Lamp

 Started a new project- a lamp. It will have three layers and an LED at the bottom. 

The layers are cut out of pages of an old book.

 All three layers on top of each other. 

Shadow of all three.  

Outside- cardboard (will probably paint or glue to a wood structure. 






Inside- collage of cut up pieces of the pages of the book.

Low Key

Self Portrait

Fine Art Food Photography

Comparing and Contrasting Editorial and Fine Art Food Photography

Leigh Beish

ed·i·to·ri·al

ˌedəˈtôrēəl/

adjective

1. 1.

   of or relating to the commissioning or preparing of material for publication.

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fine art

noun

1. 1.

   creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.

   
   

Fine art food photography is photography that is not intended to be published alongside an article and is appreciated purely because of its aesthetic quality. Editorial food photography usually has another purpose, such as accompanying an article or recipe.

In the photos above, the editorial photo is warmer and has a decidedly cozier more inviting feel. Its purpose it to make the viewer feel enticed so that they will want to make the stew (and use the recipe along side the photo). It is also presented in a way that is similar to the way one might eat it. It is also photographed from a birds eye view, which is characteristic of many editorial food photographs. The subject and message is clear.

The fine art photograph has cooler tones, and has an entirely different focus. Although the subject matter is relatively clear, there are aspects that are not clear, such as the face of the woman pouring the water, and the background. If this were editorial food photography, the focus of the photograph would be less on the reflections in the glass and more on tea pot and the woman pouring it. The tea pot looks disembodied, as if it is floating in mid air. Although there are hints of the woman who is holding it, it is implied rather than directly shown. This is the main difference between the two photographs. Everything is intended to be clear in editorial work, while in fine art there is room for photographs that may be confusing, but are beautiful. It is not that editorial work cannot be beautiful. Both are beautiful. It is just that they have different objectives. However, the lines between the two are not always clear cut. Editorial work can sometimes be fine art if isolated from the work with which they are published.

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Shooting Food Photography- Tutorial

• Use natural light
• Make sure the area where you are shooting is not too dark (there is light) 
• Avoid hot spots (white spots of glare) by- using tarnished silver, moving shiny things out of direct light
• The food doesn't need to be photographed the same way you would eat it- it just needs to look good 
• Use props to suggest ways you might eat the food (ie: whipped cream with pie or whipped cream sprinkled with cocoa powder on  top of a mug of hot chocolate) 
• Casually hide imperfections in your food by covering them up (ie: if your banana bread has fallen in the middle, wrap part of it in a cloth or paper) 
• Use bright splashes of color to make the food look enticing 
• Meat is hard to photograph- you will need to have something with it or on top of it to make it look interesting
• Have an interesting background (but not so interesting that it takes away from the food) 
• Using crumpled linen underneath a cooling rack full of cookies 
• Using a patterned piece of cloth 
• If you are shooting above the food (bird's eye view), make sure that you are directly above it and not slightly to the side. 
• If it is editorial food photography- think about where you could put text  (maybe leave some space to one side where you could put a title or some text) 

Self Portrait

Hand Coloring

Hand coloring, or hand painting, is the process of taking a previously black and white photograph and painting over with dyes, watercolors, or oil paints in order to infuse it with color. 

Dusk + Dawn

In a series of two hand painted photgraphs called dusk and dawn, I tried to capture what dusk and dawn feel like for me. No dusk and dawn is exactly the same, but I attempted to portray each as I feel they are. Dawn is vertical with the sun coming up from behind a tree. I felt that dawn was vertical because when the sun rises, the mroning feels vertical for me. Colors are yellows, greens, dark blues in the shadows, and a light pink- the way I feel a morning is. It is clean, bright, and fresh. Dusk was portrayed as horizontal because that is the way I feel the sunset is, long and stretching far to both the left and the right. The colors are orange, red, and yellow, with darker purples in the shadows. I tried to imagine the end of something, and those were the colors that I associated with endings (sunsets, evening, eating dinner, etc.) I portrayed dusk as something darker, more mature, and a little bit moodier.


Elise Cugnart, Dawn  (2014)



Elise Cugnart, Dusk (2014)

Layers

I have been interested for some time in how the two dimensional medium of photgraphy can be translate into a three dimensional piece of work. The infinite possibilities of what works such as these could represent are particularly fascinating (time, movement, change, etc).

NOBUHIRO NAKANISHI:

Nobuhiro Nakanishi- Layer Drawing 8, 2012 - Inkjet print on film, acrylic, plastic


Nobuhiro Nakanishi- Tokyo SUnrise, 2010- Inkjet print on film, acrylic, plastic

ORNA FEINSTEIN: 
Orna Feinstein- Morel Log, 2011- Monoprint on plexiglass

Self Portraiture in Art

SELF PORTRAITURE IN PAINTINGS: 

Gustave Courbet, Self Portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843.

Édouard Vuillard, Self Portrait, 1889

PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF PORTRAITURE: 

There are three main ways to create self portraits in photgraphy. One is to photograph a reflection in a mirror  another is to photraph ones self with the camera in their oustretched hand, and the third is to set the camera up on a tripod or surface and use either a timed shutter release or a remote controlled shutter release. It is also possible to have another person press the shutter after everything has been set up. 

Robert Cornelius, 1839 

First photographic self portrait ever made. 

Eadweard Muybridge- Self-portrait as man throwing, climbing and walking, circa 1893

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Snapshot Aesthetic

The snapshot aesthetic is a trend in fine art photography that began in 1963 in the United States. It features everyday subject matter and off center framing to create a casual snapshot like look with subject matter that is strikingly ordinary. The beauty of the snapshot aesthetic is that it captures the fleeting moments of our everyday reality. Photography doesn't always need to be carefully set up and carefully thought through. Some of the most intriguing and beautiful things can come from the spontaneous mundane.
Photographers that use the snapshot aesthetic include Garry Windogrand, Nan Goldin, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Terry Richardson.

Garry Winogrand- Coney Island, New York (1952)

Robert Frank, Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey (1955) Gelatin-silver print