Storm Ciarán, known in Germany as Storm Emir was a European windstorm that severely affected parts of Europe from late October to early November 2023. Part of the 2023–24 European windstorm season, Ciarán impacted north-western Europe and killed 21 people, eleven of whom were in Italy and four in France.
Is Storm Ciarán a tornado?
CLEMENT, England – Amid the chaos of hurricane-force winds, massive hail and torrential rain that swept across northern Europe during last week’s deadly Storm Ciarán tore through the small island town of St. Clement, researchers have determined.
There was severe damages to homes and properties as well a people getting injured and having top leave their homes.
Due to the storm there was school closures, trees down, broken buildings and damaged properties there was winds up to 100mph which damaged Jersey quit a lot.
Here is some examples:
Here is one of my edited photos in Lightroom , inspired by the storm..
I am going to edit some photographs inspire by female photographers’ that represent females and femininity. I will show some of the process of my work in Lightroom and photoshoot. I have roughly around 200 images to chose from and edit for my final prints.
Few photos to start….
Here is a photo of me , holding a lipstick that I edited and changed the vibrancy and contrast , as well as the colours to make the picture more clear.
Here is a photo of me editing, mid way through and not done to show you proof of the work I am doing.
Before 1
Photoshoot photos
Here I am showing you the process of me editing a second picture in photoshop.
The photos that I have chosen so far are great because I think that they show a sense of girlhood and womanhood. They can show aspects of us as strong independent women, just by doing simple things such as,
Relax Your Body and Face. …
Use Real Laughter to Translate Authenticity into Your Photos. …
Bring Your Ears Forward to Avoid a Double Chin. …
Put Your Hands on Your Hips. …
Try a Candid Pose. …
Turn Your Body Slightly to the Side. …
Check Your Posture.
Can make all the difference in how feminine or masculine a photo can look.
In my third photo I am going to duplicated someone onto me twice, in this photo its a mix of feminine photos and portrait’s. I really like this because it shows two sides to photograph and shows a lot within the female society.
After 1
I got rid of the flower as it wasn’t fitting with the photo and made the photo black and white to make it appear as if it was taken in the 90s- Inspired by Cindy Sherman which is what I am trying to achieve in some of my photographs, damsel in distress and beauty within the 90s.
My aim for this photo is Sherman, she got many different model types and here is an example of what I’m trying to achieve, Why ? because I think her photos are stunning and show nostalgia.
Here’s an example of her work.
I love this photo because I think its stunning, it outlines me and all my perfections and flaws as we all do have.
Here is a photo I edited side by side compassion.
I like the purple colour especially within girlfriend’s and girls being happy together.
I used this photo because its a very cool and chilling photo and Photography has become an omnipresent art and activity today. It has moved from being a specialized art in the hands of a skilled photographer, to being a daily use activity in the hands of each and every common man. This is represented in this photograph.
Midday
This photo gives off a bit of butterfly and light affect as its very light.
I also rated my photos with starts from 1 being the worst and 5 being the best. This shows you which you rated best to worst.
This is a 4 star phot because its very plain, however I still do like it as it represents everyone as a collective in society because of our mobile phones.
Here is a 5 star, in my opinion.
And last but not least, a one star…
This is a 5 star photo because I love the colours and the way the top is backless. The colours are giving a sort of Ombre affect and this was doing in the studio by the lights and editing theme a but on Lightroom. I like the way my face appears smooth and clear , its a modest pose with the long blonde hair.
This photo is a very feminine photo, not to say boys cant wear makeup but however make-up is sterically aimed and marketed to woman and photoshoots like these also target them as its very feminism. A lady putting on lip-gloss shows beauty and make up on.
Environmental
Here’s an environmental edited photograph. I used a mix of all three . I used environmental, portraits and masc. vs fem. I really like these styles of photos especially portraitist because it brings up all of the perfections and insecurities of man and women. Portraits often show us what a person looks like, but they can also capture an idea of a person or what they stand for. Portraits can also tell us how a person wants to be seen, and capture a particular mood that the sitter is experiencing.
