A portrait is when the subject, along with the background, connects the viewer and the photograph. It often captures a person’s identity, personality, characteristics, group of people, or object. A portrait photograph may be artistic or clinical. They are frequently commissioned for special occasions such as certificates, weddings, or commercial purposes. However, selfies are not […]
Photography Set III
Jackie Ranken Texture, Tone, Lines, Shapes, Value. Jackie Ranken is an Australian-born, multi-award-winning landscape art photographer. She has over thirty-five years’ experience within the visual arts and has been an international awards judge since 2002. She learned her craft by working within the photographic industry as a darkroom technician, freelance and sports photographer, wedding photographer, […]
Photography Set II
Angie McMonigal Shape, Value, Repetition, Lines, Tone. Angie McMonigal is a fine art and commercial architecture photographer in Chicago. She brings a detailed, thoughtful1 perspective to her work. She focuses more frequently on bold architectural details rather than sweeping cityscapes. Her photographs celebrate those unexpectedly iconic elements hiding in plain sight. She distills the essential […]
Independent reading
THE PEARL 2022.3.9 – chapter 1 Kino and his wife Juana had a son, Coyotito, with meager subsistence. They don’t have money to go to the doctor, and the doctor refuses to cure insects for “little Indians,” and he says, “I’m a doctor, not a veterinary.” 2022.3.11 – chapter 2 Kino and his family went […]
Photography Set I
Seung-hwan Oh Shape, Texture, Focus, Value, Tone. For Seung-hwan Oh’s series ‘Impermanence'(above), he mostly took pictures and used filters and techniques to present different views of people. The use of space in these pictures is quite similar as in the people were all placed in the middle of the photo. […]
Paul Strand
What do you see? Look at the photo opposite by Paul Strand. Copy the photograph into your portfolio. 2. List 3 things the photographer might have been interested in capturing in this picture? The photographer recognized the interesting line-form shadow, the contrasting shape (circle and rectangle), also the value in which the left side is […]
Elements of Photography
Explain what the phrase Formal Elements means in photography? There are 6 elements in photography art that demonstrate what we see in formal languages. 2. Describe each of the 6 elements discussed so far (line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus) Line: The lines that appear in photos (vertical, horizontal, curve, etc.) create […]
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Engineering project
Blogpost #2: Define and Inquire What is this engineering task? Building a toy or device to show energy transfer. steam? windmill （spinning?) chemical energy – mechanical energy. alcohol lamp. making a holder for the windmill. Windmill: plastic, paper, aluminum foil? making a windmill or having one that’s already put together? using hot glue guns or […]
Researching the starting point
How can photography change our relationship to things? In many times, photographs are trying to convey a message, and you will almost substitute yourself into the picture. For example, when you see a desert, you might feel thirsty. And taking photographs somehow makes any regular things have an artistic sense. 2. What is pictorialism? Pictorialists […]