Assignment #4 - High and Low Key

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This assignment was very fun and hard too. I didn't believe Mr. Slade when he said that the whites would be delicate but they are!!!! It is very hard to get whites that are actually white and not blown out and print them. Bracketing helped a lottttt with this assignment and so did manual focus. The focus was so important because to make a picture look really good it has to be "tack sharp" The darks were not as delicate but the lighting was definitely more important for the darks.

Irving Penn

Irving Penn was a great photographer. He just recently passed away on Oct. 7th 2009. He was famous for photographing people in a simple way by posing them with just a backdrop in black and white. He became well known for his glamour photography. He worked for vogue for many years and he worked to draw attention to the person in the photograph's expression, so he made the background simple and the person more dramatic.

His style is consistent even though the subjects varied a lot. He is also known for his usage of light. He mastered studio flash but also used light from windows. He would organize every object in the frame very carefully and sometimes his photos were considered ahead of their time and they would not be recognized until much later. He said "photographing a cake can be art" and that says a lot about Irving Penn because he could make almost anything look like art. His style is simple and complicated at the same time.

Assignment #3 - Bracketing

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For this assignment we had to bracket and it helped alot to find a good exposure that didn't need to be edited hardly at all. I took the unedited image and printed it and then i edited it slightly and printed it again.