Emulation Book

For the emulation and book assignment, I will be focusing on the use of color and lighting in Monet's Impressionist Sunrise paintings. I shot my images through an airplane window while traveling, and tried to focus on the changing colors as the sun set. I incorporated images of the clouds to capture the textured strokes used in Monet's paintings. I'll be organizing these images into a flag book, though I haven't decided if I want to use a different image for each flag, or if I want to cut up one of the images to create one large photo. 

Here are some of Monet's Impressionist Sunrise paintings 

Some of my plane photos

My Own Work- Symmetrical Portraits

Here are the symmetrical portraits I shot. Rather than making diptychs reflecting both the right and left side of the model's face, I shot one symmetrical image and one normal portrait, to indicate the differences between the two. 

Symmetrical Portraits

I want to try and emulate these portraits by Julian Wolkenstein,though I intend to include straight-on, expressive portraits to demonstrate the contrast between how we actually look and how we would look with perfectly symmetrical faces. In the images I've already shot, my models have been wearing visible clothing, which is different from the portraits I'm emulating. I've never used Photoshop to mirror images, so I'm wondering how this might affect the aesthetic of the photos.

Andre Ermolaev

I am in love with these images by Russian photograph Andre Ermolaev, though I have no clue how to incorporate them into my photography. These are aerial shots of Icelandic rivers. 

Inspiration

I need some. 

By Lauren Field

By Isabel Martinez 

By Giulio Ghirardi

The Virgin Suicides

I've been reading the Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides, and I'm really interested in basing a project off of the novel/film (which was directed by Sofia Coppola in 1999). I think it does a beautiful job of capturing this strange intersection of maturity and innocence, which is something I want to emulate. The mystery of the Lisbon sisters is what captivates the narrator throughout the novel, as they seem to simultaneously embody both the mundane and extraordinary. Though the girls are constantly cooped up in their house with their parents, they seem to know more and have experienced more than any other characters. Their own parents barely seem to understand them, which is a concept I also want to explore. The project I'm hoping to do would involve shooting portraits modeled after the style of the film (i.e. white dresses, soft colors and lighting, girls), then frame the photos in old-fashioned, home-y frames, accompanied by particularly powerful quotes from the book. Here are some stills from the movie that inspired me: 

Multiple Exposure Diptych and Triptych

Here are my attempts at multiple exposure portraits. My first intention wasn't to solely use nature shots combined with the portraits, but they seemed to create the most interesting images. This also allowed me to easily put together the diptych and triptych, because the natural elements unified the photos. It was definitely challenging doing the double exposures in camera, as I couldn't quite remember which images I had shot previously, and thus I was unsure of which portraits would be matched with which backgrounds after the roll was fully shot. After I printed the images, I used copper toner to give them a warmer look. Unfortunately the pictures I took of my prints aren't the best quality,so you can't really see the toning. My apologies. 

These two images were matted as a diptych

These three images were matted as a triptych