http://brucebennett.com/

Artisit 1. Bruce Bennett

I like his black and white photos the most. They are just simple everyday activities yet they seem to have some sort of strength or appeal to them. I like the darks and the light in his pictures and that he sometimes blurs the background to emphasis the person in the pictures. Like the little boy with the mask on. His background is blurred but he is in sharp focus.

I belive that the identity of this piece is about everyday life. The pictures I see are from everyday lives of people from different cultures. From the pictures I can see that he must like traveling.From these pictures I can tell that he likes to use contrast to make the pictures more interesting.

I like Bennett’s pictures because of the focus of his work and the contrast in his pictures. In addition to that I like how he made everyday activities become interesting by turning them into black and white if they had enough differences in shades. His first pictures with color was one of favorite of the pictures with color. The reason I like his work because I find it fun to catch people off guard sometimes by taking a pictures. In some of his pictures it looked as though some of the people were just doing their work and he came and took a picture of them.

http://www.davidho.com/

Artist #2 David Ho’s

The artsist works color seem to consist of dark colors. Most of the chatracters seem to either have big eyes or have stone like elements in there skin. Some look like game characters and some look like they can be real photos of people. He works with digital media for his pictures.When his images don’t haveof people inthem it has ony one image with some sort of color to fill the open space.

The identity for this artists seems to be on more unhappy and weird things that anything. His focus is on textures, shading, and using wide eyes and skin color to give the images their edge. For instance the pictures with the persons head with people coming out of it and eyes looking everywhere makes the viewer think cool but it looks creepy. Not all his work is creepy though, but a majority of his work uses dark colors.

The creepiness of his work and those big eyed characters are what made me like this artists. Some of his art reminded me of some movies that I have watched. I do watch creepy movies but some of this art was really creepy.  The colors of some of his works really draw you in to get a closer look or use the  pale skin to contrast with the characters dark wavy hair. He made one picture where  characters didn’t even have eyes and were being feed red soup.There are some normal pictures on his site though.

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/faculty/helliot/Spring09/artc201_2/201_NegarNanidian.html

Artist #3 Negar Nahidian

I like the contrast of the black and white in this photo. It seems very balanced. The half of the face that is dark seems to be another angle of the face and not as semetrical as it would seem. The light half is look at you with one open eye and the dark half has it’s nose turned upward with it’s eyes closed. The back letters and the smoky look  gives it a myserious look. It also seems like it could be from a mystery because in the spoke there are a lot of little pictures.

The identity of this piece seems to be about the two sides of  the person in the picture. Like how one side is what that person shows peopel and the other they keep hidden. And then the mysterious letter in the background make this seem like something needs to be solved. The birds in the pictures are a mystery to me though. This whole pictues basically plays on the blacks and whites in the picture in order to make this picture more interesting.

I like this piece because it has great contrast. It makes me think good versus evil or outer and inner self. I like  how at first that you can’t tell that the other side is turned upward. In addition to that I like how one side doesn’t have any hair beads , curls or jewelry in it while the other half does. It like a play on opposites. The effect I like the most in this is he smoke in the background. It kind of make me think that it’s on fire.