After doing my first body photoshoot I wanted to do a comparison of mine and Rinko Kawauchi’s images. I used Kawauchi as my main source of ideas because her images have a very spiritual element within them. Her images are bright which creates this pure atmosphere. I tried to produce this type of effect in my images using Photoshop to create this aesthetic Kawauchi also uses a very small f stop to focus primary on one particular spot within the frame, while the rest of the image is blurred. I really like this technique because it helps the viewer to focus on specific details within the image.
I have chosen to compare these two images because they are very similar in the terms of angle and subject. Both of the images are of an eye because the eyes are a very important features of the body. They are an extremely spiritual element because the eyes are what inhabits us to witness the world around us. Our eyes allow us to see pain, fear, love and happiness. Kawauchi’s image of an eye is a much closer framing then mine and her f stop is also a lot smaller then mine because I wanted to capture a lot more detail then she did. I wanted to capture more of the face as well. The angles at which the images were taken are the same. The image is of the left eye being taken from the right side of the face. The brightness and feel of the image is similar to Kawauchi’s because I wanted to replicate her atmosphere. The colors however are different, mainly because of the background within the image. Kawauchi uses a blue background for her image whereas I wanted to have a colourless background because I wanted the focus to be on the face. Kawauchi’s image is also slightly brighter then mine because it was taken outside using natural light which created this soft, natural feeling. Mine was taken during the evening in a bathroom so I had to try reproduce this effect using camera settings and Photoshop. 
The hands are another important part of the body because we use them every single day to do almost everything. They also change a lot as we grow up because they start decaying and gaining what we call imperfections such as wrinkles and scars. We also use our hands a lot to express different emotions such as fear and love. The image by Kawauchi and my image have many differences because of the angle of the subject, the age of the subject and the colours are very contrasting. Kawauchi has captured the back of the subjects hand because she wants to capture the wrinkles and veins of the subject. I wanted to capture the wrinkles on the palm of the hand because they revealed much more detail then the back did. Kawauchi used a much older subject then I did because I simply used someone that was there at the time which was my mum. The picture was taken in my bathroom because I wanted a simple white background whereas Kawauchi takes the image in a random place so the background has more detail in it. Since I used my hand to cover part of the flash, it created a pink tinge to the image whereas Kawauchi’s image has a very cold, white light because she used the daylight from outside.
