Frank Hallam-Day

Washington, DC-based photographer Frank Day is a versatile artist shooting in both black and white and color film. Traveling the world to remote destinations, Day is able to capture the rich beauty of pattern, color and texture of the open-air markets, isolated landscapes, busy harbors and everyday lives of diverse cultures. Day has also mastered the landscapes and cityscapes of the world, shooting the angular architecture of cities such as Berlin, New York, and Baltimore, as well as the beautiful softness of Washington, DC’s cherry blossoms.

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Franco Fontana

Franco Fontana is above all interested in the interplay of colours and he had based his own vibrant and original language on that. The later critics had labeled it as Photographic Trans-avantgarde. He explored different subjects: urban landscape, portraiture, fashion, still-life and the nude. He worked with 35 mm cameras, mostly on location claiming that his studio was the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Fontana

My Inspiration

In this photoshoot I went to gorey because I wanted to focus on the different colours of the buildings. Therefore Franco Fontana was a god artist to take inspiration from. However, because I was also going to the pier, Frank Hallam-Day is a great artist to take inspiration from, especially his photographic series of the rusty multi-coloured boats.

Here are examples of my photos:

With my shoot, I was lucky enough to have a vibrant sunset which affected all of my photos. I especially liked it when it was dark, and my photos of the boats feature a dark red sunset.

To manipulate my images I used adobe lightroom. With my images I adjusted the vibrance, clarity, contrast, exposure, highlights, shadows and I cropped the images until I got the result I wanted. I adjusted the vibrance to emphasize the sunset, however for some of the photos I didn't need to adjust the vibrance because the sunset was so predominant. 

In some of my images I was struggling with the shutter speed so some of my images turned out blurry because it captured too much of the image. With the lighting I used both natural light, however I also used flash when it became really dark. Most of the images have a very warm temperature, however some of the photos that include the buildings also feature cold colours because of the buildings colour. The darker the night because, the darker the tone of the image. There are some elements of line introduced in my images, from the colours of the buildings, or the wires of the boats. However, there are also softer elements of the images, from the roundness of the boats to the curvature of the flowers.