Portrait assignment

 Loretta Lux is a German photographer whose main focus is contemporary art. She is known for her hauntingly surreal and dream like portraits. Lux usually focuses on children but she alters their faces to alienate them so they look different from their true appearance. I really liked Lux's work from the beginning of the semester when we were learning how to shoot depth of field and her book was one of the ones we used. I remember noticing it and thinking it was interesting. I also like that you have to really look at the images to notice that the faces of the children are slightly altered and that the backgrounds are painted. I chose to take/edit my images to go off of her style because I enjoy the way the backgrounds were altered and the portraits stood out. 

I really like this image because the person looks unrealistically bigger than the background and it resonates with me because it looks super human almost. She looks as though she hold all the power. I also like the technical aspect of the colors and how they contrast with each other. I like the editing and how you can't really tell that the background isn't the original background of the image. I chose to take my images based off of this one. So, all of my images have the person or persons in the forefront and they look a little big compared to the background. I also tried to use images that made the pictures look a little super human or supernatural almost. I really liked using the background eraser took and the quick selection tool while editing these images. It was a new technique so it took a little time to get used to but I am happy with how my images turned out. I definitely used Lux as inspiration but with my own spin - Lux uses very soft tones and pastel colors but I used some darker colors and made the backgrounds vibrant and in some, a little bright.