For my final portraits, I decided to take my inspiration from Rosanna Jones work. What I liked about Rosanna’s work was how the image had not been obscured from view digitally but physically placing tape on top of the image to create texture in the image, which is a unique concept which I wanted to incorporate into my work.

The similarities that the images have is that they both tape which is obscuring the faces of the model and is the main focus of the image have been physically placed on top that then the photo has been taken, which create texture in the image. Both of the images have had the tape by physically placed onto of a first image which has then been re photographer to create depth in the image.

The differences in the photographs are that my images had vertical lines going across the image I decide to keep this the final images as  I felt like it added another layer to the image. Rosanna’s image has slight hint of purple whereas my images is in total black and white I wanted my image to be this way as I felt that by having the sole colour in the entire image to be the tap covering the model’s faces would make the image have a greater impact

Rosanna Jones

Stella Consonni

Creative Photography First Ideas

For creative photography project, I wanted to mainly focus on the idea of loss of Identity and how it can be expressed in different ways. After looking for some time I found that I liked two main concepts for the project. The first idea is Is taking  person apart and then editing back on it so they persons face is obscured and that their identity is lost, I also liked the idea of taking a person image but in such a way that an onlooker would not be able to work out who the actual person is so those two concepts are going to be the focus of my shoots.

Main ideas for the project 

Unfocused/Blurred Images

Obscured Faces

Mood Board For Loss OF Identity

Tableau photography

Tableau vivant ,also kown as aliving picture’, is a style of artistic presentation, often shortened to simply tableau. It most often describes a group of suitably costumed actors, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Jean-François Chevrier was the first to use the term tableau in relation to a form of art photography, which began in the 1970s and 1980s in an essay titled “The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography” in 1989.

Contact SheetBest Images from the shoot 

Edited Images

Best Image from the shoot

Why do we use studio lighting?

Studio lighting is used by photographers to capture images in ways that would very difficult in natural lighting and so that they can have total control over the environment. Studio lighting gives a photographer the freedom to control everything in the environment form the intensity of the light, the angle that they are at and the way that it highlights the subject and number of light sources. It the photographer to change the environment in any way that they wish and to also add in a different thing that could become part of the shoot such as backdrops and props.

What is the difference between 1-2-3 point light and what does each one do?

Three-point lighting is a method used in studio photography that uses three separate light sources being positioned in any way so that the photographer can illuminate the environment in any way that they chose.

The fill light a so shines on the subject, but from a side angle relative to the key and is often placed in a lower position than the key. It balances the key by illuminating shaded surfaces and lessening or eliminating chiaroscuro effects, such as the shadow cast by a person’s nose upon the rest of the face. 

The backlight shines on the subject from behind, often to one side or the other. It gives the subject a rim of light, serving to separate the subject from the background and highlighting contours.

The keylight is a specialized lamp or a camera’s flash. In outdoor daytime shots, the Sun is used as the key light.

What is fill lighting?

Fill light is any source of light that lightens ‘fills in’ areas of shadows created by other lights. Fill light is used to lighten the shadows created by the main light.  Some images, especially those requiring a dramatic mood, are best with little or no fill lighting. Most images will require some form of fill lighting to keep the image shadows and highlights in the image

What is spill lighting?

Light spilling is where light falls where it was not intended to fall

Photojournalism is a form of journalism the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast that uses  images instead of words to create  a news story.

Normally photojournalism refers only still images that are used to tell a story, however in some cases the term also refers to video used in journalism. Photojournalism is also connected to many other types of photography documentation e.g., documentary photography, social documentary photography, street photography, candid photography.

The main role of the photojournalist is to be a visual storyteller.  By photographing, editing, and presenting images, they tell a story in a way that no other media can.  Some photojournalists work for a local publication, while others will travel nationally or abroad,  putting themselves in constantly changing or even dangerous situations to capture a photo. The photographs serve the purpose of enhancing the story for the reader or viewer

Links about photojournalism 

http://www.huckmagazine.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/photojournalism-resistance-more-against-fake-news/

http://noorimages.com/