Mentor

I chose this photographer because I like the way that he thinks and adjusts his photos.  Erwin Blumenfeld was born in Berlin, Germany on the 26th of January 1897.  He sadly died at the age of 71, in Rome Italy on the 4th January 1969. Blumenfeld was of Jewish descent.  He was the middle child of 3.  His family was his parents Albert Blumenfeld and Emma Blumenfeld, his younger brother Heinz and his older sister Annie. He received his first camera in 1908.  When i first saw this image I was surprised as I wasn't expecting anything like this.  I was wondering how he actually created this image.  I love the detail in the lines that separate this image in half.  I also like how  this image is equal, in terms of the top has more open spacing but it also has the head,  the bottom doesn't have that much detail in it but there isn't as much space in and around the body. This image I don't really have anything I dislike but some of his other photo, there are certain things that I don't really like.

I think that the main element that my photographer used was lines.  As this was one of the main features that people looked at when viewing his photo.  I think the he also used colour, even though his image is black and white I believe him using this created some more added detail in the two lines that cross over her face.  When I tried to recreate this image the main thing for me was trying to get the face looking the same way.  I didn't really try to use any stand out techniques.  I did try to make my subject sit in the same way so that the spacing above the half way line and below matched the amount that is left in the in the actual image.  This image I don't think was inspired any historic event but I do believe that something that happened in his life, but what I'm not 100% sure on.

The rest of my series are all just a body part.  I just changed the design and the way that the lines intersected the image.  I believe that what I did recreated the images well.  When I tried to recreate them that hardest part was moving the area in Photoshop as it sometimes left areas blank.