By Monika Kopeć
When I studied photography in
college a few years ago, one of the assignments was called “Formal
Portrait.” Everyone approached the
assignment very conservatively, setting up typical, formal portraits with low
ratio lighting, neutral backgrounds etc.
Even a somewhat stronger Rembrandt lighting was considered a bit
daring. With other words, formal was
being equated with conservative.
I have never been a
conservative individual, and I wasn’t about to change course simply because of
the title of the assignment. I began to
think of what I could do to take a formal portrait and yet have it displayed in
a non-conventional manner.
The result was a photograph
taken by entirely conventional means, on film.
No digital photography or Photoshop was involved.
Whenever people see the
picture, their first thought is digital and Photoshop, and even then I am
always asked how the shot was taken. I
guess it is somewhat hard to imagine and I am curious what readers of this blog
think how it was done.
Please let me know your
thoughts in the comments below.
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It looks like it might have been taken through a very coarse printing screen for offset printing.
ReplyDeleteI am very familiar with that photograph. After all, I gave Monika that assignment. While not a bad guess, it is incorrect.
DeleteMartin Fischer wrote:
ReplyDeleteWith close inspection, this definitely looks like the picture was taken through a screen. But that would require depth of field beyond what any lens is capable of. That also doesn't explain the black pixels. I am baffled.
I can see why you are baffled. But you are getting closer.
DeleteI believe the photographer printed the photo first, then shot it again with the painted acreen overlaid.
ReplyDeleteBingo! The photo was indeed printed first. Then a piece of window screen was partially blacked out with thick, black acrylic paint which added the blacked out areas as well as the individual black "pixels."
DeleteShouldn't he get a cookie or something for figuring this out?
DeleteYes! I will work on a cookie worth to be called a Leica cookie. Of course it would be made from hand ground, organic flower. I am not sure about the other ingredients thought. Any ideas? Totally hand-made chocolate comes to mind, but what else?
DeleteAlmbutter (butter made from the milk of cows that grazed on the higher pastures of the Alps) is another thing I just thought of. But I am a cook, not a baker. I don't even know what else is necessary to make a cookie.
DeleteLove this image!
ReplyDeleteYes indeed. I liked it a lot from the very first time I saw it.
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