Activity 3

Compare and contrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument. Choose your examples carefully as representative of the medium.

Example: The two images below are similar in subject matter, how are they similar? How are they different? What options doe a painter have compared to the options a photographer has in terms of expression.

patrick schneider.

Both of these images are very similar in subject matter. These images both contain pictures of sunflowers and a small amount of the  sky.  But they are different in some ways. One of the obvious ways is that one is a painting and one is a photo. And with that, the photo is more realistic. The photo really captures all the different colors, shades, and textures of the flower while the painting can only try and mimic it. But a painter has more options than a photographer. A photographer can't change the intensity of the sun or the colors of the flowers. The Photographer can't always change the subjects that it is shooting to his or her liking. While a painter can paint and change anything they want in their pictures. 

Simi Sherin

Activity 2

Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

Example: What does the image below say about humans need to control the environment? Or, does it indicate an attempt to recreate a time long past and remind people of their outdoor beginnings? What do you think? Does it say anything different?

topboxdesign.com

In these photos, I feel that the photographers are trying to express the need to preserve nature. How man is destroying it and that it needs to be left alone. These two photos show the New York High Line that use to be railroad tracks but went unused. So then nature took over and grew over and around it.  But instead of letting nature grow New York build over it, only letting some of it to thrive. I feel that the communication is very clear. You can clearly see how the buildings are taking over where nature use to be.

Anna Wad 

Activity 4

Blog Entry

• Find two examples of photographs, which make use of maximum depth of field, and two examples, which have very shallow depth of field.
• Describe how the photographer’s selective use of aperture affects the subject in each of the photographs you have chosen.

Brittney Barney 

These two photos use maximum depth of field. They display this depth of field because of how far back you can see in the photos. In the first photo not only do you see the boat, but you also see all the way to the horizon over the ocean. In the second photo you can see the mountains all the way in the back but also the rocks close up. 

Megan Arnold

juuustinshin.blogspot.com

These photos use shallow depth of field. In these photos there is only focus on one subject and the background is blurred. You can only really focus on the subjects and nothing behind them. 

Admin

Activity 1

View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis).

Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer.

Make sure you include the image in your blog post with credit in the citation. When you analyze the photo, look for deeper meaning beyond the literal description of the Photo.

What I see in this photo is a graveyard in the middle of a small city. Buildings seem to surround the graveyard on all sides. A grave stone shaped as a cross is on of the main center of focus since it is closest to the camera and is one of the largest objects in the photo. I think this image is about the evolution of our surroundings. How even though the buildings around the graveyard are advancing and encroaching it, the graveyard itself stays the same. Like it is frozen in time while everything around it changes. 

I feel that Walker Evans has been very effective in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. You can see how the building seem to loom over the graveyard, almost threatening it, but the graveyard remains constant. And yes this photo can be considered as art. two reasons I think this is because it is a unique point of view of Walker Evans and it shows his opinion on how he feels of this place. 

Graveyard and Steel Mill - Walker Evans 1935

Activity 3

• Find two images that have been shot into the light or included the light source. Explain how the photographer may have gone about taking a light meter reading for these photograph

Vera Hogenson 

In this photo the photographer shot into the sunlight while focusing on the subject. The sun really illluminates the upper half of the photo and the subject. The photographer had to use a light meter reading to make sure that the sunlight does not completley overtake the subject. 

flickr.com

In this photo the photographer also used the sun behind the subject to help lighten the subject. Since the sun is lower in the sky it is less intense in the photo. The photographer had to use a light meter to make sure that the sunlight did not overtake the subjects face. 

Activity 2 

Blog Entry

• Find an example of a photograph where the subject has been lit by a single light source and an example where more than one light has been used.
• Describe in each the quality and position of the brightest or main light and the effect this has on the subject. In the second example describe the quality and effect the additional light has.

lawsonphoto.us
One light source

This is an example of one light source photography. In this photo the light source seems to be coming from the right side of the photo and is shinning diagonally on the subject. This makes it so that the main parts of the subject that are facing the light are illuminated while the parts farthest away are much darker. It also make the right side of the picture much lighter than the left side. 

haynephotographers
Multiple light sources

This is an example of multiple light sources in a photo. In this photo the light source seems to be coming from straight on and to the right. Using multiple light sources helps illuminate the subject more. It makes the photo brighter and makes more of it visible.

Activity 1

Blog Entry

Look through assorted photographic websites and find some examples of subjects lit by hard light and examples of subjects lit by soft light. Describe the effect the light has on the subject’ texture, form and detail, and the overall mood of the picture.

prophotonut.com
Hard Lighting 

Here is an example of Hard Light photography. In this example the light is very strongly on the subjects face. This makes the main focus on her face and makes the rest of the picture almost blend into the background. With Hard Light photography it mainly shows a strong part of the subject but then dims the rest of the subject. This makes the mood of the photo very intense.  The shadows in these photos are also a lot darker and bigger in these photos. 

Ervin Sperla
Hard Lighting 

Makenna Boley

Here is an example of Soft Light Photography. This lighting is a lot less harsh and creates a softer tone for the photo. With Soft Lighting more of the subject is shown. Instead of the light just focusing on one part of the subject, it lights up the entire subject. It creates a lighter mood compared to Hard Lighting.  Also in Soft Lighting, there is less and lighter shadows.

Kate Williams