Below is an image I shot in Pamorovo, Bulgaria whilst on a skiing holiday. The subject shows 3 traditional Bulgarian's, dressed in Bulgarian clothing before a performance in a restored traditional Bulgarian restaurant. These performers proceeded to envolve the whole restaurant by making them dance as a group to a national song. These performers work to keep the culture of the Bulgarian mountains alive, whilst the influx of tourists and British visiters take over during the 4 month ski season.
For this image, I thought about Eugene Atget, and his image of The Lampshade Seller. I like how it shows the work that different cultures do, inorder to support there families. This image was taken in 1900, but i feel it has the same 'feel' as mine, taken in 2010
This image was shot in low-key in my college studio. The model is Rochelle Kidd, a member of my tutor group. Through this image, I hoped to portray the emotion of happiness. I think this comes across well, as she has a beaming smile! I have edited this slightly, using Photoshop CS2. I think the warm of this image, reflects the warmth of Rochelles personality, and the image, although simple.. works well as a portrait.
We worked in group's on this shoot, I modelled to portray the 'sadness' emotion, I helped set up this image, aswell as doing my own post production. I used the Photoshop 'surface blur' tool to smoothen the skin, as well as using the 'clone' tool to increase the darkness around the eyes. I like to think of this image, more as a self portrait, taken by a member in my group, as it was my own concept and idea.
I looked at work by Lara Jade for this, many of her self portraits portray emotions, rarely happiness. Her photographic style is something I aspire to, Im unsure whether its her age, or gender that makes me prefer her work, she appears to have a less 'sexual' approach towards photographing women, unlike that of Rankin or LaChapelle. Her creative/fantasy collection shows similar makeup ideas to mine, although shot offsite the model brings emotion through her eyes. I am unsure whether or not this emotion is 'sadness' it may be despiration or pain...but it works with a very similar concept to mine. Lara Jades Image
The image above was shot in Falmouth, Cornwall. I shot using an aperture of F.3/2 with a shutter speed of 1/162. The model is friend, Anna Ruane, I had placed her futher into the image, to include her on a line of thirds. I post produced this image, using Poladroid, a polaroid creator. After this I cropped out the Polaroid frame and just kept the colour style. I choose to do this after looking at Scott Hammonds photography, he using polaroids to capture the atmosphere of deleric and lonely places. Hammond's Website. Hammond uses Polaroids throughout his work, he shoots the simplest of image's, such as road signs but uses the background and location to create an interesting and debatable context. Most of his images have been shot in America, if i was to re-create his style, id take 'identifiable' signs or paintings from where I live, Falmouth, and then convert them on Poladroid. To improve my image, I would have preferred to situate my model further into my image, I have a contact sheet of this, so will post a better image at a later date.
Below is a shot taken on Gyllyngvase beach, Falmouth. It has been cropped, as the main focus of the image was a women walking down the beach, however you can no longer see this. I have then used photoshop to add a 'lighting effect' filter. This has given the image an 'orangey' tone, much like that achieved during a sunset. I like how the people has partically become silhouette's. The photograph has a few clear horizontal images, one the horizon, the other where the beach meets the sea.
I find the style of this image very similar to that created by Ken Beilman, his image on the following link, shows many similarities to mine. However, I feel his is more exciting to look at, with more going on such as the rough sea and the round stones in the foreground. Ken Beilman's image has numerous horizontal lines, this sia very common theme within beach photography, as the sea, sand and sky each create there own line, dividing the image up, into different sections. Beilman has used a fairly small aperture, this is shown as most of the image is in focus, however towards the horizon the waves become less sharp, this could be down to there movement, rather than the aperture. Like my image, Beilmans has a direct ligth source, on mine it has been manipulated to suggest the sun is on the right-hand side, much like this his image has the sun comming in from the left. Doing this enhances the silhouette's of the people, as well as the boats in my image. In war times, silhouettes of ships on the horizon were used to allow people to indentify them.
