Clarence H. White (1871-1925)
Clarence Hudson White was a famous American photographer in this period (1871-1925), and he was also a famous teacher of photography. His photographic style focused on the art form, emotion, and pictorial portraits. Also, Clarence H. white’s photographs are all in black and white, and he was very experimental in the darkroom. All his images look gorgeous, and romanticized. His pictures reflect the value of the pictorials. He always used women and children as his favorite subject in his images. He created his images carefully because he took a long time to pose his models and frame the photographs.
I also think Clarence H. White is very important to the history of photography because his works can directly express the sentimental feeling to the audience, and he also used soft focus technique to make the images like painting. Every image has its own story and feeling which the viewer can understand immediately. In addition, he is also the founder of the Clarence H. White School of Photography which many photographers graduated from.
I choose him because he inspired me to think of imaginative pictures. I think his images have beautiful compositions and look like paintings. They have a very illustrative quality to me. Like him, I also love to use women and children as my models.
My concept is to portray kids playing with the birds, and I focused on the emotion of the kids when they saw bird. So, I used the children in the public park around San Francisco to be my model, and while they are playing with the birds, I take a snap shot without notice from the kids. I think Clarence H. White also portrayed subjects with the daily life background doing everyday things, but he focused on the story in his images and nice composition. Unlike White, my shots are spontaneous because I tried to capture an idealized image that shows the essence of childhood. When I saw his “Ring Toss” image (he asked his models to post and act), I felt spontaneous and natural, and that is the feeling and look that I was going for in my shots. Thus, I used his technique to adjust my style. I snapped the children in candid shots, and I also carefully composed my images. Therefore, I used different technique from white, but I tried to keep to concept and feeling the same as White’s pictures which are timeless elegant pictorial images

These are my2 pics and 1 pics from Clarence H White.
I choose Clarence's Ringtoss original photo that inspired me to portray kids playing with the birds ;D