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Mythological creature 1:

DEMON:

Appearance:

Demons can have many appearances, the stereotypical version of a demon is the red rough skin with sharp teeth and horns. typically ram horns. Another version is when they take the appearance of a dead person or wearing the skin of someone who they are possessing.

Behavior:

A demon's behavior is very scary and painful. they are the ones that create fear. anxiety and spiritual pain. they whisper sins into pure peoples ears. but the idea of a demon is very conceptual idea, one mans demon is another mans angel.

Motivation:

A demons motivation is the devil, Demons are definitely linked to the devil due to them being a part of hell and the devil being the king of hell. their motivation is their own pain and suffering.

Capabilities:

The capabilities of a demon is that they can cause sickness, disease, physical abnormalities, mental torment. They can influence human events, can speak through a persons voice. and see through their eyes. they can influence emotions, thoughts and actions.

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Mythological Creature 2:

Hantu Air: 'spirit of the water'

Appearance:

The appearance of the hantu air can vary, one appearance can take the form of a woman like creature who looks very dead or half alive, if they show themselves it is usually is the form of a floating log.

Behavior:

The behavior of a hantu air is that they are said to be the ghosts of people who drowned, but they are very independent spirits and can harm people.

Motivation:

The motivation of a hantu air is obviously hurting people, their anger and helplessness is what they thrive off of. their other motivations is when they make offerings in exchange for cooperation, they can also shape shift.

Capabilities:

The capabilities of a Hantu Air is that they are very dangerous which means that they are associated with bad things happening to people which include drowning people, making people go missing, eating people and flooding near towns and villages. Riverbanks and lakesides should be avoided during sunset and nightfall.

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Photographer research for 3in1.

Whitesnow studio photography.

consisting of Sonia and Mark Whitesnow.

Sonia and mark Whitesnow both work and live in Russia, Their practice of work is using natural materials as well as modern technologies.

My opinion of their work is that it is very natural and pure, with their project 'Burnt by the Sun' there's something about it that is almost angelic like with pastel tones. Their work relates to mine because I am taking the role of the project 'creatures' and one of their projects is called the  'Psychospa Series' which focuses on man and nature, making the humans look almost creature like, I feel like I could base my finals of their work and mostly on the 'Psychospa Series' photographs.

'Burnt by the Sun'

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 'Psychospa Series'

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Photographer Research for 3in1 No.2

Tim Walker.

Tim Walker is a Fashion photographer who is famous for shooting for magazines such as Vogue, W magazine and Love magazine. Tim has been in the photographic industry for around 15 years and is now currently making moving film. The Victoria and albert museum and The National Portrait Gallery is where some of his collections are permanently placed.

Tim's specialty i would say is taking portraits, portraits is a running theme through his photography, weather it is full body portraits, posed portrait photography to facial shot portraits. His work can be either be very real or very faked, i.e. natural or well posed.

My favourite photography of his is his photoshoot for W Magazine shooting Kristen McMenamy as a mermaid. I feel like this particular shoot works really well with my own interest of creatures, relating to my 3In1 brief.

More of Tim Walkers Photographs:

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Photographer Research for AGlitchInNine.

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;

His work can really help me with my work and i will definitely use him as a reference, his work is biased in studios mostly with female models in a weird situation, which is what im all about.

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Dark Glamour.

I borrowed a book out of the library called 'Gothic: Dark Glamour'  in the book it showed different types of 'Gothic' whether it was old Gothic to 21st century Gothic. it showed that Gothic can be glamorous in the sense of the fashion world, seeing as black is the in colour at the moment and being different is how you get noticed. This book definitely steered me in the direction of fashion Gothic photography for my resolved final set of images.

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Slow shutter speed portrait Research.

Hope Limyansky- slow shutter self portrait

Kayleigh Von Grimm 'self portrait of Posession'

Creative Portraits with a Slow Shutter by Carroll Moore.

 These photographs have inspired me to do my own self portrait slow shutter speed photographs, which i have done (Practical work) and they turned out very well, there photograph are going to go into my uni portfolio, and im going to include slow shutter speed in my future works.

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Bill Wadman and his project 'Motion' 

Bill shot portraits of dancers with a slow shutter speed in order to capture the movements through motion blur. The final photographs look like a blurs and sheets of photography and could even resemble a painting.

Bill used a Canon 5D Mark II and a 35mm f/1.4 lens to shoot this project. Each of the images used a simple exposure and they were taken in a very dark room with a single soft light shining down on the dancers from above. The shutter speed lasted for 3 seconds with an f number stopped to 11, doing this prevented the depth-of-field from being too shallow seeing as he was trying to get motion blur rather than out-of-focus blur.

Bill Wadman's work was heavily influenced by Benjamin Wong shutter speed photography in which he told a beautiful love story through fashion and dance;

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BEN LAMBERTY

"AS BORN 1983 IN MAINZ. HE LIVES AND WORKS IN HAMBURG AND BERLIN. BEN STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN HAMBURG, AFTER ASSISTING SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHERS IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES AND PARIS"

'Clones'

'Untrustus'

I would like to do some cloning photography due to the fact i can use my skills in photoshop to create it, i have looked at video tutorials on how to perfectly clone a subject, i then did it to two photographs i have taken that i thought could have some more work done to them and this was the best option.

(The two photographs)

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Niel Drabble Talk

Having a one-to-one tutorial with Neil Drabble helped me highly seeing as LCF is a place for where i am applying to. he told me that i should really try to expand my practice and dive into doing collage with photographs/ using mixed media. he told me tips for the interviews such as knowing certain magazines and contemporary fashion photographers such as collier schorr and hedi slimane, he told me that fashion photography isn't always about setting up in a studio but could be taken on the streets.

For my portfolio Neil suggested that i should carry prints in a box, so that it is presented professionally so that whoever is interviewing me knows that i take a great deal of care into my work. He told me that i should look at some magazines and photographers, Hot N cool, POP and Arenarong were the magazines that he told me to look at, and the photographers were; Ryan Mickgimly, Roe Ethridge and Peter Beard.

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Gregory Crewdson Case Study.

             

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.
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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.












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Jürgen Teller Case Study.

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.

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I know that i want to move into Fashion photography as my work progresses, i like the way it looks, i like that way it can make a statement and i know that photographing people and doing portraits is my strongest skill. i have applied for various unis to take photography/fashion photography and im working hard to get the grade i want. i most definitely know that shooting fashion/people is what i want to do as a career and im very sure that my final major project will include me using studios, subjects and fashion with risks being taken.