World Image Magazine Issue 31 April 2016 | Page 36
When art copies life - a photograph is a secret
about a secret. The more it tells you the less you
should know.
Thinking outside the box comes under the
general banner of Photoart. Here the only limits
to what is presented in the final picture are
dictated you and your imagination.
The idea of the picture in the woods by Alan
Griffiths has the simplicity of execution, but I
wonder how many people would think to put that
simplicity into practice.
In this case the same picture is use both inside
and outside the frame, the outer one is blurred in
photoshop and converted to greyscale.
The trick comes with the inclusion of the two
figures in the foreground.
Picture in the Woods by Alan Griffiths
The promotional still
from Blood Offering by
Mike Shawcross is also
Photoart but the art is
included in the subject. For
that reason it is also valid in
the Portrait Gallery.
In this style it is all about
the make-up and lighting.
Because neither is natural to
a standard portrait it falls
into the remit of Photoart.
Pictures do not need to be
manipulated to be art.
Sometimes the direct
methods of table top
photography and some
thought can produce the
Tabletop Picture by Alan Griffiths
results.
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Promotional Still from my latest film job, Blood
Offering. Director Andy Stewart
Picture by Mike Shawcross
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