Wednesday, January 26, 2011

architecture


Big Picture 1 - San Fransisco (down town)
Detail picture 2- William and Sonoma San Fransisco

Big Picture 3- down town San Fransisco

Detail 3- down town San Fransisco

Interior 3 - down town San Fransisco

Friday, January 21, 2011

Chapter 9

Thinking Artistically
  • Composition very important
  • you must pay attention when positioning camera even
  • Value is very important in black and white landscapes
  • always have a mood in mind and adjust to that mood
  • a good goal to achieve is a balance between unity and variety
  • extreme unity is with all parts of photo relate to each other
  • variety is the exact opposite where nothing relates but it make a very nice picture
  • unity= peaceful
  • Variety = energy

Camera Settings
  • 1st stop down the lens all the way
  • 2nd choose small f stop
  • tripod is necessary for sharp image

Light
  • golden time for shooting landscapes before sunset and after sun rise
  • the color of light is warm and gold
  • best to l with direct light from distance
 
Film
  • Landscape photos need to record as much as possible
  • use100 ISO with  35mm camera to capture all the detail
  • Black and white is Th choice for landscape photography

Lens
  • wide angle lens are preferred
  • for shooting mountains some photographers use  telephoto lens
  • Macro lenses are also used for really close photos

Filters
  • Very important part of landscape photo's
  • yellow filter to bring out clouds
  • also pairing these filters together gives even better effects to photo

Camera Support
  • when you combine slow films and Small f - stops you get  slow shutter
  • you will need  tripod to support camera to get sharp image

The Grand Landscape
  • "Big View: for photo's taken out side
  • You can take a ordinary house and by knowing how to take it the right way you make it as interesting as the grand Canyon
  • Wide Angle lens extremely helpful
  • use the 3rds rule when dealing with horizons
  • Photo shop can always give you that extra push to bring you photo from good to great

Landscape Details and close - ups
  • Parks are good for details
  • Japanese gardens are also very good because they have tones of details from interestingly placed rocks to miniature water falls.
  • bright sunny Day best for these photos
  • the value in  picture Can be more important than an camera can capture
  • right before sun rise or after sunset is best because it eliminates shadows
  • John Sexton calls it the "quite light"\
  • light meters make n exposure to take the middle grays out of the photo graph
  • light photos = slow shutter speed
  • dark photo's = fast shutter speed

Abstracted Element in the Landscape
  • abstract photo's contain line,shape, value and texture
  • tree bark is a perfect example
  • you must get really close to  Small part of your subject to make it abstract
  • telephoto or micro lens would work well for getting up close

Carr Clifton








Carr was born in California. He attended a collage in California were he received a degree in Commercial Photography. This was funny because he became famous for his landscape photographs. He is also know for going farther than anyone else has gone before with taking photographs. He photographs have appeared in many places books, and museums. more than likely you have seen his photographs and not known it was his.






This picture is very beautiful in my opinion. I like how the river draws your eye all the way back to the tree and then to the moutians then into the sunset. The river gives it line. 


Thursday, January 20, 2011

Timothy O'Sullivan



Timothy O'Sullivan was a classic photographer shooting allot of scenery. He was born in 1840. Timothy started his photography career in New York City he was about 30 years old. He worked for Mathew Brandy he was very well known for his studio work. Mathew Brandy h a group of photographers who h sent out to take photos of the civil war. In this group of photographers was Alexander Gardener he left the group and took Timothy O'Sullivan the best photographer in the group with him to open his own studio. After the civil war Timothy O'Sullivan was one of the first photographers to go to the west of America talk photographs of the scenery an take them back to the east coast so they all knew what wonders were to the west. AfterTimothy return to Washington DC h then died there 2 years later of Tuberculosis.


While Timothy was taking picture in the west the photos h took were of ; grand caynon, Colorado river, canyon DE chelle, and death valley.


canyon de chelle
The sunlight on the canyon wall and rocks spirals on them and makes them look three dimensional.
 

Death Valley


Grand canyon


Thursday, January 13, 2011

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

There are three types of taking pictures of architecture interior view , detail and the big view.
  • Interior view - taking a picture of a room
  • Detail- taking a picture of carvings on a fire place
  • The Big Picture - taking a picture of the whole body

  • Indirect Portrait- it is a portrait of the people that live in that town
Thinking artistically- it is something that is a creative way of taking  picture of  architecture.
Camera setting - it can bring details out in the photo details you would not normally see.
Film  - black and white for shape and emphasis 
         -color to bring out scenre  
Lighting - brings different colors out witch draws the eye to those spots
The Big View - use wide angle, to get the whole subject
Shadows - can give a building new and interesting detail
detail shot - so you can really focus in on nice details (crown molding)
Interior views- give a feeling of thee whole room

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

American Photographer

  • -Daily news first newspaper with lots of pictures in it calling it the illustrated daily news
  • -Pictures were used that attacked attention
  • -With out photographs advertisers would of been in allot of trouble
  • -photos could were truth and they were believed way more than drawings
  • -1920 advertising not read it is seen
  • -scientist, gangster,politician's and preachers could all be famous as long as they looked good in a photo
  • -Babe Ruth was a celebrity making millions and only 50 thousand as a baseball players
  • -photographs could relate normal people to the celebrity
  • -photographs helped scientist prove scientific things such as the universe expanding or that there are other plants other than earth
  • -Photography neutralized any thought of something not being real
  • -cameras can take pictures of things we would never been able to see other wise
  • -Photos can bring people together that other wise would of never thought to acknowledge each other
  • -Photographs would soon be able to travel over telephone lines
  • -The age of Photography was about to begin