Andrew Gallo
The images I have chosen are to recreate the images Gallo captured during his time in Iceland. He had a variant shoot, however the ones I have chosen link in well to my theme, translucent. His images are naturally lit creating a clear image. The pale milky water around the model acts as a contrasted background to make the eye focus on the woman herself. This relates well with my project because my aim is to show water as a metaphor for life and death, to me these images represent purity and clarity. The blue water represents freshness of the soul, like baptism. Symbolizing purification or regeneration and admission to the Christian Church, almost like the birth of a new soul.
To recreate the images I filled a bath with water and added a little bit of milk and blue food colouring to create the ice blue water in Gallo's images. When my model was in the water I positioned her the way the girl is positioned in the image on the right. To capture the images I used a fast shutter speed as this creates a still image which would be necessary for a portraiture image using water especially. I used a small aperture so the images weren't too bright, I also used a low ISO so the image had no noise. To edit my images first of all I cropped the images into a square, I then used the clone tool to create the large volume of milky water in the background, I simply used a large tool with soft edges so no harsh lines where made. I did this for the entire background of the images as I had limited access to open milky waters. The images I had taken were in a bathtub so there wasn't much space around my model in the water, whereas Gallo's images had vast amounts of negative space which was the opaque water. I then duplicated the layer and on the top layer used field blur. I then rubbed out the top layer over my model so that she was completely in focus. I then edited the brightness to make the image a lot brighter to look more like the artists image.
To recreate the images I filled a bath with water and added a little bit of milk and blue food colouring to create the ice blue water in Gallo's images. When my model was in the water I positioned her the way the girl is positioned in the image on the right. To capture the images I used a fast shutter speed as this creates a still image which would be necessary for a portraiture image using water especially. I used a small aperture so the images weren't too bright, I also used a low ISO so the image had no noise. To edit my images first of all I cropped the images into a square, I then used the clone tool to create the large volume of milky water in the background, I simply used a large tool with soft edges so no harsh lines where made. I did this for the entire background of the images as I had limited access to open milky waters. The images I had taken were in a bathtub so there wasn't much space around my model in the water, whereas Gallo's images had vast amounts of negative space which was the opaque water. I then duplicated the layer and on the top layer used field blur. I then rubbed out the top layer over my model so that she was completely in focus. I then edited the brightness to make the image a lot brighter to look more like the artists image.
Noell Oszvald
To develop my shoot on Andrew Gallo I've used Noell Oszvald, in particular a triptych I found on Pinterest. I have chosen it as I feel is contrasts the original shoot well. The theme of water has been continued to the development shoot even though it's only incorporated in one of the images on the triptych. I feel as though the triptych represents death as it has a certain darkness to it. I used black transparent cloth instead of white like the artist as I wanted to create a contrast so that the images meant something in relation to my shoot. The bottom image on the triptych is taken from the same angle as one of the images in the original shoot, however there are subtle differences that change its meaning, such as the water is clear and her head is tilted down slightly changing her body language. This changes the feel of the image edging to the darker side of things, when added with the other two images its given a sinister tone. In the image which is second on the artists triptych the models body language is quite positive due to her straight posture and high chin however due to the fact I was contrasting against this to create a darkened theme I positioned my model differently with a negative posture, we experimented with a few different posture. When taking all my images I used a fast shutter speed and a wide aperture due to there being little light in the room in which I took my photographs. I also used a low ISO to create as little noise as possible in my images. To edit my images I applied a black and white filter to all three, I feel as though this gives the images a sense of ominousness. I played around with brightness and contrast so there felt like a common theme and one wasn't far brighter than others, as they are triptychs I felt it important to make them fit together well. I then went on to put all three images onto one Photoshop file, here I positioned them the way I wanted to with a thin border and small gap between each image, the same way the artist did, leaving the background white.