Edouard Boubat

Édouard Boubat

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Edouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France – June 30, 1999, Paris) was a French art photographer.

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Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the Ecole Estienne, and then worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer after WWII. He took his first photograph in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. Afterwards he travelled the world for the magazine Réalités. The French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "Peace Correspondent." His son Bernard is also a photographer.

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Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes, MNZM, is an Australian-born photographer, clothing designer and businesswoman who now lives and works in New Zealand. She is known for her stylized depictions of babies and motherhood. - source Wikipedia

I like Anne's work and even have a photo frame and some of the cute baby dolls at home.

Please see image below of her work.

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Image from www.annegeddes.com

Underlighting for Glamour

I really like the lighting effect in this photograph - giving a glamour look

This was achieved by setting the lighting in the following way:

Taken from the book Master Lighting Guide by Christopher Grey

Low Key Lighting

Low Key Lighting -means that the majority of tones be below middles gray.

See sample below:

A single strip light has been used to light the subject, see image below of how this effect was achieved.

Taken from the book Master Lighting Guide by Christopher Grey

High Key Lighting

High Key Lighting:

High Key Lighting - high key means that the vast majority of tones in the image are above middle grey, including any shadows

see image below as an example:

This was achieved by setting the lighting up in the following way:

By changing the direction of the lights, the colour in the image changes and gives one side of the photo a warmer tone

See photo below:

This was achieved by setting the lights in the following way:

Taken from the book Master Lighting Guide by Christopher Grey

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Lighting

Just finished reading a book on lighting called’ Master Lighting Guide’ by Christopher Grey and found few useful notes:

The way light bounces off a subject and creates colour that we see with our eyes is called the Angle of Incidence.  The angle of incidence (the angle that light strikes the surface of an object) is always equal to the angle of reflection (the angle at which that same light will be reflected off the surface).

See photo below:

The quality of light is a determining factor in the appearance of the subject’s form – a small light source with a concentrated beam will produce deep sharp shadows on the subject, a larger source will throw a wider beam of light with shadows that are more open and less dark because more light spills into them.  As the light source is moved away from the subject it becomes smaller in relation to the subject and will create sharper shadows.

Key Light – the light that is aimed at the subject and which the primary light meter reading is based on is called the key light as it is the key to the entire lighting scenario.

Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff is a well known portrait photographer, his style of portraiture if that of taking natural photos, not enhanced as he believes that a person's face itself, it's form, the nose, the lips and the eyes express everything about the person.

See sample images below:

Bernhard Fuchs

Bernhard Fuchs

Bernhard tends to take colour photographs of people in their immediate surroundings.

See samples below

Taken from a book - The Portrait -Photography as Stage

Valerie Belin

Valerie Belin

Valerie is a French artist, working and living in Paris, she completed a piece of work where she photographed 12 fashion catalogue models, 6 boys and 6 girls, this followed on from another piece of work where the models resembled shop window mannequins in 2003.

Below is a sample of her work

Taken from the book 'The Portrait - Photography as a Stage'

from the series Models II (2006)

quotes

quotes from photographers:

'The human face is indeed like the face of a god of some oriental theogony, a whole cluster of faces crowded together, but on different planes so that one does not see them all at once.'

Marcel Proust, 1919



'It is precisely the transparent character of the photographic image - its promise of realism and faithfulness that has made the nature of the photographic portrait so complex.'

Alberto Martin, 2005

work of Alex Stoddard

I find the work of Alex Stoddard slightly 'different' to that of other portrait photographers, photos below show some of his work and the effort he has put in to create the desired effects:

The above photo is titled 'The Pains of Capture' which is a self portrait of Alex Stoddard (from the book Creative Photography by Natalie Dybisz) it tells the story of the wild being contained.

This one is also by Alex Stoddard and featured in the same book, it is titled 'The Forgotten Housewife',

not sure I would have called it that by just looking at it.

Another self portrait of Alex Stoddard (from the same book) with a snake on his head whilst trying to hold his expression.

Creative Portraits

Just finished reading a book titled 'Creative Portrait Photography' which is written by Natalie Dybisz a.k.a Miss Aniela, the book covers Natalie's own work as well as the work of Susannah Benjamin, Kirsty Mitchell, Peter Kemp, Alex Stoddard and Brooke Shaden.

The photo above is from Natalie's book and shows the model striking a pose between a mannequin and a statue of Jesus.  Natalie uses different props and lighting in different locations to create a photo with context and story.  In some of the photographs a lot of editing has been done to create effects to complete the photo.

The above photo has been edited and strong colours have been used to create more depth, the clock has also been edited and another pair of hands added to make it look extraordinary.

The model was asked to splash the water in the above photo and the effects of rain were added afterwards to create the effect.