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Semiotics in photography represent the science of meaning. They are the study of signs we see everyday which represent simple daily items or theories. We automatically associate different signs to different feelings/meanings. For example, if we saw the top sign in a car while driving, our brains would automatically make us slow down the car and beware of horses and riders. If we saw the sign below, we would automatically associate them with a plane taking off or landing. The immediate reaction would be to fasten our seatbelts, stow our tables and trays and in many cases, look out of the window to view the landing.

The reason we do this is unkown. It is something we have grown up with so we immediatly, sometimes even without realising it, respond to the signs like these we come across each day.

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Taking into account the process and opinions from fellow students, I have come to the conclusion that these pictures are my two best ones from the whole project. I will be printing them out to add to my portfolio.

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This is one of my last photos for my project 'Echo', I decided to recreate a photo of Audrey Hepburn. To do this, I put the model in front of a large softbox with lighting set at f16 to create a bright backdrop. The key light was a hard lighting set above the camera and facing right above the model. The settings were at f8 and my camera settings were at an ISO of 100 with an aperture of f8 and a shutter speed of 1/125. I'm very uncertain about this photo and feel that it is my worst one so far as I messed up with the editing in particular, putting in way too much contrast. I plan to do one more different photograph next week, hopefully at a much higher standard than this one.

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Recreating four photos of The Beatles put together. I used only a chair as a prop for the models to sit on. Again, the key light was facing sideways with a black reflector next to it, allowing some shadow issues to dissapear. As for the backdrop, a floor light stand was used and hard lighting was pointed upwards, creating a gradience from light to dark. The key light was a softbox without a filter covering it. Unfortunately while editing, two photos had an error with cropping, making them a bit stretched as seen in this final image. However, I still believe the images are a success.

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Recreating a famous photo of Alfred Hitchcock. The Key Light was at an aperture of F11, facing from the side positioned just above eye angle, while the two back lights (spill kills with umbrellas!), also just above eye angle, lit up the backdrop at an aperture of f16. I edited the brightness and contrast in photoshop, though I'm unsure on whether this was actually a good idea.

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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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Recreating a John Lennon photograph by David Bailey

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Recreating a famous photo of Mick Jagger using two umbrella reflectors to light up the background and an open fish bowl to light up the model. To recreate the photo, we used an aperture of f11 on the fish bowl and f16 on the two backdrop lights combined together.

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