landmarks
niki gorick
As a British fine art photographer specialising in black and white images of London, Niki Gorick has established a reputation for capturing the true character of the city, its famous landmarks and vibrant street-life.
As a British fine art photographer specialising in black and white images of London, Niki Gorick has established a reputation for capturing the true character of the city, its famous landmarks and vibrant street-life.
Southampton photoshoot
this is the first set of photos that I have taken in two weeks these are some very historical photos that have been around for many years and some that haven't been around but have still became very iconic to the public eye like the telephone ox very famous in London and the old gas works.
developing ideas edits
I have done the edits in the style of niki gorick she does her edits in black and white
Photoshoot number two /Portsmouth
the second photoshoot I have recently done has been in Portsmouth and around the area of Portsmouth even thow their aren't many landmarks I still made good use of the old things left over to remind us of the past and what they served as
the five edits in the style of Robert Smithson
I have changed the photos by putting the contrast and saturation
up and down I have done the photos in the style of Robert Smithson these set of photos are his work you can see where I have changed the colours just like him
up and down I have done the photos in the style of Robert Smithson these set of photos are his work you can see where I have changed the colours just like him
Nicki Gorick photoshoot number 3 Windsor
this week I went to the famous castle and city Windsor castle whilst I was their
I got the chance to show my full potential in photography like the old building
with knew shops in them and the castle right next to a shopping centre
I did the photos in the style of nicki gorick
this is some of goricks photos then at the bottom some of mine all I have done
is left the black and white out for a change.
I got the chance to show my full potential in photography like the old building
with knew shops in them and the castle right next to a shopping centre
I did the photos in the style of nicki gorick
this is some of goricks photos then at the bottom some of mine all I have done
is left the black and white out for a change.
nicki gorick tends to take photos with something really close to the camera so it catches your eye then you see the bigger picture of it all and below are my photos
recording my ideas photo shoot number 4
this week I will be taking photos in the style of Nicki gorickshe has taken photos all over the
country from the houses of parliament toBuckingham palace her work is very creative and
the way she does it is very magical and shows their is more to see then just building and people
some of her work
country from the houses of parliament toBuckingham palace her work is very creative and
the way she does it is very magical and shows their is more to see then just building and people
some of her work
my photo-shoot
Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisinors, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question " From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe , where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the holocaust died at the camp Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles 23,000 Romani and Sinti 15,000 soviet prisoners of war 400 Jehovah witnesses, and tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities, including an unknown number of homosexuals Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation forced labor infectious diseases individual executions and medical experiments.
In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 7,000 members of the German (SS), approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully and on October 7 1944, two SS units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief unsuccessful uprising.
In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 7,000 members of the German (SS), approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully and on October 7 1944, two SS units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief unsuccessful uprising.
refining my ideas
when improving my first photograph I edited the image by inverting it making it white and black instead of black and white i then went onto hue and saturation and went onto the options menu and put my final filter over which was cyanotype.
when improving my second photograph I edited the image by inverting it making it white and black instead of black and white i then went onto hue and saturation and went onto the options menu and put my final filter over which was cyanotype then played with the saturation to make a bit darker in the sky to hide the clouds. when improving my third photo I edited the image by inverting it making it white and black instead of black and white i then went onto hue and saturation and went onto the options menu and put my final filter over which was cyanotype then played with the brightness because the photo seemed pretty dark and needed some life in it so i did that then went and changed the saturation a made it darker to hid the clouds so it gave it that deathly look and feeling. when improving my last photograph I edited the image by inverting it making it white and black instead of black and white i then went onto hue and saturation and went onto the options menu and put my final filter over cyanotype i then went onto colour balance and tried to make the carriage more blue because it had some black on it which i didn't like at all and so i changed i then went on saturation and changed the colour of the sky so their where no clouds to give it that deathly look and felling. |
final refining piece
when improving my final photograph I edited the image by inverting it making it white and black instead of black and white i then went onto hue and saturation and went onto the options menu and put my final filter over cyanotype then changed the colour of the train tracks my making them lighter I then darkened the sky but not as much as the other photos because I wanted the clouds to be seen in this one to show how stormy and dead it was their how nothing would have ever been happy their never ever
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I have done this photo as my final refine because it shows and tells what the prisoners of war and Jewish prisoners would have seen everyday when being in here that painful deadness sight with people watching you twenty four seven I have done the photo like this because it gives off an x ray type feeling you knew what would be happening inside and out and so did many other people in the war but so many people where to afraid to do something only because they didn't want to die or have their friends and family members killed this photo speaks many words fear anger frightened worried and so much more all the words and thoughts all negative non of it happy and good thoughts this also shows and tells the true horror of war how bad it got and how much worse it could of got if the German army had won world war two.
photo-shoot number 5
when in Poland I also visited the salt mines where they had a massive underground
church in fact the biggest underground salt church in the hole world the thing was
almost as big as the church in London. I took the photos in the style or nick Jackson
this is some of his work
in his photos their are quite a lot of colour to be seen not all of them but most of them
but the picture itself is better and that's what I have been doing I have not been trying
to get amazing colours I have been trying to get fascinating photos to replicate his work.
