Amanda Schaeffer

 

 

 

 Philippe Halsman By: Amanda Schaeffer                I chose Philippe Halsman as my inspiration for my portrait assignment. When going over the portrait presentation, I specifically liked this portrait of Bobby Fischer that Halsman captured. I like how he visually placed the chess piece in front of his eye so we really focus on the other one. A lot of photographers capture this unique perspective of covering an eye of the person they are capturing. Which really intrigues me since I want to do more senior portraits for my career. So, I thought I would do this project on this specific technique that Philippe Halsman did on Bobby Fischer.               Becca and I went to Brandon Park to capture our portraits for this assignment. I knew I needed my inspiration to be of Halsman's photo of Bobby Fischer. Also, I wanted to pick my inspiration based off of what I would use when I would capture senior por...

 

 

Duane Michals               Duane Michals was brought up in probably every photography class I had at Lycoming. Which is understandable due to his famous self portrait photographs. When I was researching his work, I realized I saw most of his work without realizing it was Duane Michaels. His self portraits are unique and seems like there is a meaning behind them due to what is being captured and with his titles of his photographs. For example, the above image has the title "Self Portrait As I Were Dead", which brings a lot of awareness to the photo due to the captivating title. By critiquing his work, I can explain what I feel when looking at his image and what he can do differently to make this photo pop out more.               I love how Duane Michaels uses his ideas of "self portraits" due to him being in the photograph twice. My guess he uses double exposure, so that he can be displayed as two ...