ARTIST REFERENCES:

Saul Leiter was a American photographer and painter whose work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography. He enjoyed taking night photography, colour photography and depth of field photography, which is shown in the photo above. In the image above the tones are very neutral due to the black and white adjustment which has be made. You can clearly see the different focuses of the photos as one twig is very clear compared to the background which is blurred.

Uta Barth’s photography is a German-american photographer who mainly takes photography of optical illusions, perception and non-place. Her work emerged in the late 1980’s to 1990’s , which included her inverting the notion of background and foreground. This may have changed the viewers perception of her work due to the optical illusions as well as the different focuses. For example in the image above it shows that the background is out of focus, whereas the figures of people are still in focus. I find her work very compelling as it attracts all of you attention to certain parts of the photograph.

A second artist which I decided to look at is Ralph Eugene Meatyard who is an american photographer. I feel that the image above creates a darkening mood as the baby dolls are highlighted due to the fact that they are the main focus of the image. However the figures in the back also add to this as you can still identify that they are young children who are wearing intimidating masks over their faces. Additionally the way the photograph has been changed to black and white adds to the darkening mood that has already been created, as the tones have been enhanced because of the lighting.

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I feel that these are the best images which I took as they reflect Uta Barth’s work the best as it focuses on certain objects which in this case were leaves and blurred the background adding contrast to the photographs. I done this by experimenting with the aperture as well as the iso on the camera. The lighting off all of my photos in this shoot are natural as they were taken in natural settings which enhances them.