Video Assignment

Assignment SEVEN

My Collage

Research:

David Hockney creates some very interesting photographic collages which do not only show the image of the photos, but they also create an image of their own since he leaves the collages to form shapes oftheir own instead of a regular square or rectangular photograph.

Assignment SIX

Photoshop; Multiple pictures and Diptychs

Web album

Research Component;

[Jerry Uelsmann]

Jerry Uelsmann creates most of his multiple images with pictures of nature, the human body, spiritual symbols such as angels, and everyday objects that surround us in our homes. His images are continuously created in black and white and are of a very scenic nature.

[Duane Michals]

Duane Michals creates various multiple image photographs which tell a story. He starts with one multiple image and keeps adding onto it to create a new one, then does the same with that version. When he put together all of the multiple image photographs, they create a story between themselves. He is very innovative and not afraid to try new things as an artist. His photographs are shot in black and white, and usually objectify human bodies.

Assignment FIVE

Studio Portraits

At Home Portraits

Web albums

Assignment FOUR

These are my photographs which show motion in slow and fast shutter speeds!

web album

Assignment THREE

-original photograph-


-cropped & backlight-


-Cropped, highlights & shadow, saturation, & sharpen-


-sepia, soft focus-


-Red eye, saturation, sharpen-


-focal B&W, sharpen, rotated-


-colour temperature, focal, rotated & cropped-


Web Album

I thought that the effects which made most of an impact to the photograph was rotating it, and playing around with the focus (sharpness and blurriness)and lighting (highlights and shadows). The effect that did not make such a strong impact to the photograph was cropping it. Apart from these effects, my favorite was using the red eye on the image because it created such a different feel to the picture without combining various techniques.

Assignment TWO

MY PHOTOGRAPHS

My web album

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Walker Evans

American realist photographer Walker Evans was born in 1903. He aspired to become a writer and moved to New York, however, he decided to make photography his profession in 1928. He created his photographs with his Polaroid SX-70 camera, and an endless supply of film given to him by the camera's manufacturer. Most of his pictures are in black and white and of "timeless artifacts of everyday life". He wanted his pictures to be "pure record not propaganda".

Evans used many angles in his photographs, and tried to capture a sense of humanity. He is best known for his photographs documenting the American South in the 1930's, during the Great Depression. At that time, he was working with a large 8X10 in. view camera.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561026/Walker_Evans.html

http://www.oldstatehouse.com/exhibits/virtual/hard_times/walker_evans/

http://www.lycos.com/info/evans-walker--walker-evans.html

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in France in 1908. As a child he took vacation photographs with his Box Brownie. However it was not until 1931, at the age of 23, that Bresson had really 'discovered' photography. At this time he was using a Leica camera, but throughout his photography career he relied on his 35mm rangefinder. He preferred to use this small and rather amateur camera because of its speed and mobility, and claimed that it became an "extension of [his] eye".

Noted as one of the greatest photographers of his time, Bresson was one of the first to undertake "street photography". The majority of his photography is "a collection of little, human details, concerned images with universal meaning and suggestion." In his photographs, he tried to show the beauty of "things as they are" by taking subtle pictures in black and white, and concentrating on the contrasts and composition of the photograph. He liked for his photographs to each tell a story of their own.

"Photography is nothing - it's life that interests me." -Henri Cartier-Bresson

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/bresson.htm

http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/home_en.htm

Assignment ONE

My web album

What kind of camera do you use?
I use a Casio Exilim EX-Z200.

What is the resolution?
The resolution is 10.1 megapixels.

What kind of media storage does it have?
I use a 2.0 GB SD memory card.

How do you download images to the computer?
Either by attatching my camera with the USB cord, or directly inserting the memory card into the SD slot.

What is the name of the cord connecting the camera to the computer?
The USB cable.

How many low res images can you store on your disk?
I can store 2190 images in low resolution.

How many high res images can you store on your disk?
I am able to store 868 images in high resolution.

What kind of image (file format) is stored on disk?
JPG files

Do you have a camera manual? Have you read it?
Yes, and I've partially read it.