Sequences–

In photography, Sequences are a way of laying out images, most often in a line or grid. Doing this often causes the person looking to think about the similarities and differences between the images (similar to a juxtaposition), as well as causing them to think of a potential story or narrative as the sequence progresses. This can be used by photographers to tell stories without the need of words.

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I used a variety of my images, from several shoots, to create a set of sequences with different compositions. I think it would have been better if I did a separate shoot so all of the images so that they are all similar to create at least one unified sequence.

Mood Board

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Ole Christiansen

Christiansen has worked to create several record covers, magazines and exhibitions during his photography career. He gravitates towards photography that links to music, which involves photography for album/record labels and sometimes the artist themselves.

Image Analysis

This image uses a light which has been positioned to show only the model’s face, with a Rembrandt angle. The lighting is harsh, as it creates a bold shadow behind the nose which leads to the right side of the face, the shadowed parts are pitch black, which heavily contrasts with the lit up parts on the left side of the model’s face, giving it a chiaroscuro look. I think a black and white filter is appropriate for this image as it allows that contrast to be seen more easily. I like the way the model’s facial expression and the lighting makes the image look that much more mysterious and isolates the emotion from the facial expression, emphasizing it. I think that a straight-on viewpoint was also effective as it allows the face to be centre in the image, while making the staring expression of the model that much more noticeable.

My own Images

My Best Images

I chose this image because I like how the model’s face is lit up, it allows his facial features to be seen more easily, despite being a side-on shot. I also think that the lighting helps give his face slightly more depth. There is not a lot of contrast in this image, likely due to how the majority of his face/head and the background are a similar tone of grey, however the white on his clothing and darker black of his hair does create an interesting contrast.

I mainly like this image because of its colder tone which gives the image a look that is close to black and white, but not exactly. I like the way the side/one-point lighting creates a dense shadow on the left side of the models face, completely obscuring it. The shadow contrasts greatly with the highlights on the models face and makes the left of the image almost completely black, creating a harsh divide between the sides, which makes the image slightly more mysterious.

I like this image because of how simplistic it is, I think it, paired with the front facing stare, allows the model to take all of the attention of the viewer. I think that black and white works well in this image as it allows the shadow to become harsher and more distinguished from the lighter parts of the image. This image uses Rembrandt lighting which gives the model slightly more light, which makes more of his face visible. I think that the white background helps isolate/frame the model nicely.

I chose this image as a final image because I like the way that the hood casts a shadow over the model’s eyes and chin (making the face stand out behind a black ‘frame’), but allows for a butterfly light to appear as well. I think the black and white filter was appropriate for this image as it makes the shadows darker, creating a greater contrast between the highlights and the white background of the image.

I chose this image because I like how the model’s face’s colour contrasts with the rest of the image, his clothes specifically being made up of dark blues and purples. I also think that the simple, casual pose paired with his relaxed facial expression creates a nice, calmed atmosphere about the image. I think that the softer lighting, which illuminated the grey backdrop, also helps with this calmed atmosphere, with the grey backdrop providing some contrast, but not too much.

Multi exposure–

Multi exposure is a photography and filmmaking technique where two or more images are superimposed onto each other. They can be used to create interesting and surreal images.

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I made these using my portraits that I took earlier. It took me a while to find the right balance with the layer opacities, but I found some that I liked. If I were to do this again I’d use a wider variety of images and a range of colours and layer types to see if it can make them seem more interesting.

Photomontage-

Photomontage is the editing and layering of two or more images on top of each other to create a new image. These images could have significant to no relation to each other and the combination of them creates a new image with a completely new meaning.

Creating my own-

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Editing

After my photoshoot, I edited my best images.

Sequencing and Grid work

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The Deadpan Aesthetic

The deadpan photograph simply says “this is how things are”. Deadpan portraits show people in their natural state, typically not showing any sort of emotion. These subjects are not posed, are not dressed up for the occasion, and seem completely honest. The color of deadpan photographs is commonly de-saturated. While not completely devoid of color, the colors tend to be muted.

Bernd and Hilla Becher

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Bernhard “Bernd” Becher, and Hilla Becher, were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids.

Together, the Bechers went out with a large 8 x 10-inch view camera and photographed these buildings from a number of different angles, but always with a straightforward “objective” point of view. They shot only on overcast days, so as to avoid shadows, and early in the morning during the seasons of spring and autumn. Bernd and Hilla Becher first began their still-ongoing project of systematically photographing industrial structures – water towers, blast furnaces, gas tanks, mine heads, grain elevators and the like – in the late 1950s.

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My Experiments

After editing my images with subtle adjustments, keeping them all in black and white to mimic the work of the Bechers, I created grids in photoshop. I did this by exporting my images from Lightroom to photoshop, then creating a blank document (A3). I then added each image, lined them up to create equal borders, and cropped the document to my desired size.

Throughout this photoshoot, we kept changing the lighting by turning them on/off, adding more lights, moving them closer etc in order to experiment with the different shadows and create different looks for each image.

Best Shots:

I think these are my best shots as they’re all in focus, well framed and have a variety of lighting types, all of which combine together in order to create an interesting set of images. Along with that, I like all the poses in these photos as they all differ from each other drastically, giving each individual image a different mood compared to the rest.

Diamond Cameo–

A Diamond Cameo is when an arrangement of 4 portraits are used to make a diamond shape, they were all pictures of the same person who were often Victorian men at the height of their popularity.

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I used Black and White images to try to make them all seem more uniform, as having them in colour could seem distracting from the subject.

Each set up creates different lighting and shadows/ shapes which appear on the face.