Favim

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These were a couple inspirational photos I found on the website Flavim. They are photos which focus on lighting and weather, it grabs your attention instantly. These are great for my David Wilson shoots, even though David Wilson doesn't look at lighting he looks at decay and rust and deserted/lonely objects so using this as my theme but expanding onto weather using ISO or Shutter Speed would make my image more eye catching.

This was a winters afternoon but when it was sunny, I thought the setting/sky was beautiful as it was frosty/icy but sunny so the sun was capturing the sparkle from the first photos.

 

 The third image is a very natural image, a ISO of 200 but I loved the way the sun was creeping through the trees to make it look in a way magical, sort of like Twilight. I positioned the camera using rule of thirds so the lighting was coming through on the right side of the image to make it look more intriguing.

 

My final image I find isn't one of the best images as the composition isn't very interesting it is a basic landscape photo but the colours of the photo I thought I captured really well such as the blues/very light pinks and greens. I didn't have a tripod so I rested the image on a gate and used shutter speed.

Elizabeth Carmel 1

These photos were looking at lighting and weather such as the Flavim photos I put on here . The weather and contrast looks great experimenting with shutter speed. These photos are slightly under exposed as I would like the houses, road etc lighter so I will develop this and try different shutters/ISO's and use photoshop to create a vibrant image.

Jenn Ackerman

Studying mental illnesses I came across this modern day photographer which looks at the mental illness/prision side of America. Ackerman likes to focus on the subcultures in the United States that are often misunderstood and overlooked including mental illness in prison. She likes to work in intimate close settings and show the viewer stories of people which have rarely been told.

Her images are a documentation of how you can be trapped and lost, this is conveyed by black and white as it takes the life and soal out of the photo.

Her images can either be natural or staged shown here.



This is one of Ackerman images. This I think has been staged and it shows the audience of being trapped. I think it's a really effective photo such as the use of black and white and a black vignette around the corners, like the vignette is enclosing on the picture making it seem even more trapped. The person used is not out of focus but we can't see him sharply which makes it seem more realistic but yet questioning who is the person as we only see their name and number, that is how they are in prision just a number with no identity reflecting feeling lonely and lost.



This image seems more natural and not staged, she would have used shutter speed on the guard to catch his move, this could have been done to show how many times he has to walk this prision that its a hourly occurance and it's never ending, these peoples lives are in here and there is no escape. She has taken the photo behind the bars for a specific reason to show being trapped.