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.
All photographs for this assignment were done with a Leica Digilux 2
All photographs for this assignment were done with a Leica Digilux 2
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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 or she get a cookie or something for figuring this out?
ReplyDeleteYes! 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? Perhaps Almbutter (butter made from the milk of cows that grazed on the higher pastures of the Alps) is one 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.
ReplyDeleteLove this image!
ReplyDeleteYes indeed. I liked it a lot from the very first time I saw it.
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