Photography Topic: A personal project about home, sense of belonging, loss, loneliness, new beginnings and challenges.
Feeling, a sad sense of belonging, loss, lonely, and having new beginnings and challenges, is something very relatable with many people around the world as these are mutual feelings everyone feels at one point. This project will portray these feelings, in my creative and personal perspective, using different photography techniques, and creative artistic design methods. As stated by Diane Smyth in 2020 on the telegraph , photographs can turn the world into a set of collectible objects that viewers can own, having set some objects and doodles in some of my photography, giving the photograph more of a story and meaning. Making photographs have life and meaning, my aim towards this project is to create a new life within my photographs, as viewers can observe the image and live and relate to it.
Yousuf Karsh, A photographer that only focused on black spaced portraits, this photographer took black and white portraits, which gave the image a sense of age and sadness. His work is defined as classic, using multiple photography techniques, having a very focused angle on people and blurring the background, which gives more attention to the person. Majority of the photographers photographs have either a black or white background to provide more attention to the model, it also give a balanced contract towards the image giving it a calming presentation view regarding the viewers.
Rodeny smith, a prominent photographer whose aim was create photographs similar to the surrealist painter Rene Magritte. Long acclaimed for his iconic black and white images that combine both portraiture and landscape, Smith provided the viewers with a sense in imagination filled with enchanted worlds full of extreme contradictions and surprises. Using only film and light, his un-retouched, dream-like images are matched in quality by the craft and physical beauty of his prints. The camera techniques he had applied when taking the pictures has inspired me in many ways, As shown the main focus of the pictures is the model in the middle, but the background is set in a presented way of blur yet clearness when focused upon, although the image is filled, the photograph still looks calming as everything within the image is balanced equally in order to please the viewers eyes.
These two photographers are my main interests as they both share a lot of similarities towards their camera techniques, to the way they set the scene. Both artists rely on black and white images and are able to promote a story, giving the photograph life and meaning towards the viewers.
References:
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- Magnum Photos. (2020). Music, Pleasure and Photography • Cristina de Middel • Magnum Photos. [online] Available at: https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/cristina-de-middel-music-pleasure-and-photography/ [Accessed 5 Jan. 2020].
- N.M. Kwok, D. Wang, X. Jia, S.Y. Chen, G. Fang, Q.P. Ha, “Gray world based color correction and intensity preservation for image enhancement”, Image and Signal Processing (CISP) 2011 4th International Congress on, vol. 2, pp. 994-998, 2011.
- Wen-chung Kao, Sheng-hong Wang, Lien-yang Chen, Sheng-yuan Lin, “Design considerations of color image processing pipeline for digital cameras”, Consumer Electronics IEEE Transactions on, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1144-1152, 2006.
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