Photographer Analysis: Rosie Hardy

'Winter'

Rosie Hardy is a Manchester based photographer who began developing her interest in photography at the age of 17. On the 31st of March 2008 Rosie decided to make an art project called '365' where she would take a photograph every day for a year, helping her to learn how to direct and pose herself as you get used to being on both sides of the camera. 

'Spines to rest your spine'

'Untitled'

"I'm a 20 year old aspiring photographer with Peter Pan Syndrome. Surrealism rules my world, as does naivety and logic. I'm an existentialist, and I think I just told you all of that in the wrong order. Re-read it backwards and it'll make sense, most things do when you look at them differently." - Rosie Hardy

'Come Back'

'Hideaway'

What I particularly love about Rosie's photography is how she can create such interesting effects using clever editing and photo manipulation in post production. Her completed version of 'Hideaway' was created by cloning and transforming the surrounding buildings to make artificial roofs and walls to fill the blank space. After moving the umbrella around in 20 different places, Rosie created shadows in GIMP, an image manipulation programme, adding smoke and sky layers. As explained on her blog, she much prefers to build a square scene rather than crop as it helps to focus on composition, as well as the fact that if she'd shot this further away it would have been a lot smaller and the finish not as effective.

From Rosie Hardy's photography I can take inspiration from her interesting editing style as well as multiple compositions that she uses in order to construct my own scenes in my music video. Furthermore, her ability to build unique locations through her square crop method reinforces the idea that I should pay careful attention when framing each and every shot.