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| "Shell" 2011, Katie Remele |
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| "Shell" 1927, Edward Weston |
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| Original |
The first photo is "Shell" by Edward Weston in 1927. I could not find the exact same shell or anything close to it so I used another shell. I gave mine the same space or cropping and made it flat like Weston's photo. I had to make it black and white. I have the light reflecting on the very front of the shell to get the highlight on the very front. I left the dark grey background instead of black because Weston's is not fully black. I added some grain to give it that darkroom look and have my highlights a little blown out with my shadows pretty dark. There is another version of Weston's "Shell" photo I didn't like so much. It was very flat and very grey, which created no contrast. I liked this one better although it is a little too contrasted because it has more detail.
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| Photo taken by Emma Bramley http://www.emmabramley.co.uk/ |
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| My copycat photo |
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| Original |
I found this photo by Emma Bramley online at http://www.emmabramley.co.uk/. I really like the angle and depth of field of the snowflake. I could not find the gold snowflake but I did find a white one and decided to use that for the image. I added a blur to the left half of the picture to add more depth of field and also darkened the bottom corner of the snowflake to add the shadow of the gold one. I got as close as I could to match the same angle, which was extremely difficult. I looked at Bramley's photo while shooting my snowflake and it took several shoots until I got one that was almost perfect. Because I had to zoom on the shoot, it was difficult to move the camera just-so and find the right angle.
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