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Tim Tadder is an American advertising and sports photographer that uses a number of techniques such as double exposure and high shutter speed. Tadder's images are usually of very high definition, high exposure and high contrast. I find Tadders images interesting because they feel intense often because of the high definition exposure, contrast and often quite harsh lighting. Tim Tadder is an American advertising and sports photographer that uses a number of techniques such as double exposure and high shutter speed. Tadder's images are usually of very high definition, high exposure and high contrast. I find Tadders images interesting because they feel intense often because of the high definition exposure, contrast and often quite harsh lighting. What I find important about Tadder’s work is the intensity – sometimes even hard to look at. An image below shows a woman vomiting after a harsh work out. This image is such a powerful image – her physique is well defined by the harsh lighting and high contrast and the high exposure captures the moment in full. This image shows the power of the body but also the weakness of the body and the fight between the mind and the body. The person controlling the mind is telling her body to continue and work harder but her body is telling her to stop and causing her pain if she doesn’t. This is a constant power struggle between the mind and body – this is why this is such a powerful image. The double exposure images are two that I find very interesting. I feel that these images look distorted and distressed as if representing the feelings of the model at that moment in time. I felt these edits were fantastic representations of how his work out must feel. I think this also fits accurately with the idea of his the blood through his veins, the colours of veins and blood in the images made this more effective and the two images layered reminded me of a pulse that we feel from a vein or heartbeat. But I also believe the images are more effective because they are layered it's harder to focus on them and more difficult to make something of the image. This is how I imagine the work out must feel, dehydration and exhaustion to cause a dazed state.