Project 2

Exploring the Creative Controls (Depth of Field)

Abstraction: breaks away from traditional representation of physical objects. It explores the relationships of forms and colors, whereas more traditional art represents the world in recognizable images.

In photography abstraction is the imagery of elements of art rather than actual object; less about a subject than is easily distinguished. 

Shelbie Dimond

Barry Massoni

 Nancy Lehrer

How depth of field is used in these images:

Most of these images use a wide depth of field and are really close up. The closeness of these photos make the images abstract because one cannot clearly distinct the object but can distinguish the elements of photography in the images. The first image by Dimond has a shallow depth of field to focus on the movement and shape of the human body. Many of these images focus on texture and value.

Shallow Depth of field:

Paolo Pizzimenti

Sally Mann

Exploring the Creative Controls (Motion)through Diptychs and Triptychs

Michael Penn : slow motion

 unknown artist: freeze action

 Fire at Marlborough Street, 1975 by Stanley J. Forman: freeze action

 Godfrey Hirst: freeze action

Juliann Veeger: Panning

Gerald Sanders: camera shake

Photographs that show the same type of action, but opposite movements:

Ann McGrath: long exposure

Tau Zero: short exposure

My opinion: I personally like the first image with a long exposure because it is more abstract. The subjects are less clear but the motion creates a more interesting and somewhat mysterious feeling, which I like more than a photo that is crisp but you cannot interpret on your own. The first image is more thought provoking.   

Triptychs

The presentation made up of three (and only three) distinctly separated photographic images displayed on a common background.

Adde Adesokan: 

Paolo Cola

Photo Composition Hunt-Framing

1. Leading lines
   Eric Rose
   
   
   
2. Rule of thirds
    Arturo Carrasco
   
   
   
3. Strong diagonals
   Janelle Putrich
   
   
   
4. Perspective shot from an angle above subject-Bird’s Eye
   Rafael Craice 
   
   
   
5. Perspective shot from below-Bug’s Eye
   Fan Ho
   
   
   
6. Close up
   Daido Moriyama
   
   
   
7. Frame in a frame
   Hans Peter Feldmann
   
   
   
8. Filling the Frame
   Kenneth Josephson
   
   
   

Photo Composition Hunt-Elements of Design

Andrew Robertson
Line

Clyde Butcher
texture

Iron Silos
shape

LocusMote
space

Maciej Duczynski 
value

Project 1

For this project we were not supposed to use an actual camera, but instead use our creativity and knowledge to create photographs. I did a series of warped faces. I collaged images from different magazines onto regular paper after ripping, painting, cutting, burning, gluing and drawing on them. I then scanned the collages and printed them on translucent paper. In the dark room I made negative images and then did tone reversals on all of them to get the positive image.

Final Work:

Old Style New Arist

Adam Fuss

http://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists/adam-fuss

Katerina Bukolska

http://www.alternativephotography.com/gallery3/Katerina-Bukolska

Project 1 Inspiration

I went on Pinterest to get some inspiration and a happened across some very interesting portraits, and because I am very interested in portrait photography, I looked into them and found some interesting ideas. The following images are of mixed media and photos, but I thought that I could incorporate some of the aspects in these photographs to make a series of portraits using magazine images.  

Daniele Buetti

Ernesto Artillo

Franz Falckenhaus

Heitor Magno

Jean Faucheur

Jean Faucheur

Nadia Sarwar

Petrus Christus

Rikako Nagashima

Rosanna Jones

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)

(pinterest, artist unknown)