Thanksgiving Food Photography



Baraka Reflection

Elements Used:

• Rule of Thirds
• Proportion
• Line

           The Movie brought sadness in my opinion. I saw the expression in people's faces and the faces of sculptures and paintings and you see their serious faces that bring depression and loneliness to their faces. Occasionally you will see passion in something like in their religion when their participating in a chant or ritual. The background music of the movie really brought in more dramatic affect especially in the closeups of people with lonely and sad faces. 

          Something that stood out to me was the beautiful of the environment around the people. it was very tropical and filled with beautiful waterfalls, volcanoes, mountains, and valleys. Although it wasn't like that everywhere. The cities were filthy, crowded, and run down. The movie made you feel sorry for the people with the jobs they have and you can see the stress and back breaking work they do everyday. It made me appreciate not having to work like the young children did and do everyday around the world. 

Shadows

11/11/10

 

With this picture I had the Rule of Thirds in mind. I liked the calmness of the water with the indent the leaf made in the pool. The color of the water stood out but also made the leaf stand out.

Fall Sports Photography

American Photography Video Notes

-Photos

• the Developing Image
• first camera used to take pictures at home developed February 7, 1900
• was called "the brownie"
• only $1
• sold a quarter of a million cameras in the 1st year
• Developing Postcards
• Luc Sante Photography
• developed on postcards
• postcards were developed with no extra charge
• photos were no developed on newspapers magazines or books
• had to be hand glued and expenses were high
• National Geographic Magazine 
• pioneered the first colored pictures on their magazines
• photographs made the magazine popular
• Curtis 
• traveled around the world photographing native Americans
• left us with a photography legacy
• Brought clothes with him in case the NA didn't look right and fixed them

11/2 Walk

Journal Notes: Ch.5 (pg. 114-125)

Portraits

Steps to shooting a Formal Portraits:

1. place the background to the photograph close to the wall
2. place the lighting (45 degrees to the right of the subject)
3. set the camera directly in front of the subject (6-8 feet away)
   

Camera Settings:

• shoot with a wide open aperture to make the background out of focus and increases shutter speed
• zoom lenses try f/3.5 of f/4.5 to keep he subject in focus

Lighting For Formal Portraits:

• Indoors
• place one light at 45 degree angle on the side of the subject
• use a reflector on the other side of the subject 
• Outdoors
• direct sunlight isn't the best lighting
• shoot in open shade
• include the reflector must be 3-4 feet from the subject 

Candid Portrait:

• capture a person going about everyday life and activities
• don't pose your subject
• background gives context and meaning 
• facial expressions
• action shots 1/250 shutter speed

The Environmental Portrait:

• uses a subject's surrounding to help tell that persons story 
• formal and photojournalism
• may be posed
• wide angle lenses are useful with f stops at f/5.6, f/8, f/11

The Self-Portrait:

• you become your own subject
• don't have to be revealing
• show who you are and something about yourself
• tell something about yourself
• Cindy Sherman
• New York artist
• created a career of self-portraits dressed in costumes and disguises

Class Notes:

• Good Lighting/ avoiding sunlight
• show the subject's personality/ Different moods
• camera 6-8ft. away/ faster shutter speed
• setting the subject/ dominant subject as emphasis
• 45 degree lighting
• triepod/ refelctor
• Composition/ Framing/ Clarity/ Value Range



Journal Notes (pgs. 140-149)

Camera Support

• use tripod for action shooting
• Monopad= a one tripod leg for easy access and easy to carry around

Freezing the Action

• To freeze action= to cature the moving subject as a stationary object with no blurring
• done using a fast shutter speed
• use a more open f-stop

Blurring the Subject

• captures a sense of movement 
• also called subject motion blur
• shutter speeds are slower
• to show subject motion blur use a slower shutter speed

Types of Blur

1. camera motion blur
2. subject motion blur
3. out of focus blur
4. depth of field blur

Panning

• Avoid pictures ecoming over blurred by panning the camera
• Panning= using a slower shutter speed while moving the camera along with the subject

5 Random Topic Photos

Portrait

Notes (pg. 102-113)

Portraits

• faces show the world who we are
• demonstrate similarities and differences between the subject and viewer

Early Portrait Photography

• Gaspard-Félix Tournachon(1820-1910)

1. first great portrait photographer
2. started in France in 1853
3. Used soft lighting and plain dark backgrounds 

