Summary Of Annie Leibovitz

STYLE: Annie Leibovitz uses a variety of styles in her photography such as: black and white portraits,commercial,studio black and white portraits,group fashion portraits, her photo's don't normally involve dramatic angles she's quite simple in the way the camera is angled and set up. But she balances it with the dramatic outfit's colours and over all setting of the photo. By sometimes adding animals, brightly coloured costumes and also using photoshop to create some fairytale scenes (disney portraits).

TECHNIQUE: Annie Leibovitz uses artificial light in the majority of her photo's to let her have more control of the way the photo will turn out, and to get it just the way she had in mind. Also she take's a lot of CGI photo's such as the Disney portraits with the mermaids made to be in the sea and all blended together, also David Beckham on a horse playing the part of Prince Philip in "Sleeping Beauty", Annie Leibovitz made it look as though there was fire in the background when there really obviously wasn't.
But in Annie Leibovitz portraits she poses the model's very carefully to help portray there personality's and relationships with other's. Such as the Miley Cyrus portrait with her dad Billie Ray Cyrus, that photo really show's a lot about their relationship if looked at in depth.

NARRATIVE: Obviously in the Disney photo's Annie Leibovitz is trying to tell part of the story. So for example in the David Beckham sleeping beauty photo,he is being portrayed as a "strong knight" and she does this by using obvious positions for the models like the horse being up on two legs. And in the portraits I was talking about above,she again uses the model's posture, facial expressions and over all setting to show something about their personality and relationships with others. She like's the model's in the photo's to bring part of them into the photo's and letting them be themselves. Unless it's a commercial photograph where she has staged most of the model's herself.

Vox pop-Interview

Interview- Holly Moore from Holly Moore on Vimeo.

I interviewed Eleanor Hepburn and James Steward about their photographer's.
 P.S sorry about how quiet I am talking..

My Photo's In The Style Of Annie Leibovitz

This is a photo I have taken of Eleanor Hepburn at comer, I think this has captured Annie Leibovitz style because the portraits she takes show something about the person in them, and my portrait portrays Eleanor Hepburn having a love for photography as you can see. And also the background is slightly out of focus like some of Annie Leibovitz photo's to keep your eye drawn to the main subject in this case the eye is drawn to the camera and then works it's way down to her hand and the strap wrapped around her wrist.

I have picked this photo on the beach because Annie Leibovitz has taken portraits of people at the beach before such as Scarlett Johansson(below)

This is a photo I took of James Steward, I have taken it in the style of Annie Leibovitz vogue photo's.

The Alice and wonderland photo's are mostly taken in a woods with lots of tree in the background that's why I havce chosen this scenery. There is also a photo she has taken with the light creating a outline around the people you can find that here - http://cdn.trendland.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/alice-in-wonderland-by-annie-leibovitz-7.jpg

Annie Leibovitz does lot's of Black and white portraits on dark sometime shadowed backgrounds, therefore the lines of shadow on the background.

And the subject is normally looking straight at the camera.

This photo is also in the style of Annie Leibovitz vogue Alice In Wonderland photo's.

I really like all of the vogue photo's Annie Leibovitz had taken, because I am also into fashion photography.

I have tried to capture the style of fairytale in this photo by wearing the animal hat with ear's. Annie Leibovitz does actually use animal's in her photo's a lot such as the snow white portrait, and also a vogue photo including a lion, which is why I thought this particular hat would be a good idea.

Annie Leibovitz-Scarlett Johansson

I have posted this because I really like the black and white effect of this photo that Annie Leibovitz has used. I especially like the way Scarlett's lips stand out against her rather pale face. I like all of the photo's Annie Leibovitz has done in black and white they are all really elegant and can't be faulted in the way they have been taken. I am going to try and do a black and white portrait in the style Annie Leibovitz.