The photographer in which I chose to imitate was a photo by Vivian Maier from 1953
The photo on the left is my inspiration, a photo from Vivian Maier’s collection called “Street Photography 1”. Maier had this style of shooting that was the perfect balance between candid and posed. There’s just enough context present in order to portray that the subject is just a businessman traveling on the street to work, but also enough posing to make him the center of attention of the photo. Composition wise, I think that I portrayed a similar feel to the photo on the left, but didn’t exactly nail the natural, uneven lighting present in her photo.
The photo on the right is my imitation of the original. I captured this image of a friend on a white background as it was raining the day I planned to shoot, but masked in a different background to get a similar feel to the original. Although I think that the actual contents of the photos are similar, they differ in areas like the lighting, facial expression, background, and overall feel.
Doing this assignment / experiment, I realized that achieving the original look that I was trying to portray takes more than one try. If I could repeat this again to try to make a better photo, I’d take measures to have more similar expression, a more street styled background (would be better to shoot outdoors), and to better balance the lighting between the background/subject.
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