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Adam Fuss

http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/adam-fuss

Katerina Bukolska

http://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery3/Katerina-Bukolska

Project 1 Inspiration

I went on Pinterest to get some inspiration and a happened across some very interesting portraits, and because I am very interested in portrait photography, I looked into them and found some interesting ideas. The following images are of mixed media and photos, but I thought that I could incorporate some of the aspects in these photographs to make a series of portraits using magazine images.  

Daniele Buetti

Ernesto Artillo

Franz Falckenhaus

Heitor Magno

Jean Faucheur

Jean Faucheur

Nadia Sarwar

Petrus Christus

Rikako Nagashima

Rosanna Jones

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)

Stop Motion

For this project I used the white board to create a short film about a dog and a boy. The plot of the story was inspired by the novel The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein in the way the boy grows up. I made the film silent except for some music to emphasize the life of the boy and dog as a whole instead of individual moments. I chose to do the stop motion on a whiteboard so I could control the evens and life progression (it would have been hard to do this with a real dog plus you wouldn't get to see the age change). The whiteboard style was influenced by the stop motion animation The Marker Maker. By combining a story and the white board techniques I was able to create Dog Life.

Utopia and Distopia

Magazine

This is a mock magazine that I made about an imaginary place, Fairyland. I had fun taking portraits of my friend for this magazine and edited the photos in Lightroom and Photoshop. Then once designing the magazine I imported it into Indesign to do the final touches. All of the photos were taken in my backyard and the park by my house. 

Front Cover

Page 1 and 2: Things to do in Fairyland

Page 3 and 4: ad for growing flower horns

Page 5 and 6: Story 

Back cover

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.