Lise Sarfati
The photographer I chose for my photo emulation was Lise Sarfati. She lived in the US from 2003 until she moved to Paris, France to continue with her photography in a different atmosphere. Before, she worked in Russia from 1989 to 1999, continuing shooting photos and researching precise image, of spacousness and heroicism. For her education, she received an MA in Russian Studies, Sorbonne, Paris, France. To show off her incredible works of art, she is represented by Rose Gallery, Los Angeles and Yossi Milo, New York. In the majority of he works she is capturing a person either young adult or adult, looking off into the distant to either the right or left of photography, Lise Sarfati. I chose her as my artist to emulate because all of her works, as simple as they seemed, you could see the depth within them and they seemed like they would be interesting to "copy." To emulate her work, I need to capture a young adult in a pinkish shirt with hair down, standing infront of a brownish solid colored wall. The easiest way to do this was to have my sister stand ontop of a chair to get the solid background, without the border on the wall. Then to get the lighting similar to the lighting in the portrait, I wanted to get lights on both sides of her to balence it out, but it was too bright in the image. So I stood ontop of a chair equal height to hers, then held a poster over the light to shield it while trying to capture the shot. I wanted a similar emotion on her face, of content looking out into the distant, but with a slight look of zoned out or distance.
In this photo, the light seems to be coming from above the girls head, but high enough above where it isn't causing a large effect on the coloring of the photo. At the top of the photo it is mostly highlights, it is mostly white instead of the brown wall color, and at the bottom it become much darker as the light go away creating shadows. I believe that the photo has a good balence of exposure to capture all of the portions of the girl in the photo. The photo is in focus, but since there isn't much going on in the picture besides the girl, there is not depth of field or much need for a longer shutter speed.
This photograph was shot on at the girls face, but her head is set slightly to the right of the center line of the photo. You could say that there is a rule of thirds in this photo, the section to the left of the girl with just wall, the girl, then the third section again of just emtpy brown wall space. Since this photo only has the light brown background, which is a neutral color, the main focus of the image in the girl and her face. Also since her shirt is a lighter pink, a more neutral color, her face is the main focal point of this image. To capture all of her head and her chest, the photo is captured horizontally. I belive that if the photo was shot vertically you wouldn't be able to see the background wall, which as neutral as it is adds to the photograph by making her stand out and making the person looking at the image think about the simiplicity of it all.
Sarfati's photo is original in the aspect that it is simple where people wouldn't believe that it a piece of art, but it is actually detailed and maked you think about it for another second to understand the simplicity. Since you only looking at the girls face, the point of view of the camera, being straight-on is perfect to fully capture her facial expression. This photo leaves you thinking and wondering what more there is because as it looks simple and "typical" people know that there needs to be more and they wonder about what more there is or how things can be simple but people always just overthink things.
I belive what is most successful about this photo is that it leaves you thinking more about your life or life in general, when there isn't really that much going on in the photo. To improve this photo I believe that Sarfati could've changed the color of the girls shirt to become more neutral to "blend" into the wall color.
In this photo, the light seems to be coming from above the girls head, but high enough above where it isn't causing a large effect on the coloring of the photo. At the top of the photo it is mostly highlights, it is mostly white instead of the brown wall color, and at the bottom it become much darker as the light go away creating shadows. I believe that the photo has a good balence of exposure to capture all of the portions of the girl in the photo. The photo is in focus, but since there isn't much going on in the picture besides the girl, there is not depth of field or much need for a longer shutter speed.
This photograph was shot on at the girls face, but her head is set slightly to the right of the center line of the photo. You could say that there is a rule of thirds in this photo, the section to the left of the girl with just wall, the girl, then the third section again of just emtpy brown wall space. Since this photo only has the light brown background, which is a neutral color, the main focus of the image in the girl and her face. Also since her shirt is a lighter pink, a more neutral color, her face is the main focal point of this image. To capture all of her head and her chest, the photo is captured horizontally. I belive that if the photo was shot vertically you wouldn't be able to see the background wall, which as neutral as it is adds to the photograph by making her stand out and making the person looking at the image think about the simiplicity of it all.
Sarfati's photo is original in the aspect that it is simple where people wouldn't believe that it a piece of art, but it is actually detailed and maked you think about it for another second to understand the simplicity. Since you only looking at the girls face, the point of view of the camera, being straight-on is perfect to fully capture her facial expression. This photo leaves you thinking and wondering what more there is because as it looks simple and "typical" people know that there needs to be more and they wonder about what more there is or how things can be simple but people always just overthink things.
I belive what is most successful about this photo is that it leaves you thinking more about your life or life in general, when there isn't really that much going on in the photo. To improve this photo I believe that Sarfati could've changed the color of the girls shirt to become more neutral to "blend" into the wall color.