Natural Light Pre Assignment

Our next assignment is the Natural Light Portrait assignment. For this we have to place someone in natural light (near a window) and take a portrait of them. If the light is too bright or too dark, you may have to place a white bed sheet or even just a white piece of paper to reflect the light onto or off of their face. This assignment sounds much more easy than the last but i have realized its all about technique.

Near And Far Post Assignment

I just finished my near and far assignment and im not going to lie, I had a lot more trouble with this assignment than any other. Im not sure why, maybe it's because i've been so busy, or maybe i just diddnt understand the camera settings well enough. You had to get a foreground,middleground,backround, and then have them all in focus. The only way yo

u can do this is by focusing the camera on the middle ground. I had some fun with this project and a lot of difficulties. Here aremy favorites.

My Adorable Nephew

Rules of photography

1) The rule of thirds 2) Leading Lines 3) repetition 4) Frames 5) Fill the Frame

Book research

I researched 20 books in my school library and listed the title, date published, published by, the artist, and theme of the pictures. The point of this is to find one photographer that I really want to focus on. After looking at all of the 20 books listed below, I am almost positive I would like to research into Ansel Adams. Even though we have already taken pictures in his photography style, I still enjoy and relate to his the most.

Title: Robert Capa/ photographs 

Published 1996 

Published by Aperture

Artist: Robert Capa 

Pictures: black and white. People in them, what's going on in the country. Devastation. 

Title: Eye Witness 

Published:1995 

Published by: time books 

Artists: all different 

Pictures: all About war.

Title: other realities 

Published 2005

Published by bullfinch press

Artist: jerry uelsmann 

Pictures: unreal, photoshopped, fantasies. 

Title: photography speaks/ 150 photographers on their art

Published 2004 

Published by aperture 

Artist: all different. But in particular; timothy H. O'sullivan 

Pictures: dark black and white, water, rocks, water falls, natural scenes, natural beauty. Pg.63

Title: mannequins 

Published 1977

Published by Alfred A knopf

Artist: George Bennett

Pictures: all different poses/ hair dues/ outfits of mannequins 

Title: This is the American earth 

Published 1968 

Published by Sierra club and Ballantine books 

Artist: many different, but in particular; ansel Adams

Pictures: natural earth selections, real life scenarios.

Title: Ansel Adams 

Published 1984 

Published by the friends of photography 

Artist: ansel Adams 

Pictures: deep black and white earthy scenes, oceans, rocks, woods, beach! 

Title: Paul Strand 

Published 1987 

Published by aperture 

Artist: Paul Strand 

Pictures: black and white. shadowing, define shapes, lines. 

Title: Eugene Atget

Published 1980

Published by aperture 

Artist: Eugene Atget

Pictures: black and white, define shapes, define structures. Mostly outside, buildings, structures..

Title: An autobiography Richard avedon

Published 1993

Published by random house New York 

Artist: Richard avedon 

Pictures: 3 sections; laughter, illusion of power, loss of illusions.

 Title: This is the American earth 

Published 1968 

Published by A Sierra club- Ballantine book 

Artist: ansel Adams and nancy newhall

Pictures: nary urial sciences, earthy, black and white 

Title: Steichen

Published 1963

Published by Doubleday& company, inc.

Artist: Edward steichen

Pictures: very dark black and white, blurry, shaded, old fashion. 

Title: A legacy 

Published 2003 

Published by the Henry e. Huntington library and art gallery 

Artist: Edward Weston 

Pictures: black and white,  of earth, nature! 

Title: The Americans 

Published 1958 

Published by Robert delpire

Artist: Robert frank 

Pictures: black and white, people, what people cause..

Title: Weegee

Published 1978 

Published by aperture

Artist: Weegee

Pictures: black and white, people, action, what they do.

Title: Man Ray 

Published 1979 

Published by aperture 

Artist: man ray 

Pictures: black and white, objects, shaped very distinct, shadowing, people.

Title: Red 

Published 2002 

Published by phaidon press limited 

Artist: Ralph Eugene 

Pictures: black and white,kids in every picture, what kids do/ are like.

Title: Manurl alvarez bravo 

Published 1987

Published by aperture 

Artist: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Pictures: black and white, people, nature, unique, early days.

