Adam Saunders

Adam Saunders is a Young photographer from Manchester who uses lighting effects and colour schemes to create some pretty amazing images.
He mainly shoots alternative model photography, but also does photograph portraits, places and live bands. His like band shots have reminded me of the documentary photography of Nick Knights Skin Heads. While the model and fashion photography is well lit, often emphasising certain features of the model.

8/10. Although i enjoy his shots, many of them are very similar, and lit very similarly.

Nick Knight

Nick Knight is a Photographer with many talents, with his specialisations being documentary photography and Fashion photography. I Especially like his experimental fashion photography, as well as his black and white docomentary photography. In his documentary photography based on British "Skin Heads", I like the way that he uses lighting as well as black and white imagery, to give a greater contrast, making the image more striking and somewhat more emotional. Almost as a glimpse into somebodies past life or memories. His fashion photography has a completely different feel, almost as if they were taken by a completely different photographer. They are somewhat more menacing, making you wonder about the design process, and wether it tormented the designer.

This image reminds me of images taken by a Photographer Adam Saunders, who i will also include in my research.

8/10, i have given this score as i especially like the editing used. and the slow shutter speeds which give the image of multiple faces in his fashion photography

Annie Leibovitz research

Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz As a photographer has shot many influential celebrities during her career, including a shot of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, which reached the front cover of Rolling Stones magazine. Many other Major publications have also shown Annies work, Like her Commissions for Disney and  Her more recent photographs of Lady GaGa for Vogue. I like her Original style in lighting and compositions in her work. Her Celebrity shots are composed so that they are more intimate, making the celebrity look somewhat more vunerable than other shots seen in the media. Whereas her disney shots are incredibly well edited and capture the magic that disney portrays to children, with an adult twist. 7/10

This is another photo i edited of abbi, to look like a zombie portrait Before i added the zombie effects, i changed the brightness and contrast to make the face look paler. i then also changed the saturation again. Here i added another layer on top of the image, where i copied a picture of tree bark to. from this, i then changed the opacity of the layer. so it was just visible, and then i anchored the layers together. i then used the burn tool to darken the face with a red/black tone. i then also used lighten on the eyes to give it the glazed patchy cateract vision. i darkened areas of the face to make it look like the skin is overly damaged. i then used the burn tool with green and grey shades on the backgorund to darken it, whilst also maintaining the light areas

Here we used colour infrared to edit an original photo of a pink flower close up. the original image was taken using a fast shutter speed, no flash, natural lighting from behind the camera, and a high exposure.
In photoshop, we then edited the image, into infra red, whilst i also altered the brightness, contrast, and saturation of colour in the image

So here i did my zombie photo, using an old photo of myself. I used GIMP. for this edit though. The original photo was taken with high saturation, and adjusable focus, backlit with a spotlight. The Edit however i overlayed an image of tree bark, used the burn tool to darken the skin in areas, and then i used the airbrush tool set to white to gently mist over the eyes

here is the edited version of the previous picture, here i altered the saturation, the hue, brightness and contrast, and i also sharpened the image. The image before was taken with no flash, manual focus, and normal saturation