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ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS – PHOTO SHOOT

November 26, 2020 Carmen Altamirano 1 Comment

What is an environmental portait?An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings.

Instruction

-Photograph modern day Heroes and pohtograph them in their element of work

Mood Board

My pictures

Where : My pictures were taken at Doran’s Bistro I had the chance took take the pictures of the severs, barman and the Chef.

My favourite picture

This is my favorite photo because we can see two people in their working environment. The chef who prepared the dish and finished decorating it before giving it to the client and the waiter who takes the dish so that the client can taste it with pleasure.
You can see by the chef’s facial expression that he is concentrating on delicately finishing his dish and the waiter who takes it delicately. I love the contrast of the lights we can see a lot of shadow on the faces of the two people.Also I enjoy the way I captured the reptition of the lights. At the chef’s level what is interesting is that we focus on his hands, on what he does ,his work . Of course because of the problems this year concerning Covid-19, the individuals must wear masks.

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Arnold Newman

November 10, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Context : Arnold Newman was born on March 3 , 1918 in New York City. He was a photographer known for his portraits of artists such as Pablo Picasso. He moved to Philadelphia to work as a photographer.

Visual : We can see a old man in the center (Alfred Krupp) He looks powerful. The image is in colour. The background is symmetrical and is getting smaller as it goes.

Technical : The lights are coming from the top and the sides focused on Alfred Krupp , the liht next Krupp is darker than the background.

Conceptual : The photographer Arnold Newman was a Jewish man and Alfred Krupp was an industrialist who ran war factories manufacturing arms for the Nazi . Newman did not want to take the picture of Krupp but after a while he decided to do it. The portrait of Krupp was a revenge from Newman

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SELECTING AND FINALISING AND DISPLAYING

October 23, 2020 Carmen Altamirano 1 Comment

Paris abstract

Photos selected

Gallery

This gallery is composed of three different subjects: the firt one is an original photo the seconde one it's the REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY task and the third one is the BLACK LIGHT task. I named this Gallery because they are all pictures I took from Paris.

Strange teenager

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Gallery

This two photos are from the looking and seeing task. I got inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Saul Leiter’s images.What I like about this two images is that it’s my own style and it looks a bit a fashion photographie. It gets closer to what I would like to be later. I also like rthat it is blurry I think it creates a fun effect.

The world upside down

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Gallery

This gallery is from my REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY task . I was inspired by Ernst Haas who took some pictures of the reflection of the water .I tooked two pictures 2 years ago on my holidays in Greece I liked because it was like if the world was upside down. The one on the middle was favourite picture on my task I loved the detail of the tree reflected on the water.

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REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY -3

October 23, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Nick Albertson

Nick Albertson was born on 1983 in Boston. Nick Albertson works as a photographer he also do videos and sculptural forms . He uses objects, such as paper clips, paper cups and rubber bands of their intended functionality , He creates repetition. Most of Nick’s work investigates accumulations of material .

Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer. Haas was a prolific photographer, much of his photography involved creating very simple but stunningly photographs, beautiful light, sumptuous colour and intense feeling. Haas’s simple photos of lines on the street and reflections.

Photo plan

Who – The subject of my shoot is based on what can we see so this involved the obejct or person I decide to put in my image .

What – I’m gonna focus on the reflection of the water like the work of Ernst Haas. I what to create like a mirror on the floor I want the reflection to be abble to see the details

Where – I taking my photos on all the spaces I can see water on the floor and where I can see interesting elements like trees or buildings or persons. I will try to create differents perspectives and angles.

When – At this point what I’m really looking for are the elements in my pictures so the time don’t really matter

Why – I want to recreate two images I did on my Holidays in Greece, they remind at the images of Ernst Haas.

My pictures

My favourites pictures

I really like those images because I think we can really see effect I wastrying to create the only I have to do now is to change the lights becasue I don’t really like it.

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SURFACE AND COLOUR

October 11, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Luigi Ghirri

Luigi Ghirri was a Italian photagrapher born the 5 January 1943 at Scandiano in Italy . His work was most of the time made in Europe, and most of it focused on a small area of northern Italy . He prefersr to photograph this themes: maps, landscapes, windows, still lifes, interiors, fog, the seaside

Julian Schulze

Julian Schulze born 1986 in Hannover . He’s art is focused on geometric abstraction and minimalistic compositions. All of his images were taken in Berlin and Munich. He uses colours and the composition of geometric patterns .He also loves bold colours and colour combinations “I like the simple things in everyday life” He says .