Title: Eikoh Hosoe

Published 1999 

Published by aperture 

Artist. Eikoh hosoe

Pictures: black and white, people. Accepting others, equality in life. 

 

Title: Barbra Morgan 

Published 1999 

Published by aperture 

Artist: Barbra Morgan 

Pictures: black and white, dancers, make and female! 

Ansel Adams Link

For the Near And Far assigment the artist we are going to for technique and style is Ansel Adams. Refer back to my Ansel Adams post! http://picturessaymorethanwords.blogspot.com/2013/10/get-close-second-artist-ansel-adams.html

Near And Far Pre ssignment

Our Next Asssignment Is the Near And Far Assignment. In this assignment we are going to be working with many different landscapes. Growing up in Gloucester is just a bonus, Everywhere you turn there's a new, breathtaking landscape. For these pictures to come out perfect we have to get everything in focus from the objects/ people in front of you to the object/ people miles away. Now, how do we do this? i plan to set my focus point on the object/ person in the middle landscape, so that way it will focus the forground, middleground, AND backround. I hope to get good pictures of the lanscape near our beautiful harbor, and beaches. This assignment relys on depth of field to be the main focus, so i need to take pictures of larger landscapes. I reasurched further and watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlQaiCPTFS4&feature=player_embedded to help me get a better idea of how to shoot a landscape photo. I will go out and take many different picute, but choose my best 3 in the end and will be postin them later on next week!

Shutter Speed Priority Post Assignment

Over the past week and a half i have been out taking pictures for my Shutter Speed Priority assignment. I realized that it wasn't as easy as it seemed, If you didn't capture the picture at the exact time, the picture came out blurry. I set my s\camera settings to a white balance at daylight, an ISO at 400, and i changed shot from single to continuous. I mostly took pictures of my friends jumping out of things, running, skipping, and  leaping. None of which really worked out as well as i had wished. I sorta had trouble on this assignment, and they definitely are not my best pictures. But out of all i took, here are the 3 i think are the best.

Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard was another artist that I admire for their Shutter Speed Priority. So many of his pictures have amazed me more and more. Eadweard was born on April 9, 1830, and died may 8, 1904. He was an English photographer known for his work with photographic studies in motion and motion picture projection. He was known for his motion pictures in 1877 and 1878, But in his earlier days, He was known more for his  land scape photography. Eadweard's most productive period was during the 1880's at the University Of Pennsylvania, In Philadelphia. Here, he produced over 100,000 images of   animals and human is motion. He spent most of his later years involved in public speaking and showing of his photography and early motion picture.   I looked through a good portion of his pictures and picked the 3 i liked best, enjoy!

Harold Edgerton

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska, April 6, 1903. In 1925 Edgerton received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University Of Nebraska At Lincoln. After graduating from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Edgerton married Esther May Garrett in 1928. Edgerton was best in using short duration electronic flash in photographing fast events photography. He is one of the many artists that use Shutter Speed Priority, and i looked into his work allot, to help me with my Shutter Speed Assignment. He was really good at taking his motion pictures at the perfect time, making all of his photos fantastic. I really enjoyed looking into his works.

I looked through a bunch of his photos and here are the 3 i like the most!

Get close (second artist) Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 and died April 22, 1984. Ansel was an American photographer and environmentalist that is very popular for his work. he works most known are his black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park (click link to see). Adams developed the zone system as a way to determine the proper exposure and contrast, with the help of Fred Archer. Ansel was a hyperactive child  prone to sickness and hypochondria. He grew up with surroundings such as the Golden Gate and Marin Headlands, providing great areas to play. He was very interested in the outside world starting at a younger age, he was always picking up bugs and showing friends/ family. At 4 years old Ansel was tossed face first into his garden during the after shock of the San Francisco earthquake.In 1927, Adams produced hi8s first portfolio, Pramelian Prints Of The High Sierras, and from there on his photo career grew. In the course of his 60 years of photography, the 1930s were a more productive and experimental time. Adams expanded his works, focusing on detailed close ups and large forms from mountains to factories. Adams did not work with just black and white, he also experimented with color. His subjects that he shot in color ranged from portraits to landscape to architecture.   

