How The Face Changes With Shifting A Light Source

Sparkles and Wine - Teaser 

Lighting can easily be taken for granted, yet it is one of the most important things when it comes to any kind of visual art, whether that be photography, instillation or film. What makes this interesting is the effects that the light has on the face and the features, it allows us to see just what different light positions do to effect the face, the mood and the emotion of the image. However this video also uses colours to evoke more emotion on top of the lighting, this being something to bare in mind if you were trying out some of the lighting positions that have been used in this video. 

Colours will also change the mood, cold colours (such as blues, purples) making for a more vulnerable image while warmer colours (such as red, yellows, pinks oranges) making for a more aggressive or sexual appearance.  

Rasmus Vasli

Rasmus Vasli was the second of the speakers on the 20th, Vasli worked with film as his begins with images and photography, while spending 3 year in Australia Vasli worked with fashion photogrpahy but was unsure of his destination with in the photography world.  

This is some of Vasil's first work with looking at the idea of fashion photography. The model is very pure and you can see that she has an interesting, innocent kind of beauty. Simply adore this image.   

Relative Values 

The first body of work that he discussed came from his MA, in this body of work Vasil looks at the way that in-laws begin to looks like one another. 

Cup of Pea 

Vasli from this point knew that he wanted to continue with portraiture and began to take street portraits with his digital camera, Which he has now made into a blog called Cup of Pea. On this blog Vasli looks at the different characters that he sees while out on the streets. The work is very much about the communication of Vasli and the person and not just taking the image just because the people looked interesting, each one on Cup  of Pea has their own story and have had their own experience with Vasil as well. What I find inspiring about the work is the stories` that each person has to share. 

I have had plans now for some time about making a body of work that looks at the different characters that work on the Saturday market in Lymington, the market has been happening every Saturday for as long as I can remember now and I really wanted to capture that time less feeling of the hustle and bustle of the busy hight street. I also wanted to created some straight up portraits of the market stall owners. 

However after hearing Vasli speak about his work I began to think of my own work with in the street photography genre. Thought out the time I have lived in Lymington I have had many random, but up lifting conversations with people that I don't even know, yet people that I see regularly. from seeing Vasli's work I have really considered in photogrpahing those people that made a change to my day as well as me making a change to theirs. 

For more of Rasmus Vasil's work http://cupofpea.blogspot.co.uk/

Marcio Mascarenhas

On the 20th of March Solent was Privileged to have two guest speakers, Marcio Mascarenhas and Rasmus Vasli. Both talked about their very different approaches to the idea of Portraiture. 
Mascarenhas worked with in communication before he worked with photography, thought this he was able to understand people and their communications with the world, whether this be though photography or the internet. 

I as another 

The work 'I as another' was very much about the individual and how with out others do you have meaning. The way that Mascarenhas described this was the famous saying 'if a tree falls down in the Amazon forest, and there is no one there, does it make a sound'. In this same way if we have no one else's interaction of opinion or communication then what does that make us? 
From this we can further understand how others shape us into who we are, and that we are not just shape buy our serfs and our personal experiences. 

Moving on from this project Mascarenhas created a second body of work called 'The Bodies I live in'. With in this work Mascarenhas was no longer looking at the way that the images can be seen as an art work, but more about the meaning with in the images.

The Bodies I live in

With the series 'The Bodies I live in' Mascarenhas looked at how as people we are not built up of one central being, that whether we choose to except it or not was are made up of many different identities with in our self's. 
The images are constructs digitally and made into Cubist art works that allow you to see the areas of the bodies that you could consider to be each of their identities that have been contorted into one body.