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Digital Photography Brandon Woelfel Inspired Project Objective: Student will gain skills in portrait photography and editing skills inspired by Brandon Woelfel. Portraits are an every day part of our lives with the advent of smartphones with cameras at the touch of your finger. “In our image-propelled social media era, some photographers fear for the future of the art, while others are galvanised by it. As technology increasingly shapes how we see and share the world, how is photography changing in response?” - Sean O'Hagan , The Guardian In 2012 Facebook users alone were uploading 300 million photographs a day, while the number of images posted on Flickr and Instagram had exceeded the 11 billion mark. Since then, the numbers have become even more mind- boggling: 350 m illion photographs a day uploaded on Facebook; 95 m illion photographs and videos shared on Instagram daily. The combined number of images shared uploaded on both platforms now exceeds 290 billion, while there are 188 m illion daily active users of Snapchat. - Sean O'Hagan , The Guardian Is the “art of photography” becoming lost in the “like” neediness of social media? Or is a generation of image- makers emerging while propelling creativity and heightening the value of the medium? Among the sea of Instagram artists is New York based photographer, Brandon Woelfel. His colorful work illustrates understanding of lighting, editing skills and careful positioning of his models. These are all elements that make his work successful and you should strive to capture in your photographs for this project. Please take time to study his work, notice his attention to lighting (side light, back light, soft light), the way he positions his models. See the following URL’s to view his work: http://www.brandonwoelfel.com/
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Digital PhotographyBrandon Woelfel Inspired Project
Objective: Student will gain skills in portrait photography and editing skills inspired by Brandon Woelfel.
Portraits are an every day part of our lives with the advent of smartphones with cameras at the touch of your finger.
“In our image-propelled social media era, some photographers fear for the future of the art, while others are galvanised by it. As technology increasingly shapes how we see and share the world, how is photography changing in response?” - Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian
In 2012 Facebook users alone were uploading 300 million photographs a day, while the number of images posted on Flickr and Instagram had exceeded the 11 billion mark.
Since then, the numbers have become even more mind-boggling: 350 million photographs a day uploaded on Facebook; 95 million photographs and videos shared on Instagram daily. The combined number of images shared uploaded on both platforms now exceeds 290 billion, while there are 188 million daily active users of Snapchat. - Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian
Is the “art of photography” becoming lost in the “like” neediness of social media? Or is a generation of image- makers emerging while propelling creativity and heightening the value of the medium?
Among the sea of Instagram artists is New York based photographer, Brandon Woelfel. His colorful work illustrates understanding of lighting, editing skills and careful positioning of his models. These are all elements that make his work successful and you should strive to capture in your photographs for this project. Please take time to study his work, notice his attention to lighting (side light, back light, soft light), the way he positions his models.
See the following URL’s to view his work:
http://www.brandonwoelfel.com/
https://www.instagram.com/brandonwoelfel/
There are a range of edits that you will need to perform in this project. Before we make our Brandon Woelfel inspired edits please take time to photograph your model carefully. Use the Christmas light backdrop and hold the Christmas lights in towards your face to illuminate your features. You will have 3 minutes to get a photo you want to work on for this project. Please think ahead of what pose you want and work quickly as everyone needs to have ONE image to work with on Monday.
To begin your edits crop, adjust brightness and contrast, use the ruler tool, anything needed to improve your photos.
Image size: 12 inches (height x ) 300 pixels/inch.
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