This picture is titled ‘Waterfront at Dusk,’ and it was taken at the Carlsbad State Beach near the Encina Power Plant. This image features the compositional rule of leading line, which is present in the traffic lights streaking across the frame. To take this photograph, I used a Canon EOS Rebel T6i with the 18-55mm kit lens. The image was taken with a 25 second shutter speed, and I retouched the coloring and detail sharpness in Photoshop CS6.
This image works in the color division because of the harmonious shades of deep blue and the red streaks. It was printed on Epson Glossy Photo Paper on the Epson P800 digital printer.
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David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, England. He started out with painting California homes. As his career went on, he photographed more and more, and he fused photography and technology in the 1980s. My image is in his style because he started a new style in the 1980s where he put take polaroid prints and layer them on top of each other to make a new image. My images have a similar approach, as they have multiple different photos that overlap to form bigger image.
To create this image, I found the settings I desired and took 10+ photos of the many parts of the overall subject. I wasn't too concerned about movement that might take place between shots because I thought it would add to the variation of the final product. I then loaded the images into a Photoshop project and resized and aligned them as I desired. One of the most important parts was choosing where each image would be placed (i.e. what frames it would be behind or in front of). I liked the idea of not having them perfectly line up, as I liked the way the varied image appeared. I chose to use the Time magazine cover because I felt that the formal look of the photograph matched the theme of Time magazine well. I like how Time covers that are centered around a portrait have minimal text and distractions and focus on the subject of the cover, which I felt was fitting for Tommy's portrait. To emulate the style of Time, I kept the overall aesthetic simple and clean with the portrait being the focus. I also put Tommy's head over the Time logo, a style that is typical to Time magazine covers.
The title was a .png using the exact Time logo with its font and proportion, and the subtitle used Myriad Pro Italic with a size of 20 pt. For the color, I inverted the portrait of Tommy and made it a clipping mask over the text, so in that area it is slightly off-white. In the setup of the photograph, I had a gray fabric backdrop with Tommy seated on a stool. There was a gold reflector to the left and strobe light in a softbox on the right. I then cropped this image in the Photoshop project so it was a closeup. A strobe light is a powerful flash that is synced to the camera so that it strobes when the shutter is released. You would use it to provide strong studio lighting, and it would be paired with other sources of light. A modeling light is a secondary light source in a studio shoot that allows for a balance in lighting to eliminate shadows and create even exposure. It would be used with a strobe light, generally placed on the opposite side of the subject in order to balance the light. A soft box is a cover placed over a strobe light and guide the light. It is used to channel the light from the strobe and soften it so that the resulting light is diffused cleanly. It also directs the light straight to the subject. A reflector is a flat panel of varying shapes and sizes, but usually circular. They can be either white, silvery, or gold. They are used to reflect light from the light source in order to eliminate shadows or create even and balanced lighting. A grey card is a physical panel with a white, gray, and black strip that is held by the subject in test photos. It is used to allow the photographer to find the perfect exposure so that the gray on the photograph perfectly matches the gray on the real panel. A radio trigger system is a system of transmitters that are attached to the camera and any light sources, especially strobe lights. It is used to allow for wireless connectivity between the camera and light sources so that the flash from the lights is synced to the shutter release in the camera, and it allows the photographer to be more mobile due to the lack of a cord. |
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