Jasmine Dupey Artist Statement

As a new photographer, I get my inspiration from a well- known photographer, Jerry Uelsmann. He took amazing photos in black and white and would blend two or more different pictures to create a whole new photograph. Because he was from a time where technology wasn’t as great, he had to blend the photos a certain way, which is pretty confusing. However, coming from a time with advanced technology, I would take photos and photo shop them to create my own new photographs. I used the eraser tool in order to erase what I didn’t want to add to the new picture, and I would use the copy and paste tool to copy one thing to another photo. Then I would use the blur tool to blur the edges of the photo I just pasted to another photo. Also to make the photo a bit better I would play around with the brightness and contrast.

I started taking photos in Black and White to get a more of a vintage look. I would just use the sponge tool, which de-saturated the photos. Later I started partially de-saturating to create more of a wow factor and to focus mainly on one thing in the photo. For this I would use the sponge tool to de-saturate around the area I wanted to pop out.

I then researched Annie Leibovitz, who takes really interesting photos. She was another inspiration for my photography. She always has a visual in her head on how she sees the photo’s outcome. She takes more than one picture of the same position of the models or of objects, but changes angle, or the lighting so compare the photographs after and choose the better one. Like Annie Leibovitz, I have been interested in photography for a majority of my life. It is one of my career interests to go into when I get older. I specifically would like to photograph special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, births, etc.

Now that I have learned so much on photography and photo shop, I feel pretty good in the photos I take everyday, and it has made me open my eyes more to the world. Before I didn’t really know much about photography. I just knew you take a picture with a camera, but I never really cared about lighting or contrast. So I will continue taking pictures and I’ll keep in mind how little things like lighting, contrast, and even angle of the picture can make the picture look even more interesting.