Natalie Dybisz
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Tema: Imagem e tratamento fotográfico digital
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Sobre Natalie
- Nome: Natalie Aniela Dibysz
- Aka: Miss Aniela
- Nascimento: 26 de Julho de 1986, Leeds, UK
- Site Oficial: www.missaniela.com
- Blog: http://missanielablog.com
Com 27 anos, Dybisz é uma das fotógrafas mais populares do Flickr e os retratos bem manipulados que capta do seu alter ego - Miss Aniela - são alvo de imensas visitas online. Contudo, o seu sucesso já foi muito além da Internet e as suas imagens já apareceram em inúmeros artigos de imprensa, desde o Metro e The Sun a publicações mais intelectuais, e já expôs em galerias de prestígio por todo o Reino Unido. [ver Exibições]
Dybisz é mestra em manipulação e clonagem de imagens, bem como nas técnicas mais tradicionais de retrato e de composição. Começou a fazer auto-retratos quando entrou na universidade.
Sendo autodidacta, tudo o que sabe do Photoshop, é graças a si. Para além da clonagem, utiliza o Photoshop para mais três categorias, sendo a primeira para as imagens mais processadas,onde utiliza a composição para conseguir ilusões como voar ou levitar. A segunda categoria é para imagens que não utilizam tanto processamento, onde a natureza da imagem captada tem tanta proeminência visualmente como no resultado final, por isso trabalha a cor, as curvas ou a vinhetagem. A terceira categoria é para as imagens saídas directamente da câmara, mas que beneficiam de alguns ajustes, como balanço de níveis de cor.
Até os adversários mais críticos da manipulação digital têm de admirar a técnica, o humor e o ocasional erotismo que transmite o trabalho de Dybisz. As composições engenhosas desempenham um papel principal no sucesso das imagens, mas em vez de fazer primeiro um esboço das cenas, ela aborda-as de uma forma mais espontânea.
Dybisz fez parte do júri do concurso Digital Camera Photographer of the Year em 2009.
O que ela diz
Eu sou uma fotógrafa "fine-art" baseada em Londres, UK.
A maioria do meu trabalho é meu auto-retrato. Eu uso-o para expressar a ampla variedade de mensagens que vão desde do dia-a-dia ao sobrenatural.
Eu gosto de experimentar e criar imagens que se fundem em mensagens com a estética presa, embora a mensagem, muitas vezes, ser aberta a outras interpretações. Acredito que o conceito não é suficiente, e eu esforço-me para encontrar o equilíbrio para satisfazer tanto a mente e os olhos. Por exemplo, 'Tricks' é uma série divertida, mas foi destinada a apresentar os sintomas de ansiedade. Outras imagens na série 'Self-gazing' são inspiradas em sonhos, pinturas e literatura.
Actualmente, estou a trabalhar na série com manicómios abandonados no Reino Unido ('Abandoned' set).
Ofereço um serviço de orientação de "fine-art" para moda, publicidade e outros projectos.
Fonte: Official Site (Info > About Me)
Magazines said...
Dybisz's colourful, often surreal images are celebral and sexy, intimate and public, all at once.
(American Photo)
Moving out beyond Cindy Sherman, Natalie creates a surreal looking-glass world of distorted perspectives and dream enhanced colours... Underlined with an ironic and often droll caption text, the idiosyncratic qualities of Miss Aniela's work signals a very bright future for this embryonic star.
(PHOTOICON)
The photographs are breathtaking. Miss Aniela's extraordinary use of cloning an image of herself several times in one photograph in varying poses is both technically flawless and strong on story. She doesn't employ the effect to show off that she can execute it; she uses it as a tool to convey her narrative. This seamless integration makes for compelling images.