Their Ideas but in my own Style

I chose to inspire me from the two artists . What like of the images of Julian Schulze is the colors he uses and his images look like they taken from a polaroid . I enjoy Luigi Ghirri because his pictures look like vacation photos they are calm and mysterious and I think it could be really fun to try to mixt them together in my own style .

What I did

I cut three colore paper and put it above the sand on the beach to make it look like in a vacation . I wanted squares because it remind me Julian Schulze’s pictures.

My pictures

My favourite picture

I really like the shadows on the paper it creates a nice contrast. And I really like the hole on my orange paper because it looks like in way freedom.

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REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY- 1

October 10, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Ernst Haas

Both of this artists uses reflections in their images which creates an original and symmetrical image. Ernst Haas use the reflection of the water which gives a quite a natural way to the image.He also uses colors in his images . You can find the images in your daily life . We can notice in the reflection of the water that there are buildings so it’s quite visible. Its dynamic movement He crops the subject to increase the sense of abstraction. Alvin Langdon Coburn’s images are very symmetrical . We can notice a lots of triangles which forms.The reflections that he uses are those of the mirror which creates a repetition . We can notice some type of cristals he uses for his images.

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REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY-2

October 10, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Today we learn how to repeat a image on Photoshop. I choose this old image of a building that i like because of the architecture I thought it really was interesting . It looks like it’s reflected by the water but I just copy and paste it next and over to the original photograph. I had to select the image , copy it , increased the canvas size , paste the original picture in the white space , transform it flip it horizontally or vertically and then flattened the image.Repeat it three times.

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looking and seeing

October 3, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Ralph Eugene Meatyard was born in Normal, Illinois on May 15, 1925. He is an American photograph and optician. Ralph Eugene Meatyard purchased his first camera from the optometry shop where he worked in Lexington Kentucky in 1950; he soon became a very serious amateur photographer .He spent three months looking through an unfocused camera in order to learn to see No-Focus. Meatyard’s early photographs contain : blurred images, fabricated scenarios, masks and dolls, and a pervading dark humor.

Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter was born the December 3, 1923 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States. He was an American artist .He moved to New York to become an artist. He took black and white pictures with a 35 mm Leica, In 1948, he started taking color photographs. He worked as a fashion photographer through the 1970s.

MY IMAGES

Their Ideas but in my own Style

I chose to inspire me from the two artists . Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s has kinda dark style wish I like (he puts scary maks…) . I enjoy Saul Leiter photographies because they are everyday photos and I really like the colors.

What I did

I wanted to represent a teenager in her daily life in a blury way ( watch a magazine or listen to music …) For the teenager I wanted her to look weird without it being very dramatic so I decided to hide her face with her hair kinda like in a mysterious way

My favourite images

Final images

I chose this two images because they represente what I wanted , what I was looking for , the ideas of the two artists and especially my style.

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BLACK LIGHT

October 1, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Keld Helmer-Petersen

Keld Helmer-Petersen was born on August 23, 1920 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Keld Helmer-Peterseis studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago . He received a Leica camera as a present thanks to this he started taking photographs.
He prefers to take pictures of industrial areas, cityscapes and nature. He is known for his abstract colour photographs but he also likes working with black and white images.

My images :

I decided to choose old images of Paris and things we can see
in our daily life that i had on my gallery . I think that they will be interesting with black lights .

with BLACK LIGHTS

We can notice that the pictures of paris looks they are drawn which indeed creates a cool effect. The black lights are embedded in the details we can see it very well in the lemons.

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the formal elements

September 23, 2020 Carmen Altamirano Leave a comment

Shape: we can see a wavy texture and we can notice a few triangular shapes .

Light :The light come from the sides .We can notice a lot of shadows and that interested me because it creates other shapes apart from that of paper.

Space : In the first picture there’s a lot of negative space but in the other two picture I’ve decided to zoom in so that the details are more visible .

Repetition: The paper repeats in triangles in different positions .

Texture: The crumpled paper makes the texture rough and coarse

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is image-2-1024x768.jpg — I prefer this image because it is a little bit different of the other two image . It looks like waves which means that it has a shape while the other two images do not. It is also different because it has more clarity .

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All posts by Carmen Altamirano

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ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS – PHOTO SHOOT

Arnold Newman

SELECTING AND FINALISING AND DISPLAYING

REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY -3

SURFACE AND COLOUR

REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY- 1

REPETITION, PATTERN, RHYTHM REFLECTION AND SYMMETRY-2

looking and seeing

BLACK LIGHT

the formal elements

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