Final project
Alex Stoddard
Born-November 15, 1993, Alive present day
Alex Stoddard is an American fine art photographer currently living in CA. Alex Stoddard was born in Florida, but raised in Georgia. He began taking self-portraits at the age of sixteen in the woods behind his house. During his early photographer years, he did a 365 day project. He took a self portrait everyday for a year. He said that it grew very tiring, because he spent so much time on his work for it to reach maximum potential. Alex said that often taking a picture was the last thing he wanted to do, and many times he almost gave up.
Alex’s photographs are very dark and mysterious. It most certainly makes the person who is looking at the photo think about what the picture is conveying. Stoddard say that one day he will be hanging from a cliff, and the next, throwing himself into a fish tank when it dead zero outside. “I didn’t really care if I was uncomfortable, I was just focused on creating a unique shot,” was what Stoddard said. Alex stoddard’s work, in a way reminds me of old documentary photos. Although his are posed, and edited, it gives me the same vibe. The people that are in Stoddard’s photographs really convey feelings and emotions, as if though it is infact real, and actually happening.
Alex Stoddard has created many “Stories”, or so he calls them. They are multiple pictures, put in an album that all have the same theme. The have the same “character” emphasized in the pictures also. Looking at his work, it is not clear what story the pictures are telling. There could possibly be so many. His artwork pulls you in, very deeply.
Alex Stoddard has influenced me on my work by making me think little more outside the edges of typical. After looking through Alex’s work, everytime I go to take a picture, I ask myself, “Is this reached to it’s greatest potential?”. If it is, then that is great, but if it is not then I try to create it so that it is, or gets pretty darn close.
The final three images I chose to recreate were “A destructive force”, which I took outside, like he did, and had the taller person covering the shorter person’s eyes. I put it in black and white to give it a creepier vibe, even though his was not in black and white. The second picture I chose was “Product of Privilege”. Mine was not necessarily recreated from this image, but inspired by it. My picture was a girl floating above a tiny chair, with her head down in the woods. It was inspired by his work because the girl was sitting down. The third picture was recreated from “The comfort in pretending”. I put people walking on a path through the trees, but in my picture there was only two people, unlike his where there was three.
Experimentation took a big role in recreating photos, because they are not original from you. It is important the also use rule of thirds. It makes the photo look more interesting if it is balanced by being unbalanced. Depth is also one of my favorite rules to work with, I think it so interesting how a camera catches it. For example, sometimes you need to position your picture to make sure the camera catches the depth. For recreating these photos, I was nervous they weren’t going to be good enough, but then I realized it didn’t matter because although I was recreating something of his, what made it mine was what is different about them.
http://seamlessphoto.com/beinspired/2013/08/alex-stoddard/
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/19/20under20-alex-stoddard-lets-his-fantasies-and-adventures-come-to-life/
http://www.alexstoddard.com
Born-November 15, 1993, Alive present day
Alex Stoddard is an American fine art photographer currently living in CA. Alex Stoddard was born in Florida, but raised in Georgia. He began taking self-portraits at the age of sixteen in the woods behind his house. During his early photographer years, he did a 365 day project. He took a self portrait everyday for a year. He said that it grew very tiring, because he spent so much time on his work for it to reach maximum potential. Alex said that often taking a picture was the last thing he wanted to do, and many times he almost gave up.
Alex’s photographs are very dark and mysterious. It most certainly makes the person who is looking at the photo think about what the picture is conveying. Stoddard say that one day he will be hanging from a cliff, and the next, throwing himself into a fish tank when it dead zero outside. “I didn’t really care if I was uncomfortable, I was just focused on creating a unique shot,” was what Stoddard said. Alex stoddard’s work, in a way reminds me of old documentary photos. Although his are posed, and edited, it gives me the same vibe. The people that are in Stoddard’s photographs really convey feelings and emotions, as if though it is infact real, and actually happening.
Alex Stoddard has created many “Stories”, or so he calls them. They are multiple pictures, put in an album that all have the same theme. The have the same “character” emphasized in the pictures also. Looking at his work, it is not clear what story the pictures are telling. There could possibly be so many. His artwork pulls you in, very deeply.
Alex Stoddard has influenced me on my work by making me think little more outside the edges of typical. After looking through Alex’s work, everytime I go to take a picture, I ask myself, “Is this reached to it’s greatest potential?”. If it is, then that is great, but if it is not then I try to create it so that it is, or gets pretty darn close.
The final three images I chose to recreate were “A destructive force”, which I took outside, like he did, and had the taller person covering the shorter person’s eyes. I put it in black and white to give it a creepier vibe, even though his was not in black and white. The second picture I chose was “Product of Privilege”. Mine was not necessarily recreated from this image, but inspired by it. My picture was a girl floating above a tiny chair, with her head down in the woods. It was inspired by his work because the girl was sitting down. The third picture was recreated from “The comfort in pretending”. I put people walking on a path through the trees, but in my picture there was only two people, unlike his where there was three.
Experimentation took a big role in recreating photos, because they are not original from you. It is important the also use rule of thirds. It makes the photo look more interesting if it is balanced by being unbalanced. Depth is also one of my favorite rules to work with, I think it so interesting how a camera catches it. For example, sometimes you need to position your picture to make sure the camera catches the depth. For recreating these photos, I was nervous they weren’t going to be good enough, but then I realized it didn’t matter because although I was recreating something of his, what made it mine was what is different about them.
http://seamlessphoto.com/beinspired/2013/08/alex-stoddard/
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/09/19/20under20-alex-stoddard-lets-his-fantasies-and-adventures-come-to-life/
http://www.alexstoddard.com