Influential Photographers
Abstract Paint Photography:
Klari Reis - Ink in Petri Dishes
Rob and Nick Carter - smearing paint down tiles and documenting it.
Long Exposure Photography:
Andrew Whyte - Light Photography
Alex Wise - Long Exposure
Double Exposure Photography:
Andreas Lie:
Luke Gram:
Geometric Photography:
Legan Rooster - Geometric Photography involving landscapes
Klari Reis:
Klari Reis is an artist who creates vivid pieces of art. She then uses the different pieces of art that she creates and photographs them, which can be used to preserve the art that she has made, but also be used to capture the different shapes and colours that she has held within her art.
Throughout her work it is clear that Reis enjoys working in colour. Her3 main projects, "Street Anatomy", the "apothecary Project" and the "Petri Dish project" all show her experimentations with colour and how she has manipulated it to create different pieces of art.
Reis uses many different medias and often experiments when creating her work. She lives close to one of the largest concentrations of life science companies in the world, which allows her to experiment with a variety of different materials. She uses layers of UV – Resistant plastic and then pigments them with different layers of ink, acrylic, powders and industrial dyes.
Personally, my favourite pieces of her work is her petri dish pieces. I like these due to the different shapes and patterns that have formed in the dishes, and how unique they all are. She has used a different colour palette in each Petri Dish, which shows how different colours react with each other. My favourite style of Petri Dishes is when Reis has used a dark colour as the base for the dish, and then used a lighter colour like white on top. This is effective as the light colours have been broken by the dark colours and this creates a veiny effect which I think is very unique. The different processes that she has used has added a lot of detail which makes her work very different from other artists. I am influenced by her use
of colour and how she has used a scientific approach to create detail and unique pieces of art. I like her use of bold colours and how the inks and materials have reacted against each other to create new styles of art.
She has used the Petri Dishes that she has created and photographed them. The Petri Dishes have also been exhibited in groups of 30, 60 or 150 pieces. She has had her work exhibited worldwide.
I would not be able to recreate this artists work because I do not have the materials for this.
Kayla McCabe
This is the artist who's work I am going to create. I will need to use long exposure to capture the head of the model. I will use Emma and Rebecca as the models for this recreation. I will need Photoshop to edit the portraits and make them black and white.
To recreate this image, I shall use Rebecca and I will need to underexpose it so that the image comes out dark. I will create this underexposed look by adjusting the shutter speed so that less light will come into the image. I will then use photoshop to make this into black and white and I will then adjust the contrast to make the highlights and the shadows bolder.
Identify
Describe
Explain
Compare and Contrast
Analyse
Evaluate
Identify
it is a can of coke
describe
it is a red can of coca cola on a white background.
It has a silver top where it can be opened, it contains 140 calories in it. There is a white stripe going underneath the writing.
It is a cylinder.
Explain:
It is red because it is a bright colour that will make people notice it.
The opening is at the top so that people can drink it without spilling the drink.
The title is big so that people can see it easily, but it still fits onto the can easily. The shape allows liquid to be kept inside without spilling out.
Compare and Contrast:
The coke can is different to a can of tango as they have a different base colour. The coke can is red which is the companies main colour, however tango have used two colours to contrast off each other and highlight each other.
They both have bright colours so that they stand out. They both contain calorie and sugar contents in them. They both have the same cylindrical shape which holds liquid well. Both of their opening is at the top of the bottle, which stops liquid from spilling out.
Analyse:
Coke was originally stored in barrels in the US along with alcohol. Alcohol was taxed but cocacola wasn’t. They decided to paint the coca cola barrels red so that tax officials could easily tell apart what needed to be taxed and what didn’t.
The logo was changed many times from 1887 – 2015. They made coke bottles with people names on during 2013 to promote sharing coke and it improved advertisement.
Evaluation:
Overall, Coca colas red branding has made them easy to see and when people see the red colours they will subconsciously think about the drink. They have changed their packaging to make it easily recyclable and they want to keep making their packaging as sustainable as possible.
Traditional VS Contemporary
Traditional is mainly nature based photography. There is a simple foreground and background. The places that have been shot have been romanticised and idealised by making them look appealing. There will also be plain colours that are relative to the actual picture.
