April 2010
5 posts
Portrait Photographer - Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson worked in a lot of other fields before he became a photographer. For the past three years he has worked full time as a fine art and commercial photographer.
He has done a project called Rough Beauty where he photographs people in the South that are marginalized. He wants to show that these people are worthy of our attention and that beauty can be found in their harsh lives....
Project #5 - Inspiration From Other Photographers
August Sander, Pastry Cook -
http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/augustsander/index.htm
August Sander, Bricklayer -
http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/augustsander/index.htm
August Sander, Young Mother, Middle Class -
http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/augustsander/index.htm
August Sander did a series in which he aimed to document the entire German...
Ideas for Project #5 - Portraiture
My main inspiration for this project is going to be portrait photographers August Sander and Arnold Newman. They both include visual clues in their photographs that reveal something about the person in them. They link the person with objects that are tied to their profession or history in some way. Arnold Newman is know for “environmental portraiture” meaning that he photographs his...
Project #4 - Post Critique Reflection
Critique today went pretty well, I thought. People quickly caught on to the idea of roundness in the first 4 photos, which I hadn’t necessarily expected them to. People also seemed to get the idea that I was portraying marks on the body that are seen as bad and marks that are seen as good. I liked the idea that someone brought up of displaying an emotion through the marks, but I don’t...
Photography Exchange
Check out http://photographyexchange.wordpress.com/ to see a couple of my previous photos. Please leave a comment too! Thanks.
March 2010
20 posts
Project #4 - Inspiration From Other Photographers
Sally Mann - http://www.kochgallery.com/artists/contemporary/Mann/index.html
I think that this photo is interesting because it shows two traces of the same action. The photo is called “The Fall” and it is a trace in the sense that it was taken after the decisive moment - the fall. Secondly, the pattern created on the girl’s back is another trace of her fall.
Martina...
Ideas for Project #4 - The Trace
Objective: Create a series of 5 photographs that capture the trace of an event, action or person.
For this project I really want to focus on creating a connection between my photos since I struggled a bit with that last time.
I think that the idea of what traces we leave on the world and what traces the world leaves on us is really interesting. My main inspiration for this project is the body...
Up to date again!
After a few days of editing and rearranging posts, my blog is now fully updated. I have also decided to change the layout of my blog to a more boring but less confusing theme.
Enjoy.
Project #3 - Post Critique Reflection
I have to say that I wasn’t too crazy about the way we did critique for this project. Usually we print out our photos, hang them on the wall and then talk about each one. This time we had to upload the pictures to our blog and then show the rest of the class on the projector. There were some technical issues (for example the distortion of colors through the projector) that I thought took...
Final Photos for project #3
Below I have posted the final six photos for project #3 (Street Photography).
I decided to have the thing that connects my photos be color. In each photo there are two colors and one of those colors reappears in the following photo, which then also has a new color that reappears in the following photo and so on…
We had to name our photos using two words (preferably an adjective and a...
Ideas for project #3 - In Limbo (Street...
I like the objective for this project because it will require me to try new things. Street photography is an interesting art form and it is quite different from other kinds of photography, I think. I like taking pictures of people, especially portraits, but photographing strangers in public is different. I have been shooting a lot and trying to capture moments in every day life that we normally...
Project #3 - Inspiration From Other Photographers
Melanie Einzig - http://www.witnessx.com/
I like this photo because of the contrast between the people in it. They are all very different from each other and they all seem to be wrapped up in their own little world. However, a relationship is created between them because of the framing of the photograph.
Melanie Einzig - http://www.witnessx.com/
This picture is interesting to me because...
"What Makes a Great Photo?"
Objective: Read “What Makes a Great Photo?” and pick the artist whose statement you agree with the most and find a photo that embodies this statement.
I agree with Amy Elkin’s statement when she says that in order for a portrait to be good, there has to be a connection between the subject and the photographer. She refers to Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin who, she says,...
Project #2 - Post Critique Reflection
The way we did critique for this project was quite different. Having to talk about someone else’s work as if it was your own was challenging, but also interesting. Since you did not know what the photographer’s intent or ideas were, the pictures had to speak for themselves.
People quickly got that my emotion was disgust and I guess that it is good that the pictures revealed that....
Project # 2 - Inspiration from other photographers
Martin Parr - www.martinparr.com
I think that this combination of photos of food is interesting. Even though they are foods that we normally would not describe as being disgusting, there is something in each photo that makes the food look unappetizing. Both the doughnut and the ice cream is being eaten and therefore looks less appetizing. The sausages look disgusting because they are uncooked...
Time Out
The order of my various posts was getting messy since I needed to add some things that should have gone up earlier, so therefore I have taken some things down and I am going to rearrange them and put them back up ASAP.
Bear with me for just a day or two…
February 2010
6 posts
Project #2 - Emotive Color - Definition and Ideas...
Objective: Use color to depict an emotion.
My assigned emotion: Disgust.
Definition of Disgust (from Dictionary.com):
Verb (used with object)
1. To cause loathing or nausea in.
2. To offend the good taste, moral sense, etc., of; cause extreme dislike or revulsion in: Your vulgar remarks disgust me.
–noun
3. A strong distaste; nausea; loathing.
4. Repugnance caused by something offensive;...
Post critique reflection for project #1
Most of the things that were said about my work at the first critique corresponded with the ideas that I was trying to get across. For the most part people payed attention to the things that I wanted them to focus on, so I was happy with that. I am glad that people noticed the small details that I had included in the photos such as the page number and the earring since I found those elements very...
Ideas for project #1
When I first started shooting for this project I didn’t really have any specific ideas for subject matter, so I tried photographing different objects up close to see how that changed their appearance. I realized that the thing that I enjoyed playing with the most was light and how it can emphasize or hide different parts of an object. I also really like how you can obscure an image by...
Project #1 - Inspiration from other photographers.
Renato D’Agostin, www.renatod‘agostin.com
I think that this photo is really interesting, and it reveals a lot about the person in it. Although it’s a very limited view - a leg and part of a street, I still think that it has a lot to say. I like the idea of taking close-ups of different body parts other than a traditional portrait of a face. We usually think of the face as...