Final Project: Music Video

Assignment 6B: Diptychs

Assignment 6A: Multiple Photo

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Assignment 6 Research

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer who is well known for taking two distinct photographs and integrating them to create very strange and unique photographs. Uelsmann is a master in printing, producing complex photographs with many negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images. His final image must be composed of many negatives. All of Uelsmann’s images are black and white. His dreamlike images play with our minds and transport the viewers into another world.

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor depicts trancelike images of fantasy. Her photographs are produced using multiple images. She buys paintings from various flea markets and takes pictures of these painting. She then scans the photographs onto a computer and uses Adobe Photoshop to manipulate the images into a surrealistic montage. By altering and overlapping her images of various fantasy-like creatures, she is able to create innovative and remarkable photographs.

Assigment 5: Stop and Blurred Motion

For the stop motion photos I used a faster shutter speed, mostly 1/125. It was hard to get clear pictures because the faster the shutter speed was, the darker the image became on my camera. I had my little cousin skip rope and my dog run around my backyard... I love this photo of my cousin playing skip rope.
For the blurred motion photos I used a slower shutter speed like 1/4, and an ISO of 100. For these photos I had my cousins play together, run around, dance... The pictures taken indoors were a bit too dark, but I had a lot of fun taking these photos. I really like this photo of my cousin running. The leaves all over the grass and the composition is really interesting.

Link to Stop Motion
Link to Blurred Motion

Assignment 4: Portraits

Link to studio portraits

Link to 'at home' portraits

Assignment 3

The Original Image

1. I changed the image from black and white to sepia, and then I adjusted the contrast on the image.

2. I layered another image, from Google, on top of the original image and adjusted the color of the image from Google to make it blend into the original photograph.

3. Using the new version of Photoshop I was able to develop the image with a saved preset. This preset is called creative- antique light.

4. I also used a saved preset called creative- aged photo from the new version of Photoshop on the original image to get this look.

I think that changing the image to an antique look and to an aged look made the image stronger. I like the way these effects transformed the image. But when I changed the image to sepia I don’t think it made the image a lot stronger. I think the red was too strong a color for the image. I liked the other, more subtle, color changes better. When I layered the photo of the woman on top of the image I think it made the image stronger. I like the way it made the image more unusual and different.

Assignment 2B

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Assignment 2A: Research

Walker Evans
(November 3, 1903 - April 10, 1975)

Walker Evans was an American photographer best known for his work portraying the effects of the great depression. His goal as a photographer was to make photographs that were “literate, authoritative, transcendent”. Evans photographed every day objects and every day people altering the way we see ourselves and the world around us. He photographed abandoned buildings, storefronts, street signs, portraits of working people, poor areas, and other anonymous objects with a straight forward, realistic, and clear style. He avoided the popular artistic and creative styles of many photographers at the time. With great thought, sharpness of vision, and outstanding technical skills, Evans transformed ordinary pictures through his personal vision. Evans shot in black and white and most of his photographs are shot horizontally. His mission as a photographer was to define his subjects with simplicity and structure bringing his photographers of anonymous, flat objects to life.

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Websites of Research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans http://www.artnet.com/magazine/index/kramer/kramer5-18-99.asp http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa331.htm

Henri Cartier-Bresson

(August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004)

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer. He was considered to be a leading modern photojournalist and a master in candid photography. Cartier-Bresson was a ‘street photographer’ with an unbelievable eye and hand allowing him to capture events by moving carefully. Cartier-Bresson raised the level of snap photography to art. He photographed with a small camera with fast black and white films and sharp lenses. He never photographed with flash, and he didn’t believe in composing his pictures in a dark room. Nearly all his photographs were printed only at full frame. Cartier-Bresson worked in black and white. He averted from any type of publicity and was known to be a very shy man with a modest method of work. He believed that the smallest thing could be a great subject for his photographs. He photographed the streets in France, events in the Second World War, portraits of notable people… His photographs were realistic and relaxed. They were concerned with human details, emotions, and character. Each one of his photographs captured the essence of each of his subjects. As a journalist, he had the desire to communicate what he thought about what he saw. His pictures were often subtle and told a story. Each picture was taken with a sense of love and understanding. Through his work we can find beauty and reality in places we would have never guessed.

Sample Great Works:


Websites of Research:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/bresson.htm

Self Portraits and Assignment 1

Q: What kind of camera do you use?
A: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS1
Q: What is the resolution?
A: 10 megapixels
Q: What kind of media storage does it have?
A: 8GB memory card
Q: How do you download images to the computer?
A: With a USB cord
Q: What is the name of the cord connecting the camera to the computer?
A: Ex-Pro Panasonic USB Cable K1HA08AD0003
Q: How many low res images can you store on your disk?
A: 29003
Q: How many high res images can you store on your disk?
A: 1127
Q: What kind of image (file format) is stored on disk?
A: JPEG
Q: Do you have a camera manual? Have you read it?
A: Yes, I have a camera manual but I have only read a few pages.

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