Chad Pitman
Analysis
Chad Pitman is an American photographer who explores interesting ways of photographing people. In his series With People: In Progress he breaks up the person he's photographing into different areas. He focuses on different sections of a person’s face and body. By taking separate photos the viewer is encouraged to look more closely at the textures, shapes and colours that make up a person.
Chad Pitman is an American photographer who explores interesting ways of photographing people. In his series With People: In Progress he breaks up the person he's photographing into different areas. He focuses on different sections of a person’s face and body. By taking separate photos the viewer is encouraged to look more closely at the textures, shapes and colours that make up a person.
Lauren Marek
Analysis
Lauren Marek is another American photographer making images of people by breaking the body onto separate areas. Marek has a project called Pieces. The work focuses even closer to the person than Chad Pitman. The individual photos are abstract but displayed together is a grid. Marek is inspired by Picasso and his cubism. She uses nine images in the grid to create her abstract representations of a person.
Lauren Marek is another American photographer making images of people by breaking the body onto separate areas. Marek has a project called Pieces. The work focuses even closer to the person than Chad Pitman. The individual photos are abstract but displayed together is a grid. Marek is inspired by Picasso and his cubism. She uses nine images in the grid to create her abstract representations of a person.
My Response
I made a series of images in the style of Lauren Marek. Below is a slide show of the photos I took of a classmate.
I made a series of images in the style of Lauren Marek. Below is a slide show of the photos I took of a classmate.
I selected nine of them to make into a grid. I cropped each photo to a square shape just like Marek did. Here is my final image
What Went Well
I used a DSLR camera and I set a large aperture. This gave a shallow depth of field which worked very well to isolate the body part I was photographing and make the rest of the picture blurry. My classmate stood close to the window which made the light on him very nice. This also also meant I could use a fast shutter speed so most of the pictures were sharp.
Even Better If
Even though my final grid of nine looks nice it was hard to do because I didn't have many pictures to chose from. I only shot 12 pictures and some of them are almost the same. I should have photographed more parts of the body and made more pictures of each area.
I used a DSLR camera and I set a large aperture. This gave a shallow depth of field which worked very well to isolate the body part I was photographing and make the rest of the picture blurry. My classmate stood close to the window which made the light on him very nice. This also also meant I could use a fast shutter speed so most of the pictures were sharp.
Even Better If
Even though my final grid of nine looks nice it was hard to do because I didn't have many pictures to chose from. I only shot 12 pictures and some of them are almost the same. I should have photographed more parts of the body and made more pictures of each area.