For this photoshoot in response to Philippe Gerlach I photographed my sister. I done multiple photoshoots within this one:

Contact sheet:

Clothing:

For my photoshoot on clothing I began by getting her to wear many pairs of jeans at one time, I did the same thing with jackets and tops. I did this because it is the same thing which Gerlach does with his models to convey the idea of overconsumption. I also did the same process with multiple layers of hats. I took some of my images outside as I may use these ones as a front cover.

Makeup:

I also used the same concept that Gerlach used to photograph overconsumption in the form of makeup. For this photoshoot I put thick layers of makeup on her face to convey the idea of it being too much and over the top as this links to the idea of over consumption especially with social media which influences many people to purchase huge amounts of makeup which is not needed.

Jewellery:

I also photographed her in many layers of jewellery such as bracelets, rings, necklaces and earrings.

Hair:

For the hair section of my photoshoot I focussed on photographing many hair clips in her hair at once. This is to create the question of whether you really need that much of the same product? I also did the same thing with multiple hair brushes in her hair.

• For each of the separate categories I decided to place them into individual folders in lightroom classic as this will make editing images easier.

Evaluation:

I think my photoshoot went well as I was able to create a variety of images which I plan to use within a small magazine. I think the hat ones and clothing ones have gone the best as they look most similar to the photographers work and align with his concept well. If I was to do the shoot again I would maybe photograph multiple models rather than having the same one in every photo.

I experimented with both a standard landscape book and a standard portrait book and found that the portrait book worked nicer.

After changing to portrait, I found it easier to use templates like two page spread as it meant my images weren’t stretched out to fill a landscape layout. I managed to create variations of layout on each page such as having two at different positions and sizes. I also did a few pages with 3 images.

For the back cover, I decided to give an extra recognition to the two individuals who are the main parts of this project by adding a small boxed image of them together with their names below.

For pages such as this one, I used images that relate to one another by being I the same environment, the same activity is occurring, the same facial expressions etc. on this page in particular, both images are in the same setting. they are different as one if of the two looking at each other and the other image is of them looking at the same thing by pointing at something out of frame.

The circled part shows what I used for the zooming in. By using this tool, the image was able to fill the two page spread without stretching the image so that the photo still looked good quality without the subjects being distorted. This cancelled out a lot of empty space in the image and resulted with making sure the main focus was the two and that they were in the centre.

Layout

The photobook works in order of the two photoshoots I produced. I made sure to add the outdoor environment photoshoot at the start of the book as that was my first shoot I made. It then goes on and transitions into the second photoshoot where I focussed on the personal environments and more connections between the two. At the end of the book I decided to also add my edits as a final part of the project. I designed a page with a title of ‘joiners’ to introduce the next part and to show it was a separate part to photoshoot 2 as it includes both.

I decided to make the title of my photobook ‘Bonds’ I chose this as I am showing the bond between two individuals through their relationship with each other. As the project is union I thought bond was a good synonym and works well with the project.

Field Studies By Chrystel Lebas

Lebas’ photobook grabs the viewers attention with the natural look of the cover. The feel of the book is textured to match the theme of fields and nature and the brown covering like cardboard makes it feel as though its been handmade. the spine of the book has ‘Chrystal Lebas, Field Studies’ in black text on a cream bump textured covering. The photobook is heavy and A4 demonstrating the amount of pages and photos that are within. The cardboard texture of the book carries on around to the back page with just the spine to separate the front and back.

The front cover has the title again in the top left corner and a dated looking black and white image to the side of it with text that reads ‘Walking through Landscapes and Archives’ under it. This suggests to the viewer that there also may be hints of history within the book. Lebas’ name is also repeated on the front cover to the left and on the bottom of the page there is a coloured image of a forest that takes half of the page up showing its importance as it gives the viewer a look into what the book will contain. On the back of the book There is no writing but instead a single photo of a stem which branches off into 8 different shaped and sized leaves. This is a silhouette example of a plant so it is a black figure filling the centre of the A4 page.

Within the book, the first page copies the front cover texture and contains a contents page of the book. this would suggest that there is a lot of information enough to need a contents page. The pages of the book are thick and good quality making the book feel more expensive and strong. The book begins with pages of writing to introduce the artist and their work. Throughout the book the colour themes of blue and green a very commonly used as photos of the sea and forests are captured frequently.

