Girl With A Pearl Earring Essay

Girl With a Pearl Earring is an art work painted by Johannes Vermeer in 1665. It tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of Vermeer. I think the original meaning of this photo has been altered in my interpretation despite trying. Mine is more upbeat due to the excess light, I tried to darken the image on Photoshop but did not succeed. Sophia’s lips are also more red as I could not directly match the color of the lips from the real painting. The settings for this photo we gathered from automatic mode then transferred into manual for the photoshoot. The F stop was 4.5, the IOS 100 and the shutter speed was 1/60. To create this piece, Sophia will be the model and we will go up to the dark room because it has black walls. We will take her blue tie and

I chose this art work because I liked the mood it gives off to the viewer, it is dull but the head band adds brighter aspect and picks the photo up.
I believe the knowledge of the photographer is greater than a good camera, if you have an amazing camera but do not have the skills to use it then it is no point in having it. If you do not understand the settings or know what the shutter speed or F stop does, then it will be hard to get a clear photo or communicate the feeling or mood that you are trying to give off to the viewer. I experienced this statement when I first put the camera into automatic and took a photo to see the settings, there was no character in the photo and although it was a good camera it was not the photo I