high key and low key lighting

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High-key lighting is about an image which is very bright, with a range of light tones and whites. The picture will not have much blacks or mid-tones. In high-key photography, the mid-range tone will look very brighter, closer to a -white tones. This style of lighting was originally developed for films and television, back when the technology was not very good at capturing high contrast ratios. Today high key is purely an artistic decision – photographers and filmmakers choose it when they want an image or story to be upbeat, "optimistic" or youthful.

High-key images can usually have small amounts of black. These very small areas of black and middle tones will stop the image from looking washed out. The small point of black – on the model’s pupils, for example, a shadow under her hair – will show the difference between a high-key image and one that is just plain overexposed.

Studio lighting for high-key photography

To set up a studio lighting for high-key photography make sure you have a key light and a fill light, with your key light make it two times the brightness of the fill. The background should be lit independently–with two lights positioned three to five feet away at 45-degree angles. These background lights should be at least one stop brighter than your subject lighting. This will result in the blown-out background that you’re looking for in a high-key image.

High-key images can also be "obtained" in the studio with a pastel-colored background, though white is more common and generally simpler to work with. As for your model, you can certainly achieve a high-key effect regardless of what she’s wearing, but you may find yourself more satisfied with your work if she’s dressed in lighter colors or in white.

This is an example of a high key lightening. I was only able to use one light becausse when I turned the second light on the shadows completely disappeared!











High-key lighting focuses on light tones and whites; low-key lighting is about the shadows, deep blacks and darker tones, with very few whites and middle tones. The mood is opposite, as well – while high-key lighting is hopeful and "optimistic", low-key lighting is somber, mysterious and moody, dramatic or even "ominous" depending on the subject.

High-key images are flatter with less contrast than an image that qualifies as mid-key, which is most of the images that photographers produce. Low key images, on the other hand, tend to have a lot of contrast, with the primary impact coming from the shadows.


Studio lighting for low-key photography

A low-key studio set up is very easy than a high key one.All you need is a single light source and a dark or black backdrop. You may find having a reflector on hand can be helpful, too, all you will need is a single light source. As a general rule, keep the light off of your back drop and on your subject, but other than that you have a lot of freedom as far as where you choose to place your light source.

A low-key image is not the same as an underexposed image. Underexposed images will be flat, with no good highlights or whites in the image. This is in fact the opposite of what you want in a low-key image. While the image does indeed rely on the shadows for its impact, low-key images need to have high contrast , which means a good white as well as plenty of deep blacks.

power dressing

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Power dressing was very popluar in 1970s and 1980s. The fashion which was strong over the decade was the wide shoulder.  The 80s fashion were tailored look. It was diffcult to go anywhere without a jacket that could make the outfit they wear a complete suit.

This style was infulenced by several movements including media were infulence on 1980s fashion through the popularity of TV dramas like 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas'. These that wear the costume in dramas has made faashion real everyday 80s life.

Power dressing,  New Romantics, stretch dressing and sportswear made woman feel like they could be anybody they choses to be.
These four looks are "predominant" in the fashion and costume history of the 1980s.

Lavish use of both fine and costume jewellery was worn day and night on the show and it begin fashion. Big, almost huge gilt fashion earrings several centimetres across drew attention to faces drowning in shoulder pads. Some people who coould not afford fine jewellery could wear fake or real stones. 'Diamante', pearls and gold chains were meant to tell the rest of the world you had arrived.

Big was best and fashion hair styles of the 1980s grew bigger to match the look.  Mousse and gel was essential to create the style. The effects of excess mousse were so horrifying on waking up that it became normal to wash hair daily. As the 80s grows the TV series 'Dallas' created hairstyles that began very big it was like opening flowers.

Get Big Shoulders and Get Noticed

1980s Fashion history shows that as the fashion for female identity in the workplace took hold, so shoulder width grew.  Lots of  large shoulder pads were used to support the wider cut of sleeves.

Big Shoulders of the 1980s, Quite mannish suits and appliqué shoulder padded knitwear for women were both softened with ties, bow ties and floppy scarves tied in artist bows all often worn with long boots.

To soften the masculine effect of the sleeves of the jackets and blouses which were worn women use to pushed up or rolled up to reveal attractive satinised contrast jacket linings which was a way of accessorizing it.

presentition

I have used this presentition method with two curved boards because it makes the entire work appear like it is in a box. It makes the audience the chance to walk around the garment if they want to see the back. I have put the entire garment onto a fashionable manniqque because I wanted the viewers to see how the enitre garment could look like when a person wear it. It also made it easier for the viewers to be able to see the back of the garment. I have decided that putting the top on the mannqiue overlapping each other was right because it show another way people could wear it and doing the top this way with the belt around it make the gamrent look very casual but yet fashionable with its flowing skirt that could make anyone very comfortable when worn.

I have float matted the photographs because again I wanted viewers to see vairous way of wearing the top as it could have been diffcult to put together on the manniqque. float matting the photographs makes it appear professional and shopcihated and gives it a more dimensional look. Deciding to put the photographs quite up kee it away from people touching it which could result in the pieces getting grease and dirty, although it could be hard for people to reach it, it is also easier for them to see the images clear. Foam board was used for the images mount because the material was easy to cut and it is lightweight keeping it from falling and hutting someone badly. It aslo provide a more contemporarylook.

