Portrait Research-Wolfgang Tillmans

 Wolfgang Tillmans was born on August 16, 1968 in Remscheid. It was during his childhood that he first discovered his interest in photography when he began collecting photographs and magazine clippings.
During his first visit to England as an exchange student in 1983, he discovered the British youth-culture and the local fashion and music magazines of the time. From 1987 through 1990, he lived in Hamburg where he also had his first solo exhibitions at Café Gnosa, Front and Frarik-Foto-Forum. From 1990 through 1992, he studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in southern England. After his studies he moved to London and then to New York in 1994 for a year, where he met the German painter Jochen Klein. After moving back to England, Tillmans lived with Klein until he died of AIDS-related complications in 1997.
From 1995, Wolfgang Tillmans primarily lived and worked in London. During the summer of 1998, Tillmans participated in a month-long residency at the last active Shaker community in the world, in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Since 2007, he has divided his time between Berlin and London. Following a guest professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Hamburg from 1998 to 1999 and his Honorary Fellowship at the Arts University College at Bournemouth in 2001, Tillmans has been a professor for Interdisciplinary Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 2003 till 2006. In 2001, Tillmans was awarded first prize in the competition for the design of the AIDS-Memorial for the City of Munich, whereupon the memorial was erected after his designs at the Sendlinger Tor. In 2011, Tillmans travelled to Haiti with the charity Christian Aid to document reconstruction work after the country's devastating earthquake one year before.
Between 2009 and 2014, Tillmans is serving an Artist Trustee of the Tate Board. He also is a member of the museum's Collection Committee and the Tate Britain Council.

 I like his style of Photography, as it seams to bring out a natural feel to them and just makes them look down to earth especially this one of lady Gaga. I really like this one.

Again this has a very natural look and brings the star back down to eath. When i say it makes them look natural i mean the setting and the poses  its shows them normal not in a hollywood surrounding.

This photo has a kitch feel to it but i really like the ideas of doing the pictures in everyday places it brings busyness to it and lots of colour but doesnt distract from the subject.

Professional Studies research

 I found this on a website called professional photographer

Model Release Forms

One of the biggest mistake photographers make when they take pictures, is to believe that they can use their images wherever and however they wish.
Quite simply, it's not that simple!
Whether you are photographing people who know they are being photographed, buildings you have been allowed to photograph or shooting 'on the fly'. If you want to place those images with a stock agency, sell them, syndicate them or publish them you are going to have to make sure that you have a signed model/building release form.
Rules on when you need this vary greatly from country to country and you can never expect a signed release form to be a fail-safe security blanket.
However, it's a vital first step into protecting yourself from expensive litigation.
We have made three forms available here to cover the three basic requirements, a model release for adults, one for minors and one for buildings.

So ive been looking at a few forms so i know what kind of info i need to put in mine.

  

 Or the one below which seams short and sweet

Portrait research-Jill Greenberg

Jill was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit. She graduated with honors in 1989 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photography and moved to New York City to pursue a career in photography. Greenberg moved to Los Angeles in 2000 where she met her husband Robert. She moved back to New York City in 2013 with her family for Robert's position at Conde Nast Entertainment.
Greenberg is credited by some within the commercial photography industry as having produced several unique styles that have since been emulated by other photographers. "Like LaChapelle and Avedon, Jill has pioneered a new style of photography, and her impact can be seen throughout the entertainment industry", the creative director of a Los Angeles creative agency told Brief magazine, with the publication itself characterizing her work as employing "distinctive ethereal backlighting." A president of NBC Entertainment Marketing who has employed Greenberg on a number of occasions due to what he terms her "distinct and innovative aesthetic" observed that "many other photographers follow her lead."
Greenberg herself has acknowledged having made particular use of digital post production, adapting the nickname "The Manipulator" early in her career due in part to her relatively early adoption of Photoshop, a product she has used since its release in 1990. Nonetheless, she told an interviewer in 2011 that some of what her fans believe to be post production is instead the result of close attention to lighting, merely supplemented with minor "flourishes" afterwards. Greenberg suggested in a 1998 New York Times article on female gamers that her affinity for technology came from her mother: "My mom was a math buff and a science major in college. ... In 1964, she became a COBOL programmer and helped support my father through med school. She used to write programs on keypunch cards for mainframes."