• August Sander(Germany, 1876-1964)

1. created the 1st environmental portraits
2. showed the settings of his subjects lives and works

Creating Portrait Photos

• value is an important design element

1. refers to the range of light and dark areas

• textures & shapes become more or less visible as values change
• values also bring emotional content to a photograph
• Balance and rule of thirds are important considerations
• Shape 

1. can be organic with flowing curves and irregular outlines 
2. can also be geometric
3. eyes are immediately drawn in the picture

• Form

1. when a shape becomes three-dimensional

Working With People

• the photographer must gain the subjects trust and cooperation
• good portrait depends on building a relationship w/ subject

Camera Formats

• large format cameras (4x5 view cameras or even larger)

1. have the most detail

• candid and environmental portraits

1. 35mm cameras

Film Choices for Portraits

• Film speeds

1. Slow Films (50 to 100 ISO)

                   - particles of silver for black and white films are fine grained and small in these         slow films 

1. Fast Films (400 to 3200 ISO)

                   - more sensitive to light and suited to candid and environmental portraits

Equipment Choices: Lenses for Portraits

• 100mm lens gives you the most flattering image for a portrait

Camera Accessories

• Three Items making portraits easy and successful

1. Tripod = 3 legged medal stand to mount your camera
2. Cable Release = flexible wire that lets you trip the shutter w/o touching the camera 
3. Reflector = anything reflecting light into shadows for a three-dimensional portrait

The Formal Portrait

• the simplest portrait style 
• emphasize the person and nothing else

Julia Margaret Cameron (England, 1815-1877)

• Victorian photographer
• started at 43 years old
• children moved away and husband gone a lot left her to picking up a camera
• completely self taught
• one of the first people to approach photography as an art

The Beauty of Nature

This Photo was taken in Landscape and I used Iphoto to enhance the picture to bring in the green of the tree and bring more of the warm colors from the sunset.

This was taken in the early morning of Mt. Capitan in Yosemite, California. 

This photo was taken in the morning in Yosemite, California. 

This photo was a regular shot but I enhanced the photo to bring in more of the blue sky. 

This photo was taken of the mountains in Yosemite and enhanced to bring the warmth of the red bush. 

Food Photographer Paragraph

All About Matt Armendariz

     Before Matt Armendariz became a photographer he was a chef and a man surrounding himself with food and recipes. He is a  former graphic designer and art director in the food industry and began branching out into photography. From there, he began teaching workshops devoted to food photography and speaking on food styling and photography at conferences, schools and colleges. He was very passionate about communicating ideas through a visual language and  sharing his thoughts with the world. "Combining photography with my love of food is really what keeps me going and continues to inspire me." -Matt Armendariz

         http://www.mattarmendariz.com/#a=0&at=0&mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=2&p=0

Career Photography

Event Photography

• Examples you are most likely to take pictures for an event...

1. Weddings
2. Concerts

• Bright lighting needed
• Better in outside lighting for natural light
• For inside you want to be using a white balance for natural lighting inside
• Photoshop you want to be using the layers affect
• Use Adobe Light Room 2 for any editing 
• Best options for zoom is anywhere from 35mm to 50mm

Mercy Week 2

Mercy Week

Journal Notes (pgs. 161-172)

Photojournalism

This is a women and her children during the great depression. It is important because the Great Depression took a huge toll on American in the 1940's. The photographer of this picture is Dorothea Lange. This picture is framed in portrait and in black and white. The main point of this picture is the women. The mood is depressing and sad. 

The scene is the war as you see the soldiers in the water ready to strike. The photographer is Robert F. Sargent. The picture in in landscape with black and white coloring. The mood of this picture is that they are all focused and determined but it gives off more affect being in black and white.

The picture is on a bridge in New York City. The Picture was taken by Daniel A. Norman. This picture is in portrait and black and white, and is concidered street photography as you can see from the artistic style. 

This picture is shows a man thinking, maybe even suffering over a loss and that his way of expressing it but he is in deep thought. The Picture is taken by Jon Orlando. This picture in portrait and it is a single image. you can feel the sadness and thought in his eyes and the upside down flag gives an idea of the thought. 

This Photo is tobacco picking in Cuba. The picture is taken by Manuel Rivera-Ortiz. The picture is taken in landscape in black and white emphasizing the two girls but also drawing your eyes to the people in the back round. You can see the friendship or sisterhood between them.