Second Semester Emulation Final

Project Eleven - Utopia and Dystopia

Project Ten - Magazine Mock Up

I chose to create a travel magazine called Travello. I took photos from my travels in Spain last year, focusing Travello's main article on multiple cities that I visited. I created a "cover" picture for each city, as well as profiled a few different aspects of them. I used the same font from the cover page on the "cover" pages of the city articles as well to create a sense of continuity and similarity - even though it is online, it is still one magazine. Overall, I am happy with the way the online magazine turned out. My favorite part of making it was creating the advertisements, as well as the pages with multiple photos. I enjoyed being able to be creative with the ads, both in font and content. I did not know how to create a page with multiple photos before and I had fun laying the pictures out in the order that I wanted as well as titling them differently. Click the link below to view the final product!

Travello: The Spain Issue

Project Nine - Two Portraits

Fine Art Portraiture

For my semester one final, I chose to emulate a self portrait of an older teenage girl. When thinking about fine art portraiture, I thought that my unit final method would work very well to convey the emotion that I was able to capture in the emulation. I used the same model and the same set up while shooting. However, I chose to put more emotion into the photo. By having the model show her bare shoulders while mimicking the Rosie the Riveter stance, she demonstrates a balance of beauty, while demanding respect. I chose to edit with a daguerreotype finish because it added a timeless effect to the image. I am very happy with the intimidating final outcome of the photograph.

For my second fine art portrait, I decided to use a natural model. In my first portrait, I staged it much more and used a message that I chose to convey. In this second one, I used my sister again but I chose to use a setting that represented her. She really loves soccer, so I decided to show her in a strong stance yet it one that was more reflective of her. This image was different than the one I was going for. I knew that I wanted natural lighting and that I wanted her in her soccer gear, but I initially but her against a brick wall. The brick wall didn't fit well with the message, so this final shot was in front of a dark door. I like how the light goes from bright to dark in her face, yet how there is a light wall to juxtapose the light side of her face. I am pleased with the final outcome of the photograph.

Commercial Portraiture 

For the commercial portraits, I knew that I wanted to make a sport magazine. I took my sister out to the park to run her through a series of drills to create a calculated yet natural stance (such as running or kicking the ball). This final image that I chose to use was the first picture from the entire shoot. I caught her tying her shoe and then told her to look up at me into the sunlight with a serious face. I am happy that my lighting worked out - I thought that the fading daylight might overexpose the image, but it worked out in my favor. I like the color of the writing on the magazine as well, I think that it works well with the bright color of the grass, yet stands out against the dark of my sister's hair and her outfit.

Here is another possible magazine cover. This one would work well because I left space for the title above of her head. As with the other images, her face is serious so as to convey a demanding and powerful message. I think that all of my photos are a bit "monotone" in the facial expression - they are all quite serious. This wasn't intended: it just so happened that all the images I liked and chose to edit had a serious expression. In the next project, I would like to experiment more with different types of facial expressions. 

Upon further reflection, I decided to put one more possible magazine cover on my blog. In this photo, the model is smiling, a departure from my previous images! I edited this with high contrast, as with the image before this one, because I have seen many sports covers in particular that use this type of edit. 

Portrait Introduction

Fine Art Portraits

Andrea Hübner

Bill Gekas

Moritz Aust

Commercial Portrait - Magazine Cover

Both the fine art and commercial portraits are aesthetically appealing. Each is well thought out in terms of what the photographer wants to convey to the audience. The images are well developed and thoroughly convey an emotion.

There are more differences than similarities. The fine art portrait is more aligned with what the photographer wants to convey. They are not impacted by having to sell magazines. The fine art portraits are carefully designed to demonstrate a specific mood. The commercial portraits are more "spur of the moment." Their poses are not intricately placed as the fine are ones are. There is thought as to what the final look should be, but the facial expression is captured in a moment. The commercial photos are not as "deep" as the fine art ones are: they are subject to public appeal, which can limit a photographer's creative opinion.

Project Seven - Surrealism and Photomontage

This first surrealism picture is the imaginative, abstract art that is commonly found in surrealism art and images. I chose to use a flower as the sun and hands as birds because they represented the real life objects well. I additionally put in a couple of people who are flying away on a bouquet of flowers to add to the strange abstraction of the photo. If I had this photo to do over again, I would do something differently with the background. I like the mountain image, but I think a posterizing effect would work well with the rest of the photograph.

This second image is a more "realistic" form of surrealism. I was inspired by the artists who put people in jars, particularly one person who put a boy sitting on the edge of the jar fishing into it. I liked the jar because it gave a sense of scale to the image. I put three people in the image playing in "snow," which is actually cherry blossom petals and flowers. When the petals fall from the trees in springtime, it always looks like snow to me, and that's how the I the inspiration to create this image. The petals are from five different photos and are repeated over one hundred times (total) in order to create the "snow storm" effect. I am happy with the final outcome of this photograph. 

Surrealism Introduction

Surrealism 

Historically Prominent Surrealist Artists

Metamorphosis of Narcissus

Salvador Dalí

The Elephant Celebes

Max Ernst

Reply to Red

Yves Tanguy

Surrealism is a type of art in which the artist creates unrealistic images. In many cases, the images appear funny or humorous because they are so strange. Images can also appear dreamlike, rather than ridiculous. Surrealism began in the 1920s, created to "release the unbridled imagination of the subconscious." Surrealism mainly dominated artists who used paint or pencil as their medium, but today surrealism extends into photography (see below for surrealist photographers). 

Surrealist Photographers

The Mind's Eye

Maurice Tabard

Untitled

Man Ray

Patti Shambles

Thomas Barbey

Kylli Sparre