Dervyn.. Studio work.. Final..

Evaluation...

When I took my first set of studio shots I took them without having the original image with me so I had to base the image on what I remembered of the original. When I uploaded my images onto my blog I realised that the images didn’t look like the original as much as I thought they did. I realised that the eye level was not the same on my images as the person was looking far away to the left side of the image and on the original the model was just looking slightly over the photographers shoulder. I also realised that the hair was different as on the original image the hair was flowing to the left side of the image, which showed they were obviously laid on the floor where as on my images the hair was normal as the person in the image was stood up. Another thing I realised was that the person in my image needed red lipstick on and yellow or orange glitter on the cheek and eye. When I re-shoot my images next week I will include these aspects into my image to make them replicate the original image completely. 

Documentary Photography.. Task 3 images..

Student life.. Assignment.. Task 6

As part of my assignment I had to base some images on the theme of 'student life'. As our college is near a university it was pretty simple. I basically just took pictures of food, drink and things that most students use and enjoy. I used natural light on these images just to make them look more original. 

Soft focus images.. for assignment.. Task 5

These are the images that I created to replicate the soft focus images below. They aren't exactly the same as the weather wasn't great so didn't want to get the person in the pictures to sit on the floor in the puddles and mud. If I was to do the images again I would make sure it was better weather outside so I could make the images more accurate and relate more to the original image. To get this effect on the images I put cling film over the lens to make a 'soft focus' look on the images. When I put the cling film over the lens it was a bit less noticeable but was easy to recognize the effect but on the way out of college I lost my cling film so had to borrow someone else's as a last resort.

 These are the images that I re-created.

Studio shots for dervins class..

Photoshop work..

extraa..

Peter Dench..

Martin Parr..

Task 1 and 2 for Tom..

These Images are based on the daily routines of people in America many years ago.  They are not really dealing with any issues they just show what people usually did in America in these times. All of these images are black and white and are mainly all portrait as they are all trying to fit either full sized people in the image or a lot of people in the image. The images were made between 1898 and 1995 and the very early images were taken with an ‘Eastman Kodak Folding’ film camera. Most of these images were in the ‘Life’ magazine which most of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s work was placed. I think the only theme of these images is the daily life of Americans in the 18^th and 19^th century. 

Lee Friedlander:

Lee Friedlander’s images are documentary photos shot around the southern states. Instead of just taking these shots regularly ‘Lee’ decided to make the images ‘Black and white’ and take them differently. For example he took some of the images out of car windows/mirrors and took shots of shadows, which outline the object of the image. Most of his images are taken in portrait but he took a few images in landscape. The images that were taken out of car windows/mirrors were shot in 2010 as part of his ‘America by car’ work, which was mainly just taking pictures in America out of a car to show a documentary of what he did and where he went. The rest of the images were shot from the 1960’s when he started taking all his shots around the US. The car images were formatted in a published book ‘America by car’ while the one of the shadow on the back of her was used in a portfolio named ’15 photographs by Lee Friedlander’. I think the images have a common theme because they are all shot in the USA and show different aspects of the USA.