Ming Smith
July 4, 1981
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
In this portrait, this is taken by Ming smith. I can see that the portrait is taken of light and been edited to make the light more blurry and stretched out to make it more suspicious and shows more light. The tone and colour is a the mixture with the light which can show the mood of happy and joyful because it represent of light. The shapes are different since it is been edited and stretched but when you look closely, you can see that there are people standing holding sparkly lights, which can also present that they are having fun time.
This kind of picture is street photography, Ming Smith takes photo in the street because it shows how people they are instead taking photo that doesn't show anything. street photography normally look like people from the street like normal people, the places in the background like a building in the corner.
Ming Smith created this image by asking people to come on the street like anywhere but shows less light in the background. The people lit up sparkly lights and people acting normal and happy like having fun time with friends. She taken this image in the dark time to make it look more soulful and joyful with lights. I would use a tripod and a camera that take good quality photos in the dark and take this image somewhere that is dark and have little light in the background like lamps and signs with lights.
This picture makes me feel joyful and happy because it shows that light can present people soul being excited and having fun time and it can also present people finding peace and happiness after hard time they went through. I like how this photo can present people's feelings and soulful and it makes feel this image is very precious and will try their best not to forget and lose it because this time will never happen again. If i could have a chance to talk to her, i will ask her how does taking this image makes you feel and think? Why did you take image? And, how will this change people feelings and thoughts?
Some basic research helps me understand this picture that she taking this picture that will never happen again in the future so you have to take the photo that shows grace in it and happiness because this photo will never happen so you must take it before its too late. Also it makes the feeling more precious like you never had before, having a really good time in your life and spending those time like its a last day in your life. From reading the research about this picture, it helps me understand more because Ming Smith takes photo that is precious moment and have grace, peace and happiness in the picture that is made my light.
This picture is relate to the theme of Creative use of Light, because Ming Smith uses light to present the photo of grace and happiness.
This kind of picture is street photography, Ming Smith takes photo in the street because it shows how people they are instead taking photo that doesn't show anything. street photography normally look like people from the street like normal people, the places in the background like a building in the corner.
Ming Smith created this image by asking people to come on the street like anywhere but shows less light in the background. The people lit up sparkly lights and people acting normal and happy like having fun time with friends. She taken this image in the dark time to make it look more soulful and joyful with lights. I would use a tripod and a camera that take good quality photos in the dark and take this image somewhere that is dark and have little light in the background like lamps and signs with lights.
This picture makes me feel joyful and happy because it shows that light can present people soul being excited and having fun time and it can also present people finding peace and happiness after hard time they went through. I like how this photo can present people's feelings and soulful and it makes feel this image is very precious and will try their best not to forget and lose it because this time will never happen again. If i could have a chance to talk to her, i will ask her how does taking this image makes you feel and think? Why did you take image? And, how will this change people feelings and thoughts?
Some basic research helps me understand this picture that she taking this picture that will never happen again in the future so you have to take the photo that shows grace in it and happiness because this photo will never happen so you must take it before its too late. Also it makes the feeling more precious like you never had before, having a really good time in your life and spending those time like its a last day in your life. From reading the research about this picture, it helps me understand more because Ming Smith takes photo that is precious moment and have grace, peace and happiness in the picture that is made my light.
This picture is relate to the theme of Creative use of Light, because Ming Smith uses light to present the photo of grace and happiness.
Photos inspired by Ming Smith.
Evaluation.
In this experiment, I spent 2 hours taking photos of my friends using different type of lights like changing the brightness of the light and use different colours like cool and warm colours, however it is hard to get the right photos because I need to make it blurry so I need to shake my camera and the person moving while standing and swinging their arm with the light on their phone so it need to be on the right time to take it but I just spam taking photos so it will be quicker than just trying to take on the right time.
I really like how the blurry and shaky images with lights matches with the colour in the background because it present similar to Ming Smith photos. I also like how i pose and swinging my arms and it hurts but it really worth it and it shows really good result.
The photos shows of me fake walking but moving my arms with the light showing little similar way with the photo of Ming Smith's portrait with a group of people holding light.
