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Sherman is an American artist born in 1954.
Her work intrigues me yet, at the same time, keeps me out a lot.
Her life-like characters give off such a realness to them.

(1)  & (2) Instead of opting for a dark or white backdrop, she used a fluorescent background. I feel the backdrop adds to the character's personality as it enhances the character and makes them more cartoon-like.

(3) takes a whole new perspective on what portrait work can be. The subject looks like a corpse, yet there is so much emotion in the photo. Instead of using a bright warm light as she did in (1) & (2), she used a soft blue light to highlight the face, and she used pale muted colour around the subject

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I’ve always loved to take photos of my friends, capturing their beauty. In week 3, we started to explore portrait photography and constructed images. Each goes hand in hand.

I used my iPhone in portrait mode to capture the images and used a lamp to light up my subject face. By using the rule of thirds, I wanted to make sure that my subject was in the centre of the frame and had the viewer’s undivided attention.

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(Film)

"False hope is a game of Russian roullette, I'd rather you just open fire."- K. Piper
To play such a game as knife roulette among friends comes with the price of trust, although trust has become such a scarcity among society. The contrasting emotions in each picture tell a story of faith and fear.

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(Cannon self portrait)

"You wear a mask for so long you forget who you are beneith it."- Allan Moore
There has always been something so ritualistic about a night out, the process of getting ready and looking beautiful just having it get washed away. The process turns into a never-ending cycle, revolving in any order changing our mindsets almost as if we put on and take off a mask.

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(Film)

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that i am away from you." - Frieda Kahlo
We all take photos of those that we love. We cherish them and never forget the experiences we shared. After a night out, I captured portraits of those around me, making sure that their faces aligned with the rule of thirds and a simple background to ensure that all the attention goes to their faces, capturing their raw emotions and personalities.

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In week 2, we were asked what I thought was a bizarre assignment; it truly tested my creativity. When asked to do a one-minute sculpture for an image, my mind went utterly blank, including my groups. We walked around discussing what we thought would be a sound sculpture, and we had the idea of perching in the middle of the road and working on our laptops. After learning about the golden ratio, I figured out that the image was perfectly cropped and adjusted. The angle of the road and the building perfectly guide the viewer’s eye to the subjects. The leading lines technique can also be found in the image.

For the constructing fiction, I merely stood in the telephone booth on the phone, but after seeing the outcome, I realised that we had unknowingly used the technique: frame within a frame.

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I kept thinking one thing when playing around with the layout; life has no order. It’s all a construct to keep society tame. We talk about reality and experience as our own but forget that it can come in any order. Everyone has their perspective on the order of life and how it flows. Realizing this, I knew I had to incorporate this idea into displaying my images.

The longer I looked at the images, the more the pictures changed, I felt like I needed to put the photos in a specific order to make them make sense, but the images worked together in many ways.

I experimented with different layouts, incorporating all the images together to form a linear presentation of 3 images side by side, but it seemed simple and 2D.

I knew I wanted to display these images in a way that distorts order.

I started to play around with a grid format and instantly knew this was the perfect way to display the images. The grid format is ideal as it reads well, which doesn’t distract the viewer. It gives the photos a sense of unity, for each image is this same size, so no other idea is more significant or superior.

I experimented with combining the images from each series into one, but I felt it lost the concept.

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To capture a state of reality is strange thought as surely any picture you take is reality. So what would one deem as an image of reality?

In terms of reality, one can argue that it can be a state of mind as, indeed everyone lives in their sort of reality.

Film is a great medium to capture any form of reality as it is untampered with and cannot be edited, meaning this can be the closest form of capturing actual reality.

I wanted to capture real-life events with real people in real-time.
This means I would capture candid moments unstructured scenes: no posing, no construct, just raw reality.

I loved the way these candid shots turned out; they make you feel like you’re there in the moment, witnessing the mayhem and the realness.

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Change itself is such a strange topic. It's something we either have complete control over or the latter. It’s a phenomenon that occurs over a short or long period sometimes. We don’t even notice it happening. When I think of change, I think of something I can’t control or change.

