balancing elements

Advanced composition -avoid mergers

Advanced compostion-background

Advanced compsotion-cropping

Advanced compostion-depth

Advanced compostion- Rule of thirds

advanced composition-viewpoint

Advanced compositon- leading lines

Advanced Compositon -repetition

Advanced Compostion- Framing

Hurricane Ike

I picked this photo because of the subject mainly i like how the color blue stands out amongst the background. i might say in the use of composition the picture would best illustrate simplicity because the background is simple in the color(gray) and the subject which is the man on the chairs is more complex.

i would say  that the composition of this picture is illustrated mostly with balance because if you divide the picture then there are red chairs on both sides and there is also one of those wooden boxes on each side. I mainly picked the picture because of the subject, a tiger.

E.J. Bellocq Great black and white photography part 2

       John Ernest Joseph Bellocq, was born into a wealthy family in the french quarter of New Orleans. When he first started he was known as an amateur photographer in his community.Bellocq attended the College of the Immaculate Conception and worked at his father's wholesale firm. He became obsessed with photography and  He made a living mostly by taking pictures of landmarks and of ships and machinery for local companies, he also, for fun took pictures of the hidden side of "local life", most famous the prostitutes of story ville.
By 1898, he gained recognition as one of the city's most popular and talented amateur photographers. This was the same year the red light district, Storyville, opened for business as home to legalized prostitution from 1898 until 1917, when the federal government and the Navy shut it down as ‘bad influence’ during WWI..  ellocq was a hideous hydrocephalic who lived lone and acquired a reputation for eccentricity and unfriendliness. He frequented brothels, as if he could identify himself only in such community. Although there were no evidence that he used their services, Bellocq moved freely among the prostitutes and take photographs. Bellocqs photos were known for their estranged beauty.

Ellocq died in 1949, and was buried in Saint Lewis Cemetery in New Orleans.
After his death, most of his negatives and prints were destroyed. However, the Storyville negatives were later found trapped in a sofa. The storyville photos were All portraits of women. Some are nude, some dressed, others posed as if acting a mysterious narrative. After many years, they were purchased by a young photographer, Lee Friedlander. In 1970, he published a selection of the prints he had made from the negatives in the book, Storyville Portraits. These photographs were immediately acclaimed for their unique style beauty. A more extensive collection of Friedlander's prints, entitled Bellocq: Photographs from Storyville, was published in 1996.

Pinhole Assignment

 Differences 
  The positive picture is on the opposite side than the negative picture
  The negative picture is a lot darker than the positive picture .
  Every thing that is dark in the negative is light in the positive. 
What happened with my negative?
- my negative turned to a postive!! and like a mirror everything is on the opposite side.

neg·a·tive[neg-uh-tiv]   

Photography . noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

 

My negative looks different than my positive because the negative that we took did not capture the light in the right spots, so on the positve the chemicals we used made it so that the light showed on the positive.  

 

Minor Bending on the corners of photo
- this happens as a result of light refraction which is the different directions of the areas of light.

framing

 

Framing?  What is Framing? Framing is used to improve the photographic composition. Framing, frames the center of interest with nothing in the foreground. The object in the back, which is the subject is framed around the darker buildings...

Lines

Lines? What are lines? well in photography the lines refer to the composition of the picture as you can see in the picture the lines in the background make the subject of the picture which is the falling guy stand out! Which is what lines are supposed to do they are supposed to  draw the viewers attention to your center of attention.

Avoid Merging

Avoiding Merging is a technique used so that it is easier to focus our eyes on the principal subject of the picture. This picture here is an example of merging the lines level out with the people kneeling on the floor therefore it is hard to tell what the subject of the picture is.

Balance

Good balance is simply the arrangement of shapes, colors, or areas of light and dark that complement one another so that the photograph looks well-balanced. Here the picture is symmetrical and shows good balance because the subjects can be separated into two vertical pictures-which tends to divide the viewer's attention.

Rule of Thirds

Rule of Thirds.  This is where you determine where you want the subject of the picture to be positioned. In this picture the subject is positioned to the right. which shows the fallen apart building and the smoke in the background

Simplicity

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Simplicity is ways to give the center of interest in your pictures the most visual attention. One way is to select uncomplicated backgrounds that will not steal attention from your subjects.  Here the background is a solid color which gives emphasis to the building on fire.

Black and White Photography

Margaret Bourke-White

William Klein

E.J Bellocq
 

  

The CAMERA

 Vocabulary

aperture a device that controls amount of light admitted
shutter

a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure

exposure  the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium
depth of field the distance in front of and behind the subject that appears to be in focus
F-stop The measurement of light able to pass through the photographic lens.
focal length focal distance: the distance from a lens to its focus
Visible spectrum The light spectrum between 400 and 700 nm, which is detectable by the human eyeDark Room room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper.
Leaf Shutter  is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time
Frame Rate  or frame frequency, is the frequency (rate) at which an imaging device produces unique consecutive images called frames.

 

PinHole SHOTS

FAVORITE

LEAST FAVORITE

FAVORITE: I like this picture because its so weird and i like it! I'm confused as to why there are so many of the teletubbies in the picture! It is interesting to me and makes me wonder how to do it and makes me wanna take a picture like that.
LEAST FAVORITE: I DONT like this picture because like nothing is going on here its a picture of nothing basically! i find  little to no interest in this picture