I tried multiple different ways using different type of lights for example, i tried to take a photo using a quick flash, however the photo end up whole white so instead I planned what different lights I will use with different colours. Also, I posed fake walking and swinging arms to make the photo blurry, it did make it little bit blurry, so I just shake my camera quickly to make it more blurry.
I really like how the blurry and shaky images with lights matches with the colour in the background because it present similar to Ming Smith photos. I also like how i pose and swinging my arms and it hurts but it really worth it and it shows really good result.
The photos shows of me fake walking but moving my arms with the light showing little similar way with the photo of Ming Smith's portrait with a group of people holding light.
I tried multiple different ways using different type of lights for example, i tried to take a photo using a quick flash, however the photo end up whole white so instead I planned what different lights I will use with different colours. Also, I posed fake walking and swinging arms to make the photo blurry, it did make it little bit blurry, so I just shake my camera quickly to make it more blurry.
My best photos.
My best photos are those three, because I really like how the light stays in one place but in different shape and brightness of the light I also like how the colour matches the portrait and the person move/glitch-looking because it look really cool and you can't see what that person is doing. I was pleased that I was able to choose this portraits, that it have the correct colours, lighting and the time it took it get this right photos at the right time.
However, I need to add more ideas of lights, poses and the colour in the background to make it look more interesting. I think there should like some props or more lights to make it look better and something in the background to make it not that too plain.
It takes a lot of tries to get right photos and try different lightings and different ways to create light in the photo like that one light in those photos, but unfortunately it didn't work so i had to use one light ,and tried to move it fast to make it shaky and wobble my body to make it glitchy. I think it would be better if there were more people and more light than it will be better but we have only two people doing the same thing so its not enough.
However, I need to add more ideas of lights, poses and the colour in the background to make it look more interesting. I think there should like some props or more lights to make it look better and something in the background to make it not that too plain.
It takes a lot of tries to get right photos and try different lightings and different ways to create light in the photo like that one light in those photos, but unfortunately it didn't work so i had to use one light ,and tried to move it fast to make it shaky and wobble my body to make it glitchy. I think it would be better if there were more people and more light than it will be better but we have only two people doing the same thing so its not enough.
My favourite photo.
My favourite photo is this portrait, because I really like how the light moved and the way the picture look like it been glitched.
Final piece.
In this final piece, I edited my work from few weeks before where I took simple photos using one or two objects and one colour in the background, mine is white, so I thought if I could edit it for my final piece and it did turn out good. I edited all my photos in black and white and I edited the mirror, that is circle, with normal colour and some picture with light overlay to make it look distorted. It is hard to know how to edit because there’s lots of things to learn how to edit the photo how you wanted to be, however it is fun and it is good to learn and know how it works so next time I can edit it quickly.
My teacher only teach some basic things like changing to black and white, but I wanted it be more complex, so I came after school and I watched some videos and tutorials to learn how to edit more. It took me 20 minutes to understand how to edit more, so I used those skills to edit my photos like using contrast with different photos and cutting photos into circles and not making rest of the image disappear, so I add another layer with the same photo so the rest of the image stays there. It takes a lot of time and it is hard to edit but it worth it and the result looks really good so I am glad I learn how to edit photos.
I really like how all of these photos been edited in different ways like changing colours to black and white, overlaying object with different photos many different edits. I also like how some photos are kind of distorted like using different filters for the second image that is overlay on the object.
My teacher only teach some basic things like changing to black and white, but I wanted it be more complex, so I came after school and I watched some videos and tutorials to learn how to edit more. It took me 20 minutes to understand how to edit more, so I used those skills to edit my photos like using contrast with different photos and cutting photos into circles and not making rest of the image disappear, so I add another layer with the same photo so the rest of the image stays there. It takes a lot of time and it is hard to edit but it worth it and the result looks really good so I am glad I learn how to edit photos.
I really like how all of these photos been edited in different ways like changing colours to black and white, overlaying object with different photos many different edits. I also like how some photos are kind of distorted like using different filters for the second image that is overlay on the object.
This is how I edited my photos by using photoshop, it is hard to edit but when I learnt how to edit more, it is easy to edit and learn more things.
I displayed my photos on the floor and I decided I am gonna use the first display strategy because like i how