Location Scouting.

Location Scouting.

 

I went to a woodland area in Ashtead common, i knew this would be a good place to scout for locations to take photographs because i know the place very well, 

Jurgen teller

Jürgen Teller

Jürgen Teller is a fine artist and fashion photographer who lives in Suffolk.
In terms of Jürgen's influences the photographers that have made the most impact on his work are Nobuyoshi Araki who is a contemporary photographer and William Eggleston who is an american photographer. He is inspired  by these people because they fully live their lives how they want and do what they want to do which he really appreciates. he is influenced by the cinematic industry and that growing up around television helped greatly and also by the people around him whether they are friends or family.




A vital part of Jürgen Teller's work is that it always have a narrative, there is always a story to tell, he says that when he shoots his images its an adventure with strange, bizarre, boring and exciting things. He says he makes is work because he wanted to explore the world.

He believes that there is social value in his work, he thinks that his work can help you to find your own individuality which he always trys to push within his work, but he wants people to find themselves even though its an extremely difficult thing to do. There are many types of photography in the world now, for example: fashion photography, contemporary photography, editorial etc, but Teller thinks photography is just considered photography, he says that fashion is practical, you can wear it and it can be a spectacle, theatrical or an idea to make you dream, he doesn't concentrate on thinking too deep into it he concentrates on making good work.

Jürgen Teller creates his photographs wherever and whenever he can, he takes his snaps whenever he feels necessary and by that, meaning all the time, even though he has different projects somehow all of his work seems to fit together perfectly. the camera he uses is a Contax G2 with a simple flash on top or without the flash using natural light, his settings are also very natural most of the time capturing people off guard or making them pose weather it is his family, friends, model or a celebrity.

Damien Blottiere

Damien Blottiere Case Study.

Damien Blottiere is a french  contemporary fashion photographer and cinematographer who creates surrealistic collages.

Damien's influences and inspirations are his subjects, he is influenced by their skin, bones, muscles and the shape of their faces and body parts. He has always been interested in images and the visual arts. He was fascinated with analog cameras, and he then started to buy fashion magazines and vintage porn publications, secretly this was the best way he found to look at bodies and would look at them for hours.

Compared to other fashion photographers  like Ben Hassett whoa work is very glamorised; Blottiere's work is quite unique and i have never seen anything like it, he doesn't just take a photograph he makes one, he can take many photographs and create a whole new perspective on it creating depth. Damien's work could be centered around many movements, however it can be seen as stuck in the middle of pop art and surrealism, compared to how pop art was in the 1950's being very boldly coloured, Damien's work somehow lacks those primary colours but the sense of pop is still there, having images inter wined with each other create surrealistic sculpture collages which can oftern represent animals, flowers or another dimension to humans.
Damien Blottieres work techniques is that he follows the skin, clothes, bones, and the shape of faces and body parts, all the silhouette aspects. when he creates his work he has to be alone and he then lets his hands do their work, he tries to sum up what a subject has told him or what he wishes they could say. Processing his images is by taking the photographs and combining them by hand collaging them to create a whole new photograph. Damien also has work in moving image such as videos and Gifs, which are seemed to be made by stop motion using photographs.

Gregory Crewdson case study.

Photography Case Study 1.

Gregory Crewdson.

  

                      

Gregory crewdson is an American photographer who's photographs are usually elaborate sets and staged greatly like films, creating what he calls 'frozen moments'.

Gregory's father who was a psychoanalyst was a great influence in his life and work, he says that it was his key development and understanding of life which shaped his idea of revealing secrets in everyday life. Films are an important influence on crewdson, his top influential films are; vertigo, blue velvet and close encounters with the third kind (which is why his photographs give a sci-fi feel). Director David Lynch is a major influence on Gregory's work seeing as he is the director of Blue Velvet. 

