Creative Slideshow

I decided to use my HDR and outdoor shots for this slideshow because for my last youtube slideshow I did all food shots. So here it is…

Creative, Assignment 6

I went shooting with Annie again and we just drove around Warrensburg looking for interesting things…

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Creative, Assignment 5

Here are some pictures from when Annie, Jackie and I all went on our fun adventure on dirt roads and curvy highways past houses, barns and pastures for miles…

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O. Winston Link

Winston Link was born on December 16, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. He was commonly known as O. Winston Link. He was an American photographer, best known for his black and white photography and sound recordings of railroading in the United States in the late 1950’s. His father was a public school teacher and had a strong influence on his children, taking them around New York City to see the sights, from battleships at harbor to airplanes in the sky. He loved tools and as a teenager built his own photographic enlarger and went to work for a local photo store. Most of his images were produced on 4 x 5 film with a graphic view camera. When the last of the N & W’s steam locomotives was taken out of service in May 1960, Winston returned to New York, where he continued to work as a commercial photographer. He documented construction of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York harbor, photographed for Volkswagen of America as well as a number of advertising agencies. He helped make railroad photography a hobby and also enjoyed shooting locomotives at night. He died of a heart attack on January 30, 2001, near his home in South Salem, New York.

I was happy to see that he was really passionate about something and even though others weren’t interested in locomotive photography at that time, he still stuck with it. Now he is famous for it! After looking at a few websites and reading that he mostly shot locomotive photography, I figured that when I looked at his images they would be boring after a while. But in reality they were all so detail oriented, I loved them. I really liked how you could see so much detail in the steam of the locomotives.

For more information about this photographer visit these websites: http://www.linkmuseum.org/linkbio.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E1DF153EF931A35751C0A9679C8B63

 

 

Brassaï - Photographer

Brassaï’s real name was Gyula Halász but he is known as Brassaï to the world. He was a Parisian photographer, born on September 9, 1899, in Brassó (Brasov), in SE Transylvania - which today belongs to Romania but then was a part of Hungary. When he was three, his family moved to Paris, France for a year while his father, a Professor of Literature, taught at the Sorbonne. As a young man, Brassaï studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest before joining a cavalry regiment of the Austro-Hungarian army, serving until the end of the First World War. In 1920 he went to Berlin where he worked as a journalist and studied at the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Fine Arts. Finally, he moved to Paris in 1924 where he would live for the rest of his life. His love of the city of Paris led him to his career in photography. He later wrote that photography allowed him to seize the Paris night and the beauty of the streets and gardens, in rain and mist. He is known as one of the great photographers of the 20^th century. His best known work consists of night scenes of “the City of Lights” in the 1930s, including photographs of the architecture; people in cafes and bars; workers who kept the city going after dark; clochards who lived under the bridges; and performers, artists, and writers of the period. He died on July 8, 1984.

It was very interesting reading about Brassaï’s history because he wanted to be a painter, then turned to journalism, then finally to photography. I found his images very intriguing because he really enjoyed shooting the streets at night. In my opinion his work is absolutely beautiful.

For more information about this photographer visit these websites:

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/brassai/brassai_articles1.html http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/brassai/brassai.shtml   http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2005/12/19/33546.html

Eugene Atget - Photographer

Jean Eugene Auguste Atget was born in Libourne, near Bordeaux, France in 1856. He was raised by an uncle from an early age after the death of his parents. He became a cabin boy and sailor and traveled widely until 1879 when he entered the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris. There he studied for two years and became an actor with minor roles in repertory and touring companies, but although he was talented, he was never successful. In 1897 he tried his hand as a painter and was again unsuccessful. He then started to photograph the next year at the age of 40. He documented the everyday street life Paris for thirty years using an 18 X 24 cm bellows camera, rectilinear lenses, a wooden tripod, and a few plate holders. He was one of the first of photography’s social documenters. Atget could be considered a surrealist, a cubist and conceptualist. This is communicated through the juxtaposition of proportions and centering of his images. When he died in 1927, he left behind more than 10,000 images.

In my opinion, Eugene Atget’s work is amazing! He captures emotion in everything even when it is just a simple building or statue. Although he only had limited equipment, his images showed a number of different perspectives which made every photograph interesting. I really liked the photographs where he played with motion because it makes people look almost ghost-like.

For more information about this photographer visit these websites:

http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/atget/atget1.html 

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/eugene.htm

http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/eugeneatget/eugeneatget.shtml

 

Creative, HDR

Here are a few HDR images we worked on in creative class!

 

 

Creative, Assignment 4: Food Shoot 4

It took me two different days of checking out lights and shooting late nights to get these shots finished. I had a lot of trouble with the lighting on these for some reason. For my next food shoot I would really like to shoot with window light. Here are the shots from this shoot, minus the peaches which I had previously shot but really wanted to post…

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Creative, Assignment 3: Food Shoot 3

Here are some more images I have taken of foods….

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