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.