Utata is a collective of photographers, writers, and like-minded people who share a compelling interest in the arts. We began (and continue to exist) as a salon-style gathering of photographers who came together on flickr. As a group we are continuously evolving; Utata is more of a process than a final product.
It documents, over the course of ten years, the growing-up of two cousins less than a year apart in age, seen only during large family reunions in the same two timeless settings of their grandparents’ ornately decorated New England home or the family’s summer place on the water.
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The portrait, formal and otherwise, has been a staple of photography since the daguerreotype made it cheap and relatively easy to capture someone's likeness. The 19th-century French writer Charles Baudelaire lamented that the burgeoning photographic industry had become the refuge of failed painters with too little talent. Photo historian Naomi Rosenblum explains that the daguerreotype portrait struck a particular chord in America. In the conjunction of uncanny detail, artless yet intense expression, and nave pose, Americans recognized a mirror of the national ethos that esteemed unvarnished truth and distrusted elegance and ostentation, she writes.
The sample images in this tutorial were takenone evening in Charleston, South Carolina. I really wanted an image that showed some of the beautiful colors of the waterfront mansions along East Battery. The problem: the houses on East Battery face east, the sun was setting in the west, and the mansions were all in shadows. There were some nice sunset-colored clouds on the eastern horizon, but the exposure difference between the house (to achieve a nice, vivid pink) and the twilight sky was at least 5 full stops apart. If I exposed for the mansion, I'd lose the sky. If I shot for the sky, all but the sky was a silhouetted mess of shadows. Splitting the distance between the two extremes did neither dramatic element justice.
Do your black-and-whites look flat? The best monochrome prints have a dirty little secret: color. To get that real black-and-white look, use Adobe Photoshop's Channel Mixer to go monochrome, then add tone with Variations. Soon your friends will be wondering why your bw photos look so much better than theirs do.
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