JUSTIN QUINNELL-ANALYSIS

Justin Quinnell

Justin Quinnell lives and works in Bristol. He holds his own workshops and lectures in which he tries to inspire others to have a go at pinhole photography and make their own photographs more unique and contemporary.

The piece of work I have choose is this called 'Brushing my teeth with a dead spider' which is a piece of photography. I choose this piece of his work because I love how different and quirky it is. The fact that you get the view from inside his mouth makes it seems more personal and more life everyday life.
ARTICLE ON JUSTIN QUINNELL
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To better understand why he does this I read an interview he did all about his mouthpiece photographs, and also his own website which you can find all of his photographs, how to make your pinhole camera out of objects you can find in your home among other things. "So I took one of my 110 cartridge pinhole cameras, which was designed to be thrown off a building or attached to a shuttle cock and put it in my mouth,It fitted right at the back perfectly." I would say that the theme for Quinnell's mouthpieces  can come under many things, such weird, quirky,different, but I think that main one may have to be everyday life. This is because this collection of work are pictures from the inside looking out which makes it more personal for the viewer, (some may say a little too personal). I don't think anything inspired Quinnell for these wacky photographs, I believe that he, himself is his own inspiration, the idea of taking photographs with his mouth simply just came to him, " I was sitting there one day with my pinhole camera and I thought, I wonder if this fits in my mouth" 
The material Quinnell uses is a simple pinhole camera, which made by placing aluminum foil over a tiny hole one fifth of a milimetre wide on the film cartridge. Some of the colours in his work seem to be over saturated, so they look more exaggerated. Also the view looks like a fish eye effect. The size of his photographs are also not that big, in fact they are rather smaller and I think by having them being small it makes the eye focus on just the image and the meaning, whereas if it were larger it could be a bit much to look for . I think the most important formal element in Justin Quinnells work is colour, because they just make his work even more exciting, because they are over saturated and exaggerated they just make everything in the image stand out, and also the background in his mouthpieces are sometimes dark make the image itself stand out. 

I have choosen to look at Quinnells mouthpiece photographs, because they are unlike anything I have ever seen before, the perspective is different and amazing at the same time. My first reaction to his mouthpiece work was that it looked revolting only because all I was seeing was his teeth in the image, however once I over looked that I found that his work is in effect very creative and very interesting to look at. I mainly like the fact that he could have choosen to just placed the pinhole camera on the floor and take the image, but to go that extra step and put it in your mouth and capture the world from your own point of view makes the whole thing just even more amazing. I don't think there is an artist out there that has work even close to look like Justin Quinnell's just because its so unique. His work has inspired me to be more creative with my photograph taking, pay more attention to colour and also think about perspective and how you would want others to see your world through their eyes. 

PINHOLE CAMER PHOTOS: PHOTOSHOP EXPERIMENTS

Brightness/Contrast

For brightness and contrast not much was done expect adjusting how bright or how dark you wanted the image to go. This can be quite useful as it can help to bring out more details in the image for example the tops of houses or the leaves on trees, however how much of a good job it does also depends on how dark/how bright the image was to begin with.

Hue/Saturation

For hue and saturation the effect is a lot different as here you can change the colour of the image completely. You first have to press colorize if your image is in black and white in order to get any colour on the image. this effect is great if you want to give a different look to your image and also it can add emotion to your image as well for example, if you have photographed someone being happy you can use bright colours to add to that. 

Photofilter

The photo filter tool is quite similar to the hue and saturation in the sense that you can change the colour of the image and again give it a new look. Also on this tool certain affects are already provided for you so you can always use them and then adjust them to your liking.

HOW TO: MAKE A PINHOLE CAMERA

How to make a pinhole camera

What you will need:

• Hot chocolate tin
• Black acrylic paint
• Sandpaper
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Black pen
• Foil
• Craft knife
• Pin
• Duct tape

STEP 1: Get a hot chocolate tin (preferably one of a dark colour) and paint it's lid and the inside with a thick coat of black paint.

STEP 2: Now you want to measure 5cm up from the bottom of the tin and 1cm along to create a square. Once you have done this carefully cut out the square using the craft knife, you want to make sure you score it until it pops out, this is so you don't end up cutting too much of the square and also it is safer.

Then cut out a slightly bigger piece of foil and carefully pierce a hole in it with your pin, not too big and also not too small.

STEP 3: Once you have your pierced hole, you want to turn the foil over, you should find that were you pierced the hole the foil is slightly raised, so you want to get your sandpaper and sand it down to make it smooth. After this take a permanent black marker and colour the foil.

STEP 4: When this is done, you want to place the foil square over the hole in the tin, then using some duct tape to secure it. Then with a slightly bigger piece of the duct tape you want to fold over a corner to make a flap, then place it over the hole, and you are finished! You have now made a pinhole camera!

PINHOLE CAMERA MOOD BOARD

Pinhole Photography Mood Board

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HOW THE PINHOLE CAMERA WORKS

PINHOLE CAMERA

A pinhole camera works by using a small pinhole which allows light through it to then form an image on a light sensitive paper. Points of the scene reflect light and then inverts the image on the other side which allows you to see the image. The box (or whatever you may be using as the camera) is darkened with just a small pinhole where the light shines through, this is camera obscura. 

TECHNICAL STUDIES

Technical Studies Brief

In this brief I will be learning the basics of how darkroom photography works, how I can create my own pinhole camera, camera-less photography and how to use an SLR. This project is themed around everyday. I will also use my blog to document my best pieces of work and a sketchbook for test prints etc. 

AS PHOTOGRAPHY -LESSON 1

This was the work I done on my first lesson using photo booth on IMAC, I took pictures of different celebrities and adapted them to fit my own face, so in the end I had half of that celebrities face and then my own. This gave a take on a normal picture making it a bit more different and unique.