Evaluation

I have been researching photographers to get ideas for my project and decode how to create my multiple image. I mostly got inspired but Paul M. Smith but i also found another photographer that inspired me. The photographers name is Sarah Ann Loreth and the picture of hers that inspired me is this one :

I believe that there is more that one way to create this photo and the ghost - like effect. She had either used slow shutter speed and just walked from one place to the other, which would mean that where she's blurred, she just stood there for few seconds, whereas where you can see her perfectly clear she stood there for way longer than in the other positions.
She also could have taken the photographs for each position she's standing in and then developed it and layered it in Photoshop using the photograph with her standing in the middle as a background photo. The she would have turned the opacity of the other layers down to create the ghostly effect.

What inspired my in this image is the mysterious mood it has, and what makes it even more mysterious is the location where the picture is taken. It looks like its a hall way of an old school or abandoned hospital. The dark corridor and the low light coming form the dirty windows along the hall make the image look scary, which goes with the ghost theme that in my opinion artist was trying to create. There aren't many colors in the picture but that makes the girl in the photo stand out even more, even though it seems like she was trying to blend in wearing white dress, which goes with the windows and covering her face with her black hair which fit in with the dark sealing and the wall at the end of the corridor. The composition in this picture is mean to be specious as she's not really at the fore ground or the background, she's precisely in the middle which gives us enough room to look at the old broken floor and kind of see the background through the blurred silhouette.

Unfortunately when i found this photographer and her photo I had already done my multiple image and there was no more time to create a new one. It doesn't bother me too much because I was quite happy with my final photo. Whereas it is still something I would like to have a go at doing in the future. 

Multiple Images Research

Paul M. Smith

I my research I looked at the photographer called Paul M. Smith and I found inspirational photographs of his. One that I really liked was one form album on his website called 'Artist Rifles' and the photo is:

Inspiration
What I like about this photo is that has one model but he's playing different characters.

Theme
The background in the picture looks quite peaceful even though the theme of it is war.

Lighting
When Paul took these pictures outside I suppose he must have used a reflector to get the lighting in the picture right so that it looks realistic, as the weather can always change and so will the lighting.

Composition and Coloring
The figures are pretty much centered in the middle of a frame.
Different characters bring attention to the viewer as they're trying to guess their role. The picture represents the scene in the middle of green field with bright grey sky in the back, which tells us that it's morning. The camouflage clothes, go with the green field.

Another piece of his work that I liked comes form an album 'Make My Night'

Lighting
Again, the lighting in this photo has to be done carefully to make it look perfect and real. The man right at the front of the picture eating kebab is what we're looking at yet he's out of focus but the figures being him are not.

Composition & Theme
They're all over the place having some fun.


Inspiration
I like the idea of out of focus close up picture.

Coloring
The colors here are pretty dark except the places that the flash touches.  

Combine those two pictures together and I have an idea and rough image of what my picture is going to look like.

Definition of Film Noir

Film noir is a word for 'black film' in French. It is style of movies associated with low-key black & white style. It's also a term used to describe Hollywood crime dramas. This style started in the early 1940s till late 1950s.
It first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, and it was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era.
Film noir focuses on the darker side of human nature, it's permanent state of melancholy that comes from the dark settings and lack of color portray it's gritty realistic dramas, and thrilling crimes, using suspense and tension to entertain and blunt realism to shock the audience A sharp contrast to the joyous song filled magical adventures  of the technicolor films.
Although film noir is not only for film buffs and academics. The film-makers of the 40′s and 50′s were not making “film noir” movies, they were making pictures for a wide audience which are still immensely entertaining.