Commercial Portraits

These are some photos that could be seen in a magazine advertisement for clothing, jewelry, or makeup. They also could be used for a pop culture magazine. They are from the same photo shoot as the artistic portraits but they could be used for both artistic or commercial portraits.

This is photo focuses on the simple dress against the detailed bush to make it pop out. Making the photo a tinted black and white further emphasizes the contrast and also gives it a vintage feeling that would market the style.

This photo emphasizes the makeup and the flower. The vibrant blue contrasts with the orange to bring out her eyes and make the viewer focus on the makeup.

I liked the clearness of this photo in black and white but the real commercial photo is the colored version.

This last photo really focuses on her face and the makeup she is wearing. The colorful vibrance of the makeup brings your eyes to the center  to focus on her face.

Fine Art Portraits

These are some fine art portraits I took of my friend Gaby in the park by my house and in my backyard. I played around with the exposure for many of them and had fun editing the photos to give them a certain mood and backstory. 

 Gaby is searing through the gap in a tree in my backyard. I love this photo for how creepy it is. The black and white effect made it even more scary and to top it off I enhanced the detail of her face to emphasize her intense expression.  

 This photo, of Gaby, was taken with a longer exposure so I could capture the movement of her head. This photo has an eery feeling as well, but not as creepy. To edit I changed around the temperature and exposure. 

I liked how these two pictures went together. They were taken in the park at night and to get her face to show up I had to change the exposure which then made the photos very grainy. I liked the look so I added more grain and mixed around the colors as well as giving the photos a small vignette.

 Gaby is in a flowing bush. Her expression and attire make the photo seem dreamlike and imaginary. I edited the colors and then made the photo black and white with a brownish tint. To enhance her face and hair I used the sharpening tool.

Other

These are portraits of me that Gaby took with my camera at the time and place I took her photos. I edited them in Lightroom and enjoyed the mood so I decided to share them also. 

Fine Art Portraits and Commercial Portraits

Fine Art Portrait

Zachary Snellenberger

I like the dreamy surreal feeling Zachary's photos give off. I also like the dull colors and earthy colors in the photos (desaturated). I like the composition; it is nature like and produces a calm feeling. The lighting is not too bright or dark and there isn't much contrast.

Xin Li

I like, again, the dreamy feeling Xin Li has in her photos. I like the calm lonely feeling the photo radiates. This photo has more contrast then Zachary's, but still holds the earthy relaxedness. I like the nature in the composition, but the touch of mystery the blue balloon brings into the picture. 

Commercial Portrait 

I-D Magazine

 I like this cover because it is very pop arty. I like the all the doodles that make the cover look cartoonish and fun. It draws my attention to the mood and potentially what the magazine is about. The drawings emphasize fun which makes me want to read or look inside the cover for more.

Toilet Paper Magazine

I like the surreal feeling of this cover. It is simple but captures my attention because it is forcing me to look deeper to try and understand the message. Because it doesn't give a lot of information about what the magazine is about, I am made to want to open and see what the content is (the purpose of a cover is to draw you in). 

Similarities and Differences Between Fine Art and Commercial Portraits

The fine art portraits are made less to get someone's attention and draw them in to make them want to purchase an item or look inside the magazine, but more to capture the viewer in the world of the picture and make them think about the bigger meaning. Fine art portraits are statements about a story behind the subject. Magazine/commercial portraits are making a statement about how great a person or a n object is. 

Surrealism and Photomontage

Surrealism is a changed reality in artworks; visions of the unconscious mind. Many surreal artworks have objects that are out of place, or scenery that is unrealistic.

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1. Artist: Max Ernst
2. Created: 1921
3. Period: Surrealism
5. Media: Oil paint

1. 1. Artist: René Magritte
   2. Location: Museum of Modern Art
   3. Dimensions: 2' 5" x 1' 8" (73 cm x 50 cm)
   4. Created: 1935
   5. Period: Surrealism
   6. Media: Oil paint
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   8. 1. Artist: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
      2. Period: Surrealism
      3. Location: Salvador Dalí Museum
      4. Created: 1968–1970
      5. Media: Oil paint
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      7. Protomontage is a surreal image made from the combination of multiple photos creating an unrealistic situation.
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Patric Desmet

Dmitry Derzhavin

Centaur 5

Project 8 - Surrealism and Photomontage

           This project was mainly focusing on cutting up different photos in photoshop and piecing them together to make a design or image that seems surreal or unrealistic. The following images are put together by cutting out and masking the main objects and then refining the cutting with the brush tool. Some of the objects in the images are from the same photo but have different effects on them.

This first montage is my favorite and was the hardest to put together because of all the different photo pieces I had to cut out. First I made the background a textured wall, then I added pieces of a chair and the hands in the lower and right part. After that I layered the eyes and the jaws to create a surreal situation. 

