Fine Art vs. Commercial Portraits

Image result for woody allen commercial
by Unknown

This is a commercial with Woody Allen for the company Smirnoff where he is no in the center and the focus I would say is more on the alcoholic product instead of on the film director/actor and he is there as "the money maker". Whereas, is the Fine Art picture there is only him with his face close to the camera and nothing to distract you from the subject of the photo, even the background is blank putting emphasis on him and what he's wearing. Also in the commercial portrait, the background, although bland, compliments the product and sort of hides the person in it making the product stand out even more. Furthermore, the commercial is not too clear and the fine art is very detailed, although this may be due to the fact that one is taken years after the other.

by Philippe Halsman

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Project09 Surrealism and Photomontage

Image
In this image i just took a bunch of different weird things and cut them and then placed them around the background image. This image shows surrealism because there are cars riding on a lamp-post, there is a huge eye in the sky, a big face behind the mountain and a person sitting on top of a building.  Furthermore, the cars are the smallest thing in the image which is unrealistic as they are normally bigger than people, eyes, and faces. In this image I chose to put a tidy that I made to make the sky look abnormal and then I put a fish in the sky to add even more weirdness to the picture. This is surrealism because the sky is not actually like that and also because fish don't fly.
Read more

Project 13: PreWork

Image
Title of Film or Video: Ways it showed a UTOPIA Ways it showed DYSTOPIA Children  They are all the same and all get good grades The setting is gloomy and dark, also they can't talk The Truman Show The 'world' revolves around him and he lives an almost perfect life. The reality of the situation shows how the whole thing is faked to make him believe that his world is the real one. The Giver Everyone is a perfect person and they all have their own assigned jobs The government is corrupt and everything is in black and whit until the last couple minutes of he movie What is Utopia: - a perfect world where everything is met to perfection/ an ideal world -  an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. What is Dystopia: - A world with problems, corruption and other dreaded things - an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic. THE GIVER:...
Read more

Project 13- Utopia/Dystopia

Image
In general, our shots are taken from various angles and of many different object and things in many different areas. Also I think that main focus of the dystopic images was grimness and the main theme for the utopic was happiness and liveliness.
Read more