Portrait and Identity

Wu Zhiyi

Felype Campos (Me)

In 1999 Wu Zhiyi token this photo in America of a woman who are walking in the central city with two dogs. Looking to this photo you can tell some technics that the photographer used to capture this moment, he probably used a low Shutter Speed, about 1/60-125, because is notable movement glur in the legs of the people, the aperture that he may used was F/6-13, because most the image are in focus, into the compositions of this image, the image have a lot of lines in all directions, it's a lot of red in this picture, bus, car, women and in the posters too and other composition thet I find in this picture is that the woman are crossing the street in straight line that are in the floor.

Felype Campos (Me)

Okay, looking into the photo and analyzing the main object of the photo you can tell that, this woman are using a modern dress and pretty cool style with that raybans glasses  and the bag, let's say that she have lot of money right.

Well, one of my tasks was to take photo of different people styles in the streets, more like ID style (composition) for the blog to practice for the final image that i have to re-create.

I was told to re-create Wu Zhiyi image with about the same compositions, clothing and environment. Using the technique  that he used in his photo, I will try to emulate his photo but in a way that shows the other side, totally opposite from that photo , because I want to show different class of people that walk with dogs and where they walk.

Felype Campos (Me)

To capture this photo, I had to prepare myself, like always. Firstly I wrote about how I gonna manage to capture it and research good spots around the College, after the boring part, I went out with all the equipments that I needed to capture this photo. There is a park not too far from the College

In the park I talk few photos of people walking with dogs, because wasn't that day that people decide to go out and walk with they dogs, anyway, I had to wait and wait. With my telephoto lens (70-300mm) and my baby (Canon 60D) I manage to capture the photos that I was looking for, instead of two dogs and one person like in Zhiyi photo, I photographed two people with one dog and instead of be in central city it's is in park. In this picture I want to say that not only rich or right class of people can walk with dogs and it not just that, the way that they dress tell a lot who they are in general.

Edward Weston

Edward Weston





Edward Weston

looking at Edward Weston works, is interesting to see how he use vegetables in studio with a analogue camera, the biggest thing that makes me look to his work is the sharpeners of his photos, you can clearly see the smallest details of the vegetables in Black and White. Looking back to what he do with the vegetables is amazing, he cut the object in the way that shows every detail and in a strange  way, to achieve this incredible effect, he used one lighting point directly to the object and close-ups, probably he used a table to place his vegetables with a black curtains over the table for a background . Most of his work is symmetrical, with a black background the object show more clearly.


Felype Campos (Me)

Looking to Weston I try to re-create his work with my own vegetables, using some techniques and equipment that he used,

Felype Campos (Me)

I used a DSLR Camera (60D Canon) and a macro lens to photograph, a tripod to keep the camera in place, a table and a black curtains over it to create the black background and to put the vegetable over it, I cut the broccoli in half and put a square object behind the vegetables to keep the broccoli steady.

Felype Campos (Me)

So I took the photo to the Photoshop to increase the sharpeners and adjust the levels and contrast, the problems that I face with was how to set the light in the right place to kill the broccoli shadows and to keep it steady in place.
The influence that Edward give me, is his compositions that he put into his works, most of them look symmetrical  that is one of the thing that make me look to his works..