Jills End Times, a series of photographs featuring toddlers, was the subject of controversy in 2006. The work featured stylized hyper-real closeups of children's faces contorted by various emotional distresses. The pieces were titled to reflect Greenberg's frustration with both the Bush administration and Christian Fundamentalism in the United States. The method for getting the children to cry was, in some cases, offering the children candy then taking it away.
The series resulted in hate mail which continued for several years, and at least one lost job for Greenberg. The images, meanwhile, have been imitated and used without permission for unrelated campaigns

 

I really felt like i had to leave it till the bottom of the pictures to actually comment on them as i feel all her work does have a sence of cartoon untill you look closely at the pictures to discover they are actually real photographs, just very clevely photoshoped and i also think the poses she has them helps the sureal look that they all have. I find her work very intresting to look at and found myself looking through all her work for a while and now find im intriged with the technique she has used and will be researching more on that.

prefessional studies- Research

Ive been thinking long and hard about the career I would like to take, Im very much Fashion orianted as i have seamed to circled round this subject must of my life and I do dabble in making my own costumes or outfits, and it just seams for a natural step to take that direction with my photography. I am now looking into ways I can expand myself to get into my choosen area. Im looking into extra short courses in other subjects that will tie my photography and my love of fashion into a nice neat little bow.

http://www.fashion.net/howto/fashionphotographer/ heres a little website i was looking about at and thought it may help in that direction.

Portrait Research -Tim Walker

Up on graduation in 1994, Walker worked as a freelance photography assistant in London before moving to New York City as a full time assistant to Richard Avedon. On returning to England, he initially concentrated on portrait and documentary work for UK newspapers. At the age of 25, he shot his first fashion story for Vogue and has continued to work to much acclaim ever since.In May 2013 The Bowes Museum in Durham opened a large show of Walker's photographs, and here, for the first time, his images were displayed in light boxes, giving a new quality of iridescent colour to the works. Curated by Greville Worthington, the exhibition explored Walker’s work beyond the pages of Vogue and Vanity Fair, showing influences from British Surrealism, and a unique Neo-Romantic take on a particularly English aesthetic.

I absolutly love this photographers style they all have a hint of the fairytales i like some a bit dark and some with a victorian twist, even if its not suppose to look like a fairytale they still look magical

 I love the style how is looks old school and has a twist of the moden and with him choosen this pose with Helena bonham carter it works really well.

This is another example of his photos having a hint of magic in them. I like this photo as it looks wired and wounderful and again suits the lady doing the pose as i think she has a strange look about her. Very beautiful photo.

Again I like the look of this photo and the look of the sad clown and I like the way the net is over her face as it makes her look softer.

 

I also like this photo as he has still kept it looking manly but still abit of the grimm fairytales with the skull and the cigerates. I also like how he has kept everything looking white.

Portrait research-OUT TAKES

While we were in the studios you cant help having a giggle and unfortunatley it happened a few times so i thought id show you what my out takes where lol

 

Portrait research-Why so serious

I must admit I love being in the studio and taking peoples portraits, It has been hinted that the photos cant be goofy if you understand my meaning, But im not really into serious photographs unless the sitter was a serious person and let me tell you the people in my group are not ones for being serious. Its a great atmosphere  so what i thought id do is show the portraits that i have in my best pile and now all i have to do is choose 3 ahhhhhhh.......not hard at all!

I had an idea with this one with her hat but im not sure on the lighting on her  the photo just looks plain....thats the photo not me beautiful model :)

 

A different stance but the same idea i do like these photos i feel that they are quirky but at the same time im not sure if them being portrait photos means they need to have an air of seriousness about them. Again i dont feel like this shows the real person as no one looks serious all the time.

Again im not best pleased with the lighting but like i said its not so serious and i dont like people to look so serious.

 

Again i was trying to capture the real Lauren and all she did was dance, as this was my first time in the studio i was still getting the hang of the lighten.

