Cinematic Photography
Often Images are referred to as having a filmic quality to them – photographers such as Cindy Sherman, Hannah Starkey, Greggory Crewdson, Sarah Jones and Duane Michaels work all have this cinematic feel surrounding their work. I will further explore these photographers and their work in posts to follow. These photographers’ reference stylistic choices that we associate with the cinema in their work and each image is highly constructed; Crewdson has an entire film crew and equipment on hand when creating his images. Each photographer uses colour, lighting and composition in different ways in order to create a sense of narrative and drama in their images. Colour is an important element in both films and photographs that have this filmic quality as colour is instrumental in how the viewer feels when reading an image – colour saturation, white balance and hue are all things that effect how we read an image. http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours provides a break down as to how colour can effect moods and thus how photographers can use colour to manipulate how the image is read.