Avedon

Last week I took some Richard Avedon inspired photographs.
My subjects were three of my closest friends, so I knew I could evoke at least some form of emotion out of them.
www.richardavedon.com/



William and Tyler were my challange, simply because I couldn't really get them to do much more than just sit there and do stupid things in front of my camera. So for these I just stoped taking pictures for a while and we all started talking, telling funny stories and remembering stuff, then I started to take pictures when I knew they were actually thinking about something other than feeling akward infront of my camera


I chose to take pictures of Rianna simply because the second I think of expression and emotion she comes to mind. She is the most real person I know and completely comfortable with herself.
To put it simple I believe she makes for some amazing pictures



It's hard for me to think of how other people view this picture because I know her really well and I know the exact emotion on her face. But if I try to see how other people view the emotion, she's a little hard to figure out. I like this picture because I think it's a bit mysterious, and kind of makes someone want to know what she's really thinking about.

Just for fun

So yes, I know I haven't been posting blogs for the past couple weeks, but I have been working on a slide show for the viking voice website and decided I'd turn it into a two week project. I will have that up here by Monday so I can get a grade for it. But just for fun, I will post something else I've been working on just having some fun with photoshop

I was messing around with light painting and I decided it would be sweet to make one with overlapping images in layers to make a picture. It's different and I think I might do a project on this some week and cuz it was kinda fun to do and let me be more creative. Let me know if it's not as "photography related" as you'd like. Just thought I'd share :)

Video Week

On monday and tuesday we watched a documentary about National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore.

The video was about his photography career and also how it interferes
with his life. I think everyone who has a strong interest in photography
has wanted at one point to be a photographer for something as big as
National Geographic. Personally I think it would be an amazing job.
I love to travel and plan on going everywhere I can when I am financially
able to. The world is an amazing place and I definitely plan on taking
pictures everywhere I go. To be payed for doing something I love would
be awesome, but I also think the job would have it's downsides.
Anything as an occupation will take some of the fun out of your work.
For example, as a photographer you may love pictures you take, but
you ultimately have to go with whatever the client loves. As for being
a National Geographic photographer, you're expected to go wherever
you're assigned and to take pictures they are going to like, not go where
you want to go and take picture you like. I think it would also be very
difficult if one were to have a family, as Joel Sartore showed. Being a
traveling photographer means being far away places for amounts of time,
and it would for sure put stress on a family.

These are some of the pictures I found while looking through his galleries.

These are the ones that stood out to me the most.

The rest of the week we watched a movie about Richard Avedon.

Richard Avedon's photography is a whole form of art itself.
He took portraits, but made them so much more than
just pictures. He captured emotion in black and white
better than anything I've ever seen. His signature look was
a white background. I love so many of his pictures,
because as he showed in the movie, every single one had a
story behind it. 

My all time favorite picture by Richard Avedon is a portrait of

Marilyn Monroe.

In the video he explained how Marilyn Monroe wasn't a real girl. She was a fictional character made up by this girl, who appears sad and lonely, somewhat lost. I LOVE this picture because it's so different from every other Marilyn Monroe portrait. Avedon captured a moment where she wasn't the girl everyone saw her as, almost a completely different person.

These are a few of my other favorites by Richard Avedon