The first page that has a phot in the book shows a contrast of images where the photographer has captured a shot at low tide and then a shot at high tide. The image of low tide shows the long distance of sand and seaweed that travels along the beach until it reaches the shore and buildings and hills can be seen. The lighting of this image is fairly dark as the photo has been taken at the end of the day. Th blue tint from the sky gives the image a cool effect that could almost make the viewer experience a brush of a cold feeling as they view the image. In the contrasting image, the tide is high which covers the seabed and the seaweed. The sky in this image is more over casted then the first image as it contains many dark clouds making this image darker to the other. When reading the writing at the bottom of the page, you can notice that the photographer has included the date of publication where the first image reads August 2012 (low tide) and the second image reads December 2013 (high tide). this shows that the photographer didn’t intend to create the contrast when she took the first image as the next time she returned to take the next image was a year later.

Overall, I believe that this project went quite well as I was able to take photos and express how they created a sense of unity. The key word for this project was “Union”, for me that word means a group of people, a society, people that share things in common, or don’t. For my project I decided that I wanted to incorporate my own word to make my project more personal to me, I decided on the word “sonder”- which means that everyone has a life as complexed as yours, even the people that walk past you in the street. Its the idea that everyone is struggling and finding things difficult, but it shouldn’t be seen as a negative thing. This made me realise that each individual has a different life ahead of them, some may live longer than others, be more fortunate and others may be influential in peoples lives, but I feel like todays society has completely forgotten how to respect each other and take care of others but most importantly yourself. I do believe that doing an experiment of different photoshoots before completing the project was very helpful for me as if allowed me to understand the true meaning of a union and what I can do to make the theme more personalised to me.

My plan was to go and take some pictures of different concepts based on my artists research and the art movements, I decided to pick surrealism and Dadaism, for surrealism, the concept that I used was to have a portrait of the models face while having another model/ the same model standing on top of the models head, this makes the photo look 3D and has a different type of effect to it, it’s almost as if someone was controlling the model and telling them what to do. It’s very surreal as it’s not a subject you would tend to see often. For the Dadaism movement I decided to do some work around Pop art as it was quite influential back in the day, I also did an artists research on Andy Warhol who came up with some great concepts.

My photos turned out quite well and I even experimented with it deciding to use some of my photos in colours and some turned into black and white. I also did some other experiments on Photoshop and Lightroom by adding different contrasts and different layers on top of my photo. Some of my experiments concluded me to turn my photos upside down and almost have it look like they are hanging, where as for another experiment I decided to add all the portraits of the model side by side and turn each photo into a different colour, as I feel that each colour represents different emotions. I really like how my experiments turned out.

Before I started adding an artist research or art movement to my work I went away and took some photos that seemed to have a concept to do with the key word “union” . I decided on adding my own key word into the photoshoots, I had gone away and taken photos of France, a place my family grew up in, I decided to go to a family members house and simply take pictures of their house, the way each piece of decoration was set up and how it was set up, how it made it their own and personal to them. I had the idea to then use AI to add people to the photos as the photos consisted of an empty room filled with furniture. The added people helped to add a sense of liveliness and a sense of love and comfort. This links in well with the theme of union, the idea of having a family together, sitting down and having a good time, enjoying themselves. However it isn’t really related to any art movement which defeats the whole purpose of this project. Although I wasn’t able to capture the true moment of a union, I was able to add people to a place I felt comfort in. I was also able to find some old photos of some relatives and add them into my work and how a union of people also known as my family can mean so much to a person.

Although I have been looking at a union of people, I also wanted to incorporate a union of emotions and how important your emotions are. I did have a few photos of individual people, that could show a sense of strong emotions, for example I had a photo of a girl wearing a blue jumper and blue jeans, she seemed to be walking towards the edge of something, which could represent a sense of fear and dread, the girl could be afraid of heights or possibly just wanting to have a look at the view ahead of her. Its a sense of mystery and both the themes of sonder and union of emotions came in. Overall, I believe that this project went well as I was able to understand and demonstrate the theme of Union. I added some of my own ideas to create work personalised to myself, by using photos of important people or important surroundings. If I were to do this project again I would simply focus on one thing related to union, for example I would either put just people or just emotions, I personally believe that I would pick emotions as it is quite a deep topic to explore, its quite a big topic and will allow me to expand my knowledge.

