Portraiture Shoot 3

Research and theory into portraiture can be found on the first portraiture blog post.

ARTIST RESEARCH

David LaChapelle is a commercial and fine-art photographers. His images usually convey social criticisms and comments, his work has been described as 'Kitsch pop surrealism'. LaChapelle is world renowned having his work exhibited commercially all over the globe. He is also a music video and film director, but he is best known for his photography.







The images produced by LaChapelle are abstract and compelling, making you look at the image several times, still asking yourself the question 'what is going on?'. This is a similar style that I would like to apply into my work and similarly had done in my last portraiture shoot. All the three images above are of celebrities and I believe the extravagant, over the top sets that the images are shot in are supposed to be a social comment on how celebrities live their lives. There is a lot going on in each of the images and it is hard to keep up and comprehend all the detail in the images at once.

I would also like to take influence from another artist when it comes to producing my work.

Brian Smith is an American portrait photographer and photojournalist. He is best known for his portraits on

Photogenre Portfolio

Composite Image Making

Conventional Photographic Techniques That Manipulate Images:
Manual Settings, Manipulating shutter speed and aperture to take images differently.
Photoshop, patch and cloning tool to smoothen out skin,




In the image above you can see a manipulated photo of a man and a foot is stamping on his head and this is to represent how art critiques look down on their work and the pen being the size of a sword shows how their words attack the DADA movement.



The image on the left, I believe, is a social comment on how society is becoming machine orientated.

There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name; a common story is that the Austrian artist Richard Huelsenbeck plunged a knife at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse.

1- Select image
2- refine selection
3- select invert selection 
4- copy (command c)
5- paste (command v)
6- Transform (command T)
7- Move objects
8- paint on mack with black

Documentary

–Definition and Theory
Using pictures or interviews with people involved in real events to provide a factual report on a particular subject.



–Photographer Research 
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photojournalist who was an early user of the 35mm film he was extremely influential in the development of street photography and came up with the idea of the 'decisive moment.'
The 'decisive moment' reefs to the split-second moment a photographer has to capture a moment where action happens and if a photographer misses that moment it is gone forever. 















–Photographer Research 
Robbie Cooper is a British Artist who works in different fields including photography and video game modifications. He is popularly known for his Alter Ego images, where he photographed people beside the virtual avatars they had created. He is best known for his Immersion global project where he captured people heavily engrossed in their TV's. 

ALTER EGO: 

IMMERSION:

The first image is of a boy playing COD Modern Warfare and the images like all of the ones he has produced in this series are intriguing. The boy looks to be so enticed in the game biting his lips as a sign of concentration. This is a genuine expression and highlights so clearly one of the social issues we have today of people being more and more interested in these virtual worlds. 

This next photo is quite pure as it is of a very young child. Within the video that he took these images from one of the young children turned away from the screen. This in itself shows how Cooper is making a comment on how we learn and grow into these habits of being interested in these virtual worlds but we are not born like it.





This next image is of a young woman crying whilst watching the video to Eminem's 'Love The Way You Lie' video.









–Photographer Research
Larry Clark is an American film director, photographer and writer who is well known for his teen films. His work is quite controversial as it shows youth casually engaging in underage sex, illegal drug use and violence highlighting a certain sub culture for example; surfing, punk rock and skateboarding. 

Larry's images are similar to that of Cartier-Bresson in that they capture the moment and are very 'real' and what I mean by that is they may not be the most ascetically pleasing, but they reflect the reality of the lives that these youths live. This will be something that I will look to draw upon when shooting my images. I won't look to manipulate the situation that my image is taken in any way. My documentary will be very portraiture focused. I will look to take images of different life styles youths live. 
This could entail the routine of a gamer, someone who is isolated to themselves in their own virtual world, or potentially the life of a rebellious teen and/or the mainstream youth who goes with the flow.

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