It seems I did way too many photographers but still need to do Ansel Adams

Born in 1902, in San Fransisco, Adams grew up loving and appreciating nature, which is what guided him to photography and becoming an influential member of the Sierra Club. He became the club's official photographer in 1927 and helped lobby Congress for the preservation of many parks. In 1968 Adams earned the Conservation Service Award. He died in Monterey, California, in 1984.

( http://www.sierraclub.org/history/ansel-adams/ )
( http://www.biography.com/people/ansel-adams-9175697 )

( http://www.archives.gov/research/ansel-adams/ )

Edward Weston

Edward Weston is an American photographer born in California. He started his own photograph business, Little Studio in Tropico, California.He traveled to New York and Mexico as well. He used a large-format camera to get detailed black and white photos. Along with Ansel Adams, he helped pioneer a modernist style. He tried to catch the American lifestyle through nature, using nudes, still lifes, portraits, and landscapes. Him and a few other photographers- Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and others- formed a group called Group f/64 to honor aperture priority. He got Parkinson's Disease and was forced to stop photography, and died in 1958.

( http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1677 )
( http://ccp.uair.arizona.edu/item/234 )
( photo credit: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/W/weston/weston6.html )

Elliot Erwitt

Elliot Erwitt was born in Paris, France on July 26th, 1928, and was raised in Milan. He moved around a lot, from Paris to New York to LA. He was drafted into the army in 1951 and while he was stationed in Germany and France, and soon became president of Magnum Photos, and became a leader in magazine photography. He made many movies and published many books, and is still alive today. He is knows for his sense of humor and snapping that into his pictures.

(Info credit to http://www.sudest57.com/en/elliott_erwitt_biography.html )

The one above is my favorite. How silly and clever!

Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis was born is Ribe, Denmark on May 3rd, 1849 and immigrated to the US in 1870. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and found his new position to try and bridge the gap between the rich and poor in New York. He used flash powder to take images at night, something that few other photographers did at the time.He made a book titled How the Other Half Lives. After publishing many more books and causing a public reaction to the images, earning the nickname "godfather of investigative journalism" he died in Barrie, Massachusetts on May 26th, 1914.



(Info and top two images belong to http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm )
(Bottom image belongs to http://www.bartleby.com/175/11.html )

Shutter Speed Priority

We were sent out to take pictures of each other jumping, where one of us slipped and got rotten crab apple on her jeans and her hand, and I slipped and hurt my knee, of which I'm still sometimes feeling the repercussions. Hopefully they got some good shots!

Either way, I like the photos of people jumping more, but I'll throw in a running one.

 I don't like the background too much, especially the pole to the left.

 

 This one is my favorite.

I like how the designs on her dark shirt pop out.

Shutter Priority Pre-Assignment

We used Eadweard Muybridge as an example for this assignment- catching moving objects as they moved. Eadweard Muybridge was born April 9th, 1830 in England. Leland Stanford hired him to take pictures of horses to settle of dispute over whether or not they lift all four legs at the same time while running. He started studying movement and wanted to find a way to try to capture it in a still image. He died on May 8th, 1908.


For this assignment we were told to set our camera on TV and to manually focus our camera onto the spot that the subject was going to be in. We were going to jump of f of things and attempt to capture each other suspended in mid air. We were then expected to run around like idiots. The goal was to get a crisp but still slightly blurry picture of the subject.

(Image and info credit: http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/eadweard-muybridge )

Aperture Priority Post-Assignment

I tried to understand the concept while going out for my Paul Strand photos, and took many pictures of flowers up close. But they never translated well to black and white. I realized that I was focusing too much on the color and that I had to look at the shadows of it.
When I came in to finally take pictures of the (now dying) flowers in the room, I tried to keep track of the lights and darks, but it still turned out that I was focusing on color. After a little editing, they came out decent enough enough in black and white, but I'm still not entirely proud of them.

Aperture Priority Assignment

I'm not entirely fond of these, they're much nicer in color. I'm going to post those so you can forget about these black and white, heavily edited eyesores...

Much better. Apologies for making your eyes bleed.

Paul Strand Post-Assignment

I decided not to go take pictures of the boats because it was too long of a walk and my feet were hurting anyway from a long day at work. I instead decided to what I began to think of as "the walk down Washington" and just kind of walked down the street to see what sort of interesting things I could find. I discovered that basically every side street off of Washington, other than my own, were really quaint. The houses had cute little doors and stairs leading to them and gardens. They really gave me inspiration because everything was so cute looking and I wanted to capture everything I could with them.

Paul Strand Inspired Photos

 This was a cute little set up in a neighbor's yard. It was a challenge keeping the car, parked right to it, out of frame.

I walked quite a distance to get a picture of this bell tower so that there would be no wires in the way.

 Some nice buildings.