Dan Boulton

Dan Boulton was born in 1973 in Enfield, North London. His work, crosses between documentary, street photography and fine art. A collection of his work is going to be published by Parking Block Publishing a Chicago-based company. Recently Boulton's work work has been included alongside the work of Ed Templeton, Tobin Yelland and Dave Schubert in the 'Film Por Vida'. From the 6th to the 15th of May, Madame Lillie's Gallery in London will exhibt photographs by the UK-based photographer. 

He uses Leica M6, 50mm f/2 summicron and a llford Hp5 film. All his shots from the southbank project have been taken with that setup. He uses one camera one lens in his approach to taking photos.  His style of photgraphs is documentary photographs. He has spken with many skateboard photographs which have told his story. 

Southbank 33, from 2005-2011. This photograph shows a group of people around the skatepark. It looks like they are have a small rave or something like that.

Southbank 49,2005-2011. This shows two skateboarders sitting on a ledge. It also looks like they are camouflaged into the wall. Both of them look like that they are having a break from skating around.

Southbank 48,2005-2011. This shows a statue of a head. it shows off the comedy of the area and also the feel of the area. It also shows off quite a nice area of London.












Question
Do you go and look for the right photograph in the area your in?

Robert Copa

Robert Capa was born in Friedmann Endre on October 22 1913. He was a Hungarian war photographer. He was in five different wars, Spanish Civil War, Second Sino- Japanese war, World War 2, Arab- Israeli War and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War 2 in, London, Noth Africa,Italy,Normandy and Paris. In 1947 Capa co-founded Magnum Photos.

Capa left home when he was 18. He wanted to be a writer but he found work in photography in Berlin and then grew to love art and photography. In 1993 he moved to France because of Nazism and the persecution of Jewish journalists and photographers. He changed his name from 'Friedmann' and adopted the name 'Robert Capa'

 This was taken In France on July 26th, 1944. It shows two American soldiers next a dead German over fellow American.

 This was all so taken in France on 26th-30th July, 1944. Near St Lo. It shows American troops under fire by German soldiers. 










This was taken on 6th June 1944 on the Normandy Landings. It shows an American troops on Omaha Beach, which was the worst of all the beaches on the Normandy Landings.










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Key Photograph 4

My plan was to take a number of shot with a shadow on one side of the face. I did this by using a light which i put at one side of the face. I was trying to get a mid close up shot which was very simple.

I choose this Photograph because it has the best shadow which i could work with when i edited the photograph. The photograph was suitable because to showed one of the characters in the film.

When i edited the photograph i made the shadow darker so you could only see one half of the face. Then i used a blue filter which turned the face into a cold coulor.








The lighting of the photograph shows a cold and dark film. It also shows the character has something important that he has seen. The resolution brings out the face more than the original face because it shows more detail.








I think that the face work very well on both the DVD box and the poster. This is because it brings in the audience. It also works well because it blends in with the whole poster which makes it looks mysterious. It also shows off one of the main characters in the film and it also works with the thriller genre.

Key photograph 3

My intention was to take a number of photographs of the MRC building. My plan was to get a good shot of the MRC building and also show something that shows off the college as well in the photograph. All of these photographs were taken on my phone because some else was using the camera at the same time. My phone still allowed me to get the same result. 





I selected this photogrpah because it showed something about the college. I also selected it because it looked good with the trees in the shot. It was suitable for the poster because it showed that it was at a college and it also showed that it was part of the film.














In the edited photograph all i did was use a blue filter and i also darkened the background and the grass. I also stretched the photograph a bit to make the MRC building look bigger the it actually was.








What i like about the photgraph is the it makes the MRC building look scary and also makes it look like the top government building. I also like the darkness of the Photograph because it makes it look mysterious and threatening.

The purpose of the photograph in poster is to make people think what is the building about in the film. I also think it also works very well with the poster and the DVD box because it just fits in very well with the face on both the poster and the DVD box.

Key Photograph 2

My plan was to take an action shot of Matt ruing  up some stairs in the college to make it look like someone or something is after him. I tried to use depth of filed in the shot and also rule of thirds. The photographs that i took were very hard to get in focus and also to get the depth of field.

In my editing i used a lot of different colours and drightness settings. I tried to make the photograph look interesting and also make it stand out when people looked at it. I also used a blue filter that changed the collour of the walls a
round Matt.

