Landscape: 7

Landscape



Activity 1:

1.View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subject analysis).

 

          - What i see from Walker Evans's picture is a cemetary next to a neighborhood and factory.

           - What i think the image is about is a normal lifestyle of a person who works their whole life, buys a home, has a family, then dies. 

2.  Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate  a point of view.

-Walker Evans's pictures help document how people's lifestyles were like during the great depression and how people's body languages, expressions, and homes said it all.

 

3. Can this photograph be consider Art? Gives two reasons to support your answer.

-This can be considerd art because just like in painting and drawing you use composition and creativity to get  your point across. A photographer needs its camera just as much as a painter needs its paint to create art.

Activity 2:

1. Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express.

 

By: Adam Burton

By: Evgeni Dinev

    2. Discuss whether the communication is clear or amiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

The first image by Adam Burton i find clear because it is obvious that it would question social value of people who do not care about the Earth and the effect it has on our ecosystem. The second image could be ambiguous but i saw it as a way of a metaphor saying that "the sky is the limit".

Activity 3:

1. Compare and constrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting.

By: Auto matt

By: Boss Ross

Both painting and photo landscapes can use the same rules of composition. Paintings i think show more imagination while photos show more detail.

2. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument.

-With painting you have more freedom to create different possibilities in your landscape while photography you have to work with what you have.

3. Choose your examples carefully as a representative of the medium.
- The Bob Ross painting above is an example of the medium because he did not paint from a picture he painted by what he thought his landscape should look like. The photo by Auto matt was taken in a way to make it creative and with good composition with what he naturally had to work with.



Activity 4:

1. Create two photographs in a location with tall buildings or trees using both formats.

Both By: Jesse Castelan

     2.Create a closed and open landscape at one location.

Both By: Jesse Castelan

3.Discuss the different ways we read the resulting images.

- The first image is more closed and has more emphasis on the side mountain, while the second image is more open and has a wider view of the landscape.

Activity 5:

1. Create a landscape utilizing foreground subject matter to create a sence of depth.

By: Jesse Castelan

    2. Discuss how the resulting image is likely to be read by a viewer.

I think a viewer would read this image as solitude or peacefulness; Solitude because the house is high up and away from  eveyone and Peacefulness because it's away from the city and open.

 





Unit 4: Time

Activity 1: Look at a Henri Cartier-Bresson photograph and discuss why you think that capturing the decisive moment has added to the picture's quality.
I think capturing images in a decisive moment adds a natural quality to the image. Henri Cartier-bresson's images show just that. It looks as though his subjects in his photos don't even realize that  he has taken a picture. When you tell your subject to pose a certain way it almost looks fake, but when you capture your subject when it's not posing it's more natural to the viewer.

Activity 2: Find an example of a photograph where the photographer has used a very fast shutter speed and describe the subject matter including the background. Discuss any technical difficulties the photographer may have encountered and how he or she may have overcome them. Discuss what happened to the depth of field and why. Discuss weather the image gives you the feeling of movement, stating the reasons of your conclusion.

Taylor

The subject in this image is the popped bubble. To bring out the bubble more, the background was set to be unfocused. The photographer might have had problems in placing it's  subject perfectly in the image and when to snap the picture. She most likely had to follow the bubble very carefully and had to guess when the bubble was going to pop. To bring out the bubble more the depth of field in this image was set to shallow. The image definitely gives off a feeling of movement because it's being popped.  I like how the movement of the water droplets are still in a shape of a circle when being popped.

Activity 3:Take four images of a running or jumping figure using fast shutter speeds (faster than 1/250 second). Vary the direction of travel in relation to the camera and attempt to fill the frame with the figure. Examine the image for any movement blur and discuss the focusing technique used.

Take four images of the same moving subject using shutter speeds between 1/15 and 1/125 second. Pan the camera to follow the movement. The primary subject should again fill the frame. Discuss the visual effect of each image.

Fast Shutter Speed

Panning with 1/15

By: Jessica Castelan

Activity 4: Find a photograph where the photographer has used a slow shutter speed and describe the subject matter including the background. Discuss any technical difficulties the photographer may have encountered and how these mat have been overcome.

‘Etter Badet’

By Randihausken

The subject matter in this image is the shaking dog. The background is in focus which helps bring out the subject. Some technical difficulties that the photographer might have encountered was keeping his camera still when capturing the photo. The photographer most likely used a tripod to keep his camera still. If the photographer didn't use a tripod or kept still the dog would have shifted in the image.

Activity 5: Create four images that contain a mixture of solid (sharp) and fluid (blur) forms.

