Fine Art Portraits

Steve Mccury

Fine art portraits is directed by the photographer. It can convey emotion or a mood just from the face of the subject. From this emotion, the viewer can translate it into what the meaning of the photo is. Color, framing, props, and other elements are controlled by the photographer to convey meaning.

Herb Ritts

Herb Ritts photo is very close to the face and uses the spear as a prop. He doesn't distract the viewer from the message: he aimed to show the "unceasing cycle of life and death, beauty and ferocity".

The other photo taken by Steve Mccury carries a lot more emotional meaning to me. It shows childhood innocence and creativity, looking at the color of clothing and pieces. But this with the gun provides an extreme contrast, almost as though the childhood is being robbed. The casual element of this is also unexpected and consequentially more powerful. 

                                               

project 8- Digital Alternative Processes

Albumen Print:


Cyanotype:


Daguerreotype:

Project 7- Multiple Image Techniques

In this project I used photoshop and Lightroom and learned how to blend photos together to make panoramas, HDR photos, and multiple exposure. In multiple exposure, you can blend photos together that have the same subject or different perspectives. Panoramas are essentially stitching up multiple photos using photoshop. For this to work, each photo must have some overlap with the next. HDR, or high dynamic range, allows for a photo to have a higher exposure range. You do this by taking several photos of the same subject and perspective, but you expose certain varying areas. Then you blend it together in photoshop.


Multiple Exposure


HDR






Panorama

Surrealism and Photomontage PREWORK

Salvador Dali

The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory, 1954

Elephants, 1948

Rene Magritte

Homesickness, 1940

Memory of a Journey, 1955

Surrealism is an abstraction but also has a basis in realism. It is cultivated from the subconscious. Aspects of surrealism include critical paranoia (double take) and incongruous juxtaposition (aligning unlike parts) and levitation ( when it is something that is unlikely to be flying).

Thomas Barbey

Crash Course in Italian, 

This photo is an example of surrealism because it has critical paranoia and aligning juxtaposition. The Grand Canal and waterfall make sense when they are apart, but not when they are together. Therefor this causes the viewer to take a double take.

Leap of Faith

Again, this shows aligning juxtaposition. The photo includes a building and the sky right next to it. The orientation makes this scenario impossible. The diver leaping off the building into the sky is also unlikely, but makes sense on its own. This also shows critical paranoia; it makes the viewer question whats reality and imagination.







Logan Zillmer

This is an example of surrealism because the size of the bowler hat is unrealistic, as well as its placement on top of the building.



This is a surrealistic photo because the cars are flying. The girls in the field and the car as two separate things makes sense, but both together and the placement of the car in the sky makes it more of a dream-like photo with basis of reality. 

School Community Project- Perspective of Place

We shot the project at the King's Hill Max Station. I shot all around the station, showing a variety of perspectives so that I would have more options when putting together the collage. I made sure to shoot images of the max train driving by because I knew I wanted to incorporate that in the collage. We collaborated on our ideas by organizing our photos into groups of areas where it was shot and from what perspective. Once we figured out from what perspective the collage would be from, we discarded the other photos and then planned where we would cut each individual photo.

Cyanotypes

Process:

A solution of potassium ferricyanide and a solution of ferric ammonium citrate are mixed. The contrast of the sensitizer can be increased by adding about 6 drops of 1% solution potassium dichromate for every 2 ml of sensitizer solution

The sensitizer solution is then added to either paper or cloth and is dried in a dark place. It can be printed on any surface capable of soaking up the solution.

The print can be made from large format negatives and lithography. A positive image is produced by exposing it to a source of UV light as a contact print through the negative. 

The combination of UV light and the citrate reduces the iron(III) to iron(II). This is followed by a complex reaction of the iron(II) complex with ferricyanide. The result is an insoluble, blue dye (ferric ferrocyanide) known as Prussian blue. The extent of color change depends on the amount of UV light, but acceptable results are usually obtained after 10–20 minute exposures on a dark, gloomy day.

After exposure, developing of the picture involves the yellow unreacted iron solution being rinsed off with running water. The water-soluble iron(III) salts are washed away, while the non-water-soluble Prussian blue remains in the paper. This is what gives the picture its typical blue color. The highlight values should appear overexposed, as the water wash reduces the final print values.

Examples: