Image inspired by Rinko Kawauchi

Above image by Rinko Kawauchi - Illuminance series.

My own work inspired by Kawauchi.

Rinko Kawauchi is a Japanese photographer, shooting mostly in 6×6 format. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life. She produces images that are soft and dreamlike with the use of lens flare, brightness, haze and pastel colour, the images are almost intermit. Many of her images have a blue over tone giving them a fresh and natural feel. She focuses on life, death and nature. Here i have looked a many   different bodiesof her work but chose the image shown at the top which is referenced. I focused on how the long exposure has captured the lights creating this over powering beam within the centre of the image. I then thought about how she captured her surrounds around her, i then decided to capture my own surrounds in a similar way. I took a photograph on the big tall buildings with the right shining though the centre as it does in her image but on the road thoguh the trees, as i had my camera around F8 and pointed my camera towards the direct sunlight i was able to capture lens flare within my image which is something that Rinko also does. I then added offset to my image to create the dazed effect, almost portraying looking back at a memory. Then i changed the temperate if the image to give it a blue, purple over tones, i also changed the temperature of the highlights within the image giving them a yellow brighter shade, this also helps the colours look softer and give a pastel effect. I didn't use a medium format 6x6 camera but i have cropped my image to the same shape and format as 6x6 given this square format.

http://www.rinkokawauchi.com/main/index.html

Rinko Kawauchi: Approaching Whiteness (video) @

http://blog.rosegallery.net/tag/rinko-kawauchi/ 

http://vimeo.com/59380078