Idea 1

Rankin
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sited from- http://rankin.co.uk/biography/
Rankin made his name in publishing, founding the seminal monthly magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1992. It provided a platform for innovation for emerging stylists, designers, photographers and writers. The magazine went on to forge a distinctive mark in the arts and publishing spheres, and developed a cult status forming and moulding trends, and bringing some of the brightest lights in fashion to the foreground.

Rankin has created landmark editorial and advertising campaigns. His body of work features some of the most celebrated publications, biggest brands and pioneering charities, including Nike, Swatch, Dove, Pantene, Diageo, Women’s Aid, and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. He has shot covers for Elle, German Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone and Wonderland. His work has always endeavoured to question social norms and ideas of beauty and, in late 2000, Rankin published the heteroclite quarterly Rank, an experimental anti-fashion magazine celebrating the unconventional. In 2001, Jefferson and Rankin launched AnOther Magazine. With a focus on fashion, originality, and distinction. In response to the expanding menswear market, in 2005 AnOther Man was introduced, combining intelligent editorial with groundbreaking design and style. More recently, the Dazed Group has established itself as an online authority, via AnOthermag.com, Dazeddigital.com and Dazedtv.com. Rankin celebrated Dazed & Confused’s 20th anniversary, shooting 20 front covers of Dazed favourites and 20 inside covers of the next generation of talent, for the December 2011 issue.

Tapping into the consciousness of the 90s and 00s with his intimate approach and playful sense of humour, Rankin became known for his portraiture of bands, artists, supermodels and politicians. Having photographed everyone from the Queen of England to the Queen of Pop, Rankin is often seen as a celebrity photographer. However, his plethora of campaigns and projects featuring ‘real women’ marked him out as a genuinely passionate portrait photographer, no matter who the subject. Always pursuing personal projects which push his limits, high impact charity projects, and groundbreaking commercial campaigns, Rankin has stood out for his creative fearlessness. His first major worldwide and award-winning campaign, Dove’s ‘Real Women’, epitomised his approach: to reveal the honesty of the connection and collaborative process between photographer and subject. Personal or commercial, Rankin’s images have become part of contemporary iconography, evidence of his frankness and passion for all aspects of modern culture, and its representation in the photographed image. Rankin has published over 30 books, is regularly exhibited in galleries around the world, as well as his own London gallery. His museum-scale exhibition ‘Show Off’ opened at NRW Dusseldorf in September 2012, pulling in over 30,000 visitors in 3 months.

In the last few years, he has frequently turned his hand to studies of photography through TV presenting. Working with the BBC, he has featured in a number of seminal documentaries, ‘The Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion’, ‘South Africa in Pictures’, ‘Shooting the Stars’, ‘The Life Magazine Photographers’ and most recently, an in-depth documentary into the modern approach to death in, ‘Alive: In the Face of Death’.
His affiliation with charities has seen Rankin travel the world, creating powerful campaigns both as a photographer and a director. With Oxfam, he visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya, and in 2011 hosted an Oxglam exhibition, featuring work from some of the world’s most talented emerging young photographers, and raising money for the charity. 2013 sees a planned trip to Jordan and Lebanon with Oxfam. In 2009, Rankin undertook the biggest project of his career, Rankin Live, a mammoth, interactive spectacle and exhibition. Always interested in the democratisation of the image, and also a keen advocate of the amazing digital advances of the photographic industry, Rankin Live was the culmination of the accessibility and speed of modern photography. Rankin proved that everyone can look like a magazine cover star as, for 7 straight weeks, he photographed people off the street, one every 15 minutes, retouching, printing and hanging the image within half an hour of the shutter being fired. Rankin photographed over 1600 Londoners, before then taking Rankin Live on tour in Mexico and New York.

In 2011, Rankin Film Productions was born. Rankin developed a taste for film
directing music videos, commercials, and short films with co-director Chris Cottam between 2002 and 2009, including their debut feature film, The Lives of Saints. Written by Toni Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), it won the grand jury prize at the Salento International Film Festival. Since 2009, Rankin has continued to direct independently on both commercial and personal projects. Taking on the new role of Executive Producer, Rankin recently founded Collabor8te, in association with The Bureau and Dazed TV. Collabor8te calls on scriptwriters and directors to submit their ideas for narrative film, promising to turn a selection of these dreams into a reality, producing them, featuring them on Dazed TV, and running them on the international film festival circuit. In November 2011, Rankin returned to magazine publishing with a fresh offering, The Hunger. A biannual fashion, culture and lifestyle magazine, The Hunger and its associated Hunger TV website, a video-based digital platform featuring in-depth interviews, fashion films, blogs, updates, and previews, marked Rankin’s return to the fashion world with an understanding that the future is not only printed but digital too.

 I really like these photo of Rankin's I want to try something like this. I like the way this is in black and white is used and how the light reflects of the paint or what he has used. I am going to try and re-do these photos myself and see how it tuns out I am then I'm going to try experimenting with different things, to do with these photos.

My Attempts 

I have tried to replicate this photo of rankins it doesn't exactly look the same but i still like the way it is in black and white and how the light reflects off the paint. These are also some photos of the process and the ones that didn't turn out you i wanted them too.

i tried to copy two of the images above here but none of them turned out how i wanted them too. Next time I need to make sure that the lights go off. I also need to make sure i get the right angles and stuff as the actual picture to get the same effect. i don't think i will be using things like this for my final images.

