Fay Godwin - Landscape
Fay Godwin is a landscape photographer who usually takes images of the countryside in a creative way. Godwin uses objects and light to create unique photos. Godwin has produced a lot of black and white photos and rarely adds colour to her work this give the image a stronger meaning. Fay Godwin is a self taught photographer. She began her career through portraits in 1960s. Eventually Godwin developed her skills to landscape. (https://imagesonline.bl.uk)
Eve Arnold - Celebrity
Eve Arnold is a well respected photographer who took many portraits of celebrities such as Joan Crawford, Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe. Like Godwin, Arnold's images are usually black and white portraits of celebrities (pictured below) Although she did do some colour photos of Marilyn monroe. The colour made the images more unique as this was rare in Arnold's work. "Her interest in photography began in 1946 while working in a New York City photo-finishing plant"(en.wikipedia.org) In 2003 she received a OBE.
Sarah Pickering - Art
Sarah Pickering is a art photographer who often uses fire and smoke to create freeze motion pictures. Pickering would also photograph images of the after effects of these images which are black and white. She often also uses the streets to create the same effect. some examples of this are pictured below. Sarah Pickering like many other photographers became interested in photography at a early age. Although Pickering was interested in photography she still took a course in physics and geography as a back up (www.telegraph.co.uk) Pickering's earliest popular work was a group expedition Sarah Pickering & Gonzalo Lebrija with PynerContreras, London (UK)in 2005 she also won a award in the same year(www.meessendeclercq.be)
Martin Parr- Documentary
Martin Parr is a well known Documentary/Photojournalist. Most of his earlier work especially from the 1995 - 1998 is mainly focused on real life families, individuals and events from the beach. using different camera techniques such as depth of field to show everyday events such as read a newspaper making each image different and unique. Parr has had a growing interest in photography since he was a boy. "Martin Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic, from 1970 to 1973" (www.magnumphotos.com)Since graduating Parr has been expanding his knowledge and experience in photography. The images below show some of his most successful and memorable work from the 90s.
Album covers
Photographer - Nitin Vadukul
For this album cover Vadukul would have used a off white balance effect. The aperture would be F8 and the ISO 400 to capture the lighting. The shutter speed for this image would be 1/100s as this is more of a portrait image.
Photographer - Ed Thrasher
Ed Thrasher's cover image for purple rain is very well done using a short shutter speed to capture a freeze motion image of the smoke. Thrasher uses long depth of field and good framing to capture a clear, sharp image of the woman in the background. Thrasher also uses dark and moody lighting to add affect to the gritty ally for this Thrasher would have used a medium aperture of around F6.
Photographer -Peter Lindbergh
Lindbergh Uses a short depth of field in this portrait with a medium aperture of around 8 F-stops and a medium shutter speed of around 1/500 to capture the natural lighting. Lindbergh would of used ISO of 400 - 800 as the image is not over exposed or sensitive to the natural light. The framing is set to show a small portion of the background in the portrait. Overall the image is very well done to show a natural setting through the lighting.
Photographer - Chris Stanford
Stanford has used a slightly off white balance which gives the image a older look. Stanford has used a shutter speed of around 1/100 as the is some blur motion. Stanford also uses a low aperture of F2 to create a mid depth of field. Creating a blurred background.
Photographer - Iain Macmillan
Macmillan would have used shutter speed of 1/4000s to create freeze motion for this image. Macmillan used a long depth of field for this cover photo. A aperture of F9 would have been used to create a long depth of field capturing the detailed background and ISO 400 to create the bright image.
To break my photo into different pieces i used the quick selection tool in PS. Each time I broke a piece I adjusted the colour balance. Doing this has changed the colour of each piece. I then changed the background to white using the paint bucket tool. This created a white background behind my photo. I then used the crop tool to create a square image.
