VisArt Bethany

For my first draft, I received positive feedback about the dark darks in my photographs. This week, I tried to create even more contrast, more true to Metzker's photos. I tried to "cut" the frame with deep shadows. For my last draft, I focused a lot on storefronts and very head-on views on buildings, but for this draft, I explored more dynamic angles. Again, photos are similar to imitate Metzker's multi-frame work.

Ray Metzker is characterized by heavy shadows, b&w, city settings, and multiframe. I produced the best photos when it was sunny out—prime time for shadows. I used the black and white filter and decreased the exposer to deepen these shawdows. The near-duplicates of photos mimick Metzkers multiframe layout.

This week I was tasked to design portraits of my fellow advanced photo folks. We were to look for the interesting backgrounds, then design these portraits. I made this photo series in black and white to make it more cohesive, but the effect also makes my photos appear more organic, yet meaningful and intentional. Although these photos are very staged and designed, I wanted them to look like stolen moments as well, ~almost~ candid. See this captured the best in "Ben in the studio." These photos also have a common theme of pretty great color contrast. Again in "Ben in the studio," there's the stark contrast between the darker objects on the bottom half of the frame and his white shirt and the white walls. I got lucky because both shooting days, David and Ben both wore white shirts, so they looked really good in photos together and really good on camera in general. In these portraits, the background calls attention to the subject of the photo; I made sure that the ...