portrait photographs will be situated as you can see by the masking tape on the wall.

We will be placing the Point of View photographs above the lifts.

We will possibly be placing the Long Exposure photographs on the black balcony’s as we felt they add along to the black background which we have used in the majority of our Baby and Point of View photographs.

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Final Photographs

Long Exposure

We have decided to use 2 long exposure photographs to represent our final outcome for this idea. We have used 2 layered photographs from different locations as they represent a variety of students and equipment, rather than photographs from the same place.

We had initially decided to print our long exposure photographs on a Vinyl print but have been unable to receive a test strip for this. We was also thinking of placing these on the balcony’s in the K2 building but are still awaiting confirmation for this.

We have layered a series of long exposures together using photoshop to give us our final photograph to represent long exposure.

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Final Photographs

Portraiture

We have decided to produce a series of 4 portrait photographs which represent 2 of the students and 2 of the dummies. We will be placing these photographs together on the 3rd floor of the K2 building to represent the shift and difference between the students and the dummies. We also felt this represents the equipment they have in their school. They will be printed on Giclee Warmtone paper and mounted on dibond attached to a subframe at a size of 11.1x16.5 inches, almost an A3 size.

We have colour corrected these photographs in post production and feel they look a lot better now. The idea of photographing them against the medical curtain adds to the idea of being in a hospital rather than capturing them up against a plain wall as we wanted to capture as much of their school as possible we feel even the portraits of the students what the school also has to offer.

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Final Photographs

Point of View

We decided to have a series of 4 photographs of our point of view idea as we felt they worked well together and included what we wanted to portray of the students working. We used the Go Pro photographs as we felt they included more content than the DSLR photographs and also complimented our tonal idea throughout our other photographs. We will be printing these photographs in a cropped ratio of 1:1 square prints at 15x15 inches on C-Type Fuji Matt paper from Print Space mounted on Dibond with a subframe.

We have edited these photographs in post production to create the photographs we visualised and enlarged them for print.

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Final Photographs

Baby Photographs

We decided to have a series of 3 for our final baby photographs as we felt these worked well together in a series. We will be printing these photographs on C-Type Kodak Metallic paper which will be printed at Print Space as size A0. They will be displayed on the ground floor of the K2 building in the corridor joining to the Keyworth Centre. We edited these photographs in post production.

We really liked the warm tonal colour of the baby’s skin which worked in contrast to the which sheets and clothing bringing out the warm colour more for our eyes to focus here. We have taken inspiration from the photographer Reiner Riedler who photographed sim baby dummies against a black background.

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Baby Shoot - Week 9

We were able to have access to the Critical Care lab & take photographs of the sim infant dummies as we did not have any more access to the students. We  decided to light them in the way we had lit our previous portraiture dummy photographs as well as the point of view photographs as we wanted to stay away from the typical medical bright clean photography.

We felt these photographs worked best from the shoot as they all had a slight creepy vibe. We will be using some of these for our final photographs after post production. 

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Reiner Riedler

It was nightfall when Reiner Riedler arrived at the children’s wing of his local hospital in Vienna, yet his eyes struggled to adapt to the darkness of the neonatal unit, despite the array of tiny lights that scattered the ward. He felt the presence of all the machines in the room, observing the baby’s in their incubators - one of them was his own new born son. 

“I am not sure what it was, but in this very special moment, when the future was so unclear, i felt a deep humility. I am not a person who talks a lot about personal things, but i felt deeply inside that i had to tell this story”

He was drawn back to the machines and that sense of wonder and security he felt, knowing they were working quietly and efficiently at their task, protecting human life.

“Slowly I began to collect images of historical and contemporary devices, models and prototypes photographed before a dark background - isolated from the environment in which they were used - to direct the attention entirely to their function and their peculiar aesthetics”

“It was the first time I had looked inside a machine...I felt something strange...It was like a touching secret that I could not understand, a secret few people understand - not even the single individuals who brought their knowledge together to create these lifesaving machines”

I find these photographs really interesting in the sense that they are not real life but work to support and help real life. The way he has captured the dummies in a way to represent the fact they are not real but fake, with the joints and nails keeping them together keeps the sense of real life and supportive life. 

The black background that he has shot against and is recurring in the photographs really brings out the foreground of objects allowing them to become more dominant.

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Portraiture Shoot - Week 9

We went into the labs to capture the sim dummies to work alongside our portraits of the students. We used the lighting above the medical beds to create a look that accompanied our Point of View photographs.

- A selected few of our portraiture photographs.

We also previously photographed portraits of the students to portray them as they are a big part of the school.

These photographs need a lot of colour correcting as we feel that they are too blue and too medical looking which is something we would like to change in post production.

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Point of View Shoot - Week 8

We wanted to stay away form the idea of the typical medical photography photographs that we found in our initial first research which included very bright, clean photographs as you would typically expect. We then created something different to this using our Go Pro for our point of view idea. We located some students who helped us with this. 

For our Point of View idea we decided to take photographs from the sim dummies point of view onto the students who were practicing on them. For this we decided to use a Go Pro camera as we felt this would be easier to place into the area without getting in the way too much with a larger DSLR camera. The Go Pro also has a wide angle lens which will capture more content into the framing. For this shoot we decided to use the lights above the beds of the sim patients which would represent the lighting situations in a real hospital during the night time which is something we wanted to explore. This lighting also only highlighted the areas we were completely focusing on which dimmed out the background which is something which would divert our attention away if it was fully lit.

