Viktoriia Journals

Her family was full and happy. She got marriage when she was 24. It was nothing to worry about. However, She felt that something was wrong. One time She woke up, prepared the dishes, prepared herself for meeting with father. She went out from home and walked along the road. She saw a guy, so beatiful and young. She look straight to his eyes and he respond: ''Fake''. What did it mean? She closed her eyes for a while and then, when She opened them noone was there. It felt so strange. She came to her dad. There was nice sunny lit room with old teapot, plates and cups. They were drinking, when She closed her eyes and remembered about this man from the street. She said: ''Fake'', straight to her dad. However, his eyes were empty, he heard this. One second and he started to cry. When She tried to ask him and find out, what happenned he only responded: I love you so much. It was strange day for her. Something could not leave her alone. Some thought or maybe eve...

 In previous lessons, I was completing my Photography Project. I was inspired by Thomas Struth and his photos of Dusseldorf. So, I tried to take photos in his style. To create photos, which I will like I had to work with Photoshop to make them in black & White.  I almost did not have any problems with naming my photos, because I already created a concept for my project in my mind. However, sometimes I had troubles with names, because nothing come to my mind.  I was pleased with the composition and frame in Flourishing. I wanted to show how spring comes to Leicester with all beauty of the trees and flowers. In the middle stands a church that usually looks menacing and gothic. However, in my photo, it is surrounded by nature, which is a sign of blossoming. A sign that spring has come.  Flourishing   If you’re talking about my The Way in Nowhere, this photo came from a little experiment. Usually, I take a photo holding the camera exactly straight, wit...

 Finally, when I did Class Photoshoot and self-study, I can upload all my favorite pictures to my website. But firstly I have to think aboutfirst the frame. To be more clear, I will put my pictures on canvas.  I opened Photoshop with my pictures and copied it by clicking on the Move Tool and 'Select-All'. Then I clicked on 'Edit-Copy'. That is how I copied my image.  Then, I pushed the File-New buttons and choose print A3. After that, I clicked on Edit-Paste. That is how I got my picture on the canvas.  I completed all images like this and moved to web site part.  I created a new sub page called 'Mistery of Leicester' as I want to call my project. Then, I moved to 'Add section-Gallery' options. Here, I chose 'Slider Gallery' as almost all my photos have vertical orientation.  My next step was adding my photos to the website. I deleted all photos that were in this Slider and uploaded mine.  My last action was putting the heading and paragraph that...

Last lesson I took some shots of Urban Landscape. In this post, I will do Quality Control and Curation. Checking My Image   The first step was to check the quality of my image. To do this, I opened Photoshop and uploaded my first image which I picked previously from the whole range of photos that I made in the previous lesson. I clicked on the View-Actual Size buttons to make my image bigger. Then, I clicked on the Hand Tool button in the menu on the left side in order to move my image around and check the quality of every detail. I checked my image for different blemishes, dust or spots that could be blurry. Finally, when I did all of these checking steps, I was sure that I chose the right photo. So, I returned the original size of the photo by clicking on the View-Fit on Screen buttons and moved to another step.  If my image was not bad, but a bit blurry I used Unsharpen Mask by clicking on the Filter-Sharpen-Unsharpen Mask.  Crop&Straighten  Most of my im...

After our photoshoot in class, I decided to go for a walk and took my camera. I wanted to catch and put a spring atmosphere in the photos. Firstly, I was inspired by Thomas Struth, as you remember from the previous posts. However, his photos convey an atmosphere of rigour, where every detail has its meaning. That day, I was in a cheerful, joyful mood, so I wanted to capture it in the images, which you can see below.  Firstly, you can look at my Contact Sheet from the self-study.  This is maybe my favorite image. I like everything about it. Probably, I would lower the exposure in the settings to make the colors more intense. But I really like the way the colors interact with each other in this photo. I also like the composition itself. The trees with flowers and green leaves transmit this air of a sunny spring day.     I’m not really a fan of this picture. I love that warm sunlight comes into contact with a dark blue cloud. However, there is s...

In today's post, I would want to present you with a German Urban photographer who is Michael Wolf. He and his Architecture of Density(2012) are a breath of fresh air for me in the world of Urban Photography. He did not try to make a perfect image with the beautiful landscapes of the city. In his Architecture of Density(2012) he represents Hong Kong as the place where people actually live. The paradox is that people are absent from the photos. In this series, only one-size buildings are depicted in the pictures. However, in Wolf's photographs, the people are unseen, but on more careful investigation, but their existence is noticeable everywhere- in the colored curtains, the clothesline with wet hanging laundry, and the scaffolding with the hanging sheets. (O'Hagan, 2019) The photo below is an example of the thoughts above. The image depicts the usual building in Hong Kong with plenty of floors, flats, and rooms. Yes, we can't see people there, but if we focus on this pic...

 Talking about a number of pictures that were taken in Düsseldorf by Thomas Struth, it is possible to say at a glance that they are just ordinary aesthetic pictures. However, Struth was one of the few photographers to capture a snapshot of his city in the process of all the renovations built during hard times. He photographed ordinary streets and thus was able to document the emergence of post-war urban structures in Germany (Hak, 2017).  Struth’s photographs are not ordinary pictures, they are historically important images, as they contain a piece of history. He shows it like it is, without hiding anything.  This photo, for example, shows how Germany has changed in historical terms. In the country, multi-story new houses are under construction. Costs a lot of cars, which shows the financial ability of people to buy them. Everything looks neat, clean, and well-maintained. The photograph looks insanely symmetrical as if everything was set up just to take a picture.  T...