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.

Response To Andy Goldsworthy

I tried to re create Andy Goldsworthy spiral rock work on the beach for my response. In my original Andy Goldsworthy response, I put together rocks I found on the beach in size order in a spiral shape just like Andy Goldsworthy did when he produced one of his most famous land art work. In addition, I drew on the rocks to produce a similar and interesting black and white spiral, however, this is not very clear therefore, I want to Photoshop a bolder black spiral on to the rocks, furthermore, Photoshop sand in the background as Andy's photo is taken on the beach and mine is on concrete floor. By doing this, I got a picture of sand from the internet and dragged it to my original picture as shown in the above Photoshop image.

Before and after Photoshop.

Édouard Boubat Best Response

As demonstrated in the bottom photograph, I tried to re create Édouard Boubat's famous photograph of the young boy listening peacefully and humbly to a shell against his ear. However, I used other props such as, the flower and the rock to show other elements of Earth.

The above photograph is the best response I took in the style of Édouard Boubat's young boy listening to a shell. I believe that the model is capturing the humble and peaceful look demonstrated in the little boys face in Édouard Boubat's photograph. In addition, I used a rock instead of a shell to interpret different elements of Earth. Moreover, I took this image from a side angle to capture the natural lighting in the figures face and cropped the photograph to try and get rid of the logos and keep the picture simple and focused on the figure. Furthermore, I transformed the picture to black and white to create an accurate Édouard Boubat response.

Édouard Boubat Response Contact Sheets

In my Édouard Boubat response which I have previously taken for my AS Photography task, I tried to re create the photograph of the little boy with his ear against a shell. However, I used different props as shown in the photo shoot, such as, a flower and a rock in response to the "Earth" theme, in addition, I wanted to create an accurate response to Boubat's work, therefore, I photographed the figure against a black background. The reason why I am using these pictures again is because I wanted to do a portrait to response to one elements rather than a landscape and believed that this was the perfect response to Earth.