Playing with shadows in photography opens a world of transformative visual energy. By using shadows a scene can be altered in unlimited ways producing new visual qualities that gives the viewer a personal imaginative experience within the photograph.
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We have grown to love portraits, from Roman funeral portraits through the Renaissance and modern artistic movements in the 21st century.
And how wouldn’t we, they are exciting and captivating, They all had that ultimate common goal, to capture the expression, likeness and personality within a mood that they may convey.
Red, a love & hate relationship.
How can one even describe a color like red?
To us today, the color red is more than just a color. It is ubiquitous to urban explorers. it is on billboards, incorporated in brands, flags, traffic lights, on alert signs, it is even on women’s lips around the world.
What lies ahead for aesthetics in photography and the visual arts in general?
Our society is changing at such a rapid pace like never before in human history. Technological advances have changed our lives in almost all areas, it has not only changed the way we view the world and how we interact with our world but is also changing our values and aesthetics along with it.
The question here is : will the emerging art forms and visual aesthetics evolve as a natural evolutionary process? Or will new aesthetics values be born out of a world that has changed so rapidly that the evolutionary process in visual arts is turned on its head?
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