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Tableau Vivant

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A tableau vivant, French for ‘living picture’, is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts; a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history.

Paul M Smith, uses MULTIPLE EXPOSURE TECHNIQUE

Tableau In Class

The two paintings which the class recreated were “Deposition / The Entombment of Christ” by Caravaggio, and “Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix.

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The Entombment of Christ – Caravaggio

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Liberty Leading the People – Eugène Delacroix

Class Responses

Editing Of Class Response

Own Tableaux Response

Using Paul M Smith’s work as inspiration

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Images by Paul M. Smith, from the collection: “Make My Night”     http://www.paulmsmith.co.uk/

For my Tableaux Vivant and Paul M. Smith response, I would like to merge together and edit three separate images of the same subject; wearing different outfits, in different poses, and the in the same frame.

I will be responding to the renaissance work “Supper At Emmaus” – by Caravaggio; featured below.

Images

Image 1; used as base image for the final edit.

Edit

I have edited this image by using a base image as an anchor-point to synchronize the other images and the props, to do this I have also set the opacity of the other images to 50%.

 

After wards I cut out and set new layers for the crucial parts of the layering images e.g: Shadows, subjects. And then used the eraser tool with low hardness to ensure a smooth transition between the anchor image and the layer images.

Final Edited Image

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Best over all portraits using different lighting

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Now that I have experimented with using lots of different types of lighting and lighting effects, I will present my best outcomes from my photo shoots.  During these photo shoots I learnt how all the technical camera settings should be set in order to  make the images look good.

Spot light

Chiaroscuro 

soft lighting

Natural lighting

Flash

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Studio Experimentation #1

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Studio Experimentation #1

For this shoot we as a class experimented with different lighting, clothing and backgrounds to create a story centered around the London Underground and with a stereotypical ‘thug’ like model. The model is wearing a hooded puffer jacket, has minimal makeup and is in a slouched position in order to create this atmosphere.

This is a gallery of the photos I took; you can see each adaptation of the lighting, position and facial expressions throughout.

I began the shoot with using a key light quite brightly in front of the model and I think this looked good and illuminated it in a way that resembled the underground but I wanted the temperature to be warmer and darker so it looked more like a ‘grotty’ atmosphere. I also experimented with angles and closeness, e.g for most photo I was a good distance away and her hood was up so I didn’t get a lot of the model’s features in the photos, it was concentrated more on the background and her clothing. After this she took her hood down and I positioned myself closer up to capture more detail. Some of these photos also have more hard lighting to show the shadows and relate it to the location. For the last part I stood further away but got still a more portrait type photo which included the background.

Best outcomes for each stage of the shoot:

In my opinion the photo above looks the most realistic due to the harsh above lighting which only shows some facial aspects so the gender of the model isn’t necessarily clear. I also like the shadow which has been created by the light and how the background looks like it could be genuinely taken in the underground.

 

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portraits- Using flash

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Flash

You can use flash in portraiture in a range of dark and light places. It is stereo typically used in places where it is dark, but you can also create interesting effects in light ares using it. There are many types of flashes and techniques that can be used:

  • Bounce flash

This is when you point the flash in a different direction, rather than directly at your subject, in order for the light to soften before it hits your subject.  It’s typically bounced at an angle, at something like a wall or a ceiling.

Below is a diagram that explains how the ‘bounce flash’ technique is used compared to direct flash:

  • fill-in flash

This is a technique that’s used to brighten up shadowed areas. This is usually used when the background is a lot brighter that the actual subject, and using this will make your subject appear well lit and not underexposed compared to the background.

To use fill flash, the aperture and the shutter speed should be correctly adjusted to expose the background, and the flash is then fired to lighten the foreground (usually the subject)

Below is an example of how using fill flash can make your images look good. The image on the left has the background perfectly exposed, and the image on the right is how the image looked when you took it with flash. As you can see, the image on the right is very successful as you can see the sky in the background, and the subject is also perfectly exposed due to the use of the flash.

Not my images.

Below is also a video that shows a range of techniques and tips on how to use fill flash:

  • Speedlight flash 

This is also known as a hot shoe flash. This is a flash that is inserted onto the top part of the camera and is triggered then the cameras shutter takes an image

Contact sheets

For this photo shoot I pictured my model while she was wearing makeup on her face. This demonstrated how, by using a flash, many details can be noticed in the dark.

Best outcome

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Tableaux Vivant

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A tableau vivant (often shortened to tableau, plural: tableaux vivants), French for ‘living picture’, is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts.Staged reality is a main aspect of tableaux vivant in which the photographer captures an artificially constructed scene.

Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter (born 1965) is a London-based British artist working in photography and film. His photographs often reference and re imagine classical paintings. He studied at the London College of Printing, and was the first photographer to have a one-man show at the National Gallery of London.

