Dan Boulton

Dan Boulton is a photographer currently based in Cambridge, he uses a Leica M6 and 50mm and mos of his work revolves around skateboarding and skateboarding culture. He was born in enfield, london and started skating in 1980. Dan's style is street photography/ documentary/ fine art combination and takes a lot from photographers like Larry clark and Nan golden. He is currently working on 2 books based around his work in southbank. his work has been featured in document skateboard and plus1 magazine He had a show in london last year and an edited down version of it was shown at Public Domaine at Paris’s Gaite Lyrique.
A short documentary is being filmed based around his work and his views on skateboarding and photography, he has also designed his own skateboard through science skateboards. an 8", 8.125" and 8.25".

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Dan Boulton

2005-2011

i like this photograph because it looks like a very clean picture, unlike most of the pictures in southbank it focuses on one individual instead of a group or a few people. The person in the photo looks like theyre falling or picking something up from the floor.

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Dan Boulton

2005 - 2011

this picture is interesting because there is a large group of people in the shot but they are all focusing on one individual doing a trick down a set of stairs.

     

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Dan Boulton

2005 - 2011

I like this photo because i dont know what is going on, it almost looks like a concert, theres a large group of people all moving around. this is similar to some of the pictures in the southbank collection but none of them show as much energy as this photo does.



http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/dan-boulton-southbank/
http://findrangers.com/danboulton
http://onegiantarm.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/dan-boulton/
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/skate-news/new-science-deck-series-incoming/



question: how did you get to design your own board??

photography evaluation write up: depth of field

these are the depth of field shots, i tried 3 different types with them, with these photos i wanted to get no shots of the characters faces and just indistinguishable shots of their sides or body parts. Because by not showing the characters it shows that though the show is about them there is something bigger they are running/ hiding from. 

i chose this photo because it showed depth of field really well but it was also a really clean and well shot photo, it demonstrates the rule of three really well too, this doesn't really represent the film in anyway but it does add a new element to the dvd box.

photography evaluation write up hands

these are the depth of field shots, i tried 3 different types with them, with these photos i wanted to get no shots of the characters faces and just indistinguishable shots of their sides or body parts. Because by not showing the characters it shows that though the show is about them there is something bigger they are running/ hiding from.

this is the photo i chose for the top of the back of the dvd box, in the end i used the shot of the hands because it allowed me more freedom to edit in photoshop. The photo by itself doesn't tell much of a story by itself but after the editing process it was much better, of all the different shot types i tried, this was my favorite because it was less generic than the other poses, it was more out of the box.

this is the final edited picture, i removed the background in photoshop because, although it did show depth of field, it didnt go with the clean theme that i was going for with the design of the dvd box, it looked too messy, after i cut out the background i used the brush tool to add a blood splatter effect to the hands, to make the viewer ask themselves what has this character done. this adds another element to the film, it means that someone at some point will be killed by one of the main characters.

photography evaluation write up sky

for these photos i wanted to get a picture of the sky with some clouds, to give off the sense of bad things are going to happen in this film. Most of these photos are fairly similar but with small differences, i tried shooting different angles and different locations but most of the shots were taken up by buildings or trees. i chose the photo that i used because it meant i would have more space to use and edit.

 this is the photo i chose, it was the clearest photo of the sky out of the pictures i took, i originally wanted a picture with the mrc building in the background and this picture was a random shot, but the mrc didn't end up looking good so i went with this one. this photo was also a lot easier to edit as i didnt have to worry about changing the colour of the mrc


















this is the edited version of the photo i chose, its a lot darker than the original, i used several different filters to achieve this look, i wanted to make the top half of the photo darker than the bottom, so i could fade the photo into white in the final poster/ dvd.

photography evaluation write up character: jerome

for these photos i wanted to  focus on capture the characters looking kind of scared but not to over do it, i tried some different angles but straight forward worked out the best for what i was going to do to the photos in photoshop. The camera is focused on the characters, because everything else was going to be cut out in the editing process, i got full face shots of the characters because it means i would have more       freedom to change the photos around and switch their placement.

i chose this photograph because it was the most symmetrical and clear, it stood out from the other photos because luke is giving a much more clear emotion of confusion/ fear. The photo was suitable for the dvd box because the character was fairly centered and in the same position.

when i was editing the photograph i tried to make lukes face look lighter and more pale to achieve a more shocked/ frightened look. This also made the photo look a lot cleaner and lighter, this was done by adding a filter to them i increased the warmness of the photo and slightly increased the sharpness.





i like how the final photo turned out, i think it cropped really well and fit together with the other pictures and well proportioned, the editing didnt over do it and made the pictures seem warmer and achieve the initial goals i was going for.
 

photography evaluation write up character: travis

for these photos i wanted to  focus on capture the characters looking kind of scared but not to over do it, i tried some different angles but straight forward worked out the best for what i was going to do to the photos in photoshop. The camera is focused on the characters, because everything else was going to be cut out in the editing process, i got full face shots of the characters because it means i would have more freedom to change the photos around and switch their placement.

i chose this photograph because it had the best lighting out of all the photos, it also was the best shot, the others had been out of focus or looked kind of sloppy, the photo was suitable for the dvd box because the character was fairly centered and in the same position.

when i was editing the photograph i tried to make the face look more pale and make the character look lighter so cutting out the background would be easier and make the photos look cleaner, i achieved  this by adding a filter to them i increased the warmness of the photo and slightly increased the sharpness. i used the rule of thirds when cropping these photos, most of the character is in one third of the photo.





i like how the final photo turned out, i think it cropped really well and fit together with the other pictures and well proportioned, the editing didnt over do it and made the pictures seem warmer and achieve the initial goals i was going for.

