Hurricane Ike

 I chose this picture of the Hurricane Ike, because i like how it shows the effects of what's happening. You can definately tell that the hurricane is taking place and also gives focus to the guy walking in the middle. I think this photo can represent the rule of lines and also framing. The lines lead you directly to the person in the middle or the subject. This photo can also be creating depth because of the poles and the fog.

I chose this picture, because it represents patterns. The background, chairs, and even the person's shirt has repetitive patterns. You can really see the devastation Hurricane Ike created and these are the reasons why i like this photo.

Photo Composition!

 Simplicity

 Framing

 Balance

 Background

Viewpoint

Cropping 

Lines

Rule of thirds

Patterns

creating depth

Avoding Mergers



Great Black and White photographers part 2

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an american photographer and environmentalist, best known for his great black and white photography. Ansel was born on February 20, 1902 and died April 22, 1984 in the western addition of San Francisco, California to upper-class parents Charles Adams and Olive Adams. He came a very wealthy, well educated, and successful family. Ansel was also an only child and in 1903 Ansel's family moved to a new home with a splendid view of the Golden Gate and the Marin Headlands which made it even better for Ansel to start with his photography. Ansel was kind of a sick kid when he was a child, he was a hyperactive child and prone to frequent sickness and hypochondria. He also had very little friends and stayed at home most of the time learning his music. Ansel even taught himself how to play the piano when he was twelve years old; music became his main focus of his later youth. His father later on gave him his first camera which was a Kodak brownie box camera and with that he began taking his first pictures and his love for picture taking took place. Ansel loved the outdoors too, because of the beautiful landscapes. He loved hiking, camping, and photographing. In 1927 adam was contracted for his first portfolio, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierra. With the sponsorship and promotion of Albert Bender, Adams portfolio was a success earning about $3,900.  Soon after that he began to do commercial assignments to photograph the wealthy patrons that bought his work. He was set this was the start of his whole career. Ansel's most famous works was Moon and half done, Yosemite national park, and California.

Negative and Positive picture!

Differences

The differences i see between the positive and the negative is that the are reversed and one is almost all balck and the other one is almost all white. The negative is darker and the positive is lighter. Negative means the image produced on a photographic emulsion by the exposure and development, in which the tones are reversed so that the highlights appear dark and shadows appear light. Positive photograph is a film that when viewed is like the original in tone and color unlike a negative photograph.

Avoiding mergers

I chose this picture, because as you can see they had to cut some people out of the picture to meet it's purpose. This right here is called a border merger so this is why i chose this photo.

Rule of Framing

This picture is perfect for this rule. The rule of framing focuses on the way the main objects are inside or in between some kind of shape. When you look at this picture, ou can see that the twin towers are inside the black triangular looking shape.

Rule of Balance

I chose this picture for the rule of balance, because it kinda forms a triangle with the people in the back and the man in the front. The rule of balance is about what the people or objects in the picture form so i think this is a good example for this rule.

Rule of lines

I chose this picture for the rule of lines, because the line patterns of the building. The lines gives focus to the person that's falling out of the tower.

Rule of thirds

I chose this picture for the rule of thirds, because of the alignment of the three men. It is in the tik tak toe line and it is perfect of this rule. 

Simplicity

I chose this picture for simplicity, because it focuses only on the two towers and it doesn't have any distracting objects around it. I also like the angle in which it was taken and it wraps up to be a perfectly shot picture.

3 of my favorite black and white artists!

Ansel Adam

Fenton Kremlin

Tina Modotti

Single-lens_reflex_camera

                                                                  Camera definitons!

aperture- An opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc.

shutter- A mechanical device for opening and closing the apertureof a camera lens to expose film or the like.

exposure- The act of presenting a photosensitive surface to rays of light.

depth of field- the range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens.

F-stop- The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by anf number.

Focal length- the distance from a focal point to a lens to the correponding principal plane.


visible spectrum-the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.

camera sensor- is a device that converts an optincal image to an electric signal.

Ambient light- The natural light in a scene.

brackets- to over and then under expose from the indicated camera settings.