He worked alongside friends, neighbours and family to recreate others work but in a much more modern way. For instance the picture on the left is not this own work it is in fact Johannes Vermeer artwork which entails a young girl standing by a window reading a love letter from her man who is far away, possibly at war. Hunter has recreated Vermeer’s work but with a modern update, the women isn’t holding a love letter she is holding an eviction notice. Tom has spent time with the people he takes pictures, for instance he lived on the same tower block as his women, he knew the problem she was going through as he was also being evicted. Even though the to photos are very similar, there are underlying differences, for instance the open window on the left and the light flooding through has connotations of hope and freedom as she is happy her lover is still alive, whereas on the right the window is closed this has connotations of being trapped with no hope for the future, now she is homeless with a baby. As well as that on the left there is a bowl of fruits yet on the right there is a baby, this is symbolic of the fact that the women on the right has a lot more to lose then the women on the left, fruits can be eaten but a baby can’t just be thrown away, it needs love and care and a roof over its head. There is a clear rule of thirds in this photo, this is symbolic of how the women on the left has a structured path in life, its all going in one direction, she can see her path clearly because soon the war will be over and she can marry the man she is in love with. Whereas the women on the right, her rule of thirds represents a sense of being trapped, she can’t escape this harsh cycle of council housing, she is stuck in this rule of thirds layout.

Recreation

The Raft of the Medusa Painting by Théodore Géricault

This painting was fairly hard to recreate considering it is located on a raft at sea and there are lots of people involved in the photo. We tried to modernize the photo as much as possible for instance we made sure ‘the north face jacket’ which was acting as a flag was clear too see, as the brands represent how society nowadays is materialist and how we need the best of the best not just unbranded, our whole world revolves around money and out doing each other. We were all at different levels in order to create a pyramid shape, a pyramid having connotations of strength, power and sturdiness. As well that it represents society and how those at the top thrive and survive but those ones at the bottom struggle and fail.

Tom Walker

I recreated this photo in school near the window by art. I had to select the window on Photoshop and decrease the exposure as the light coming through was over-exposed and too bright. I also increased the contrast to add depth and emphasis the light outside against the darkness inside. This symbolizes how the girl in the Tom Walker photo was exposed to the light and sunny world but under the surface the world was creating more troubles for her then happiness and the weather can’t change the fact that she is a single mum without a home. It’s as if the world is trying to sugarcoat all her worries with clear skies, but she can’t see its true beauty, the only thing she can see is the eviction letter she is holding.

Tom Walker

Tom Hunter- The Guardian Article

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/nov/04/photography-tom-hunter-best-shot

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Tableaux Photography – Post 1 (Planning)

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Tableaux Photography:

Tableaux , French for ‘living picture’, is a still scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and cannot speak, usually in costume or a selected outfit, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and use careful lighting to enhance the effect or narrative of the composition.

Mood Board:

Mind Map:

Key Images:

 

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Henri Cartier and Bruce Gilden

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This is my favourite photo by Bruce Gilden; mainly because of the genuine expressions on the women’s faces. The photo also captures textures and motion really well. It being black and white helps focus attention on the facial expressions instead of the background.

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This is a photo of what Bruce Gilden looks like.

Bruce Gilden is a street photographer who is most known for his up-close photographs of people. He was born in Brooklyn in 1946 and has received many awards including the ‘European publishers award for photography’. The main reason for him starting photography is the film ‘blowup’. Being influenced by this movie, he went and bought his first camera  and started attending night school photography classes.

He doesn’t try to be discrete at all when taking photos. He prefers to approach people and take photos of their initial reaction. He also aims to take photos of people who either stand out, or people he can portray as different.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. He was also one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947.

This idea of capturing the decisive moment can definitely be seen in this photo; if the photo was taken a fraction of a second later the person in the foreground would have stepped in the standing water, which would have caused ripples and ruined the clarity of the reflection on the water.

These two photographers are very different but they have one thing in common, they both focus on the decisive moment. For Henri Carter that is the whole frame (like described in the photo above), and for Bruce Gilden it’s the moment people react to him taking a photo of them.

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Studio photo shoot No. 2

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These are my final edited images from another photo shoot in the studio. The main purpose of this shoot was to experiment with different lighting techniques/colours.

This is two photos edited together. The original was two different people staring at each other, but I decided to take another darker photo of myself and edit it into the previous one. This give a bright/dark good/bad side effect.

This photo used two-point lighting. A spotlight with a green tint to the left, as well as a ring light positioned directly in front of the camera. The ring light isn’t visible as the camera was placed in the middle of the ring light. This results in a brighter image, but still keeps the colour lighting.

In both this, and the following photo I have used only one light source, this lights the model in the centre evenly with one colour, it also gives a big clear shadow to one side.

In this photo I used two-point lighting. There was a softbox placed to the right side at a slight angle, and a spotlight with a purple cover placed on the other side. This creates a warm and colourful effect.

The same lighting was used for this photo as the previous one. Only in this photo the camera is positioned nearer the purple tinted spotlight, which gives it a bigger overall impact on the face.

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Street Photography Editing Example/ Final Outcome

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For this image I used light-room to lightly retouch the image, below you can see the settings that I changed. the only edit not shown in this screenshot is that I cropped the image slightly. This however can be seen in the comparison between the original and the retouched image. I mainly played with the exposure, black and white levels in order to produce an overall lighter image.

Original

Retouched