Research On Luiz Luxvich

Luiz Luxvich:
The main reason I have chosen to look at Luiz Luxvich is because the type of photos he takes are close up photos of droplets hitting another droplets as they come back up which creates weird water sheets and interesting reflection due to the colours in the room. I like the way in which the two water droplets interact with each other and create the sort of water sheet along the point of impact.

The main interesting thing about this image is the large amount of different colours that are within this image. I like how the colours start off as solid colours but as they reach where the ripples of the drop are they all merge into each other. 

For this image I like how there is a reflection of the drop in the water of the image. It looks rather surreal in the way that it looks like there is a drop somehow going in both directions. Again with this image the way in which the white and the blue start off solid then merge into one causing a yellow colour to form.

Here we see another interesting way in which the photographer  has managed to incorporate colour into their image again creating the interesting ripple patterns in which we get some blue and the splash itself which is still clear even though the water looks like ink.

The main point of interest of this image is that the photographer has managed to somehow get a splash with two drops on each end of the splash creating the image above.

This photographer has influenced me to try and take some photos of water droplets which have been dropped from a large height to create even larger droplets which the second smaller drops can then hit later to create the water sheets. The photos create a rather tranquil feel to them because they are all rather calm.

To summarise Luiz Luxvich style of photography is rather complex in the set up to get the stuff required for his shoots. For these types of shoots they must be done in a studio with lots of light to compensate for the really fast shutter speed.

Research On Ray Collins

Ray Collins:
The main reason I have chosen to do research on Ray Collins is because next to Michel Rajkovic he is the other photographer who has influenced my shoots for my final exam. He tries to take still photos of of waves. He will some how take a photo of a wave and have it being very crisp and clear allowing there to be no motion blur at all which creates a very strong image. The photos he takes are breathtaking and the level of detail in his photos is extremely high which makes the photos seem not like a wave but rather some form of strange mutation formation in my opinion.

In this photo we see the light illuminating though the back of the wave creating the appearance of a more light blue wave. This also makes the wave almost seem like it has frozen over because that blue created can be seen in frozen water making the image look like a wave frozen mid movement. 

In this image there is a slight green tint to the wave making it almost seem like a hill. This is interesting because somehow Ray Collins has managed to make a wave look like a hip by capturing a wave mid movement and also capturing a green tint within the image.

The main aspect of this image is the way in which Ray Collins has managed to impress me is how the wave he has captured looks larger then it actually is.

He has managed to do the same here as well by capturing it at a low angle making it seem bigger then it actually is creating the illusion of a tsunami wave.  

This photographer has influenced me to try and take photos of waves and try to capture the wave mid motion. So to try and do this I plan to go to the beach and use a very short exposure to capture the wave in its crisp image as seen above. The feeling people get from these photos is a sense of the calm before the storm because of the way in which the wave is motionless for the time it took to take the photo.

To summarise Ray Collins style of photography is rather complex in the way he takes the photos. As far as I can tell he uses a short shutter and exposure time to get the images but other then that it is hard to tell how he takes his photos.

Research On Lance Ramoth

Lance Ramoth:

The main reason I have chosen to do this research on Lance Ramoth is because like the photographer Michel Rajkovic he also does work with slower shutter speeds to create the calm looking affect of water. The reason I am looking at two photographers both who do the same technique is because this is what I would like to do in my exam. The other technique that Lance Ramoth uses is he does lots of his photos in black and white but he does also do some experiments with colour which also works but this only seems to work at sunset so if I were to try it I would have to do it at that time. the other reason why I have chosen to do research on him is because the landscapes he uses are amazing and give off a remarkable vibe of the atmosphere and the emotion in the image.

In this image we see a bridge leading to an island off in the distance. We also see in this image the same lyre of mist that is creeping in from the sea. This can be because of one of two reasons. The first being it could be natural and there actually was mist rising from the sea. The other possibility is that he was using a slower shutter speed and there were some waves which by using the long shutter speed as they over lapped continually it creates the mist like affect.

In this photo we see a rather plain looking image of a pier. The point of interest in this image is the black and white aspect of the image and also the abandoned nature of the pier. The combination of the black and white and the emptiness of the pier create a rather eerie and lonesome atmosphere about the image. 

