Photography Project: Initial Ideas & Plan& Research

 This week we are working on the Initial Ideas of our Photography project. At the beginning I was thinking about drawings and I will continue with this idea  in some point and I will use my own work of portrait photographs to do that. This week we are working on portrait photographs and we have to collected set of great images for it and I like the idea of Angus McBean portraits on a visual terms. 

                                                                 Angus-Mcbean-Portraits

Angus McBean was seen as the best  British photographer and genius for some. In the 1930s he revolutionized photography portraits. "Blending with, drama, and fantasy with the consummate skill of a master photographer, McBean was the most prominent theatre photographer of his generation and, along with Beaton, the last of the British avant-garde studio photographers." (Angus McBean: Portraits, no date)

Going forward there is creative visual storytelling images I am interested in and I will do photos in nature and home playing with the light to create the atmosphere and my children will be the models. I will work with black&white images. I want to add reflection to my images to make it more interesting.

Creative photography takes you to the next level, helps to stimulate imagination.

Is interesting how can I look at the photo below from different perspective. This was made playing double exposure in the camera, making two shots together what made an interesting portrait with storytelling.

                                               

                                                           creative-photography-inspiration

Jack Davison is a visual Artist and he is self educated photographer who is interested in black and white photography interested in catching strange moments same as he does photographs with blurred lens, using shadows and reflections. Since he was 15 he had photograph all people surrounding him. He enjoys tension and drama in his images with a deeper meaning of surrealism in it. 

                                          

                                                             JackDavison photography

 I really enjoy the surrealistic photography, the use of shadows, light, reflection. My plan is to photograph my children outside in a light, work with the shade and also I will do photographs inside the house with the mirror and using lights from side and behind to create different atmosphere of the visual effect on the same photos with a different use of light. 

References:

Davison, J. (no date) Jack Davison, www.jackdavison.co.uk. Available at: https://www.jackdavison.co.uk.

Jack Davison — Mini Title (no date) www.minititle.com. Available at: https://www.minititle.com/jack-davison.

‌LIoP and Virgile (2017) Top 5 – Photographers using reflection and portraits, LIoP. Available at: https://liop.co.uk/content-hub/photographers-using-reflection-and-portraits/ (Accessed: 11 March 2024).

‌Pallant Bookshop. (n.d.). Angus Mcbean: Portraits. [online] Available at: https://pallantbookshop.com/product/angus-mcbean-portraits/.

‌Tobin, J. (2021). How to Find Creative Photography Inspiration in 7 Steps. [online] Rangefinder. Available at: https://www.rangefinderonline.com/news-features/tips-techniques/creative-photography-inspiration/ [Accessed 5 Feb. 2024].