Proposal

The equipment I will need is: White A2 paper, blue tack, table, wall or board to stick sheet too, two Red heads (lights), camera, SD card, object that I'm photographing, a computer with photoshop and a tripod.

What I'm going to do to get the correct lighting for my studio is set the object in the middle of the table/paper and set two lights up either side (left and right) so that the shadow is at it's minimal and really small and then set the camera the correct position where you wont be able to see the shadows.
My props is something that I'm not quite sure on yet but I think I'm going to be bringing in a colourful slinky, a bottle, a light bulb, a trainer and a PS4 Controller so I'm going to bring in 5 different props and photograph all of them and I'm probably going to edit all of them and then see what one looks the best. My inspirations and what I'm going to base my work off is going to be something like this:

These sorts of styles of creations is what my work will consist of. Brightly, high edited, multiple images with the same pictures but just edited differently by colours etc. The things that I will need to take in are the ISO which is the light intake and a lower ISO means more detail, that's very important because these images are being blown up to A3 size. My ISO will be at 100. The shutter speed will be whatever because it doesn't really matter when its on a tripod and as for the depth of field it needs to be shallow because we don't really want the background in so the aperture will be wide which is about F4. The editing process will be the fun part because I'm going to get to turn an ordinary object into a piece of art like a colourful Lucozade bottle into something amazing. The editing process is going to all take place inside photoshop. To cut the picture out if I'm lucky ill get to use the magic wand tool but if not then ill probably use the pen tool to draw around the object I want before I make the selection, inverse it and cut it out. The other effects that I will use is colour balance and saturation and the bucket tool which is used to fill things in with colour. The best looking one will be chosen. The lighting doesn't really matter as much as i will mainly be using the red heads to get rid of the shadows but combating the bright light with the ISO level.

List of objects.

Here is a list of ten things that I could bring next week to photoshoot.

1. A video tape.

2. An iPhone.

3. A colourful slinky.

4. A bottle.

5. An iPad.

6. A digital Camera.

7. A Lightbulb.

8. Trainer.

9. PS4 Controller.

10. A PS4 game.

Sketch of pop-up studio set-up

This is a Sketch of my pop-up studio set-up that I'm going to create next week while shooting my objects.

Popart lighting techniques and seamless background

The equipment I will need is:

• White A2 paper.
• Blue tack.
• Table.
• Wall or board to stick sheet too.
• Two Red heads (lights).
• Camera.
• SD card.
• Object that I'm photographing.
• A computer with photoshop.
• Tripod.

What I'm going to do to get the correct lighting for my studio is set the object in the middle of the table/paper and set two lights up either side (left and right) so that the shadow is at it's minimal and really small.

Here in this first picture you can see that the object has a shadow behind it and you don't really want to be taking pictures of shadows so to get rid of this you would put a lighting device either side of it, left and right like the person on the last picture has done with the pumpkin or you could actually put a lighting source above it like the person has done in the second picture.

Popart research task contact sheet.

Popart research task

      Pop Art was born in Britain in the mid 1950s. The first application of the term Pop Art occurred during discussions among artists who called themselves the Independent Group which was part of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, begun around 1952-53 and a lot of the art died out in the 1970's but still lives on today.

      Pop art was often presented as screen prints of everyday objects but colorfully presented. Their work was often amusing and used every day objects such as coke cans, dollar bills and comic strips as their subjects. Pop art also used the faces of well known people (Marilyn Monroe), again as their subjects. Just some of the famous artists are Andy Warhol and David Hockney as well as Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper John. The features of a pop art image are bright colours, comical and cartoons with the use of every day objects or famous people. I think they used to be created by hand drawings and they could also be screen printed. 

      A pop art image could be used in a comic strip, online websites, advertisements, billboards and photography galleries. Toys for children is something that people could use pop art for in advertisements because it's cartooney, has bright colours and looks cool. It could also be used on fizzy drinks and chocolate wrappers, album art for a musicians album or concert flyers and posters. The equipment i think ill need is: a camera, a studio or self made white backdrop, some red heads (lights), a tripod and my props that i need to bring in to be photographed.