Rezarta Shkurta

I can not find any personal information about this photographer even though Shkurta has a website and an official Facebook page. Looking at the types of images on her Flickr page she specialises in portraiture, fashion. A lot of them use specialist lighting and skilled digital manipulation techniques which make the images look very surreal.

 

In this image the model is bending the cards which create tension and they then pop out of his hands. The model looks very relaxed doing this which I hope to achieve because I have an idea of someone throwing cards. The image is also desaturated which makes the detail of the model and the flying of the cards stand out. The lighting looks like it’s a natural light source from the left of the image; I think this because of the gradual contrast across the image from left to right. There is also a black ring around the image which suggests that they used a normal sensor lens on a full frame camera or did it afterwards in edits.

This image has clearly been colour splashed. The colour splash however is really effective because it really makes this image stand out. When I look at the image I am immediately drawn towards the card and then I move to the face because of the lips and the density of the black around the models eyes. I then look at the dress because of the intensity of the blues and purples. The whole of the image is in detail, this means that Shkurta must have used a high f number. There also seems to be a lot of noise but I think that this works well because it blends in with the colours that Shkurta intended to use. I really like this image because of the intense colours and simple positioning of the model.