By taking long exposure photos of a night out using a film camera, I captured the change in the setting. I am capturing the flicking lights and changing faces. Although some might view this as a waste of film or a mistake, I view it as a change of perspective or narrative.

By trying something new, I managed to change my own experience of capturing life around you.

We are taught to take clear photos of those around us, but sometimes a change of narrative and what one might call a mistake turns to art.

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I shot these photos in the perspective of experience as I believe experience is through the eye of the beholder. Film cameras are the perfect medium to capture the topic of experience as once you have taken the shot, and you cannot view the photo until developed. In a sense, it forces one to live in the moment and not focus on the outcome of the image.

I think film photography has the ability to capture memories, as each photo almost captures the raw essence of that life experience and moment.

These photos were captured on a night out. I wanted to capture the night from my view, so I captured it from an eye-level perspective, almost as an extension of my arm, allowing the viewer to see what I see and experience what I experience.

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4.  Semiotics of the Images

·      Linguistic signs (words)

·      Iconic Signs (Visual Representations)

·      Non-Representational Signs (graphics)

·      Connotations

·      Mythic meanings

·      Colors

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3. What words are used in the ad

·      Words are to either inform or manipulate the audience

·      Tone of the words

·      Font

·      Size

·      Location

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2.   Plot of the ad

·       Setting of the ad

·       What is the significance between the plot and the product?

·       Plot may not always be relevant to the product

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1.    Who is the target audience (demographic)

·      What company is producing the ad

·      Who is the ad made to appeal to?

·      How would that demographic react and relate to the ad

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“It was really hot, sweaty and steamy. There was dry ice, strobe lights going off and you’re thinking, ‘I’ve got to wait half an hour for the camera to warm up.’ You can’t use it until it’s at room temperature, because otherwise it’s just going to be fogged the whole time, and you’re not going to see anything. In Shoom, you could barely see the length of your arm sometimes, so it was a challenge! But it was also something you’d not seen before, so you just had  to capture it.”

I’ve always admired nightlife photographers, they can capture the moments that you never want to end. I think the best thing is when you come back from an event, and you look through all the photos and the candid shots of people in pure joy. Being able to capture aesthetically pleasing candid shots in pure talent as the subject in moving and one must time the shot so perfectly.

(1)   And (4) have almost the same energy to them, just a pure state of happiness and trance. (1) captured from a lower angle using flash illuminates the woman and captures all her excretions. (4) although surrounded by people the man is the focuses of the image, completely lit up and facing the camera the crowd almost forms around the individual like the golden ratio.

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London based photographer Frost caught my eyes as I was scrolling through Instagram. It was during 2020 when covid was at its fullest wrath. He had the idea of photographing drag queen performers, show performers and members of the LGBTQIA + community through face time and taking beautiful works of art using his own camera. Frost's work correlates with the theme of change as he had to capture performers in a new world where nightlife was closed and they had to adapt and so did frost as he captured them through face time instead of the normal in-person shoot.

(1)   A form of still art but constructed portrait, a woman painted white with the same lipstick used for her eye and lip makeup, perched on her head like a crown. He took a risk by using a white background when the subject is painted a pale white, but the gold lipstick crown breaks the barrier of the subject blending into the backdrop.

(3)  this portrait brings great excitement to look at and the longer you look at it the more intricate details you find. The flower concept around the iPad and the skull displayed around the iPad creates the perfect layout. As the model cannot be there for the shoot itself, I can imagine that it must have taken a lot of planning. The makeup coincides with the flowers perfectly and creates a sense of cohesion.

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Bois is a 19-year-old artist from Montreal. She uses everyday situations and turns them into a dream-like reality.

I’m extremely drawn to her work, and I’ve been following her social media platforms for a few years now her work always seems to excite me and intrigue me. She uses butterfly and broad lighting to light up the whole subject and illuminate the canvas.  Her work touches on the subject of reality as she brings every day objects and experiences to world as we know it defying the natural laws of reality as we know them.

