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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic Practice Research of other photographers work

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Unit 57: Photography and Photographic

Practice Research of other

photographers work

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Photographer: Todd Owyoung

• Todd Owyoung is a portrait photographer specializing in live music and lifestyle photography.

• His work commonly appears in many music magazines such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, entertainment weekly and many other popular magazines. He also has his own website where his pictures are displayed and sold.

• He claims to photograph roughly 5-6 bands a week.

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Examples of photographs

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Choose an image…. Describe it• This photograph was taken at a live

show played by the band Kiss. The intent of the photograph was to promote the band, promote the live show and presumably make a good cover photograph to be sold to a magazine.

• The picture cleverly includes the artist mid act surrounded by fireworks in a freeze frame jam packed with action. The cameras low angle makes the artist look more impressive working well for a magazine or website image, this makes the picture more likely to be used, therefore helping the photographer a lot.

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Composition• The photographer is using a wide angle lens on this picture, this works

well because it captures the whole stage and gives the picture depth. The artist in the picture is shown in the middle and the rule of thirds is clearly present in the photographers mind while the picture was taken. The photograph was clearly taken professionally because the position it is taken from would normally be extremely hard to get to.

• The fact that the artist appears to be alone on stage makes the picture look a lot more dramatic, there is a lot of scenery around the artist yet he appears to be isolated making the pause of the live action look even more impressive. The photographer may have edited the photo later for this to be the case.

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Techniques used• Some of the main techniques used

in this photo are simple but extremely effective. The photo uses a fast shutter speed making it appear extremely clear and steady. The photographer used the cameras focus extremely well to capture the artist in full focus in the foreground. along with an out of focus crowd in the background. Again the photographer uses the rule of thirds very well to capture a lively picture with as much action as could be fit in. The brightness and exposure settings work very well also because the picture has a warm glow from the fireworks but not so much that it overpowers the image completely.

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Strengths &Weaknesses• Overall Todd Owyoung is a very

talented and professional photographer with a large range of interests and styles. Some of the most inspirational types of images he produces are live shows creating an atmosphere and displaying the artist in full form, I would take ideas like this for my own work as capturing the atmosphere in a photograph is an impressive ability. However my least favorite of the styles are the more boring images showing the artist such as the one shown on the right. The image does have a lot of good qualities the style just doesn’t appeal to me.