"Own Stuff"

I want to share my images that i was doing it lately and according to my research it helps me a lot produce something different that i never been doing it before.   This images i combined from scientific called "light tracing"that i learn last year and i want to add it with skill that i have of shooting still life. I love doing it like this but im just scared that my concept it doesn't work well. so, i need some comment to improved my images.

"interesting images"

Its really interesting way Robert G. Bartholot create a series like this. Robert is an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and photographer based in Barlin. His CV boasts experience in Lucerne & Zurich and in the team of photographers of Alvaro Villarubia. Robert love to disguise a mysterious material such as style with the leotard of a pop hero. The strength of his work lies in the simple backdrops and surreal, stylised compositions cracking at the seams with colour. 

when the first time i saw this images im asking myself, like what he wants tro trying to tell to people about this image? what is the purposed of covering the face of every single person, or there is a story behind it? those question is still in my head. perhaps i could ask anyone about it ? 

but overall this picture is really interesting to me 

Photo Analysis: Dolce & Gabbana and Gang Bang?

Dolce & Gabbana is a brand known for its suggestive ad campaigns. They frequently show models in overtly sexual situations where in the past, has included styled situations that insinuate gay group sex, voyeurism and many other sexual ads. Dolce & Gabbana are no strangers to controversy. In 2007, they ran an ad that is was so taboo that it was eventually pulled out from circulation due to the backlash. It’s internationally known as D & G’s infamous “fantasy rape” ad.

It is obvious to the average viewer that the image depicts a rape scene. There is a group of men surrounding one woman who is held down to the ground on her wrists by a shirtless man. The other men, some shirtless and some not, stand around watching this woman who is of course well dressed and beautiful. The woman is in a passive and compromising position. She also has a glazed look over her eyes. The other men, who are also attractive, look on, as they seem to wait for their turn.

I am not exactly sure what the brand is trying to convey through this image. Could it be saying that if you’re an attractive woman who wears D & G, you’re in hopes of getting gang raped by a bunch of attractive males? Maybe it is instead saying that men should relish in being able to partake such activities. The fact that they are trying to lighten up the subject by making it look like some sort of sport does not improve the message at all. This image only further reinforces gender stereotypes for both sexes, something the modern society has been trying so hard to eradicate. It parades the dominance of men and passiveness of women as well as beauty ideals in both genders.

I believe the creatives behind this were not as naïve to just create this fantasy out of thin air. They know who their buyers are and whom they are catering to. In my opinion, what they wanted to sell was a lifestyle of excess and boundless luxuries where sex is nothing but a sport for the rich. Understandably, rape scenarios seem to be one of the more popular sex fantasies in society. However, it is one thing to keep it confined within the bedroom and another to publicize it in major publications worldwide. The brand clearly did not consider their social responsibilities before publishing this ad. Even more disturbing than this is how some people are oblivious to how this is a portrayal of rape and violence against women. Perhaps, the world is so overly sexualized that such incidents become nothing more than just another headline in the news.

As mentioned before, the ad was later banned in most countries. The designers defended the image by stating that it was never meant to be controversial and that it was a representation of an erotic dream. A little ironic considering how anything to do with sex will always be considered controversial. Despite the uproar, Dolce & Gabbana reported a revenue increase of 21% by the end of the fiscal year, proving that sex does indeed sell whether it’s taboo or not. 

"Textured behind images"

Kenji Aoki born in Tokyo 1968, and he spent his formative years training far and his adult life creating still life photography. After he graduating from Kuwasawa Design School in 1990, Kenji immediately worked at Lugura Studio and two years later he has first personal exhibition "Sonzai-No Kakera: India" at Crey Gallery in Ginza

Kenji aoki is another photography that inspired me a lot too.  He's mastering light and shadow build a textured in the pictures itself quiet amazing to me. His specialised in split photography inspired me a lot with works that I've been doing for my folios. and it helps me to looking on different perspective of objects. Like the example on the bottom, he used architectural concept to create the graphic image and create story to one another.
This is the example of images that he created that i might share with you guys. it simple but meaningful between one image to other images.

My Recent Shoot

I have to say, this is a total accident.

Compared to my original mood board these images look nothing even close to it. I guess unpredictable circumstances rise all the time. The model rocked up and surprised me with his dark skin and hairy face. So I had to change my plan completely and "go ethnic" since I had a strong eastern European looking image in my head when I saw the model so yeah, I had to change my plan.

