Week 5: Camera Use: Photographic Elements Research Jeff Wall & Hellen Van Meene

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   Definition of DIRECT LIGHTING. : lighting in which the greater part of the light goes directly from the source to the area lit.
   
   

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      Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves. The law of reflection says that for specular reflection the angle at which the wave is incident on the surface equals the angle at which it is reflected.
   
   1. Diffuse reflection is the reflection of light from a surface such that an incident ray is reflected at many angles rather than at just one angle as in the case of specular reflection.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Light Matters | photomatters
      

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      We look at more examples of direct (hard) light versus diffused (soft) from different directions.

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   Jeff Wall Artist
2. Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s.Wikipedia
   Born: September 29, 1946 (age 68), Vancouver, Canada
3. Period: Contemporary art
4. Books: Jeff Wall, Jeff Wall, photographs
5. Education: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of British Columbia
6. Awards: Hasselblad Award    

   
   

   
   

   'Invisible Man'   This photo has direct and diffused light. Very interesting concept with all the light bulbs, but only a few are lit to create reflect light. Diffused light in the foreground of the photo darkens the area leading your eyes to the man. Direct light on the subject. A very busy photo with many things happening all around, shapes and textures. Question, I have what would happen if all the lights where turned on, "total blow out"?

                                            

   

   The near life-size works in JEFF WALL Photographs, often over 2 by 3 metres, are testaments to the ambitions this artist brings to photography. The size, intensity and quality of his colour, and black and white photographs achieve a sustained quality of attention allowing viewers to revel in the imaginative magic of his photographs. For Wall, the event depicted, formal composition and poetics are always important and in combination create works that extend photography as a medium, tell stories, and test the limits of ‘near’ documentary and conjectures built on memories. All of Jeff Wall’s photographs create distinctive imaginative new pictorial realities. 

   Reference: http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

   Jeff Wall After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 

   1999-2000 
transparency in light box, AP
174 x 250.5 
Courtesy of the artist © Jeff Wall

   
   

   
   

   
   

   A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993

   

   
   

   
   

   Transparency in light box, unique state 250 x 397 Tate, London.

   Purchased with the assistance from the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation and from the National Art Collections Fund 1995 © Jeff Wall

   
   

   Movement happening with all the subjects. The paper flying away, great composition. Direct light, negative space in the background with the leading lines of the water move the eye towards the papers in the sky.

   
   

   HELLEN VAN MEENE
   
   1972 Born in Alkmaar, Netherlands Lives and works in The Netherlands
   Reference: http://hellenvanmeene.com/photos
   
   

   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   Direct light from the right top of the photo.

   This highlights the right side of the subjects face and shadows to the left. Soft smooth effect on the subject. Cool pastel colours.

   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   Natural direct light.
   Room lit by the window reflect a bit of the subjects hair is enhanced.
   Shadows to the left foreground of the photo. Cool warm colours. No emotion in the subjects or dog. Shapes created by the direct light.