Evaluation for Ruud Baan Responses

I choose Rudd Baan's work to create a response to as his work is energetic, colourful, interesting and fun. In addition to this, most of his work consists of one of the four elements of fire, water, air and earth.

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As shown in my two responses to Ruud Baan, I tried to create the same interesting, energetic, colourful and fun feeling as in Ruud Baan. I did this through Photoshop, I experimented with different blur tools, layers, etc. I believe my responses are very good as I believe I portrayed the same interesting, colourful and energetic feeling with my own personal twist to my response too.

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Ruud Baan Response 2

In my second Ruud Baan response, I wanted to demonstrate water as in the response I was re creating. Again, I added a black layer for the background used the marquee tool around the figure to rub out the layer so the figure stands out. In addition to this, I also used the magic wand tool around the water in the Ruud Baan photograph I am re creating and dragged this on to my photograph as demonstrated in the below photographs.

I used the "Divide" layer effect, this made the purple water a grabbed from Ruud Baan's original photograph to green water which I found interesting and different. In addition to this, it blended in with the background and made the photograph stand out. I like my response and believe it is a very good response as the figure captured the pose of the model in Ruud Baans work and the black layer with the green water makes the figure stand out and it looks like the figure is trying to dodge the green water.

Ruud Baan Response

In my response to Ruud Baan, I captured the movement of the element water by getting the figure to jump in a puddle. I asked the figure to create the same stance as the model in the Ruud Baan photograph I am re creating. As shown in the 3 below photographs, I added a black layer as the background is distracting and by adding a black background, the focus is more on the action shot. After this, I used a marquee tool around the figure and the puddle to rub out the black layer and, again, make the focus more on the figure.

Once I rubbed out the layer on the figure and the puddle, I still felt the photograph was dull and boring, therefore, to make the photograph more interesting, I went on Filter > Distort > Twirl on Photoshop as it makes the photograph more interesting and eye catching. In addition to this, I added a Gausian blur

Ruud Baan Response Contact Sheets

I tried to do a response to various Ruud Baan photographs, a lot of which to demonstrate the element water. I did 3 different photo shoots in one day, each with different background, themes and outfits. Most of these shoots I got the figure to just demonstrate the body language of the figure I was re creating in Ruud Baan's photograph so that I could later Photoshop as Ruud Baan's work is very dramatic and emphasized and to capture this I would have to use Photoshop. Therefore, I only asked the figure to copy the model in Ruud Baan's photographs body language.

Best Dorothea Lange Response 2

In my second Dorothea Lange best  response, I transformed the picture to a black and white to make an accurate response to Dorothea Lange's work and to re create the emotion of sadness and desperation in the Great Depression times not only through the figures facial expression but also through the colours. In addition to this, I captured natural lighting on the figures face. I like how I captured how the natural light hits half of the figures face showing contrast between the light and dark lighting. 

Dorothea Lange Response

I chose this picture as a best Dorothea Lange response as I believe it is a good response to the Dorothea Lange photograph I was re creating. The figure is doing a similar pose as the model in Dorothea Lange's photograph. I was trying to capture the same story Lange portrayed of a little boy who is forced at a young age to work hard and help out in the farm, however, he has other aspirations and dreams outside of farm life. I did this shoot in a field as Dorothea Lange's photograph captures farm life in the background and asked the figure in my photograph to do the imitate the same pose as the model in Dorothea Lange's work and asked him to think of his dreams of what he wants to be of in the future however, he can't because he is forced to work in a farm. I believe I captured this using different angles and showing the background of a field, in addition, the figure is presenting the same emotion in Lange's photograph.

Furthermore, I transformed my response in black and white using Photoshop and additionally used curves to demonstrate contrast. This is a response to all four of the element, earth, water, fire and air as Dorothea Lange demonstrates in her body of work the effect it has on having too much or too little of any of these elements.

In this response, it shows the land background of a field (demonstrating earth) where many people in the depression era would work in, on a farm in very hot conditions (demonstrating fire through the effect of too much heat ) and lack water (demonstrating the effect of little water). In addition to this, the wind would not help in these conditions as they were very strong. (demonstrating effect of too much air)

Dorothea Lange Response Contact Sheets

In my Dorothea Lange photo shoot which I have previously taken for my AS Photography task, I tried different backgrounds and experimented with a variety of angels to try and capture the emotion the figure is portraying. I asked the model to demonstrate sadness as Dorothea Lange captured in her photographs the Great Depression and how the elements effected people. In addition to this, I wanted the model to wear simple clothing in this shoot as the figures in Dorothea Lange's photographs could not afford nice clothing during the Great Depression time.

In my second photo shoot, I tried to re create one of Dorothea Lange's famous photograph of the young boy who is forced to work under hard conditions in a farm and you can tell in his face when he is looking at a distance that he does not want to be working and wants to live his American dream or possibly in school having an education. I took these pictures in a field background to show land and got the figure to demonstrate the same pose as the model in Lange's photograph. I captured this through different angles.