Friday, 15 October 2010

Art Photography

Applications


Art Photography can be expressed in many different ways. Abstract plays a big part in the modern day art photography.
Art photography is a piece of art that has a story to it or that the picture it' self could allow you to think of a scenario to make the image seem relevent. Also art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as an artist


Well know Art photographers:
Edward Burtynsky
Lynne Cohen
John Divola
Jason Engelund
Mitch Epstein
Angela Buenning Filo
J. Bennett Fitts

Also, one of the photographers used a technique were he put things on the front of the lens of his camera. I thought the outcome was really good and will give it a go with my own camera. I later found out the Photographer was Stephan Gill.
One of the photographs Stephan Gill took with  things on his camera.

Context

In some of the galleries we visited on wednesday, the pictures didn't have and frames, they were just pinned up on a wall.
In the pictures we saw, the surroundings let the audience know what is happening, were it is, the time period etc.



Techniques

In one of the galleries we visited on wednesday, a few of the pictures were shot with a slow shutter speed which allowed the people who were being photographed, add effects, such as; one picture was of a house and in front of the house there were children playing. in the middle of the photo there was a bright squiggly line. This was a result of the slow shutter speed of the camera. something bright must have moved across the shot quickly to produce the effect.
The pictures weren't printed on big canvases or in frames, they were just on gloss paper. I think this added an effect, it allowed the image to come to life and express the colors in the picture.  

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Fashion Photography








Application

Fashion Photography first started out in the 1830s, but the eariest technique was unsuitable for mass printing. In the early 20th century, advances in halftone printing allowed fashion photographs to be featured in magazines. Fashion photography made its first appearance in French magazines such as La mode practique.    



Context
Fashion photograph can be expressed in many different ways. It could be to promote a brand or a style. Photographers each have their own way of shooting fashion

Techniques 

The techniques used in fashion photography vairy on the shot, the techniques could be using 100 lights or it could just as litle as having a different backgroung colour.