Portrait Research Terry Richardson

Now i do like Terry Richardsons work i like the poses he puts them into and he brings across there personality really well.But i do find his photos over exposed and has red eye on them. But looking through all of his photos they all seam to have these type of brightness on them even the black and white ones.

The photo above is what i was saying about it looking over exposed and the red eye and because of the place the picture has been took just makes it look like one of them shots your boyfriend would take of you. But I dont know why he wanted to take the photo in this way and what he was trying to show by doing this.

Again with this photo the brightness seams to make her fingers meld into one and there is no detail, but saying that maybe he wanted that as they are not really important to the pose.

Again this picture is bright and i think it makes her features disapear but he may have wanted the hair, lips and eyelashes to stand out.

Portrait Research

Well ive started doing the portraits and i must admit, im finding it hard not to turn the pictures into fashion shots or not be to creative in the poses that i do, as there is such a great atmosphere in the group and the studio its hard to keep the face serious. Soon as i started to get the hang of a more serious way of doing portraits i decided i wanted a close up image of the face where the top of their head may be clipped, But i am now figering out if these pictures i am are doing are still classed as portraiture. They are starting to look like this photo below of Zombie boy by Terry Richardson.

Potrait research- Hasselblad

Well Friday was my first time working  in the studio  and i found it great fun, But what made the experiance even better i got to use an Hasselblad camera which made me very nervous as i am very accident prone. We were introduced to the capture one programme that is what I need to complete my project breif. So the whole group was involved in experimenting and getting to use the Hassleblad camera and model infront of it. Which consisted of getting the camera to the right hiht and looking into the camera from above it which i loved it then had a circle on the middle one half was black which i assumed i had to turn the focus part of the lens till the black half of the circle became see through. Then the botton to take the picture was located right near the lens. Once pushed  the picture appeared on the computer screen on the capture one program and to check to see if we truly had the subject n focus the eye was magnified and if it was in focus you could dee every tiny piece of detail in the eye and it was fabulous. I have now find myself obsessed with haveing a camera myself that has the clarity and sharpness but unless i remorgage my hoouse i dont think it will be a hasselblad unfortunitly. So after Friday i find myself truly looking forward to this project.

Portrait Reseach

Rembrandt lighting is a lighting technique that is used in studio portrait photography. It can be achieved using one light and a reflector, or two lights, and is popular because it is capable of producing images which appear both natural and compelling with a minimum of equipment. Rembrandt lighting is characterized by an illuminated triangle under the eye of the subject, on the less illuminated side of the face. It is named for the Dutch painter Rembrandt, who often used this type of lighting.
Normally, the key light is placed high and to one side at the front, and the fill light or a reflector is placed half-height and on the other side at the front, set to about half the power of the key light, with the subject, if facing at an angle to the camera, with the key light illuminating the far side of the face.
The key in Rembrandt lighting is creating the triangle or diamond shape of light underneath the eye. One side of the face is lit well from the main light source while the other side of the face uses the interaction of shadows and light, also known as chiaroscuro, to create this geometric form on the face.
The triangle should be no longer than the nose and no wider than the eye. This technique may be achieved subtly or very dramatically by altering the distance between subject and lights and relative strengths of main and fill lights.

Portrait Research- David Bailey

  David Bailey is an English photographer, regarded as one of the nation's best.
He became a photographic assistant at the John French studio, then photographer for John Cole's Studio Five before being contracted as a fashion photographer for British Vogue magazine in 1960. Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, he captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s. In 2012, the BBC made a film of the story of his 1962 New York photoshoot with Jean Shrimpton.

 

 I really like how he has done these celebraity portraits.I love them in black and white and the texture on them. I feel the way he has done these he has caught there personalitys and has given a fun element to the way he has taken the pictures.  I will be looking in on how he uses the light to get the shadows on the side of there faces as i really like it.

This is a beautiful picture but i do seam to be drawn to pictures that are clear and sharp but i like the way the gold changes when i first saw this picture i thought the gold lips had another clear amber substance to them, before i relised it was the light and reflections.

