C.S PHOTOGRAPHY

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EVALUATION OF MY TWO ECHO IMAGES.

IMAGE 1

I FEEL THAT THE IMAGE OF STING WAS QUITE SUCESSFUL AS I USED A BEAUTY DISH IN ORDER TO CREATE DEEP SHADOW. I ALSO THINK THAT I POSITIONED THE MODEL QUITE WELL ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL PICTURE.

IMAGE 2

THE IMAGE OF DAVID BOWIE COMPOSED BY BRIAN DUFFY WAS QUITE HARD TO CONDUCT AS THE LIGHTING IN THE STUDIO WAS EXTREMELY HARD TO GET PERFECT. THE IMAGE ITSELF HAS LOW SHADOW AND SOFT LIGHTING. THE THING I STRUGGLED WITH WAS THE LIGHT BLUE OUTLINE SO TO MAKE MY IMAGE RELATE YET BE INDIVUDLAL I ADDED A BLUE COLOUR GEL.

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ECHO FOR SECOND IMAGE OF STING

QUALITY OF LIGHT :HARD

LIGHTING TYPE :FLASH

DIRECTIONALITY: RIGHT

NUMBER OF LIGHTS: KEY

CAMERA TYPE : DIGITAL

LENS : STANDARD

POINT OF VIEW :MIDDLE

SHUTTER MOVEMENT : FAST

EXPOSURE :CORRECT

MISE EN SCENE:

SIZE OF SUBJECT : BIG

POSITION OF SUBJECT : EDGE

POSE ORIENTATION OF BODY TO CAMERA: STRAIGHT ON

PROPS : FACIAL STRUCTURE

FOCUSING : FACE AND SHADOW.

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Studio Techniques - The Echo Workshop 2

For this project our brief is to produce images that reinterpret known, important photographic images. To do this we will demonstrate the use of studio techniques, through portraiture with the use of a camera format of our choice (analogue or digital). 

With the above image we chose to recreate a portrait shot of Michael Caine by the renowned studio photographer, David Bailey. To do this we first had to identify the type of lighting used and the directionality of the light (3x lights lighting subject from the left and background). We then had to work to try and recreate the exact pose and position of Michael Caine in the David Bailey photograph, so that we could produce the exact echo of the image. Above is the worksheet detailing the steps we went through to recreate the image. 

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Ray Burmiston is another photographer that I found I could relate to his work and echo it in my own way. When researching him I found that he interlinked music with his photography and created beauty within the naked eye. I liked how his image had lots of different lighting and subtly experimented with shadows.

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When selecting which image I would like to echo for this project, I decided to research a particular photographer that I feel I could connect with in order to reflect his personal work. Brian Duffy was helped to create the 'swinging London' and worked with famous photographers such as David Bailey.Another reason for choosing Duffy was because he was involved in high fashion and was truly involved in the industry which is what I feel makes his work so internally memorable and eye capturing. 

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Studio - Echo Project

With this image we attempted to recreate the well known image of Sting, shot by the photographer Ray Burmiston. To do this we had two lights lighting a white backdrop and then one light lighting the model directly from the front. I feel that this hasn’t been as successful as I would have liked, due to there not being enough light hitting the left side of the models face and not quite achieving the correct expression. In terms of position we have framed the image well, with the model looking directly straight at the camera. However, it is noticeable that in the original image by Burmiston he has shot much closer in, with less of the shoulders shown. 

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LIGHTING FOR DAVID BOWIE IMAGE

LIGHTING : SOFT LIGHTING

LIGHTING FLASH : FLASH

DIRECTIONALITY : FRONT

NUMBER OF LIGHTS:FILL

EXPOSURE :HIGH F STOP

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Here I wanted to re create and echo the image photographed of David Bowie with his signature appearance. This picture stood out to me as there was hardly no shadow in the image yet his whole body was illuminated by technical lighting skills. To echo this image I used a beauty dish which wouldnt leave any hard lighting but would re create the bold look of Bowies structure in this image. It was photographed by Brian Duffy and was presented in the V&A exhibition.As well as adding the face paint to reflect Bowies fashion statement of face paint, I detected a faint blue outline around his body, so I thought in order to echo this image to a high level, I could use a blue colour gel to add a cold yet contrasting look to the face paint.

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The third and final photo recreation.  This is David Bailey’s “Twiggy”.  On the camera itself, the aperture was at f11 while the shutter speed was at 1/125.  It was at these precise settings throughout the whole shoot.

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Large Format Photography

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Large Format - Movements