Paint Pictures

Thinking about these pictures he has used light on a lot of them and reflected it. I think my idea for this area will be to use baby oil or something, apply it to my models face and let the light shine off it. I like these because they have turned out well the other ones where pictures i didn't like as much from the shoot.

I have taken these three pictures with colour as well as black paint i really like them because i think it looks really effective. I like the way i have used the lighting and how the light shines off the paint. I really like the photo to the right because I have caught the drip dripping off his face where as I also like the photo to the bottom left because his head is at a really good angle and he looks really sassy. Where as I don't like the top left one as much because I think there is a bit to much coloured paint on him where as on the other two there isn't as much. I might use one of these as my final image but if I did I would crop it so the bin bag wasn't in it and edit them to make sure you can't see the shower cap. For all these photos I used a low key effect.

I really like these photo i have used Rankins idea of using people but in these i have thought about it more i have thought about the stimulus which is reflections and thought about it i thought i could connect this to people not being who you think they are for example: a person seems lovely but on the inside they're plane evil. Thats how i came up with the idea of projection of the devil on the face of someone and of the shadow of someone. Then i thought about the timed people that nobody notices and that are lovely and projected a happy cat on their face.

Reflections

Introduction
Working in the studio gives you the opportunity to not only develop your camera skills and creativity but also to engage and interact with various technical equipment and methods. Studio photography is constantly used throughout industry environments, especially within fashion, advertising and fine art photography. Professionals know and understand how to work in the studio and how to use the controlled lighting to assist and enhance their photographs. This brief will enable you to experiment with various studio techniques and equipment. Ideally you will be exploring inventive and technically challenging set ups and using lighting to create visual effects.  

Task
You are required to produce a magazine cover suitable for professional output. The magazine context is your choice, it might be fashion, film, music, cookery or lifestyle etc. However you must theme your photography to the title reflection.

                                      Fashion magazines
As you can see fashion magazines have a theme going through them. the theme is a model with the latest trend on/ make up, the title is at the top of the page, the models heads are going through or behind the title and they have writing somewhere else on the page. You can also tell by looking at all these examples they're all done in a studio. this is a theme i saw recurring through them when i was researching. so magazines that are popular in this industry are ELLE, VOGUE, BAZAAR etc...

         Music magazine
These magazines are just the same layout as the fashion magazines the difference between them is that music magazines have much bolder writing and the colours are a lot stronger colours, a colour that i have noticed has been used on the majority of the magazines is red, but there was the odd few that didn't. On the music magazines they also don't use models they use music artists on the cover of the magazine. These photos where obviously done in a studio.
                                       

  Movie magazine
Again you see the heads through the titles of the magazine. This is different to the other two because it uses a darker background and has a bit more writing on the front. they use pictures either from a scene of a film or they would take it in a studio, or in some instance they would use a green screen. They don't use models, they use the actors out of the movies.

Sports magazines
You see the heads through the title again in these types of magazines. These magazines have a lot of oranges and reds in them. There isn't as much writing on the front of the sports magazines compared to the others. With these magazines they're even taken in front of a green screen or in action of them playing/fighting. Again they don't use models they use loads of different sports stars depending on the sport it is about.

Cooking magazines
This magazine is different to the other ones because the title is on a plain background and the picture is underneath. This magazine cover is pretty basic on all of them there is a basic title, writing down the side and a photo with no writing over it. these are all done in the studios.

Photography magazines
This type of magazine has things going through the title but not just a standard person it can be animals or anything. A lot of the magazines have people on but some have things to do with animals on. These magazines don't have a specific theme through them just the bold title. And with some of them they have cameras on. If they're wildlife photos they're obviously not done in the studio they're done outside. But if the photo has nothing to do with wildlife then it is most likely done in the studio.

Nature magazines
This type of magazine is very basic it has a title, a picture and very little writing on the front of the magazine. With this type of magazine you could have nature meaning animals or meaning landscapes or flowers etc. It is a wide variety of different things. Because it is nature it has to be natural so this is not the type of magazine you would focus photographing in a studio it is all about wildlife.

Gardening magazines
This magazine is based of plants and tools to do with gardening. If it is a photo of a plant someone is taking it could be taken in a studio. In these types of magazines the flowers or whatever it is don't come in front of the title they always go behind. They have quite a bit of information on the front of the magazine. 

Conclusion 

I conclude that if the magazine has a model or a animal on the front of the magazine then the model or the animal would be in front of the title this usually occurs in fashion, music, film, sports, photography and sometimes nature magazines. I have also noticed that in the fashion, music, film, sport, cooking, photography and gardening magazines can all be photographed in studios. On some of the magazines when i was researching I worked out certain types of magazines have types of colors that they use. Also that depending on the type of magazine depends on how much writing os on the front and how it is placed.

Different types of reflection
Reflection photos have a whole lot more going on in the frame than other types of photos. They double the elements and colors, they are more dramatic, and provide a balanced composition.

Light reflection
This is a photograph taken in a studio and the reflection in this photograph is the lights reflecting off the skin. or in the picture of the film you can see hofw the light shines through it  so you can see the layers of the film. But also the light makes the film reflect a glow around it.















Natural reflections 
These occur in nature such as waterscapes. An example of a photo would be a cityscape reflected on a river, or a group of birds reflected on a pond. It is created by something reflecting in a lot of water to create two pictures in one.











Surreal reflections
 These are the hardest to notice since they require an artistic eye. An example of a photo would be the Eiffel tower reflected on a puddle of water on a rainy day.

Abstract reflections

 These show colors and lines without revealing what the reflected subject is. An example of a photo would be a colorful building reflected on water, showing wavy lines and colours.