James Troi's Visual Diary

Cool and Warm Colours

This image showing a silhouetted subject makes good use of warm and cool colours. A sunset image is often perfect for this subject matter.

Subdued Colour Harmony

The gentle use of colours, the oranges and yellows are married with the fawn, almost beige of the subject’s jacket.

Open Format Crop

The open format crop is basically any photo where the full subject is not contained within the frame. It can aid in bringing the most attention to the subject matter as it is often the only thing in the frame.

It can also create mystery with the viewer not knowing what lay beyond the frame.

Weightlessness

The position of the subject, high in the frame even with part of her cut off, adds to the sense of weightlessness. This is aided by the lighting of the scene and the medium the subject is in.

Environmental Portrait

This portrait of a runner shows him in his environment of a running field, it is supported by his clothing. The lighting of the scene adds to the feeling that he trains all night and day.

Asymmetrical Placement

I really like the way the subject leans slightly in a different direction to the reeds. The greyscale of the image adds to the muted tones of the shot.

Dedication to the art. Not sure who took this shot but the team who put it together obviously had a vision, a plan and a very willing model. All that silver!

It looks great. The way the light bounces of the model’s metallic form is a great example of luminosity.

Thomas Dekker production shot from the Gregg Araki film “Kaboom” the look on Thomas’ face, the fact that I think of him as a young guy but he’s fronting the scruffy beard.

I really appreciate the catch lights in his eyes, the shallow depth of field is great. The show is reminiscent of a couple of stills I’ve captured from music videos from Pink, Janet and Britney videos that I’d like to try and have a go at.

Of course I remember Thomas from “Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles” and “Heroes”, the weirdest thing though (and how I found this photo) was because I saw his name in the credits of an episode of Voyager. Was so weird to see him as a really small kid in that episode.

There is no credit for this photo at the source.

Tyler Shields has some crazy ideas and most of them seem to involved blood, death and other morbid things. But he has great lighting and great vision.

His philosophy on life and work are pretty cool though. He never takes things for granted and makes his own “luck” and works non-stop. Tyler Shields is an exceptional role model.

This photo by Joscha Kinstner could be great, but I’m not sure if it works for me. The heights that are portrayed in this shot is mind boggling. I like the framing by the trees and I get the potential desire to get the silhouette, but I find the sun flares distracting.

Craig Malozzi by Rick Day

Rick Day has a very recognisable style. Slightly muted tones and soft lit subjects. He’s also known for his fashion photography and edgy work for brands like Rufskin.

Is this the future of photography?

I wish I could make beautiful art like this, the mastery of depth of field, the stillness of the frame is just brilliant. J. Xavier Velasco’s use of light is inspiring. The story telling is unique.

Shot on a Canon 5D MKII Digital SLR.

I have a friend who is a video editor, he is keen for me to start using the video on my 5D MKII more, I’ve tinkered with a few tourist things. He thinks we can work together to make some great art. Perhaps it is something I should look into more.

Hands by Toshi*

Multiple points of backlight, and the silhouette of the human form and the hands. The non-de-script form stops us from knowing who the human is. Perhaps it is a study of identity?

The blue in this image adds to a feeling of isolation and loneliness. The silhouette brings a sense of mystery about the subject.

In this photo from a series on parkour, I see the repartition of the around the right of the photo kind of scoop your eyes towards the subject, being the male figure on the grate above the photographer. The low point of view (worm’s eye view) and the light from the sky above add to the interest of this photo for me.

Mesh Crawl by Jon Lucas.

How awesome is the silhouette in this shot? It’s beautiful.