Photography research
Research is essential to learning new techniques and learning what you can possibly improve on.
Aperture. This is like a pupil but for your camera lens. The aperture also allows light in but in a different way. Instead aperture lets light in through an arbitrary opening within the lens, different sizes allow different amounts of light to be let in within the amount of time the photo is taken. Shutter speed is often tied together with aperture.
There is a wide aperture, and a tiny aperture. Tiny (Left) Wide (Right) |
White Balance. This is how white the image is in reference to hue. Varying white balances can either make or break a piece. One high side of the white balance spectrum turns everything a light blue, another side turns everything a pale yellow. One must find that in-between for (ahem) balance in white hues.
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*These photos belong to Miz Harris since i was absent that day-
ISO. In a poor choice of words, ISO can be only described as "how sensitive the camera is to light." For example, it could be a dark day with a beautiful sunset, but your camera only sees darkness. If you were to bring your camera to a higher ISO, the camera would recognize the sky and all its colors.
High ISO (Left) Low ISO (Right) |
Gordon parks
Gordon Parks, 1960.
Mr. Parks was an individual photographer who managed to change history and impact it so with memorable and solid images in regards to segregation and systematic racism. And with these photos we not only have documented representation for a few of these families and their stories, but also editions to figures such as Mr. Muhammad Ali and Mr. Malcolm X. He took up photography between the years of approximately 1948-1970. This all started with how he was constantly hopping from job to job, often never truly making it as a "freelance portrait-er" and noticing injustices within the job market in terms of segregation specifically for race, and how it was difficult to create a living with such circumstances. He said to be using his camera "as a weapon.". This drew a majority of black photographers and historians to his work and from which he started a stable career. Here some pieces of him i enjoy to look at with my eyes.
However due to a computer incident, Gordon Parks is no longer the name of my photographer, even after i recreated American Gothic, speaking of which let's do a side-by-side comparison
American Gothic is a serious photo about labor and such, i wanted to do an opposite approach to be silly and even rotated the lighting to the other side as a complete mirror reflection.