Location Assignment

This is a fashion shot. Yes, it promotes a very convenient garment for the confident mystique man who is in touch with nature.

 

Our task was, to shoot the model at two locations: a suitable and an unsuitable one. I chose the library for unsuitable and the woods for suitable, but had the feeling, the library isn’t unsuitable enough, so that I also took pictures at a toilet. But, now I don’t think any of these locations looks unsuitable on the photos, but influences the context, as the extended message could be:

 

Men, be mystique! Study, think, and integrate your female side, but also the tabooed aspects.

 

The historical value of photographing atrocities

Regarding the human kind’s history but also  a person’s life, reflection can be counted among the human abilities to widen our sight and  develope our awareness, which for our memory is a basic precondition. Also, it is vital to not stick in the memory, but to respect and accept gone events (and people or people’s deeds) related to our current situation in order to learn out of it for now and our future and in order to not miss the current moment or our inherent potential.

As a photograph of a decendent is might connected to a certain situation or emotion concering this person, but in fact just illustrates a past, outward  and projected appearence, but not the person him or herself, the act of remembering the decedents has more to happen in  our heart’s memory  in order to be intigrated  – confronting and connecting us with our pain as an essential part of a healing process – or as Susan Sontag has said:

‘Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead. ‘

Event Assignment: Headingley Farmer’s Market

Refelction and appraisal concerning our lecture’s content

As our task was, to take one subjective and one objective photograph, I recognised that my approach is very subjective. So, I can not say that one of these photographs seems to me objective, also because my editing process aims to enhance the individual potential of the certain picture in my point of view.

Subjective Photograph: Seeing the market as a place for exchange and profit.

Objective Photograph: Child – also strong edited, but I think it reflects the situation at the market quite well. Maybe there are more objective seeming pictures, but in my eyes there’re also more boring.

Saturday Night

A bit noisy in here, isn’t it? Well, at least I tried to shoot at night without flash.

Portrait Research Assignment

Personal Opinion and Comparison of two Portraits

By Renaud Monfourny

The portrait seems straight, daring, and full of contrast – simple and concentrated. It reveals her passion, fortitude, but also her vulnerability, so that it reflects the mystery of femininity, beyond cliché object of men’s desire. The beholder gets involved on a personal level.

By an unknown Photographer

Makes her look like a superficial, soul- and emotionless wanking material. The individual aesthetic of her face is nullified so that it could also be a computer-generated face.

Dome Collages

York

Portrait Assignment

I wanted to take a moment of a person’s authentic emotional expression. So I started a chat by the question: What is it that you miss the most about your home?

The spontaneous reaction is framed with a tree’s trunk structure as background and the autumn evening’s light in order to emphasise the aspired naturalness. The connecting issue of these portraits is: Remembering home.

 

So, the connecting issue of these portraits is: Remembering home.

Reflections concering our lecture’s contents

Being photographed should here fade into background. In my opinion that is one key to take an authentic picture. Also, the full concentration on being photographed – thus exposing oneself consciously – or to catch the person absolutely unexpected ( and maybe shot spontaneously at the same time, so that it comes unexpected on both sides of the camera) can lead to an authentic result. Therefore I should think about my approach for the specific shot. What I really want to avoid on the (sorry for the following term) object side is: ‘Ok, I’m just being photographed and have to look like..’.

Appraisal

It is not easy to match the right colouration as the different screens show different results. I changed the colouration a few times and it can be that now the saturation is generally too excessive. I guess it happens that I loose my ability to assess while looking too long at a picture as my eyes start to balance and adjust the seen picture to my inner concept, so that the perception gets distorted. Also, I wonder if the aperture 2.8 is too wide, and if my aesthetic consideration boycotted the aspired authenticity during my selection of pictures, since an authentic facial expression isn’t always aesthetic in the common meaning.

Going further

The idea of capturing authenticity should be expanded by additional personal questions to trigger, capture, and confront a range of  positive and negative emotions concerning one specific issue like childhood, family or perhaps future dreams. I’m thinking about connecting every question with a specific pictorial composition by regarding frame section, background, light, perspective, and aperture.