Gregory works in a very modern world where science fiction can become a reality in some cases, the historical context of his work is that his photographs are influenced by retro and old films i.e: Blue Velvet (1986) and Close Encounters with the Third Kind (1977). The social contextual side of his work is that the 'subjects' in his photographs are not models or celebrities that are 'now in' or major in the public eye, he uses local members of the public, he says 'im always drawn to normal people', the subjects he likes to use have a 'ghost like' quality who "carry a sense of regret and sadness with them"

Crewdson creates his photographs by giving a sense of narrative, his photographs tell a story, even though his pictures are not moving you can still feel the cinematic glow that it is trying to convey, feeling like its a still from a movie scene. the way he creates the low lit photographs is by shooting at his favourite time of the day: 'twilight' which creates a misty setting. his main material that he uses in his photo shoots is light, he always tries to create narrative and a meaning through his use of light. the process of one of his shoots consists of around 40 people spending days setting up for one single shot, his lighting is suspended from cranes and hidden fog machines are used. to find locations he will drive around cities and neighbourhoods searching for a good place, he says that if its weird that will be his location.

Photographer research 2

Vitor Shalom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer research.1

Ben Hassett.

Photographer Ben Hassett was born and raised in London. He was trained as an art and landscape photographer but changed early in his career to fashion and beauty. After moving to Paris, he began to find his real techniques, experimenting with shadow and light, color and form to create the highly polished beauty images that are his work today. Ben's skillful use of lighting has made him a professional practitioner of studio photography, and he is particularly well known for his striking beauty photography. Ben is a regular photographer to Vogue magazines worldwide. His commercial clients include Calvin Klein Cosmetics, Bulgari, YSL Beauté, Lanvin, Burberry, L’Oreal, and Christian Dior. 

Ben Hassett's work on Vogue. Including Japan and Italian Vogue;

 

 

 

Types of Portraiture.

Types of Portraiture.

 

Candid Portrait photography:

 Where the person/ people are unaware of the photograph being taken, these types of portrait photographs are very natural and spontaneous.





 

 

Posed Portrait Photography:

Where the subject/person/model is aware of the photograph being taken and is in a specific pose or costume fit for a theme if there is one.

 

Environmental Portrait Photography:

 Focusing on the relation between the subject and his/hers/ their environments, usually the main focus of the photograph.

Individual Portrait photography:

Where there is only one person in the photograph/frame.

Group Portrait:

When there is more than one person in a photograph. some examples would be a family photograph, class photos, batch photos etc.

 

 

Close up Portrait:

When the photograph is taken at a very short distance or using a zoom or a macro lens. it usually covers the whole face and fills the frame.

Facial Shot Portrait:

Where the photograph is taken from the neck-up and usually quite close to the face.

Upper Body Portrait:

Where the photograph is taken from the waist up

 

Full Body Portrait:

When the 3/4th portion of the whole body is shown in a photograph, weather they are standing or sitting down.

Subject definitions.

Definitions:

Breif 2.

3 point photography

3 point lighting.

three point lighting is where you use 3 different types of lighting whether you're in a studio or shooting elsewhere, it is consisted of a back light, fill light and a key light. using these lights creates highlighting, shadows and light. Key lighting is the most important and is the strongest when it is either left or right of the subject and is then added with the other lights that create shadow and normal light, (fill and back light) this is helpful when shooting because the light is used to model a form.

diagrams of 3 point lighting:

Here are my final photographs in response to three point lighting, using a fill light, back light and a key light, reflecting three different types of emotion:

rage

despair

joy

lighting: How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

Shifting a light source can give a very big effect on a photograph, moving the light around can give many different emotions an a human subject, the subject may seem to be giving different types of expressions towards the camera but in fact they are not, it is just the lighting moving around the face, for example, if the light is pointed horizontally down it is highlighting certain features giving the subject an expression of hatred. The colours and harshness of the light can also be important, different colours give off different feelings, such as yellow being warm and mellow, pink being excitable and stunned and green being jealous and filled with desire and envy.