Contemporary photography has different layouts, like from the ground up, or from a side view. The foreground and background may be less obvious and there would be more abstract shapes.
The main similarity between traditional photography and contemporary photography is that their main focus is landscapes. They both either contain a rural or an urban theme to their photography.
Typically, Traditional photography uses an eye level shot type, where the viewer could see the landscape from a regular point of view. However in contemporary landscapes, more abstract shot types such as canted or worms eye are used to create new views on an area.
Contemporary:
Traditional:
Victoria Siemer:
This is a contemporary style photographer who uses geometric shapes and editing to distort their landscapes. My favourite part of her work is how the upside down part of her landscape looks like it is dripping down onto the main part of the cityscape. I have chosen this artist as I enjoy her unique twist on a landscape and how she has managed to manipulate a landscape.
They have mainly used cool tones in their image, however some of their cityscapes incorporate the warm tones that are found within the lights of the city. This creates a bold contrast which draws the viewers eyes towards the bright lights the foreground. The use of light photography draws the viewers into the centre of her work where the lights trail off too.
Analysing An Image:
This image is of a bird sitting on a plain white cross. The bird is in focus and the rest of the image is not. The bird is mainly brown, all of the crosses are a plain white colour and there is green grass in the background. The white crosses, placed in memory of Italian civilians killed by nazi troops, represent peace. Birds are typically represented as being peaceful.
The photographer has used a large aperture to only capture the bird in focus, leaving the rest of the image out of focus. This is effective as the viewers will be focused on the bird, and the tranquility that it creates. The photographer has also used the rule of third to make the image more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
Overall, The use of a large aperture has created a calm tone to the image, which is effective as the image is reflecting on the deaths of 300 civilians.
This image, taken of some sailers in a yacht race, contains more action and it is more dynamic than the previous image. There is a lot of white and cool tones in this image.
The photographer has used a low camera angle and a slight canted angle to create a more action based image, whereas the previous image has used a straight human eye angle to keep it simplistic and calm. The angle also highlights the sharp winds. The cool tones used in this image make it seem sharp,combined with the captured motion of the waves in the bottom left hand corner, gives this image a sense of action. The image has been angled so that the boats, currently in the foreground, are pointed so they are sailing into the background. This draws the viewers eye into the image and it adds motion to this image.
Overall, this image contains more motion and action than the previous image, however they are both effective at showing their purpose.
Traditional VS Contemporary: Research
The image to the left is a traditional image and the image to the right is a contemporary image. The traditional image contains an S - Curve, which draws the viewers eyes down the centre of the image. The traditional image has a clear foreground and background, The foreground being the front of the river and the background being the mountains. This is different to the contemporary image to the right, where there is no clear foreground and background. . There is a more defined point of view than in the traditional image. The same effect has been created where the viewers eye is being drawn into the image, however it is made using the buildings and the angle of the shot. The shot type for traditional is always just a plain straight view, whereas contemporary images like the one to the right has more canted and more abstract shot types, like worms eye. Both images have a monochromatic colour scheme with their images, this helps to keep their images simplistic and it focuses on the detailing in the photographs.
Traditional VS Contemporary: Artists:
These contemporary landscapes are by Pawel Klarecki. To create these he uses a long exposure time to capture the water moving, which creates the misty effect of the water. These are contemporary because he uses long exposure shot types and there is no clear foreground or background.
The two traditional landscapes are by Ansel Adams (the bottom two images). His images are a very different style to the previous artist. Adams uses more traditional shot styles, he has used an s curve in one of his images. His images also have a clear foreground, mid ground and background.
Portrait Photography:
Traditional Portrait - A basic image where they are looking at the camera. It is a visual representation of the person
Environmental Portrait - When a picture is taken of someone in their area, like a builder on a construction site.
Lifestyle Portrait - A picture taken of someones life, such as culture, or family. It shows how they live.
