Saturday, February 23, 2008

CMP

Classmate portrait of Tara Ballenger

(1)use a single light
(2)use one under light, one light, one back light, and a reflector


Honestly, I am a little shy, but not much after getting into, person, so I need a certain amount of time to get to know people. I had never met Tara Ballenger before advanced technique. The first impression I got from her is that Tara is also a shy girl as I am. Her shyness suddenly reminded me of The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

Since I am majoring in art history, I have many opportunities to see how masters use light to make the masterpiece. Johannes Vermeer is a master of capturing sudden emotion and lighting. However, there is a secret. Art historians are confident that Vermeer used as tools both mirrors and the camera obscura. This helps him obtain the sudden emotion of the girl in The Girl with a Pearl Earring. Close examination of his paintings shows that Vermeer realized that shadows are not colorless and dark and that light is composed of colors. Thus, he painted reflections off a surfaces in colors modified by others near by.
I sometimes imagine what if he lives in 20th century.





I was a stranger to her, and she was a stranger to me. I was trying to capture something ice between people who had never met before. I luckily caught that in the first shot because it was the first shot.


The other shot after some chatting.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

CMT-advanced technique

Stump the Chump


Aperture, N.84 All photographs Untitled from the series “The Accidental Theorist,” 2005. Photographs Courtesy The Moth House.


Mood Lighting




Italy Vouge, Aug. 2006, N.672, ISELIN STERIO AND NATASA VOJNOVIC PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEVEN MEISEL