Sunday, 26 August 2012

My Michael Ackerman inspired portrait

After reading about Michael Ackerman and looking at his images, I decided to attempt to create an image in his style.

The image was taken when I was on holiday and is of a person looking out to sea.  I converted the image to black and white and adjusted the contrast to ensure minimal greys.  I also added a heavy grain effect.

I'm not so sure if I like the outcome too much.  I'm not sure if it is really my thing.  However it was an interesting experiment and possibly worth exploring for my upcoming assignment.

I like the idea of blurred or out of focus portraits.  It opens up a number of opportunities.  I think with Ackerman though the high contrast and black and white is what I find a little off putting.


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