During this lesson we looked at some more photographers who used 5x4 large format camera's.
Cecil Beaton:
He wasn't known for his skills as a technical photographer but from how he focused on staging a model for the perfect shutter-release moment.
Horst P Horst:
Although I hadn't heard of him until now I think his photographs are fantastic because of the way he captures elegance, glamour and the beauty of women.
Phillipe Halsmann:
Phillipe Halsmann's photographs of Salvador Dali are surreal and his photograph of Albert Einstein portray him as a relaxed man. Phillipe is capturing people's character being natural without posing and photographing them.
Irving Penn:
Irving Penn's photographs especially his black and white photographs are known for their deep contrast, clean-cut and neat feel.
Erwin Blumenfeld:
Erwin Blumenfeld's photographs are different because he was an experimenter and after he took his photographs he hand painted some of them. Other work he has done his photographs are surreal.
These photographers work seems different from other fashion photographers because the images they produced seem so simple and effortless yet so beautiful and effective.
We then went on to using the large format camera's and we worked in groups to create four images. We took it in turns to have different jobs e.g lighting, model, focusing and taking the photograph.
We got a bit confused on how to determine the aperture and shutter speed.
Working with the camera was good because when we I was taking my photograph I had time to double checked that the focusing was right because I had more time to think, its different to a 35mm camera where you can take lots of photographs.
I learnt from using these camera's that I have been taking advantage of my digital camera by taking picture after picture until something is right instead of composing it all getting my settings right and by slowing down and not rushing into getting it done as quickly as possible.
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