I’ve always been intrigued by Waris Ahluwalia and his style (and not just his trademark turban). Recently the Indian-American jewellery designer and actor teamed up with film-maker and illustrator Quentin Jones for a stop-motion film that pays hommage to his House Of Waris Plumage Necklace; and the short was presented on the youtube channel for Photographer Nick Knight’s SHOWstudio. The two artists bring Waris's new Plumage Necklace to life in a way that captures the imagination and delights the eye. 

"Sculpture of motion"

This picture is been photograph by greatest photographer from japan Sinichi Maruyama. From 1994 onward, he spent 4 years as a freelance photographer, developing his own unique style, in 1998 he go on to work for Hakuhodo Photo Creative producing innovating advertising campaign, and with access to their latest high speed strobe equipment and that he began developing fascination for liquid and motion imagery. And from the example above and bottom is one of his work called "nude" , because he want to tried to capture the beauty of human body's figure by using a motion, this photos created by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. By putting together individual moment, the resulting image as a whole it appear different from what actually exists.

The combination 10,000 photograph of a dancer  makes the photograph alive. Since I am a big fan of motion, I love all his work of doing motion even with splashes, he's really have a great technique that i need to learn more and I like the idea of how he doing things like this motion. When he did a motion with water, he throws the water into the air, and by changing its shape constantly, the water becomes a beautiful figure which can be defined as a" part man-made an part natural" scultpure.

Beautiful Fashion Photographs that Move!

In the fashion system, things do change—styles come and go—but the process by which things change is always the same. Subversion, appropriation, commodification, dissemination; system processes. Even though the concept of animated GIFs is as old as the Internet, the ones circling around the web are often tacky and low brow. So forget about bling-bling animations and macro-overlays, these GIFs are of a different class. It is more than a photo, but not quite a video. Here's movement in everything and by capturing that plus the great things about a still photograph you get to experience what a video has to offer without the time commitment a video requires.

I find this technique fascinating. GIF images have existed as long as I can remember but adopting it and apply in fashion photography is quite amazing. 

Photo Analysis : R H E I N . I I

A N D R E A S . G U R S K Y ' S . R H E I N . I I

Currently the most expensive photograph in the world, Andreas Gursky's piece entitled 'Rhein II' was sold for a whopping $4,338,500.00 back in November of 2011 by an anonymous buyer (obviously). The 190x360cm print was listed the most expensive photograph when it was sold at Christie's New York, an auction house company, only 6 months after the record was set by Cindy Sherman's 'Untitled #97' for $3,890,500.00 by the same auction house.

If I had $4.5million to spend on a photography I guess my money would go to Gursky as well. The idea of how it cost suddenly makes the 2 dimensional photograph feels like a gateway to River Rhein, a Swiss river which flows through Germany and parts of Netherlands and France, making it only the 12th longest river in Europe.  It should be a gateway, or a portal, because I would like to believe that cool $4million plus price tag comes something more than it just being a photograph on the wall. Look at it and think of the price. Really think of it ($4,338,500.00). Wouldn't you start to go crazy wondering why it costs that much you start to lose your mind in the image? Your eye, well at least mine, keeps wondering around the 3 metre fram searching for extraordinary details that would actually make sense as to why it costs that much money. Maybe if I see a gif of an alien or a ghost or Houdini himself at either corners of the photo, I would probably spend my life savings on it too. 

I like the image. I really do. It is vibrant, surreal, almost dream-like in a sense it looks like to be endless and it looks like it has a hierarchy with the layers of green and the river along with the grey skies overlapping one another. Some say Gursky had to photoshopped some joggers and their dogs out of the photo but there is no substantial evidence to support that claim. I cannot imagine how good and technical was the famous software was back then. Perhaps if it was photoshopped, it could have added to the value of the painting as digital editing was almost unheard back then. That's my own only theory because I am still trying to make sense of the price tag as I am writing this analysis.   

Rhein II is a chromogenic colour print mounted on acrylic glass. Gursky photographed it with the famed German theme of romantic landscapes in mind. A showcase of the relationship between man and nature. The image is a bare statement of "dedication to its craft" where photographs were becoming more accepted into gallery spaces in the late 1980s as 'art'. It was during the time where that was considered "brave and new". It was considered as art as it was effective in creating atmospheric, hyper-real scenarios. Gursky pays attention to his colours and form of his photography to the point where it deliberately challenges the status of paintings as a higher art form. Gursky's image has extraordinary technical accomplishment which took "months to set up in advance and require a lot of digital doctoring to get just right."

