Thursday, September 20, 2012

Red, Metal, Happy

                                                                            Metal

Red
Happy




Touching people

1. I think that anything can be a great photograph not just people touching.
2. If someone approached me and asked me to touch someone for a picture, i would probably walk away.
3.

40 greatest photos taken

Héctor Rondón Lovera
I picked this picture because it shows that death is real and no matter how close you come to it, it hurts.
This prisoner knew that they where wrong for what they were doing. Courage is something you don't see everyday.
Jack Bradley
Hearing is one of the best senses a person can have. Beeing able to hear for the first time must have a been a feeling to remember.



Alex Rodchenko
December 5, 1891- December 3, 1956

Alex Rodchenko was an artist, sculptor photographer, and graphic designer. He was born in St. Petersburg. 
In 1910, he began studies under Nikolai Feshin and Georgii Medvedev at the Kazan School of Art.
In 1921 Rodchenko gave up painting in order to concentrate on graphic design for posters, books, and films

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Camera History & Info

1. Inside a dark room, a hole is created in one wall. Through the whole the light is focused, and the outside scene is projected (upside down) on the wall.
2. Lenses and Optics.
3. A glass lens, a dark box, and film.
4. Light passes through the lens, into the camera, and exposes the film.
5. Digital cameras capture the images with an electronic sensor called a CCD.
6. Auto means the camera will tale care of flash and exposure. Program means automatic-assist. basically just point and shoot.
7. Attempting to blur out the background.
8. Freeze motion, camera will use the highest shutter speed possible.
9. Using the half press method focuses on the object before you take the picture.
10. Disabled Flash.
11. Auto-flash is used when the camera thinks it needs more light.
12. picture will be washed out.
13. Not enough light picture will be dark.
14. A change in the brightness of light.
15. 1
16. 2
17. More light
18. Less light
19. It controls more light or less light
20. Smaller F-stop numbers.

The Camera




Aperture- is a hole or an opening through which light travels.
Shutter-is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time.
Exposure- is the amount of light allowed to fall on each area unit of a photographic medium during the process of taking a photograph.
Depth of Field- The sharp area surrounding the point of focus.
F-stop- A ratio of the focal length of the lens to the diameter of the aperture
Focal Length-a measure of how strongly the system converges or diverges light.

Auto Focus- systems to focus the camera automatically by a variety of methods.
Collimated Light- light whose rays are parallel.
Diaphragm- is a thin opaque structure with an opening at its center.
Flash Memory- is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.


Canon Rebel T3



Great Black & White Photographers

Gordon Newman


Helen Levitt



Alexander Rodchenko



Thursday, September 6, 2012

I think this one was the best because its a full body pick and less serious than the other one. serious is good too but not always..
I think this could have been less serious and taken way better!