Annie leibovitz

Annie leibovitz is a world famous photographer most well known for her coloration with Disney. Leibovitz was born October 2, 1949, in Waterbury, Connecticut.

What Leibovitz has done hear is she has taken the old Disney cartoons that we all know and love and she has brought them to life. By using famous people for her models. Leibovitz gives the viewer a relationship with the image. She has managed to relate the well known films with well known people.

Leibovitz has taken everyone’s childhood memory’s and made brought them to life. Leibovitz composes her images in a similar way to Gregory crewdson in the sence that they both have big budgets. However Leibovitz has many tiffrent components to her image. She then computer edits them to give the images this magical feel to them.

Leibovitz creates these images in such a way that when you look at them it starts to bring your childhood back to life. I think that what Leibovitz has don here is amazing and the reaction to the images can be quite emotional for some viewers.

Interim Crit

 

This is my Tableaux piece that I did for my Interim Crit. The idea behind this photograph was I wanted to take inspiration from Edward Hopper. I wanted to experiment with the light in my image in the same way as Hopper would paint it.

To create this image I placed a pro photo D1 flash behind the door. This flash lit up the subject and flooded out into the room. I wanted to make it look like the woman in the image is curious to see what is behind the door.

When I showed this image to my peers it made them want to go in and open the door to see what was behind it. For some it was quite frustrating for them. Another comment was that the door looked like it was a gateway to another world. This was because they said that the image is quite dark. However the red fabric behind the door was like the woman in the image was walking into a better more colorful world.

Overall I am quite happy with the feedback that I got. Although I don’t think that I want to pursue this genre.

Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper was an American artist (1882-1967) who was most famous for his paintings of American cities and city life. More than ant other artist Hopper made the visual iconography of the American city his own.

Filling stations, motel rooms and office spaces created this atmosphere of abandonment. The paintings that Hopper made were almost like stage set or stills from a movie. Hopper then placed these characters into his scene that gave the painting a whole different story.

Hopper was above all painter of rooms and interior spaces. Not all of hoppers paintings had people in them for example ‘Rooms by the sea’. This is just a painting of a room that has the door open looking out to sea. Hopper paints this room with these beautiful shafts of light that cascade onto the walls and fills the room. The way that he painted the light was amazing. This actually inspired me to experiment with the light in my tableaux shoot.

The paintings that Hopper did with these beams of light offer a view to the outside world. It makes you want to go inside the painting and see the beautiful sun that is casting the shadow across the walls.

One of my favorite Hopper paintings is  ‘Nighthawks’. The way that Hopper has painted the light is this is amazing. Every time I look at this painting I think that it could almost be a photograph. The way that the light floods out the café and lights up the street is astonishing. The light in this image looks like it is coming from a flash with a zoom reflector that bounces of the celling. I think that his lighting techniques and the way he paints the light are stunning.

 

 

 

 

 

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer born in Brooklyn, New York 1962. Crewdson is well known for his elaborate scans and huge crew. Crewdson makes these amazing photographs in Massachusetts on 10×8 film that is absolutely stunning.

The thing that is so amazing about Crewdson is none of his photographs are Photoshoped or computer generated in any way. Crewdson rents out whole streets and builds sets from scratch. The scans that Crewdson sets up are movie quality. They look like stills from a film.

I think that Crewdson work is not too similar to the work of David Hopper. Although Hopper was a painter I can see that Crewdson could have taken a lot of inspiration from Hopper. Crewdson has photographed these elaborate scans in old American towns and the light in the images is amazing. Hopper is well known for painting the light in his paintings. The ‘nighthawks’ by Hopper is such a classic image and I can just see Crewdson recreating this with his production team.

  

Little Red In The Hood

For this little test shoot we got in little groups to come up with a tableaux. Our group came up with the idea of fairy tails with a twist. We thought of doing a jack in the bean stork, But instead of magic beans we could have had magic mushrooms. The idea that we settled on in the end was a twist on Little Red RidingHood. Instead of the innocent little red riding hood with a basket of muffins. We decided to fill reds basket with alcohol.Also the axe man that is meant to look out for red is sneaking up behind to kill her.

We wanted to make the lighting really moody. To achieve this we balanced the day light with flash heads that we took out. We then used a faster shutter speed to make the background darker. this made a really nice moody light.

Tableaux

Tableaux is a photograph or painting that requires more than one participant to create or reenact a scene. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Tableaux as ‘a picture; a picturesque or graphic description.