Shae Detar
Shae Detar is an creative and unusual photographer. Her abnormal photographs create a 'Fantastic and Strange' feeling towards the viewers. She uses colours to make the photographs less plain, including painted flowers and watercolor tree trunks. Her style of photography recreates reality and places it within her own ethereal world. Her ideas are based around the female form and exaggerating the females boldness within surreal landscapes. Many of her photographs include similar colours such as the difference between the pinks and the blues. Also, the photographs are focused but some of them look drawn rather than a photograph. All of her photographs have the same subject which is a girl, however, the subject is displayed in different ways such as on a big or small scale. All of her photographs include natural backgrounds and link with nature. In addition, the girl in the photograph is untouched by the things around her and is shown to be paler than the coloured background.
MY VERSION-
I decided to choose the affect of the paint splashes because I think it creates a natural effect such as rain droplets. The colour, red, displays an opposite effect of Detar's work as it is a stereotyped colour to represent death and blood. The lighting in the photograph contrasts with the paint splashes as they are light and dark colours. The subject of the photograph is based in the centre but is made along the landscape which is seperated between the grass and the bushes. The main colour of the photograph, overall, would be the green such as the darkness of the bushes and the lightness of the grass. In the photograph, there are a mixture of sizes of droplets which makes the photograph effect overall.
Combination with Laura Williams-
In this photograph, I combined Williams and Detar because of the unusual aspects of both of their photographs. Detar's paint makes Williams 'Fantastic and Strange' theme look very feminine and unnatural. The colours; such as pink, blue and yellow; make the photograph effective by the way they are commonly not know as natural colours. I also added paint splats so I combine her two different paint techniques. The depth of field is a long depth of field as you focus on the colours of the sky and the paint. The theme throughout this photograph could be considered as femininity and ordinary which is a common thought through her project.