 The next montage I made was much easier because I didn't have to cut out as many pieces. The person in the background is my friend Gaby and I made her have a cartoonish affect. Then I added my cat three times with different effects.

 This third montage is my second favorite and it took a little longer to make then the previous one because of all the precision it took to make the photos fit together. I tried to create a creepy surreal effect, and I changed the colors to make the image fit together.

Finally I have the simplest montage which is also the most realistic. It is a combination of two photos and could be seen as one image because the lighting fits together so well. I liked the calm mood this photo contains. 

Project 7 Alternative Processes through Digital Means

For this project I tried simulating the look of an old daguerreotype photo, making a digital cyanotype, a gum bichromate, and a tilt shift effect photo. Again all of my photos are from downtown portland or around my house. Non of the daguerreotype photos are actually old but I used Photoshop to edit them in a way to make some of the, look antique. I had fun experimenting with different effects and colors for all of the photos.

Cyanotypes

This cyanotype is of an old building in downtown portland. i really liked the architecture and old look. To edit the photo, besides adding the cyanotype effect I messed with the colors and contrast.

My second cyanotype is of a woman and her child looking into a pond. The cyanotype effect made this photo look somewhat dream like, to me, and I edited it by changing the exposure in certain areas and messing with the colors. 

 Gum Bichromate:

This gum bichromate I wen t a little crazy with the colors, making it very unrealistic but I thought it was cool. To make all the colors I just added different layers and painted on them after creating a cyanotype. The photo was also edited by changing the contrast and colors.

 The other gum bichromate photo I created looks similar to the last, but the content is of a pig carving. The non local layers of colors make this photo look very abstract. The colorful layers were added after I made the photo look like a cyanotype and edited the exposure, contrast, and colors. 

Daguerreotypes

This first emulation of a daguerreotype is of a bowl on a cabinet in my house. To edit the photo I made it black and white and then tinted it. I then added a picture of a real daguerreotype over it and let my photo show through to get the vintage look. I also messed with the contrast and curves.

This first daguerreotype look alike is of an old house near Lincoln High school. To make the photo look old I layered a very washed out picture of a real daguerreotype and let my photo show through after adjusting the color to be sepia and taking down the detail.

My second daguerreotype look alike is of my cat after I made her look possessed by darkening her eyes. I used a picture of a real daguerreotype from online and let the picture of my cat show through, again after I adjusted the exposure, colors, tint, and darkened the edges. 

 Tilt Shift Effect

 lastly I tried out the tilt shift effect on a photo I took in Project one from the top of a building. The effect of blurring around a focal point and enhancing the saturation to make the photo look like a miniature setting didn't really work, but it was fun to test out.

Project #6 Multiple Image Technique

The following images are a verity of multiple exposer, panorama and HDR photos I have taken in downtown Portland. Using the manual method, taking multiple photos, and then stitching them together in photoshop a was able to create some interesting panoramas. I also used the manual method to create HDR photos in photoshop using multiple exposures of the same image. and layering them. I overlapped several images in photoshop to create multiple exposure images.  

PANORAMAS 

This is a panorama of several images of a crack in an old brick walkway with plaster. I liked to texture and movement of the crack and could only capture the whole thing by making a panorama. To edit this picture I played with the contrast and colors of the moss.

This is a vertical panorama of a railing leading up a stairway. I liked the shape and, once again, could only capture the whole thing by making a stitch of multiple images. To edit the image I took down the vibrance and slightly changed the exposure.

My last panorama was of the steel (I think) bridge downtown. I was able to capture the elongated shape through multiple stitched images. I made the image in black and white to focus more on the stricture and I messed with the exposure and contrast.

MULTIPLE EXPOSER

This image was originally meant to be a HDR images but since the two photos didn't match up they created an interesting overlap. To edit the image I adjusted the colors and exposer. 

The mix of a rusted textured building under a corner of a wall with some branches sticking off made a very interesting overlap. To edit the photo I messed with the curves and exposer of the branches and I made the rusty building more vibrant and contrasting.

The last overlapping image is personally my favorite. The mix between a lamp post and the grid windows of a building made a very cool design. To edit the photo I enhanced the vibrance and contrast for both the building and the lights in order to get colors to come through. 

HDR

My first HDR image I used three different exposers to put the light of the sky and the dark of the lap post together. After combining the images I adjusted the exposer, the gamma correction, the detail, and the vibrance, but not so much to make the image unrealistic.

This second HDR image I used two combined images to capture the lights and darks of the buildings and water tower. To edit, I used the gamma correction, vibrance, contrast, and exposer.

The last image is an HDR of two images of a steel wall. After putting the images together I noticed that the darks were still fairly dark, but I liked how the light part popped out yet still had detail. To edit the photo I changed the vibrance to be a little higher and also the expose to be a little darker.