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Emma Moore

Free Account, Winchester

The partner picture to 'She'.
Taken with a Mamiya medium format camera in a contolled studio set up.

Representation of emotions within female and male characters

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Emma Moore 21/06/2006 21:05
Well yes, they were both faking. I used eye drops for the tears. I guess that's the price you have to pay for un-professional models!
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Luc Grollie 20/06/2006 21:44
think the 'he' version looks much more honest than the 'she' version which to me looks "artificial crying"
if i hadn't been reading the explonation i'd think she was faking ....
greetz,
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Dirk Hofmann 18/06/2006 17:12
i like these discussions .... opens my mind to other photographers way of seeing things ... ;-)
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Emma Moore 18/06/2006 15:29
Thankyou Dirk for your comments :) I can see what you mean about the 'she' portrait not being as striking as 'he' because of the lighting, but yes i did intend for them to be very different.

My tutors at university prefered the 'he' portrait too. I think i prefer it over 'she' as well because it is full of emotion - much more so in some ways than 'she'.
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Dirk Hofmann 16/06/2006 23:04
thank you very much for your explanation ... this is the way i like this community to be ... :-)

i can follow you explanation and your intension, but of course i can only judge what i see here ... i honestly believe you about the print of "she" and when i hear about the quality everything seems to be alright ...

actually i like your way to approach the topic ...
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Emma Moore 16/06/2006 21:10
The reason I had no surrounding in either picture is because this was my first ever attempt at photographing in a studio and with a medium format camera, so it had to be kept nice and simple.

'She' is meant to be much brighter and evenly lit because I am representing the way that emotions within males and female are different. Males shy away and hide their true emotion. Females are more open - hense she is looking at the viewer and is not afraid to cry in front of us, the lighting is even across her face, showing us every expression of her emotion. The actual image is very powerful and the blue background works well. The reason i chose blue is because her eyes are blue and she has very beautiful eyes and in the real image, her eyes are the main focus of the picture. They really draw the viewer in. Our eyes are the window to our emotions and this is why i linked the two blues.
I scanned 'she' in and a great deal of the detail was lost and therefore it doesn't look as striking. The tears are the first thing you see on the real portrait and it doesn't look like a nice studio portrait at a first glance, it does look the way i intend it to.
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Dirk Hofmann 16/06/2006 0:31
well ... when i saw the thumb i felt "sadness" from the posing ... this one matches the idea with it's colors and the lights, but i miss some "surrounding" here ...

anyway ... this one is far better than "she" where i first thought this might be a "nice studio portrait" from the first look ... in "she" the blue background brings more "happiness" that you might have wanted to and the "portrait - light - setting" doesn't work like the lights above ...
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