Final

Sparks

A spark ignited by a gaze, a gaze that embodies power, emotion, that goes beyond the realm of beauty. This series culminates the glam of cosmetic makeup and the fantasy of editorial portraits to evoke solace.  The makeup accents the expressions of contentment, or longing. Like the ordinary makeup ads that are used to amplify features of the face, the cosmetics reflect the expression. 

Canteen Mag

Canteen Mag Naked Judging

Submission number 89, by David Jakelic shows strong photographic vision in his series of night photography images. He submits several series of night photography that are extremely strong in composition and uniqueness. Submission 89 I found to be most intriguing because of the saturation of colors found in each landscape unlike his other series. Each image has one predominant color that stands out among the rest. The strong tones of turquoise, purple, yellow, or red help amplify the portraits from other night images because it gives a living quality. They do not appear as gloomy or as solemn as normal night images do.

Portraits

 Edit: Butterfly lighting. Resharpen. White Balance.

Original: Butterfly lighting, secondary light on backdrop, and vellum to bounce color of the left side.

 Original: Strong split lighting.

Edit: Color balance, sharpen, slight saturation of skin and lips.

Lenscratch 2013 Portrait Exhibition

Melissa Anderson, Contaminated Water

The lighting in this image is cast down from above, creating high contrast and long shadows. The image is tightly cropped which makes the central focus in the details from the eyebrows and the nose. The dark, desaturated colors add to the grimy expression as reflected in the title. This image is successful because the lighting and shadows add to the dark message of the photographer. The expression is beaten, dirty, tired. 

Gritty/Ghostly

Gritty

Original:

Edit: Increase vibrance and exposure. Sharpen. Spot removal. 

Gloomy

Original:

 Edited

Desaturate background and most of face. Saturate around eye. Blur and clone areas

Documentary

Original: ISO 800

F5.6 at 1/60

Edited

Philip Jones Griffiths, Boy Destroying Piano, 1961

This image shows the city of Pant-y-Wean, once voted the most beautiful city in South Wales, not destroyed due to mining. The photographer shot at a lower angle than the boy to make him look grandiose as he prepares to drop the rock on the piano. It is a representation of the beauty in destruction, a piano which plays a beautiful tune now stripped to its elements playing its last notes as the boy is about to completely demolish it the way this once beautiful city has been destroyed by man. The boy v.s man is a reflection on the past and future, the past being the boy, a symbol of innocence, who is performing the act of man, destroying something beautiful.  Griffiths uses good contrast between the boy and the gray of the background to see all the pieces of lumber scattered across the grounds.