Friday, January 30, 2009




Lois Greenfield is a photographer who takes pictures of people frozen in motion. She studied filmmaking at Brandeis in the late 1960's. She is famous for her ability to capture the human form in motion and use it as a compositional element in art.
This photo is interesting because it looks like one girl holding up everyone else, when really they are all just floating, except the one with her hand on the ground. It also looks like one person morphing into others when its really four different people. i really like the picture and think that this kind of photography is really intriguing.

EXTRA CREDIT: She used a Hasselblad 500c/m camera body with no motor drive or image reverser. She used Broncolor strobes and a Leaf valeo 22i digital back on her hasselblad.

Sabastio Salgado






These photos are all moving and intriguing. I think that the black and white add to the effect of the picture which is part of what makes it interesting. The scenery/mountains in two of the pictures are very cool and interesting as well. There is not much contrast between the people and the background which is also cool.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Edward Weston


Edward Weston was born march 24 1886 in Illinois. He began photographing at age sixteen. He began photographing parks and his aunts farm. He took a we month course in six months at the Illinois college of photography. He had four children and opened his own studio in california. He became successful in soft focus pictorial style pictures and won many awards.
He began photographing at age 16 and did shot his last one in 1948 of point lobos when he got symptons of parkinsons.
The photo is a little creepy, it does not look like a real pepper, but more like a bean bag or a sculpture. Its intriguing because at a first look it does not seem like a pepper since it does not have the normal "pepper" look, but if you look closer you can see lines and marks that are similar to other normal peppers. The top also looks like a heart, or two peoples heads coming together, it also kind of looks like a dinosour.
He used a medium format camera, a three inch by three inch negative.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Art Effect with Color

Ansel Adams


Ansel Adams was an American photographer and enviornmentalist. He was best known for his black and white photos of the American West. He developed the zone system, which was a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print.

Adams took the picture, The Tetons and the Snake River in 1942 , but finished his first ever photo portfolio in 1927.

The photo is intriguing because of the contrast in colors and land, the water, the greens, the trees, the mountains, the clouds and the sun. The river goes around in a "snake" like way giving this picture an almost "eerie" feeling, but yet the sun is shining through the clouds giving it a warmer appeal. The two are very contrasting feelings and effects but they work together in a good way in this picture.

Ansels used a large format view camera which was difficult to use because of their size, weight, setup time, and cost of film. But their high resolution ensured the sharpness in his images.

Colorizing

Monday, January 26, 2009