Photography – Timothy

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Contact Sheet and Photos

December 14, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Hutong Photos:

Contact Sheet for hutong photos and photos taken outside of school:

Yellow Photos:

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For the yellow photos I simply filtered the ones that weren’t bad even though some didn’t align with my vision

Green Photos

These photos stand out in quality from the other ones and employs a range of techniques including focus, background, camera angle, framing, lighting composition, and most importantly it captures my vision of culture and human activity in the Hutong.

Red Photos

This photo shows an old man on the streets in the hutong playing tennis against a wall. He is centered two thirds to the right of the frame and presents Chinese architecture that can be seen in the window the color and wall. Although the ball cannot be seen in the image, his movements suggest he is doing a single handed backhand- this could be the next Federer. His clothes are simple, this could be the average type of people like him here in terms of attire and fashion. Moreover, this photo successfully captures the sports in the daily lives of the people.

The subject of this photo is a construction worker carrying a huge ladder walking down the narrow streets of the Hutong. He is dressed in his defining uniform and is wearing a helmet. By the looks of it he could be a man well into his fifties and this picture goes to show the life of the working class, still having to do manual labor past retirement age. This image powerfully conveys the situation of many like him who still have to work and demonstrates the hardship of life the struggles these people face.

6 techniques I chose

December 14, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Work The Scene
The Decisive Moment
Perspective and Angles
Looking For Things That Are Out Of Place
Get Real Close
Fishing Technique

Inspiration

December 2, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Farbrizi Corneli

Takes a simple minimalistic approach to portraits, uses shading, lines, curves, and light to show identity. The camera is pointed straight at the piece of artwork to portray the front view, however it is different from normal portraits as it is photography of a drawing of a person. It applies the contrast between a white background, and dark features. I chose Farbrizi Corneli because his style of artistic expression stands out among the rest of the artists, and I find his work interesting and unique. The techniques he uses in his photographs could hugely inspire me in my identity project.

Street Photography

October 31, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

I will focus on culture and human activity in the Hutong.

Inspiration photographer – Fred Herzog

Fred Herzog takes photos of the downtown areas of different cities such as Vancouver and captures the life, light, and other aspects to create an image. This is similar to what I might be doing in streets in the Hutong, and his photos could provide inspiration.

This photo is taken in downtown Vancouver 1950s. This photo is taken in front of a hotel reception and the setting of it explores the streets from a unique perspective. The angles make it seem as though the audience in actually inside the photo. In all, the bustling streets, sidewalk, cars, buildings, shops, hotels can all be seen in the image.

Set 2

October 23, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Here are some of the photos I took in school as replacement on the day of the 798 trip which was cancelled.

I narrowed it down to the ten better ones. A lot of it were taken inside the dome as I tried to explore the use of space and angles, combining that with some aspects of architecture. I chose these mainly because they seemed interesting to look at and it also felt cool.

The final three photographs I chose are the outside of a building, a view of a tennis court, and a blurred image of the net from the side.

Set 1

October 23, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

These are the photos that make up my contact sheet. Taken at 798 it focuses on architectural photography and some of it is inspired by the photographer Steven Longbottom.

Here is the yellow set which is the final ten photos I chose. These stood out to me the most in all of the photos due to the angles, the objects in the photo, and the elements included including the color, shape, and pattern.

Here are the final few photos chosen

These are my final three

Photographer – Steven Longbottom

September 21, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Steven Longbottom is a professional photographer in Manchester. His work focuses on architectural photography.

Here are 8 of his photos:

Abstraction Mindmap

September 18, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

https://isbeijing.padlet.org/timothywang6/my-glorious-padlet-n23ygndgxig30uop

Photo Safari

September 9, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Formal elements: lines and shapes

Worked: The photo is divided at the center and there is a clear line down the middle

Formal elements: Shapes

Didn’t work: These two share some level of similarity, but don’t think I was able to replicate the original

Formal elements: texture

Worked: The two share a similar texture although color is quite different

Formal elements: pattern and lines

Didn’t work: this does not really resemble any sort of pattern

Formal elements: lines

Worked: the lines are aligned and the spacing is accurate and it is equally abstract

Formal elements: shape

Didn’t work: the ball is not a circle but a sphere and there shouldn’t be any shades in the background as it should be white

Formal elements: lines

Worked: it worked in

Formal elements: pattern, shapes

Didn’t work: The colors are similar but it’s presented in different shapes and the spacing is also different

Formal elements: pattern, lines, shapes

Worked: it shows the repetition of squares

Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines

Worked: it sort of worked as there were distinct lines but ot lacks uniformity

Formal elements: shapes, focus, lines

Didn’t work: The angles are inaccurate, the colors are off, and the shape is wrong

Formal elements: texture, lines

Worked: there is texture

Formal Elements

September 3, 2024 / Timothy / 0 Comments

Formal elements in photography means these six elements: line, shape, pattern, texture, tone, focus.

Line – Any type of line in a photo, it could come in any size or shape or color or form or pattern or texture or tone. Something that creates direction or is symbolic or something. Used for effect

Shape – Shapes in photography can be either geometric (straight edged and defined) or organic (curvy).

Pattern – Objects, shapes, or lines that repeat or creates a pattern. E.g. reflection, echo, maze

Texture – The feel of a photograph if it were tangible

Tone – Having a range of tones in a photo from dark to light. Shows value.

Focus – The level of clearness in a photograph, parts of a photo could be either sharp or blurry

TONE