Photographic Technology 4 Photographic Illustration Research

1. Photographic Illustration
Research
Alexia Sinclair
Gregory Crewdson
Pawel Nolbert
Jerico Santander

2. Alexia Sinclair
Image from
https://alexiasinclair.com/portfolio#commerce

3. Gregory Crewdson
Images from
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/gregory-crewson/

4. Pawel Nolbert
Image from http://cargocollective.com/hellocolor/Chocolatopia Image from http://nolbert.com/#/work/tangle

5. Jerico Santander
Images from http://www.jericosantander.com/

6. The quick and low down about Alexia Sinclair
• Newcastle girl
• Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts at National Art School in Sydney
• completed Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hon I) and Master of Fine Arts at
University of Newcastle
• Numerous exhibitions throughout Australia,
including being an exhibiting finalist in the
National Portrait Prize (Archibald)
• Commercial Art for Whitehouse School of
Design and Canon Australia
• Editorials for Marie Claire, Harpers Bazaar,
UNIFEM Image from https://alexiasinclair.com/the-semi-video

7. About Alexia Sinclair’s work
• love and devotion for intricate and unusual things
• undertakes tasks from casting for roles and designing
sets and props to make up and costume
• travels the world capturing locations
and models
• post production is about constructing
imagined worlds
Image from https://alexiasinclair.com/about

8. The Regal Twelve

9. The Regal Twelve

10. Equipment
https://alexiasinclair.com/faq
Images from https://alexiasinclair.com/portfolio#editorial

11. Techniques
Alexia Sinclair takes her own images. She can have many images of one
object
in different lighting and different positions.
• Brushes through many layers
• Highlights from one layer
• Shadows from second layer
• Midtones from a third layer
• Paints (draws) in detail eg. painted in the hair in The Regal Twelve
Elizabeth I “The Virgin Queen (1533-1603)
• Cuts
• Masks
• Colour layer
• Opacity

13. Interesting websites
• https://alexiasinclair.com
• Alexia Sinclair: Pope Alexander VI – The Borgia Pope
http://vimeo.com/17045687
• Alexia Sinclair: Semi Permanent
http://vimeo.com/6091814