Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was a photographer and artist born in Germany. He was best known for his fashion photography published in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and 1950s. In addition to fashion photography, he produced an extensive body of celebrity portraiture, fine-art photography (including black and white nudes), drawings, and Dada collages. He made photographs while a resident of Germany, the Netherlands, France, and the United States, and has been called "one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century."
He often takes pictures through glass and other medians, to create, distorted images of the models he uses. In his photos he often uses large amounts of negative space to draw the viewers eyes to the subject of the image. |
Bill Jacobson (b. 1955, Norwich, Connecticut) is widely known for his out of focus photographs of both the figure and the landscape. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others. In 2012, he was the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
He began his signature, indistinct images in 1989, and has since been exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the US and Europe. These early works, titled Interim Portraits, feature shadowy, pale figures that evoke the loss experienced by many during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The blurred subjects underline the futility of capturing a true human likeness in both portraiture and memory. Jacobson’s subsequent Song of Sentient Beings continued this interest in the defocused figure. In contrast to the bleached luminosity of his earlier work, this series depicts deep-black backgrounds enveloping ghostly figures, which bend, sleep, stretch and howl. Towards the mid-1990s, he completed the Thought Series, an almost monochromatic evocation of the flow of life. These depict a broad spectrum of subjects, from tightly cropped faces and articles of clothing, to fields of grass and surfaces of water. bill jacobson 1989-1997, published by Twin Palms, is a survey of work from this nine year period. |
Influenced by a trip to India in 1999, Jacobson retained the out of focus but shifted to color, photographing both urban and rural landscapes in Untitled (1999-2001) and New Year’s Day (2002-2003). The work parallels an inner journey through a world we are constantly experiencing with the uncertainty of the mind’s eye rather than the sharp clarity of a camera lens. A monograph of this work, simply called "Photographs", was published by Hatje Cantz in 2005.
Bill Jacobson creates abstract images by blurring the portrait images of people. he wants us to consider the sense of futility in capturing a human likeness of the model, who's image is distorted. He creates the out of focus image by defocusing the model using manual focus and often takes his images in black and white |
Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) was an American photographer best known for her black and white pictures featuring herself and female models. Many of her photographs show young women who are nude, blurred (due to movement and long exposure times), merging with their surroundings, or whose faces are obscured. Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she killed herself at the age of 22. Although Woodman used different cameras and film formats during her career, most of photographs were taken with medium format cameras producing 2-1/4 by 2-1/4 inch square negatives. woodman created at least 10,000 negatives.
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This is one of the more famous photos from Woodman, the exposer is long to create the ghostly blur effect. the women is lightly contrasting with the white background. The light comes from above maybe a streetlamp as this image appears to have been taken in a car park, based of the white line to the women's right
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Alberto Seveso was born in Milan, he grow up in Sardinia but is now working and living in Bristol (UK) as a freelancer. His passion for graphic art started when he was in a young age and he was really fascinated by the graphic of skate decks and the cover of music CD of metal bands in the early ‘90s. From this passion he started to create his artworks.
One of his most famous pieces, 'Ink in Water' uses ink and food dyes in water and other medians. This creates abstract shapes. In this image you can see the colours mixing and blending as they expand into the water. This allow the viewer to create his/hers own idea of what the image represents. |
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1: Load the photo into photoshop
2: Select the black and white option in the image drop menu 3: Change the reds to a low negative to create the dark effect |
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) is a German fine-art photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.
One of his most famous bodies of work is his 'Drawing with light' pieces.Though the images are abstract, there is a sense that these are drawings of moving light, somehow made liquid by the recording process. The images suggest a process of chemistry, or, more accurately perhaps given that there is a hint of the magical, of alchemy. Some of the pictures hint at strange underwater lifeforms. Hairlike strands move across the paper, often going in and out of focus as they do so. There is the visual complexity of a detailed drawing, yet there is a glow of empty space and a minimal colour palette. Im fairly sure that Tilmans has done a standard light painting techniques which he has then inverted, to create a effect similar to calligraphy. |
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1: Load your image into photoshop, and make sure that it is presented as a layer or the background
2: Go to the layers drop down menu and select New Adjustment Layer, then go into that drop down menu and select the invert tool. This creates a new layer that is a negative of the original layer. 3. Flatten the image so then new negative layer becomes the background and save it as a JPEG. 4. The finished image should be a similar result as Wolfgang Tillmans' work. |
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1: Use the quickselect tool to select a section of the fire that does not show the outside of other pieces of the background.
2: Then use Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to copy the isolated section to a new layer. (or use Cmd + C and Cmd + V if on MAC) 3: Repeat step two 4 or 2 times to create multiple layers that are identical. 4: Use the flip horizontal or vertical tool in the Transform menu, do this to create varied layers and make a symmetrical pattern using the move tool. 5: The image should currently look similar to this. 6: Merge the individual layers but leave the background un-merged. 7: Your layers window should look like this. 8: Now use the paint bucket tool to turn everything but the fire black, this means that when the image is inverted the fire will stand out against a white background. 9: Use the invert tool in the Image menu to completely change the colour scheme. 10: Your image should now look like this. Tip: I recommend that you crop out a large amount of the negative space. it draws the eye away from the main focal shape of the inverted fire. |
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1: Load your light painting image into photoshop.
2: Then invert the image to create a dark misty version of the original image. 3: Use the Hue and Saturation tool to change the colour of the image further. 4: The final image should have a certain dark vibrance to it. Tip: I recommend upping the Saturation to full first, as any colour change will be more vibrant and interesting if you do. Also try different Hues to create a different image. |
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1) load the image into photoshop, then invert the image, do this by going into the image menu and then adjustments.
2) After doing this, start creating duplicates of the layer that the image is on, i reccomend doing 10 new duplicate layers for the most even colour changing GIF. 3) start to change the hue and saturation on the layers. Make the top layer -180 and continue increasing hue by 40 every time. 4) When you have done this, go to the animation window and select the make frames from layers option in the drop down menu. 5) Copy all of the frames except for the first frame, then place the copies after the last frame. 6) reverse all of the copied frames at the end of the animation. This will create a colour changing effect that is more interesting and even. 7) change the image width size to 15 and the resolution to 150. 8) use the save for web devices option in file. but make sure that the file is saved as a GIF. Tips) i would reccomend naming the duplicate layers to something that you can recognise and identify what their hue is. This will prevent you from becoming confused. |
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1) load the image into photoshop, then invert the image, do this by going into the image menu and then adjustments.
2) After doing this, start creating duplicates of the layer that the image is on, i reccomend doing 10 new duplicate layers for the most even colour changing GIF. 3) start to change the hue and saturation on the layers. Make the top layer -180 and continue increasing hue by 40 every time. 4) When you have done this, go to the animation window and select the make frames from layers option in the drop down menu. 5) Copy all of the frames except for the first frame, then place the copies after the last frame. 6) reverse all of the copied frames at the end of the animation. This will create a colour changing effect that is more interesting and even. 7) change the image width size to 15 and the resolution to 150. 8) use the save for web devices option in file. but make sure that the file is saved as a GIF. Tips) i would reccomend naming the duplicate layers to something that you can recognise and identify what their hue is. This will prevent you from becoming confused. |