My Visual Logbook

Ella Singer is a Berlin based photographer and architecture student. I found her instagram where she showcases her work. I really like the composition of her landscapes, she is using a similar tight crop as I am. I shot mine using a 50mm lens, and want to carry on with a similar crop with my portraits and still life, to maintain consistency.  Her architectural landscapes always use lines and shapes in the buildings.

The last two images I really like the composition of, however I plan to hopefully take my landscapes when there is blue sky as I prefer the contrast of the pink to blue rather than a white, overcast sky.

This weekend I visited Rome. Throughout my time here I was constantly thinking about my current brief and how I can capture anything related to my chosen direction; I decided this weekend was the perfect opportunity to start on my landscapes, this was an area I was unsure about producing, so getting stuck in straight away and just experimenting to see how they turn out seemed like the best idea and to just photograph anything that appealed to me as colourful or pretty.

As an outcome I am really pleased with my shots, the majority are of coloured buildings and I didn't realise until it came to looking through them all that they're all the same colour pretty much- I seem to be drawn towards it as I was sure I had a variety. I now plan to take portraits and still life and try to make a coherent mini series.












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Keeping on my idea of the possibility of mixing studio and location portrait images together,
this Zara editorial is a good example of how I can shoot both on location and in the studio and achieve a similar aesthetic which could fit together coherently, similarly to still life and portraiture.

looking at the images I've been inspired by and spotting similarities are the types of models and how they are styled in minimal makeup, not a lot of fuss, simple hair etc, in my 1 to 1 with Juneko, she described them as 'girl next door' almost. And thats the kind of aesthetic I am drawing upon I think.

“There is no perfect photo. I can sit here and write about composition, lighting, rule of thirds, and post processing, but at the end of the day, everyone’s eye is different. We all see and interpret things differently, so naturally, everyone´s photos will be different. And I love that facet. I could fall in love with an image and call it ‘perfect’ but one of my friends could go to the same location with the same model and come up with something completely different, but it is their version of ‘perfect’.”




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