The Connective Cyanotype

Alternative processes in photography have distinguished themselves in my mind as bold ways of letting out a message creatively while making the viewer's eyes intrigued and thirsty for more. However, I believe the purpose of art is for people to make their own connections whilst lost in the mystery of an artist's work. This is exactly what I wanted to accomplish while putting together a "triple" exposure...

‎"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." — Charles Bukowski

For this assignment, we needed to produce something marketable. Basically, I needed to be inspired by something I wanted the world to hear through my artwork, and make people listen. I figured it had to be something simple yet endlessly deep... like a short sentence written by Shakespeare. I was inspired after searching something on google and seeing the number of possibilities the search engine had...

"I've got a life sentence for breaking the rules of composition............what are you in for?"

Breaking the rules is not as easy as songs about teenage angst, delinquents and pro-peer pressure motivational speakers make it out to be. Well... at least not the rules of composition. Taking a photo successfully breaking the rules of composition AND looking beautiful at the same time have proved to be difficult while shooting for this assignment. In order for me to get a "so good it's bad" photograph,...

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -Henri Poincare

I really like all the lines and shapes in this photo. When shooting this, I incorporated the flourescent lighting from above, the streetlights on the street (behind the window), moonlight and my own light source being a small light set up on subject's right. I used a Canon Rebel T2i with an 18-55mm lens, a shutter speed of 1/60s and an aperture of f7.0.  For this photo I used a variety of light...

Studio Frightening

For my studio lighting portrait photos, I didn't want to take 3 simple photographs of the subject smiling and "sitting pretty". Instead, I found inspiration (once again) from Halloween and the masks that people wear on this strange event. I wanted to add an element of confusion and wonder to each photograph to  make the viewer feel taken aback by the sight of the different distortions the subject...

Let's paint some light on this situation

PAINTING WITH LIGHT is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. Light painting photography can be traced back to the year 1914 when "Frank Gilbreth, along with his wife Lillian Moller...

Gazuntite!

Lady With Unicorn                                      Lady With Unicorn Allergy by Raphael Santi                                         by Allegra Markus Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March...

Is it me you're looking for?

While taking these photos, I analyzed the world around me in search for the small details and wonders I have taken for granted. I also analyzed myself, and went into detail about what makes me who I am or who I want to be. All of these thoughts have produced a single banner reading "ALLEGRA MARKUS". I took this photo with a Canon Rebel T2i with an 18-55mm lens. I shot with an aperture of f16...

Merry with Harry

Soap Opera Couple, TV shot Harry Gruyaert 1972 At this very moment... Harry Gruyaert is officially my Grade 11 Photography inspiration. Thanks to Magnum Photos, I was able to explore his wonderful work and gain insight to what Harry was feeling while taking a certain "group" of photos. A short biography was given to a group of photographs named "TV shots", one of which is posted above. Harry described...