Portraits
Here is an edited portrait photo.
Before 2
Here is a photo before of two girls playing in the snow, realising their inner childhood and having fun even though they’re growing up and some may think there to old but they are embracing the snow which is quiet rare where they live.
After 2
These photos are side by side comparison of the difference after being edited, and you can see there is quiet the difference.
This photo shows vibrancy and a girl with a knitted jumper on, trying to stay warm but also looking nice with her choice of clothes and fashion. I love this photo as it shows loads of different colours, blue, black, green, yellow, green and a sort of spotlight on the back after being edited on Lightroom.
Side by side comparison.
In the first photo you can barley see the model, however after the photo has been edited you can see her a lot more clear and you can see a lot more especially with all the colours.
This photo is kind of of giving a drawling look, as if done by a pencil. An old school type of photo.
Lightroom completely changes a picture, it was black before any editing and after you can see me quiet well with nice colours, here is closer look.
Here is the iso and etc of this photo after being changed in Lightroom.
I spent the rest of them editing images and here are my final outcomes for masculinity vs feminist, environmental and portraits.
Here’s some of the ideas I have from the relation of what I’ve studied and artists I’ve studied, as well as me as a person and what I do and how I am the way I am.
Here is an example of what I am looking to achieve, and photos similar to these…
The makeup, hair, nails, outfit all need to be in bold, revealing the femininity within these images. They need to be beautiful and sharp as well as going for a strong jawline and out lining women’s curves.
Here is an example, showing you how a pose can make you look very feminine.
Just a difference with the way you stand can change a lot.
Justine Kurland
Justine Kurland is an American fine art photographer, based in New York City. She tries to remsble girlhood in her photos, Girlhood is the period of a female person’s life during which she is a girl. She had shared responsibility for her brother since girlhood. Her girlhood dream had been to study painting..
She is best known for photographing subjects in American wilderness landscapes.
Here is my shot of these photos:
These photos show girlhood and girls having fun, inspired by Kurland.
Photoshoot one
Cindy Sherman
Here are some edited photos in Lightroom of our first shoot- inspired by Cindy Sherman and Kulrland.
Here is some of Sherman’s work and why and how it inspired me, its more about the image for me and how she portrays females in todays society even though the photos she took were years ago , in the 90s.
These photos represent our female society and girlhood as they show how Sherman represented her women are images of women, models of femininity projected by the media to encourage imitation and identification.
I want to outline the best bits of women and how much beauty we have in us.
We as women are strong, we will have bad and good days and photos can represent a lot about what we have to go through as women on the daily all the time as photos show empathy, struggle, pain, love, beauty and much more. Feminine photos inspire me because it shows such a strong sense within the images.
What does Cindy Sherman’s art represent?
Sexual desire and domination, the fashioning of self-identity as mass deception, these are among the unsettling subjects lying behind Sherman’s extensive series of self-portraiture in various guises. Sherman’s work is central in the era of intense consumerism and image proliferation at the close of the 20th century.
In American usage, “culture war” may imply a conflict between those values considered traditionalist or conservative and those considered progressive or liberal. This usage originated in the 1920s when urban and rural American values came into closer conflict.
What is the argument against identity politics?
Many socialists have deeply criticized identity politics for its divisive nature, claiming that it forms identities that can undermine the class struggle as a whole.
Eight major social identities are:
ability, age, ethnicity, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status.
Political identity is a form of social identity marking membership of certain groups that share a common struggle for a certain form of power. This can include identification with a political party, but also positions on specific political issues, nationalism etc.
Positive aspect
Specifically, social identify can enrich and make people stronger and healthier because it provides them with self-esteem, a sense of belonging, existential sense and a feeling of control.
What are the examples of political identities?
This can include identification with a political party, but also positions on specific political issues, nationalism, inter-ethnic relations or more abstract ideological themes. Political identities develop in individuals and evolve over time.
