Further 'Studio Lighting' Visual Research

Vincent Peters

Vincent Peters

Karl Axon- 3rd year UCLan student

Karl Axon- 3rd year UCLan student

Karl Axon- 3rd year UCLan student

I felt that the use of one light source was a technically effective method which clearly and simply presents the individual within a portrait. The visual images pictured by Karl Axon clearly demonstrate that through the use of the soft box overhead you are able to offer and highlight the aesthetic beauty of the subject matters, softly bringing out a shine and almost glowing displacement from the individuals skin. This culminates in a idealistic 'beauty' representation, of the individuals, which again plays on ideas of voyeurism and looking at the characters as works of art, this though is perhaps a false reflection of their true self. Vincent Peters use of a similar soft focus editing processes, focus dropping from the face, is again confirmation of the idea of the aesthetic beauty and tenderness of the female gender, facilitated by the face's position of attention to the voyeur onlooker. All of the images, above, present the subjects as supposed nudes, encouraging the viewer to imagine the physical beauty of the subjects, further appreciating the aesthetic form of these attractive subjects. This idea of voyeurism and the act of looking is, again, of course, touched  upon, the privileged/empowered perspective that the viewer is positioned within, though, is slightly challenged by the subjects own stare directly at us, the viewer, and this adds another dimension to the work as the works of art are not only being looked upon but are looking back onto us, voyeurs within voyeurs. I would like to emulate all of the aforementioned components within my own approach.