• Assignment #3 discussed – Portraits and Mixed Lighting (6 different shots)
• Working with different lenses
• Open LAB
For next week:
• SHOOT: Assignment #3
• DEVELOP: Shots from assignment #3
• SCAN and PRINT: Your best images from all assignments so far for in class critique on 11/05
• READ/ANSWER QUESTIONS: Class Blog discussion topic
• BRING: All your negatives, scans, and prints so far for one on one meetings
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- Working with color negative film
- SLIDESHOW - 1st slideshow about color
- Film Layers diagram
- Time of day type of light slideshow
- Working with different lenses - lens info
- Lens comparison chart
- Best lens for your shot article
- Lens equivalents chart
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| Assignment #3 |
• Portraits!
• What is a portrait to you? Explore shooting in an intimate environment.
• Take a look at these images made by photographers using large format:
- David Hilliard
- Bruce Wrighton
- Christine Osinski
- Fazel Shiek
- Dawoud Bey
- Catherine Opie
• Portraits!
• What is a portrait to you? Explore shooting in an intimate environment.
• Take a look at these images made by photographers using large format:
- David Hilliard
- Bruce Wrighton
- Christine Osinski
- Fazel Shiek
- Dawoud Bey
- Catherine Opie
- Richard Renaldi
| 6 | Discussion Topic |
If you have not responded to blog topics 1-5 do so now!!
For topic #5:
1. Look over the above mentioned photographers.
2. Pick an image, and write a short statement about why you think it is a successful image in terms of portraiture
3. Also mention how large format influences its overall structure and feeling (i.e. think about how it might differ as a 35mm, digital, or Medium Format image)
| 6 | Discussion Topic |
If you have not responded to blog topics 1-5 do so now!!
For topic #5:
1. Look over the above mentioned photographers.
2. Pick an image, and write a short statement about why you think it is a successful image in terms of portraiture
3. Also mention how large format influences its overall structure and feeling (i.e. think about how it might differ as a 35mm, digital, or Medium Format image)
In Richard Renaldi’s project, Touching Strangers, there’s an image entitled Hunter, Margaret, and Abigail; New York, New York, 2013. This image, along with many others from the same project, is very powerful to me. The idea of touch is an intimate thing. So often, particularly in New York, we are forced to touch strangers on the subway when it’s crowded. Whether standing or sitting close, or hand to hand. It’s an intimacy that, more often than not, we try to ignore and tune out. However, in Renaldi’s photographs, these strangers are asked to touch one another and do so of their own free will. Normally I would think a concept like this would come off contrived in execution, but there is such an innocence to the idea and the interaction of the subjects, that they are genuine. That for me is then translated into portraiture in the sense that we are able to see a part of their characters revealed. Also aiding in this is the use of the large format camera because the time it takes to set up the shot, etc. The subjects are able to become a little bit more familiar with one another on some level and in a way I think trust in the other person(s) and the photographer forms as a result.
ReplyDeleteThe photograph I chose is from Fazal Sheikh, titled, Alima Hassan Abdullai and her brother Mahmoud, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993. Prior to reading the title, I assumed this was of a mother and child as it is reminiscent of the classical paintings of the Madonna with the baby Jesus. Both Alima's and Mahmoud's eyes are straight into the camera. They captivated me. I wanted to know more about them. What is there story? Where are they now 11 years later? I think portraits are supposed to make the viewer take notice and interest in the subject of the photograph. The details possible in a large format, despite the fact that this is a black and white, makes these two people come to life. You can see the depth in the eyes, the texture in the wrap, the luster on the skin as if they were sitting right in front of you and you could reach out and touch them.
ReplyDeleteSo I grabbed a photo from the images I enjoyed the most. The picture I chose was David Hillard’s “Norm's Birthday, 2001,” from his images during the 2001-2005 series span. I think it is a successful portraiture because it captures the main elements for a portrait. The display of the subject’s expressions, personalities and mood are emphatically present. The composition of the image being a quadriptych introduces a narrative to the image.
ReplyDeleteI was captivated by a photograph by Catherine Opie titled Idexa, 2008. I think it is a highly successful portrait because it combines several elements, such as the body and personality of the subject, with the surrounding landscape. The subject is sitting topless on a rock and displaying her tattoos, which beautifully echo the patterns and fungi on the rocks. The photo does not draw any extra attention to the nudity. It only provides a clue into the carefree and bold personality of the subject. The background is out of focus looking like a painting of moving trees and branches, which contributes to the mood of the photograph and provides contrast with the in-focus foreground.
ReplyDeleteThe large format provides balance and helps to make this a more complete portrait by allowing space for the surroundings without taking away too much from the subject. This would have looked very different in the 3:2 aspect ratio of the 35 mm format.
I enjoyed David Hilliard's portrait "Cy Waiting, 2000," from his 1993-2000 series. This piece is a diptych, and the first photo is of a man standing outside of a door holding a beer can, and he is framed by the screen of the door. The second image shows the same man in the reflection of a door, but the camera is angled so that the second image looks like a door that is opened and attached to the first image. I think this piece works really well as a diptych, since both images are directly related to each other in both form and structure, and the framing of the man by the door makes him the center and focus of the image. I think the use of a large format camera works well here since you can see much of the detail in both pictures, even the droplets of water on the screen of the door, which would have been lost with 35mm or medium format film.
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