Fine art
There isn’t really an exact definition for the Fine Art Photography. However, as the name suggests, it has to be including a beauty on its own way. Fine art has to be a perfect example of showing the emotions and mood on the pictures. Artists are often trying to achieve that by taking the photograph of the object which is either extremely positive/happy or negative/scary to let the viewer feel like he is the part of the picture and that he feels the emotions which photographer is trying to ‘pass’ in his photograph.
Peter Jamus
Jamus is an amazing travelling and fine art photographer, his huge portfolio is filled with incredible black and white, high quality photos. The most important thing about his work is contrast of tones; on each of his photographs I noticed that Jamus is like a king in balancing the tones and making a good contrast between them, this makes his photos for sure much more interesting and mysterious. Moreover, Peter Jamus is believing that the ''photography is about the moment'', in my opinion he is capturing the right and perfect moment on his photographs.
Jack Spencer
Spencer is a well known photographer for his stunning still life and portraiture work made in The American South and Mexico, he is also very good at working in the darkroom, where he uses his special techniques to make photographs looking like there is a magic in them. A lot of of his photographs is containing three different colours only, which makes a good contrast and balance between colours and tones. Spencer's pictures clearly emphasising the differences and similarities between the human and the landscape subject.
I really like the effect of this experiment because this reminds me of thriller/crime movies which are my favourites. Originally, this is just a tunnel under the road, but I tried to make it look like a corridor in, for example a basement of an abandoned building.
I also wanted to highlight the graffiti and lights and make the floor darker. Firstly, I used a blue, yellow, blue gradient to the layer with this picture. I was then experimenting with colour balance, I wanted to make the graffiti clearly separate from the wall, then I used the saturation and lightness to make the picture darker. Moreover, I decreased slightly exposure and offset and increased gamma correction in order to make sides of the picture darker as well as the floor. The only thing which I'm not 100% happy with is the reflection of the light on the walls, on the other side, it makes a bit of mysterious effect which is looking interesting.