Near and far - post-assignment

We are done with this assignment. This wasn't one of my favorite assignment because I didn't know which landscapes take pictures at and we just had a few days to do it. It was kind of stressful. However, I tried to do my best taking those pictures and editing them.

It was also kind of difficult because i wasn't sure if I was shooting correctly and if the back if the photo was blurry or not.

But anyway, these are the three pictures that I chose for this assignment. My favorite one is the first one, the one with the ocean and the rocks. I like it better in color though.

Near and far - pre-assignment

For this week, our assignment is called "near and far". We have to try to take pictures as Ansel Adams; landscapes or something like that. 

As this famous and amazing artist, we have to try to get everything focused on the picture. For that, we will use the aperture priority in our camera. The aperture has to be in the second higher number, thus, the aperture hole will be the smallest and we will get everything focused. 

To get everything focused, we will always focus in the object that is located on the middle of our landscape. Otherwise, if we focus on the object that we have closer, the farther one will be blurry. On the contrary, focusing the infinite or the horizon, the closer object will not be focused and clear.

Landscape images are my favorite, I like taking photos of landscapes, so I think that I will enjoy doing this assignment.

 

Rules of Composition

1. Rule of 3rds
2. Leading lines
3. Patterns
4. Frames
5. Fill the frame

The BIG Project - 20 books

1. DIANE ARBUS MAGAZINE WORK
Artist: Diane Arbus
Author: Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel
Publisher: Aperture

2. PHOTO SYNTHESIS
Artist: Jerry Uelsmann
Authors: Gainesville, Tallahasse, Tampa, Boca Raton, Pensacola, Orlando, Miami and Jacksonville
Publisher: University press of Florida

3. THE AMERICANS
Artist: Robert Frank
Publisher: Steidl

4. ANSEL ADAMS IN COLOR
Artist: Ansel Adams
Author: Harry M. Callahan
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

5. SCENIC PHOTOGRAPHY/101
Artist: Kerry Drager
Publisher: Watson-Guptill

6. MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY-PAUL STRAND
Artist: Paul Strand
Publisher: Aperture

7. MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY-EUGENE ATGET
Artist: Eugene Atget
Publisher: Aperture

8. MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY-HARRY CALLAHAN
Artist: Harry Callahan
Publisher: Aperture

9. MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY-MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO
Artist: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Publisher: Aperture

10. ANSEL ADAMS 1902-1984
Artist: Ansel Adams
Author: James Alinder
Publisher: The friends of photography

11.EISENSTAEDT'S GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHY
Artist: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Publisher: The Viking Press

12. OTHER REALITIES
Artist: Jerry Uelsmann
Publisher: Bulficnh Press

13. IDEAS WITHOUT END
Artist: Imogen Cunningham
Author: Suzanne Kotz
Publisher: A life in photographs

14. A LEGACY
Artist: Edward Weston
Publisher: Merrel

15. PHOTOGRAPHY REBORN
Artist: Jonathan Lipkin
Publisher: Abrams Studio

16. A LIFE IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Artist: Edward Steichen
Publisher: Doubleday and Company

17. MEN AT WORK
Artist: Lewis W. Hine
Publisher: Dover Publications

18. THIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTH
Artists: Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall
Publisher: Sierra club- Ballantine book

19. ROBERT CAPA/PHOTOGRAPHS
Artist: Robert Capa
Publisher: Aperture

20. IN REAL LIFE-SIX WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHS
Artist: Leslie Sills
Publisher: Holiday House

LASZLO MOHOLY-NAGY

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer. He was born on July 20th of 1895 and he died on November 24th of 1946.
He used constructivism in his arts. He also integrated technology and industry in his arts.
He participate in the World War I and he got injured, so he retired and decided to do something related to arts.

His pictures are in black and white. They are kind of special, since there weird objects and their shadows. But this weirdness is what makes this man a photographer.

 

MICHAEL CARROLL and "HAND HELD"

Yesterday we watched the movie "Hand Held". It was a kind of documentary where a photographer called Michael Carroll went to Romania to take pictures of little children that had AIDS illness. Nobody knew that there were over 4 hundred thousand kids ill, and a lot of them were dying. He took pictures of those kids to show the world what was happening there during the fall of the communist regime. A year later he decided to make an organization to help all these children. He called it Romanian Children's Relief. 
This organization still active and through it, we all can help to save these children. Michael helped to save so many kids, but there still lots of them that have AIDS. 

If we all contribute in this, hopefully those kids that have that horrible illness we'll get better.

 

LEWIS H. HINE

Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer. He was born on September 26th of 1874 and he died on November 3rd of 1940, at age of 66. He was born in Wisconsin.

He wanted to take pictures to change the child labor laws in the United States in those years. Thus, he used his camera as a tool for social reform.

When he was a teacher at a cultural school in New York City, he encouraged his students to use photography as an educational medium. After photographing to hundred of immigrants that arrived to the U.S, he realized that he could use photography as a tool for social reform.

His pictures are in black and white and in vintage effect, and because he was focusing on the child labor laws, he took pictures of all those children that were working on the streets.

The photos are sad, just thinking in what were they doing and how hard were they working being little kids make us think that those days were horrible.

EDWARD WESTON

Edward Henry Weston was a 20th century American photographer. He was born on March 24th of 1886 in Chicago and he died on January 1st of 1958 in California. He was know as "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers" and "one of the masters of 20th century photography". Since he was young he knew that he wanted to be a photographer. Finally he became one and at the beginning he used a style called "soft focus pictorialism". However, some years later, he changed that style to another one based on highly detailed photographic images.

To take pictures, he specially focused on nudes, landscapes, expansive set of subjects, still lifes, portraits and genre scenes. He also focused on people and places of the American West, as well as California.

He was the first photographer who received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1947 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and he had to stop taking pictures. The last 10 years of his life he spent watching how his pictures were printed.