photographer assignment

Google famous photographers and find a person you are drawn to.  Then complete the following in a blog post.

1) Research and provide a background of the photographer.
2) What drew you to the artists work?  Their lighting, compositional choices, subject matter, color vs black and white, meaning, context, etc.....? Why and how did these things stand out for you?

3) Upload a minimum of 5 photographs by the photographer you chose.
4) For each photograph answer the following questions:
    a.  What kinds of things do you see in this photograph? 

    b.  What words would you use to describe this photo?

    c.  What do you think is the most important part of this picture?

    d.  What do you think this photo is about? 

    e.  Why did you choose this photograph?

1) "Steve Winter has been stalked by jaguars in Brazil, charged by a grizzly in Siberia, and trapped in quicksand in the world's largest tiger reserve in Myanmar. He's flown over erupting volcanoes and visited isolated villages where residents had never before seen a blond foreigner—or a camera."

Growing up in Indiana, Winter dreamed of traveling the world as a photographer for National Geographic. His first camera was a gift from his father on his seventh birthday. Over the next few years, Winter's dad taught him the basics of photography.

After graduating from the Academy of Art and the University of San Francisco, Winter signed on as a photojournalist for Black Star Photo Agency. Since then, he has produced stories for GEO, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Natural History,Audubon, BusinessWeek, Scientific American, and Stern, among other publications. His nonprofit and commercial clients include UNICEF, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, and others.

In 1991, Winter began shooting for the National Geographic Society. He has covered many subjects for National Geographic magazine, including Cuba, Russia's giant Kamchatka bears, tigers in Myanmar's Hukawng Valley, and life along Myanmar's Irrawaddy River.

Winter lives with his wife, son, and pets in New Jersey.

2)      I had heard of him from my trip to Iceland with National Geographic and my guide described him as "from a different planet where people don't belong" he lives in nature and no obstacle is too absurd to dismay him. 

3)  
a. a weary tiger getting a drink on a calm night
b. pure, isolated
c. the reflection the wary eyes
d. exploring the unseen world of the beasts we do not see, also showing the innocence and vulnerability of the tiger as being just a cat.
e.  A blood thirsty tiger stalking the jungles at night is a recipe for a horror story but this picture is surprisingly calming and reassuring. 

a. a war beaten rhino mother and her maturing calf.
b. sad, determined.
C. The wound
d. The struggle for survival of this ancient and endangered creature. 
e. It simply opened my eyes.

 

a. croc babyyyy

b. mysterious

c. the oversized eye

d. shows the dramatic awakening of new life.

e. Contrasts the oldest animal the croc, with the beauty of youth and new life.

a. crazy ape

b. Wild, weird

c. The eyes and expression

d. the funky funny side to nature

e. made me smile

a. scared juvenile 
b. timid, fearful
c. the way he clings to the tree
d. shows the fear of the fabled jaguar
e. i felt bad for the cat

contrast photography

Assignment:
After you read the article, go online and find 5 great examples of how photographers have used contrast in their work.  Insert the pictures into a blog posting and make sure you credit the name of the photographer and/or the website where the picture came from.  Then answer the following questions below each image.
1) How has the photographer used contrast?
2) Is it low or high contrast? Why?
3) Is there Tonal or Color Contrast used?
4) What stands out most in the photograph when you first look at it?
5) Why did you chose this image (aka what were you drawn to about the photo)? 

1. the light of his muscles contrasts with the black background

2. high

3.no

4. his guns

5. it looked like floyd mayweather

1. the lion is more illuminated

2.  high

3. no

4. its ferocious

5. you can't tell if he is roaring or yawning.

1. her blonde hair in a dark room

2. high

3. yes

4. her beauty

5. she is a character in my favorite tv show

1. colors in sky

2. high

3. yes

4. the glow

5. i really want to see the aurora borealis

1. With the bright duck on the deep blue water

2. high

3. yes

4.  the reflection of the water

5. I love the complimentary colors of blue and orange

elanor antin

What kinds of things do you see in this photograph?

What words would you use to describe this photo?

What does this photo remind you of?

What do you think is the most important part of this picture?

What do you think is happening in this photo?

What do you think this photo is about?

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Answer the following after looking at all three photographs: 
What do you think the Boots in these photographs represent?

Does the feeling, mood or meaning of the boots change in the different photographs?  Why? How?

What do you think the story is being told in these three photographs?

What questions would you ask Antin about this work, if she were here?

-A peaceful pond surrounded by boots.

- A line of boots in a wasteland setting.

-boots lining a grave yard

- serene

- desolate

- somber

-summer time

- the great migration of elephants across the sahara 

- a funeral

- the rocky cliffs

- the slope 

- the barbwire on the cross

- the boots represent people playing in the river

- the boots represent a march

- the boots represents the relatives of the fallen person 

- i dont know 

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-children then young working men, then old dying

-no it does not

-progression of life

- why boots?                  

Ten magical photos

Ten photos

Migrant woman

• Who is in this picture? How do you think they are related? What do you see in the picture that gives you clues?

• How would you describe the woman's expression?

• What does the woman's gesture tell you about how she is feeling?

• Do you think Lange posed the two older children to face away from the camera? If you think she did, why would she have done this?

• How do you think the public responded to this photograph when it was published in a newspaper?

• Years later, Florence Owens Thompson did not want this picture published anymore because she felt it labeled her as "poor" when she no longer was. If it had been up to you, would you have honored her request? If a subject agrees to be photographed, should they be able to control how the photo is later used?

• A mother and her four and six year old boys. The children's perch on the mothers shoulder show a mother son relationship
• The women's expression is pained but determined. She has been through hell and back but knows she must keep going
• Her hand on her chin shows she is viewing something difficult watch because our hands go to our face when we are uncomfortable. 
• I think that she did pose them, either to show how exhausted they are from their journey and hat they are ready to give up, or because there is an atrocious scene going on, like a beating, and the children cant bear to watch.
• The public probably felt connected to this women, her pain is universally felt by all those who view this photo. 
• Always, without a doubt a person should have the choice to deny the way they are portrayed by someone else. 

Surrealist Design

This assignments is any creative artists dream: to make any photo, scenario or landscape as crazy and weird as you can think up, also known as surrealism.

Since I am obsessed with football right now, I chose to show the danger of the game in this hellish swamp scene where a receiver goes out for the pass...and never comes back...

Goals for this Semester and about me

1. One thing that inspires me is wildlife. In particular predators. The essence of wilderness and the thrill of the hunt for me makes the for the best photograph's because the stakes are the highest: life or death. A mountain lion bounding after a terrified rabbit in the snowy colorado rocky mountains, is one of my favorite photos that shows there is still a portion of America that is mysterious, untamed and untainted from man. 

2.  There is no one aspect of a photo that i necessarily look for. However i am attracted to unusual content such as the tank man photo, that isn't necessarily the most clear or vivid photo yet its message is so powerful that it has gained notoriety. Another attraction to me is a beautiful contrast of colors, or lighting, when a photo just pops, its an easy attention grabber.  

3/4. The message I would like to display in my work would be to firstly show a correlation between my pictures and my emotions, and secondly i want to emphasize the beauty of nature and its importance and need for salvation. I have no experience with photoshop however so i am eager to learn the tricks to enhance my photography.