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Emulation 08 (one Month) Due Sunday, December 27, 2009
Mission: To Emulate the work of Ruth Bernhard.
You can read her biography in many places, but I wanted to tell you the reason I begged for this one.
"Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that ~ responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know." ~Ruth Bernhard
WIT
I responded to my intuition. Doing a photo shoot for the owner of an ad agency who wanted updated images of her children. When the sun and temperature dropped outside, after an hour into the shoot, she took me into her office building to show me this empty dance studio. I knew immediately what I wanted to do. She loves these images of her children. I left the scruf marks on the wall as atmosphere.
Taken to B/W in PSCS4, custom levels on the color channels.