Keavey Henshaw
Unit Four Photography
Wanda Wulz
Examples and Analysis
Wanda Wulz was a Italian experimental photographer born on the 25th of July in 1903 and died on the 16th of April in 1984. One great example of her works is the self-portrait merged with a portrait of a cat. Wanda began her career photographing musicians, dancers, and actors. She exhibited six photographs in Rome in 1930.
As for this image you can see that Wanda Wulz did not use her own cat but a leopard no doubt from a zoo or safari part of some sort. This helped advance her work a great deal.
In this image the use of angles used come into play the vantage point from which the photograph would have take both pictures in exaggerated the way in which the photo is looked at and changed the vantage point.
As you can see form the image to the left Wanda Wulz primarily used animal in her photography, these were almost always her cat.
Most of these images use black and white values and also a lot of contrast to make them look more effective and more
This is another one of Wulz's iconic images, of her and her pet cat once more, althoug this time the image has been taken from a front view and then both have been overlayed on top of each other to create a strange surrealist effect of human merging into cat.
My Photography - Creation Process
As for my photography I did a photographic response to Wulz's photo's but also added a twist of my own style. Some of these photos were taken in a studio setting but then I also took a trip to Chester Zoo and got some up close images of different animals.
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To start with I began by taking photos in a studio setting and by doing this it gave me the ability to edit and control the lighting and positioning of my model on the black background. I took around about 50+ images of my model before putting them onto my computer from my SD card.
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After the first photoshoot was done I took a trip to Chester Zoo and took some close up images of the animals. From this I got around about 300+ images. These were sorted into different groups of good and bad images before I started any of the editing processes on Photoshop.
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Once the finalization of which images I was going to use were clear I then started to put the studio photoshoot into photoshop and edit them slightly. These were changed to be given different levels of contrast and changing the saturation of the different images.
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When the images were perfect I then started to put the zoo images of the top and use blending modes on Photoshop to properly merge them together and make them look as effective as they could to make one image.
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I then started to add contrast layers over all my images to make them look even more effective. This was done to make the images stand out more against the black background and emphersize the big cats and other creatures I'd taken from the zoo photoshoot.
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Finally I finished up changing the exposure levels and the different effect I'd added onto the image before saving them as a JPG image onto my laptop and uploading them to this website.