For today’s class, we had held the Pecha Kucha presentation. In class, we shared our favourite photographer which was fascinated by different photographer artists for diversity areas such as fashion, architecture, portrait, landscape and so on.
My favourite one for recently is Ante Badzim, an Australian photographer based in Sydney, whose approach is to show the true beauty of the subject, where it demands attention by introducing space and minimising distractions.
The simplest of things, when isolated, can represent something beautiful. What we take for granted often seems to be the most important , when he brings attention to those simple elements, it can function as a reminder to truly appreciate our surroundings. As for me, I am actually a maximalist but Ante is a less is more person. What I found from his work, I see a clean, clear, peaceful and quiet world that is healing touch within me.
The fine details and primitive experience are becoming rare in contemporary life. The way he wants to celebrate the beauty that is overlooked by creating visuals that offer moments of reflection and appreciation really inspires me.
Byron shared some Bill Henson’s work which attracted me with his lighting skills. He was so brilliant to get the detail from the subjects. The other one that I respect is Reuben Wu shared by Ricky, who also has excellence skills on lighting and use of drones, really nice as a halo.He kind of creates high acutance and portrays a splendid fantastic vision of the world focused on landscape.
After that we were separated into groups to discuss the photo editing. Bella, Lorinda and I shared the steps of the editing process. So we start from the crop then manage the saturability, contrast, brightness, colour temperature, white balance, acutance, shadow and highlight.
And about the editing parameters, we all agree that we don’t have some specific datas. It depends on the atmosphere we want for the photographs.
Some edit tools like VSCO, Snapseed, PicsArt on our mobile phone are now more professional that can compare to photoshop on Laptop. As for filters, some people may say it kind of ruins the authenticity. Personally speaking, filters could help us to create a story from the photos. Somehow it can help us to create a feeling or atmosphere we want. And also, some colour tone we may not achieve at the shooting. For example, if I want to shoot some subject in a vintage way. I set up the exposure, aperture, ISO and it just could not get to what I want. The filter VSCO C1 which is a golden colour tone gives me a way more easier to achieve what I want and just put a little bit of noise on. The photo from the 80s just appear. What I said is fillers could be a way to tell a story from photos more creative and easier.
Talk about the lighting room, I haven’t tried it before but it seems easy to work with. I will try to practice more and let it be one of my editing skills.
What I have absorbed from today’s class is the masters’ creativity and their skills shared by my classmates. That inspires me to work with colour and make it more attractive.
Reference:
Ante Badzim Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/ante/?hl=en
Ricky-Reuben Wu: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hdwMfAqEj-zbBhoPdEZ_8v2bZ1m8_3VD