Charlie Engel - Final Photography Project

Here I took pictures of different supermodels from different time era's. Going in order from the 50's to the 90's. I also took a picture of one of my friends, as an average teen girl beautiful the way she looks. And the last photograph is different body parts of the other women and how the society see's a women should look today. She she be tall, skinny, have long volumetric hair, and have huge breasts but a small stomache. No women is naturally like that and I chose to explore the concept of societies views on the women in our world today, expecially through advertising. This is the same concept as the collage below and its description.

Charlie Engel - Final Photography Project

I chose to base my photo project off of Mary Ellen Mark. I liked the way she took homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction, and prostitution into a new context of a beautiful picture. I loved that she was trying to reach out to others through the photo’s she took, and that is why I chose my topic as beauty and what the society thinks we should look like. The truth behind beauty is not what is plastered on a women’s face, but how she is naturally. The photos I took are inspiring to women who feel that the society has taken over what appearance should look like. It should allow women to feel powerful in their natural beauty. My photo is different because I not only took pictures of my friends, but I also took pictures of make up and face cleaner. I did that because those are two huge pressures of why girls think they are not as good looking without make up, or that having clear skin is prettier than having a few blemishes. I also took photos of women from the internet from magazines and what it looks like to have your face altered. This could be a direct relationship to the advertising photos that she takes, except I chose to put mine together in a collage. As one picture, it said one thing, but as a whole, it shouted ten things. And that is what I had intended. The true beauty lies within and who the person is, and I believe that is sort of what Mary Ellen Mark does with her photos of people from off the streets.

(Hopefully it is okay that I combined them into one large photo...)

Photographic Perspectives

Some of the photos at the bottom are just because I really enjoyed them and thought I would share.

Emphasis

Emphasis was my favorite of them all. I really had the camera focus on the fan so when someone viewed it, their eyes would just be drawn to it. I loved the way the fan looked almost better than the other things in the middle pictures especially.

Balance

Balance was definitely a little more difficult because of the way I decided to position the object. I had little room to capture an even amount of things along with the object. But I am very pleased with the middle photo because I captured part of the bed as well as my guitar next to it.

Lighting

Instead of using natural light for this, I took a lamp and directed in onto the object from different angles. It made the pictures look as if they were going to pop out in my opinion. The way the light made the colors look on the fan was really pretty and I am pleased with the outcome.

Texture

I chose to do texture for this particular object because it had some very distinct rivits in it. You can see that in the paper of the fan, it is both smooth in some places as well as very bumpy in others. Texture came easy to this object because of the way it was made and that is mostly why I chose to do that specific element.