(1)   This portrait brings a form of self-awareness. Bois’s Instagram is reaching out to the audience and the model seems to be looking as if she is in a trance state subconsciously accepting the collaboration.

(4)   This is such an interesting portrait as the post subjects’ tongues are the rough side of Velcro, when the two are together they do not stick unless to a soft surface. The tongues are almost grazing each other. The bristle of the Velcro looks like taste buds as well.

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https://photodoto.com/photography-lighting-techniques/

https://petapixel.com/2016/09/14/20-composition-techniques-will-improve-photos/

https://www.damienfrost.com/press-media/press/dazed-and-confused-0

https://aperture.org/editorial/dave-swindells-club-cluture/

https://fixthephoto.com/best-portrait-photographers.html

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/gab-bois-photography-170919

https://www.nssmag.com/en/art-design/17533/gab-bois-visual-artist-instagram-page

https://www.wikihow.com/Analyze-an-Advertisement

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You must have come across her designs during a Sunday afternoon spent on the couch scrolling Instagram. But the world of deserves to be fully discovered.

Gab Bois is a former arts student born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She takes inspiration mainly from the hype culture, challenging traditional photography standards. She is particularly interested in everyday life: Gab takes an absolutely common object, which she uses daily, and turns into something completely new.

Necklaces made out of preztels, heels made with forks or cigarettes, sets of keys worn as earrings, adidas Three Striped drawn with the wite-out, braces with the Nike logo: Gab makes usually boring items unexpected and surprising. Her photographs are feisty, sometimes grotesque, and are part of a specific imaginary that defuses and makes more authentic normally elegant and sophisticated items. Gab's favourite subjects are food, clothes and tech devices, always related to her body, real canvas of her work.

I work with parts of my everyday life because it's the only way that it feels relevant. I mostly create for myself because a lot of my images have memories and meanings attached to them. It's a very selfish process.

Gab started to get passionate about art during high school, when the young girl would spend hours on Tumblr looking for visually pleasing images, creating a great number of moodboards. Over time Gab became confident enough to share her original work, which in a very short time went viral, making her gain more than 50k followers within a year. The main platform for Gab's work is Instagram, which according to the artist herself, has its pros and cons. On the one hand it allowed her to reach a potentially infinite audience, on the other the social media doesn't ensure her work. As opposed to apps like Spotify or Apple Music, where users have to pay to listen to music, Instagram is completely free, so Gab doesn't receive any kind of economic income. The Canadian photographer is still looking for the perfect balance between complete creative freedom and the profit necessary to live of this job. Gab's final goal is to work in advertisement.

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Gab Bois is the Canadian artist challenging the boredom of everyday life

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You must have come across her designs during a Sunday afternoon spent on the couch scrolling Instagram. But the world of deserves to be fully discovered. Gab Bois is a former arts student born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She takes inspiration mainly from the hype culture, challenging traditional photography standards.

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6. Broad Lighting

·      Most of the face is lit up

·      Little to no shadow

·      Good on small or slim face

·      Good if the subject had scars or acne on their face

·      Face turned away from light and towards camera

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5. Short Lighting

·      Flattering

·      It makes the face look slimmer

·      The subjects face indirect to the camera

·      Sculpting and 3D quantities

·      Face turned towards the light

·      Most of face should be in shadows

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4. Rembrandt Lighting

·      Noses shadow meets the cheeks shadow

·      Dramatic

·      Use this on round full faces – sims the face

·      The light should be above the subject’s head

·      The subject must turn away slightly from the light

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3. Loop Lighting

·      Most popular lighting technique

·      Easy

·      The nose is reflecting on the subject’s cheek

·      Nose shadow should never touch the cheek shadow

·      30-40 degrees above the eye level

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2. Butterfly Lighting

·      Butterfly like a shadow underneath the subject’s nose

·      Light is behind or above the camera

·      The illusion of a slimmer face