leaves

This was a random assignment that i shot in my backyard and i really liked how the light was hitting the leaves and also how the ground was completely covered and the trees were almost completely bare. I definitely like the last three the best because they actually have more of a subject than the first two.

Joe Rosenthal

Je Rosenthal was born on October 9, 1911 and he started photography as a hobby during the great depression. He later got a job photographing for the Sanfrancisco News in 1932. After that he wanted to be a US army photographer but was rejected because he had bad eyesight. He joined the Associated Press (AP) and followed the U.S. marine corps as an "embedded journalist". Rosenthal was famous for this picture:






It is the flag raising at Iwo Jima. The marines were putting up a bigger flag while taking down a smaller one. Rosenthal wanted to get a picture of the simultaneous exchange of the flags but saw that that would be difficult because as he turned to the person who was filming the exchange to tell him he wasn't in his way, they started to make the exchange. He spun around and snapped the photograph. He was a crown graphic camera so he would have one shot to make the photograph and he would have to change the sheet which could take 3 or 4 seconds which he didn't have. Rosenthal won a Pulitzer prize for this picture and he said he has spent every day of his life trying to tell people that this photograph was NOT staged. Rosenthal died at age 94 on August 20th 2006 of nautral causes

Assignment #5 - On Your Belly!

For this assignment we had to take pictures of things on our bellies! the upward angle is called the "hero angle" and i was in a darkish lighted mood so all of my pictures are a little dark.. This assignment was fun and i like the different angle. it makes things that aren't very interesting look interesting.

Assignment #4.5 - Random before and afters

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For this image i bumped the exposure down just a little bit and then tried to change the blacks but the actual water of the pond ended up getting too dark and i tried to fix that by bumping up the exposure more but that did not work out well. So i changed the blacks back and tried not to have too much gray.


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For this image i had to bump the exposure up quite a bit almost .7 which is more than i wanted to but it worked out pretty well. The trees on the right side of the image were getting way too dark when i changed the black at all so i ended up hardly even touching the black slider. It took a long time to develop this image because if i changed it hardly at all it would look fake or too dark or too light. It was cloudy/dusk when i took this and so it feels dark but it is still a little too gray.


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WAYY hard to do anything to. It was such a cool shot to start with because the sky was actually gray and the sunlight was streaming through the clouds and it was hard when i took this because the scene lost a lottt of the detail directly under the sky and the light wasn't as cool in the camera.

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.