Portraiture Slideshow, Portrait Exercise

 

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt, New York, c 1942.

Why this photo?

The compositional element that drew me to choose this photo from Helen Levitt out of the list of street photographers provided, would have to be the space and value I see in this photo. This photo is a simple moment in time in the past of two kids having fun with water outside. I would have to say this photo is a mix of comical and nostalgic (thinking fondly of a pastime). How this photo makes me feel as a viewer I will have to say happy like in a daydream kind of feeling. 

Moving Water Critique

Eadweard Muybridge

 Animal Locomotion: Plate 628 (Man Riding Galloping Horse), 1887’ © Eadweard Muybridge. Image courtesy of Beetles+Huxley.

How Eadweard Muybridge created these photos as one photo is simply inventing a photographic technique called “stereoscopic stop-motion photography,” which allowed him to capture rapid movement in a series of still images. A series of multiple cameras could be triggered by tripwires to produce ground-breaking sequential images. He wanted all his subjects to carry out a single activity.  

Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton, Shooting the Apple, 1964, © Harold & Esther Edgerton Foundation, 2012, courtesy of Palm Press, Inc.

•        Edgerton was a pioneer in using short-duration electronic flash in photographing fast events photography, subsequently using the technique to capture a bullet during its impact with an apple.

Why was this important?

Both Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton created astonishing photos. 

• Eadweard Muybridge made three major achievements in photography: first, the development of a photographic process fast enough to capture bodies in motion; second, the creation of successive images that, mounted together, reconstituted a whole cycle of motion rather than isolating a single moment; and third, lead to advances in areas as diverse as zoology, painting, and motion pictures. Eadweard created a way to snap a picture by using a tripwire to help capture the movements of animals/humans' shapes and forms from doing an activity. Harold Edgerton invented stop-action, high-speed photography, helping push the obscure stroboscope from a laboratory instrument into a household item. He used the technique to make a body of work that's revered both for its scientific advancement and its aesthetic qualities.

Moving Water Project

  Moving Water Project

The main goals of this project were to explore motion and depth of field in photography and improve our technical skills with a camera. The project was to freeze the motion of water and blur the motion of water. To control the final effect, I needed to maintain the shutter speed and adjust the camera's ISO and Aperture to help capture the main objective.

Blurr Motion

ISO: 800

Aperture: 10

Shutter Speed: 3''2

Freeze Motion

   

ISO: 6400

Aperture: 3.5

Shutter Speed: 1/800

Moving Water

 Moving Water for Sketches/Research/Ideas

Water Drop By: ljsummers on DeviantArt

Cite: Just click on the photo, or here 

water_drop_by_ljsummers-d5cl35w.jpg (900×584) (wixmp.com)

I really like this sketch for it resembles a Kings crown. Plus it will be a cool frozen shot.

Detail of a small rushing waterfall over rocks.

By: Dreamstime

Cite: Just click on the photo, or here 

Moving water stock image. Image of nature, purity, brown - 7041665 (dreamstime.com)

I really like this blurred photo, it so majestic and calming.

Research- I found some ideas in my mind, but I need to find out where and how I can approach these ideas in a way no one gets in trouble and I still have a great pic.  

Ideas- I would like to splash water in someone's face and capture a frozen pic that looks epic. But finding a subject to agree to this might be difficult. I do have another idea with two subjects splashing each other's faces but again finding those subjects will be quite difficult. For my idea for a blurred photo, I want to do the small pond behind a gazebo and capture the small waterfalls. But the only concern is whether I can be still enough to take this picture by hand, along with finding the right time in the evening to be able to have a long exposure and still have a great picture. 

24 Hour Project

24 Hour Project

This project was to carry our camera around for 24 hours and capture 10 words that are listed mean, cool, ugly, fast, green, dark, dirty, transient, ubiquitous, linear. Along with making 1 photo have a Large DOF and 1 photo to have a Shallow DOF. With all this you all have to consider the assessment criteria which was:

visual expression of words

camera work - good, even exposure

use of shallow DOF

use of large DOF

composition

creativity

critique participation

Not only all of this but we also had to make global adjustments in Lightroom.

I personally think trying to make adjustments ruined some of the photos, but some of the photos benefited from the adjustments. 

#1

Mean

ISO- 3600

Shutter Speed- 1/50

Aperture- 5.6

#2

Cool

ISO- 3600

Shutter Speed- 1/160

Aperture- 5.0

#3

Ugly

ISO- 6400

Shutter Speed- 1/400

Aperture- 5.0

#4

Fast

ISO- 1600

Shutter Speed- 1/50

Aperture- 5.6

#5

Green

ISO- 800

Shutter Speed- 1/8

Aperture- 10

#6

Dark

ISO- 6400

Shutter Speed- 1/25

Aperture- 4.5

#7

Dirty

ISO- 1600

Shutter Speed- 1/320

Aperture- 4.5

Large DOF

#8

Transient

ISO- 3600

Shutter Speed- 1/250

Aperture- 5.0

#9

Ubiquitous

ISO- 800

Shutter Speed- 1/50

Aperture- 4.5

Shallow DOF

#10

Linear

ISO- 1600

Shutter Speed- 1/4000

Aperture- 4.5

Using the Shallow DOF on #9 help bring out the image and focus on the label I was capturing.

Using the Large DOF on #7 help see every item that was in this van and notice how truly messy/dirty this was. 

 

Men of War

Tom Stoddart

Men of War

2003

01/31/2023

Perspective 

I looked through Gary Winogrand, Joel Sternfeld, Martin Parr, and Tom Stoddart on street photography. As I looked I liked a few of them but only one street photograph stood out to me and that was Tom Stoddart with the compositional element of expression, texture, and how the light helps you feel the depths of his eyes. This photo can be viewed differently by the different viewers and what knowledge they have of the photo and the time it was taken in along with the environment. For myself, it's emotional, historical, and nostalgic. As a viewer this photo makes me feel inspired to make a change to keep the war/fighting at bay. It helps me see the humanity in this world along with the deepness in his eyes you can sense what he has been through and the things he has seen that can't be unseen and his story is worth being told. 

Photo's Power

Lewis Hine's

 These photos ended child labor in the US - YouTube

How I feel when I looked at Lewis Hine's photos well, I was hurt that these kids went through so much and acted more like an adult than adults now. This one photo truly captured the child's pain hidden deep within her eyes but she doesn't complain because she is selfless for her family. How I think people would react to Hine's photos today is depression knowing that they never had to experience this when growing up but maybe get a new perspective of what they now have and get to enjoy. Honestly, I really don't know exactly only because everything has changed and human's ways of thinking and reason have changed since these photos times. I do think if these photos have the same style but shed light on something communities care about then absolutly because never underestimate the power one photo can bring, I have seen one photo bring the strongest man in the room down on his knees but photos don't only bring negative emotions photos can bring a light of love to people who have felt darkness for so long.