Mies+Portrait



In the first portrait in my banner called Nicole Kidman which was taken by [|__Annie Leibovitz__] she used artificial lighting and more specifically dramatic lighting done by the spotlights shining on the women in the photo. This was used to make her stand out and show the emphasize on her presence in the picture. Also the spotlights were used to make the women look confident and fearless which is also shown through the background which looks like she’s going to some kind of dance. Compositional techniques that she used in this photograph were leading lines and rules of thirds. Leibovitz used leading lines with the spotlight which pointed right towards the subject which was Nicole Kidman. Rules of thirds since going horizontally she used something in every section first with the curtain, then the spotlight and then the subject of the photo which was the women; Nicole Kidman. Leibovitz used more of a unique way of presenting her subject which was the lighting making her work unique, I might want to incorporate this into my own work to help express my subject more clearly. The lighting in the second picture in my banner; which was done by [|__Julia Margaret Cameron__], natural lighting was present, Since you can tell that in the bottom right of the picture there is some sunlight also there are no shadows on her face which means that the lighting Julia Margaret Cameron used has to be natural. Compositional techniques that she used in her photograph are fill the frame and focal point. Fill the frame was used with the lady sitting in the car which showed her mood which is kind of upset or depressed. Then she used focal point kind of by using fill the frame and just making sure that the girl sitting in the car was the only thing in the photograph which made your eyes go straight to the girl and nothing else. Lastly the third picture in my banner which was done by [|__Imogen Cunningham__] artificial light was used since there are shadows on the two faces pictures at is clear that they are also using studio lighting since there is a background a screen behind them. They used the studio lighting by not using a lot of light but a little with a lot of shadows. Which was used to really express the moment that the two people are having in the picture. Some compositional techniques that Cunningham used were fill the frame and rule thirds. Fill the frame was used to help express the moment that the two people were having in the photograph. Rules of thirds was used with part of the girl's body in the first section, her face in the second or middle section and the man that she was with in the last section. She used her piece of art to express a sort of story about the two people in the photograph, which made her work unique.