Final Images

 

These are the final photographs that I have chosen to hand in. I have decided to print the middle one A0.The one that I am printing up to A0 was taken on the phase one camera and the other two where shot on the D800. In all three of the images I used flash but the last image shown I had to use a zoom reflector and bounce the flash of the celling. This was only because I could not book one out the store for the day I wanted it.

I am pretty pleased with how the images have turned out. If I was going to do any of the images again I think I would reshoot the A0 one. This is because the model is not quite were I wanted him in the frame. Apart from this I think the images have come out really well.

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was born in 1917 New Jersey and died in 2009. Penn studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, under the tutelage of Alexey Brodovitch who was a Russian graphic designer. In 1953 Penn established his own studio were he photographed a number things including still life and portraiture.

Penn has been one of photography’s conspicuous innovators in the two oldest and most successful genres; still life and portraiture. It is unusual for an artist to be so comfortable in both of these genres But that’s what was so special about Penn, he had the ability to photograph amazing still life and portraits.

One of my favorite and most inspiring still life’s that Penn did was the cigarette. Penn found his subject matter just outside on the street. He then took these cigarette ends into his studio to photograph.      Penn transformed one of the most consumed and discarded products from consumer society and turned it into something beautiful. Penn photographed the cigarettes using the platinum palladium process. By using this prose Penn has made something as insignificant as a cigarette butt, and made it into and object of desire.