Here in this image we see a boat slowly tilting on its side whilst it is in a small volume of water. The boat seems to be abandoned and judging by the exterior of the boat it would seem like it has been there for at least 5 years. The interesting thing about this image is that it shows how water affects everything and shows that given time it slowly decayed and wears away at everything as can be seen by the decaying outer layer of the boat.

Finally in this image we see that the photographer Lance Ramoth has again used a longer shutter speed which allows for the sea to create that misty and calm effect. One thing that this technique has down to the image is it has managed to erase most of the reflection of the small island as also has created a mist around the base and though the middle of the  island.

Much like Michel Rajkovic, Lance Ramoth has influenced me to try and take pictures of large bodies of water with other elements with in the image to allow for more of an atmosphere to be created in the photo. The overall feeling I get from these photos is a kind of emptiness a sort of void in the photo making the viewer want to see more to try and fill in the void. I think this is done by the use of the black and white technique.

To summarise Lance Ramoths style of photography is very interesting because of the way it makes you feel and how it kinda makes you lust after more of the photos to try and fill the void created by the surreal images.

Research On Shazeen Samad

Shazeen Samad:
The reason I have chosen Shazeen Samad is because of their colour manipulation in their photos. It is a type of technique I would like to experiment with when I do my nature shoot which is when I will go and shoot at the coast and of the beach. The most interesting thing that Shazeen Samad does is when he  changes the colour of the sunset and when he adds at the silhouetted affect. This style of photography is very interesting because it removes the person from the photo and creates a shadow affect of a person on them.

In this photo we see another fisherman releasing their fishing net into the sea against a yellow background thus creating a serene image which creates a rather tranquil image.

Here we see two people silhouetted in the sea as they kick water at each other. The interesting thing about this image is the different colours found in the image. We have a blue and also a yellow in the image which again creates a contrast between the image making it rather interesting.

This photo depicts a person flipping another person over in the water.  What makes this image standout from the rest of the images that Shazeen Samad has taken is in this photo we see that it is in black and white where every other photo he has taken and then later manipulated he has added some form of colour to make it seem more interesting and bright.

In this photo we see a fisherman holding up his largest catch of the day against an orange sunset. The person and their boat is silhouetted. The contrast against the black and orange creates a rather calming affect and makes it almost seem tranquil.

This photographer has influenced me to try and be more experimental with my shoots and add colour and other types of techniques to my final bits of work. Almost all of his photos have some form of colour manipulation but all of them do feature some form of silhouetted figure within them. The overall feeling I get from this work is the same feeling I get when laying down on the beach in a hot country. It creates a rather tranquil and surreal feeling.

To summarise Shazeen Samad is a rather experimental photographer who's main focus in his work seems to be colour manipulation.

Research On Michel Rajkovi

Michel Rajkovi:

The main reason I have chosen to do extended research on Michel Rajkovic is because he employs a technique of shooting in which I want to try out for either a shoot or for my exam shoot. His style of work in which he uses a longer shutter speed so he can make it almost seem like the water he is photographing is either still or in some of his photos it seems like there is a flow of clouds on a lake or the large body of water. Another interesting technique which Michel Rajkovic employs is he turns lots of his photos into black and white. This allows for the large body of water to be seen as easier as a still mass of water or as a flow of clouds on a mountain like in some of his photos.

In this image we see a man standing in a lake in which their whole body is silhouetted in the centre of the image allowing for the image to stay with the style of simple black and white. The interesting thing about this image is the person in the image and the long exposure which has allowed for the sea to look very calm. 

Here we see another black and white image that has a long exposure allowing for the impact of the waterfall to be reduced and also for the lake to also be completely still and frozen. It makes a very interesting photo because there is very little spray due to the longer exposure.

The interesting thing about this image is the mist that has been created from the long exposure it covers over the walk way and makes it seem like a walkway into the middle of the ocean. 

Here we see a rather surreal image of a pier in the ocean. The interesting thing about this image is that the pier seems like it is on a bed of clouds. This would have been achieved by using a longer shutter sped to allow the waves to over lap each other and cause it to become one seamless cloud like sea with the pier atop it.

This photographer has influenced me to try and take photos of large bodies of water which I will take with a very long exposure which allows for the same affect as the above photos. Lots of his photos are also in black and white which adds to the mystic of his photos. The overall feelings that people get from these photos takes the form of the dystopian feeling where the world is empty and is left in piece. This has influenced me to try and experiment with long exposure and black and white on large bodies of water.

