The Way We Live Now colour 120 films (Personal Work)

These are some of the latest images that I’ve shot on 120 medium format colour film for my project, I shot this last Friday and developed it on Tuesday, the images that I have picked are some of my favourite ones, I really like the pill packet because of how it’s sitting there on its own, the welly because of how it’s berried, the bag because of what it is and the way it’s sitting in the sand, and whatever the last thing is, with how it’s come out of the sand like some sort of creature. I feel that this project is going well I just need to shot more and do more research.

Edward Hopper (Independent Research)

These are a couple of Edward Hoppers work, I’m looking at his work because it was mentioned in a lecture, and I knew of it before hand and particularly like his style of painting it’s very realistic, it to me makes the image more engaging, make you able to prelate more with what is going on in the paintings and get a better understanding for the emotions and ideas the painters is trying to convey.

Hopper was trained by Robert Henri jurying 1900-06 after that travelled to Europe several times, as well as being a painter he’s worked as a commercial illustrator to earn a living but soon got wide spread recognition as an American scene painter, a lot of Hoppers works convey loneliness and the troubles of town life, as well as that most of the people in his works have a look of loneliness, which is probably more of a comment about himself or the state of city’s than the people them self’s.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hopper/ (Information and image source)

Gregory Crewdosn (Visual Studies)

Gregory Crewdosn

Despite the fact that I find crewdson somewhat eccentric in the way that he talks, acts and the way he produces work, I find his work extremely interesting and engaging, because of the way he makes the images setting every last detail up to try and make the images perfect, including using a large amount on lighting to get the image right.

This to me creates amazing looking images, with amazing lighting, and composition which tell a story, or at least suggest some sort of narrative which engages the viewer, the images also have an amazing cinematic look to them which I really like because it makes them kind of beautiful and dream like.

I feel with the level of work which goes into the images in production and post-production changes the images from photographs, to more painting, the fact that he changes certain parts of the image by taking lamps out or moving the model for one which is in a better position, makes it more like what painters, or graphic designers do than somewhat more out of the camera photographs would do.