Amanda Schaeffer

 Lisa Kristine By: Amanda Schaeffer https://lisakristine.com/product/white-faced-beggar-nepal/ (wouldn't let me copy/paste the image)               For my final project, I wanted to challenge myself again with cyanotypes. I didn't do as well due to not coating the paper properly and making some images look washed out. However, I also wanted to do portraits since I want to do that as my career, so then I had a great idea to put the two together for my final project. I needed inspiration from someone that I didn't really heard of and also a women. I believe seeing and comprehending women photographers, I can have motivation and drive to want to be like them. That is why I chose Lisa Kristine as my inspiration for my final project on cyanotypes.              Lisa Kristine is a women photographer that takes portraits of different people around the world that are part of economical, social, or environmental...

 John Dugdale By: Amanda Schaeffer https://www.holdenluntz.com/artists/john-dugdale/a-moment-i-linger/ (wouldn't let me copy/paste the image)               John Dugdale is one of the photographers that did something different with their cyanotype. He incorporated portraits of people instead of using flowers, leaves, or anything else that people usually use for their cyanotype. I love how he takes photos of people and then using a transparent negative to expose the paper to it. It makes the details of the people to pop out more. Even though I wouldn't incorporate nudes into my own cyanotypes, he makes nudes elegant and meaningful.                In the above image, I chose this cyanotype since it's the least nude and is shot from the waist up. As I've been seeing, Dugdale likes to capture nude people with their partner, showing their whole body standing up, or having the same nude person in the phot...