To summarise Michel Rajkovic style of photography is very simple and eye opening. By only changing a few settings and finding a fairly plain environment he can create rather surreal images which envelops the viewer into this quite, abandoned world he has created.

Research Log

Michel Rajkovic:

http://www.michelrajkovic.fr/fr/#/010-Portfolio/

Here we see that Michel Rajkovic has taken a photo of a waterfall with a long exposure. By doing this it creates the smooth looking water almost cloud like. What makes the photo work even more is that Michel has converted the image into a black and white, thus creating the affect of clouds flowing from the sky into an abyss.

Michel Rajkovic is a French photographer who's main focus is on waterscapes. The main reason he is interesting with these sort of scales is because he is intrigued by the concept of infinity in a waterscape. He uses a long exposure time to create either an image where the water is smooth and settled or like the image above where because the water was flowing it makes it look like a running stream of clouds or mist.

Mark Mawson:

http://www.markmawson.com/#/portfolio/portfolios/underwater/0

Here we see one of Mark Mawsons photos from his underwater collection. This was taken using an underwater rig for his Canon 5D MarkII. In this photo Mark manages to capture the lifelessness of the model. This is due to her body being limp and the way in which she has fallen into the water makes it seem as if she had died before she fell in. Due to the light from above the model it highlights the bleak and blackness of the water behind her making it seem like she is perpetually falling into a deep dark black abyss.

Mark Mawson is a London based photographer who does a wide range of photography but my main focus is on his "Aqueous" series. The main reason I have decided to look at him is because his underwater work is very interesting because lots of his photos show people doing activities which wouldn't necessarily be done underwater  or he takes photos of people on the verge of the water surface like the one above.

Barry Steven Greff:

http://www.barrystevengreff.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=20673&Akey=MJXHQ3QS

Here we see one of Barry Steven Greffs Jellyfish photos from his "FLOW" series. He took photos of Jellyfish in behind in a tank. For this series he wanted to show the flow which can be seen in a Jellyfish. His "FLOW" series is an interesting concept to take of because it is strange and a rather unique way in which to portray the flow and movement of creatures in water. 

Barry Steven Greffs main style is intimate portraits of wildlife and jellyfish like the image above. His aim for his photos is to preserve the best of mother nature and to try and capture the natural beauty of the Earth in its most pristine state. Barry Steven Greff was exposed to photography at a very young age due to his family going on factions and was enticed by nature and photographing it in its many forms.

Jerry Freedner:

http://www.jerryfreedner.com/slideshow/Water/index.html

Here we see one of Jerry Freedners images from his water series. The image we see him take a photo of is a Lilly with its stem submerged in water. The interesting thing about the Lilly is it is generally known to symbols chastity and virtue, generally seen as being pure, but in the photo we see that the pure Lilly is in a torrent of water. In the image this can be shown as the purity of a person as the Lilly going against the stream of impurity in the world. 

Jerry Freedner is an American photographer who takes lot of photos of nature in all forms. The work which I focused on was his water series in which he mainly took photos of waterfalls and other interesting natural formations. In lots of his water series he uses a longer exposure like Michel Rajkovic to try and create a mist like affect in his photos.

Nobuyuki Taguchi:

http://www.nobuyukitaguchi.com/

Here we see one of Nobuyuki Taguchis images. The image we see is of a castle up in Scotland surrounded by water . We see that he has decided to change the image into black and white. This helps the water to reflect the landscape in the rest of the image creating an interesting image due to the dynamic created between the ground and the sky in the water.

Nobuyuki Taguchi is a Japanese photographer who is based in London. His main style of work is black and white digital photography. He started off by publishing his black and whites onto the internet and is well know for his article called "London in mono" in which he proceeded to take photos of London in black and white. His style of black and white is very interesting because it creates a rather plain image in which you then easily identify the details yourself.

Lance Ramoth:

http://www.fotoblur.com/people/lanceramoth

Here we see another example of a photographer who has used a long exposure to enable them to have a  what appears to be a smooth and still looking sea or what ever mass of water they are photographing. In this image Lance Ramoth has also either taken the photo in black and white or changed it into black and white later in photoshop either way it has created the above image. The light coming from either side of the pier accompanied by the black and white and the long exposure makes the sea seem like it is solid.

Lance Ramoth is another photographer who has elements of water within his photographer work. Most of his photos that contain water are also accompanied by a black and white over layer. His main focus is on objects that are in water. An example of this is the above image in which there is a pier. Other objects he photographs are capsized boats and wooden support beams in water.

