Sunday, December 5, 2010

Dean Rogers- Still from Valhalla Rising:  This movie inspired the me to do my blog on a commercial photographer that works on movie sets named Dean Rogers.  Rogers is creating interesting relationships in this image, such as the way Mikkelson's posture echoes the shape of the mountains in the background.  The first relationship I realize in this photo is the position of the axe in relation to the cross- it is as if the axe is directed or going to come down on the cross, which definitely relates to a theme in the movie.  Another interaction in this photo involves the axe as well but in relation to Mikkelson's face.  Besides the similar shape, they also both appear stoic and stable. This relates to my photography because I am interested in animating inanimate objects, working with still life objects and giving them personalities.  However this is more interesting here because Rogers gives the axe a personality and then relates it to a similar human personality.

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