Rachel Easley Paragraphs

Lee Friedlander is an American photographer who attempts to find beauty, and himself, in natural landscapes. He is most known for his obscure self portraits where he photographs his reflections or shadows in urban settings. Lee works exclusively with black and white film. This is manifested in his work because it creates a sort of muted contrast in his images, and lets the viewer focus on the most important parts of each photo. His work focuses on social landscapes as his photographs include himself in reflections, posters, and more; many believe this is too make a comment about the selfishness of people who live an urban lifestyle. His images, in my opinion, look amazing and they really take into account every single detail. The sharp angles that are exemplified with the black and white film are so interesting to look at. If I choose this photographer, I will attempt to replicate this style by taking long walks and strolling around downtown looking for inspiration. His style is not one that you can exactly plan out; you have to look really hard for photo opportunities. Since I photograph with a DSLR, and not film, I will have to edit the image afterword in photoshop to mute the contrast a little bit, completely remove the color, and most likely take out some of the exposure. George Fischer is one of Canada’s most renowned and praised landscape photographers. He has a special talent for finding beauty in natural patterns and colors in the environment. He also often lowers his shutter speed and captures motion in a very interesting way so that the colors pop out of the page. He wanted each individual viewer to see what they wanted to see when they looked at the image. He is not specific in his equipment use, but he usually will photograph with a DSLR and almost always tripod. The variety that is shown in his photography is evident and a digital camera is necessary to have that much range. His images work is about patterns in natural and urban environments and letting the viewer look for the beauty in it. His images are beautiful and each one is very different, it is almost unbelievable that he was the photographer of each image. He clearly edits them afterword as some of the photos are black and white, some of them have very high amounts of contrast, and the vibrance ranges from image to image. If I were to replicate this photographer, I would have to travel for a long time looking for patterns; George doesn’t plan these images and I would not be able to choose what I’m going to photograph in advance. Diego Uchitel is modern photographer from Buenos Aires. He, as a child, was fascinated by the human form as his father was a physician and he grew up around many patients. After moving to California to pursue a career in film and realizing that his passion was in photography, he began to get involved in fashion photography and he has now photographed many images for a multitude of magazines. More recently he has shot digitally, but his most famous work is photographed with polaroids. This is manifested in his work because he likes to freeze models in their movement, and he creates a very timeless feeling to each and every images. His work is obviously in fashion, however the way he photographs specifically brings out the features of the model and his/her face; I believe it takes a very talented photographer to bring the model out past the eccentric clothing. I do not thing I could replicate this photographer for a few reasons: I believe it is very important to his technique to use polaroid which I do not have, the effects of a polaroid would be insanely difficult to replicate in photoshop, and many of his images have models wearing clothing that is very intricate with many patterns and textures, which I do not own unfortunately. Also, the mass majority of his images are photographed in a studio. Although I don’t believe I could do Diego justice, I hope to one day reach his level of detail orientation.