Photoshop

 

Happy Birthday Don!

Original:

Edited:

The keys I used are:

CTRL/CMD + C = Copy

CTRL/CMD + J = New layer

CTRL/CMD + T = Scale

CTRL/CMD + V = Paste

CTRL/CMD + Q = Lasso Tool

R = Blur, Smudge, Sharpen Tool



Fashion Photography

There is a huge difference in fashion photography and portraiture photography. In fashion photography the photo is about what the subject is wearing, it is a commercial  photo and needs to sell the clothes. The photo below was taken by Steven Meisel for the September 2007 edition for Vogue, although it is an amazing photograph it doesn't show enough about fashion and Anna Wintour, the editor, decided that the clothes wouldn't sell so it never made it into Vogue magazine.

Portraiture

Portraiture

Before cameras were used to take portraits, people would have their pictures painted. Usually it was wealthy men and women or members of royalty that had their portraits painted. They would always want to set an example and to be painted how they want people to see them. Meaning they had control of what the artist was painting. Where as when your portrait is taken with a camera, it is done within the click of a button, which shows the subjects emotion and I think has a lot more depth.

Diane Arbus is a photographer that takes photos and portraits showing different emotions to what the subject would normally want to be portrayed. She would often take photos when people were of guard making her photos very powerful. However this doesn’t always fit in with what you would you want out the photo for the specific event.

Diane Arbus was asked by the () family to take photo’s of them throughout their Christmas holiday. Most photographers would take this as a chance to show the family laughing, opening presents, eating big meals. But Diane Arbus had a different approach, as shown in the photo below. I think this is a brilliant photo because instead of having the girl laughing, smilling or doing anything that you would normally expect at christmas time, she is staring right into your eyes and showing that she is almost sad or needs to scream. 

The way I think this photo was captured was by waiting for her to stop posing, putting her gaurd down and allowing all what she wanted people to see of herself to simply disappear. In my opinion this photo has a deeper meaning, than one where the girl would be posing. Because when you look into her eyes you can start imagine a lot of things that she is feeling or thinking.

Eddie Adams:
Eddie Adams was a photographer in the Vietnan war in the late 1960's. The the photo below captured a general shooting a prisoner in the head with his hand gun, the photo was taken just as the bullet entered the prisoners head, it shows the emotion left on his face and unlike the video, lets people really analyse what's happening. I think it's this photo defines Bresson's theory on capturing the divisive moment, because is this was taken just moments before or after, it wouldn't have the same effect.

Tony Vaccaro: 
Tony Vaccaro was sent to war a solider with a camera to take photos instead of being hired to be a photographer in the war like Robert Capa. I think the difference between Vaccaro's and Capa's photo's was that Tony Vaccaro would show injured soldiers in a lot more detail were as Robert Capa would show more of the landscape of war and what is happening.

Heri Cartier Bresson:
The photo below was taken with a Leica 35mm camera in Paris, by Cartier Bresson in the year 1932. This photograph I think defines Bresson's idea of capturing the decisive moment, because without the man jumping across the puddle this would just be an average photo, but as he has captured him in mid-air, known to be the decisive moment, which makes this photo so unique. Bresson was to be said the master of Candid photography, because his subjects in his most famous photo's would have no idea that he was taking a photo of them.

Sky

Bar hip

Wall ride