April 2010
4 posts
Project 5 Ideas
Yousuf Karsh
I found Yousuf Karsh’s portraits rather fascinating. What I find interesting is that he has taken photos of many famous personalities. The lighting in all of the photos is impressive and the quality of the pictures is remarkable, considering a lot of the photos are from the 40s and 50s. Karsh used an 8x10 camera, so that is where the detail comes from.
Karsh seems to capture the essence and...
Project 4 - Inspirational Photos
Unknown Photographer
Media Department, Macquarie University
scan.net.au/…/display.php?journal_id=65
Roger D Metcalf
metcalf.org.uk/forensic_photography
Unknown Photographer
www.aboutmyplanet.com/environment/project-litter/
Robert Wilkinson
www.freakingnews.com/Castle-Ruins-Pictures—2…
George Weber
www.andaman.org/…/text-MtAlegre.htm
Unknown...
Project 4 – The Trace – Written Ideas
I want to take this project as literally as I can. I want to capture what has been left behind as someone else. I won’t be leaving my mark anywhere. I would like to take on the role of a detective through these photographs. I will attempt to assess the behavior of people from evidence that they left behind. I imagine I will find a lot of things like litter and garbage, graffiti, and other...
March 2010
3 posts
Project 3: Street Photography
Here are my 6 photos for the Street Photography assignment:
Wisconsin Afternoon
“Irish” Ladies
Drinking Journey
Bicycling Beloit
River Run
Yard Work
Project 3: Street Photography - Inspirational...
Steve Garth
Robert Raszczynski
Robert M Johnson
Richard Bram
Mikhail Palinchak
Andy Williams
Project 2 Post Critique Reflection
After seeing some of my classmates photos and hearing what they have to say I think that if I were to do this project again I would not the frame the photos so carefully. In my photos I was really trying to get a clear take on the emotion and focused on the subject. To a certain extent it worked well, but I think I lacked a little bit in emotion. What my photos, I thought, did do well was depict...
February 2010
19 posts
What Makes A Great Photo
The statement regarding what makes a great photo I most agreed with is Chris Jordan’s statement:
“To me a great photograph is one that works on several different levels, offering something new again and again, like a good piece of music. Visually it has a particular kind of intricacy or vividness, or an extraordinarily complex and beautiful tonal scale. Intellectually and emotionally...
Written Ideas: Project 2 - Emotion
The emotion which I was assigned for project 2 is Frustration. To get and idea of what I need to depict in my photos I first need to get a better idea of what frustration is. I started by looking up frustration in the dictionary. Here’s what I found:
Frustrated: adj - disappointed; thwarted; having a feeling of or filled with frustration; dissatisfied
Frustration: noun - act of...
Project 1 Post-Critique Reflection
After seeing some of my classmates photos and hearing what they have to say I think that if I were to do this project again I would not fill the frame so much. In my photos I was really trying to get an extreme close up to kind of take the subject out of context. To a certain extent it worked well, but I think I lost a lot of depth in the picture. A couple of my photos did not contain very much...
January 2010
1 post
Project 1 Written Ideas
So our first project has to do with close ups. For this project I don’t have any real idea of what the subject matter will be. I would describe myself as a novice, so hopefully something will catch my eye and I will be able to capture it in an interesting way.
For this project I will be shooting in color and I don’t plan to stage any of the photos. Also, I plan to use photoshop...