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"Negative Style"

Gabriela Antunes who creates amazing series of "Rainbow Cut" love to dive into Photographic imperfection. and her work its really impressed with how she create such a thing like this. Strange encounters, we experience strange encounters. Often without realising that the other is actually ourselves. Split and warped, as if reflected in a puddle that alters the colours of the rainbow.

this technique is open my eyes to create something different than others works. and yes, i think to be a photographer is not just creates an images but need look more unique. and do something different rather than do something that everyone already did. And this examples helps me  to build something different that not a lot of people doing it, and creates interesting idea behind it.

L Y T R O . N I T R O

Lytro Camera or as I like to call it the 'indecisive camera' or 'camera-for-drunks' is a "photographic" device that captures the entire "light field" in a scene which essentially allows you to refocus after you've taken an image. See what I mean by indecisive here? It's like you can't make up your mind where to focus your image. I get that the whole purpose of the device is to allow you to refocus and all but honestly speaking it's shit. I mean why would you need such a device? It's innovative of course but do we really need something like it? Let's be honest here. Would you use it? Why would you spend a whopping $399-$499 on it? 

Ok fine, maybe I'm bias against it as I'm studying photography so let's start over. I guess for some, it would be pretty cool to show off you're overpriced gadget to your friends at a party (such a cliché scenario) but they'll probably look at you one kind when you answer their question of "How much is it?". I supposed when you're drunk or high (depending on what you're doing) and you feel like capturing the moment but you're unable to operate the simple AUTO function on your point-and-shoot camera, you'd probably wanna use the Lytro. Just "shoot now, focus later" as their slogan says. I'm sure by now you can probably tell I'm not their biggest fan. Oh well.

"Series of Picasso Painting" (photo analysis)

Eugenio Recuenco based photographer from Madrid, who works mostly in publishing and advertising field. His style of photography is like "Cinematographic and Pictorial" styles. And one of the series he produced is series of Pablo Picasso's eclectic cubist portraits. Recuenco strikes the perfect balance between Picasso's work and maintaining creative expression in the model. He used his brilliant fashion idea and his cinematographic and pictorial style to creates the moods, postures, and clothing of the painting, each picture builds something unique to its          viewers. He deal with all his photograph on the same way, every time his photographing the picture he wants to tell story to the viewer, and he used fashion to achieved his target. And its not about beautiful model with beautiful dress but its about the content of the images that really matter to him. It proved to the picture that he did to this series

When I look this series for the first time, its really amazed me of his style of work. Even im not a fashion photographer, but I think doing this series its really quiet challenging. and i asked my self like how did he do it?  Firstly, it's really hard to create the clothes style similarity with Pablo's work, the clothes that needed should be very abstract, and like the example on the last picture,   with a difficult transformation from painting to photograph, its impossible to create the same as the painting. Secondly, need to direct the models perfectly to get the right mood and of course its just not only a random model that he looking for, he need to matched it perfectly to create a perfect picture. and the color palette that he used intelligently perfect.  Indeed, Recuenco succeed to captured it with the right models, captured the moment, right mood on the picture, which i found out that its really hard. and i like the way he put some line on the pictures and add some portrait on the background also quite interesting, I think its because of that also help the photograph more  look alike Picasso's works. 

Its clear that Recuenco's still have been meticulously constructed. The models which are costumed to match closely as possible with Picasso's paintings, are precisely placed to mirror the original compositions. The exaggerated hair and make up add a theatrical flair to the stillness of the women. This creating an attractive yet mysterious angle on Picasso's paintings.

Its really brave way Recuenco taking on such a renowned artist as Pablo Picasso. Recuenco Challenge himself to be different to the original artist. where Picasso faced the task of depicting a three dimensional form through Cubism, Recuenco's trial was to create the look and feel of cubism using a medium that already offers an accurate interpretation. and from the result its is clear that Recuenco and Picasso both are perfectionists with an appreciation for the female aesthetic. they both succeed draw on female sensuality and  delicately produce works that ignite a reaction from the onlooker.