church in fact the biggest underground salt church in the hole world the thing was
almost as big as the church in London. I took the photos in the style or nick Jackson
this is some of his work
in his photos their are quite a lot of colour to be seen not all of them but most of them
but the picture itself is better and that's what I have been doing I have not been trying
to get amazing colours I have been trying to get fascinating photos to replicate his work.
my photos
The Wieliczka salt mine reaches a depth of 327 metres (1,073 ft) and is over 287 kilometres (178 mi) long. The rock salt is naturally grey in various shades, resembling unpolished granite rather than the white or crystalline look that many visitors may expect. During World War II, the shafts were used by the occupying Germans as an ad-hoc facility for various war-related industries. The mine features an underground lake; and the new exhibits on the history of salt mining, as well as a 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) touring route (less than 2% of the length of the mine's passages) that includes historic statues and mythical figures carved out of rock salt in distant past. More recent sculptures have been fashioned by contemporary artists.
The Wieliczka mine is often referred to as "the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland." In 1978 it was placed on the original UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites Even the crystals of the chandeliers are made from rock salt that has been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like appearance. It also houses a private rehabilitation and wellness complex.
There is a legend about Princess Kinga, associated with the Wieliczka mine. The Hungarian noblewoman was about to be married to Bolesław V the Chaste the Prince of Kraków. As part of her dowry, she asked her father for a lump of salt, since salt was prizeworthy in Poland. Her father King Béla took her to a salt mine in Máramaros. She threw her engagement ring from Bolesław in one of the shafts before leaving for Poland. On arriving in Kraków, she asked the miners to dig a deep pit until they come upon a rock. The people found a lump of salt in there and when they split it in two, discovered the princess's ring. Kinga had thus become the patron saint of salt miners in and around the Polish capital.
During the Nazi occupation, several thousand Jews were transported from the forced labour camps in Plaszow and Mielec to the Wieliczka mine to work in the underground armament factory set up by the Germans. However, manufacturing never began as the Soviet offensive was nearing. Some of the machines and equipment was disassembled, including an electrical hoisting machine from the Regis Shaft, and transported to Liebenau in the Sudetes mountains. Part of the equipment was returned after the war, in autumn 1945. The Jews were transported to factories in the Czech Republic and Austria.
The Wieliczka mine is often referred to as "the Underground Salt Cathedral of Poland." In 1978 it was placed on the original UNESCO list of the World Heritage Sites Even the crystals of the chandeliers are made from rock salt that has been dissolved and reconstituted to achieve a clear, glass-like appearance. It also houses a private rehabilitation and wellness complex.
There is a legend about Princess Kinga, associated with the Wieliczka mine. The Hungarian noblewoman was about to be married to Bolesław V the Chaste the Prince of Kraków. As part of her dowry, she asked her father for a lump of salt, since salt was prizeworthy in Poland. Her father King Béla took her to a salt mine in Máramaros. She threw her engagement ring from Bolesław in one of the shafts before leaving for Poland. On arriving in Kraków, she asked the miners to dig a deep pit until they come upon a rock. The people found a lump of salt in there and when they split it in two, discovered the princess's ring. Kinga had thus become the patron saint of salt miners in and around the Polish capital.
During the Nazi occupation, several thousand Jews were transported from the forced labour camps in Plaszow and Mielec to the Wieliczka mine to work in the underground armament factory set up by the Germans. However, manufacturing never began as the Soviet offensive was nearing. Some of the machines and equipment was disassembled, including an electrical hoisting machine from the Regis Shaft, and transported to Liebenau in the Sudetes mountains. Part of the equipment was returned after the war, in autumn 1945. The Jews were transported to factories in the Czech Republic and Austria.
refining my ideas
when editing my first photograph I changed the saturation by putting it all the way to the top trying to bleed all the colours out I then lifted the brightness and made it sharper and even nicer but also try to make it look like a painting.
when editing my second photograph I pulled the brightness almost all the way to bring the men in the background up then when on hue and saturation and added a filter I then finally sharpened it up with a bit of shade to add affect. . with my third photo I brightened up the photo and then put a filter on it then put a tint on the statue the inverted the colours making go from a green tint to a purple tint I then brightened it up even more but also put a bit of shade on it to keep it looking okay. when editing my last photo I changed the brightness at the start the photo was pretty dark so I made it nice and bright to try and get every little detail show up I then wanted amore diamond type colour so I added in a bit of cyan as a filter I then lowered the colour making it more deeper and more toned so it looked all fitted in. |
REFINING MY WORK- DEVELOPING MY FINAL piece
for my final piece I did the underground church when you look at the first photo it is extremely dark and hardly any colour can be seen so I changed that by raising the colour all the way to the top then using a tiny bit of hue and saturation to try and make the lights a bit more white and make them stand out like should after all they are all made out of crystal salt so it is very impressive plus the salt gives it that extra twinkle to make it look better.