Mood Board/ Photographers

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Types of Portraiture

Traditional

With traditional portraits the person in the photograph is usually looking straight into the camera lens so it looks staged to make the subject of the photo look their best. The background is usually quite formal and bland to make the person stand out even more. The typical location for where the photo is taken is a studio. The body is usually cropped from the photo so you can only see their head and shoulders.

Lifestyle

Lifestyle photos are meant to capture everyday people doing everyday things such as walking or eating meaning they’re the complete opposite of traditional portraiture, instead of the photos being taken in a studio it will be taken i a family home or another familiar place. Often the subject/s of the photo do not pose or at least try to not make it look like they are to make the image look more casual.

Environmental

Environmental photography is a mixture of lifestyle photography and traditional photography. With this type of portraiture the environment surrounding the person plays a key role in the photo. The environment in the photo is meant to tell you about the person and what they’re like or what they enjoy. Unlike lifestyle portraits where the location isn’t important, this type of portraiture’s environment is just as important as the person in the image and the person can pose in the photo.

Best Images

I’ve chosen these photos because they all have a main and clear focus which is intriguing to the viewers eye.

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With the night time shoot I had to change the aperture, exposure and ISO so the picture didn’t come out grainy or blurred. I also made this image more vibrant to make the coloured lights stand out, I did this by changing the settings on the camera. I also like the variety of dramatic colours in this image; the blues contrasting with orange, the darker colours also contrast with the focus of the image being the bright, white light/building.

Urban mixed with natural

I like this image because instead of man made things taking over nature, nature is taking over the man made objects/buildings. I also like how the bunker has worn aware a bit and how the bright saturated leaves contrast with the dark and dull coloured bunker. I also like how the photo looks quite ominous, this is because when you try and look behind the bars of the gate it looks quite dingy but intriguing and dark due to there shadows. It also seems ominous due there being warning signs it makes the photo a bit unnerving.

Overall Conclusion

I really liked doing this photoshoot as having to take photos of urban/manmade landscapes because there is more variety of what you can take photos of such was the variety of colour. I also like how rustic and retro some of the photos can look and how there are more options lighting wise compared to the natural landscape photo shoot. I also made a gallery of other photos to show what I mean by the variety of photos I took and how they’re all unique.

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Keld Helmer-Petersen was a Danish photographer who was inspired and influenced by Albert Renger-Patzsch, the experiments at The Bauhaus in Germany and by Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind at the Art Institute of Chicago. Helmer Petersen achieved fame for his coloured photography but he also published several books of black and white images that consist of dramatic contrasts. All mid tones have been removed in his black and white images. He created these images using both cameras and flat bed scanners to achieve the effect of pure black and white photos.

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My Own Images

Urban

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Natural

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How I did it

Bunker (St.Peters)

I took a variety of different photos and different angles around the outskirts of Fort Regent. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

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Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/ individual buildings. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the different depths of field and the vibrancy of the images.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo. I like this photo because the sharpness is higher compared to the rest of the photos, I also like the bright reds and greens contrasting with the dull bunker.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Outskirts of Fort Regent (St. Helier)(3)

I took a variety of different photos and different angles around the outskirts of Fort Regent. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use. These photos were taken later on in the day and some of them were at night.

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Experimental shoot (shutter speed variation and camera movement)

Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/individual trees. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the vibrancy and fullness.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo. I like this photo because there is more vibrancy and dramatised colours than the rest of the photos.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Outskirts of Fort Regent (St. Helier)(2)

I took a variety of different photos and different angles around the outskirts of Fort Regent in the daylight. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/individual trees. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the contrast of colour against the depth of the shadows, the symmetry of some of the photos and some of the vibrancy.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo. I like this photo because the depth of field is shallower than the rest of the photos.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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Outskirts of Fort Regent (St. Helier)

I took a variety of different photos and different angles around the outskirts of Fort Regent. I changed the exposure for some of the photos (exposure bracketing) to see how to the contrast/tonal values changed. I’ve selected my favourite images and decided which ones I won’t use.

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Best Photos

I picked these images because each of them are different from each other and have something unique about them whether it’s the angle they’ve been taken from, the lighting or the scenery/ individual buildings. Each photo has something that the eye is automatically drawn to and they each have a main focus. Some things to point out about the uniqueness of some of the photo are: the different depths of field and the vibrancy of the images.

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Editing My Best Image

In this edit I used HDR toning to bring out the best colours and tones from high and low exposure and from the original photo. I like this photo because the depth of field is shallower than the rest of the photos.

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I adjusted the photo to black and white and I got inspiration to do this from Ansel Adams and I tried to get every shade in Adams’ zone system.

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What is it?

New topographics a term created by William Jenkins in 1975 to describe a group of American photographers (Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz for example) whose photos had a particular aesthetic, they were presented formally and they were mostly black and white prints of the urban landscape. Photographers liked the simplicity of the New Topographics, photographers such as Bernd and Hilla Becher. For more than 40 years they have been making pictures in a symmetrical and perfect way/manner. From the beginning, their work has been rejected by curators of photography for being ‘inartistic’. It made no difference to the Bechers as they never looked up to art photographers for inspiration. The New Topographic photographer tried to ex[press how that you cannot separate “nature” from humans.This means that no matter what humans create on top of the land or destroy on it, some sort of nature will be surrounding what is destroyed or created.

Key Artists

The Bechers (Typology)

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Lewis Baltz

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In 1973 Stephen Shore left New York to photograph USA to create a book called Uncommon Places. After his book he was in his mid-20s and was already famous. A dozen years earlier, he had sold some of his photographs to the Museum of Modern Art. Then he started spending time in Andy Warhol’s Factory, where he lighted shows for the Velvet Underground and started looking at Warhol’s general deadpan aesthetic, with its everyday things.

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Photo Analysis

Technical

• Lighting – the lighting is natural daylight and due to the clear sky the photo is highly exposed. The light sky contrasts with the darker signs and the saturation looks like it’s been increased due to the colour of the signs being so intense.
• Aperture – the photo looks like it’s been sharpened.
• ISO – the light sensitivity looks low due to the image looking sharp.
• Shutter Speed – The photo seems to have some motion blue due to some moving objects, such as the car4 as it is moving too fast.
• White Balance – The colour seems accurate on this photo but the colour stands out more and is more vibrant due to the dull looking roads and pavements.

Visual

• Some of the colours look saturated and vibrant and there are mostly lighter looking tones, rather than dark, to make the image more visually awakening. There are mostly smoother looking textures when you first look at the photo but if you look closer you can see all of the details on the pavement.

Contextual/Conceptual

The red, white and blue colours are consistent in this photo because the colours are meant to represent America

Landscapes are all the visible features of an area of land, that are often considered aesthetically pleasing whether they have a lot of detail and a lot of colour or if they have a main focus in the photo and it’s in black and white. Urban landscapes are usually revolved around man-made structures and how humans have impacted and changed the environment to adapt to their comfort of living and surviving. In my photo shoots I will attempt to have a lot variety in my photos whether i do this through camera settings or if I do edit them whilst using Photoshop.

Adres Marin

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Mark Swope

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Ideas

I will get inspiration from the photographers above when I’m taking my own photos. I will consider using the camera to make my imagers look different such as; using exposure bracketing and DoF as well as editing the images using HDR toning on photoshop.