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Jan Leonardo Is a self taught night time light painting photographer. His works are a mixture of spinning light painted light shapes and textures that are all neonly satisfying. His lights are mostly hand held and produce some interesting textures and lighting builds exploring different shapes colours and locations. I think the thing i find most interesting about his work is that he has the ability to not only produce some awesome lighting sets of art. But at the same time he has equally thought about where he is shooting and is able to capture a lot of the location in his shots. Jan Leonardo has won may awards for his work and has established himself some international conventions for light painters through photography.

You can find some of his work here

https://lightpaintingphotography.com/light-painting-artist/featured-artist-2/janleonardo/

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The next Photographer i stumbled upon is not very well known however his work is very interesting to me. His name is Paul Charnas.His project 365 days takes a unique approach to stillness in life. He photographers trash stingle items of trash that are displayed as portraits. The photos appeal to the ugliness of humans littering in the beauty of still locations for example the beach. The trash are alone and still they have been used and dumped. Empty bottles of things half cigarettes ect. I think what I like about this work so much is that Paul. Is exposing a human habit I that is bad no however in his pictures they are very appeling the trash is represented in a way which is not ugly it just does not belong. He sort of appeals that the items have been left behind and need fetching.

While you can’t see his work on a website his Pinterest project can be found here

http://www.pondly.com/2011/10/rubbish-photography-project-365-days/

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Jake hicks is a London based photographer with a dynamic cinematic further twist on neon colour and portraits. His work is mostly in fashion and portraits of people. He developed his style from working in a studio full time developing high key fashion photos. HE believes that photographers spend too much time making there images appeal to others and not enough to time putting some of themselves into their images. He belives we need a greater understanding of how the images will look before being able to review in camera. His look is well crafted cinematic lighting in camera and trying to replicate a what others would produce in photoshop. In Camera. The thing i find most interesting about his work is his ability to make a whole series of images with the same clothes subjects and colours but very different photos.

You can see some of his works here

https://jakehicksphotography.com

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The Next photographer I found interesting was William Eggleston. William is an American photographer who was born in 1939. He is known as one of the first people to use colour photographers as an artistic outlet. He began experimenting with colour and produced some of the most amazing colour artistic photo series which are preserved and studied today. He’s worked with Andy Warhol and his circle William began to experiment even more with his photography. His work appears simple at base level and the colours are very interesting to look at. I think what stunned me the most about his work is when you look at the photos although they appear simple. The colour and positioning has really been thought about. You can tell that William was thinking about how his photos would be consumed by other not how he creates. He was thinking a lot about the viewer. For such a time he also seemed to have some knowledge of colour science because his eyes are picking up and choosing to shoot things that complement each other by either being at opposite ends of the colour wheel or contrast in the amount they appear in the image.

You can see some of his work here

http://egglestonartfoundation.org

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I decided to try and explore another kind of humor through photography but perhaps something more real. I found Andrew Brusso. His work being mostly for magazines and for real world people is humor. How it is what I am calling representative humor. His humor style represents the person/s and either what is going on for them or what they do. It is a snappy way at catching interest and creating something fun but also captivating. Working for a magazine his work needs to speak aloud by itself but also be interesting for those people who may not know about the person/s. The main difference here is that this work, unlike the other two humor photographers, is very staged indeed. You can clearly see that all aspects of what is and isn’t in the frame has been thought about and planned to help with the communication objective. One thing that i find most interesting about this photographer is that his work will stilll be creative and exploratory, however some of the parameters have been set for him and he has created art within those. For eample the message and who.

