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