Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What would it take?

What would it take to create this scene as a photograph? In your answer, please talk about all the tools, props and other elements you would need to recreate this painting as a photograph...
Rembrandt Harmensz

41 comments:

Olivia J said...

You'd need a table and three creepy people, a fancy dress, a small table, a shell thing fancy stuff and soft lighting.

Anonymous said...

This is a very strange lighted picture. It has alot of contrast. The background is black, and the "royal" lady is incredibly gold and bright. And in the background you see a lady that is kinda blending in with the background. She makes me think she is really less important and doesnt have the light on her..... JessO 2A

Anonymous said...

It is hard for me to tell what message the photographer is trying to tell. It is lighted an odd way, and is hard to see the person shadowed in the back. This photograph is strange and seems old fashioned, but I like it. The odd lighting and strange artifacts that make up this picture are excellent. I like this picture. -TJM Class: 2A

Anonymous said...

I would need to use my imagination to recreate the ghost, and i would need to light to shine on the old lady and make the background really dark.
saydi. 2A

Anonymous said...

You would need a few people and many props you would need a dark area and you would also need a flash on your camera to halo the woman in front. You would also need a costume, renaissance clothing.
-sam.L 2A

JennyC 2A said...

well you would need to find some people. you would need clothing that is oldish. a dark room with little lighting.

Anonymous said...

i would get a very large women and another women. set them at the table and then give them some food and take the picture, it would be a sick picture i would call it the gigantic lady. Rodney w 2a

Anonymous said...

You would need to have a light shining on the subject. You would also need to have a really dark room. I would also use a tripod to study the camera. You would also need to have really old costumes in order to complete the photograph.

-Billy 2A

Anonymous said...

It would take an enourmous lady, Some old mid-evil day looking clothes and artifacts a priest and a lady to be a servent
Adam G.2A

Anonymous said...

there is a different kind of lighting and you need to match that, you also need 2 woman and some Renaissance clothing, and some props from then same time period. a good solid background.

Matt .W. 2A

Anonymous said...

In order to photograph this image you would have to be able to have a light directed on to your object. As well as the appropriate clothing.

Jazz C

Anonymous said...

To make this painting in to a photo you would need some people to help you. First you would need someone to adjust the lighting, someone to photograph, a photographer, and others to bring and block the lighting. Also to make this painting become a photo you need to have some props, and if you were to make the photo now you would need some modern clothing and and things to stage the scene. I feel like this would be both a difficult task to do and an easy one.
K.Childs 2a

Anonymous said...

The light has to be focused on the queen, and a black background. Props such as a costume and the three people along with the table and cups. The light source should be a strong focused light such as a spotlight.
BrittnieT 2A

Anonymous said...

I think they have had to use some sort of reflectors and they had to filter the light through something. It almost looks like the light is bouncing off the fat girl to expose the guy in the background.

Zach E. 2A

isaiah. m said...

i love the way this girl looks in this picture she is just chilled out talking to people, and i like the way the picture looks

Anonymous said...

it would take a dark room, a light shining on the bigger woman, a small table, a young, middle aged, & older woman, & old looking dresses
Tylor A. 3A

Anonymous said...

I would say maybe a softer light like olivia said and to have the background a bit brighter with more of a natural setting.

JamesW2A

Anonymous said...

You would need to have a darker back round and two ryol people and a queen type lady.
and a painter to paint the picture.




Lizz M 3A

Anonymous said...

There is a creepy lady in the background, kind of looks like a ghost. And the lady sitting at the table is huge. Honestly I don't really understand what's going on in this painting. Alissa H. 3A

Anonymous said...

i wouldnt re create this i hate it. i find it laking a lot of interest. i think that it needs some thing more

Ashley R. 3A

Anonymous said...

The man in the back ground seems almost as though he could be placed in the picture with a double exposure.

The two people in the foreground would need overhead lighting.and some smaller light shining toward the woman that is the subject.

As far as props victorian clothes would be manditory, Along with a table and a goblet.

Jeremy daigle
3a

Anonymous said...

