Personal Background: Miriana Pinna was born in Sardinia in 1984. She started taking photos at the age of 14, when she saw a photograph by Henri Cartier Bresson. Instantly, she felt like she had a new love, photography. She photographs because she believes everything relies on photography. It affects everything around you.
Style: Miriana Pinna’s pictures uses dim lighting. There isn’t much natural light. She attempts to show the emotion of the model. She doesn’t use much color, so it was hard for me to not use color. She does like to shoot weird romantic pictures, which forced me to step out of my comfort zone, and I was laughing more than actually shooting the pictures. I do like how her pictures looked, and I’m not really sure why.
Philosophy/ Influences: She doesn’t use much natural light, and that influenced me you can shoot using almost any type of light. Your pictures will still come out great. I did shoot three of the five images closer to 8:45 at night with my friends. There isn’t great natural light during that time, obviously. I do prefer natural light, but I guess the moderately bad lighting I used was okay.
Sources:
https://expertphotography.com/20-up-and-coming-portrait-photographers/
https://the-dots.com/users/miriana-pinna-321736
https://iso.500px.com/4-rising-portrait-photographers-to-keep-an-eye-on-part-3/
Style: Miriana Pinna’s pictures uses dim lighting. There isn’t much natural light. She attempts to show the emotion of the model. She doesn’t use much color, so it was hard for me to not use color. She does like to shoot weird romantic pictures, which forced me to step out of my comfort zone, and I was laughing more than actually shooting the pictures. I do like how her pictures looked, and I’m not really sure why.
Philosophy/ Influences: She doesn’t use much natural light, and that influenced me you can shoot using almost any type of light. Your pictures will still come out great. I did shoot three of the five images closer to 8:45 at night with my friends. There isn’t great natural light during that time, obviously. I do prefer natural light, but I guess the moderately bad lighting I used was okay.
Sources:
https://expertphotography.com/20-up-and-coming-portrait-photographers/
https://the-dots.com/users/miriana-pinna-321736
https://iso.500px.com/4-rising-portrait-photographers-to-keep-an-eye-on-part-3/
Compare and Contrast: My pictures aren't nearly as good as Pinna's, but I think they came out better than I thought they were going to. The colors aren't close, since there's a lot of neutral colors in mine, unlike with Pinna's there's, a lot of dark colors.
In "The Loneliness", I didn't have a dead bush of plant, so I used an alive and green one. I darkened the brightness and exposure to make it look more like the lighting Pinna uses.
In "Inside the Head", I switched the background to something that was taken at the 9 11 museum in New York. It's too bright. I did ask Nate to look up more, but then my sister called me to figure out where I was, since I shot after the VPAA awards ceremony. I forgot to ask him to look up more after. Also, I forgot to tell him to close his eyes. It's probably the closest to any of the actual pictures.
In ""Romantic Relationship" in a picture", the angle of Nate looking down at Lily is off. I also changed the background, but the background is off. I tried. This was honestly the funniest to shoot, considering some of the things Nate said during it. "Lily and I are in this weird romantic thing". "She's taller than me!" I told him he could be the girl. The ending of that was having to ask Lily to squat down.
In "The Moment", who knows what Nadya was doing? Nate's head was peaking out too much. The dark sky background isn't nearly as bright as the one in the actual picture
In (Why's he so photogenic?), the angle is off. I did get out of my chair, but it just didn't come out as I expected it to. I guess it's ok. I probably needed to get closer to him, and tilted my phone up a little more.
Personal Artist Statement: This was honestly me trying to step out of my comfort zone. Shooting my friends was a lot of fun as it usually is, and awkward, because they were romantic (ish) pictures, but considering all my friends and I were able to do was laugh, it was okay. I love how Nate was so comfortable with doing the ones with Nadya and Lily, but he acts, so I don't know what I was so hesitant about. Nadya, Nate and Lily are all photogenic and they're always fun to photograph. So thank you guys! Shooting my friends so late at night was slightly frustrating, because we all had to go. Lily's mom had the baby. Nate's mom was about to shoot him (he said that, don't ask me). My mom was about to murder me. I managed to finish the three I did that night, in less than five minutes. I don't have a personal favorite, I like all of them, except for the butterfly one. If I had to choose one personal favorite, it would either be "Inside the Brain" or "(Why's he so photogenic)".
In "The Loneliness", I didn't have a dead bush of plant, so I used an alive and green one. I darkened the brightness and exposure to make it look more like the lighting Pinna uses.
In "Inside the Head", I switched the background to something that was taken at the 9 11 museum in New York. It's too bright. I did ask Nate to look up more, but then my sister called me to figure out where I was, since I shot after the VPAA awards ceremony. I forgot to ask him to look up more after. Also, I forgot to tell him to close his eyes. It's probably the closest to any of the actual pictures.
In ""Romantic Relationship" in a picture", the angle of Nate looking down at Lily is off. I also changed the background, but the background is off. I tried. This was honestly the funniest to shoot, considering some of the things Nate said during it. "Lily and I are in this weird romantic thing". "She's taller than me!" I told him he could be the girl. The ending of that was having to ask Lily to squat down.
In "The Moment", who knows what Nadya was doing? Nate's head was peaking out too much. The dark sky background isn't nearly as bright as the one in the actual picture
In (Why's he so photogenic?), the angle is off. I did get out of my chair, but it just didn't come out as I expected it to. I guess it's ok. I probably needed to get closer to him, and tilted my phone up a little more.
Personal Artist Statement: This was honestly me trying to step out of my comfort zone. Shooting my friends was a lot of fun as it usually is, and awkward, because they were romantic (ish) pictures, but considering all my friends and I were able to do was laugh, it was okay. I love how Nate was so comfortable with doing the ones with Nadya and Lily, but he acts, so I don't know what I was so hesitant about. Nadya, Nate and Lily are all photogenic and they're always fun to photograph. So thank you guys! Shooting my friends so late at night was slightly frustrating, because we all had to go. Lily's mom had the baby. Nate's mom was about to shoot him (he said that, don't ask me). My mom was about to murder me. I managed to finish the three I did that night, in less than five minutes. I don't have a personal favorite, I like all of them, except for the butterfly one. If I had to choose one personal favorite, it would either be "Inside the Brain" or "(Why's he so photogenic)".