Goals for Photo 5-6

In your first blog entry, write about what you want to accomplish in Photo 5-6. Include at least one of your best works from Photo 3-4. Also write about the camera you are using and anything new you learned about it. 

In Photo 5-6 i hope to be able to explore the more abstract aspect of photography. Since whenever I paint or do any other sort of art i prefer the random pieces. So i am excited to try it outmode this year. The piece I have attached is of a sedona mountain that i have changed to give it a more unreal look. I took this using my T3 and with that i can do HDR as i did to this photo.

montage activity 4

• Find two examples of photomontages that are either from a commercial source or from a fine art background. Discuss in what context they have been produced and what techniques they share with political photomontages. 
• What messages, if any, are communicated through these photomontages and how effective do you think they are? Consider different ways that each image could have been tackled by the artist and come up with an idea for ‘another in the series’. 
  
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Waldbauer

These two images show great hidden meanings. In the first image we see someone pulling a street across afield, this can be interpreted in two ways. The first can be to make your path and do what you want for yourself, while the other meaning could show that man is taking nature and beauty and developing on it in order to live a faster and streamlined life. The second image shows someone pulling a mask across their face. This, to me, is the illusion of ones truer and real self while there true selfs mind is elsewhere.

Montage Activety 3

Activity 3

• As editors exercise their ever-increasing power over information control, what limits would you impose on them as to the extent to which they can manipulate the photographic image? 
• Devise a series of guidelines that will control the release of images that have been constructed for media use so that the public is aware as to the extent of the manipulation. 

I feel that journalism is journalism and that it should the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So when I see someone alter a photo in order to make their personal agenda better and make themselves look good, I get upset. I don't think there should be guidelines as to what the editor should be allowed to do to an image that is meant for the press, they should just not be allowed to alter them in a message changing way.

 So here are my guidelines,

1. Don't change it

2. DONT CHANGE IT

The photograph did not take and post process a photo for someone else to make it alter and eventually destroy it and all of its meaning. 

Montage: Activity 2

• Find two examples of political photomontages that are either from a historical or contemporary source. 
• Discuss in what context they have been produced and how effective you think they communicate their intended message. 
• Discuss the techniques that have been used to assemble the examples you have chosen and offer alternative ways that the artist could have put over the same message. 

Benetton

This photo shows president Obama kissing another political leader. this is obviously not real but is trying to make fun of the fact that he is accused of being gay because of the laws that he has passed. This was probably done by taking a photo of each of them actually kissing someone and then just masking the image.

Kennard

Just like the above photo this is a fake and it shows how a politician standing in front of an explosion in the desert. The subject doesn't care that they are causing chaos across the world and all they care about is making them selves look good. This is a common accusation amongst politicians and this is them taking an idea and putting it in a single photo.

Montage: Activity 1

Activity 1: Blog Entry

• Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). 
• What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

For us today montage is a type of photography that is used quite often, but that has not always been the case. In the Victorian Era when they started using this technique it was heavily critiqued. The reasons for this is probably and most likely due to the fact that everything in this era was about elegance and class and this strayed away from that and they were probably offended. Once it was taken away it was later brought back by the modern era. This could be for two reasons, we were making more different art forms that strayed away from reality such as movies and television and they wanted to include photography, or that someone saw that this was of post processing is art and should be celebrated rather than suppressed.

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 3

Collect four portrait images with two to five subjects.In at least one image the subject should have been placed in the foreground.Comment on the arrangement of the subjects in relation to the camera and the effectiveness of the design.

Lee Jefferies

This image shows two people who seem to be madly in love and have been for awhile. The photographer put them in the front so that they fill the image and it gives the photo a more personal feel, almost like you are hugging them. It is a good way to make the image have a more homey feel.

GQ
This is a classic family photo setting. They are all center and have room for a border so that the image isn't filled completely. This is what you can expect to see off of the self of any family home and overall just a really traditional photo.

Graham Nash

Although there is only one person in this photo, there are two subjects. The man in the background which you don't look at or pay much attention to then the other man in the foreground so that once you look at this image you are immediately drawn to him and not the rest of the image.

Adelphi

This image is similar to the last but it actually has two different people. The first man is in the foreground and he holds the viewers attention while his friend lives in his shadow. It really has a classical meaning where you have one person who shines and someone else who just lives in their path.

Portraiture and Studio Photography: Activity 2

Find four portraits that demonstrate the different ways a photographer has framed the image to alter the design and content. Discuss the vantage point, depth of field and subject placement in all of the images.

Martin Schoeller

Martins style is very recognizable. The depth of field is not a factor since she is the only thing in the frame. Her hair is actually the frame in this photo since it is so close to her face. It just shows that the photographer can do what ever they want in order to get the image framed in a way that they would like.

APN

The photographer used the persons hands as a frame to her own image. This is a very creative way of framing an image. He set the camera up straight so that the focal point is dead on to the persons face.

Macy Young

This image is different from the others. The photographer used a great depth of field in order to get the subject in full focus with her standing inside the door frame so that the yellow building frames and compliments the colors that she is wearing.

Trey Ratcliff

The last image is the most different from the others. The photographer used a shallow depth of field so that the subject is the only thing in focus and is framed using his natural environment so there is a sense of freedom in the image.