I do like that I chose the surrealism art movement as it’s very interesting to look at and see how things can become surreal, I feel like when editing in photoshop and using AI, it would be quite easy to create a surreal piece of work, but adding surrealism and emotions together would be quite challenging and fun to work with. I was able to get a strong understanding of what surrealism is and how to create a surrealist effect, I did also for some research on Dadaism and I wasn’t a big fan of it, but I do wish that I had incorporated it more into my work, Dadaism gives me the idea that my work could have been a collage of some sort, possible a collage of people, emotions, or simple a union of things.

For the the technical side of my work I was able to adjust the different lighting techniques used in my work, this helped to understand what lighting looked the best to achieve the best grade possible, I was also able to change the colour of the light to see if I wanted my photo have a cold or warm effect. Though I did end up making a lot of my photos into black and white so that didn’t really effect a lot of my photos, I also turned a lot of my photo into different colours. For the visual side of my work, this would be mainly my editing I had done in Photoshop and how I had adjusted the levels of the lighting and the composure of my work. For the contextual side, I decided to incorporate some surrealist concepts into my work, for example, when editing in photoshop I used the threshold filter to add an unrealistic look to my work, this also links in well with one of my artist research I had done, Andy Warhol, was an artists who studied Pop Art and also used the threshold filter on his work, I was able to change the colour of the photo to either black and white or one solid colour which changed the whole concept of my photo. The whole concept of my project was to identify a union of people or emotions whether that was family or strangers, I was able to show the idea of things changing over time and how one single minute can change everything, I also went round and took photos of peoples windows and how each window had a different personality, as I had identified, some people had plant pots, or boxes in front of their window, some had lights shinning through, or blinds covering the inside. Some windows showed no sign of life as if no one was home.

During the 15 hour exam I was able to plan how I would layout my final prints, which became very useful, some of them I had changed up a bit though as they looked better without a big border, I didn’t do any window mounts as I though my pictures were already detailed enough that they didn’t need to have a big broad border over it. I really like how my final prints turned out some had 3 borders while some had none, I had put one of my final photos onto a foam board without any of the board sticking out. This made the photo stand out from all of the rest, especially as it was the only photo that didn’t have any sort of border. I really like how I was able to add a few photos together to be able to recreate some sort of collage. Overall, I am happy with the outcome of my final prints and how I have laid them out.

This is a virtual gallery of one of my final prints, This final product turned out quite well as I was able to place each photo carefully based on the direction the models eyes were leading to, for example the photo of the model on the left is looking at the smaller person on the right and it applies for the other side. This virtual gallery would have been better if I had used two different photos of different models or possible the same model but wearing different clothes to show that the people are different. This would have also looked better if the models were at the same length as the left model is slightly taller than the right which shows that the models don’t line up correctly.

Here I made a Virtual gallery for some of my final prints, this is a good way to present my work and show how well my project went. For the virtual gallery just above with the 3 coloured photos, I decided to put the Purple-ish one on the far left as the models eyes are staring towards the right, this creates an effect that makes the viewer curious as to what the model may be staring at, then I decided to put two pictures of the model staring towards the left as it brings back the attention to the far left photo. I really like how the different colours go well together and almost compliment each other, I believe that each colour represent a different emotion, for example Blue normally represents a sense of sadness but I tried to make the blue show a sense of curiosity, a green colour could represent a sense of feeling sick, and purple could represent a sense of boredom, however I made I tried to experiment with the colours to see if they could create a different emotion. When laying out my photos I decided to put the middle photo slightly lower down as it helped me pay attention to each photo without getting overwhelmed. I was also able to add a slight shadow at the bottom of the photo to almost make it look like the photo was floating. Overall I really like how this final virtual gallery turned out.

Here is another virtual gallery that shows some of my final prints, I had to do some editing to be able to make the side photo sit right on the corner wall and make it look like it was rightly placed, for the others it was more straight forwards as I was able to place them straight onto the wall, I also added a shadow onto the background to make it look like my photo was up against the wall but help make it look 3D. This will improve the quality of my work as it will help to distract the fact that the photo is just placed onto the wall. Again i tried to place each photo in the right place, for example the photo on the side wall was put on its own as it is a big final print and will be presented on its own, whereas the 3 photos on the middle wall will be presented as a whole, I placed each photo with care depending on the direction of the models eyes, to help divert the viewers attention to each photo carefully.

