LIGHT AND DARK
Exam Question
Willy Ronis and Horst P Horst often used black lighting to create a silhouette or tonal contrast between subject and background. Ferdinando Scianna and Alexey Bednij have used shadows to create contrast and pattern in their photographs. Marks and Spencer's advertising campaign for promoting their food products uses the intense colour ingredients contrasted against dark backgrounds.
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Alexey Bednij- Photographer profile
Alexey Bednij is a, 28 year old,Russian photographer, he is twenty eight years old. He likes his wok to be in black and white. His work is based on capturing the shadows of subjects such as people, cats, dogs, birds. He creates patterns in black and white.
Examples of Alexey Bedmij's work;
Examples of Alexey Bedmij's work;
Alexey likes to use shadows that can reflect to make it almost look like a mirror.
RANDOM EXAMPLES OF SHADOWS
Rupert Vandervell, He was born in London. He is currently fifty years old and he is a vegetarian .
Rupert Vandervell is a self-taught photographer. He started to like photography from a very young age. His work is always in black and white.
Rupert has always been obsessed with clean lines and the appearance of things.
Rupert Vandervell is a self-taught photographer. He started to like photography from a very young age. His work is always in black and white.
Rupert has always been obsessed with clean lines and the appearance of things.
Some examples of his work;
I this work i can see that he loves finding then using lines in his work, and in most on his collection he has either a man or a women in it. All of his street work seem to be taken from a higher view. I can see from his examples, that he likes taking them in black and white, which i think makes it look better.
PHOTO SHOOT.
In my photo shoot i have used the sun for my lighting to take pictures of random peoples shadows. The sun light helped a lot to get good shadows which actually look like shadows, as a few of my previous images didn't look like shadows.
EDITED IMAGES FROM PHOTOSHOOT
These are my best photos form this shoot. Shadows can be different sizes and also different shapes. I have made the shadows darker in each of these photos, to make them stand out more, but to also make the shadow the main focus of the whole image. By using Ctrl L i have created this new outcome.
PHOTOSHOOT
In my second photo shoot I have experimented more with similar objects and the shadows that it creates. I have also looked very closely at the lighting of this shoot, and i also used my torch of my phone to create this effect, so I can get the better quality of photo's to achieve what I want to achieve.
EDITED PHOTOS FROM PHOTSHOOT
These are my three best photos from this photo shoot. i have managed to get the actual item in the shot to show that it is a shaddow
PHOTO SHOOT
The main focus of this shoot was the out line of a person to create a shadow, using lights to create this effect. I got the person to look in different directions and to move their head up/down and some looking down to the right. I have also used some other objects in this shoot, such as; a bottle,and a torch. Some of this images have different backgrounds, such as; Pink, Green, Orange, White. To improve this photoshoot i could get more objects and taker single pictures of the items that does create a shadow.
In this photo shoot I have chosen two of my best photos to edit. The original background colour was white, but i decided to change the white into one Blue and one Green to give it a better atmosphere. I like to consider Blue and Green to be quite a calm atmosphere. I have also made the shadow of the person darker by using the buttons "Ctrl L" to make the shadow stand out more than it already did. Also using objects makes it feel like there is more going on in the photo.
PHOTOSHOOT
This shoot was all done by a torch. I grabbed random items from my bedroom, then shone the torch onto/around the items, using my wall to get the shadow effect. This way i managed This is my best photo shoot i have done.
EDITED IMAGES .
Mini Photoshoot
In this photo shoot i experimented different angles. I moved the bottle of water
PHOTOSHOOT
For this shoot i have taken a couple of random objects (Trumpets, bottles, cups, light shade and a tripod) to get a range of different angles for different affects. This was not a good a successful as i rushed this shoot because of timing.
PHOTOSHOOT
This is my first photo shoot based on Rupert Vandervell. In this shoot i have decided to do some similarities with Rupert's work and my work, to see what i can produce in the same type of style as his.
This is my third photographer, Edward Weston. Edward spend his childhood in Chicago He was born on the twenty-forth of March 1886 but died on the first of January 1959, age seventy-one.
He got his first camera at sixteen years old .
Edward's work was best known for natural forms, landscapes, etc. In some of his photography work he incorprates shadows.
He got his first camera at sixteen years old .
Edward's work was best known for natural forms, landscapes, etc. In some of his photography work he incorprates shadows.
Some of Edward's work:
Edward work links to my exam question of Light and dark.