Who is Arnold Newman?

Arnold Newman was an American photographer who was noted for his environmental portraits of artists and politicians. He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.

Examples of Arnold’s work found on Google

Analysis of one of Arnolds pieces

I really like this image as it shows a real sense of depth throughout this image, the shadows help create depth as it helps show the distance of the arches on the left hand side of the image. This black and white environmental portrait conveys a number of stories around the scientist on the right hand side of the image. The soft natural lighting from the sun creates a more dramatic but also natural looking image. Furthermore, the position of the light source creates a shadow on the side of the mans face which helps increase the dramatic atmosphere. In this photograph a high contrast is used in this black and white image which allows the man to stand out more in his white lab coat.  The contrast comes from the the black shadows on the left side of the image and then the grey walls and the white lab coat on the right side of the image. This influences the viewer to see the photograph in more detail.

My responses

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How I edited my images in the style of Arnold Newman’s work

Original image

Firstly, I changed the brightness and contrast so I could enhance the colours within the photograph.

Once I was happy with the brightness and contrast, I then changed the photograph into black and white where I also altered the colours again.

I then used the levels adjustment to enhance the black and white even more until I was eventually happy with it.

This was my final image.

This was my favorite image from my shoot and out of my selected edits as it was the most direct image out of the shoot as the character in the image was looking at the camera whereas in the other images the characters in the photographs weren’t looking at the camera.