This looks like it would take a long time, and it look like it would be awful to sit there for that long. But if you take it as a photo then it would be much easier. I don't really know what you'd need to complete the photo but you'd need the people and the right lighting and maybe a tri-pod.

CHayes

Anonymous said...

This image is kind of weird because of the way the lighting is set up. The guy in the background reminds me of a ghost how he is just barely in the picture and is in the darkest spot of the photo. This photo looks like it is from the renaissance because of what the big lady is wearing in this image. SLH 3A

Anonymous said...

Caroline D, 3a,

You would need a constant light on the lady. But to capture the faint man in the background you would need a longer exposure overall on the picture, and you would have to light up the back man for a bit then darken the light on him if not get rid of it fot the rest of the photo exposure.

Anonymous said...

You would need a black backdrop, 3 women, costumes, lighting aimed at the royal looking woman from the right and the table stuff.

Katie L. 3A

Anonymous said...

Since the lighting on this painting is so concentrated on the one lady in the front you would probably need to have some form of a lamp or lighting thing. The ghost in the back ground would be a little hard to create you would have to have the background dark but it would have to have some light but not a lot since if you did it would all be the same lighting.
You would need the obvious three people, table and many props.

Tiffany H. 3A

Anonymous said...

she is to bright, if the light wasn't only on her and on something else it would be better. Also something in the background other than the person to move your eye around and not just on her. SeanB.

Anonymous said...

You would need to be in a dark room with a spot light or some light source pointed towards the lady in the chair. The lady in the chair has much brighter clothes on than the other people in the photo, giving her much more light. Since the background is so dark, you would need a longer exposure in order for the photo to come out.

-Katie D. 3A

Anonymous said...

To recreate this scene you would need proper lighting, a few older looking actors, and lots of focus on a larger woman in the middle of the photograph. The props would have to be older looking and set the feeling of gloomy and or dark.

William- 3A

Anonymous said...

You would need really good lighting a couple of older actors Mikey,

Anonymous said...

I don't like the way the light it coming straight down, from, wherever it is coming from. To recreate this picture you would need to find a woman that had the same physique. you would have to find clothes that fit the same time period, a goblet, a table and all the small props that were used.


Jaime S
3A

Anonymous said...

she kind of looks like logan r... i like the shading and the lighting, she has a nice gold robe- Brian B, 4A

Anonymous said...

the light in this picture is good because it highlights the queen or whatever she is. and it looks like it looks like she is better then everyone else

Derek H 4A

Anonymous said...

It would take a big light focused mainly on the lady and it would have to be in a relatively dark room. I also think you would need to make sure the bright golden clothing that the lady is wearing contrasts with the darkness in the background.

Bowen L. 4A

Anonymous said...

Keenan G 4A


Very Weird...... Not my cup of Tea

Anonymous said...

it looks like logan r in the chair!!! tanner st

Anonymous said...

You would need an intense light source coming from above. You would need a large woman, old clothing, and a dark room to sit in. You would also need a table, a table cloth, and also a silver cup thingy. I would not want to recreate this though because I think its very boring and uninteresting. Whatever floats your boat though. Clark C - 4A

Anonymous said...

You would need a dark place with light coming from the bottom right to create the shadows around the edges. Since there is not light in the back where the ghost is, you could have that person stand somewhere closer to the light and reflect in using a mirror. Megan H. 4a

Anonymous said...

I think the lighting is really messed up so i think you would need a very intense spotlight. l think that you would need a room that could capture alot of light and darkness and shadowing at the same time.

Glo
4A

Anonymous said...

the light source in this painting throws me off. I see where the light is , but then , other places in the photo do not agree with the location i concluded for the light source. And for techinique , im soory for the complaint , haha.

But for song a young lady to be sitting at the feet and admiring a lady who is to be expecting. I think shows that she had regret, and her youth saddens her, and perhaps she anticipates the arrival of the young one, to witness how 'life' happens. just utterly amazed and captured at the moment and the mystery

tessia h.
a4

nov. 2nd 2009

Anonymous said...

I think you would need a dark room with light coming up from the floor, or at least below her body. The person being photographed would be sitting down. There also may be a small amount of light in the background to illuminate the lady in the background, but just barely.
Natalie B 2a