Unit 3: Light

Unit 3: Light

Activity 1: Look through assorted photographic websites and find some examples of subjects lit by hard light and examples of subjects lit by soft light. Describe the effect the light has on the subjects' texture, form and detail, and the overall mood of the picture.

By: Jim Harmer
Hard Light Example

Dreamstime.com
Hard Light Example

 Hard Light photography gives out a more striking image to its subject. It also brings out more of the textures and details of the image. For example, the second image really brings out his wrinkles on his fingers and his facial expression.

littlesproutphotography.com
Soft Light

littlesproutphotography.com
Soft Light

Soft light photography brings out a more airy atmosphere to its images. It also gives off a a relax feeling to it.

Activity 2:Find an example of a photograph where the subject has been lit by a single light source and an example where more than one light has been used.Describe in each the quality and position of the brightest or main light and the effect this has on the subject. In the second example describe the quality and effect the additional light has.

Beckermanphoto.com
one light source

The main light source in this image is the moon. The lighting helps capture the mood and the shading of its subjects. Having the lighting so high up helps in capturing the entire subject.

David Shillling
Multiple Light

The lighting on the subject gives off a softer feel and helps bring out the woman's face, vail, dress, and flowers.

Activity 3: Find two images that have been shot into the light or included the light source. Explain how the photographer may have gone about taking a light meter reading for these photographs.

Jim Zuckerman The photograph is shot in direct light and has an animal in motion; the photographer most likely used the light meter to capture the right aperture to get the right exposure. Henry Jones A Light meter was most likely used to find the right exposure and aperture to capture the trees and grass correctly. Activity 4: Find two examples of photographs, which makes use of maximum depth of field, and two examples, which have very shallow depth of field. By: Miek37 By: Mike Small                 Great Depth of Field- When everything in the image is in focus. The photographer has to have used a smaller aperture to get everything in the image in focus.

By: Rhino Neal

By:Xenidlo

Shallow Depth: when only one part of the image is in focus and the other is not. The photographer used a greater aperture to get the blurriness in the image.

Photo 3-6 Activity 1-3

Activity 1:Look through assorted photographic books and observe how many photographers have moved in very close to their subjects. By employing this technique the photographer is said to ‘fill the frame’ and make their photographs more dramatic. Find two examples of how photographers seek simple backgrounds to remove unwanted detail and to help keep the emphasis or ‘focal point’ on the subject.

The plain background on both of these pictures helps focus more on the subject. The background for the strawberries helps them come out more in the picture.

by Tajette O. Halloran

 

By: Randy Mckown

Activity 2:
Q. What does John Szarkowski mean when he says that photographers are quoting ‘out of context’ when they make photographic pictures? 
-it means that a photographer is capturing only a fragment of a scene and making it its own subject in a photo.

Q. The frame often ‘dissects familiar forms’. At the end of the last century photography was having a major impact on Art. Impressionist artists such as Degas were influenced by what they saw.
Find an example of his work, which clearly shows this influence and explain why the public might have been shocked to see such paintings. 
-Degas was influenced by the human body and capturing them in unusual position. The public might have been shocked by his realism.

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Activity 3
Find two examples of Photographs that follow the Rule of Thirds and two examples that do not. Comment briefly on why and how you think the composition works.

John Watson- The composition works because it hits one of the power points.

By: Big Grey Mare- This picture also hits one of the four points.

By: Brian Reynolds- This is breaking rule of thirds because the subject is placed in the middle of the picture.

By: Sara Londe- This image is also breaking the rule of thirds because the red leaf is in the middle of the picture.

Activity 4: Collect one image where the photographer has placed the main subject off center and retained a sense of balance and one image where the photographer has placed the main subject off center and created a sense of imbalance.
Discuss the possible intentions of the photographer in creating each image.
Create four images, placing the focal point and/or visual weight in different areas of the frame. Discuss weather each image is balanced.

By: trendhunter.com- Both the subjects in this image are representing imbalance because one subject is in a higher position then the other subject. The photographer possibly intended to do this with the ladder to show how imbalanced it was.

FrankyVL7- Even though the pile of rocks are not in the middle of the image or have another stack of rocks on the other side of it it is still representing balance because they are stacked one rock on top of the other. The photographer possibly intended to place these stones on the side to represent how a subject can still be in balance even though its not exactly in the middle.

By: Jessica Castelan-
Even though the spindles of thread are not exactly even on top of each other the image above is still balanced.

By: Jessica Castelan
The pigs are placed in different positions and are different sizes but they still are balanced.

By: Jessica Castelan-
the lit candle is still balanced even though one fire is in a higher position  than the other.

By: Jessica Castelan-
the glass pebbles are balanced because if you cut the image down the middle each side is symmetrical.

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