You can find some of his work here.

https://www.andrewbrusso.com/PORTRAITS/Real-People-1/26

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Nick Vedros was another photographer i decided to explore. Nick also had a good reputation as a photographer of humor and creative innovation. Nick has been recognised twice internationally as one of the top 200 advertising photographers. Whilst Nicks work was quite diverse as he has worked across many different types of photography i investigated his approach to mainly humor. NIck is different from Elliott in how he communicates it. Elliott would find something humours within a photo that already excised or play upon something you wouldn’t see at first glance. Where as Nicks photos are designed to be funny and it’s entirety is trying to communicate something humours as the photo as a whole. In that its first function and mostly only is to be funny. Nick has worked for many top brands across the globe and lectured on photography for apple around the world. One of the things i found most interesting about Nicks work was that there was a childlike aspect to his humor which came through in his pictures they were fun but you could tell Nicks mind was playing also.

You can see some of his works here

http://www.vedros.com/#portfolio

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Elliott Erwitt Born in Paris in 1928, he was well traveled and trained in los angles France and Italy. He joined Magnum Photos in 1953 and began his life’s work. Elliott is well know for his street and travel photography and its iconic look. Elliot has a humours style which is soft but not staged. His photos encourage you too look closer to see the humor and it has a sort of innocence about it. He went on to produce film documentary’s and still work in photographic practice and is still known for his particular outlook on humor.

You can see examples of his work here

https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/elliott-erwitt/

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Paul Hiller is a unique photographer born in 1984 in Germany. His clean colourful and almost ice cream blue and pink photographs are a collection or analog film pictures shot mostly in amusement parks. His project title Happy Sad Places lasting 12 years he has toured the world shooting people and theme parks in a particular light. He aimed to do two things. Firstly his colour has a unique candy look about the way in which he has captured and processed the tones. Secondly he was interested in capturing theme parks when no one was interested in them anymore. His work features unique images showing the trade off between these joyous places and carefree humans. One unique thing about Paul’s work is that some of the theme parks featured have been closed and demolished therefore his works can not be reproduced.

You can see Paul’s work here

https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/paul-hiller-happy-sad-places-photography-241019

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Another theory which i tried out today which i had not used before with a camera was the built in multiple exposure In the camera. Although i have yet to find a creative use for this yet i was keen to give it a try and had no idea that it even existed.

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Curious to the shadows that these triangles where making on the inside of this glass and why i took to getting up close and getting a interesting perspective

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These images although very boring and simple where very important in the lead up to my final photo book. I have just punched a 50 mm new 1.8f lens and needed to do some texting in the real world to see what that depth of field would look like in different scenarios. Before trying to use it for a final assignment.

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I was researching about camera shake and learnt that the rule of doubling your lens to avoid it often only works when your subject it still. And in fact does not consider the slight movement of a subject. So i took to the only subject in the house who would not sit still and tested this theory.

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Water speed and a little earthly colour what more could one ask for. I was amazed when i started to play with my shutter speed at what it did to the water. I have shot water before and at high shutter speeds. However never falling in such a manner. And what shocked me was how when you added more shutter speed you start to see that in-fact the water in the image is disconnected and falling as drops. Interesting

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Again another crack at colour and shape these are some of my favourite images i have taken over the last month. Although i am not really into plants and the subject done not really excite me. There are some aspects of these images that did appeal to me creativity. Firstly the colour that was available in the image was stimulating. Secondly they sharpness of most of the key aspects of the subject with a blurred background was also something i enjoyed. And lastly i likened to the fact that some parts of these images had water in them,.

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Finally i pulled myself out of the dark and moody tangent i was on and decided to explore some more colour. I appeal to subjects with great colour especially when the coulour is natural in camera. These leafs which i danced with for some time were hanging from a terrace

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Here was another structure i found very interesting and very moody. I tried my best to create a atmosphere and struggled. The subject i could portray as interesting and the room was the same with the shaped light falling through the ceiling however i either needed another light to create some mood or need to work on these images in post which i chose not too

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So i tried to so exactly the opposite i found something in the building that i found interesting (see the bald photo on the wall as a lamp) and tried to create something with it and explore the light created and manipulated through the camera. It was quite amazing in fact i think i learnt more about myself as a photographer in these few shots as i have in the last 2 years.