Exposure Triangle: The exposure triangle is a triangle of different settings that work together to create the ideal exposure for the photo. This includes the ISO, the aperture and the shutter speed. When one setting is changed it normally means that something else has to be changed as well so that they can all work in harmony. |
Edward Weston is a 20th century American photographer that is best known for his carefully composed, sharply focused images of natural forms as well as his work photographing landscapes. In the 1930s, Weston and several other photographers, including Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard van Dyke, formed the f/64 group, which greatly influenced the aesthetics of American photography. This group of photographers focused on their use of aperture with their photos to produce images with great depth of field.
Edward Weston predominantly used a Graflex camera which allowed him to view his image as the size that it was going to be produced, 8x10. This meant that he could carefully focus on the composition of his photos. Weston developed his own visual language with his work, in particular his composition. |
Alicja Brodowicz is a Polish photographer that works with both nature and the human body. She combines these two elements and finds similarities to emphasise our unique relationship with the natural environment as well as the beauty of the human body.
The writer Alice Walker said: “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.” |
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Bill Jacobson is an American photographer that is widely known for his out of focus photographs of both the figure and the landscape. He began his signature, indistinct images in 1989, and has since been exhibiting in galleries and museums throughout the US and Europe. These early works, titled Interim Portraits, feature shadowy, pale figures that evoke the loss experienced by many during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The blurred subjects underline the futility of capturing a true human likeness in both portraiture and memory. His photos have this fading, blurred effect which makes the photo appear dream-like and ghostly. |
Erwin Blumenfeld was an American photographer of German origin. Among the most successful photographers of the 20th century, Erwin Blumenfeld brought a radical, avant-garde vision to his work in portraiture, nudes, fashion, and advertising, effectively re-defining the potential of his medium. Though he took his first photographs in 1907, it was not until 1941, after arriving in New York to escape the Nazi persecution, that his career took off. In the post-World War II era, he was the highest paid photographer in the world and in high demand for editorial photo shoots. He shot fashion spreads and hundreds of covers, which effectively shaped the look of 1940s and 50s America |
In this task we were required to go around the school and take pictures of corners and sections of architecture that resembled Johnny Kerr's work. This included sides of windows, edges of buildings, walls etc. I aimed to take photos of the more colourful surfaces as I thought that they gave a more interesting effect and you could more clearly see the difference in angle and perspective with the different tones and shades. After collecting the images, we used photoshop to edit the photos in the style of Johnny Kerr. This task forced me to notice smaller things and see dents in walls and corners of buildings in a different and more imaginative way. |
Saul Leiter was an American photographer that started off as a painter. When he first arrived in New York, Leiter began documenting street life in black and white, intriguing the eye with his use of obstructions, blurred movement and half-concealed details. He then began experimenting with colour photography in New York in the late 1940s. His most famous pieces of the streets of New York consisted of these hazy, dream-like images of candid street life. He would capture these images that abstracted the focal point from the viewer, so you would never quite see the face of the person he's photographing, more the context in which they are in. Through the dreariness of the images, Leiter included blurs of vibrant colour that would contrast significantly with the dull dark colours surrounding them. This would give the image a touch of liveliness and warmth as he would include yellows and reds. I really admire his work and I find it really interesting as I enjoy the candid aspect of street photography as its capturing something we experience everyday and almost stopping time so we can notice the finer details that we would normally miss.
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Lee Friedlander was an american photographer in the 1960s and 1970s. He was known for his asymmetrical black and white pictures of the American social landscape which included everyday people, places, and things. His photographs used detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life. He moved to New York in 1956 and began photographing for Atlantic Records, where he captured blues and jazz legends such as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and John Coltrane. Friedlander's street photography captures the unexpected overlaps of light and content in urban landscapes. Friedlander's style of work differs from Leiter and Calcutt as he does not use colour and focuses on reflections.
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These are my first few responses to Nick Turpin's 'Night Bus'. I chose the three that I thought were the most successful in terms of lighting and composition. I am not too pleased with the outcome of this first shoot, however, as I feel that I couldn't capture much colour or many photos at all because the bus shoots are very unpredictable and not the most reliable. I am planning on developing this further and capture more interesting portraits on the bus.
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For my final development of strand 1 I chose to develop an image of a bakery from my second development. I chose to do this as I believe that it was my strongest photo so far so I wanted to improve and capture it with a better composition. I really liked it because of the mirrors the shops had inside and how, if you're in the right position, can capture both the back of the person walking and their face at two different angles. In my opinion, this successfully abstracts the image by putting three different frames inside of the one and giving it a variety of perspectives. I tried to capture people with the most colourful clothing walking by and this was the furthest I got. I am quite happy with the results, however to improve I would've chosen an angle where I didn't capture the sky in the reflection as I think it takes away from the Saul Leiter aspect of it by removing any dark spaces that would've been there.
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