Photo Emulation
For the photo emulation assignment, I chose photographer Eve Arnold. Arnold, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, began photographing in 1946 and studied photography in 1948 at the New School for Social Research in New York. In 1955, she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and made Master Photographer by the International Center of Photography in New York. She's had a total of 12 books published, and passed away in January 2012.
The photo above on the left is Eve Arnold's. It was taken in black and white and has a lot of positive and negative space between the subject's body, specifically her crooked arm, and the background. It was taken straight on at the same level as the subject, with light coming in from above on the left side of the picture.
The picture that I took, on the right, has a lot of successful similarities. I took the photo with my point and shoot camera on a tripod with a self timer in my kitchen. Then in Photoshop, I changed the picture into black and white. I took the picture at night so that the background would be dark and the only source of light would be from the lights above the counter on the left, like in Eve Arnold's photo. In my emulation, I'm sitting in a similar pose with similar clothes. I couldn't completely recreate the lighting in my photo, so the background in mine is a lot darker and there's less contrast between me and the background. I also set my tripod a bit too high so the angle in my photo is from above rather than straight on. However, I think my version is still successful in creating a similar mood with the darkness and the positive and negative spaces.
The photo above on the left is Eve Arnold's. It was taken in black and white and has a lot of positive and negative space between the subject's body, specifically her crooked arm, and the background. It was taken straight on at the same level as the subject, with light coming in from above on the left side of the picture.
The picture that I took, on the right, has a lot of successful similarities. I took the photo with my point and shoot camera on a tripod with a self timer in my kitchen. Then in Photoshop, I changed the picture into black and white. I took the picture at night so that the background would be dark and the only source of light would be from the lights above the counter on the left, like in Eve Arnold's photo. In my emulation, I'm sitting in a similar pose with similar clothes. I couldn't completely recreate the lighting in my photo, so the background in mine is a lot darker and there's less contrast between me and the background. I also set my tripod a bit too high so the angle in my photo is from above rather than straight on. However, I think my version is still successful in creating a similar mood with the darkness and the positive and negative spaces.