Commercial VS Fine Art Portraits Pre-work

Commercial:

Photographer: Micah Kvid. This photo was fairly adventurous looking, and in order to go exploring on a mountain, you need gear. This photo was good at selling adventure, rather than the products.

Timothy Bailey. This is a very vibrant and cute photo. I like the smooth texture of everything but the apple and the lips. It popped out well, and if there's a message here, then it's clear (it seems like it's selling candy)

Fine art:

Anna Shakina (Ukraine). I like this fine arts portrait because it is very simple but easy to read the mood. It is dark in order to completely focus on the facial expression. It was also a self portrait, which is hard to do when you are looking for raw emotion. 

Paluksht Mark (Israel). (This was considered "offensive" on the website and had a filter to approve unblurring the whole photo,  ???) I really loved this picture because a lot of textures are used in it. The texture of whatever she is laying on, the texture of the smoke, yet the picture is fairly simple. It is just a woman smoking a cigarette naked, but there is a lot to analyze in the eye.


Compare and contrast:
Fine art has a lot of emotion in it, while commercial art sells a point, rather than an emotion. In these pictures, the fine art was mostly sad, and negative, showing strong emotions, while the commercial portraits were happy and adventurous, which everyone enjoys feeling, in order to sell a product.

Surrealism Final

"Rites of Passage". All of the photos in this image are from the Zojoji temple in Tokyo Japan. In the previous days, at a Shinto shrine called Meiji, we saw many dressed up boys and girls going through their respective age rites of passage. It includes a short ceremony in the temple, followed by lots and lots of pictures with the parents. As much as I love Japanese culture, I tend to critize it for it's xenophobic nature. A lot of people are forced into working jobs they hate, and mustering a lot of their emotions in order to follow the traditions of work. I felt as if even the rite of passage, even if it is holy and beautiful, may be the beginning to many Japanese people submitting their ways to tradition, although many would have it otherwise. The picture is suppose to represent wanting inclusion, but also posessing a lot of hesitation. I mostly just cut out pictures of my images, and pasted them. I put drop shadows (and matched the background's color), put a black and white tint on top, textures, and painted an overlaying rainbow splotch patch, and then faded it out with hard light.

Project 7 Pre-work

Project 7 - Surrealism

Surrealism was created in the 20th century, and was a movement in art and literature. It was used to create pictures that the unconscious mind could create, and is usually irrational and strange. Also defined by the word "juxtaposition", which means two things brought or placed closely together that have contrasting effects.

Jim Kazanjian's "untitled (vessel)"

Jim Kazanjian's "untitled (object)"

Famous Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"

Salvador Dali's "The Elephants"

Cristopher McKenney's surrealism photo (name not found)

Cristopher McKenney's surrealism photo (name not found)

Cristopher McKenney's surrealism photo (name not found)

Arno Rafael Minkkinen's "Foster Pond"

Arno Rafael Minkkinen's "Dead Horse Point"

Arno Rafael Minkkinen's "Mouth of The River, Fosters Pond"

Tommy Ingberg's "Again"

Tommy Ingberg's "Passage"

Tommy Ingberg's "Dreamer"

Project 6 Finals

In project 6, we emulated wet plate daguerreotypes, cyanotypes, and gum bichromates. We also emulated a Van Dyke print as an extra project. In this project, we just emulate the old type of processing, rather than actually doing it. After completing the editing, we would layer textures on top to give an older type of feeling.

Wet plate

Wet plate

Cyanotype

Gum Bichromate

Last tutorial followed...van dyke

Tilt Shift, followed tutorial for fun. Photo is not mine, link here