(Digital Photo Pro)
Exhibitions
Aug 28 - Nov 2, 2010: Work selected by Natasha Egan for exhibition at Art of Photography Show, lyceum Theatre Gallery, San Diego
Oct 14 - 17, 2010: 'Abandoned' showing as part of group exhibition Photolounge for Photomonth, at Truman Brewery, East London
Aug 5th - 28th, 2010: Solo exhibition 'Self-Gazing' at Photo-Space, curated by Alternative Arts, East London
Jul 23 - Sep 4, 2010: Joint exhibition, Miss Aniela & Amanda Friedman, David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago
Jun 2010: Group exhibition 'A Quarter to Five', Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton, UK
Oct 09 - Jan 10: Solo exhibition 'Self-Gazing' at Apartment C, London
Oct 09: Exhibited at Buenos Aires Photo
Jul - Sep 09: Solo exhibiton 'Neurotica'at Impure art Gallery, Brighton, UK
Dec 08: Exhibited at Photo Miami
Nov 08: Featured at Estampa fair, Spain
Sep 08: Leading exhibiting artist at Lantern Media Festival, Tunbridge Wells, UK
Apr - Jun 08: Solo exhibition 'Self-Gazing' at Camara Oscura, Madrid
Dec 07: Featured at Photo Miami
Aug - Sep 07: Winning entry in 'How We are Now', shown in group exhibition at Tate Britain, London
Apr - May 07: Debut solo exhibition at North Laine Photography, Brighton, UK
Fonte: Official Site (Info > CV)
Post-Processing Secrets (by Herself)
Digital processing was one of the main aspects of creating images that drew me into photography. I enjoyed manipulating images in post-processing, and experimenting with surrealism and fantasy. My earliest self-portraits that I uploaded to Flickr were cloned images with more than one of me in the frame, such as "The oak chest." (left image) However, it would be misleading to say that my love for photography lies only in the processing rather than the shooting. I believe that digital post-production is a fantastic tool that can potentially transform an image, but it can only do so when something worthwhile has been captured in the original shot. Some of my images take more processing than others, and some barely any. So, I often refer to there being three categories in my work. The first category is for images that take only a slight tweak of processing. These images are composed almost completely in-camera, so the role of processing is to moderately emphasise and enhance its features. An example would be "Life on the downs." I slightly tweaked levels and colour balance to enhance what was, compositionally, all originally composed within the frame.
Fonte: http://www.photographyblog.com/articles/natalie_dybiszs_post-processing_secrets
Life on the downs
The second category is what I call "50/50," for images that are not dependent on the shooting, or the processing; it's an equal weighting of both. My image "South by southeast," for example, took on its filmic look through the black and white conversion made in Photoshop, and there was a blurred dog visible to one side of the frame, which I cloned out. I also flipped the image horizontally, owing to my personal preference. My windblown hair and expression in the original capture are key components to the final image. I took numerous similar shots, but no other shot taken that afternoon resulted in that same effect after the same application of processing, so there was something about this one particular shot that worked. One can see that various changes have transformed the image, but there was not a large operation of compositing used in the process.
South by southeast
The third grouping is comprised of the images that seem to raise the biggest talking point when people look at my work. In my cloned images, for example, I bring several separate photographs together. I layer them together, in the manner of a montage, to create a composite that brings all the action into one image. Each original photograph, contrasted to the final result, seems insubstantial by itself, and is very different from the finished, polished composite that may take a few hours of work. An example is "Their evening banter," in which I shot several images of myself running and posing round a table in a hotel. I could not see, during the shooting, whether the result would turn out the way I wanted. It wasn't until I brought the shots together that I got an idea of what the final composition would look like.
Their evening banter
I also do other kinds of composites that use a similar layering effect, not so much to multiply subjects, but to use one image to hide another, so that an illusion is created.
Sprung
These "trick" images are made from a series of shots that are then put together in a way that suspends an illusion – of levitation, flying or falling, for example. There are several ways to achieve the action you want: You can either simply position your limbs in different places for each photograph, as in "Sprung" (above), or you can use an aid to support your body into a position, and then mask out that particular prop. You can also go one step further and have someone propel you into the air. In "The smothering," one shot would have me holding my head into a box, and for another shot I asked my boyfriend to propel my legs into the air. I also took another shot of the scene with nobody in it, which is important to use as part of the masking process.
The smothering
I am still experimenting with additional ways to use post-processing. Sometimes I am surprised when it transforms an image in a way I wasn't planning. At other times, it is important to plan ahead, or your intention might fail. Sometimes I will take a photo and know instantly that I have what I want, because there is a distinct shape within the photo that has already been perfected. Other times, that ‘shape' is taken on through the merging of several photos, but generally, one can always tell whether an image has any potential from the start. It's important to experiment, and see where both the shooting and processing stages take your ideas.
