Badass

Sorry but I'm obsessed with Azealia Banks! Such a badass

RAW Files

Just went on a website called 'understanding RAW files' and to be honest it couldn't have confused me more! Any way i decided to print screen and past on here. Maybe in a few weeks i can revisit it and have a better idea of what the hell it is saying... i just hope its right.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/u-raw-files.shtml

Old Work

This is an images that i have taken previously to do with portraiture. I wanted to add this into my research because i really like the detail in the image that you can see on my Grandads face. Shame you cant see his eyes clearly but seriously thats what he looks like all the time (hoping to god i don't end up loosing my eyes!!). i also like the darkness of the image, i think that this is because it was taken agains a stone wall so it wasn't white more a off cream. (taken outside with natural light)

Own image

Richard Avedon

I think that Marilyn looks stunning in this image even with the kind of upset expression she has on her face. I really like the depth of field in the image, makes you really focus on her. I want this in my images so i am going to have to set the settings correctly for the depth of field to be as i want it. Also i really wish we were working in black and white for this project because i think it makes a portrait look so much more elegant and timeless, however i need to branch out more. 

Marilyn Monroe - Richard Avedon,  New York 1957

Irving Penn

 



''A good photograph is one that communivates a face, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it''

- Irving Penn

I decided that Irving Penn was a great starting point for my progect as it seems to me that his work is the ideal image of what a portrait should be. I dont think it can get confused with fashion or any other genra so its a safe place to being my research.

Rudolf Nureyev -  New York 1965

I really like the lighting on this image. To me it looks as though there is a light hitting the back drop lighting this up. Also a light hitting the model from the left hand side of the frame this creating a shaddow on the right of him. I think this gives the image a real soft feel to it, and not too harsh. I think that this is also created because the image is in black and white. Has a timeless feel to it.

Here we go again

Well after yesturdays session im left sad and confused! I was totally looking forward to this progect yet now im left questioning what even is a portrait image? and has what i have been claming to be portraits up until now been totally wrong? Personally i thought portraits could spread across all genras of photography such as documentary, fashion and so on. Yet now im lead to beleive this is wrong.

Finally done (i hope)

This is whats happening in my head right now! Feel sooo relieved!