It was extremely hard to capture the student in the framing along with the procedure they were carrying out on the sim patient dummy in one single frame. We tried to over come this by moving the students towards the end of the sim patient bed but unfortunately there was no medical procedure for them to carry out in the space they were in. The extremely bright light is very distracting to the viewer which is something we may need to take into consideration when further shooting.

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Clunie Reid

Clunie Reid studied painting at the Royal Collage of Art but stopped the in 1994/1995 as she wanted to explore new and different things. She was not interested in the apparatus of a camera where she uses softwares to enhance poor imagery.

In 2007 she created a solo presentation of work where she spoke about how the relationship of art objects may have to the person who is viewing it. She is interested in the relationship of what exactly is coded in an image and the way in which explicit photographs has a specific line between what is and what isn't explicit in a photograph. In August of 2009 she worked with Map Magazine.

She was interested in the cast of space located between the legs for Feuille de Vigne and the idea of the body as a physical things and a display as well as mundane physicality. She felt with the theory of sexual differences with the ideas of visibility and identity confirmation related to Signed Freud. Marcel Duchamo Etant Donnes gave a formalised step forward for specific parts of the body. Where she created very contemporary images where she was inspired to create and collect images for ideas of a layout and editing process, which allowed the process of bringing together similar images where photography is seen as a medium othordox. 

Your higher oaken awaits in 2010 which was a presence of viewing a work that your time is now and that the visual representation of a visual image has a meaning which holds the same characteristics as something else.

She noticed the shift from static photographs on a paper image to an online distribution where she created an image production of commentary on an image, for example ‘When u travel u go 2 sleep’ 2011.

Clan created a 450 slide powerpoint to allow you to want to keep watching entitled ‘The balard of things to come’.

From Clunie Reids lecture I was able to understand the way in which we can portray things in many different ways, either through different things such as the way she created her contemporary ideas or the presentation of the way we can then present this such as the way she put her ideas into the powerpoint presentation.

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Cindy Sherman

This photograph by Cindy Sherman captures the unrealistic sense of a doll,  in the way it is extremely obvious this is not a real person, but a doll. I like the sense that this is very obvious as it adds to an unnerving vibe which is something we can try with the dummies in the fake wards. As the dummies are extremely life like, there are very small parts which are not where we can incorporate this into our ideas.

The extremely close up portraiture is something we have tried to capture for our portraiture idea to capture every essence involved. The framing has cut off every other aspect of the dolls where we can really focus on the textures of the faces to decide for ourselves which seem real or do not.

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Test Shoot - Week 8

We were finally able to go into a class with students for 5 minutes where we could take some long exposure photographs of them working on some dummies. We decided to take these photographs in a high up position looking down towards the students as we felt this was able to capture in the framing exactly what they was doing rather than the straight forward vantage point at their level that we had shot at before. I think this vantage point works much better and portrays the students learning a lot better.

We then layered a selection of photographs together using layers and masks in Photoshop to allow for our final outcome long exposure photographs using these photographs.

We also lens corrected any distortion and straightened the photograph to give us one of our final photographs. I think this works well to portray our idea of capturing the students working and enabling other people to see what they do in their area of practice, which otherwise would not be seen.

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Meeting with the Deans

As part of our project we created a presentation to show the deans of each school where we specifically spoke with and to Warren Turner the dean and pro-vice chancellor of the health school and social care. We gave an overview of Alexey Titerenko, Alaistar Thain and Diago Acoster who were are main points of inspiration to give an insight into the ideas we were creating. We also showed a small few of the photographs we had shot already.

Warren seemed very happy with our ideas and photographs so far.

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Test Shoot

Point of View

We decided to take photographs of the dummies for our point of view idea using a DSLR camera to see how the photographs differ and alter between this camera and a Go Pro camera. The up side to the DSLR camera we are able to see exactly what we are capturing in the framing within the screen with a better quality of Camera Raw allowing for the colours, details and textures to be sharper.

I think these photographs have worked well to capture the point of view from the dummy but has not captured the students working which is something we also wanted to portray along side this. It was extremely difficult to capture the faces of the students in the framing along with what they were working on with the dummy, such as the blood test and cannula. As the Go Pro has a wide angle lens we feel this may work better to capture the work and the student in one frame. 

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Test Shoot

Point of View

Our third main idea to represent the school of health, we have decided to take point of view photographs from both the students who are practicing doctors & nurses in practice with the dummies & hospital ward situations which will show & represent to people outside of the school as well as aspiring students visiting, exactly what it is like to be in the students position in them environments & what this entails & is like for them, being something in which not everybody will encounter this kind of experience. We will also be taking photographs from the point of view from the dummies to actually be able the see the students working in their practice.

We have decided to take inspiration from the photographer Diego Acosta who created the ‘Stroller’ series of photographs which represent the point of view of life as a toddler, we thought this was very appropriate in the same aspect we are creating our ideas to see how other people view their situations.

Unfortunately we were unable to access the critical care unit wards so tested out this point of view idea on ourselves using a Go Pro Camera.

- Point of view from the student

- Point of view from the patient/dummy

I think this idea could work well, we will also be capturing the students faces to really get a feel of their practice which is something we want to show when capturing the school of health as they are such a big part of this & want to enhance their view of learning. We have decided that using a Go Pro will be more appropriate as it is much smaller with a wide angle lens where we will not get in the way as much with a DSLR camera.