Matakuliah
Tahun
: fotografi 2
: 2010
Pertemuan 06
Hollywood Glamour Photography
Overview of covered materials
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Introduction & appreciation to photography during the
1930-1960’s era.
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Elements in glamour photographs.
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Lighting for glamour portraits
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Celebrity portrait styles in the past & present
(compared)
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Introduction to glamour photography
Power in photography separates pictures from photographs
and photographers from shooters.
Anyone can shoot a picture, but not everyone can capture a
photograph. Glamour is not something new, its roots go back
to the early 1900’s, originating in Hollywood where
photographs provided power to the already famous.
The producers wanted their stars to shine, not glimmer, and
they knew that good photographers could capture the drama.
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Introduction to glamour photography
Started in 1920’s
The beginning of Hollywood movies
The studio used the photographs for celebrity portrait for
movie stars
The studios needed to promote their movie stars
Impression : glamour, beautiful
Lighting : hot lights (specular lights)
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Celebrity Portraits
The movie stars have to look beautiful, glamorous, almost
to perfect to be human (god / goddess)
Attitude : cool, arrogant, beyond reach and often not
looking at the camera
Clothing style :
Women : beautiful dresses
Men
: very neat, masculine, suit, hat, cigarette
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Elements Of Glamour
To incorporate a clean background
Separating the subject from the background
Use medium to long telephoto lenses
Lens compression, found naturally in telephoto lenses,
helps eliminate natural clutter, or distracting details
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Lighting
In 1920’s the photographers had to work with were “hard”
lights
Shadows were used as dramatic enhancements.
They used them to heighten the sense of “drama” to the
scene.
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Specular lighting
4 lights or more :
– Lighting pattern : for the face
– Hair light
– Edge light
– Background light (often use props for
background)
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Women celebrity portrait
• Dress
• Hair
• Make up
• Not looking
at
the camera
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Celebrity Portraits
• Butterfly pattern
• arrogant, unreachable
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Celebrity Portraits
• Suit and tie
• Hair
• Cigarette
• Very Masculine
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Male Celebrity Portraits
• Suit and tie
• Hat
• Cigarette
• not looking
• lighting pattern
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Celebrity Portraits
• Props
• Environment,
background
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Comparison to modern portraits
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Comparison to modern portraits
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Comparison to modern portraits
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Comparison to modern portraits
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