Shazeen Samad:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ssh/with/2048723895/

In this image we see that the photographer Shazeen Samad has taken of photograph at sunset of two people picking up stones. He has then later in photoshop manipulated the image to create the purple, pink and red in the sky. He has also didn't allow for a lot of light to be in the foreground so that he could get the people and their rocky surrounding to be black to take focus off of them and onto the background.

Shazeen Samad is a photographer who uses water within lots of their images. Most of which are at the beach and featured the sea in someway. The most interesting thing about his images is that he manipulates them to create interesting colours which we also then see reflected with in the water to make the water to appear a different colour. An example of this can be found above. We see that the sky has been changed to be purple and pink and then when we look in the water we don't see the typical clear of mirky but we see an arrange of different tones of pink and purple which create some elements of red within the water.

Luciphoto:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/luciphoto/

This image above is of a waterfall with a person in front of  it. The image shows the power of a waterfall and gives the viewer some form of idea how massive a waterfall is when compared to ones self. The image makes the viewer think of type of sounds and feeling that the person standing in front of the waterfall. It creates some what of a trance like feeling when looking at it because of its raw power and beauty.

Luciphoto is another type of photographer in which uses elements of water within some of their work. One of the main focuses of Luciphoto is to photograph the raw beauty of landscapes and the surrounding elements. An example of this would be the image I have above of the waterfall.

Rui Palha:

http://www.ruipalha.com/Galleries/Rainy-Days/

Here we see on of Rui Palhas photos forms his "rainy day" album, this image is called "Wet Corridor". In the image we see a person riding their bike under the man-made waterfall. The waterfall could be due to one of two things, one it could be intentional and the city have it as a display the second is it could be because there is an excess of water due to the rain. The fact that there is this massive amount of water coming from above this underpass makes the viewer think that there may be some heavy flooding above the tunnel. The thing that makes this an interesting image is the fact that we normally associate waterfalls with nature and it becomes interesting to see it in a city.

Rui Palhas has been interested in photography since the age of 14 and since then has almost all the time devoted his work to street photography. As lots of his work is street photography that leaves little room for water to be incorporated into his work. The way that he does mange to get the water element into his work is quite good because he does a combination of street photography and water by shooting street photography in the rain and has called it "rainy day".

Edward Burtynsky:

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/site_contents/Photographs/Water.html

In this image we see an oil rig which is based in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico  during the time when there was the massive BP oil spill. What makes this image interesting is due to the oil which we can see scatter over the top of the water it enables us to also see the current of the water because that is the path in which we see the oil travel. When we look at this image we automatically think back to the time in which the spill happened and reminds us about everything that happened during that time and how terrible it was.

One of the main things in which Edward Burtynsky takes photos of in relation to water is pollution which is found though out the planet. All of his photos have been taken from a great height probably form a helicopter. This gives us a large view of the area in which he is viewer and gives us a greeted perspective on the place. Even though most of his photos show how humans have polluted the water there are some images in which we see people living in harmony with the water surrounding them and using it to grow crops and to live from.

Tim Calver:

http://www.timcalver.com/Portfolio/At-Sea/1

In this image we see two people in scuba gear. One of them has a large pole which looks like a tagger and there is also what seems to be a camera floating next to them. This makes us think that these two are going around tagging fish and taking photos of them so they can document the fish living in the area. The fact that the water is so clear makes the viewer think that the environment in which the photograph is being taken is clean and healthy.

Tim Calver is an interesting photographer because he does lots of his work with only a single breath meaning that he the whole time he is taking these amazing photos dozens of feet underwater he is holding his breath which adds to how amazing the images are. One of his aims is to demonstrate his respect for nature and his connection to those places and those who connect to those places with the water.

Ray Collins:

http://raycollinsphoto.com/collections/store

The image is very crisp and sharp. We know this because there is a very high level of detail.  Lots of Ray Collins images look plastic because they look artificially made. The image shows the pure beauty of the wave and also shows us the surface tension in the wave hence why the wave hasn't broken yet. 

Ray Collins captures breathtaking photos of waves like the one above. At first glance his photos look like monitions due to the level of detail in which he takes the photo but upon further inspection you see that it is a wave in lots of detail. On first looks of Ray Collins photos you wouldn't think that he is colour blind. He is the worlds most renowned  seascape photographer and we can see why from his amazing work.