I choose this photograph because it had a hint of depth of field. I also choose it because it showed an action movement. It also looked very interesting when edited.

The lighting of the photograph allows the viewer to see what the picture is of. It also makes the photograph very interesting when looking at it. By making the corridor orange it shows that it's safer than up stairs where the walls are blue and cold.

The photograph works well on the DVD box because it shows an action shot. It also works well because it uses some of the colours on the DVD box in the photograph so it works well with the DVD box.

Key Photograph 1

I planned to take an over the shoulder shot of Matt walking away from the camera. The reason there is only one photograph is because i took the picture randomly and it just looked perfect. In this shot i used the focus to concentrate on Matt and to make the shot have a depth of field. 

The reason i choose this photograph was because it was the only one i had of this shot. The other reason was because it looked perfect first time i took it.Even though i took it randomly. I also choose it because it had a good depth of field shot which we had to show in one of are photographs.





I edited this photograph in a way to make it look dark and a bit mysterious. I also used another frame that made the photograph look blue which made it fit in with my DVD box. I also played around with the brightness of the photograph and tried to make Matt stand out from the rest of the photograph. I also cropped a small bit of the photograph which didn't look good the the photo.  




What i like about the photograph is that it focus on just Matt. I also like that it uses a hint of blue that kind of makes it look like it belongs in a thriller movie. I also like the depth of field and the resolution which doesn't make it took dark.







The photograph is to show the viewer of the film clues about what could happen or gives them ideas of something that might happen. The photograph contributes to the DVD box because it shows off some of the action scenes. 

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson


Gregory Crewdson was born September 26th 1962. He is an a American photographer who is know for elaborately staged scenes. In the mid 1980s Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase.

Crewdon's photographs are usually taken in a small town. He tries to make them look dramatic or cinematic. His pictures feature disturbing or surreal moments or events. He uses lighting and stages his photographs. He does this by useing a crew who know a lot about motion pictures.

Untitled from the series 'Twilight'
2001-2
Digital C-type print
Width 2236 mm x height 1148 mm
Sanders Collection, Amsterdam

This photograph shows a lonely man that has lost all of his cloths and a women just looking at him. It also is showing that there is some kindness in the photograph 

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004
Digital chromogenic print
Width 2236 mm x height 1148 mm

 This photograph shows an old lady standing with her shopping and a lot of cars parked around the shop.

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004
Digital chromogenic print
Width 2236 mm x 1148 mm

 This photograph shows a quit town, that has had something shocking or scary happened to it because of the car door that has been left open.




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Narrative photography

Unit 31 Lo1 Blog Post 1

Narrative Photography 

Narrative photography is a way tell a story. Allen Feldman stated that "the event is not what happens. The event is that which can be narrated. In this case, the medium is photography.The Narrative Photography Competition describes the concept in the following way: "The power of narrative, or story telling is at the foundation of much of photography. 

Staged photography is involving a performance enacted before the camera. It embraces studio portraiture and character based scenarios directed or manipulated by the photography. It also captures staged scenes that are only for the photography.While this type of image became well known in the 1980s through the work of artists Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.

Hipprolyte Bayard was born on 20th January 1807 and died on 14th May 1887. He created the first staged photograph, Self Portrait as a Drowned Man in 1840. 

Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson  was born on August 22, 1908 and died August 3, 2004. He was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism.He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined The Decisive Moment that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.His main choice of camera was the leica this shot in a 35mm format. When he was young he owed his own box brownie so that he could take snapshots when on holiday. He was inspired by a 1930 photograph by Martin Munkasci.                                                                                                                                                                                        

The visual style he focuses on geometry. He tried using vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines and curves and shadows into his photographs. He looks for geometry and shapes in the natural world. When taking photos he would be very patient and wait for the right moment. When waiting for the right photograph he would think about people, background and framing, he would wait for someone to walk past or he would wait until someone came to him. He would mostly wait for the photograph to come to him and not go and look for the photograph. He would travel the world and capture different styles of life and try and learn about the people around him. He would never crop his photographs. He would always send the pictures to someone he trusted so they could print them.

The picture is called The Quai de Javel. Plasterers which was taken in France 1932 
This video is of some of his best pictures that he took when walking around.

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http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2011/08/22/10-things-henri-cartier-bresson-can-teach-you-about-street-photography/