Photography Research Paper
Name of Artist: Victor Liu
Date of Artist: Birth Date Hidden -Still alive
1.Personal Background
He lives in the Canadian Rockies, taking pictures of landscape. Victor Liu is specialized in fine art landscape photography. He has a masters degree in Computer Science which helps with his photo editing. Victor Liu has also written a book called “A Photographer’s Diary”. He has won multiple awards and is recognised internationally.
2.Style
Victor Liu takes primarily landscape pictures. He has bright, vibrant colors in almost every picture. Each picture appears majestic, always with contrasting or complementing colors, sometimes he uses both. All his pictures are massively edited, each has their colors saturated to extreme amounts. They are never enough to make the picture look bad, only bright and impressive.
3. Philosophy
Victor Liu uses his pictures to show the story of the world. His motivations are for the next generation of photographers. He has a list of tutorials and a link to a workshop signup. The workshop has you go into sparsely populated areas with him and take pictures of various landscapes. He tries to show the beauty of the world in every photo, That the world is larger than we think and there are many places that seem untouched by people.
4. Influences
Seeing the pictures Victor took was and impressive experience. I am always surprised by what people can do. It made me think of places I could go during the summer, areas I could visit, areas I could photograph. This photographer also made me see how inexperienced I am. That I am just an inexperienced teenager with a decent eye for a picture.
5. Sources
https://500px.com/photo/124136743/life-underneath-rock-by-victor-liu
https://500px.com/photo/13800357/red-leaf-at-sunset-by-victor-liu
https://500px.com/photo/15649335/after-rain-by-victor-liu
(Images are sold and cannot be copied)
6. Compare and Contrast Content
Date of Artist: Birth Date Hidden -Still alive
1.Personal Background
He lives in the Canadian Rockies, taking pictures of landscape. Victor Liu is specialized in fine art landscape photography. He has a masters degree in Computer Science which helps with his photo editing. Victor Liu has also written a book called “A Photographer’s Diary”. He has won multiple awards and is recognised internationally.
2.Style
Victor Liu takes primarily landscape pictures. He has bright, vibrant colors in almost every picture. Each picture appears majestic, always with contrasting or complementing colors, sometimes he uses both. All his pictures are massively edited, each has their colors saturated to extreme amounts. They are never enough to make the picture look bad, only bright and impressive.
3. Philosophy
Victor Liu uses his pictures to show the story of the world. His motivations are for the next generation of photographers. He has a list of tutorials and a link to a workshop signup. The workshop has you go into sparsely populated areas with him and take pictures of various landscapes. He tries to show the beauty of the world in every photo, That the world is larger than we think and there are many places that seem untouched by people.
4. Influences
Seeing the pictures Victor took was and impressive experience. I am always surprised by what people can do. It made me think of places I could go during the summer, areas I could visit, areas I could photograph. This photographer also made me see how inexperienced I am. That I am just an inexperienced teenager with a decent eye for a picture.
5. Sources
https://500px.com/photo/124136743/life-underneath-rock-by-victor-liu
https://500px.com/photo/13800357/red-leaf-at-sunset-by-victor-liu
https://500px.com/photo/15649335/after-rain-by-victor-liu
(Images are sold and cannot be copied)
6. Compare and Contrast Content
The piece Victor had was colorful, and had a nice point of focus. My mimic is fairly bland, and does not have a focus point. While there are similar looks and ideals, this piece is of poor resemblance and style. The decay is also different. In Victor's picture it is on the leaf, in mine the decay is present in the grass.
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The season’s the pictures were taken in were vastly different. Mine shows the vitality of late spring and early summer. In Victor’s photo he shows the glory of a dying area. The golden glow of dead grass, the shining aura of the sun, and the brilliant red of a dried leaf as all shown in his picture. Where as mine shows the sickly color of a dead leaf in a healthy, happy environment.
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The angles of the leaf were separate in the pictures. The liquids present were different and in different quantities. My photograph is bland in comparison to that of Victor Liu. His picture shows and island in a sea. The effects a simple rainfall can have on an area, the corruption of an urban area. The picture I produced is a dried leaf on a wet sidewalk.
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7. Personal Artist statement
My images fail to convey any meaningful story, the can only tell dull, bleak narratives. The stories told are of life, the picture on the top shows life persisting at the bare roots of a forest. The middle photo shows a story of a withered being in a sea of the healthy populace. The bottom picture shows the story of nature in the areas of man. Different elements and principles apply to each photograph. Each one has texture, color, contrast, value, patterns, shape, and form. Other elements and principles are present, they just appear one picture exclusively.
My images fail to convey any meaningful story, the can only tell dull, bleak narratives. The stories told are of life, the picture on the top shows life persisting at the bare roots of a forest. The middle photo shows a story of a withered being in a sea of the healthy populace. The bottom picture shows the story of nature in the areas of man. Different elements and principles apply to each photograph. Each one has texture, color, contrast, value, patterns, shape, and form. Other elements and principles are present, they just appear one picture exclusively.