Everybody Street

Today we watched a great documentary directed by Cheryl Dunn on street photography and the photographers behind some of the most inspiring and creative snapshots in and around New York.

"digital manipulation kills photography"

Several photographers discussed the issue of digital photography. For years film was the only way they could capture a moment, but in the digital age we are currently living in a revolution in photography. 

With digital photography, everybody's a photographer now. Whether it's captured on a DSLR or an iPhone, the photographers said the outcome of the photograph will be mainly contemporary.

"change is inevitable"

Shooting with film costs money, for example each shot could be worth 50 cents. However with a digital camera and a 32GB memory card, you could take thousands of the same moment, all a millisecond apart.

"it was beauty and the beast, and sometimes the beast was beautiful"

One photographer captured his images on the subway, commenting that he would have 10 second affairs with women on the subway, and then never see them again. 

I think one thing I'm going ot take away from this film is not to hold down the button on my camera. Almost treat it like a film camera; don't review the image and only take one or possibly two photos.

Now I want to get my hands on a film camera, a bunch of film and roam the streets of New York! Although maybe I'll be better off starting with London...

Street Style Photo Essay - tackling changes

For my street style photo essay I had originally chosen trench coats as my topic of focus. However, as the weather turned the number of trench coats I saw on the street plummeted.

Due to the serious decline, I had to come up with a new idea. Inspired bursts of colour by the yellow taxis in New York and red buses in London, I started seeing this applied to style on the street. In Photoshop I began to alter the depth of field and draw out the pop of colour using triangular shapes, mirroring fragments breaking up the grey landscape.

I first panicked when my original idea just wasn't working, however it has taught me that sometimes a step needs to be taken backwards before you can go forwards.

The Next Big Thing: Flixel Photos

Through watching the 20th cycle of America's Next Top Model, I discovered Flixel Photos. An app and piece of software that enables you to create your own cinemagraph - or Flixel. A combination of a still photograph and video, they are a new and exciting way to show an image and tell a story. Flixel Photos will be perfect for my Next Big Thing brief, and I am looking forward to researching more into the app and company.

flixel.com

Solve Sundsbo x Kendall ON Cara = LOVE

Wow.

Face of the Future - Steven Meisel

For my visual critique essay I have decided to talk about this image, photographed by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia, 2012. I love the composition of the image and feel there is a lot of connotations: the mask, the eyes, the make up.

Visual Critique: Steven Meisel