Identity Brief • Mind Map • Planning • Difference between SLR & DSLR • 12 Artist pictures • 2 Artist Analysis • Compare and Contrast • Evaluation
Mind Map for Coffee Shots Place : Studio
Lighting: Flash kit in darkroom
Portrait
Editing: Soft Colors, Good composition
Mainly Raw File editing, occasional de-saturation of photographs Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
Style: High aperture Contrast Objects: Myself, Model
Black & White, Soft Colors
Out of focus background (short depth of field) (focusing on the object
Dark room with flash
Fast light (Not continuous
Planning Portraits Setting:
Outdoors, Indoors
Lighting:
Flashlights, Natural
Models:
Male, Female
Props:
Clothing, Black Background, White Background
Time:
Afternoon
Flash kit:
Yes/No
12 Artist pictures
Name: P.A.T #5 Photographer: Mirko Stoedter Date: 22nd of September,2012
Name: 500 / 1000 Photographer: Semi Lopez Date: Uknown
Name: Golden Age Photographer: David Levez Date: 8th of March, 2011
Name: The One Photographer: Marta Syrko Date: 4th of June, 2013
Name: Freedom 17 Photographer: Diego Lema Date: 17th of February, 2011
Name: Overview Photographer: Noukka Signe Date: Uknown
12 Artist pictures
Name: Raw V Photographer: Greta Tu Date: 4th of February 2013
Name: Time Flies Photographer: Dustin K Ryan Date: 28th Of Decemer 2010
Name: Mila Photographer: Alex Kolodyazhni Date: Uknown
Name: In His Eyes Photographer: Gordon McBryde Date: Unkown
Name: 1000 Words Photographer: Stephanie Schneider Date: Unkown
Name: April Johnson Photographer: Unknown Date: Septempber 2011
Diego Lema– Self-Portrait Photographer ABOUT DIEGO LEMA Born in Argentina Diego Lema is a graphic designer who often studies the art of ‘Self-portraiture’. Also a model, Lema has found a way to explore his own ideas in photography rather than being just a model and doing what others tell him. Photography has sparked Lema’s interest to produce images which transmit a message rather than just taking a photograph that looks ‘pretty.’ The total freedom of Self-photography has given Lema the freedom to create fantastic photographs with no budget and no make-up but instead just his camera.
WHY IS THIS PHOTOGRAPH SUCCESSFUL? By analyzing the above photograph a few things stand out to me. These things are lighting, composition and the facial expression and posture of the model. For me the most impressive thing is the reflection of the face captured on the surface of the water. This has created a mirror affect which makes this photo mysterious and makes us wonder how subject of this photograph feels.
HOW THIS PHOTOGRAPH INSPIRES ME This photograph inspires me to focus more on the posture of the model when taking a photograph. I believe that Lema’s work often transmits a message through the facial expression and posture of the model. These elements are clearly evident in the above photograph, therefore in the future, I would like to focus more on these key-components.
GRETA TU – Self-Portrait Photographer ABOUT GRETA TU Greta is an 18 year old girl, born and raised in Lithuania but currently allocated in Aalborg, Denmark. Photography became interested in photography at the very young age of 11. Since then photography has become her passion. Tu’s work ranges from landscapes, macro, still-life, portraits to commercial photography although she is most passionate about portraiture.
HOW THIS PHOTOGRAPH INSPIRES ME
WHY IS THIS PHOTOGRAPH SUCCESSFUL? The photograph is successful because of a few aspects. Firstly I believe that the editing of the photograph gives us a small feeling of sadness and depression. Having this in mind, we also see that the model looks sad but yet determined. These aspects makes the audience think about the photograph and makes us, the audience look at it and wonder.
This photograph inspires me to try to capture an emotion. By doing this the photograph is able to send a message to the audience. This photograph makes me think that the model is a strong and independent women who is fighting for her right in a world with not much justice. This photograph makes me think about the subject matter(the model), and makes me wonder why her posture is like that and why her facial expression shows somewhat sadness and determination.
Compare & Contrast
Diego Lema
Greta Tu
Compare & Contrast By comparing the work of Diego Lema and Greta Tu, a few similarities are obvious. Strong contrast of colours, drastic lighting and fantastic composition within there work. The differences between both these photographers aren’t many at first glance, some may not even see the difference in both of these photographers styles but I beg to differ. From studying both the fantastic work of Lema and Tu I have come to the conclusion that Greta Tu puts more passion and meaning when taking photographs. I believe that her photos have subliminal meanings, I say this because of the relation between the mood of her photograph and for example the title that she has named it. Even though Lema does this also, his photographs do not seem to give me that desire to try and understand the meaning of the photograph as much as Tu’s work. From studying these photographers work, they give me a desire to go out and take photographers that actually mean something, not just click a button like most do. This is what I love about both these photographers, they are able to transfer a message only through photographs ; photographs which are of great composition and of great appearance I would like to learn a lot from these photographs, gain knowledge about lighting and most importantly transferring a certain emotion through my photographs.
Evaluation Overall I am quite please with the outcome of my photography project mainly because of the way I considered the composition and lighting of the photographs from which a strong impact upon the audience is made. One thing that I believe that I could of done more was to use more physical editing and manipulation techniques. However I don’t necessarily consider this a bad thing since I feel that I was able edit the photos in a way that I not only firstly planned but I am also happy with the final outcome of my photographs. Although at first I didn’t have any ideas to where I wanted to take my photographs or the style I was aiming for I researched a lot of artist and chose the style of my photographs. From there everything was just experimentation and seeing what works best. I think that my first idea of combining a couple of images to make one was good, I tried this method on a few photographs but because of the fact that they looked dull and one colored I realized that this method can only be used with photographs with sharp contrast between the lighting. The result of this experimentation is Final Photo Number 1 of the Design brief with which I am pleased of the result. Overall I believe that my whole experimentation within my project was successful because I learnt a lot of new things about the combining of images, use of lightning to make an image more dramatic and more. I consider the amateur photographer Valeria Vacca (http://valeriavi.deviantart.com) a big inspiration for this project because while trying to individualize her style to suite mine I came up with a good bunch of photos and learned a lot about photography. The things that influenced me the most in her work were the dramatic lighting, editing of photos in monochrome and the actual concepts behind her photographs. Valeria Vacca has definitely helped me find the style that I like, dramatic lighting and conceptual thought behind the images from which style I worked with in this project.
‌ I think that if overall I had more time, I would of liked to experiment more with physical manipulation of the photos. Not only would I have experimented with physical editing but I would have also tried to work on a bigger scale as to using more lights at the same time and having more models in the photographs. One thing I wanted to try out is some slow shutter speed shots from which the body of the model is slightly blurred creating a photo with a more demonic and dark feeling. Although I didn’t get to do this I am still happy that that with my Photoshop skills I was able to give the photos that thing it needs to bring the audience’s attention at first glance.