Photographers

Jitka Hanzlova- Photographing with the idea of 'noticing things'. Photographs such as nature, parks very simple yet stunning imagery.

Bruce Davidson- His project of a single street in 1970 show people and their surroundings. He's sensitive to their lives and has a very documentary like approach.

Gerald Forster- Photographs of night shots (over exposure). The lighting captured in these images are so appealing to the eye.

Bill Henson- Does night photography, protraits of people.

Gillian Wearing- Gets people to write a statement on a peice of paper and then photographs them holding it. Very interesting yet cool idea making excellent and appealing photographs.

Gregory Crewdson- All of his photographs are well lit. He pays great attention to lighting and thus builds up stories within his images.

Heidi Specker- Her photography is all about compostion. Images are very simple yet are very beautifully constructed images.

Naoya Hatakeyama- Photographs images that are reflections in water.

Photograhy Interests

At the present I'm interested in doing rural photography and therefore would be taking photographs of a road rather than a street......

Artist Models
Edward Weston

James Ravilious, (1939-1999)
Was an english photographer, images are documented to show the lifestyle associated with the area of North Devon.

Tree-lined street with riders, Florac,
Cevennes, France, 1982.

Farm Yard, 1996.

Jean Prickard leading her flock, Woolridge,

Dolton, Devon, England, 1975.

Cows coming home to be milked, La Vernade,

Covennes, France, 1982.

"To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, tryingto free oneself from absorption in subject matter," by Cole Weston.

Adobe Bridge....

Notes on Bridge....

1. Sort images by star ratings(make images bigger and click on dots to create ratings).
2. Select all= command A.
3. To filter click next to thing you want to filter by(hides rest of images).
4. Sort by colour(labels); right click image-labels..... Select= RED, Second= YELLOW, Approved=GREEN, Review=BLUE, To Do=PURPLE.
5. Contact Sheet= Tools>Photoshop>contact sheet II.....Contact sheet>cm 19, 28. Font 8.
6. Adobe Digital Negative Converter(DNG)>always +3 digit serial number(bottom right box).
7. Camera RAW you can always go back to original.

Photographers

Florian Bohn- Photography of streets and people.

Frank Breuer- Photography of german post war times, the images have a dead pan view of things. Images include great depth of field, everything is sharp and the compositions are very strong. His works come in series, including his warehouse and power pole series.  He only photographs when its overcast. Images are deceptively simple.

Garon Kiset- Photographs abandoned swimming pools, using natural light, thus creating interesting colours within his works.

Joel Sternfeld- Is a younger generation of photography with the use of colour. He photographs what he finds.

Lee Friedlander- Street photographer, sometimes including people within his images, including himself by reflection or shadow. He shows to the viewer that what he photographs is not generally the truth-post modern photography.

Philip-Lorca Decorcia- Uses a combination of artificial and natural lighting.

My thoughts so far....

I've decided to include my homework in my 'visual diary', as i'm new to photography and i think it will help me to remember and learn the things i need to know about this paper.

I realised once i'd uploaded my photos through bridge that a couple of the rubbish bin images are out of focus, i feel that this is a learning curve and that i'l learn from it.

Also that the images of the "duckies" had a slight depth of field to them.

Depth of field: where part of the image appears "sharp" while the rest is more blurred. (In my case the duck and tv top is the sharp portion of the image, while the rest is blurred.)

Week one cnt.

Photographs of an object in three different light sources....

Object: duck(soft toy)

Natural Light_______________Tuscan Light

SS=0''4, Ap.=5.0_____________SS=2''5, Ap.=4.5

Fluro Light

SS=1/40, Ap.=5.0

Week one

Photographs of a low reflectance object (black object), using under & over exposure & recording aperture & shutter speed .....


Object: TV remote
Under exposure
-2, SS=1/13, Ap.=5.6__________-1, SS=0"8, Ap.=5.6


Correct exposure
0, SS=1''6, Ap.=5.6


________________________Over exposure
+1, SS=4'', Ap.=5.6_________ ___+2, SS=8'', Ap.5.6




Photographs of a high reflectance object (white object), using under & over exposure & recording aperture & shutter speed .....



Object: Rubbish Bin
Under exposure
-2, SS=1/6, Ap.=5____________-1, SS=0''4, Ap.=5


Correct exposure
0, SS=0''8, Ap.=5



_______________________Over exposure
+1, SS=1''3, Ap.=5___________+2, SS=6'', Ap.=4.5

Photographers

Photographers

Below are some photographers that were shown in class, the ones listed below are the ones where i really admired and liked their work.

Eugene Atget- her works viewed where of buildings and alleyways, they were old fashioned and very beautiful.

Walker Evens- showed elements within his images and that really appealled to me and is something that i admire.

Diane Arbus- are images using people, people that are different and out of the ordinary. The image shown was one of a young boy holding a grenade. I really liked how she captured the image and the extrordinariness of it.

Joel Meyerowitz- his images had beautiful colours and were under the use of natural light. These really appealed to me as he captured such admirable natural images.

Bill Brandt- the images viewed where mainly of buildings and were rather dark, something about the darkness of the images appealed to me and created a liking to his works.

Camera Knowledge

Things to know about the camera.....
that i need to remember/learn

• Aperture (F); size of the camera 'hole'/lense.

The smaller the number the bigger the 'hole'/lense.

The bigger the hole the faster the shutter speed.

On screen is shown by a F.

Normal day F= 5.6

Bright day F= 11

• Shutter Speed; can change to under or over expose

Shown on left of camera.

Slow shutter speed= 1:15sec.

Fast shutter speed= 1:500sec.

Over exposure= lighter.

Under exposure= darker.

Intro to Photography!

Intro to Photography.......

So have decided to create a blog for my visual diary, and am rather looking forward to this photography class as i havn't done any photography classes before.