Portrait research- Andres serrano

is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported to be the artist's own urine.

I really do not like his work. I find it horrifying and disgusting. I have no idea why some one would want to take pictures of dead, cut, mutilated bodies, or to take pictures of poo and wee. What purpose did he feel these photographs needed to be taking. To be honest his work scares me a little but i feel that is to do with the disrecpectful way the poor people are displayed in the photos.

I really do not like this photo. This photo affects me emotionally and makes me Pysically angry. I know a photographer has done his job if he manages to stir up emotions, but in this case i think thats wrong. I thought photos where suppose to bring beauty and awareness how is taking  photos of babys feet art how can this photo be put in a gallery.  Im at a point in my research that im not even sure this can be classed as portrait. But i will not be influenced by him in any of my photography in this next project by this man.

Again this is another photo i find horrific and dont understand why he thought this was art and worth documenting in this manner.

Well........all i can say is im really not impressed..........at all.


This is my opinion and views on this photographer no one elses.

Portrait Research Malick Sidibe'

In 1955, he undertook an apprenticeship at Gerard Guillat-Guignard's Photo Service Boutique, also known as Gege la pellicule. In 1958, he opened his own studio (Studio Malick) in Bamako and specialized in documentary photography, focusing particularly on the youth culture of the Malian capital. Sidibé took photographs at sport events, the beach, nightclubs, concerts, and even tagged along while the young men seduced girls. Sidibé became noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture inthe 1960s in Bamako.
In the 1970s, he turned towards the making of studio portraits. His background in drawing became useful in a way that he was able to position people so they still appeared alive in photos rather than mummie like. People enjoyed the studio, it was different than others and had electricity which was a luxury at the time. Sidibe' was able to increase his reputation through the first meetings on African photography in Mali in 1994.

 I do find that i like his work and ideas and that the pictures remind me of the exabition we seen in sunderland where they had back drops similar wher you can see the edges, and type of materials. I like how he wanted to capture what the "trends" where in this time period. I also feel it is showing us between model and traditional and how we move with the times.

The picture above to me shows the traditional culture which has has taking.

The picture above is again showing the difference in the fashions which he has documented. But this picture i have choice because of the backgrounds. In all of these pictures the backgrounds, backdrops to me feel very important as they compliment the mode and their clothingl he is capturing. for eg In the picture above she is wearing a dress with squares on and he has put a dotty floor in. and the picture above thatis one that is traditional they are wearing strips but he has but a striped backdrop in that goes the other way. Which i think makes his subjects stand out.

Portraits- Research

Well i have given my next project brief, which is studio portraits which i do like the sound off as i enjoy photographing people as i like to bring out there personalitys. But my problem started when we were told that we will be taking photos of each other in our group, now i am very unphotogenic and personally am worried im gonna wreck someones project. So i am feeling very apprehensive and would just rather take the photos than be in them. But with that said i have heard that, that is how you know your a photographer because you would rather take the photo than to be in it. So just before i start the project i want to appolaguise  to the poor person in my group that is going to get me as a model for them.......but i will try not to brake the camera lol