Candid Portrait - When someones image is taken without them knowing. It is captured at the moment and not set up
Surreal Portrait - It shows different realities or a persons subconscious
Conceptual Portrait - When the meaning of the photograph is unclear and they want the viewer to interpret it
Posed Portrait - When the model consiously poses for the image
Abstract portrait - It is not a realistic visual representation of a person.
Formal Portrait - When someone is posed and wearing formal clothing
Fashion Photography - Showing emphasis on clothes, hair and make up on the person
Animal Portraits - Taking pictures of something that isnt a person
Tim Flach - Animal Photographer
This is an animal photographer, however he does also used posed shots and environmental shots. this is because most of his animals that he has photographed are posing for him, but some are just in their environment.
Project: Portrait Photography
Artist: brno del zou
Sherrie Miller https://sherriem.com/photography/
Patrick Rochon light photography
Kyle Thompson
Whilst I was making this moodboard, I found that my favourite type of portrait photography was surreal photography. I like this style because it is very abstract and i like how there can be many different meanings to the photos.
Portrait Photographer: Kyle Thompson
Kyle Thompson is a surrealistic portrait photographer. In the majority of his images he uses floating objects.
I find a lot of his images to be quite calming and peaceful. He uses muted and cool colours which are quite calming too look at, however in the image to the right he uses these muted tones and then bright red balloons to make a statement in the image. The red in this makes the image slightly unsettling. The model also makes these images calm because he normally has his eyes closed and is not tense in these images as well. The white balloons also represent peace and tranquility, however the axe juxtaposes this as it is a sharp and potentially violent item to have. This could show a battle between violence and calm.
I think these images would be reasonable to recreate/ re design. All I would need is some balloons, a model and a forest that is n0t windy. The only problem is that I would have to take out spotlights into the forest and that would take a lot of effort and i risk the equipment being damaged. If its too windy then the balloons will not look the same and they will blow away.
Sherrie Miller
Sherrie Miller creates eerie surreal portraits.
I like how the sheet has been used in these images to mask the persons face. This creates an eerie and ghostly feel to these images, which is also emphasised by the use of long exposure times and the grainy black and white filters.
This is another artists who's style i would like to recreate. This would be able to do if i had a long exposure and someone with a sheet over their head. They would then need to move their hands in different ways over their heads and it would create this effect.
I would also need to have a high ISO as these images have a high grain.
I will need to edit my images a lot after i have taken them. This is because they are in black and white and I could also add the grainy filter in Photoshop if it isn't strong enough in the original image.
Noell S. Oszvald
Noell S Oszvald creates surreal portraits, most of which are using a thin transluscent sheet. I like how simplistic his work is. His work is quite calming to look at, i think this is because there is nothing outstanding in it, and his monochromatic colour scheme combined with the use of negative space. In the majority of his images, the model is hiding their face, this could be interpreted in different ways.
I will be able to take images like these using any of the backdrops. I will get a sheet and drape it over the model and get them to pose with it on as i take their pictures. I will then need to use photoshop to edit things like the lighting and the colours on the image.
Long shutter speed moodboard
This is a mood board that I created. All of the images in it are long shutter speed images. I have chosen to make a mood board on this because I like the style and the effects that it gives, and i hope to some portraits in this style.
6 Images
These are the six images that I am going to take my portraits in these styles.The top three images will need to be taken on location and the bottom three will be taken in the studio.
For the first image I will collect some fairy lights and then drape them over a model and take close up shots of them. I will need to use a shallow aperture and a fast shutter speed so that i do not catch any movement, but it will need to be long enough that I can still get the light from the fairy lights.
For the second image, I will need to take the model to my house and get them to sit in the same style as the image, and then get them to move their head left to right while the camera is on a long exposure time.
For the third image, i will use one of my cats and follow them around and take images of them. I will need to use a shallow aperture to focus on the cat and not on the backgrounds.
For the fourth image will need to use the studio to shoot this. I will put a sheet over someones head and then get them to move their hands around slowly as I have a long exposure time on the camera.
For the fifth image I will cover Rebecca in fairy lights then take pictures of her in different positions.
For the sixth image I will take plain portrait shots of the model facing different ways. I will then make them black and white and then cut different parts of each image out and layer them on top of other pictures of the same model.
