Thursday, January 27, 2011

Artist Statement


 My photography styles are mostly about people doing things that we rarely see.  I took photo shots based on the photographer that inspired me, Josef Koudelka.  At points I do like to take photos of people doing something that everyone does, but this time I took shots to make them unique and different. I take the photos with light and also a little dark side to it. 

Many people take photos of random things but making people pose, and telling what they have to do.  While I was taking pictures I would wait for my friends to be doing an odd thing and making my photography more interesting and unique from many others.  Also I learned not to take picture slanted or in any other way it doesn’t bring out the photo like you wanted it too, I take them either long way or just like you would take any normal picture. Your suppose to make people get their attention to it and for them to get inspired on your work, and that’s what I’ve been doing on mine.

To edit my photos I had to work on it from Photoshop. I could desaturated and or add text or anything else I wanted for people to get their eye to my photography.   Also on my photography I had to work with ‘typography’. On only couple photos I would add text to it that actually fit the image I had. 

No other photographer is the same or nearly the same to Josef Koudelka. He inspired me and his photos were different and unique. Like I’ve said before this photographer always had something different in his photos that made it seem strange. On some photos I would add a person or anything for the picture to make it more interesting than what it already is.  I would crop people into the photos or crop people out of the photos and then make the image turn into the color it’s suppose to be.

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Life Through A Lens






Annie Leibovitz came back to the U.S.  and signed up for a job with the start-up rock music magazine Rolling Stone. Annie had developed her style and started to accomplish everything she has done. Every photo she would take she would take it to a whole different level.









Annie Leibovitz  takes photos using crops and creatives things that will surround the person. For example this photo Annie used bright yellow blocks to make the photo more interesting and to make it seem different than anybody else's photos.