gelato jenna - technical aspect

This picture upholds the technique of a silhouette. Because the background is so lit up, you can only see the outline of the people. This makes for a dramatic picture and the shapes are more important than their exposure. This is similar to the picture I took in Barcelona of my friends standing in front of the magic fountain. 

gelato jenna - my photo - barcelona magic fountain

I took this picture in Barcelona, Spain of my two friends making a heart with their hands in front of the Magic Fountain. Although it is a silhouette, I still had to set my ISO fairly high because it was so dark out. The shutter speed was set at 1/160 and the diaphragm was set at 5.6. 

gelato jenna - herbert list

This picture was taken in Switzerland by Herbert List. I like the depth of field in this picture. The aperture was probably opened fairly wide to have the background blurry. I also really like the shape of the sun glasses. The curves pull my eye around the picture.

Bon Bon

The hand. in villa borghese.

Bon Bon

This is my photo of one of the statues in Villa Borghese. I think it shows quite nicely that Superman is superior to Batman.

Bon Bon

This is my black and white photo of the lion and his expression in Villa Borghese.

M.J.H

 Ciccio The care of details is very important in photographic sector.

Robert Mapplethorpe was famous because he took photos of naked men and women which reminded classic art.

 Ciccio The care of details is very important in photographic sector.

Robert Mapplethorpe was famous because he took photos of naked men and women which reminded classic art.

3 pictures from Monday's class-GoldPic

PIctures of our class- GoldPic

gelato jenna - technical aspect

I took this picture (as well as the other picture I uploaded) in monochrome (black and white) setting on my camera. To do this I went into "picture style" in my camera. There are several different options available including: landscape, portrait, and monochrome. Although you can't change this picture back to color if you take it in monochrome setting, I feel as though taking a picture in black and white turns out better than editing one from color to black and white. 

gelato jenna - my photo

This is my favorite picture I took in class. I like the leading lines in the background and how there is a framing created with the blur of closer objects. The picture was taken at 1/1600 shutter speed with a diaphram of 4.0.

gelato jenna - my photo

Trent Parke captures box jelly fish in Australia. I am interested in this picture because I've been to Australia a couple of times and we were warned about these deadly creatures. I enjoy the the lines that imply movement and take this 2d picture to a 3d one.

Diane Arbus- GoldPic

Diane Arbus was a seminal figure in documentary photography. Her subjects were often members of society's fringe - an odd, discomforting and new topic for most viewers in the 1950s and 60s. She violated all previously implied "polite distance" rules between herself and those she shot, getting as close as she felt was warranted. 

Arbus's photos stood out to be because they were simple shots of people and not a lot in the backgrounds. The majority of her photos seemed depressing to me.

Richard Avedon by GoldPic

Richard Avedon was born in New York on May 15, 1923 of russian-jewish immigrant parents.
He attended Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, but never completed an academic education. In 1940, at age 17, Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the merchant marine's photographic section, taking personnel identification photos. Later, he went on several missions to photograph shipwrecks.

 I liked this photograph because it was really different and stood out to me.

Three Photos From Monday

I like this photo because I think the focus is most drawn to the eyes of the lion.

I like this photo because the positioning of the arm of Batman is very prominent. It adds interesting lines to the picture.

I like this photo because the subject that is most in focus is not in the center of the photo.

Class-Klcosta

Three pictures taken in class on Monday

Robert Mapplethorpe - Kenz

Robert Mapplethorpe  was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men. The frank, homosexual eroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.

Herbert List - Kenz

This picture was taken by Herbert List, who was a German photographer who worked for magazines like Harper's Bazaar, Life, and Vogue. He is known for his stark black and white photographs as well as photographing nude males in places such as Italy and Greece. He is a very influential photographer who has impacted other greats such as fashion photographer Herb Ritts. Many of the photographs that I looked at were composed of two subjects in the foreground. In this case there are two pairs of sunglasses but other photos of his include two people, two bicycles, two heads, or two statues. I like the use of two different pairs of sunglasses and the curiosity it presents of who they belong to. The image gives the notion that is could be a couple in love on a romantic get away with the background scenery.