Discarded Items Portaiture

Eian Kantor

Eian Kantor is an New York photographer whose work on conveying his subjects in their most natural form portrayed through several of his collection titled ‘Found sculptures’ and ‘(don’t)look down: 512 discarded cigarette boxes’.But i will be focusing on his (don't) look down portraits. (Don't) look down: 512 discarded cigarette boxes is a study of cigarette boxes that have been abandoned. This project was shot from March-June 2017 during lunch breaks and/or times he felt that I needed to get away from looking at a computer screen . These images were taken in Park Slope and Gowanus, Brooklyn (with a select few in other Brooklyn neighborhoods and Manhattan). .

From internet : In this picture i can observe that a cigarette box is not in particular order .The boxes were shot exactly as found. HE did not throw the boxes away after shooting them . There is no rhyme or reason to the amount of boxes of each brand. He did not seek out particular boxes. He shot any boxes that happened to come across, which in turn happened to be a disproportionate number of Newport boxes.All the boxes seems naturalistic . The sun light is coming from above so that it will reflect the shadow on the snow. The message that he is communicating is that something that may be abandoned and not used anymore can be used for art. It is about showing the beauty of old things or neglected things. He communicates this by letting the viewer to think and allow them to decide what he is communicating.

My Understanding : I can see a newport cigarette box. coverded with snow .It is crumble . The sunlight is making shadow of it on the snow. It seems that somebody has crumble it brutely. The sea blue colour of cigarette box is giving a good contrast with white colour.

From Internet : EIAN KANTOR is inspired by what he sees around him and objects that tell a story particularly items people don’t look at or tend to walk straight past. There are many different reason why he picked discarded items, one of the reason is that he think all the objects people discarded why are they discarding them is there nomore need for them. When I he decide to pick discard items he thought it would be a really interesting topic. When he was thinking what should he do for my final piece he was thinking what do he always see when he walking down the road on the floor and he was always seeing plastic bottles and cans.

My Understanding : In this i can see a plastic polythene lying in the sand covered all over. There are some small wooden straws covered in the sand . Very tiny sand dunes can be seen . A lots of stones & pebbles are also there . The sunlight is coming from above it seem that its very hot there. It may be any desert pr park view. THE Polythene seems to be rip up . its very naturalistiv view.

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Plan

My idea is to portaiture dicarded items around the school.

SHOOT 1

WWW.EBI In these pictures the best thing i can see is taking photos from accurate angle. The nature contrasting with discarded items is giving a photographic look . In picture where there is a bottle crown cap where sunlight is coming from upside the leafs,soil and the crown cap is giving such a calm view. The only thing which seems wrong is that wrapper which is touching frame it doesn't look realistic . It is giving a outlook view in the picture.

SHOOT 2

From 2nd photo shoot i have selected 3 pictures which i think is best for my project . As you can see the color ,brightness,vibration ,contrast, In it . I used brightness to make it more realistic . Add some colors to look more vibrant . Giving picture a more natural look. The combination of nature and discarded items is like sea and fishes . The saturation level which i used is amazing. By seeing all the pictures only one word is coming that how beautiful the nature is .

My role modal for this project is EIAN KANTOR . My subject for the project is discarded items . I choose this theme because i want to show things naturally as they are . These all photographs are dedicated to my role modal ...Selecting these 3 pictures is a very tricky decision for me .I do my best to edit these pictures.

In the first picture i can see wet ground on which dry leaves ,flowers petals,a bottle lid .I capture this image from a low angle . If i took it from straight upwards it will be more beautiful and natural. I can see the pattern of vertical lines on bottle lid which is looking good .The cone shape of flowers petals . If a person could not see it i can also describe how beautiful it is . The coal color of road reminds of 90s trains in which coal is used . THE mustard color leaves is looking like a dry fruits on custard. THE bottle lid is just like cherry on it .
Firstly the image was looking dull . Because there is no sunlight . I capture this image on a rainy day . So after that I have increase the brightness and contrast of the image to look more bright and natural . Increase the level of image upto 10 to fade out black color . Balance the colors so that every color gives there own reflection .Keep vibrance and saturation medium so it may not affect eyes.
This photograph reminds me of a lovely raining season.
The most interesting part of this image is the surroundings .Because how nature can be this much beautiful .
The Photographer wants to say through his/her photography is that she/he wants to show things as they are . SHE/HE don't want any hypocrite photography .
If i could take his/her interview i would like to ask why he/she chooses so different theme and subject . What was the purpose of it. DO he/she love nature or discarded items . Is there any connection between them ????????
I have learned a lots of things during this project . That natural beauty is everything. Things looks more good what actual there are . Artificial things are not good as much natural are.

This is my second image which i selected. This is a hibiscus red flower. It seems to be fresh flower coz its stem is still green and the color of flower is still not fade . The grey color of road is like a emotion when i see it .It calms my mind . Its just like a painting . It doesn't include any pattern or shape. It is such a calming picture .
In this picture i have increased the brightness and contrast to don't look fade. And also increase the vibrance and decrease the saturation for black color . Then i balance the colors. So that image colors don't look artificial.
This photograph reminds me of red color beautiful flowers.<3
The most interesting part of this image is the combination of grey and red color .Which really look amazing .
If i could take his/her interview I would ask what do you find special in this picture. Did you do any struggle to take it.
I have learned from this photograph that let the color shine of the flower . And Rise above the darkness and open to the light of day.

This is my third image which i selected for my project. It is also relating to my role modal (EIAN KANTOR) . In this picture i can observe some dry leaves and some them are green . There is also some twigs . The soil color is also coal black which seems to be good . The yellow rapper of swizzles . Which is looking a little bit outcast in the picture . But the wet dry leaves on it is giving a superior look.
In this picture i have decrease brightness and increase the contrast of the picture.increase the vibrance of the picture . balance the colors . increase the blue color in it.
THE good thing in this picture is the fallen dry leaves. Which is looking very true to life.
If i could take his/her interview i would ask why are you so fond with nature.

SHOOT 3

In my 3 shoot i have used macro lens to click images . So that we can have a clear and visible view of the obeject . In my 3 shoot i have mainly clicked images of pen , pencils . As my chosen project is discarded items. So by keeping in mind that theme i have clicked these images for my 3 shoot .