Concept for my Montage

 Thinking

The whole planning and thinking of an idea is easy it is the unique ideas that are harder to approach. My first idea was to have a crime scene with ten different photos montaged into one real-looking photo. I went about it and took photos for it but I didn't want the police force to look bad because I remember what a wise woman once told us "The photo we take of someone is how others are going to perceive them" (Maloney). I then took a different approach to this when with all the different animals as human heads sitting at a dinner table eating food with little humans running for their lives. I wanted to take a fun approach and it was fun taking photos of people and telling them what it is about and everyone was smiling. I had the vision in my head so I didn't refer to anything. 

Portrait Project

 

Dan Winters

Tupac Shakur - Hollywood, CA - Rolling Stone

Anastasia Schaefer

Dan Winters wasn't my first choice for I wanted to photograph a female and I couldn't find a willing female to be my subject I asked my teacher (Prof. Maloney) if she would she said yes but said only if I couldn't find anyone else and if they fall through on me. Luckily I found a willing subject but I had to change my photographer to imitate. I went back through each photographer listed and finally found one that would look great with my subject. Dan Winters's photograph of this shirtless man with tattoos. It's simple and has a plain background I know the studio has a similar gray sheet to hang up.  The color palette is a little weird I know they edited this with either Lightroom or Photoshop to get that grayish vibe/texture. The high key I think in this photo is the shirtless part along with the shadow and bandana. The low key I would have to say is the tattoos. I will need to have a bandana and luckily I had a black and white one in my backpack. I would like it if my subject would get these tattoos or let me draw them on. I don't have a silver cross so I might have to leave it out. Post-production work on Dan Winters's photograph would have to be the color pallet texture. I will need my model to have a similar skin tone and some amount of muscles, tattoos would be nice but I can photoshop them in, to the best ability.

We had to create an inspirational photo and I did create one I liked but I did not show it in class. The one I did show is the one below it turned out good, I do like the blue tint with the mask. It makes a creepy eerie feeling like something in a true story horror suspension film. 

Anastasia Schaefer

Vik Muniz

 

Vik Muniz

The mark-making in Vik Muniz photography makes you want to take a second look. I personally think this style of photography that Vik Muniz destroys the photography it hurts my eyes to look at it because it is so busy your eyes can not adjust to look at the picture as a whole. The photograph does perceive its self as more of a tool rather than a final output. 

Matthew Albanese's Work

 

Matthew Albanese

1983

Albanese Selected Works

What makes Matthew Albanese's work strong is simple "By manipulating the scale, lighting, depth of field, and color balance in each image, Albanese, as the New York Times wrote in 2011, has become “adept at coaxing humble materials into looking like something else”" (Benrubi Gallery).  Matthew Albanese's photography is surreal and just draws you in. The lighting does add an effect of peacefulness and it was just a matter of waiting for that perfect shot of the sunset/sunrise to get that reflection on the water, I definitely think he alternated the saturation of the photo to get that textured look.  

Kate Middleton's 40th Birthday

 

Kate Middleton's 40th Birthday

Photographed by Paolo Roversi

How a photograph compares to a painted portrait is that for a painted portrait the subject has to sit still in the same position for however long it takes and then that natural authentic smile will start to drift away into a forced smile. The best photos are taken in that split second of a moment. Every stroke can tell a story and bring forth a unique perspective for a painted portrait, but the saying is " A picture is worth a thousand words" (Napoleon Bonaparte). I think for the medium of photography when the decision to commission a photographer versus a painter, is that it brought forth a spotlight for all photographers and a confidence boost to help them realize that they can be just as good or even better than a painter. The picture above stands out to me to be the most successful because the joy gleaming on Kate's face just brings me back to a time when I was happy I absolutely love the contract the photographer took and the depth of field he used. The longer I look into Kate's eyes I see a sparkle of the soul and the beautiful rawness of a moment in time when she was floating on clouds of feeling happy after you marry someone you love. 

Mother and her three kids

 

Alfred Stieglitz

Masterpieces 

Pinterest

Out of Henri Cartier Bresson, Immogen Cunningham, and Alfred Stieglitz we were to choose one to describe. I choose Alfred Stieglitz with this photograph of a mother and her two small children and a baby. The qualities that drew me to this photograph was not just the black and white but realness of this because nowadays everyone photographs preset places and people who look their best. For a digital artist, this is a great example to go off of for the point of photography is capturing raw truth for you can always make up a false perspective. 

Replicate portrait in studio

 Dan Winters

Research

I am not sure what to write here but I will try. Dan Winters wasn't my first choice for I wanted to photograph a female and I couldn't find a willing female to be my subject I asked my teacher (Prof. Maloney) if she would she said yes but said only if I couldn't find anyone else and if they fall through on me. Luckily I found a willing subject but I had to change my photographer to imitate. I went back through each photographer listed and finally found one that would look great with my subject. Dan Winters's photograph of this shirtless man with tattoos. It's simple and has a plain background I know the studio has a similar gray sheet to hang up.  The color palette is a little weird I know they edited this with either Lightroom or Photoshop to get that grayish vibe/texture. The high key I think in this photo is the shirtless part along with the shadow and bandana. The low key I would have to say is the tattoos. I will need to have a bandana and luckily I had a black and white one in my backpack. I would like it if my subject would get these tattoos or let me draw them on. I don't have a silver cross so I might have to leave it out. Post-production work on Dan Winters's photograph would have to be the color pallet texture. I will need my model to have a similar skin tone and some amount of muscles, tattoos would be nice but I can photoshop them in, to the best ability.

Before Photoshop

After Photoshop