I W Peter McKinnon was born in Toronto Canada on October 28, 1985 and has lived in the area for the majority of his life. Peter has had no formal Photography Schooling and has learned through friends and "Experimenting" he's gotten to where he is. When he was 18 he one of his first films and it was him doing skate board tricks extremely fast because there was 1:30 of total video storage on his floppy disc. In Peter’s life there hasn’t been a life changing event that helped him become a published photographer, as he is now. Instead he's said every job he's every had until now was seeing him up for where he is now.
Peter's style differs from place to place and subject to subject but a definite constant is the very rich Shadows and Highlights. The way the colors are balanced adds to the effect the image is perceived if you look at the image this is below he took that photo at the bottom of a Water Fall. The difference in style is here instead of bringing out the light colors directly he darkened the image and added contrast to show the texture of the rock. One of my favorite subjects in school has to be history in the 1840's realism was a very popular form of painting that runs with the idea of how much you can immerse a person though a 2d medium (see painting below). Similarly Peter takes images and with the colors and depth he produces images that feel organic (like the the one below) reminiscent of that same style.
Because of his unconventional photography background it doesn't seem to he place and insert meaning into his photos. For example when he to The Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland (down below) all he knew was that he would take pictures in Iceland. He only found these places because he and his friends went off roading fond these places by accident. Also because he doesn't take photos of the hardships in life like Dorothea Lange, he takes landscapes.
The colors he brings out of his photos are vibrant and when I edit my photos my goal I to get the colors to pop and draw peoples eyes towards the smaller details. Also when I look at a Peter Mckinnon photo it has a very strong focal point and lots of artistic movement. When you look at an image like the third one it's like you froze time. This to me any ways changes what a good photograph is, to me his style has shown me a good photo doesn’t have to be very interesting, just one that captivates one person.
In Peter's image of coffee in a french press he seems to have either had a crazy finely ground coffee or he had separated out the grounds. Conversely in my photos I didn't get the clarity or the color contrast he did. In Peters mug image he used blurring to extenuate the shape and texture of the mug, I failed at every part of making a good photo; there isn’t any balance and the microwave tray on cooking magazines is obviously not very refined or pretty to look at.
A very important part of this project was to emulate a influential photographer and in many ways I think commpairing two separate people’s art is problematic because it involves two different people with different intent: one being a very serious well thought peice of art, and the other a recreation without much thought than to remake it.
Peter's style differs from place to place and subject to subject but a definite constant is the very rich Shadows and Highlights. The way the colors are balanced adds to the effect the image is perceived if you look at the image this is below he took that photo at the bottom of a Water Fall. The difference in style is here instead of bringing out the light colors directly he darkened the image and added contrast to show the texture of the rock. One of my favorite subjects in school has to be history in the 1840's realism was a very popular form of painting that runs with the idea of how much you can immerse a person though a 2d medium (see painting below). Similarly Peter takes images and with the colors and depth he produces images that feel organic (like the the one below) reminiscent of that same style.
Because of his unconventional photography background it doesn't seem to he place and insert meaning into his photos. For example when he to The Skógafoss waterfall in Iceland (down below) all he knew was that he would take pictures in Iceland. He only found these places because he and his friends went off roading fond these places by accident. Also because he doesn't take photos of the hardships in life like Dorothea Lange, he takes landscapes.
The colors he brings out of his photos are vibrant and when I edit my photos my goal I to get the colors to pop and draw peoples eyes towards the smaller details. Also when I look at a Peter Mckinnon photo it has a very strong focal point and lots of artistic movement. When you look at an image like the third one it's like you froze time. This to me any ways changes what a good photograph is, to me his style has shown me a good photo doesn’t have to be very interesting, just one that captivates one person.
In Peter's image of coffee in a french press he seems to have either had a crazy finely ground coffee or he had separated out the grounds. Conversely in my photos I didn't get the clarity or the color contrast he did. In Peters mug image he used blurring to extenuate the shape and texture of the mug, I failed at every part of making a good photo; there isn’t any balance and the microwave tray on cooking magazines is obviously not very refined or pretty to look at.
A very important part of this project was to emulate a influential photographer and in many ways I think commpairing two separate people’s art is problematic because it involves two different people with different intent: one being a very serious well thought peice of art, and the other a recreation without much thought than to remake it.
Peter's/My Images
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Where's My Cup? MOM!?
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Rise & Shine
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