How does your identity impact your perspective?
Key facets of identity (like gender, social class, age, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, religion, age and disability) play significant roles in determining how we understand and experience the world, as well as shaping the types of opportunities and challenges we face.
Tribalism
A tribe is defined as a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognised leader. When we hear the word tribe, we may think of Native Americans, but in modern usage the term can also refer to people who share common ideas and allegiances. Tribalism is defined as behaviour and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own tribe or social group. Tribalism has societal and individual benefits as well as costs.
Tribalism can have very negative consequences when it is used to exclude individuals or groups or to take away their rights, status, and independence. They promote fear, anxiety, and prejudice, all of which make us more aware of fake news, propaganda, and conflict.
What are the dangers of tribalism?
These negative aspects of tribalism are often fueled by competition and the perception of a common threat. They promote fear, anxiety, and prejudice, all of which make us more susceptible to fake news, propaganda, and conflict. Tribalism can take many forms in our modern society.
What do progressives believe?
Progressives were interested in establishing a more transparent and accountable government which would work to improve U.S. society. These reformers favoured such policies as civil service reform, food safety laws, and increased political rights for women and U.S. workers.
What do you mean by liberals?
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.
What are the theories of masculinity and femininity?
Femininity and masculinity are rooted in the social (one’s gender) rather than the biological (one’s sex). It is important to distinguish gender identity, as presented above, from other gender-related concepts such as gender roles, which are shared expectations of behaviour given one’s gender.
Social scientists believe that we acquire characteristics and behaviours’ because of how they are understood by those around us; we gradually become masculine and/or feminine, and we behave in gendered ways in various circumstances for a variety of reasons.
According to the feminist theory, “gender may be a factor in how human beings represent reality.” Men and women will construct different types of structures about the self, and, consequently, their thought processes may diverge in content and form.
What is Goffman’s gender display theory?
Goffman argues that “females in advertising are frequently posing while “using their fingers and hands to trace the outlines of an object, or to cradle it or to caress its surface”. This ritualistic touching is to be distinguished from the utilitarian kind that grasps, manipulates, or holds”.
What is the difference between masculine and feminine poses?
A closed or clenched hand tends to be more masculine while a relaxed or lightly curved hand has a feminine inference. Unlike feminine poses, masculine poses avoid softening the pose with rounded shoulders or exaggerated shoulders, hips, and legs.
“Masc” and “femme” are both shortened versions of masculine and feminine, but are used specifically within the lesbian community (as well as the gay community) and have their own unique connotations. Check out this article in Out Magazine about how femme has come to be defined in recent years and many different things can affect these opinions and changes such as religion.
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artefacts of Mexico, she died Died: July 13, 1954, in Mexico. Kahlo was best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly coloured self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist as she captures beauty and self love in her images and she can relate and show a lot within her images as she’s reflecting her work with masc and fem.
Frida considered herself an individual. She embraced both her masculine and feminine side and helped break down barriers surrounding gender stereotypes.
She Focused on the spotlight on raw and honest situations that women undergo, she showcased them through aspects of miscarriage, abortion, breastfeeding, birth etc.
I have chosen Fridha Khalo because she interests me within her type of photograph’s and I payed careful attention to the way she brings out masc and fem in her images.
Claude Cahun
He was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae, Died: December 8, 1954, Saint Helier.
In 1944, Cahun and Moore were arrested and sentenced to death, but the sentence was never carried out, as the island was liberated from German occupation in 1945. However, Cahun’s health never recovered from her treatment in jail, and she died in 1954. Cahun is buried in St Brelade’s Church with partner Moore.
Despite the social restrictions of her time, Cahun refused to conform to gender norms, adopting a masculine appearance and using gender-neutral pronouns to assert her identity.
What pronouns did Claude Cahun use?
