Assignment 208: Theme 1: Portraits - Comparison

Portraits - Research Comparison with my images

As I am now starting to select some of my final images I think this would be a good time to demonstrate how my research has influenced my work through a comparison of a couple of the images.

This image of Sinaed O'Conner by Jane Bowen captured the shy nature of the singer through the down cast head and eyes, the cigarette behind the ear revealed a personal trait of the singer and tight crop ensured that the individual was the sole focus.

I have looked to capture a similar style with this image - the indirect eye contact and the cigarette behind the ear.  In my image I have bought more of the face into view - this was on purpose because rather than shyness of the person I wanted to capture the boredom of youth.

The image has had little alteration - a minor crop and converted to black and white.

This image of Mick Jagger (also by Jane Bowen) captures a sense of fun - the laughter accentuates his mouth and the deep lines around his face, traits which are distinctive to him - 

 These two images of mine seek to pick up the same traits - the unabridged laughter and the naturalness that this brings to an image. They have been slightly cropped to remove any distracting background and converted to black and white to help accentuate the lines around the eyes and mouth.

This image by Dorothea Lange portrays childhood as it - not posed and clean but untidy and with a slightly challenging air to it.

Whilst the image that I have chosen to compare to this one is tightly  cropped on the face - I think it captured a similar essence around the eyes - the slightly blank challenging stare.

The adjustments made from the original image was to crop out the background, convert to black and white and deepen the exposure.