Lastly, I made a virtual gallery with some of the experiments I did in photoshop. These photos turned out quite well. When put the photos on the side I had to use the skew settings to be able to add an angle onto the photo, this helps to corner my photo in the right place. I didn’t use any of these photos for my final pieces as I though it would be best to keep them as experiments.

Overall, I am happy with the way my work turned out. I was able to layout my work in different ways and present what I hade made. If I were to redo some of the virtual galleries I would simply add more dimension to my photos to make them stand out, I was also add a shadow to each photograph as it helps to make the photo look more stabilised on the wall.

In this post I will outline what my magazine will look like with all its pages, this is just to give a simplified overview of how I have designed and arranged my layout. With my other post breaking down its construction, Influences and concept this serves just to show it as a whole. After refining minor adjustments such as ensuring the pages are in the correct order I want and that images are properly aligned, this is what my final layout of my magazine will look like.

The Narrative

• knowledge, tradition, passion
• a small insight into Raoul, a Jersey farmer with a passion for traditional methods and Massey Fergusons
• Using a book format, I want to show the viewer how farmers their ‘job’ is a lifestyle and a passion, if it wasn’t they wouldn’t be able to do it. Raoul still uses older techniques than most other farmers, in Jersey on a less commercial farm, preserving his tractors and the lifestyle produced by generations of his family. By showing this in a book I hope to show the union between old and new as well as farmers and the land.

Design

• How you want your book to look and feel –
• Paper and ink I have selected premium lustre paper as a lot of my photos have deep detail and soft lighting so its important to have high quality ink and paper to preserve the photographs.
• Format, size and orientation I tried a few different book styles, before settling on a portrait 20X25cm book, allowing for my portrait photos to fit well and having to stretch the photos less to spread across a double page.
• Binding and cover– I will use a dust jacket as it is reminiscent of the style of many of the things in the photo. I think it will also add to the feel of the book being less modern.
• Title– to be defined
• Design and layout – I will use a mixture of shots, but I like the idea of completing almost a tour of the farm. Starting as what Raoul does and him working, to going around each room/barn exploring each element. This will work well with the way I have taken the photos with including linking shots (certain colours, food cans) in each room.
• Editing and sequencing – the editing will remain similar throughout the book, keeping continuity within the narrative. As narrative progresses the the editing remains the same either saturated, bright colours or high contrast black and white, with a focus on enhancing the textures in each photo. Having a mixture will allow for my influence from impressionism to show, while still having the black and white will create a union of both colour styles, one looking at textures and one looking at colour. Both equally important for this project.
• Images and text – I won’t have text throughout the book, but I hope to put a page, possibly the back page with certain photos and notes of the stories I was told while photographing. It would go against the style of the book to not include the stories and rich history but I don’t want the book to become a history book so it will work well having one page of multiple photos and text captions.

Book Design Mood Board

Having looked at blurb I have created a mood board of book covers I like. Most of them are black and white using a simple photo as the cover, something that sums up the book without having too much detail. There is a couple with smaller photos on the cover adding emphasis on the title, however while I like the covers I’m not sure it will suit my book. I also liked the red text on one, it helped the title stand out against the colour photo cover. All of these designs are image wrap covers, the option I will likely use for my book.

Plan-

1. Cars driving
2. Small interviews
3. Cars sat
4. Portrayal of a bond

Step 1 :

I created Iphone Video Folder within my media drive, and within my photography folder, Within this folder I have the video’s I have filmed on the camera, the ones off my phone, the title and the actual saved project. Therefore I had to ensure that all my files were kept neatly otherwise I may loose track of things, and my premiere file may corrupt due to not being able to locate certain videos.

Step 2:

I then created the initial premiere pro file, so that I could start importing files and creating my short documentary. I made sure to save this initially so that there were no files problems.

Step 3:

After creating the original premier project I was able to start importing my videos, at this point I only had videos I had filmed on my Iphone therefore the structure of the video itself seemed to be in a portrait position, but I knew that this would change to a wide screen landscape once I started adding video’s from the camera.

Step 4:

I then came up with some mockup titles, and finally decided on one.

‘Miles Of Bonding’

After deciding on this I had to go into photoshop and create this as a file, by adding my words into a text box on a blank screen, I then had to make sure the background was transparent, otherwise it wouldn’t have looked very good within my video. I also did some research on fonts and finally decided on ‘Magneto’ as I had seen this font used within some different race car magazines.

