Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was born April 6, 1903 in Fremont Nebraska. Edgerton had a life long goal that was to make the invisible, visible. He would photograph things that were to bright or to dim for normal photographs. Edgerton went to study at MIT in 1926. In  1934 he became a professor of electrical engineering at MIT. In 1966, he was named Institute Professor, MIT's highest honor.
 There, he began to work with the stroboscope which creates brief, repeating bursts of light, which enable an observer to view fast moving objects in a series as-if frozen images, rather than a single continuous blur.  By 1931 Edgerton had invented ultra-high-speed and stop-action photography! Later, he also invented types of underwater photography, which added together, made him one of the most well-known photographers of his time. Edgerton died of a heart attack on January 4 1990.

 

 

 These three pictures are my favorite of Edgerton's becuse they are all catching the action and freezing in motion. I thibk that these photo's are brilliant and by far my favorite from any photographer's. 

I like the first one the best because it incorperates the use of color and action together and creates a beautiful shot that captures the white milk hitting the bright red surface. You can see the reflection of the milk dropplets hitting the surface and another drop falling down and this is deffinity one of the best pictures I have seen.

I like the second one because it shows the bullet slicing the card. This picture captures somthing that we cant see with the naked eye but because the picture was taken at just the right time it captures somthing that would happen in the blink of an eye. 

I like the third picture because it shows the diver in motion while still capturing non-moving motions. I love how the divers body creates a spiral and the picture itself creates a beautiful design. I think its so cool how the picture is made up of other still images and together they create something more than just a diver, it creates a piece of art.

Post-Shutter Speed assignment

I think that the shutter-speed assignment was my favorite assignment out of all of them so far. For this assignment we had to freeze action and capture objects in motion. I turned the shutter speed high enough that i can take a picture that captures the action without blurring the model. I had a few people who I took pictures of and asked them  to jump, or do things that would create a great photo and took multi-photo shot. This helped to take a lot of pictures in a shorter time frame. The thing I like best about my images is that they are all in motion. They are concentrated and you can see that focus in their faces. I think I can improve the pictures by making the backgrounds less detracting. In my photos I had to photo shot and change the background because it took the focus away from the object and people so when I take more pictures ill try and use not as distracting backgrounds. I had some problems capturing the action and movement but 200 later I finally got some good shots.

Pre-Shutter Speed Assignement

Action shots are probably my favorite type of photography. I love how some people can capture images in motion and bring them to life in a picture. I think that they are some of the hardest to capture though. It takes the right timing and skill to capture the object in motion and preserve it in the photo. The assignment is to take action shots of people in motion and action. I plan to take these pictures by taking consecutive pictures of objects in motion. By using the multi-shot, taking action pictures will be much easier. Some offline inspirations are sports that I do like soccer and my sister who dances. I think that these inspirations will be good to capture in motion.

Sports Photographer Brad Mangin

I have a huge obsession with sports. I absolutely love baseball, soccer, football and hockey. When looking through some pictures I  saw a name that came up with many amazing photographs and that was Brad Mangin. Mangin takes some truly outstanding photo's of athletes in action, the fans and the faces of the game. He brings the excitement of the game alive in pictures and gets great shots. Here is the link to his website from more amazing pictures. http://manginphotography.com

My thoughts on the "Get Close" Assignment

My thoughts on the get close assignment was I thought it was fun and definitely a different type of photography. I thought it was hard to capture the images but the hard worked paid off in how the photo's looked. They captured a lot of detail and the images were beautiful. The hardest part for me was the focus and getting close enough to the image that the picture gave a new perspective to the image. I had to lay down on the ground or crouch or get as close as possible to the image and it got hard especially in skinny jeans. Taking these photo's required a still hard and lots of concentration on little detail to make one image look amazing. I liked this project a lot and I think close up images are beautiful and would love to take more.

Jeff Divine Surf Photography

Jeff Divine is a surfer photographer who takes amazing photos of surfers in action. Surfing is something I love to do so to see someone bring surfing to life in pictures is something that really sparks my attraction and interest. I recommend looking at his photo's. http://www.jeffdivinesurf.com

Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham was born in Portland Organ April 12, 1883. Her love of photography started in 1906 at the university of Washington Seattle. In 1907 after graduation, she worked for Edward Curtis at his studio. Between 917-1920 she lived with her husband Rio Partridge and her three sons in San Fransisco, CA. In 1920 they moved to Oakland, CA, where her husband taught at Miss College. In 1921 her view of her photography changed and she became interested in nature and near focus. She took photos of the bark of a tree or the pattern of a zebras stripes. She started to look at the tiny detail that many people miss. She was so focused with detail and near focus that she did a two year study (1923-1925) on the magnolia flower. She soon changed her focus once again, to human study. She looked at hands, feet the body all in detail. In 1934 Cunningham was asked to photograph for Vanity Fair. Her husband wanted her to wait so he could travel with her but she refused and they divorced. She worked for Vanity Fair till 1936, when it stopped publication. In the 1940's she turned to street photography and supported herself through her photo's. Cunningham was asked to be part of the Art, Photography department at the California School of Fine Arts. In 1973 her photo's were shown at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in France. Cunningham died at the age of ninety-three on June 24, 1976.

