Compositional Research Ranking

Rankin.

Rankin is a  portrait and fashion photographer. He was born in 1966. Rankin has captured all different portraits of different celebrities such as; Britney Spears, Kate Moss, Kylie Minogue, Spice Girls and many more different celebrities. As well as this Rankin has worked on a number of advert campaigns for big companies such as Nike, as well as chairty work raising awareness of the issue of HIV in Africa. He has been influenced by successful fashion photographers such as Cecil Beaton and David Bailey and remains one of the most well-known and influential contemporary photographers, even being asked to photograph the Queen in the year of her Golden Jubliee.

Rankin has captured this image of Madonna holding her jacket closed together. The amount of light used for this image shows the sharpness detail on her face but mainly around her eyes. The thing I like about the use of this light is that it makes her face stand out clear then anything else in the image.

Rankin has used a certain amount of lines in her hair and on her jacket, the use of lines gives the image a lot of detail. The subject dominats the space which creates a composing image as well as this the use of white space allows the subject to be use to create and clear and pure feel to the image.

The subject is postioned in the centre; large and looking directly into the camera to make the audience focus mainly on her.

Second Idea

For my second Idea I have chosen to focus on creating a step by step make-up collage which means, taking pictures of each step of make-up. e.g. no make-up on to bit by bit and then to a final image of all make-up on. To complete this collage I'm going to be taking images of my sister, putting on make-up.



This is the type of experiment I'm wanting my idea to come out like. I also want it clear to show each step and how you actually apply the make-up on until the final image.
To complete this Idea I'm going to be experimenting this with my sister. I'm taking pictures before the make-up has been applied, then stage by stage and then show the out-come of it.

I've chosen this for one of my idea because this is one of the things I love which is also shown on my love and hate brainstorm.

The reason I've chosen to do a step by step image is because I like the way they do the close-ups of the model of how they apply the makeup I also like the way they show the different transformations and ways for each bit.



This is the kind of transformations that I am quite interested in and this image is showing the similar things of before and after.



Daniel Gbenga

Daniel Gbenga.

From looking at Daniel Gbenga's work you can see the sharpness of the bus on the right hand side. The reason why I like this image Is the way Gbenga has not only captured the side of the bus but also has captured the underground sign in the far distance; i like the use of sharpness to make the bus stand out more; seems to look like the main focus of this image. Gbenga has blurred the back-ground to make the audience focus mainly on London’s main transports.

My first responce is that I was attracted to this image as the London Bus seems to be directing your eyes to the bus itself but also directs you towards the underground sign in the far distance. Tthe thing that drew me more closer into this image is the use of the blurred back-ground which means that everything else doesnt need to be focused on or even paid attention to.



I have taken these images of different London landmarks e.g. Big Ben and London Eye.

I took these images is all different directions, from taking these images I could experiment on using different effects such as ray lights going through or in a certain direction to add a lot of detail. This relates to my theme by the things I love which mainly is London, were I live and expresses how much I love being a true Londoner.