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Shoot 4

Equipment: Snoot

                        Soft box

                              Fixed Lights

                      Triggers

                                tethering cable

                                  Canon 5D MK II

                          Light meter

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Shoot 3

Equipment- Triggers

                                    Cannon 5D Mk II

                                 Tethering Cable

                             Fixed Lights

                       Soft Box

                           Barn Doors

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Sam Taylor Wood  

Sam is one of the most important contemporary women artists, her work combines elements of the still and moving image and frequently explores the tensions and erotic entanglements arising between people in a closed environment. Her panoramic photographs have the quality of freeze frame. Sa, Taylor Wood often explores how emotions are expressed.

Sam is a photographer and film maker, image below is made with a rotating camera  that turns 360 degrees in five seconds, the work records the motions and gestures of six actors and friends, the image unfolds each character seems lost in their own reality.

I would like to experiment with coloured helium balloons to illustrate the model is being lifted up from a fantasy book to reality. I would do this by having a fan in the studio blowing leaves and artificial flowers around the model and have the book on the floor some open some not, Could even tie the books to the balloon  when not tied to the model. Am guessing to do this shoot is having step ladders in the set where the model cud stable her legs on steps and if need more stability i use a stool to rest her head.

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Lidia Vives

  

Lidia's favourite photographer is Annie Leibovitz due to the compositions, the colour, the images almost looking cinematic and contrasts. She goes adventuring for inspiration through landscapes, clothing, technique and when she dreams and deep in thoughts in a shower.In Lidia's opinion she feels that making a good image considers fundamental things like composition, colour but most importantly the images needs an issue, there has to be a story behind it, a mystery.

Advice Lidia gives for aspiring photographers is to see up to date art in museums, collect daily art books and be very critical with yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

 

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Sarah Ann Loreth

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Sarah is a fine art photographer who specializes in self portraiture and conceptual portraiture. In her work she tries to convey a quiet frozen moment of emotion with a connection to her natural surroundings.

Sarah's use of colour and surrealism she creates a reality only imagined in her mind and explores between darkness and light, she leaves a feeling of a human mystery experience that leaves viewers wondering how the story unfolds.

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Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer which her passion is creating new worlds in photographs, her images resemble paintings and speak of an era and each image is a story. Brooke's photography questions what it means to be alive.

Brooke shaden beginning of doing her photography experimenting and finding her style she knew fine well she did not want to make straight ahead images and relies on photoshop to create images that only exist in her mind. She creates otherworldly photographs with a surreal dark imagery focusing on movement and painterly effect with a  whimsical feeling. Brooke spends about 5-7 hours per picture in photoshop, when the image get's complicated she spends 35 hours on a single picture in photoshop, when put pictures together she blends the images to create a single layer and then begin to make colour/ contrast to make image stand out.

Brooke shaden "I wanted to evoke feelings from people" she explains " I soften my images and add texture to make them look painterly"

  
  



 

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Process of Levitation

Sebastien Barriol

Two main ways to achieve this is com-positioning variety of completely different shots to build up the composition or taking few photos same position with camera sitting on tripod. Sebastien layers both images in photoshop and masked out the chair.







Dani Diamond

Once the background is captured it is best to take shots of the model and try and take pictures of the model and background in the same place and at the same hour. When comes to compositions photographers look for the inconsistencies. Lighting and shadows are the first to give away that fact the photo was a composition of images which is why its best to shoot model and background the same time and area. Most important part of levitation shoot is capturing the body of the model in a natural position whether is be jumping in mid air or lying down, the body's language has to math the levitation.

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Editorial magazine research

Love is a bi annual magazine, despite it's glossy pages, the magazine has a raw look and is twice yearly developed of inspiration for designer, artists for visual ideas. Love opens its readers to developments of music and pop culture.

Another is bi annual culture fashion for men and women. It was launched in 2001 under the publishing company dazed group. It's blend of high fashion and world class photography features on the arts, politics and literature to set it apart and  make crafted collector's item, published twice a year in September and February.

