April 2010
8 posts
Steve Schofield
Steve Schofield’s portrait photography interested me a lot in the way that the photos captured a lot of who the person he is photographing is. A lot of his photos are of peoples passions or what they do. The pictures really let the viewer into the life of his subject. I liked this because it is similar to that of August Sander in that he tries to show you who the person is through the...
Ideas Project 5: Portraiture
For project 5, “Portraiture”, I was immediately captured by the artist August Sander. I really liked the simplicity of his shots and also how he was trying to really show who the person he was photographing was through their occupation. What struck me was not only this simplicity of what he was photographing, but also how powerful his photos are. The expressions and the way that...
March 2010
21 posts
Project 4 Ideas: The Trace
The first ideas that I had for this project were, like most my photos, things that I found as they were. Things that I would happen upon and capture, but not influence. Some of those ideas were weathering, abandon things, used things, or garbage. I also wanted to use some of the forensic photography techniques that we discussed in class. Straight on shooting and playing with the flash is...
Post-critic Reflection: Project 3
After receiving some criticism from classmates on the critic day I had a few different thoughts about my photos, and ideas for the project. When shooting the project I wanted to capture people in motion, and instill the feeling that the viewer was in the photo. Capturing people like this was more difficult than I anticipated, and I struggled to capture some of the street shots that I had seen...
Post-critic Reflection: Project 2
After the class critique of project 2 (emotion) I feel as though this assignment was fairly difficult for the class to capture. When researching my emotion (wonder) I found that all the pictures that expressed wonder well were pictures in which the subject matter made the picture wondrous. For this assignment we were to try and use color to help enhance the emotion and I feel that people,...
February 2010
15 posts
Project 2 - Emotion
wonder
noun
-a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by somethingbeautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable : he had stood in front of it, observing the intricacy of the ironwork with the wonder of a child.
When trying to photograph wonder I specific color doesn’t really come to mind. When trying to convey this emotion through photo I think that light will play a...
Post-critic Reflection
After the in class critic of my photographs I learned that to obtain a good photo many design elements of photograph and put them together. Composition is the most important part of a good photo. If I were too reshoot the project I would do several things different. I would be more aware of different design elements that I could add to the photo. I would also pay more attention to the lighting...
Project 1 Ideas: The Closeup
A large focus on project one was what would be the subject matter? I chose to shoot things that were outside. Personally I love being outside and enjoy observing nature as it is, so this is what i tried to do for the most part when shooting this project. I really like the way that water and ice plays with light. I also tried to shoot objects that had interesting textures because this really...
January 2010
5 posts
