Ernst Hass / Jaromir Funke / Sabastian Magnani / Nick Albertson
Ernst Hass
He is famous for his images of movement using a long shutter speed. he mainly photographed water as he was interested in it's reflection of light and it's dynamic movement.
<-- In this image, there is main focus on the cab and people as they stand out from the white smoke due to the car being the only brightly coloured object in frame. The people also stand out because they are just silhouettes. The foreground of this picture is the brightest to illuminate the floor as well as the cab, the background however is very dark and creates a negative and empty space which is effective because it creates an atmosphere of the unknown as that area is pitch black. This image is likely photographed using natural lighting at night but could have been edited to look this way.
The images that he photographs are often dark and include many tones. The focus of many of his images is to capture movement using a long shutter speed. He usually achieves this using natural scenes like clouds in the sky and water movement in seas and rivers. He seems to use natural lighting within his movement work and this may be added to during the editing process. due to him using water as a subject a lot of the time the textures of his images seem rough. There is also a lot of tones in his images which gives the impression that the images are 3d. |
Jaromir Funke
He is experimental in his approach to photography. He is fascinated in the patterns of shadows and uses abstract composition where the shape of various everyday objects overlap to create an image.
In his work, he uses light to direct onto objects in order to gain a shadow effect. In order to create these shadows I think artificial light may be used because this would be more beneficial when wanting to create harsher shadows and to make the shadowing darker than if you were to just use natural light. Each object in the photos seem to be quite different and repetition isn't a technique regularly used by this artist. He uses a range of objects most being everyday objects but also including many geometric shapes like cubes and spheres. The subject of each photo seems to be central in the image with negative space where the image is empty and there are just blocks of shadows. Some of the images he creates with shadows give the effect that the image is flat and the shadows of 3d objects look 2d, however when he used geometric 3d shapes with the shadows you are able to see the 3d aspect of the image. I like how his work is arranged and I would love to try and create some images like this.
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Sebastian Magnani
In his work he wanted to show the beauty of reflected light. His current project called 'reflections' is a project in which Magnani has photographed a rounded mirror in various places. The idea of this project came from the thought of him photographing the clouds.
For Magnani's reflection project, he uses light to direct into a circular makeup mirror in which he uses the technique of reflection to show things like flowers, trees and clouds in the mirror whilst having a background to correspond and compliment the object in the mirror. For the lighting in this project he used natural lighting in order to achieve these final mages and possibly using Photoshop to make certain colours and aspects of the images stand out. There is repetition in this project in the sense that each image consists of the same mirror with a reflection of the surrounding and the background being different but corresponding to the reflection. The subject of each photo is a circular mirror in the central in the image with plain space around the image in a natural surrounding.
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Nick Albertson
His images explore the idea of repetition, lines, shapes, textures and patterns. They are created by using everyday objects which are transformed through careful arrangement and photography skills.
The main focus in Albertson's abstract work is that he liked to show repetition. He used everyday objects such as matches, paper clips and elastic bands as his focus and randomly arranged them in order to create patterns and textures. His images are bright, ether with the background being bright or the dark background bringing out the brightness of the object being photographed. He uses these objects to create images that don't necessarily look like the object photographed, but being a textured pattern. He also uses the whole space of the image to fill up with the subject of the photo so there is no negative / empty space, his images also look rather zoomed out to give the effect that the objects look small or it is taken at an angle (the matches) to give the effect that they look bigger than they really are. there are also many tones in these images. Many of his images also look as though they are calotypes that have been created in the dark room and this provides more tone from overlapping images and exposing them more than once to the light after rearranging the placement of the objects..
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