Vogue In the 1960s, with Diana Vreeland as editor in top most and personality, the magazine began to appeal to the youth of the sexual revolution by focusing more on contemporary fashion and editorial features that openly discussed sexuality. The name vogue means style in french,  as of May 20th had one year anniversary of a healthy body initiative, the initiative represents a commitment from the editors to promote positive body images.

Australian editor Edwin Mcann explained: 

In the magazine we're moving away from those very young, very thin girls. We ask ourselves what can Vogie do about it? And an issue like this (june 2013 issue) is what we can do about it. If I was aware of a girl being ill on photo shoot I wouldn't allow that shoot to go ahead, or if a girl had an eating disorder I would not shoot her.

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Digital Manipulation in Editorial photography

In 1917 the photographic combinations of different images were created by commercial photographic studios to bring family members  together into one picture in reality not together for portrait shoots. there is three people on the left in the image appear to be floating in mid air because apparently cut out of other photos and pasted on top of a photo of the women at the right and re-photographed in a composite image.

Daquilla family from the early 20th century by
 A. Werner and Sons in New York.


Photographers correcting, manipulate and enhance in photoshop, they must deal with questions of both ethics and aesthetics. Ethics define on what we think is good and bad and conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct. Aesthetics is to deal with the nature of beauty, art and taste and things that are pleasing in appearance. Digital processing there's hardly a limit to what can be done to the image which are done with the best intentions.

Changes can be made to images that are unnoticable, so that there is now a discussion that photographs will no longer be allowed as evidence in courts of law.

viewers now they know that anything can be done to an image as films has played dinosaurs and aliens look real. Movies cause problems because viewers expect to be fooled in the cinema and tend to  get upset when fooled in an supposedly  truthful factual medium such as the news.

Purposes and intentions

Questions photographer should think when manipulate an image are, why are we doing this, what are our purposes and intentions? where do we draw the line? what is ethical in the digital manipulation and enhancement of a photo?

The simpleness in manipulating digital images with Photoshop, some people are questioning whether images are real or art and unsure to believe in anything they see.

Editing and enhancing images is important because of photographers motivation. why are we doing these things? are we doing them to deceive people? Photographer are doing it to make the subject more interesting and making it a better picture. Just like a writer enhances factual stories with metaphor and adjectives, photograaphers can enhance their images with photoshop techniques and tools such as contrast and colour enhancement.

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Levitation shoot 2

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Group Crit 2

On Thursday 16th October I have shown my sketch ideas and Tim walker research as they relate to my sketches on using the woods materials to the class but not every student seen them as tutor put as all into communicating with a partner to give feed back by saying what they see in image and what the photographer intentions are and what understanding they getting by looking at the images.

I didn't have any images to show as my sister was ill during the weekend and couldn't experiment more on the day dreaming fantasy and following through the phrase 'books can take you anywhere' but thought what about i have a go in the studio and slip away from the fantasy and make my image more reality and meaningful to others and not do too much ideas based around the woods because could become boring and coming to a stage where am like ' done that time to move one'. I was going to do studio shoots on Wednesday 14th October but my second model who's my neighbor in the halls of residence and does the same course as me was going to help me set up lighting as am not entirely sure how to work everything and i help out being a model for her portraits project but fell ill.

Feed back from my sketches is that they are very detailed documentary of my plans of shooting in studio but said I should place where am placing the lights in the sketch and what lights going to be used to be more organized. Partners liked how I have placed props into the scene that helps to tell my story more into detail and one of the partners said my sketches representing people with agoraphobia.

Tim Walker Research

Agoraphobia photography images

Antonio Figueiredo


Vladimir Frumin
 

Agoraphobia meaning- is a fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult. Many people assume it simply means a fear of open spaces. They will avoid situations that cause anxiety and may only leave the house with a friend or partner. Many agoraphobics also fear being left alone, dislike being in any situation where they feel trapped and fear travelling away from their safe place usually home.