Week 12 Photoshoot

Inspiration Board

Week 11 Reading

1) A watermark is an image or text embedded into a photograph for the express purpose of rendering that photograph unusable for commercial purposes or plagiarism (thus forcing the party wishing to use that photo to purchase the rights to using it from the photographer to get a non-watermarked version)

2) The Publish Services Panel allows for easy exportation of images to various social media websites, saving the user time compared to uploading the images through these sites themselves.

3) Lux and Gutschow are both essentially constructing something of a "real" reality in their work (in so far as setting goes), but the works are just "off" enough to give the impression that there is something very not real about them.  In Lux's work, the backgrounds appear real enough, but are actually often paintings with the photograph of her subject transposed onto them (with crisp edges more reminiscent of Medieval paintings than anything in the realm of photography).  Gutschow digitally combines dozens of photos into landscape scenes that are composed like traditional landscape paintings.  There is an evenness to the light that occurs in painting as well, where not all objects are technically using a unified light source.

Watermark

Week 10 Reading

1) His stated reasons are that little has been done (in his estimation) with nighttime in photography, and that there is a quietness and serenity to the night that he wants to reproduce in his work.

2) Compact flourescents will not turn your Trusty White Diffusion T into a big flaming torch the way incandescent bulbs (which produce insane amounts of heat) will.

3) Direct flash produces both hideous shadows and tends to blow out highlights, making really flat and terrible images.  Diffusing the light, or bouncing your flash off of a ceiling or wall, tends to produce more naturalistic lighting and a much better image to work from.

Lighting

Week 10 Retouch Assignment

Before

After