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