Henry Mullins is one of the most famous photographers represented in the jersey photo archive. He produced over 9,000 portraits of islanders from 1853 to 2873 at a time when the population was about 55,000. The most famous type of photo that was printed by henry Mullins was the diamond cameo, which was 4 headshots cropped in to an oval shape and displayed into a diamond shape.
The three types of prints Henry Mullins did was the receipt print which was a small rectangle and was printed on to very thin paper. The second type of print was his most famous the diamond cameo which was 4 headshots cropped into an oval shape and displayed on the paper in the shape of a diamond. The last type of print was a bleached headshot and its multiple headshots with the colour fading from the head.
Butterfly lighting is a technique where the studio light is placed directly in front of the model so it creates a butterfly shape underneath the nose and gives defined cheekbones. Its also known as paramount lighting named for Hollywood glamour photography.
The importance of Butterfly lighting?
The butterfly lighting technique was used to take portraits of some of the most famous Hollywood actors. The photography technique creates a dark shadow underneath the neck and on the cheeks to make the model look thinner and leaner.
Image Analysis
The colour in this image is black and white and the contrast between the bright light in front of the model and the black background gives contrast which gives the photo a much more dramatic look. The texture of these photos is quite blurred, by having the light directly in front of the model it covers up the blemishes on the models face and covers up the imperfections.
My response
My best photo
This photo is my favourite because the shadow under the nose and on the cheekbones best showcases the butterfly lighting technique and the contrast between the green jumper and the dark shadow on the face gives a really nice contrast.
Chiaroscuro lighting is a high contrast lighting technique that utilises a low key lighting set up to achieve contrast between the model and a black background.
The importance of chiaroscuro ?
Chiaroscuro is important as it looks at the contrast between light and dark and emphasis and illuminates important figures in a painting or drawing.
Image analysis
Chiaroscuro uses colour in this image by contrasting black and white light. The form of this image is 3D and there is a pattern of striped light on one of the example images. The space of the images is the depth perception. 3D objects are defined by the three spatial dimensions of height width and depth.
My response
My best photo
This is my favourite photo because of the contrast between the dark background and the highlights from the light. The colour from the green jumper also gives a nice contrast between the dark background which highlights the eye.
Rembrandts origin came from the Dutch painter. Rembrandts lighting technique is where he has a spot light at a 45 degree angle to the side of his model and the shadow from the light creates a triangle on the side of the face that does not have the light on it. This creates the triangle and it lights up the other eye making it become more visible.
This technique makes the models face brighter and highlights the eye to give the image a more interesting complexion.
Photo Analysis
The model is having their photograph taken on a black background, and the colour from their faces and their clothes contrasts against the black background and it gives a vibrant bit of colour. The form of these photos are all 3D and the texture is trying to represent the texture of one of his paintings but his photos all have a clean look.
Arnold Newman was born on march 3 1918 in New York City. He attended school in Atlanta and Miami beach Florida. Arnold Newman’s photography looks at people in there working place or in a location that has meaning to them and is relatable to them, his work is mainly Environmental Portraits of artists and politicians, most of his photos are in black and white and his photos are quite formal but also very raw and true to life as he captures them in specific moments like when they are at work or doing a hobby they are interested in. The models he is taking pictures of are sometimes posing for the camera than having a picture taken of them when they are working in there environment, which makes the pictures formal.
Arnold Newman also took a picture of Alfred Krupp and took a picture of him when the light was just perfect on his face and made him loo like the malicious man that he was, in the background there was the train station where he had all the supplies for the Nazi war and showcased that he did horrible things in the war and worked people to death he used concentration camp prisoners as labour workers, and then published the photo that krupp specifically said o delete making him known as a horrible man to the rest of the world.
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. The term is most frequently used as a genre of photography.
Environmental Portrait ideas
I think Environmental Portraits show the background and the history of the person and that it shows who they are and what job they do or there career. The portrait should capture what the person does. The Environmental portrait can also capture where the person you are photographing is from or where they grew up and taking them to the locations of where they spent their childhoods. It could also represent what hobbies the person likes to do or what they are interested in or it could be a place or an area that they are typically in and reflects what they love.
The shape and the colour of the objects contrast between the white background and make the handle of the object stand out and also helps make the other object stand out against the coloured background.
These are my final images for the Single Object photoshoot as they capture the “Wonders of the common tool” the best out of all other images and they make the objects used look much more fascinating than they would before.
These are the edits of my virtual gallery and the process of completing it with more of my photos. To improve my virtual gallery I could crop the image of the violin and get rid of the dark edges because the background of the photo draws your eye to the sides of the image where its not the same colour instead of the main object which is the focus of the photo.
I edited the tint of the background of my photo so that it was a brighter white and didn’t have the yellowish tint to it which made the object not stand out as much because the object was lost in the background. I also made the shadows a lot darker because the contrast between the object and the background in the original image didn’t give the object any depth or size it made the image look flat and uninteresting.