Street Photography Self Evaluation

                                                              Self Evaluation

My Project was Street Photography and I loved it. It was one of the most fun things I have done in a long time and not to mention how much I have learned. I’ve learnt how to develop photos in a darkroom, how to use the enlarger, what under and over exposure means and what contrast means visually. For my street Photography I originally wanted to take pictures of people up to no good shall we say, but when it comes down to I was too nervous and when I was brave enough to take a shot I was caught and stared at a very intimidating way and I ended up filling that film with pigeons. I did find I was naturally drawn to people who were in their own worlds. Who were thinking or just looked fed up. In a way I feel I just wanted to show that you’re not the only person with problems and if we take the time to look people all over are dealing with their own problems weather they are working or on their dinner and having some time to themselves. I do also find a lot of humour in people when I’m out and about and I wanted to put this across in the photos to. I do feel I have meet the requirements of the street photography brief which to me meant catching people natural and going about their daily business which I felt like I achieved and put across what I was seeing into a photo.  I think I could maybe learn more about the contrast on the photos as I don’t feel like I played enough with the exposure time, but I feel this has more to do with I already had an idea in my head on how I want things to look. I feel I was very lucky with this project as I haven’t in counted any problems with film developments, fogged films, unwound films, photo developments or anything else in the whole photo part of the project. I have however developed a possible allergic reaction to the developer in the darkroom as I can’t be a 100% sure what has set this reaction off  it has hindered me slightly as I have been advised not to come into contact with the chemicals while the reaction is still showing on my skin. So I had help developing my last films and had to wear bright rubber gloves in the dark room to finish off my contact sheets ready for handing it but that is the only real problem I have had. I found the information and advice the tutors give me very informative and felt led me to a successful project without any hiccups. With this brief I feel I have learned a lot about camera and how to use the light, and about the speed of films and I feel more confident about this than I did when I started. I also feel confident with the development of films and of the photographs.  I feel this project did challenge me but more in a personal way as I’m a very shy person and I found taking photos of people very scary and some of the photos that would have been brilliant in my eyes I was to frighten to take in case I was seen or something was said to me, But the more pictures I seem to let pass the more angry I became with myself and just pushed myself to take them and started to become more confident as I realised most people are too busy to notice…. Or they think I work for the benefits office. I really enjoyed this project and want to keep taking street photography in the future. I would not do anything differently apart from being braver at the start to take the photos I want. So for the hand in I struggled picking just 5 photos as I have printed out nearly 30 prints and  I have 7 images I feel are really strong and I just can’t choose between them so after speaking to Jill she suggested I hand in all 7 which is my problem now solved.

Street Photography research........final 7 prints

After much delibiration and still not being able to choose 5 prints out of the near 30 I have done and have a favirote 7, I have been adviced that i can hand in all 7 saying i cannot decide which has made me a very happy chappy. So please find below my final 7 prints which are to be handed in for marking.

Street Photography research Final prints and choices

 Well i have gotten to the time where i need to pick the final 5 pictures of my street photography to hand in......and im struggling i have had a favouite 3  which are below

I have choosen this one as it has so much feeling to it. He looks so sad and cold and looks like he has given up on humanity and life, He looks like he has accepted the way his life is, and maybe he is sitting there like that in a hope that someone sees him and helps. Which is why i think this photo is why it is in my final 5 .

The above picture is my 2nd choice. I have decided on this photo as it brings in the secret humor of life that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. This is the type of thing i mean when i say if you look there is a funny story and i feel this picture shows it. I do feel sorry for the lady that are sat under neith the sign for being the butt of the little joke but with out them i wouldnt have this picture so thank you ladies for making my photo.

The above picture is my 3rd choice. I do think everything works well in this picture including background and people. Its a little flee market that sells dated items in a part of the town that looks dated itself. The 2 ladys look like they have just shoved past each other. The lady facing forward looks very grumpy, But to me this represents that people are in there own worlds and are not aware of the people  around them. We just seam to get on with it.


Right so this is now where i cannot make me mind up on the last 2 as i have so many i really like so i will show you the ones I am thinking off.

The above photo i like as i feel this gentleman is full of charactor and looks like his job has been out on the streets for most of his life. He looks weather worn but still happy and i think he is in opinon he is a good example of street life.

This is another photo i really like as i feel this is another good example of street life as i have seen buskers in every town, but out of all the busker photos i have took i like this one due to the look of him and all his gear but i really like the mirrored collum behind him.

The above photo is another one i cant decide on. I like this one basically because he is sat on his own with his back to me and it makes me wonder if he is on his phone, eating his dinner or doing something else again i like the look of the reflection of the block that he is sitting on. But i do find when im looking at this photo i do crane my neck to see if i can see what he is doing.

The above photo is my last choice the scanner did not like this photo and only scaned half of it in. The reason im still humming and harring is i took this picture of my husband as he was walking round Middlesbrough with me and he was waiting for me to take a photo i found him hiding behind a this pole and took the photo. I like this because of my personal reasons but to everyone else looking at it would they see street photography??