At the beginning of this project I chose Martin Brent, but I soon found it difficult to imitate the types of pictures he captured in his photo. So, I decided to change my famous photographer. I begin searching in Google for famous photographers and I stumbled on a personality test to see which of the famous photographers I am most compatible with. That’s how I ended up with Jerry N. Uelsmann as my famous photographer.
The reason I stuck with this artist was because I was captivated by his photos. They had a graphic look in them which I found to be quite interesting. The fact he was able to accomplish the graphic effect just by printing photos is amazing. It’s pretty easy to achieve it with a computer, but by my personal experience I realized it is very difficult and a time consuming job to achieve perfection.
Being a graphic major I found his work fascinating in the aspect that is very similar to what we do in graphic arts. I didn’t know that you are able to create work by using more than one negative. Just like doing it in Photoshop we use different layers to create a close perfection to a master piece. In Photoshop is easy to overlay different picture in different lighting, to burn and dodge, or even erase. On the contrary, developing photos in the same sense, not so easy. It was a challenge to get the pictures to look half descent to be viewed. It was easy to come up with a technique to get the work done but to apply it in reality was most difficult.
Although I found this artist fascinating, imitating the way he developed his work was very exhausting and not really fun. I concluded from this project that choosing a graphics major instead of photography was the best thing I did for myself.
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