Tom Hunter

   

                                                        Tom Hunter

Tom Hunters work is very inspiring. On his site, he talks about how he creates his photos using normal people in his life. From his friends to his neighbors. Just ordinary people. He has photographed famous people but tries to make his photos.

He tries to make up his image using the style, a painter called Caravggio, an italian painter.

I like how he brings every day people into his work, transforming them into something that creates a picture that shows meaning.

I think this one is of a close friend to try. He uses people he knows in most of his work.

In this photo (above) i read that this photo was made to show other people what it was like living in the slums in a part of London. The slums had been planned to be knocked down to build garages on the spare land. Tom hunter took this picture using his neighbour holding a possession form in her hands.

Tom also had her recently born baby in the photo. He took down a few things in the home like the curtains and a few things on the wall.

He also waited for a specific time to take the photo because he liked how the sun washed over the baby head and the women.

Studio 10/01/2012

This was the last time we were to have a lesson in the studio on the tuesday morning. Using a Canon 5d, we took photos that showed different uses and different levels of light.

The picture of me below shows an example of a photo that has used studio flags. You can see that light has been reflected on to me before the rest of the light is creating a circle behind me. it gives the photo the effect of the light dying out, the further it gets away from me.

This photo hasn't been edited on adobe light room, the software thats on the computer in the studio.

Again, for this photo below, the flags have been moved closer to the person being photographed. the light being reflected of the flags are being reflected on to the face. This shot was only using the top half of the body. from the shoulders to the head.

the fact that steve was wearing black that day, you cant really see anything but his face. the background is also completely black, showing that there is no light being reflected behind him.

but to also make sure there wasn't to much light, the Bowen's lighting had to be turned to to a suitable level. It had to be comfortable but also enough light being given out to be able to see Steve's face clearly rather than anything else in the photo.

Using a book to take some examples. To reflect light, we used to black panels called flags. Depending on how much light there was, depended on us to the flags for high levels of light to reflect on a persons face.

Both of these photos were taken by using a Canon 5d, Bowen's lighting and studio flags. My group had to try and attempt to make some of the photos in the book, some of them being like these. The photos in the book mostly lacked colour.

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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark in Iceland Wonderkids exhibition

Mary Ellen Mark

 I like her work because her work is in black and white and not all of her images are perfect like the one of Johnny Depp. She also catches emotion in her photos.

She's photographed many famous actors like Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Robert Downey junior.

I like how she always make sure she has the image she wants before she takes a picture. One of the cameras she has proves a challenge to her is that there is no post production. Thats why everything has to be perfect when the shutter releases.

She also likes to take photographs in New York city, the energy and variety inspiring her and her work. She has always photographed New York, even before she lived there.

most of her work is basically concentrating on the person being photographed.
The backgrounds are simple , nothing to eye catching to draw you attention away from
the main focus.

even her portrait pictures in the studio are low light, the small amount of light being
reflected on to the person in the centre.

Portrait assignment

Today we are starting our photography assignment. We have to choose 6 photographers and research some of there work and in 300 words we have to describe why we like there work.

I will pick Mary Ellen Mark, Tom hunter, Jason Christopher, David Bailey, Arnold Newman and Julia Margaret Cameron.

Photograms

In one lesson with Steve, we went into the dark room thats near the camera store room and produced photograms. Inside the room, projectors sat on tables and to create a photogram we had to use a sort of plastic paper.

Using the projectors, we would lay different objects on the paper, estimating how long it would take for enough light to get on to the paper. Once we had chosen how long ( about 5+ seconds) we would put in the right amount of time into the timer and then start the timer, waiting for the light to hit the paper.

Once the time stopped we would go over to two chemicals, one that stained the parts where the light had been exposed too and the second being a chemical to stop the first from turning the whole thing black. However if the darker parts were grey or the whole image went black, not enough or to much light has been exposed to the paper. You would leave the paper in each chemical for about one or two minutes, depending on its size. After dipping the image in to both chemicals , you would dip it into running water to make sure the chemicals had been washed off.

Outside there was an iron press that had two rollers in the middle, heat running though it. You had to put the photogram through the two rollers, allowing the water to be squeezed off and when it came out of the back, it would be completely dry.

I came out with 4 photgrams. One or two of them were grey rather than black and needed a bit more time under the projector but the last one was ok. Each one was easy to spot the image of what it was ( feather, ribbon and flower).

I really enjoyed this lesson even though you would have to wait some time to get to the dye's.

Studio 03/01/2012

Today we went into the studio and using still life , we took pictures of different objects. The ISO, the F stops and shutter speed was changed and we had to use a light meter ( a small hand held device that measures amount of light) to change the camera settings.

We each went in a group of three, changing the camera and light so we would get a good picture that had the right amount of light.

We used a Cambo camera stand to hold the camera and a white camera table -> (image)