Applied Photography - Spring 2023

Applied Photography - Spring 2023

The Applied Photography course will look into the concept of photorealism in all its means. Cactus Magazine has always worked on new visual languages through all sorts of techniques; classic photography, graphic design, video, CGI, VR, Sound design. The only feature that has always guided this research was to seek for a photorealistic result that could ensure a sophisticated and luxurious feeling to the final outcome. In the past 4 years Cactus Magazine has been exploring the CGI technique and always tried to emulate the classic photographic style applied in the 3D realm. This had been done by the means of lights, textures, modeling and also camera techniques. After doing a lot of CGI work we got interested
in merging the IRL world in a seamless way with the CGI world. Using XR techniques or VFX. But always looking to have a perfect photorealistic result. With the emergence of Ai powered software for image generating, creating HD images of almost everything seems to be everyone’s finger tip. Nowadays people consume more CGI imagery than IRL imagery, just think of Instagram filters.

Studio project (2023) by Sunny Attias, Bor Cvetko, Riccardo Fasana, Nabarun Gogoi, Florian Hilt, Isabella Madrid, Tanguy Morvan, Nina Pacherová, Mirielle Alina Rohr, Amélie Tricaud, Tianyu Wang, Fabienne Watzke

Assistants
Mahalia Taje Giotto
1st year
2nd semestre
ECAL/Cvetko Bor
ECAL/Cvetko Bor
ECAL/Cvetko Bor
ECAL/Cvetko Bor

1/4

ECAL/Watzke Fabienne
ECAL/Watzke Fabienne
ECAL/Watzke Fabienne
ECAL/Watzke Fabienne

1/4

ECAL/Florian Hilt
ECAL/Florian Hilt
ECAL/Florian Hilt
ECAL/Florian Hilt

1/4

ECAL/Fasana Riccardo
ECAL/Fasana Riccardo
ECAL/Fasana Riccardo
ECAL/Fasana Riccardo

1/4