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Edward Steichen

Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. 
* Steichen's photos of gowns designed by couturier Paul Poiret in the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 are regarded as the first modern fashion photographs ever published. 
* He was a photographer for the Condē Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair from 1923–1938, and concurrently worked for many advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson. During these years Steichen was regarded as the best known and highest paid photographer in the world.




 I think his work is amazing, as he is painter not only photographer, his photograph's are more as paintings for me than a photos.  I like how he uses quite plain but full of shape background. 









I think his photos are very feminine and soft, like full of love and harmony, but same time they are with loads of personality and very powerful.

  

Quote by Edward Steichen

"  When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth. "

  One of his most famous photography - Wind Fire
 

 Steichen was on holiday in Venice in 1921 at the same time as the dancer Isadora Duncan who was on her way to Greece with her dance troupe. With the promise that Steichen would be able to make motion pictures of her dancing on the Acropolis, Isadora persuaded him to accompany her. While she managed to pose for a few photographs at the Parthenon, it was with her pupil and adopted daughter Thérèse that Steichen produced this startling and remarkable image: She was a living reincarnation of a Greek nymph. Once, while photographing the Parthenon, I lost sight of her, but I could hear her. When I asked where she was, she raised her arms in answer. I swung the camera around and photographed her arms against the background of the Erechtheum. And then we went out to a part of the Acropolis behind the Parthenon, and she posed on a rock, against the sky with her Greek garments. The wind pressed the garments tight to her body, and the ends were left flapping and fluttering. They actually crackled. This gave the effect of fire -- 'Wind Fire' (Steichen, A Life in Photography, np).


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raindrops

“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won't remember and that she can't even let herself think about because that's when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it's always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her. ” 

― Neil Gaiman

North Wales II

 

Some traditional Wales landscape :)

 

And some short dept of field

A bit more from Wales - Landscapes!

North Wales I

I finally had some times so i went to North Wales to take some shoots. To be fair Im quite happy with result and I really enjoyed photographing seaside views. Theese photos are taken in Llandudno and Conwy.

cover for song/music album

If John Kiely wouldnt be photographer, he would be musician (like on of those sad ones, like John Mayer, just older lol), and that would be his album cover :)
I like to brake rules, you dont mind Richard, do you? :)

 

All Iv used was my Canon with kit lenses and daylight, so artistic effect was a must, but I do like result :)

 

MAN AND HIS GUITAR (photos&research)

We were given a task to take a photography for music album cover. When I was looking for some photos for some inspiration I fell in love with more like low key lightening type photos. I think they are giving a great atmosphere and would very suit for one guy band. I did not wanted colour-full and "happy" photography, I wanted something deep, dark and moody. As I wanted to guitar to be centr of attention I found what honey comb would be best lightening for these photos. 

So my photoshoot planning was:

- research (looking for photographs for inspiration)

- fin a model 

- find a guitar

- find the best lightening 

These are few of the photos I tried to "redo". But as you can see Iv used what i had - studio and no micraphone, but I found it really well working with just man, guitar and chair. 

And so here is the result.

 

F 6.3; Expousre time 1/160; ISO 300 

470-55mm

wide angle from low point 1.03.13

Converting to BLACK n WHITE

In this post Im trying to show better way how to converte photo to black&white. Most of people are use to do it (guilty) fastest way - just auto black and white (LEFT) but Photoshop gives us an option to do it better way - choosing wich colours (even when they are black and white) we would like to accent, for example if that would be photo of sunset, we would like to accent red's, and that would give a lot more details. My example may not be the best but shows my ability and knowledge to do it (RIGHT)

Disturbing way would be - Image - Adjusments - Black and White (ALT+CTRL+SHIFT+B), non disturbing is on below right, 4th button (under Layers)

Portrait photography