 









the photographs fit really well with the poster, theyre what make it work, they're the centre peace of the poster, dvd cover, i did have to resize one of the pictures but it worked out well and isnt super noticable

staged photography

narrative or staged photography is photography that is set up to tell a story, narrative photography involves someone creating a set up to photo to tell a story. in narrative photography the photo is about the characters and what the photographer is trying to express. Even if the photo is taken out of context the person should be able to understand the photograph as it is telling its own story, as apposed to a book or a film.  





one of the earliest accounts of narrative photography was the drowning man by Louis Daguerre. he took a photograph of himself posing as if he had drowned, this was in the 1800s.


this was a big change because photography was mainly portraiture.



Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

1840

Hippolyte bayard

i like this picture because it almost looks amateur and not well prepared for, like it was his first attempt.

fading away

henry peach robinson

1858

I like this photo because it looks really clean for its time, the is effect was achieved by combining different negatives and putting them together.

the cottingley fairies 
 Elsie Wright


1917

this photo is interesting because it was taken by a teenage girl who convinced people that the fairies were real because of how seamless the photo was  












http://www.david-campbell.org/2010/11/18/photography-and-narrative/
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/portrait_of_the_photographer_as_a_drowned_man

Evan Tetreault (chosen photographer)

Evan Tetreault is a photographer from hartford, CT. his photography is mostly fashion/ portrait, dispite still being in college evan has worked with; puma, the new york times, richard branson, a$ap rocky, urban outfitters and lorde. he prefers to use film over digital because he thinks "film is about making an image, its more hands on, digital is kind of a cop out."

evan started off by wanting to create a photo diary, he started by taking landscapes, pictures of friends or anything he found aesthetically pleasing,  Evan developed his style through using white tones in contrast with warm skin tones and shooting candid shots as opposed to staged settings. 

2013
in this picture a man is throwing a bag up to a woman in an apartment.

i like this picture because it looks like hes really captured the moment, the mans shadow looks like its connected to the soles of his shoes. almost everything in the photo is the same colour, the buildings, the street the mans clothes are all concrete grey.

  2013

car park, echo park

i like this picture cause it looks almost fake, like its part of a movie set

2013

noah

this pictures pretty cool because of the focus, it looks like they're 2 different photos put together 











http://www.evantetreault.com/#/
http://evantetreault.tumblr.com/
http://hypebeast.com/2013/6/through-the-lens-evan-tetreault

gregory crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer known for his staged photography of American suburbs and neighborhoods. Crewdson grew up in Brooklyn, new york and attended  John Dewey High School, in the 70s he was in a punk band that was popular in the new york scene, their song “let me take your picture” was featured in a camera advert.

After his band broke up he moved on to study photography in the 80s, He received his Master of fine arts from Yale University after he received his degree he went on to teach at the Yale University School of Art.

In 2012 Ben Shapiro directed a film called “Gregory crewdson: brief encounters” about crewdon, the film opened at south by south west on march 10^th, it was met with praise from critics and fans.

Crewdson focuses on the American suburb but adding a surreal element to the photo, his photographs are incredibly elaborate, often taking months to create with large sets and big crews, his production is very similar to a major film production. Crewdson has often praised the david lynch and Hitchcock films blue velvet and vertigo for influencing his style.

this is my favorite picture of crewdsons. Because there is so much going on, the framing and the perspective in the shot is similar to some of the shots in Stanley kubricks film 2001.

Gregory Crewdson.

 in a lonely place series.

 ????

This is a very surreal photograph, because everything looks peaceful and still but the room is flooded and the woman is floating on the water, possibly even dead

Gregory Crewdson.

Ophelia.

2001

this photo is very similar to the second one, it’s a normal looking American neighborhood but theres a semi-nude character standing infront of this woman and her daughter in the car, almost as if they were an alien, the woman has dropped one of her shopping bags on the floor out of shock

Gregory Crewdson.

Twilight.

                                                                              2002


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson
http://whitecube.com/artists/gregory_crewdson/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/gregory-crewson/

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a french photographer who popularized photojournalism. he used 35mm film, he helped start real life reportage/ street photography.
Cartier was born into a well off french family and studied art and trained as a painter. he only started his carreer in photography in the early 1930s after a visit to the ivory coast. he was the oldest of 5 children, his family were landowners and cotton merchants in Normandy, where he spent most of his childhood.

his first photojournalism photos were published in 1937, by a french magazine, called regards, he was hesitant to use his full name so he went by "cartier". the photos were of the coronation of king George, there were no actual photos of the king, they were mostly crowd shots of london. after the war cartier went on to focus on the tragedies of life.

during the early 70s bresson retired from photography and focused on painting and drawing, bresson said that he kept his camera locked in a safe and only took it out for the occasional portrait.

Cartier used a leica 35 mm rangefinder cameras equipped with 50mm lenses or a wide-angle for landscapes, He would wrapped black tape around the camera's frame to make it less conspicuous. He never photographed with flash as he thought it was rude. cartiers visual style focused around catching movement as it was happening. he never took a colour photograph, his work was entirely in black and white

Spain. Andalucia. Seville. 

1933.

Children Playing in the Ruins

 the photo is of children playing in the ruins of what looks like a hospital, one of the children has a pair of crutches.

New York City. Manhattan. Downtown.1947.

 Photograph (gelatin silver print)

the photo shows a man down a narrow pathway in-between 2 buildings with his head on his arms.

France. Brie. 1968.

the photograph is of a road that is covered on the sides by parallel trees.









http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson