(RESHOOT) Amir Farokhpour - Task 1 & 2

Task 1

I think this photo better portrays Struth's style of shooting when it gets to portraits. He barely uses flash, something i used for my first photo but then decided it was too studio like and decided to go with a more natural type of shoot with more emotion. 

Task 2

I decided to re-shoot for task #2. I think this photo gives a better sense of being stranded compared to the other image of the girl hitchhiking.

Eric Watters Task #3 RESHOOT

Reshoot of Alex Prager. Lots of inspiration. Lots of bright colours.

Nicole Haynes, Task #5

Sorry this is a little late being posted, but here is my Task 5 inspired by Jessica Labette. When I was on her website I saw a series of photographs labelled "Symmetry" I wanted to photograph images that were near a mirror and able to show that line of symmetry in it. I used lego blocks instead of the usual geometric shapes in her work just so it was a bit more different and had my own style to it.

Reshoot of Task #3

I really enjoyed Alex Prager's series of pictures that included things on fire. I wanted to recreate this but in a smaller version with fire by photographing my sister holding a burning piece of paper in front of her.

Pedro Hespanha - Task Numero 5 - Jess Labatte

Sorry it took so long! I couldnt' come up with anything for Jessica Labatte, and my girlfriend ended up helping me come up with this idea. Wanted to play with the color relationships of commonplace things. Plus, I figured I'd be hungry after the shoot so I decided on something I could eat after. Shoot your still life and eat it too!

Diana Edelman - Taske #5 Reshoot

Decided to do something different for Task #5, Labette's style focus's on colour theory and shapes. I decided to play around with some origami and light! Let me know what you think!

pema phurpatsang. Task #1 re-shoot

I don't know if this still counts but anyways, I decided to reshoot task #1 as i felt it wasn't strong enough for me. I was inspired by Thomas Struth work of architecture.  the way the buildings were constructed and the angle he shot his photographs were really detailing. so i tried to do something similar to his style. Hopefully it worked.

Pema Phurpatsang task #5

My photograph was inspired by Jess Labatte and her work with color and shapes. Due to the angle i shot it in, viewer are able to get different perspective of how they look at the photograph and the different shapes of the subject. 

Megan Bates - Week One Reshoot

I have decided to reshoot my week one due to the fact i thought the idea of shooting a regular building that wasnt too excited was weak so i decided to shoot some houses in the area that had more colour and life to them to relate to our artist being Thomas Struth

Re Shoot of Task #1, Nicole Haynes

The same idea as my first, I wanted to capture Old buildings surrounded by new buildings or new architecture. My first photographs were not that strong in capturing that, and a little too zoomed in and cropped to closely to get the whole effect of that. This image I found captures this better.

Re Shoot of Task #4, Nicole Haynes

This is the Re shot of Task 4. I didn't actually re shoot anything, I just used one of the images and duplicated them side by side to each other. I felt like the duplication made it have a different edge to it that I liked better, and this way the colours of the background and her face matched perfectly.

TASK #5 Emily Pleasance

I felt for her work she had a strong sense of shapes and colour in her work. she used objects as elements rather than what the objects actually are. I wanted to simplify my work to just colour and shape, but then found while shooting i like the twist of playing with perception.

Eric Watters - Task 5

I like Jessica Labatte. I was really captured by her photos of piles of stuff and she made it so beautiful. She literally saw the light and beauty in such simple things. I also really loved her shadow work, her use of bright colours and the use of straight lines.

For this shot, I wanted to create a soft image with warm colours. I wanted the shadows to be tinted the certain colours of the image and I wanted it to look simple. I think I've created an image that met my standards.

I realize that this photo isn't in the obvious style of Labatte in any sense, but this is what I was inspired to do after taking a look at her work. I hope you guys like it!

DIANA EDELMAN - TASK #5

Jessica Labette has an interesting style approach thats becoming more and more modern and noticed within photography now. I noticed she uses lots of colour in her work, I wanted to go against that because I felt it'd be too similar... however, I wanted to play with light and the use of a 35mm camera prism. I found the shape to be really unique and the was light reflects in/ off of it. I always wanted to work with shadows and negative/positive space. I felt those were things she really focused on while composing her shots. Overall, I wanted to do something really simplistic yet playing with the use of shadows and light.

Let me know which one you guys like more, I'm not to sure how i want to play with this image but the first is the original!

Anthony Bui - Temporary Task #5

I was inspired by Jessica's use of geometric shapes and colours. I attempted to shoot these geometrical square frames, but was not satisfied with the images and plan to re-shoot again.

Enjoy Eric's beautiful face for now :)

Sarah Wong - Task #5

Inspired by the common themes and elements of Jessica Labatte's work of using beautiful colours, shapes, reflections, and her "Piles" series, I decided to use those same elements and serve the same purpose of her piles.  I feel by using everyday objects (found objects or from the dollar store, along with her themes of colours, shapes and reflections) to illustrate my own system, I have created my own version of a "pile".  Only that my pile is not an actual pile but an organized system of the universe.  The systems she has depicted were the economy, the weather, the internet.  For me, I plan to depict the order of the universe.  I will be creating a labor intensive 3d model of a universe, which captured by my camera, will draw attention to the spatial relationships and making reference to sculpture, painting, and still life as Labatte's work also does.  

Task 4 Reshoot - Megan Bates

I was inspired by Olaf Breuning's work of the bodies painted by it reminded me because of the nude bodies of normally photographs or videos where the people are censored where is what i did but instead of using a real person i decided to turn to our world's so called "perfect" image and use Barbie and duplicate her multiple times.

Megan Bates - Task Five

I was really inspired by Labatte's use of colour throughout her different pieces of work it made her work stand out more. In a few of her different sets she used geometric shapes which really inspired me for this post. She used reflections to her advantage as well to make the viewers eye become deeper and more intrigued into the photograph which is why I combined the use of mirrors and geometric shapes !

Amirhassan Farokhpour - Task #5

These series i shot was inspired by Jessica Labatte's work and her use of paint and colors which indeed makes her pictures stand out. These series wouldn't have the same feeling without the paint, it would simply be shot of someone's back. The bottom photos are the same photos with different edits. The first one is a different photo. I personally prefer the first one. Any thoughts? 

Imogen Wallis-Mayer Task # 5

Heyy Yalll :)
So I was inspired by Jessica Labettes crazy Cross Processed series. I don't know what one I like best, please help!!

Erin Whittier - Task #5

In Labatte's interviews, she often is asked about her work having a photoshopped aesthetic, when in reality her work is not edited afterwards. This inspired me to create something really strange that was actually natural. I dyed my bananas blue. I also really love the way she uses mirrors in her images to create some confusing reflection, and so I placed my objects on mirrors and reflected a very interesting pattern onto them. I toyed with the idea of shapes and colours in the same way that she often does.

I really like her work ethic and I think what she produces is totally unusual and original. I am not really happy with the image, but I know that I do not have the skill to produce the image in my head that both would embody her style and be personally enjoyable. Her work is beautiful, and takes a lot of skill and effort. Her involvement and effort is really inspiring.

Heather Cummings - Task #5

I took my idea for this image from Jessica Labatte's body of work a a whole and her artist statement that says, "these images play with the illusionistic tendencies of photography and its potential to simultaneously reveal truths and spin falsehoods... my photographs lead viewers through a strange questioning of what it is we are actually seeing and how it was created." I have attempted to create an image that makes a viewer do exactly that. Any thoughts?

DIANA EDELMAN - RESHOOT TASK #4

Olaf Breuning has a lot to do with spontaneity. Considering his work reflects manipulated humanistic situations and things, I was tempted to see what would happen to a barbie doll if it was put on fire. This task was purely me experimenting and doesn't mean to have a solid purpose. I mainly wanted to go for his  random styling and staged photography. I also wanted to work away from using humans since those are his main subjects, so I chose to murder a doll! 

TASK #4 Emily Pleasance Reshoot

I basically was just inspired from him by the way he does corky and odd things with peoples bodies. I find there is always a sense humour to his work and That's what i wanted. A corky, odd portrait.

The tassels in front of his face are from curtains. Curtains are what we use to conceal and hide things. Instead of concealing and covering up the body for a portrait picture ( that almost looking like your school would take it, being straight dead on, the way its cropped) instead the face is what we are concealing.
I first tried to wrap the head with curtain but it looked like a turban and I didn't want any references to culture, so i changed it to wrapping paper. Wrapping paper is also something used to conceal. Maybe A present, something we want to see, something we want, but yet again its concealing the head and not The body. It's an ironic twist that instead of wanting to take off his clothes to see his body, we would be aroused or excited to see his face.

Pema Phurpatsang Task #3

This photo was inspired by Alex Prager and her villain series.

Nicole Ackerman - Task #3

This photograph was inspired by Alex Prager's "Weekend" series. The women she photographed in this series have all been dressed and made up in a retro style. I read somewhere that all of Prager's models wear wigs so I played off that and styled my model's hair in a drastically different way than her normal hairstyle. I shot this photograph to aesthetically resemble Alex Prager's photographs.

Reshoot of Task #3: Sarah Wong

Sarah Wong: Task #4

Please refer to my description below about the idea behind this.  Any comments or advice is appreciated.  Thanks!

DIANA EDELMAN TASK #4

Hey guys, I plan on reshooting this weeks assignment but I could use your feedback!

I wanted to play with something different opposed to how Olaf Breuning photographed mostly people with stranger body paint and created scenes that way. I thought it'd be humorous to play with a skeleton and have mini fruit recreate very specific body parts. I think i'm going to end up doing something completely different for my reshoot, I had a lot of trouble coming up with this weeks artist considering he's work is very out there and even though it's possible to do many things settling on an idea was a bit harder than i anticipated.

Amirhassan Farokhpour - Task #4

What i noticed in Olaf's work is his sense of humor in some of his shots with a touch of craziness and thats what i tried to do here with this shoot.