There are convincing arguments to be made for both she/her/hers and they/them/theirs; she/her/hers because that is what was used for Cahun when they were alive and used themself; they/them/theirs because of their oft-discussed detachment from being a woman or a man.
Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. In her writing she consistently referred to herself as “elle” (she), and this article follows her practice; but she also said that her actual gender was fluid, which is why Frida Kahlo and Cahun are very similar. they both show senses of exploring identity and a theme of masculinity vs femini which shows so much in our society and shown different yet similar we are to each other.
This is one of Kahlos photos. It shows self of identity and you cant really tell if its masc or fem which is what is great about the photo.
Here is another one which you would think appears female but has some male traits which shows a sense of identity and how open Kahlo was before she passed.
Where as Claud uses more sperate ideas of the photo, such as..
The one on the left shows a bit of both ideas and angles of masc and fem whereas the photograph on the right shows masc traits and is clearly a male from what you can see.
Both artists use many different techinques to get there photo the way they wanted them too. Both showed theory of identity and loads of different themes within our world and society even today.
Masculinity is set behaviors, and roles associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as socially constructed, and there is also evidence that some behaviors considered masculine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. It is distinct from the definition of the biological male sex,[5][6] as anyone can exhibit masculine traits.[7] Standards of masculinity vary across different cultures and historical periods.
Masculinity is seen to be the trait which emphasizes ambition, acquisition of wealth, and differentiated gender roles. Femininity is seen to be the trait which stress caring and nurturing behaviours, sexuality equality, environmental awareness, and more fluid gender roles.
What is the true definition of masculinity?
Masculinity = social expectations of being a man: The term ‘masculinity’ refers to the roles, behaviors and attributes that are considered appropriate for boys and men in a given society. Masculinity is constructed and defined socially, historically and politically, rather than being biologically driven.
What is the real definition of femininity?
: the quality or nature of the female sex : the quality, state, or degree of being feminine or womanly. challenging traditional notions about femininity and masculinity.
There is also a thing called binary opposite’s..
Particular aspects of identity derived from places we belong to arise because places have figures and images that have meaning and are significant to us. Places represent personal and social memories because they are positioned in the socio- historical matrix of intergroup relations.
Such as..
Gender socialization occurs through four major agents: family, education, peer groups, and mass media. Each agent reinforces gender roles by creating and maintaining normative expectations for gender-specific behaviour.
Social and environmental cues direct individuals to pay attention to external messages—beliefs, values, symbols, and affects—that are deemed self-referent.
What is the difference between masculine and feminine posing?
A closed or clenched hand tends to be more masculine while a relaxed or lightly curved hand has a feminine inference. Unlike feminine poses, masculine poses avoid softening the pose with rounded shoulders or exaggerated shoulders, hips, and legs.
What makes a pose masculine?
Stereotypical male model poses all involve making the man look fierce. Anything that can be done to convey power and dominance should be included in the pose. While females are always looking for ways to emphasize curves, men are looking for hard angles and straight lines.
Create Curves-They’re what make most women feel feminine. Highlighting a female model’s curves also has the added benefit of making the waist look more defined. In standing poses this can be achieved by having the model put her weight on her back foot. Add in a knee bend away from the camera and boom.
These images show the difference between masc and fem and shows you the ins and outs of both. They are both so different yet so similar which is the good thing about this topic is that you can mic and match the photograph’s and see what fits into masc and fem or neutral within these regions.
In photography a multiple exposure is the superimposition of two or more exposures to create a single image, and double exposure has a corresponding meaning in respect of two images. The exposure values may or may not be identical to each other. Its the the repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost like images.
This is a style of photography is a technique that layers two different exposures on a single image, combining two photographs into one. Double exposure creates a surreal feeling for your photos and the two photographs can work together to convey deep meaning or symbolism.
Double or multiple exposures are an illusion created by layering images over the top of each other. Artists have used these techniques to explore surrealist Ideas and evoke dream-like imagery, or imagery that explores time / time lapse – as if they were a ghost.
