A portrait is a photograph that should show a true likeness of the person but doesn't necessarily look like the person. It can show different aspects of the person including their personality, identity, interests and more.
"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative." |
Second Recreation |
Recreating Myra Greene's photos was a fun and interesting process. Using a DSLR camera and lighting we were able to capture different facial features of our parters face. Photos consisted of eyes, noses, side profiles and mouths. We then uploaded the photos onto the computer and edited them using Photoshop. First we changed the photos into black and white just as Myra's photos were. Finding a way to make the photos the same texture and look as Myra was hard as we were using a much more modern process which is easier to do, but reducing the yellow colour balance of the photo worked very well. This allowed us to show the texture, colour and imperfections of our facial features and therefore recreate the project "Character Recognition". My second recreation was a better attempt as it turned out very similar to Myra Greene. As the person in the picture is also of African Heritage, the look of the image was easier to replicate on photoshop. |
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For this task, we were asked to go around the school and try to get inspiration from Lewis Khan's project "Georgetown". This meant we had to visit different people who work in the institution and capture them in their natural environment. Slideshow 1 is James - the security guard. 2 was the biology tech room, and 3 was the reception which is the main part of our school. This was a fascinating task as you could see what makes each place personal to the person working there. The different jobs entailed different objects needed to do it, as I showed in the photos I took.
I was intrigued as to how each person could reflect themselves in a space they worked in everyday. Their personal photos, documents, belongings gave their areas colour and personality, allowing them to be themselves even when they aren't at home. I took the photos at different angles and distances. The closer photos showed specific objects belonging to the person. After uploading the photos, I edited the brightness, sharpness and exposures of the photos allowing colours to become brighter without taking away the environment's real lighting and feel. |
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My ResponseThis is a series of photos representing my household. I have many younger siblings, most recently a 4 month old brother. He has many belongings such as his bottles and things to make his milk that represent him and his life.
I edited the photos to make them sharper, and as I did for the Lewis Khan 1st response, but tried not to change the feel and colours of my home. I used natural lighting without brightening the photo too much otherwise I thought it would ruin the actual colour of each photo. |
I tried to incorporate the idea of Bill Armstrong's blurred colour with Carsten Witte's skull portraits. I loved the concept of the skull and what it represents. The skull is a dramatic visual of what people look like without their beauty. Everyone is much more similar than they think as we all have the same facial structure under our beauty, which will fade over time.
I used different colours and a very light blurred effect on photoshop to portray the look of the skull without overpowering it with colour and too much light. I didn't want to blur the photo too much so used a very small motion blur while brightening the photo, as a full on blur would disguise the photo and the look of the skull. |
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For these photos I used a DSLR and took these photos out of focus. This made them blurry but you can still see the person in the photos. It distorts their faces and bodies making them look different and not as it seems.
I wanted to use these as my final photos as I love the simplicity of them and the different amount of blur created. You can still see the persons face or body but the blur gives it a distorted and mysterious effect. |