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This is the final version of my photo book.

Based on the feedback I received this morning, I made some adjustments to the studio photo and used the healing tool to get rid of the stains on the floor and background. I also cropped the part that would distract the view in the photo on the last second photo. Then took away one photo that did not quite match with the others in its series, which is the one of my father and the clock. I also adjusted the text layout to not let them split in half. For the content, I added each model's name as well as adding which country they were from. I also wrote some brief introductions of their backgrounds to help the reader to understand better.

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The title of my photo book is "Far from Home", and the book is about the story of the people who left their hometown to pursuit their dreams. This is the draft of my photo book but I haven't finished with the writing part. I realized that I might have written too much content so I should simplify some of them.

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I went to the Aut Library again for layout inspiration that I could use in my photo book.

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These are my favorites for studio shoots. I experimented with two different atmospheres by changing the lighting, colour tones, and the model's costume. The first style has a cooler tone and the light was coming from the front left of the model. I also applied a board in front of the light and we could see a clear contrast between the bright and dark areas on the backdrop. I asked the model to strike a dancing pose so we could see an interesting shadow on the back. For the close-up, I moved the main light to the right side at the back to illuminate the silhouette and also used a reflector and a softbox to fill in the light to preserve the features of the model's face. When shooting close-ups, I also paid more attention to focusing on one of her eyes. The second style has a warmer colour tone, and the model's red outfit is particularly eye-catching against the simple white background. The main light for the second set was placed on the front right side of the model, while a black-faced reflector was also placed on the left side of the model, which created strong shadows.

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These are my favourites from week 8 photos. I especially like the silhouette of my dad casting on the tree in the first one. For the second one, I was trying to take a backlit portrait. I like that sunlight and my dad's figure was like illuminated because the light was coming from behind. The third one is an environmental portrait and I think the environment helps to create a strong sense of storytelling in this photo.

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week 9 contact sheet

This week I was working on my second character in my photography plan. I've booked the photography studio for three hours and tried lots of shooting. This was the first time for me to do studio shooting all by myself, so I took some time to explore the equipment. I'm glad that I booked for three hours so that I could finish my shooting successfully. I was focused on the light and shadow in this shooting.

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week 8 contact sheet

This week, I photographed my father. I chose to capture my father during the golden hour of an evening, in the scenes where he walks pass every day, around the neighbourhood we live in. I focused on environmental portraits more when I was shooting my father.

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14 days challenge

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Studio shooting plan for character 2

There are three different lighting that I want to try in this photoshoot. I looked through some studio lighting tutorials online and decided to try these three lightings. I want to try full-body shots, mid-shot, and close-up shots in this photoshoot. For this character, I intend to create a quite unique environment like she is dancing in her own spirit world, rather than a physical specific location.

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This is my photography brief for this assignment and some shooting plans.

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This is another photo book I found at the Aut library, this one in black and white. The layout of this photo book is more compact than the previous one because there is more text in it. This one also has a simpler cover, which is a white background with black lettering. As for the layout of the photographs, on some of the double pages, the landscaped photos cover both pages, but again, space is left around at the edges. Some have one of the pages showing content and another page will have multiple photos put on one page, and the photos will only take up two-thirds of the page, with the remaining third being text.

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This is a photo book I found in the AUT library, and I was drawn to its cover, which is simple but not lacking in expression. I researched the layout of this photo book and realized that some of them show only an image on one of the double pages, with the image covering the entire page, and the other page putting the content, and there is a big title to highlight the main point. There are also double pages where both pages show photos but leave space on the edge. Some pages have a white edge with some simple fonts. Most of the photos in this photo book are environmental portraits, and I can see that these environments are relevant to the title on the cover which is 'sound'.

Sullivan, J. J. (n.d.). Listening For Eggleston | Aperture | Fall 2016. Aperture | the Complete Archive. Retrieved June 6, 2024, from https://archive.aperture.org/article/2016/3/3/listening-for-eggleston

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Class notes- Raw File process

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IN A LONELY PLACE

Gregory Crewdson

This photobook shows the intersection between theatrical and everyday life. These works give a sense of quietness but also reveal a sense of unease. Many of these works give a sense of loneliness or alienation.

What attracts me is that the photos not only show the subjects and their environments but also put some thought into the setting of the objects and details in the environment so that they can help convey messages in the photos. The use of light in these photos also guides me to reveal the story throughout these photos. The cold colour tone enhances the expression of emotion and atmosphere in these works.

In A Lonely Place | Aperture | Spring 2008

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Photobook: Jamie Hawkesworth Around the World

This photobook shows the photos that the photographer, Jamie Hawkesworth took on his journey around the world. The interesting thing is that the photos are not focused on showing his journey and the destination that he traveled to but the people he met along the journey. His photos not only show the people but also their environments. Hawkesworth studied forensic science before he dived into photography, and it was where he learned to use a camera to document evidence. This experience helped him to possess a high skill in discovering some details in the environment and making connections between those details. His photos look dreamy and have warmer colour tones, making these scenes in his photos feel like warm, dream-like memories.

Jamie Hawkesworth Around the World | Aperture | SPRING 2022

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David Goldblatt: Homeland

The photobook is about the photographer's hometown, South Africa. The photographer thought for years about leaving South Africa because he thought living here was impossible. Then he realized that his old stereotypes did not fit the Afrikaners he was dealing with. Thereafter, he realized that he had a more complex view of the Afrikaners and felt the need to define it and understand his relationship with these people. To explore these issues, he began to take photographs of them and in the process gradually realized that he no longer wanted to leave South Africa as soon as possible, but rather to stay here because this is where he belongs.

In the photos above, he captures not only the portrait but the relationship between the people and their surroundings. He states that by looking at these buildings, he can come up with a reason for the building's existence and how it was destroyed.

David Goldblatt: Home Land | Aperture | Fall 1987

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These are the photos I chose from those I took for my dad this week, and I tried to do some editing. In these three photos, I was testing with the shadow of my dad on the wall by changing the lighting position. With the craft prop I made before, the light was coming out in the shape of the line, so I tried both vertical and horizontal. I particularly like the first one as the light illuminated my dad's eyes and there's also some light on the wall at the back. And also, I like the clock in the background. Especially when I put these photos together, I can see the time of the clock keeps changing even if my father keeps the same pose in these photos. This makes me think that even the time passed, my father never changed in my eyes. These photos I took was inspired by the photographer, Leo Berne.

This is my favourite one from the photos I took of my dad. This is a portrait that shows the model within the environment. I used the compositions of balance and center in this photo by choosing the background as the windows with regular frames. I didn't use any artificial lighting in this photo, but I employed a reflector to bounce the light which streamed in from the window back to my model to keep the facial features. I edited it in B&W as this is what I had in my imagination when I got the idea of taking this photo. This photo was inspired by the photographer, Arnold Newman.

And the day I took these photos, I realised that sometimes the photos I got after planning for such a long time won't look better than what I got after an idea suddenly appeared in my mind before I sleep. I noticed that I was caring too much about how I captured beautiful portraits and how I made my models happy with the photos I took for them, but I forgot about the meaning and the story of the portraits that I took, and that was kind of making me lost my beginnings of photography. So, I struggled at first, but once I noticed this problem, I think things went much better.