Friday, April 19, 2013

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

lion-animals-black-and-white-open-yawn-499457.jpg
1. the lion is more illuminated
2.  high
3. no
4. its ferocious
5. you can't tell if he is roaring or yawning.
b_daenerys-targaryen-in-the-dark.jpg
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

Colorful-Aurora-Borealis-in-Finland.jpg
1. colors in sky
2. high
3. yes
4. the glow
5. i really want to see the aurora borealis




jjwp374.jpg
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

Monday, April 8, 2013

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?