Presenting the work like this was very effective because the pictures in the corners places the eyes to the dress making it the first thing that the viewers see.

This is a student work who has done a 3D piece and placed it on a cube so that it could stand taller.  It is a perfect eye level, because anyone can be able to see it and touch it if wanted to.

The white background makes the colour of the animal stand out as it draws your eyes to it

 This is the how the space of the rooms looks like without any works up. It is erriy and plain. 

Brief

The breif was to create a final outcome of our own choosen themes that could presented to to the public for the end of the year.

Yarn Bombing

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The colours are very vibrant. The shapes are very gemoterical. All the colours are contrasting and very lively. It looks very fun and extremely trendy. Putting these type of art pieces on objects or public area makes the old things become exciting and eye catching.   Having these bright colours makes you as the viewer think about candies and it   quite take you back to your childroom. It is like these artists are trying to remind people to never forget about their sweet childhood. This time of artwork looks placeful and fun it makes me quite motivated to do something like this around my home area.

The presentition for this type of artwork is really good because placing this in the envoirment on objects makes everyone to be able to see it anywhere. Plus it is free and avaliable to the public. This type of presentition make the enviorment look bright, colourful and a beautiful place that could seem to attract people from various places to come and see. 

Yarn Bombing is becoming big. It is a street art that involves covering public spaces with knitted textiles.

Heat press for tops

I have chosen not to make it sewing top because My idea for my design was to make traditional fabric clothing they wear in movies and villages but try to make it more sttylist and more modren. SO I just made strips of long cloth organza fabrics. But this time instead of sying it I dceided to use heat press, visiting a technique I learnt about a year ago.

1. using printing papers and brush I coloured the papers, making sure to use different brush strokes. I aslo drew in my african pattern.
2. Took one of the colour papers to the heat press which was set to 180 degrees. So I moved it to the other side by using the heat press handle then placed my design underneath a silicon paper, put my design on the fabric making sure thhe colour is facing the fabric, I covered it with  the silicon paper like a sandwhich and brought the heat press around and pulled on the holder at the front all the way down and waited while it count from 30 secounds to 1, then beep.
3. Removed the cover along with the silicon covering the fabric and took out my design carefully and quickly as it was very hot
4. I repeated step one and two but this time I decided to add different recyled materials onto my cloth to make the deisgn look enviromental friednly and quite funky
5. I have used disyrees dyes to coloured in the papers. The colours came out really vibrant and bold which I wanted because when you think about AFrican you think about the hot weather. The sun is bright, organe and firry. 

Health and Saftey

make sure the lid is clamped shut correctly

Beware of stem when opening

do not touch the hot plate use the handle 

keep face hair away from the machine, if you do not your hair and face could burn.

SKIRT MAKING

Because I have not made clothes for a very long I did not want to do something which I know I will struggled with really hard, I dceided to just make a simple skirt which I knew how to do by watching videos by a textiler person on youtube. At first when I said I was going to make a skirt I was really worried an panicking wondering how I could do that. After watching the video about making simple skirts for beginner I begin comfident that I could do, all I need to do s practise it first.

The skirt tester how I did

1. I folded the piece of fabric evenly in half and pins them so that it could be stiff and not move when I am machining it. I marked with pencil and ruler with a straight line of where to sew in a perfect straight lin as I was new to this and I needed a line to guard me through
2. settled my fabric on the sewing maching and pressed my foot on the foot pad quite carefully and slowly. One because I wanted to take my time to do this, I did not want to rush through it
3. machined all the way down on the line in straight stitches
4. After insstead of using zig-zag to stop the fabric edges from fraying after you cut tiny pieces away to make the edges quite neat, I decided to use some of my decorative experimental stitches at the edge, to make the farbic decorative and stop the fraying
5. At the bottom of the skirt I folded it once really small and the second folding I did it quite medium. Reason for this is I want the edges to be crisp and neatly tidy I pined the fold to keep it in place and machined in straight stitches at the edge of the folds

folding the fabrics with stitches at the edge. I have used a matching colour of my fabric so that people can not see the stitches clearly but the design

1. I repeated the same technique for the top of the skirt but this time on the second fold, I made thhe fold quite big so that my thick easltic could fit through. Make sure when you are folding the top and the bottom you start from where your stitches you did earlier on the fabric. Because your folding will be even
2. Machined around it then stopped at the middle leaving a medium gap through so that the easltiic could go though.
3. Then using safety pins I clicked it at both sides off the small ealstiic I cut then I began to punch one end in gently

 when the elastic was pulled further to the other end it started to come out as seen in the picture

 Then I cut the ealstic edges. Overlapped them together and sew straight down on them then pulled the creases of my waist line over the easltic so that it could be hidden inside the skirt.

 This is the skirt done with me wearing it alone with the tops. I have decided to put a blue belt ober it because I want to stylist the whole outfit to show people that they can wear it like this also if they want to illstruate their waist and look quite causal but yet fashionable and elegant.