Image Bank - Location Portraiture

Location portraiture is pretty self-explanatory and can take many forms, shot in many different ways and is pretty much experimental. However, my favourite location portraiture shots are those with an interesting background, which is why I've chosen the six images above because not only have the photographers captured extraordinary portraits, they have also captured beautiful backgrounds within these shots, and most of them also contain depth. The first image is of a girl wearing a pink ball gown dress, in the middle of a forest. I chose this because it raises so many questions, which a photo is meant to do. I also like that the model isn't looking at the camera but is looking and facing to the left, as though she does not notice her photo is being taken. Although this image was most likely posed for, it gives off a natural feel. In the second image the model is completely in the left side of the frame, but she is standing in an alleyway/tunnel, which runs from the foreground of the image to the background - whilst narrowing which shows depth in the image. I chose this image because it is different from the other images I have selected, as it is more dark and mysterious, plus the models body is entirely in the shot. The second to last image is of a little girl, and the photographer has positioned her to the right of the frame. I like this image in particular because the background is incredibly blurry, making the girl the only aspect of the image in focus. Finally, the last image is of an old man standing in a long road, which we can see to the left of him, as the photographer has captured depth. I like this image because the man's hair is flying over his head due to the wind. I also like it because the long road is leading somewhere behind him, in the middle of nowhere.

Image Bank - Animation

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There are lots of different ways to use animation within photography. For instance it could show movement such as the wind, or the movement of a vehicle, this would be like a video, or a small part of the image can be the only thing that moves, and the rest of the image is still. Another way of editing animation is to change the colour of the shot. In the screenshot of the first animation, the only thing moving is the man sitting down in the background of the shot, turning the page of his newspaper. Although this is very subtle, the image itself has captured loads of different people rushing through the street, but using this part as animation has emphasized the only man sitting still and relaxing. Similarly, the third image has created the complete opposite effect. In this animation, the train is moving quickly past the train station, where one man is sitting on the platform alone, meaning that we focus on him, especially as the train moving is blurry as a result of the animation. This creates a lonely, sad feeling because everything is moving except the man sitting on the ground. The animation is also black and white which adds to the emotion. I chose the fourth animation because it is extremely simple, yet effective. The photographer has created an animation of the waves in sea and the clouds in the sky moving along. I particularly like this because it is an ordinary landscape, yet the animation adds something extra to it, and it makes it much more realistic. I chose the last animation because it has shown me a different technique to shooting photographs, the moving image is shot in a wind-mirror of a car, so it has framed the image but this also shows us a reflection of what is behind the photographer. A lot of bright lights are shown as it is reflecting off the mirror. I like that everything is still, yet everything in the mirror is moving. 

Image Bank - Blur

Blurring is similar to slow-sync flash; the only difference is that there isn't a still image with a blur image, as the whole thing is blurred. This technique is good for shooting transport such as trains and cars, as well as showing the movement from people in a busy street. For instance, the first image has been taken in London, and the blurring has come from cars on the road, whereby we can only see the colours from their head lights, which have blurred the length of the road, making the car looking invisible because it was moving so fast in relation to the camera's shutter speed. The second image is black and white, of a dog jumping up to the camera. The dog is slightly blurred as he has moved whilst jumping up at the photographer, making its legs look distorted. The blurring of this image makes the dog look more excited as it was moving so fast because it was so happy. The third image is also black and white, but it has been taken in a studio. There is a black background, with a woman standing in the center, but she has moved slightly so that it almost looks like she has two blurred faces. The fourth image is probably the most blurred out of this selection, it has been taken of a boy, but it looks as though there is almost four of him, as the camera has been moved so that his entire body - including his hands and face have been blurred across the frame. The last two images have been taken in public places, one in a train station and the other in a street, in these images we can see people walking quickly because their legs and bodies have been blurred in the shot.

Image Bank - Personal Project (Identity)

This is the image bank for my personal project - Identity. I have split the photos in two, the first being the identity of people and the other being the identity of places. The first image is a portrait of a girl, with red hair. However, in the center of her face she has a prism of different images of her facial features. Therefore, she has multiple mouths and eyes, but we cannot see her actual face in its original structure. This disguises her face so we cannot see what she looks like. The second image again, is of a girl but close up to her face, although her face actually isn't there. This image has been edited so that there are no features on the girls face, and it also looks as though the skin on her face has been sliced into strips - like ribbon, and there is blood dripping from these. This photo is disturbing and mysterious, which adds an edge to the idea of 'identity' - or the lack of it. The third image is another 'disguised identity' photo, whereby there two models in the photo, with white bags over their heads, which have drawn faces on them. The rest of the image is black, so the most distinctive part of the image is the white bags and faces drawn on them. The other three images are of architecture and places. The first image is of the side of a building, and depth is portrayed as the building looks narrower at the top, I also like that there is a bird close to the image flying past, but it is a black silhouette because the photo is in black and white. The second image is of a train carriage, there are no models in this image and it is very blurry apart from the foreground, where you can slightly see the design and texture of the seats. The last image is of a street with lots of roads, and we can see movement from the cars, as the photo has been overexposed to the point where the lights from the cars have been stretched along the road. I also like that the images are in black and white because the lights and details are more defined. 

Image Bank - Multiple Exposure

There are two ways to create a Multiple Exposure image, either by camera technique or editing skill. The idea is to merge two or more images together - such as a person's face and plants or buildings etc. which the examples above show. However, with the use of creativity, some photographers are able to bend the rules and create something different. For example, the third image uses a models arm/hands as the base image, and then within that they have either shot or edited a person's face within the shape of the arms/hands. They have also merges a picture of tree leaves at the bottom of the arms, to create the illusion of them blending into the picture. The last image also uses a photo of hands as the base images, but this is an example of a double exposure photograph, as only two photos have been used. The photographer has merged a picture of a man's face within the hands. I particularly like this image because the configuration of the hands set up the shape and size of a head.