John Rankin Waddell:
- also known under his working name Rankin, is a British portrait and fashion photographer and director.
- Rankin focuses on close up head-shots of the subject, using a variety of facial expressions and props to create an interesting and intriguing image.
- Rankin makes use of both grey-scale and colored photography, and through using a studio as the setting for most of his portraits, the background of the image is often left a bold white, which draws maximum attention to the subject in the foreground.
Here are some examples of this works:
here our some of the images we took as we were inspired by Rankin:
My favourite Pictures out of these are:
I like this image above as it is very simple and compared to Rankin’s work it seemed to very well with it, for example we decided to add the crown to see the effect it would have with the light I think this turned out very well, also I like the position of the face making half dark and the other half in the light. this was one idea that Rankin had , I thought it came out very well as we wanted to.
I like this Image above the light has caught her hair and has made it look like it was golden and a different colour, also the light on the face is again half and half, this was ambition to experiment with the light. I thought it was very simple again and and the sharpness of the photo is very significant due to this being one of our expectations.
These outcomes I think have come out really good, as they have come out very similar to Rankin’s work, I think that these are very simplistic.