Project 5 Light, Shadow, and Reflection

Silhouette 

Photo by: Freek Bekaert

Website: https://500px.com/photo/8758437/white-outline-by-freek-bekaert

Silhouette and Shadows

Photo by: Mecuro B. Cotto

Website: http://beautifulbizzzzarre.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/mecuro-b-cotto.html?zx=1351f01d32418ed8

Photo by: Unknown

Website: http://webneel.com/i/photography/8-woman-black-and-white-photography-by-kirk-cypel/07-2013/d?nid=8760

Shadows

Photo by: Susan Grant

Website: Critical Mass

Photo by: Lei Han

Website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunsetnoir/7730483398/

Reflection

Photo by: Unknown

Website: http://art.ekstrax.com/2015/08/the-art-of-black-and-white-photography.html

Photo by: Jobst D. Küker

Website: http://www.fotoblur.com/images/486340

Back Lit

Photo by: Josef Koudelka

Website: http://onlinebrowsing.blogspot.cz/2010/12/josef-koudelka-gypsies.html

Part 2

Photo by: Edward Steichen
Website:  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/561261172287806548/

This image is a back lit silhouette with shadows. I think the photographer took his meter reading around the lighter flower section of the photograph because there is a dark underexposed shadow, but there is detail in the flowers. I think the photographer is going for a mysterious, but also calming mood. The shadow makes it eerie with the light surrounding it, but the image is beautiful. I think if the photographer metered the opposite, there would not be an intense shadow and it would be properly exposed. I do not think there would be as much of a strong mood to the photograph. 

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke-White was a famous American photographer and journalist. She was born in New York in 1904. She went to Columbia University and transferred to the University of Michigan where she met her husband. She majored in biology however did a lot of photography throughout her years of schooling. In 1929 she was hired to be a photographer for the magazine Fortune. She traveled to Germany and Russia where she photographed the Soviet Union's plan for industrialization. She was the first woman and photographer to be permitted to photograph the Soviet Union. In 1934 her work on Dust Bowl farmers was published in Fortune, Vanity Fair and the New York Times. In 1936 she became a photographer for Life magazine. Margaret Bourke-White was the first woman photographer attached to the US military and she documented the horrors of World War II in Germany. She photographed Gandhi hours before he was assassinated and documented the Korean war in 1952. That same year she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and died in 1971.

Photo by: Margaret Bourke-White

Website: http://topyaps.com/top-10-photographs-of-margaret-bourke-white

This photograph is one of my favorites of Bourke-White's work. The light hits the subjects in a mysterious way as they are looking of into the distance. Also, the subject of the photo is very powerful because it shows two black figures in a cave working in very hot conditions shown by their sweat. The people do not appear to be happy showing this might be a result of racial discrimination or they are unable to find better work. 

Final Portfolio

Project 4 Depth of Field

Depth of Field

This photograph was taken around Christmas time. I tried to get my camera to focus on the ornaments in the back. I printed it using F8 with a 2 and 1/2 filter for 8 seconds.

This was taken using a photography light and black cloth. I focused my camera on the closest nesting doll for a shallow depth of field. I printed this using F11 and 7 seconds. I used a 3 filter. 

Project 3 Motion

Motion

I took a picture of my subject standing completely still with only her head moving from side to side. This created a blur. I had to test this using a digital camera first to get the aperture and shutter speed exactly how I wanted them for the photograph to be properly exposed. When printing, I was on F8 with a six to seven second exposure. I used a 3 filter.

The individual photographs were taken by my film camera set on the dashboard as the car went over bumps. Each one ended up looking like a figure so I made it into a diptych. I printed both using F11 with six seconds and a 3 filter. 

Project 4 Pre-work: Depth of Field and Abstraction

Abstraction

Abstraction is dealing with more conceptual ideas than specific events. It can also be freedom from representational qualities in art. Abstract photography seeks to break away from traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the relationships of forms and colors. 

Photo by: Abelado Morell

Website: http://www.abelardomorell.net/photography/home_01/home_07.html

Photo by: Kim Keever

Website: http://mashable.com/2014/03/12/kim-keever-photography/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-photo#yPwcdB5zagq3

In these two images, I think the photographer did use depth of field to help with the abstract quality of the image. In the first photograph, the focus is on the forks in the water and the background is out of focus. In the second photograph the swirls of color are the focus. The swirls look like smoke although it is hard to tell. It is more a picture of a shape and color than a discernible, physical, object.

Shallow Depth of Field

Portrait

Photo By: Natasha Kleo Kapinus

Website: http://www.cuded.com/2013/12/photography-by-natasha-kleo-kapinus/

Photo by: unknown

Website: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ck3/45767168/in/faves-52035682@N00/

Still Life

Photo by: Anna Nemoy

Website: http://www.thedphoto.com/inspiration-fix/fantastic-still-life-photography-by-anna-nemoy/

Project 3: Motion Prework

Panning

Photo by: Erwan Escoubet

Website: http://photodoto.com/panning-photography-ideas/

Slow Motion

Photo By: Anton Bragalia

Website: http://photography.stwilfrids.com/figure-in-motion-resources-bragaglia-motion-gallery.html

Freeze Action

Photo By: Harold E. Edgerton

Website: http://www.photography-now.com/artist/harold-e.-edgerton

Total Motion

Photo by: Bill Waldman

Website: http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2012/04/tips-pro-drag-shutter-to-capture-bodies-motion

Effective Use of Camera Shake

Photo By: Skyla Baily

Website: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/498773727458735488/

Contrasting Techniques with Same Movement

Photo By: Chris Peddecord

Photo By: Shinichi Maruyama

Website: http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2013/01/04/dancers-in-motion/

Between these two photos, I think they are effective in their own way, however I like the motion blur better. The first dancer photo is simply a freeze motion which shows beautiful lines, but the second one actually shows the movement throughout dance. Dance is a flow of movement and I think it is more accurately portrayed in the second photograph. 

Triptychs and Diptychs 

These are a series of two or three photographs or pieces of artwork placed next to each other purposefully to convey an image or theme. 

Photo By: Laurence Demaison

Website: http://weandthecolor.com/experimental-art-photography-by-laurence-demaison/12397

Photo By: Julianna Kunstler

Website: http://juliannakunstler.com/art1_schemedesign.html#.VmSUz_lViko