ALFRED STEIGLEZ

Alfred Steiglez was born in 1864, January 1st, in New Jersey and he died in 1946 in New York City. He was an American photographer and modern art promoter.
He is known for his fotography and also for the New York art galleries that he ran where he introduced some European artists to the U.S. 

He took pictures to landscapes, people, streets and nudes. His pictures are mostly in black and white, but he also used a kind of light brown color for them.

 

This picture is called ''Winter- Fifth Avenue''. As we can see, is taken in New York City in winter. I really like it because the snow is moving and that is what makes the picture special. This picture makes you think in old memories because it's kind of old.

  

I like this picture because it's very nice, it's lovely and transmits happiness and pleasant.






This picture is also very pleasant and beautiful. I really like taking and seeing pictures like this.

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM - pre-assignment

Imogen Cunningham was an American photographer, born on April 12th of 1883 in Oregon and died on June 24th of 1976. She was know specially for her botanical photography, industrial landscapes and nudes.

At age of eighteen, she bought her first camera, but she lost interest  about photography very soon. 5 years later, while she was studying chemistry in the university of Seattle, she regained the passion for photography. That's when she strarted to take it seriously and later turned a professional.

I really like her pictures, all of them. All the close-up pictures of flowers and plants are amazing, they transmit a lot of calm, they are very pleasant. I want to try to take pictures like her, because I want to make people feel what I feel when I see these picures.

Paul Strand pre-assignment

We have to do an assigment about Paul Strand and take pictures the way he did.

Paul Strand was born in New York City in 1890 and died in Yvelines atage 85. He was an amazing American photographer who helped to establish photography as an art form in the 20th century.

When he visited the 291 art gallery, he started to take photography hobby more seriusly. Later, he published his first work in that gallery.

In 1949 he moved to France for 27 years with his third wife, also a photographer. There, he mantained and impressive life.

Paul Strand took pictures in black and white. His pictures are very interesting, they are very special and also some of them are very personal. He took pictures of people who expressed a  lot with their look, their eyes and their face. That's why they are so personal.

He also focus on shadows and geometrical shapes. He took pictures to chairs, leafs and big doors and windows with their shadow.

In this assignment I will try to take pictures like him, I think that I will focus on objects and their shadow or close-up of flowers, plants and more objects. I will try to do the best I can!

After a football game ...

BAD PHOTOS

''Photography Triangle''

• Where is the aperture control on the camera? What does it do?

      The aperture control is a button which is on the shooting settings display.

      Aperture and shutter speed work together to control amount of light that   reaches the light-sensitive surface in the camera. Size of lens opening. 

• Where is the shutter speed? What does it do?

      It is next to the aperture on display settings, shutter button, next to  main dail. It affect amount of bluriness in a photo.

• Where is ISO? What does it do?

ISO is the top arrow on the cross keys. It describes a sensor's or film's sensitivity to light.

Light Walk, Sep 8th

El pasado fin de semana fui de compras con mi familia. Era un dia soleado y el cielo estaba despejado, porlotanto habia mucha luz fuera. Era la luz natural. En cambio, en las tiendas la luz era artificial y muy blanca, para que toda la ropa se pudiera ver bien.

Se podia sacar buenas fotos en los dos sitios, con luz artificial y con luz natural.

Yo no saque muchas fotos, pero hay que aprovechar los ultimos dias de sol para sacar fotos con buena luz, we can take amazing pictures!