Here is my final triptych! Since my vision is to capture the color of common objects and I plan to take photos in the style of Saul Leiter, I choose these three pictures for my final triptych. These images all have a warm tone, which aligned with my vision of capturing colors. In the image […]
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SET 2: Photo Selections
All Photos All Photos_SET 2 5. The Yellow Selection The Yellow Selection_SET 2 For the Yello Selection, I chose photographs aligned or slightly aligned with Saul Leiter’s style or my vision. The most obvious similarity is that most of them have an object at the front, and the main subject is at the back, […]
SET 2: Analysis of Saul Leiter
1. Select an Artist “Sometimes I’m amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.” “A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.” — Saul Leiter Lines: In these photographs, lines are often used as an outline to separate the photo into two parts, in […]
SET 1: Photo Selections
All Photos All_Contact Sheet 5. The Yellow Selection The Yellow Selection I select 20 out of the 110 photos I took as the Yellow Selection. One similarity of these photographs is that they have achieved at least one main idea of my vision, which are color and composition. Furthermore, the subjects in these pictures […]
SET 1: Analysis of Ola Kolehmainen
1. Select an Artist Lines: Each photo contains lines, which either divided space or outline the shape in the photo. There are vertical, horizontal, curvy, and straight lines; however, each line in the picture serves other elements. For instance, in picture 4, vertical and horizontal lines create a pattern. In pictures 1 and 2, the […]
Vision & Mind Map
Life: The message of my triptych will be find the colors in everyday life. A combination of colors and simple subject(s) that we often see in our daily life, which is always ignore by us. “Color” combining with “simple”, the powerful and mysterious feels when audience looking at my triptych is what kind of emotional […]
Photo Safari
Photo Safari_Contact Sheet_Rona The ones that have straight lines or simple shapes worked the best. They are easy to find and see in our life since the objects we often see in our daily life are composed of simple lines and shapes. On the Other hand, the ones that include oblique lines or involve texture […]
Abstraction: A Photo By Paul Strand
When Paul Strand captured this picture, I think the three things that interested him were this photograph’s pattern, tone, and shape. The rectangles on the upper half of the picture form a pattern, and the tone of this picture, which is the shadow and light, creates the rectangles. Thus, these three things are combined […]
Abstraction: Formal Elements
Formal Elements are visual features used in composition that have the power to turn ordinary topics into great photographs. Here are the 6 elements of Formal Elements: Line: Line in photographs can be straight, curvy, thin, thick, vertical, or horizontal. Photographers often use lines in photos to draw the audience’s attention, which then creates […]
Abstract Photography
Define Abstract Photography Abstract photography does not follow the general photography rules. Compared to photographs we normally see, they intentionally use different elements, such as light, textures, etc., to construct a different/new perspective of objects that are often associated with our daily lives. Researching the Starting Point Pictorialism Movement reinvented photography as a type of […]