portrait on the farm

For this shoot i decided to go onto a families farm at around 5 in the evening. I decided to turn up un invited in order to capture the raw emotion of these farmers. The farmers had filthy clothes from hours of hard work. I decided to enhance the colors of the photos to add detail into there muddy clothes.

for this image i used the blur tool and duplicated the layer.

Inspiration

for my farm shoot i was inspired by Arnold Newman. newmans photography captured the raw emotion of his subjects and their surroundings. This was something I tried to convey in my photos. I wanted to capture the farmers around the potatoes however was more clutched around the idea of displaying their pride towards their crop. These farmers work tiresome hours to produce these delicacies which we take for granted. I found that using the flash on my camera helped composed the true feelings they had As it gave the subjects less time to put on a fake expression.

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