Evaluation

For this assignment we have been asked to produce 5 final images and submit them to Fujifilm Student Competition. I have been taking photographs of Molly, I have been taking some simple portraits. I wanted them to be pure and smooth as I like simple portraiture, and as I was not sure about my idea it is always good to take some simple images so then you have a wide range of work and ideas that will make your photograph look like you want it to look. My work is also about stitching on images. From the start my idea was the same, I wanted to take portraits and stitch on them from the start so it did not really change at all. I was going to do some cut ups but then I didn't so I just left my images as they were. There are few equipment I have used in this project such as.; film camera, film, scanner, Mamiya RB67, softbox, snoot, needle, thread. Basically, I have used Mamiya for the first time and I loved it! It is not as complicated as I thought and when you get to use it more often it becomes as easy to use as digital camera. There was one problem I had to deal with in this assignment namely it was a photoshoot that did not work at all because one of my tutors told me to experiment with aperture so I did and all my images were under exposed I think only two of them worked but there was no point in scanning them into a computer because them two images were not the ones I wanted to use as my final images. I had no more time to arrange another photoshoot so I just left it as I was happy with them images I took of Molly. There is definitely an artist that have influenced me in my work which is Maurizio Anzeri as I was inspired by his embroidery work. If i done this assignment all over again I would probably do more photoshoots than I did this time to make sure I have a wide range of images to pick from. I am happy with my final outcomes but it could always been better than it is now. 

Kevin Corrado

Kevin is a young photographer from Connecticut. He is currently a graphic design student at the University of Bridgeport. In one of his interviews he said that he really really likes long exposures and he explained how he doeas it and why he likes them so much - "I use a tripod, since the exposure is so long, it would be blurry otherwise. Unlike using a narrow depth of field with a blurred background in shorter exposures with large apertures, in long exposure photography the subject is emphasized with a wide depth of field. By allowing water to flow still or letting clouds blur together, you can bring out the subject of the photo by decreasing the distraction of the background (and at the same time making it more beautiful). Star trails from long exposures bring out your photography subject more too, since the subject will be the only sharp object." he also says that he personally prefers black and white work to colour, but that doesn't make him any different. Also, here are some other questions that caught my eye: 

What attracts you to the water so much?
Water is simply amazing. Its a great representation of time in photographs.

What lens would you recommend for landscape photography?

That’s sorta difficult to say when currently I’m just working off my 18-55 kit lens and 55-300 telephoto. I guess I could go online right now and find you guys a good one but since this is “Teenage Photography” and you guys are probably all in the same boat I am with money, that’s probably not necessary. Anyways I usually end up using a very low focal length but with something in the foreground or taking up most of the frame. With the low focal length you will really get the feel of dimension.

Nick Lepard

Nick is basically a new artist that just begins his professional career. Some people say that his style is raw, competent and confident beyond his years. like the work of artists he admires, for example, the American writer Charles Bukowski, a 'hard-boiled anti-hero', and British painter Jenny Saville, who 'constructs painting with the weighty heft of sculpture' - "he paints with gusto and verve. he has moved beyond his earlier photo realist style to a more courageous approach that is part 'happenstance' and very much about the process of moving paint around, while still maintaining artistic control. " - says Diane who was very impressed with his work when she first saw it. Lepard’s parents immigrated to Canada from England. Both a Canadian and a UK citizen, he was born in Vancouver in 1983. Lepard graduated with a B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2008. His work is the product of a true artist, it reflects the mentality of the man behind the masterpiece. He paints into a style of more abstract concepts like the influx of media and information on the human being onto the canvas. He produces pieces that reflect the process more so than a planned product: “I find my art never really turns out the way I plan, which I chalk up to the fact that there are a lot of things influencing me that I am either unaware of, or that I don’t want to give credit to.” This is his own style.