Composition Final Photos

Creative Controls: Inspiration

Panning

"Braamfontein, South Africa" Thebe Magugu, 2012

https://thethebanobservations.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/playing-with-blur-in-braamfontein-south-africa/

Slo Motion
"Phone Booth" Michael Penn
http://www.topinspired.com/top-10-most-amazing-black-and-white-photos-part-2/

Freeze Frame

"Dali Atomicus" Philippe Halsman, 1948

https://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyc/95165918


Total Blur
"Singapore" Eva Polak, 2015
http://evapolak.com/wp/index.php/page/2/


Effective Camera Shake
"Scene 1" David Ocker, 2012
http://mixedmeters.com/2012/11/camera-shake.html

Composition Hunt Part 2

Leading Lines
"Dark Autumn" Monique Ilsink, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31608673/Dark-Autumn


Rule of Thirds
"MorningBeauty" Steven Miesel, 2004
http://bonjourmissvogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/morning-beauty-by-steven-meisel.html


Strong Diagonals
"Systems/Layer 3" Matthias Heiderich, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/26892021/Systems-Layers-III

Bird's Eye View

"Arctic #3" Daniel Beltra, 2012

http://danielbeltra.photoshelter.com/#!/portfolio/G0000XjBwhCtaRO8/I0000odj8FbQamgY

Bug's Eye View
"A Point of View" Steven Klein, 2011
http://www.imageamplified.com/2011/08/vogue-italia-a-point-of-view-by-steven-klein-patti-wilson-september-2011-wwwimageamplifiedcom-image-amplified.html


Close Up
"Flofferz Magazine"Sandra Ojuri, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31533511/Flofferz-Magazine


Frame Within a Frame
Vegetal Sceneries" Juliana Salmiana, 2015
http://www.fubiz.net/2015/06/15/vegetal-sceneries-by-salmiana/


Filling The Frame
"Frozen In Time, Iceland" Jan Erik Waider, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31620137/FROZEN-IN-TIME-Iceland

Composition Hunt

LINE:

Diagonal Line
"Park Avenue Fashion, New York" Horst P. Horst, 1962
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/horst-p-horst-park-avenue-fashion-new-york


Curved Line
"Scooped" Martino Cusano, 2012
http://www.scoop.it/t/my-photo/p/2625171646/2012/09/08/martino-cusano-italy


Parallel Horizontal Lines
"Over Your Shoulder" Clarissa Bonet, 2012
http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?aID=4122&CMYear=2012&event_id=14




Jagged Lines
"Systems/Layer 3" Matthias Heiderich, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/26892021/Systems-Layers-III

TEXTURE:

Smooth
"Contour and Highlight" Aleksandar Alek Živković, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/30746123/Contour-Highlight


Bumby
"Sublime Nature/Storm" Erik Hijweege, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/31580031/Sublime-Nature-Storm


Rough
"Animal Lectures #01 Caiman crocodilus" Andrew McGibbon, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/28277709/Animal-Lectures-01-Caiman-crocodilus


SHAPE:

Organic
"Soap Bubbles" Bernice Abbott, 1945
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/8293077802

Geometric

“Iceburg” Paul Kilgour, 2015

https://500px.com/photo/121798727/iceberg-by-paul-kilgour?ctx_page=1&from=user&user_id=595589

Geometric, yet almost organic shape
"ASYMPTOTE" Evelyn Bencicova, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/24170807/ASYMPTOTE

SPACE:

Emphasized negative space around subject
"Human Space" Maria Svarbova, 2015
https://www.behance.net/gallery/29913019/Human-space

Emphasized negative space around subject

"El Mirage" Herb Ritts, 1990

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/g5386/10-iconic-photos-by-herb-ritts/?slide=1

Filter Final

This is the final image with filter 2, aperture f8, 5 seconds, and mounted. I really like the emotion in this photograph, it seems calm, with radiant light coming through the trees. It's how I feel when I'm surrounded by nature. It's quite serene.

Filter Tests

From my first roll of film, I chose this image of blurred close up leaves with a focused background. The original was a little too dull, so then I experimented with the zero filter and worked my way up to the number 4 filter. For each one I used aperture f8 for 5 seconds. My favorite was the number two filter, a good balamce of  white and black, with a variety of grays. I learned from this activity that the higher the number filter, the more black and white will show up, taking away the grays. 

Photogram Final

For this final series, I wanted the theme of man versus nature, with natural elements such as grass, flowers, ad mountains. Then juxtaposed with factories, oil rigs, and trash bags. I really enjoy how my prints had a grainy quality, so I combined the negatives with the positives to emphasize contrast and texture. Lastly, I arranged them in a grid to achieve a "reflection" feeling.

Chemograms and Photograms

Chemogram 1

Negative 1 of hair clip and weeds

Negative 2 of leaf and earbuds

Positive of leaf and earbuds

Chemogram 2

Negative Photogram of magazine pages

Old Process, New Artist

One process that really caught my eye was the Gelatin Silver process. In 1871, this process was created by Richard Leach Maddox, and major improvements of sensitivity acquired by Charles Harper Bennet in 1878 and became popular in 1885. From research over the last 125 years, the current materials display low grain and high sensitivity to light. This process uses an animal protein (gelatin) as the uniter between the developed silver, which is the image material. This is the most common black and white print process, and still in use today. However, all gelatin silver photographic materials are targets for deterioration. The silver particles that make up the image are bound to oxidize, becoming yellow in color and faint in contrast. This process is so cool, because the contrast in the black and white is so intense, that it creates such a great feeling that I really enjoy.

(http://www.photoeye.com/GALLERY/Definitions.cfm) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin_silver_process)

Contemporary Artists' Photographs:

Peter Turnley: Coral Foxworth, on the #2 train in Harlem, 2014

Wendy Paton: Lips, 2013

Whitney Hubbs: Horse, 2012

Project 11: Dystopian Portland Film

Project 10: Magazine Mock Up

V Magazine Fall 2015 Mock Up