About:
Solve Sundsbo is a Norwegian photographer based in London who takes photos for magazines as well as films and advertising. I find his photos very beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to look at and have a very supernatural and ominous look to them. Solve's photos are mostly of women and he captures their beauty and features in very creative ways sometimes very dark and almost scary but still beautiful at the same time. He uses many different techniques in his photography such as multiple exposure in some of his fashion shots that have nature elements to them as he he merges his subjects with nature. Solve also manipulates light and shadow as well as manipulating the backgrounds in his photos to bring out the subject or compliment them. He takes his photos in a way that makes them look as if they have been digitally edited when they often haven't been however, he uses a lot of old fashion techniques and clever lighting. From looking at Solve Sundsbo's images, I get the feeling of him trying to imagine a "perfect world" similar to how other artists such as Hugh Kretschmer come up with their ideas. This is because of how his images have unrealistic aspects such as unblemished faces and bright colours that illuminate the features of the models in his photographs.
Solve Sundsbo is a Norwegian photographer based in London who takes photos for magazines as well as films and advertising. I find his photos very beautiful and aesthetically pleasing to look at and have a very supernatural and ominous look to them. Solve's photos are mostly of women and he captures their beauty and features in very creative ways sometimes very dark and almost scary but still beautiful at the same time. He uses many different techniques in his photography such as multiple exposure in some of his fashion shots that have nature elements to them as he he merges his subjects with nature. Solve also manipulates light and shadow as well as manipulating the backgrounds in his photos to bring out the subject or compliment them. He takes his photos in a way that makes them look as if they have been digitally edited when they often haven't been however, he uses a lot of old fashion techniques and clever lighting. From looking at Solve Sundsbo's images, I get the feeling of him trying to imagine a "perfect world" similar to how other artists such as Hugh Kretschmer come up with their ideas. This is because of how his images have unrealistic aspects such as unblemished faces and bright colours that illuminate the features of the models in his photographs.
These are the photos that I manipulated in the style of Solve Sundsbo. I used studio lighting as well as the interesting lighting I found outdoors to give colour to the photos however, I also used Photoshop to create most of the colour effects in the photos by using the selective colour tool in the adjustments section which is under Images. This photo shoot relates to my theme because I created images that make the subject seem like they are in a different world therefore keeping the surreal aspect of the photos whilst also making them aesthetic with the red filter that I used and the layering of different photos on top of the subject's face. This is also similar to Solve Sundsbo's photography as I tried to create very aesthetic and perfect looking scenes mainly due to adjusting the lighting in the studio that I used to make the subjects face look as soft as possible. I felt as though there were images that were more successful than others which I feel is because the studio shots were the ones that conveyed the "perfect" look that I was trying to acomplish more that the photos that I took outdoors. Editing the cityscapes onto the face of my model in some of the images created a sort of dream-like effect that was inspired by Solve Sundsbo and made them seem more unrealistic which is what I was aiming for.
I then developed the first photo shoot further by taking more photos in the studio but focused more on the poses and shadows to make the model look more surreal. The only lighting that I used in the studio was from a red filter which lit up one side of the model's face which made the structure of her face clearer to see. By using only one source of light in the studio, I created the ominous look that Solve Sundsbo achieved in his photos. In this shoot I wanted to create a more professional look that focused on one model in different poses. I felt as though the red added a warm feeling that was accompanied with a sort of dangerous feeling because of how she's covered in darkness with only the red light lighting up her features. This required me to use a higher f-stop as well as a higher than usual ISO due to the darkness. I edited these photos in Photoshop where I used the Selective Colour tool to enhance the red light as well as changing the brightness of the photo so that it was a bit clearer to see her features whilst still making the photo dark.