Pictures by Nat M
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Photography Themes: Winter
Appropriately enough, we recently took photos that expressed the theme of winter. Here are the two that I liked the best:
No editing was done on these photos.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Low-Key Lighting
We recently experimented with low-key lighting (in other words, photos with an excess of shadows and low lighting). These are the four photos that I liked the most.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Composition #3
We also covered three different ways of creating forms of composition in photography.
Space
Patterns
Shapes
Friday, November 30, 2012
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Examples of Portraits
None of these photos are mine; they all belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.
Formal Portraiture
Anne Hathaway as Fantine photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue
This portrait, of actress Anne Hathaway, is part of a recent set for Vogue Magazine featuring the upcoming film Les Miserables. As a fan of not only Leibovitz but the musical on which the film is based, I love how well the portrait captures the character (Fantine) that Hathaway portrays. Regarding the technical features of the portrait, the lighting is also used sparingly but effectively, creating a subdued, almost documentary-like atmosphere.
Informal Portraiture
Faye Dunaway photographed by Terry O'Neill
Terry O'Neill was a very interesting and very prominent photographer of the 1970s. I really like the combination of formality but mostly informality in this photo, of actress Faye Dunaway after her Oscar win in 1977. The portrait seems to convey a sense of weariness or dissatisfaction, perhaps with media or pop culture as a whole. It's made even more fascinating by the fact that O'Neill and Dunaway were married at the time.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Self-Portraits
This week, we explored self-portraits in photography. Both of these photos I took by myself in the reflection of various cases in the school hallway. I think both of these worked well due to the dark colour of the background papers, as I can see my general reflection quite well.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Light Photography & Red Lighting
Light Photography
I loved working with light photography - I've never done anything like it before and I found it quite exciting. In this photo, I like how the shape of the heart Sydney is making seems a bit wild and undefined.
Both of these photos were very minimally edited - I only saturated some colours and lightened the photos.
Red Lighting
To take this photo, I covered the flash of my camera with sheer red paper and proceeded to take photos normally. There was no editing done on this photo.
This was taken with the same lighting technique as the previous photo - as well, there was no editing done.
Light Sculpting
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