Masters Photos

Paul Strand 

        Paul Strand was born in New York City on October 16, 1890 to Bohemian Parents. Strand was first introduced to photography in high school at the Ethical Culture Fieldstone school by Lewis Hine. In early 1915, his mentor Stieglitz criticized the graphic softness of Strand's photographs and over the next two years he dramatically changed his technique and made extraordinary photographs on three principal themes: movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits.Paul was called the biggest, widest most commanding talent in American history. Strand was also interested in film making he produced his first film 1921 with Charles Sheeler. Paul Strand was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 1984.

We chose Paul strand because, His photographs showed us a different meaning to what photography meant to us. His inspiring techniques on how to use a camera and what to show on an image. thought us that a camera can capture life itself. GHis art was meant to g beyond our vision of reality. Having such an inspirational Photographer was able to reflect on the images we all took as a group.

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TIPS FOR BETTER PORTRAITS

     


1. 10 Ways to take stunning portraits
2. Posing Tips
3. Asking permission to photograph people
4. Family portrait photos
5. Portrait Cropping Guide
6. Portrait Editing
7. 101 Photography tips
8. Tips for natural looking portraits
9. Male Poses
10. Outdoor portraits

   To take the best portrait photos, it is important to make the the model feel comfortable to make the photographs look natural, to take lots of shots because it will give you a larger amount of options of portraits,  and to have a background that will not interface with the person being photographed.

Artistic Review

       As photography teacher at Pittsburg High Bryan Farley has been taking photographs of what he says "still trying to give voice to the voiceless by creating a dynamic flat image". Living with an "invisible disability" Epilepsy he will demonstrate the art of showing whats not visible, visible for everyones else's eyes.Through the art of photography Farley relates with many people using such concepts as children, families, and things that are not as visible as others.

    While observing his website, something that was clear throughout the page was the connecting he has with children and people in general. Looking at all the images involving children, the connection between the photographer and the person being photographed tell us many things about the person taking the picture and the way he treats people around him. his images show stories that are not being told or explained by anyone, you could make up your own description about whats going on at the moment where the photo was taken.

    An image caught my attention was the one with the toe men hugging, San Marin Basketball Season Ends This image can tell you what was happening at the moment without having to be there at that exact moment. Just by looking at the image you get a feeling of emotion happening when they hugged each other  you could tell that they were happy for something that had just occurred maybe the winning of a basketball game.        

     Another image that stood out out of all his fantastic peaces of art was in the love's promise gallery were he took many images of nature and flowers. These photographs are shown as a great example of something invisible being shown as visible. sometimes we walk around out in the nature and never noticed the beautiful things nature has to offer, for example these photos which show the true beauty of nature (http://bryanfarley.photoshelter.com/gallery/Loves-Promise/G0000.uA3EJw3F5Y/)To notice the amazing work of art that have been posted for everyone else to view you need to take a look at this well portrayed website.(http://www.bryanfarley.com/)                 

    

Cropping for Better Composition 2

The original photo was taken with the purpose of creating an image using leading lines. The second image was cropped making the lines more visible. The lines lead the viewers eyes to the main subject of the image. 

cropping for better composition

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 The first cropped image is using leading lines. The palm trees are lined up next to each other, showing a path leading to the bridge. The path is leading the viewer to the main subject which is the bridge. The road is also a leading line leading the viewer to the same pace as the palm trees. 

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Leading lines are also shown on this second image the girls pants have lines that lead the viewers eye to the bubbles. The main subjects in this photo are the bubbles.

Camera Review

Canon T3i

  The canon T3i is an excellent camera.This camera is easy to use and takes amazing photos and HD 1800 videos. The camera controls are very easy to manage and this camera is very good for any level of photographer, especially beginners. The EOS Rebel T3i has an 18.0 Megapixel CMOS sensor that captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range and offers more than enough resolution for big enlargements or crops.

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RULES OF COMPOSITION

Leading Lines 

Family Photo

Before and After (Aperture)

Yosemite and Photography

Pop Laval, a Central Valley photographer, started photographing Yosemite nearly 100 years ago. How did he make money? Did Yosemite pay him?

• Pop Laval made money by photographing many different places including Yosemite. He was paid to photograph Yosemite. 

Who makes the most interesting photographs of Yosemite now? How are the images created? Are photographers paid to photograph Yosemite? If you were photographing Yosemite, what would you do? What would you want to do?

• Gary Hart makes some very interesting photographs today. Gary is an experienced  and enthusiastic trainer and guide who conducts photo workshops and private photo tours. Photographers are not paid to photograph Yosemite unless it involves something professional. If I were to photograph Yosemite i would like to capture its beauty and and transfer that sense of nature that it gives.

Photo Booth

Photo Booth

I used Glow because i liked the light effect it gave.

 

I used the comic book effect because it gave me a different look from anyother effects. 

I used pop art because it was different an unique.

I used glow twice because it gave different effects because of the different lighting.

I used sepia because the lighting gave the picture a nice relaxing feeling.

History of Photo Booth

History and Future of the Photo Booth

What was revealed at the 1889 World's Fair? 

    The Eiffel Tower was revealed at the 1889 World's fair. Many people dont know that the photo booth was also created for this event .

What has more significance?

   The eiffel brings a large amount of significance to this date marking the 100th aniversary of the French Revolution. The photo booth also has a big significance because it helped to capture the big moment of the eiffel tower.

Elements of art

Elements of art

• shape:Shape pertains to the use of areas in two-dimensional space that can be defined by edges, setting one flat specific space apart from another. Shapes can be geometric (e.g.: square, circle, hexagon, etc.) or organic (such as the shape of a puddle, blob, leaf, boomerang, etc.) Shapes are defined by other elements of art: Space, Line, Texture, Value, Color, shape, form

• texture:The texture is the quality of a surface, often corresponding to its tactile character, or what may be sensed by touch. Texture may be used, for example, in portraying fabrics. It can be explicitly rendered, or implied with other artistic elements such as lines, shading, and variation of color.

• space: Space is the area provided for a particular purpose. Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground. Space refers to the distances or areas around, between or within things. Has two kinds: negative and positive.

• color:Color pertains to the use of hue in artwork and design. Defined as primary colors red, yellow, blue which  cannot be mixed in pigment  from other hues, secondary colors (green, orange, violet) which are directly mixed from combinations of primary colors.

• line:Line is defined as a mark that spans a distance between two points (or the path of a moving point), taking any form along the way. As an art element, line pertains to the use of various marks, outlines and implied lines in artwork and design, most often used to define shape in two-dimensional art work.

• tone value:Value, or tone, refers to the use of light and dark, shade and highlight, in an artwork.

I will use the elements of art in my photography by showing the deeper meaning of photos and by using all of the elements of arts and creating peaces of art that. our nrxt project will be to capture nature with the use of elements of art.

composition rules

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Composition about photography

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looking at light

              Our first assignment was to look at light and see  the different reflections given by light. In a group we took turns standing under the light and experienced many type of different of reflections for example the shortest person in our group had a different experience than the tallest person in the group. Different colors also made a big difference in the reflection of the light like a darker color made the light not as bright as a light color did.