week 3 Anna & Berhard Blume

Anna and Berhard Blume created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared themselves, with objects taking on a "life" of their own. The works of Anna and Bernhard Blume have been shown internationally in exhibitions and museums.

So above is a photo from Anna and Berhard blume. You could easily tell this would be a slow shutter speed as you can see the motion, and blur. 

Above is another photo from Anna and Berhard Blume. I really like this photo. It's a very busy photo, and you can see those potatoes flying. 

Week 3 Vantage Point

So today during camera use lesson, we were learning about vintage points, fore/mid/background.
I found this lesson very fun, and interesting. I took a few photos today, that I was impressed with.

This is my portrait where my Jade is in the foreground. I really like this photo as the background is vey artistic, and something very different to what I would usually do. F/22. 

I was using my aperture here at F/13.6 to show my leading lines. 

Here is one of my low angles I did for architecture. F/22 

Above is my high angle shot I did during our class lesson.

Here is another example of my understanding of leading lines. 

Week 3 ISO TEST.

So yesterday I did my iso test. I found the task very simple, and easy.

Below I will post my top three Lowest to Highest.

This is the lowest ISO which was 100.

This is in the mid rage at 1600 ISO. 

This ones at 12800. I don't like this one at all. I will probably never go so high. 

week 2 Aperture research

Ansel Adams is one of the many talented photographers, and he is one of the photographer I have been researching about for this task as his images are very interesting.

Ansel adams, Mount williamson- Clearing storm, 1945. 

Ansel adams used a large format camera to capture this image. The camera uses 8 by 10 inch sheets as opposed to film. This combined with the f/64 aperture setting(wow the aperture can get really high!). It produces the sharpest focus and the depth of field, gives the photograph and impressive amount of detail.

Deep South, Scarred Tree, 1998, Sally Mann. 

Here is a photo from Sally Mann. Besides this is a very different photo of what she does. She's more into taking photos of her children. I found this photo very interesting. I just love how the focus is on the tree, and so blurry on the rest. You can tell she aperture would be at a low F stop, as it's focusing on one thing rather than all of the picture. This photo was from the series Deep South by Sally Mann, and this photo is called Scarred tree. 

Week 2 Aperture

Week 2
Camera Use: Aperture


Today during class we were talking about the depth of field. We were learning the difference of what the higher and lower aperture was all about. My way of remembering what it is what, is the lower number means less depth, and the higher means the more depth. That's just my personal way, others may have different ways.

With the aperture at f/4.0, I did a portrait of Jade. It took me a while to get this photo because of the lighting issues. For some strange reason it was way too bright. So I kept playing around till I got a shot that I liked.  What I like about this is photo is that you can see the beautiful green in the background that just blends in. Also love how it's focused on Jade. 

Above is a photo of the bridge we were at. With the aperture at f/22. This photo was just a 'testing' photo, but it turned out to be great. I really like this because you can see the bridge, and the tree/branches coming in. As I mentioned earlier the lighting was very hard to work with. 

Shutter Speed W1

So today for the lesson we were experiencing how to shoot with AV and practicing to take photos at different shutter speeds. I found this very interesting because I had never photographed with AV mode, and never tried panning before. I had always wondered how other photographers do that, and today my questions were answered.

I personally don't like this photo, as it's too bright. The shutter speed was at 1/80. 

So I then got them to move places, and go to a place that had a bit more shade. With the same shutter speed at 1/80, this was the outcome. I like this photo much more better than the other one at 1/80. 

With the shutter speed at 1/250, I got two of the models to move, while the other one was to stay still. I also didn't like this photo, as it's too dark. It also doesn't show the motion well enough. 

At the speed of 0"3, I got a much better panning photo. Also it's a lot more brighter, and more interesting. 

Gregory Crewdson w1

Geogory Crewdson was born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York.

Education; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, M.FA, 1988.
                   State University of New York, Purchase, B.A, 1995.

Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewey High School, graduating early.

As a teenager, he was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies that hit the New York scene. Their song, "Let Me Take Your Photo" proved to be prophetic to Crewdson's future career. In 2005, Hewlett Packard used the song in advertisements to promote its digital cameras.

In the mid 1980s, Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near Port Chester, NY. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College, and Yale University, where he has been on the faculty since 1993. He is now a professor at the Yale University School of Art.^[2][3] In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.^[4]

Crewdson is represented by Gagosian Gallery worldwide and by White Cube Gallery in London. Crewdson's photographs usually take place in small-town America, but are dramatic and cinematic.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson

   
This photo was from the book Twilight, Photographed by Gregory Crewdson during 1988-2002.

Greygory Crewdson, Untitled, 2001, Image size: 48 x 60 inches

Greogory Crewdson, Unititled, 2001, Image size: 48 x 60 inches

Week 1
Camera Use

What is photography and what does it mean to you? 

Photography is the art or process of producing images. Lighting is everything in photography. In photography you are capturing light into an still image. Lighting is basically all about trying to best capture the light we see that reflects back off our subject.
Photography is my passion, and what I love doing. I love capturing moments that can last you a life time. I can capture family history that would last them forever. I could just stand there and take millions of photos of the same thing. You can be creative and take a whole bunch of photos and it can look completely different to one another. I love that it's given me a whole new outlook on our world. I used to just walk around the street and never really pay attention to my surroundings, but now it's as if my eyes have been reopened.
I once took a photo of an ordinary building, when I finished editing it on light room I shared it with a few of my friends. A lot of the comments were like 'Wow, where was this photo taken?' most of those people have walked past that building a millions of time as it's in Auckland City. You see the world in a different view when you're a photographer. It's also like taking little pieces of the world for yourself and turning into what ever you like.
You get to capture real life, memories, moments and random moments that are priceless.
I love that I can express myself through images, and the art of life. I am truly happy person when the camera is in my hands.
It's my way to express, to talk without words, and the way to be creative.