Step 5:

I then imported my title into my premier project, which then sorted out my video alignment to be landscape rather than portrait. I also added a fade into my title, so that after a few seconds it fade completely into black whilst my first clip fades from 0% opaqueness into 100%.

Step 6:

After reviewing my video I realised that due to my videos being filmed on my Iphone they were quite glitchy and slow, with low resolution and the audio not adding up to the videos. I did some research about how to fix this problem, and after watching some youtube videos I came to the conclusion that I would have to save each of my Iphone videos as their own premiere pro project, and then re import them.

Step 7:

After fixing that small issue I could start on the base of my video. By adding my initial clips to the title, I wanted my video to start off dark to match the aesthetic of my behind the scenes book which also starts off dark.

Step 8:

I then finished adding my initial clips that I wanted to be in the video before my first part of my first interview.

Step 9:

After adding them all in, I started experimenting and playing around with them to see which ones would fit best, I knew that I wanted a big entrance therefore used the clip with the flame as my first clip.

Step 10:

After reviewing my iphone clips I came to the realisation that my video was starting off way too dark so I tried to incorporate some lighter footage at the start which I think really helped to build my intro. I did this through experimentation with trying different clips.

Clips –

Step 11:

I knew that I needed a sort of fade into video before my interview so I added a short clip with no sound and not a lot of movement to create this blending effect.

Step 12:

I then added the first half of my interview one, due to having a lot of footage in the same place of pure dialogue I have split them up with scenes of the interviewee in his car and other clips of cars. The main reason why I did this is because I didn’t want to have very long clips of pure dialogue as I feel people would get bored of this, and I wanted to keep attention.

Step 13:

I then added in the clips that I wanted between part one of my first interview and part two of my second interview. I made sure to keep these clips short and snappy as I wanted to gain the viewer’s attention back after that long interview clip.

Clips –

Step 14:

After filming my interview in full and my fly bys I then went through the footage to edit the clips and to cut out any unnecessary video.

I then used another shot of a fly by to circle back into the next part of an interview.

Step 15:

I played around with the sound effects of each video to create as clear a sound as I can, editing the videos of the ‘fly-bys’ to be seen as close up and the audio of the dialogue to make it as clear cut as possible.

Step 16:

As I kept filming new clips I made sure that I was adding them into the correct filming folder to then export them into my premiere pro project. This ensured that all my clips were the best quality that they could be and that there were no errors within the file.

Step 17:

I then added in part one of my second interview, with a smooth fade from the clips of the fly-by into dialogue.

Step 18:

After adding in the first part of my second interview and making sure the sound setting were set to dialogue, I started adding more clips of cars to fade back into my original interview.

Step 19:

I then went through and edited the audio on each clip and made sure that they all faded into one another, so that I could prepare to add part two of my first interview.

Clips –

Step 20-

I then went on too add the second part of my first interview. Making sure to carefully blend it into my other clips and get the correct audio settings’.

Step 21-

This second part was a lot shorter which meant that I knew that I could add some shorter clips before the next part of my second interview.

Clips –

Step 22-

I then added in my second part of interview 2, which is a very long one so I will keep in mind that between this and the next interview clip I will need to add a lot more little cuts to keep people’s attention.

Step 23-

I then went in and added all of the short interesting clips I wanted to gain retention.

Clips-

Step 24-

I then added in the final clip of my first interview, this clip is only a few seconds long so I know that I won’t need many clips after it for my interlude between here and the last part of my second interview.

Step 25-

I then added a few clips between that final question and the final questions of my next interview.

Clips-

Step 25-

I then went in and added the final part of my second interview, this ment that all interview clips were now used up and all I needed to do was shoot some more small clips to tie it all to an end.

Step 26-

I watched the whole video through and through and went in and did some cropping, blending and audio editing to make sure that everything was flowing smoothly and in good shape.

Step 27-

I then went in and added my final short clips to bring my video back together, tying up the final strings.

Clips-

Step 28-

Once I had finished adding my final clips I then went in and had to resize them so that they fit all the same as the others.

Step 29-

After doing that I then went into the sound properties of my video so that I could make sure that the sound of the final clips were all linked together and in the correct setting.

Step 30-

My final step was to just watch the whole video back and check in for any errors, listening in closely to hear how the audio sound, how the clips look, and if any of my settings needed to be changed.

