PROJECTED PHOTO

Very interesting and creative projected work which can be used as an example for my ANOTHER SKIN project.

Alina by Charles Guo

NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY

Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light and using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds, minutes, and even hours in order to give the film or digital sensor enough time to capture a usable image.

In the early 1900s, a few notable photographers, Alfred Stieglitz and William Fraser, began working at night. 

From the back-window. Alfred Stieglitz. 1915

Icy night. Alfred Stieglitz. 1893

 

Reflections. Alfred Stieglitz. 1897



The first photographers known to have produced large bodies of work at night were Brassai and Bill Brandt.

Brassai. Open Gutter from Paris by Night. 1933

Brassai. Paris by Night

Brassai

With the progress of high-speed films, higher-sensitivity digital image sensors, wide-aperture lenses, and the ever-greater power of urban lights, night photography is increasingly possible using available light.

I made some pictures during the night in Enfield using long exposure and natural light. That's what I have.

Some of the images look better in black and white. It clearly shows the contrast between these two colours which makes the picture not only look dramaticly more interesting but also strictly otlines the shapes and boarders between black and white. This makes you to look and understand image differently.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY

Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.

Some interesting work of classic and now days photographers.

Dovima with elephants. Richard Avedon. Paris. August 1955

Veruschka. Richard Avedon. New York. January 1967

Veruschka. Richard Avedon. New York. January 1967

Richard Avedon. 1957

Phorographer Irving Penn

Phorographer Irving Penn

Phorographer Irving Penn

Phorographer Irving Penn

Photographer Helmut Newton

Photographer Helmut Newton

Photographer Helmut Newton

Photographer Helmut Newton

Photographer Helmut Newton

Photographer Mario Testino

Photographer Mario Testino

Photographer Mario Testino

Photographer Mario Testino

Photographer Mario Testino

Photographer Mario Testino


Fashion is one of the themes which I could use for my Another Skin project. Through making images I could show the difference between classic and now days fashion photography.

Woodcroft wildspace VS human invasion.






Woodcroft wildspace is one of the rear green quiet places in London where nature still remaining untouched by the humans. The beauty of this place is in all these wild bushes, trees and flowers, moles, squirrels, birds and worms which live in the ground. Also humans take care about bees in the territory of the wild park. 

My aim is to show people through photography that we need this place, we need part of the wild life in our business concrete jungle. I investigated some individuals working in the same field as mine and found interesting work named POSTCARDS FROM THE FUTURE by photographer Robert Graves and architect Didier Madoc-Jones. These artists created pictures showing London in the possible future after global worming takes effect. In their work you can see flooded streets of London, Thames came out from its banks, refuges from different countries settled each and every square metre in the centre of London – there is no free space except in Buckingham Palace. 

  

















When you see something like that, involuntarily you ask yourself a question – why? Why it happened? Why it’s like that? I think it is very effective way to influence people which pretty much works. It makes people to realise and think deeply about the problem. That is exactly what I would like to do making my project. We need wild spaces like this one and if we have chance to keep it, we should keep it. I would like people to understand the meaning of this wild space. I made pictures of Woodcroft trying to show the beauty of this place. I wanted to underline not pleasant things which might happen with this beautiful place of nature showing the place like it is and possible houses, cars and children playgrounds placed there. 

My first work didn’t look very nice and real. Houses and cars were looked to dark according to background. I amended the brightness and tried to make them to look as real as possible for now. 

In my opinion the last picture with the ball shows the best possible comparison between the nature and human invasion. That style of pictures attracts more attention of people because of strong contrast between two areas.

All my work, I would say, is not bad. Pictures are showing comparison between the nature and human invasion but it’s not probably enough to impress people. Some of the pictures are looking very happy and far from awaking sadness and unpleasant thoughts. I think my work should have more fear in it, fear to loose something which we are really in need and probably have more straight and cold contrast between original picture and photoshoped one.