The photographer that I chose as inspiration for this project is Brassaï, French-Hungarian Photographer. Brassaï was active in the 1920’s, but he also did photography until around the late 1960’s. I mainly chose to emulate the type of lighting and silhouette techniques that Brassaï incorporated in a lot of his street photographs. The one I partially emulated was the photo of Grand Central Station taken by Brassaï in 1957 or at least partially. For these two images, I mixed Brassai’s style with the style of another photographer. I did not have access to the grand central station, so this was not the main inspiration for the photograph, but rather the way the the photographs partially obscured and silhouetted the people in the photograph. I also changed the perspective for the image as well since I don’t have access to Grand Central Station nor did I have the opportunity to go to grand central station. However, I wanted to compare Downtown State College to grand Central Station in a way. For the photos, I chose this photo as an inspiration because I think that it shows a very strong facet of everyday life. For this assignment, I chose to go downtown and take photographs of everyday life there.
PHOTO #1:
For the photographs in genera, I chose to emulate his style of lighting when it comes to people and the way that I accomplished this was by taking different shots with aperture priority mode on for my camera and taking different photos at different settings to get the right one. I then went into camera raw and adjusted the black and white settings and exposure of the camera to get the results that I wanted. The photo pictured above, was the first one I chose to take because I think the composition is the strongest out of the three photos that I have taken plus the lighting works with the photograph.
This second image I took on the same day with the same post production process, just in a different location instead of the alleyway. However, I do think that this one is closer in tone to the original photograph, except for the fact that the the black and white tones are stronger than the original photograph.
The third photograph is probably the weakest of my photographs and I feel like I could have done better adjusting the settings. The composition isn’t bad, but I could worked on the exposure a little better.
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