Month: October 2016

Step 1: Get together in your CFGs and pull up the Famous Photographer photos you made last week. All of the work that was turned in last week is up now on the website.

Step 2: Each person should be able to answer these questions about each photo in your CFG. Write down the group’s thinking on each of these questions for each of your photos. Post the answers in a google doc and turn it into Google Classroom. Critiques are due on Tuesday.

1What aspect of the famous photographer’s work did the student photographer focus on for their series?  How does the famous photographer’s influence show up in the student’s photography? What lessons can you see that they learned from their famous photographer? What is the photographer trying to say with these photos?

2. Overall, what could be done to make this photo stronger?

Each person turn in a copy of their group’s answers to the above questions

Renee Burri

James’ take on Burri’s work

James on Burri’s influence:

During this project I learned that it adds more to your photos when you get physically close instead of depending on a zoom lens. I also learned it’s not wrong to break the “rules” after a while, you have to “kill your mentor” to grow as a photographer. Taking candid photos is not always the right way to go, sometimes people will tell their own story when they know you’re there instead of getting a picture of them looking upset or spaced out, they may be a happy person. I learned that you don’t take pictures, you make them, and that you need to find pictures no one’s thinking about. Visualizing your pictures before you take them is helpful, as well as looking at the composition rather than the subject.

Two photos from Dadio Moriyama

Jo’s interpretation of Dadio Moriyama

What Jo had to say about  Moriyama’s influence:

I was really interested in how grainy some of his pictures were. In our age, perfectly clear and sharp images are the norm, but I wanted to try and go against that ideology. I decided to add some noise to my pictures to make them seem like they came from a compact camera, because Daido primarily uses that.

Ansel Adams Photography

Dylan’s Ansel Adams Inspired images.

 

What Dylan had to say about Adams’s influence:

He said that instead of using zoom on a lense, use the zoom on your feet, get closer to an object instead of just zooming in. That is how I got most of my photos, instead of zooming on the camera i decided to take a few more steps and get closer to the subject.

 

Bruce Davidson

Diana on the influence of Davidson:

I took photos of everyone, people I knew and people I didn’t. In some moments, I stepped back and got a photo of the big picture, something others might have seen but wouldn’t have thought of that as a photo opportunity. I think that we have these moments everyday. Those moments where you see something that looks perfect. Not in the way it’s set up but because of the rawness and reality of the moment. I love capturing those moments of people. In the photo of the couple with lights in the background, the couple had no idea that I was taking the photo. It was a brief moment that was just so precious.

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Check out the requirements for this week’s photo challenge. Low Key Lighting w/ Contrast
3. I’ll put up the critique photos later on this period.

This Week you will turn in five images that feature low key lighting with a ton of contrast. You are encouraged to use an off camera flash to obtain this look, although using a faster shutter speed will reduce the light coming into the camera. You will want to shoot at a low ISO number, 100.

Have fun this week exploring the dark side.

FIVE photos are due in on Friday, November, 4th.

http://www.school-of-digital-photography.com/2013/10/a-beginners-guide-to-low-key-photography.html

After reading the instructions contained in the above link, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

What is low key photography? According to the tutorial, what are the best settings to have your camera set to in order to get a good, low-key image? What should the ISO be set to? According to the tutorial, how many lights is suitable for a low key image?

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up
2. Turn in five photos for  Famous Photographer Part Deux
   1.  Due TODAY
3. Next Week – Low Key Lighting w/ Contrast

https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-complete-beginners-guide-to-shooting-low-key–photo-3427

After reading the above tutorial, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

Next week’s photo challenge with Contrast with Low Key Lighting. What’s one way to get a low key lighting image? What is Chiaroscuro and how does it fit into low key images? What kind of ISO do you want to do with a low key image? Do we have all the things we need to shoot a low key image here at HHS? What equipment would you need to get this look at home?