I looked into Ansel's work further and picked 3 of his photos I liked the best;

Shutter Speed Priority Pre Assignment

Shutter Speed is the length of time a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph. In our Shutter Speed Priority assignment, we use shutter speed to take pictures of moving people. All of my pictures are mostly of friends jumping off stuff and running, but there's many other ways you can do it.For this assignment i was mostly outside so i set the white balance of my Cannon at daylight, for my ISO I mostly set it as 400, but on cloudy days I would move it up. To take good motion pictures I set my camera for continuous shot, so that way i could get a shot by shot album, in which i could find the point in the jump (or run) i liked the most. As i continued on with this assignment through out the week i realized the pictures came out better when you captured them with an angle of looking up from the ground, so i spent allot of time on the ground, resulting in grass stains, so make sure you wear cloths you don't care about while shooting. Also, be aware of your surroundings before you jump, because my friends and I found a few of the jumps to be very painful and an experience we wouldn't establish again.

Finished Get Close

A little while ago, i told you guys about the famous photographer, Imogene Cunningham. Imogene was known for her her close up pictures of flowers.Our assignment was the "Get Close" assignment. For this assignment we took a close up picture only focusing on one part of the picture, which in my case are the flowers (roses). We were aloud to "Get Close" to anything in our pictures but I decided to go for more of a Imogene Cunningham look and do all flowers. Her most most famous pictures were ones of the Magnolia Flower, she found lots of success in her way of photography, as did I. I took about 25-30 pictures of many different flowers over the last week, but I found that roses seemed to work best for me. I picked 3 of my favorite and edited them on photo shop, here they are!

Paul Strand Finished Photos

Earlier on in my blog, i told you about Paul Strand and how i was going to approach my assignment. I had said that I had not had a main focus on the way i wanted to take my pictures, and that i wanted to try a little of everything. But as i got going on taking my pictures, I soon realized that i liked the shadowing portion of Paul Strands photography than anything else and stuck with just taking pictures of them. I took about 40 but I have finally decided that these are the 3 I definitely like the most, enjoy!

Imogene Cunningham

Imogene Cunningham was born April 12,1883 in Portland, OR. and died June 24,1976 in San Francisco, CA. She had one son, Ronald Partridge, and her husband, Rio Partridge. Known for her fantastic flower photography, At the age of 18 Imogene purchased her first camera, a 4x5 inch view camera. She soon lost interest in the camera and sold it to a friend. Imogene put her camera career on hold for about 5 years, not knowing it was soon going to be the biggest success of her life. She began to study photography and graduated in 1907.between 1932 and 1925 she really began to study the Magnolia Flower, These pictures became her most famous, and are still carried out to this day, here are some of my favorite;

Paul Strand

In our next assignment we are going to be looking into the famous photographer, Paul Strand. Paul is known for his breath taking black and white photography. Paul had a long and productive career with is camera. Every single one of his photos are absolutely breath taking. In class we watched 2-6 parts of Paul Strand: Under the Dark Cloth part 1, Posted by Tom Johnson on you-tube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5YTqqoAqA&feature=player_embedded). During these films we really got to know who Paul stand was and what he aimed for in all his photos. Paul was a really big part in helping making photography an art form in the 20th century, he was solemnly focused on looking passed other photographers and trying to make photography serious in his life than ever before. One type of photography that Paul is know famously for doing is Straight Photography. In my next assignment i will be going out and taking 50 photographs in the style of Paul Strands Straight photography. While i look towards taking them with good contrast so that the black and white will really pop, and that the shapes and objects in my picture really stand out and have a meaning. I have noticed that shadowing, vertical lines, and composition is extremely important in all of Paul's photos, so i will make sure to include them in my pictures. For this assignment i wouldn't like to study any subject in particular i want to get a little of each, so i know the feel of Paul's artwork. I researched some of Paul's famous images and here are some i liked the most;

bad photos

Hey! our first assignment was the "Bad Photo" assignment. We had to go out and take purposely bad pictures to help understand that all pictures don't have to be in the right format to be beautiful, but also to show that you have to manipulate with the camera to get the exact picture you want. I went around my yard, and took about 30 photos, Wrong exposure, Wrong composition, Wrong white balance, All over blur, and subject blur. Here are my top favorites of each that i have formatted with Photoshop; Wrong Exposure:

Wrong Composition:

Wrong White Balance:

All Over Blur:

Subject Blur:

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