For the final task for our digital imagery assignment, we were told to evaluate a couple of photographers images that have been edited with various different digital imaging techniques. After spending a few months focusing on our own personal skill and development within digital imagery in photography, it was now time to focus on other photographers work and the way they produce their images and what we could learn and gain from their unique techniques.
The first photographer I wanted to include within my evaluation of other photographers is Adde Adesokan. Not classed as a 'well-known' photographer, but I wanted to use someone that produces something different within their photography, and not just a photographer who follows the trends of others. Adde Adesokan is a self taught street and travel photographer, and I really wanted to focus on his series of images named, 'Triptychs of Strangers'. During our own assignment we touched on both street and triptych photography which ties in nicely with this photographer and series of images. Ever since producing my own triptych image, I have been fascinated with all the different types of triptych images around. I love the way Adesokan has used people as the pinnacle within his images, taking three separate personality matching body shots and making them one. Usually set out as landscape, he has set these out in portrait with the overall images being visually interesting and technically brilliant. Using this technique to his full potential, he has used a mixture of both colour and black and white to best suit the image. He also creates a story behind each series of images he produces, creating almost something that we can all relate to within atleast one image. Camera angles are also important and he takes into consideration what he wants to get across to his audience with the way he positions his camera and reveals what he only wants us to see with the use of natural lighting and the involvement of street photography as his simple yet effective backdrop. He doesn't necessarily use any fancy techniques on Photoshop to edit the image, instead he uses triptych as his main focus to produce creative images that stands out from anything else.
The first photographer I wanted to include within my evaluation of other photographers is Adde Adesokan. Not classed as a 'well-known' photographer, but I wanted to use someone that produces something different within their photography, and not just a photographer who follows the trends of others. Adde Adesokan is a self taught street and travel photographer, and I really wanted to focus on his series of images named, 'Triptychs of Strangers'. During our own assignment we touched on both street and triptych photography which ties in nicely with this photographer and series of images. Ever since producing my own triptych image, I have been fascinated with all the different types of triptych images around. I love the way Adesokan has used people as the pinnacle within his images, taking three separate personality matching body shots and making them one. Usually set out as landscape, he has set these out in portrait with the overall images being visually interesting and technically brilliant. Using this technique to his full potential, he has used a mixture of both colour and black and white to best suit the image. He also creates a story behind each series of images he produces, creating almost something that we can all relate to within atleast one image. Camera angles are also important and he takes into consideration what he wants to get across to his audience with the way he positions his camera and reveals what he only wants us to see with the use of natural lighting and the involvement of street photography as his simple yet effective backdrop. He doesn't necessarily use any fancy techniques on Photoshop to edit the image, instead he uses triptych as his main focus to produce creative images that stands out from anything else.
Below are three of my favourite triptych images from Adde Adesokan's Triptych portfolio
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Secondly I wanted to include a fashion image that has been through the process of Photoshop. One of my favourite fashion photographers, Chris Nicholls produces the highest quality fashion shoots, with the sharpest and smoothest of images. The images that would be best to talk about for this evaluation process is a couple from my favourite selection from Flare Magazine and the edit, 'The New Wave'. These images have a very graphic design feel about them, in which Nicholls' has used levels to enhance the colours of the original image and smoothed the skin. He has also used the clone tool within Photoshop to clone the model and her outline whilst he duplicates the layer to create an extra two of the model. He has then placed these within the background each side of the original image of the model. I am not completely sure on how he has produced the duplicate copies as a block colour and used as pop art, but it really gives the image a very artistic feel about it which is perfect for advertisement and publication purposes.
Again, cloning has been used for the last 3rd of the image, with a tint of blue. This gives an extra pop of colour to the very low saturated, almost black and white image, something very simple but sometimes its not always about using a variety of different edits or involving as much as you can within the image, something as little of a splash of colour as the shadow of the image is all that it needs. This is a very strong image, and I believe Nicholls didn't spend very long on editing it. With the model being lit up from all angles in the studio, rather than just from one side, it allows us to see each detail of the model and the image without any unnecessary shadowing or harsh lines. With the added brightness and levels he has used to bring out the darker colours in the models clothing against the very pale skin of the model allows him to keep the image how he first shot it without removing any of the natural texture of the hair and eyes.
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