Composition and Light



 Compisitional element: Framing

 Compositional element: Lines

 Object photographed at Midday

 Object photographed at Dusk

 Object photographed under Fluoroscent light.

 Object Photographed under Tungsten light

 Compsitional element: Depth of field

 Object Photographed at Sunrise

 Compositional element: Pattern

 Compositional element: Colour



Exposure= Aperure and Shutter Speed

                                         Picture with Brightness turned up                                  



   Less than 1/30 shutter speed priority moving object 

More than 1/250 Shutter speed Fast-moving object

 Lowest possible F-stop: Close-up of object





Airbrushing and slimming

Photo Montage

The Genius of photography: Right place, Right time

 

 

 

 

What is described as "one of the most familiar concepts of photography"? Answer- Decisive mode

 

 

Should you trust photography?- Answer- no- There were huge mistakes made in the beginning.

 

 

What was revolutionary about the Leica in 1925? It was compact, quiet, had the latest lens technology and was designed so you can see with your other eye when photographing.

 

 

What did George Bernard Shaw say about the paintings of Christ?- "I would exchange every painting of Christ for one Snapshot."

 

 

Why were Tony Vaccaro's negatives destroyed by the army censors?- They contained dead G.I.'s and the censors didn't want people seeing them.

 

 

Who was Henryk Ross and what was his Job- He was a polish Jew in the Ghetto until it was liquidated. He was a photographer.

 

 

Which show was a "sticking plaster for the wounds of the war:, how many people saw it and what cliché photograph did it end on?- The show was called the family of man, 9 million saw it and the cliché photograph was the photographers children walking into the light.

 

 

Why did Joel Meyerowitz photograph Ground Zero in colour?- He didn't want to make it look like a tragedy.

Photo book proposal

Photo Book Proposal

 

 

 

My name is Darren Beattie. I am 18 years old. I am a first year film studies student at DBS. As part of my course, I am doing a photography module, and as part of this module, I have to make a photobook. I am originally from London in the U.K., and moved to Ireland when I was 9 years old. I currently live in Celbridge, North Kildare with my parents and brother, and I am hoping to move into a place of my own sometime in 2014.  My hobbies include fitness-related activities such as the gym, kickboxing and Karate. I have always had an interest in photography and in particular its ability to preserve the spectacular. I also enjoy the work of many famous photographers including Ansel adams, Robert Capa, and in particular Jay Maisel, who uses simple techniques to achieve amazing results.


If I were to make this photobook, It would be made between November 2013 and March 2014. The actual shooting would take place most likely in the evenings, when the classes are actually taking place. The shooting locations would be the Mill Gym in Celbridge, North Co. Kildare, The Kenpo Karate club in Celbridge, North Co. Kildare and  the Ryoshin MMA club in Lucan. Karate was first developed in what is now Okinawa, Japan, and incorporated punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and in some styles grappling, throws, locks and vital point strikes are used. It reached mainstream success in the 1960's and 1970's with popular karate movies, and Karate masters like Bruce Lee. Kickboxing was first developed by Tatsuo Yamada in the 1950's and can be considered a spiritual successor to Karate, as it started in the 1960's, many years after Karate, and is considered by many to be a hybrid sport of various traditional fighting styles, for example Jujutsu and wrestling, Muay thai, western boxing, and of course, Karate. It is used for self-defense, general fitness and as a contact sport. Like Karate, it reached mainstream success in the 1970's, with top level fighters being shown on national television.


As I mentioned before, I have chosen to do a photobook on this topic because I am greatly interested in combat sports and in fitness overall. As such, this photobook would be aimed primarily at people who share these interests, and would be called "Martial arts and weightlifting". I believe this would be interesting because the "Gym" section of the photobook would showcase the lengths that people go to in order to achieve what they percieve to be the "Perfect" body.

While shooting in the Karate and Kickboxing studios, I would take the photos in black and white, as full colour photos would be hampered by the fluorescent lighting and would look ugly overall. In the gym, I would make use of the mirrors to capture people from multiple angles in the same shot.

Upon completion, the photobook would be displayed in the gallery of photography in temple bar.

 



Photo Sprint

Love is in the air

Street art

Halloween

Street style

Dirty old Town

Review of "Vilnius and Unfixed" 

 

 

 

"Vilnius and Unfixed" is a photo gallery by acclaimed Lithuanian photographer Kestusis Stoskus.

 

 

I enjoyed the photo gallery because of its contrasting use of light and dark in his photographs. Another striking feature of this photo gallery is the lack of people in the photographs, illustrating Stoskus's desire to convey the city instead of its inhabitants, including its architectural styles, which include Baroque, Gothic and Renaissance.

 

Possibly this is due to the fact that buildings are permanent structures, whereas most humans will be outlasted by the architecture that surrounds them. The fact that many shots are taken from pavement level make it easier to imagine ourselves taking the photo, to imagine the feel of our own hands on the camera, the bite of cold Lithuanian weather on our cheek. 



Fixing the Shadows

Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar

"Fixing The Shadows" is an insightful and interesting documentary that tells the story of the history of photography.

There were many things in the documentary I found interesting, such as:

* Photography as we know it was first invented in 1839.

*In 1802, People could take photographs, but the photo's only lasted for a couple of seconds.

*Even in its beginnings, photography was more of a commercial industry than an art form.

*Nadar was the first photographer to convey personality in the subject's stature, whereas his peers mostly used objects to signify their subjects occupation, for example writers were depicted holding pens, etc.

*Eastman, the founder of the Kodak camera company, invented rolls of film.

*A frenchman, Jacques-Henri-Latine was hailed as a photography genius but was in fact an amateur with no training, exclusively using his own talent.

*Latine stood out because he took more casual photo's, whereas his peers took more serious photos.

Review of the short film elevator

The short film "Elevator" is a poignant exploration of people's lives done by one man, as the name suggests, in an elevator. In a residential block of flats.  This is a budget production, so the camera work is naturally unsophisticated, but it does the job. The fascinating thing about this film is the way the cameraman develops a bond of trust with the people who live in this apartment complex during the course of this film through small talk and basic human interaction, until it gets to the point where these people are happily telling him their life stories, their thoughts and feelings, and other things we as people feel we need to establish a bond of trust before revealing to other people... or when we're drunk and end up having deep conversations with strangers. If I have any complaints about the film, I feel that if it had been longer then the director could have allowed the audience to get to know these people more.