 

By Imogen Cunningham

 

 

These three pictures are my favorite because the show so much detail and presision. I like the first one because Cunningham captures the detail of her facial features and the emotion in her eyes while getting the patterns and elegance of the lace which was placed intfront of the object in focus. I think this is so cool because you can see the woman without getting detracted by the lace but the lace adds so much pattern and makes the photo beautiful. 

I like the second picture because it shows the beauty of the flower that most people dont usualy look at. Most people see the color of the petals and they way the petals fold and show. But Cunningham shows the inside of the flower and the detail that makes up the flower. She shows the complexity of nautre and the beauty of it.

I like the third picture because  it shows the beauty of the human body and how simple yet prey, the hands are. I like it because the hands are saying "help" in sighn language Its showing the detail of the knuckle's, veins and bones and how it makes up the beauty of the human form.  

Close-Up Pre-Assesment

We are doing a Close-Up assignment based on the work of Imogen Cunningham. I'm exited to do this assignment because this means that we have to take close up pictures and I like taking close up because you can change the perspective of an image by capturing what it looks like up close. I want to approach the assignment by taking close ups of beautiful objects like flowers and nature than would look pretty when captured up close. I want to change the perspective of the image so when people look at the image they would think "Wow! Is that really a flower?"

Paul Strand Post-Assesment

I took three of my favorite pictures from the Paul Strand project and I like these images the best because I used the contrast between the light and the shadows cast off of the objects. I would have to hide behind big objects to take the photo because I didn't want to mess the picture up with my shadow being in the way. But other than hiding behind many object I enjoyed this assignment and I was relatively easy to capture the shadows and light.

Pre-Asses for Paul strand

Paul Strand was A photographer that unlike many photographers in his time who took soft focus pictures, he took sharpy focus pictures. We were assigned to take pictures using the type of style that Paul Strand used and that means that we used the light in our pictures as the main focus and used it to our advantage to create interesting and unique pictures. I think the part that I would like to study and use while doing the assignment is how the fight falls on an object and the contrast the light makes compared to the object and shadows.

Jacob Riis

Born May 3, 1849, in Denmark,  Jacob Riis was concerted one the fathers of photography for adopting the use of flash in flash photography. Riis came to America in 1870 at the age of 21 and moved to New York, starting out with no food, no money, and living in the poor conditions of the police lodging houses. He spent three years doing odd jobs till he took up journalism and became a police reporter for The New York Evening Sun. He worked and reported about the poorest and most dangerous parts of New York. He would document the lives of the immigrants, and poor people who lived in those parts and with his camra. He went on to write "How the Other Half Lives" which was published in 1889, and after the success of his first book he wrote a follow up volume "Children of the Poor" published in 1892. He also wrote a auto-biography "The Making of an American" publishes in 1901. He was an amazing writer, journalist and photographer. He captured the live style and the people who lived without money, food, shelter. He started from a homeless man doing random jobs to make little amounts of money, to a best-selling author of the time and photographer who opened the peoples eyes to the hard life of the slum.

I like Jacob Riis's  pictures because they make you realize how hard it was to live in the slum and be poor. Because he once was homeless, he really dedicated himself to showing people the hard life of the poor.
What I take away from the first picture is it doesn't take money to love someone. Sometimes family is all you have, and he captures that with the little girl, holding the baby on her lap.
I'm not going to say I "like" the second picture because its sad but I think that the picture is really meaningful because it shows how some people is the late 1800's lived. They all lived together in small houses trying to find shelter and he really captures how the lifestyle is and the way they have to life to survive.
 The third picture is well taken because it shows what "the slum" was like. People on the street, clothes hung between houses, many people sharing one small house. But I think the thing that makes the picture so powerful is the emotions on the adult and children faces. You can tell that they never chose to live that that and you can tell that their not very happy.
The emotions of the people in Jacob Riis's photo's really make the pictures as powerful and meaningful as they are. He really captures the lives and life style of the slum and the people from it from the late 1800's.

 

Andrea Klarin: Another High Fashion Photographer

Looking through some of Andrea Klarin's work, I was beyond impressed by the work that she does. She adds color and makes the picture unique and eye catching, without drawing attention away from the main point of the picture, the clothes. She is one of the top Photographers in the industry and I now know why. http://www.andreaklarin.com/