I then decided I also wanted to make a board of some colour popping experimentation for this project, so I ended up adding some more images to the print folder and therefore experimenting making some more boards and virtual gallery’s. I only wanted to print these in A5 thought as I didnt want them to be very big.

I will keep all of my colour popping experimentation images on one plain board, this is to group them together and show my experimentation with the images, I have printed them all in A5 so that they are small enough to all fit on one board.

This is my virtual gallery for my colour popping experimentation, this shows a clear and consistent idea throughout my colour popping editing, which is too select a main or the main subjects and change the background behind them in a way that makes them stand out, for some images black and white shades are the only options for this, but in ones where the subjects colour pallet completely differentiates to the background I am able to choose a different pre-sets to change.

I am going to be looking at an photographer called Tommy Inberg.

I have chosen to look at surrealism for my project with a specific focus on Tommy Inberg as I feel as though I am able to create lots of different images using photoshop to create the idea of union. Tommy Inberg is a photographer and visual artist born in 1980 in Sweden. His interest for photography came apparent when he received his first camera at the age of 15, and that was the start of his passion for photography. Throughout his teenage years he loved to experiment with his camera and try out lots of different genres of photography such as portraits, street photography and nature photography. During his early 20’s, Inberg felt loss and had a lack of direction with his life which led him to him expressing all these emotions through his photography. He liked doing this because he saw photography as therapeutic and a way that he could forget about his problems and focus on something that he loved to do. Throughout his photography career, Inberg has been self taught, experimenting different ways to create his images using the method of trial and error. His work proceeds to explore the Still to this day he does a lot of digital editing with his images to create minimalistic and self–reflecting surreal photo montages while taking into consideration the thoughts and feelings behind the images he presents. Inberg describes his work as a visual diary because of the personal aspects that he choses to add into his photography.

I have chosen at Tommy Inberg because I feel as though he relates with the theme of union. This is often depicted from his surreal and symbolic artwork. though there is not a specific meaning to “union” I feel as though his work shows the concepts related to this word. In one of Inberg’s images there is a picture of a boot being supported by multiple hands. This shows the idea of people coming together to support each other and to help each other. This also shows the feelings of people being united and connections through the idea of union. It symbolises the collective effort and support. It reflects on the importance and strength found within unity and shows the idea of togetherness.

I am inspired by this artist because I feel as though the meaning behind his images of human nature link in perfectly with the idea of union. This is because human – nature correlates with the idea of communities and society’s coming together as a group which is a force of habit through the way we are raised through our primary observations and learning. Tommy Inberg often leaves the interpretation of his artwork up to the viewer for them to create their own narrative on his work. Inberg uses his own feelings and thoughts through the vision of his work and makes it personal about his life trying to portray this through his abstract work.

Image Analysis

This is one of my favourite image developed and made by Tommy Inberg. This is because of the way it has been edited to look real when in fact it is not and this correlates well with the idea of surrealism. I like the way that there is a unity of people in the background because it creates a gory but yet interesting feel to the image. The people in the background are wearing hats, which could symbolise the idea of equality and everyone being the same and makes the viewer question about the idea of individuality. In the image there are no faces or heads being shown as it is covered by the hand and the hats, which makes me question as to why? I can infer that the idea of this was to have all the people in the background the same to create a sense of mystery and to develop a personal narrative for each viewer to think about. In this image I like how the hand is placed in the middle of the image to allow it to be the focus point of the image. I feel as though the hand is to create the idea of being pulled in and to engage the viewer by having the hand reaching out towards us. I also like how the image is black and white and has clouds in the background as it makes the image surreal in a way that is scary looking and could give the viewers a sense of unease.

When I create my own images, I am going to use Tommy Inberg as my inspiration for the surrealism part of it, this is because I like that two opposing images can be created into one by merging them together to create a union image. I am going to aim to take pictures of hands, eyes and portraits of people to put them together to create a narrative that is down to the viewer to relate their own thoughts and feelings to. I am also going to ensure that my images are black and white as I feel that surreal images are more powerful when having no bright colours as it can take away from the details of the subjects in the image and it could also distract the viewer from having a deep sense of thought about what the image is trying to portray.

The first artist I am going to be looking at is Man Ray. He was an American visual artist who spent most of his time in Paris. He contributed to the dada and surrealist movements.