Fine Art vs. Commercial Portrait

Matt Holyoak

In this photos one of the main differences that I noticed was his expression and

composure. In a lot of his photos for magazines he has a very serious look intended to draw the consumer in. But in the fine art photo he just appears to be more himself more.

the colors also differ in the commercial photo the colors are more black and white while the 

fine art photo has more soft pastels.

Project 10: Commercial Portrait

Commercial Portrait photography is photography mainly used to 

promote or advertise some type of product or brand.

Dale May

Timothee Bailey

In the commercial portraits all they are trying to do is sell the product

there is almost zero artistic intent in some commercial portraits. 

Project 10: Fine Art Portraits

A fine are portrait is an artistic portrait that is meant to have a

significant deeper meaning and tries to reveal something about the subject.

Jason Sinn

Alberto Alicata

In these portraits I feel like they are trying to convey the emotions of the subject
so that it feels like you are directly looking into the person without any
barriers of society.

Project 9: Surrealism and Photomontage

Surrealism is a type of photography that is mainly made up of absurd

surreal images that are impossible in reality.

To make this photo I took photos of two people and put them in this spooky background.
I cut them out from their original background and then cut out and put a computer
screen on their head. I thought the screen was to bland so I then took pictures of their
twitter and Instagram and put that on the screen that is on their head. After all
of this i adjusted the saturation to heavily desaturate the people and their background
and then saturate and brighten the screen. I wanted my photo to be surreal
and crazy but also make some sort of statement and I think I achieved that.

Project 9: Prework

Vladimir Kush

Rene Magritte

These photos are of more traditional surrealism paintings instead of some more modern techniques. 

I like the absurdism of it and the different colors. 

Tommy Inberg

Ronny Engelmann

I like these photos because they have a more modern twist with different elements that were
not used in the older surrealism paintings.

Project 8: Digital Alternative Process

A daguerreotype is a style of photography mostly used in the early 1800s.

For this project we used photoshop to simulate this style. We also simulated a cyanotype

which is a style of photo tinted blue and grungy. For me final photo I atempted

a gum bichromate which turned out different then I expected but I still really

liked how it ended up.

Reflections of 1st Semester

I feel that I have gained many skills throughout the semester. From learning how to take actually decent photos and editing those photos to make them look better and even do fun and crazy edits to them. When I look back on my photos I can see literally see my improvement. I have gained a decent amount of camera skills. I now know how to use aperture and shutter speed to attain different kinds of photos which I did not know how to do before coming to this class. Other than that I also know how to utilize the elements of art and the principles of design to improve the photos that I take. Easily my favorite project was the multiple image techniques one. I very much enjoyed combining different images together to create interesting and fun multiple exposures. I liked it so much I got Photoshop and Lightroom on my computer at home so I could experiment with it more. When I first started this class I thought photography was just taking pretty photos. And it was, but it also so much more. I saw and learned how people tell stories and express themselves and different concepts and it honestly astounds me. The new photographers that I discovered of the top of my head would be Saul Leiter and Tania Klein. The main thing that I like about their photos is there specific use of colors to create a mood and also Klein's self portraits that she does. I actually notice many things about the world that I would have never noticed if I had not taken photography. I notice interesting things that might make good photos and then all the different ways I could photograph that thing. I also notice the different Elements of Art and Principles of Design in the world. I love learning about new ways to edit photos and use interesting techniques so that is what I'm probably most excited to learn about next semester.