Love And Water:

http://www.lovewaterphoto.com/maui-underwater-photographers/9wtvcsxxhg4ji9xp3xdgxaks2xhva2

Here we see an image of a woman in the ocean with her wedding dress under the sea and due to the way the wedding dress is made the trail that comes behind it makes it almost seem like there is tail attached to the the woman. It creates a very interesting image because it is a very interesting concept.

Love and Water is a company which take wedding photos of the couple in water. It is a very interesting concept. One of the interesting things about the way in which they take the photo is because the woman is wearing her wedding dress it becomes a sort of tail creating the illusion of a mermaid which is pretty cool.

Luiz Luxvich:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10325384@N07/

Here we see what happened when a drop of water is dropped into more water and then a second drop hits the first one as it bounces back up. It creates the kind of liquid sheet that you see in the photo. I think that these types of photos are very interesting because it shows how water interacts with itself which I find very interesting because it doesn't entirely become one with the water it does some weird stuff where it does't interact with each other for a period of time.

Luiz Luxvich is a great photographer who takes lots of photos of water droplets like the one above all which create very interesting photos like the one above. He manages to do lots of very creative photos of water droplets which can be seen though out his work. One such image is one in which he dropped milk into coffee and you get to see how the drop of milk interacted with the blackness of the coffee.

Martin Waugh:

http://www.liquidsculpture.com/fine_art/index.htm

Here we see another interesting droplet where there was colour within the some element of the liquid thus creating the the blue, red and yellow and the white. What makes this image really amazing is the little droplets of liquid which can be seen shooting off of the main splash.

Martin Waugh is yet again another great photographer who takes lots of photos of water droplets but when compared to Luiz Luxvixh he uses lots more colour within his photos where as Luiz Luxvixh mainly only uses little amounts of colour whereas we can see that Martian Waugh uses lots more colour and doesn't really have any clear water all of it is dyed and has its colour changed.

Elena Kalis:

http://www.elenakalisphoto.com

Here we see one of Elena Kalis cosplay shoots. She is wearing a Sailor Fuku which is a form of dress that most middle school females wear in japanese schools. The interesting thing about this images is the position of the woman and the pose she is making. It creates a lifeless feeling in the image and makes it seem like the woman is dead.

Elena Kalis thinks that land is too flat and boring so she decided to take photos of water and the underwater world. In an interview she said that "I feel a fusion of resect, awe, sensuality, and mystery when shooting underwater". She likes the way in which people and objects float and move around in water and how they seem free and loose.

Harold Eugene Edgerton:

http://edgerton-digital-collections.org

Here we see what happened when a large drop of milk is dropped into a vat of coffee or tea. The interesting thing about this photo is the circular shape that the is created from the drop. Also the individual drops that come flying out from the circle

Harold Eugene Edgerton is a well know photographer and even more well known for creating the flash that is used in photography. One of the names he is known by is "The Man Who Froze Time". This is because he managed to capture a single movement in time. That image was also very crisp and there was no motion blur. Hence the name he was given.

Michael David Adams:

http://michaeldavidadams.com/underwater/

Here we see one of the images he has taken with water. We see the glistening water over the models bandy and we can see the reflection of light in the water. In the image there must have been some form of blue reflector to create the blue water either that or it was added in at a later stage in photoshop.

Michael David Adams is originally a beauty photographer who's main focus is on fashion and takes lots of photos of models in fashionable clothing. He did some fashion shoots in water like the one above which show the way the clothes interact in the water.

Davide Lopresti:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davide_lopresti/

Here we see one of his photos that he has taken of a couple of sharks circling around the shark cage . The interesting thing about this image is the fact that he is outside of the shark cage taking a photo of a shark cage. The fact that he is out of the shark cage makes the whole image rather dangerous.

Davide Lopresti is an Italian underwater photographer who won the award for being the best underwater photographer of the year 2016.

Zena Holloway:

http://www.zenaholloway.com

In this image we see they have explored the fantasy genre. We can tell that in the image there is some form of magic trying to be conveyed across, the pink mist in the water. We can tell that this was added after the photo was taken because it looks computer generated and we also know that we couldn't get this type of image without using a computer to add it into the image.

Zena Holloway is a rather interesting photographer because their work has an interesting combination of fantasy and underwater photography. Their work consists of lots of very interesting types of genres. They have action, fantasy and many more type of genres in their work.