Cydney Toth’s Re Creation of Raducarnaru’s Work
Written by Dana Prediger for Justin Waddell, Photo 2nd year
Immediate Response:
Cydney obviously waited until the right moment to take the shot and that is clearly seen in the connection between the sun, sun-flares and the model. The luxurious, silky quality of the work seems rich with possibility. I notice the setting sun as next my eye moves to the warmth of the royal mauve pleated gown and colour of her hair. I see how Cydney’s sky is uplifting in its directs of clouds that has this lovely open “v” air. My initial uncensored thought is that this work is more elevated in mood quality than the original, still theatrical but more grounded in the real world. Fun and passionate.
Framing Within Picture:
The model is in the right third foreground, the sun is in the left third background and the condo skyscraper is in the mid-ground. The sun and the model are connected diagonally with transparent but lightly colored sun-flares. The essence of last light from the sun is showing as highlighted shadow on the side of the condo facing away from the sun but in direct view of the model. The model is dressed in a pleated, royal mauve satin strapless gown, whose arm is on left hip and whose body is perpendicular to viewer and condo in mid-ground. Her face is turned away from camera and body is giving an air of leaning towards the balcony railing. The railing is creamy white and runs low and horizontally through the picture. The sky is a yellow haze in the deep low background but sweeps blue with wispy white clouds overhead right into the right upper foreground.
Formal Complaints and Praise:
Cydney has done an excellent job of pulling the formal aspects like the light, position of model, elevation of body from the ground level, and placement of the city background. What I feel is the most key aspect of the work is the connectivity felt between the model and the sun via the sun-flares. The commercial richness via the saturation of colour add depth and dimension. She carefully considered the technical aspects of her work but added her own wash over it by changing her mood quality. I feel like the original is frought with anxiety over being exposed while Cydneys is rich with drink of real life. It would be worth perhaps considering moving the model out from under the jet-stream of cloud.
The Process:
For Cydney this work is not so much about considering the technical aspects, though she did so, so much as wanting to use them and reconsider them through changing the mood. For her she wanted an open, softer look instead of one that was more resistive toward the environment around her.
She took 5 days to complete the process, and did an HDR effect by combining 6 images for the background and then taking her own self portrait indoors and then combined the two images. Most of the background on the right is added in. She used two lights to light herself and used the lens flare filter to recreate the sun-flares.
How does it connect with the rest of the world:
I feel like this work connects on a level with advertising work seen in a rich looking fashion or an Illustrators magazine. It is set up wonderfully for adding typography that would likely sell the glamour of owning a condo, being rich and single but grounded in who you are but still living it up. It would be an excellent real-estate advertisement. The intent to change the mood, if advertising based, would potentially change the target market.
Cydney found this work by surfing fashion blogs.
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