Six Images for Final

Book Theme and Format

The theme I choose for my project is how natural light drastically changes how an object looks. The way that I am going to lay this out in a book is that I will take a photo of the same object with different natural light and place them next to each other. Each page will have a picture. The way I want the actual book to look is that the front of it will be white and the back of it will be black. This shows that it is the same object just different colors (light and dark).

Ideas for Final Project

One Idea I had for my final project taking pictures while going camping. Nature will be a major player in the theme of the book. Also the normal camping things like fire and tents.

Another one of the Ideas I had is to take photographs of the different types of Architecture in New York City. From churches, business buildings, artistic types of buildings, etc. I will also like to compare old buildings to new buildings. 

Reading Assessment for Chapter 5

1. I think the point that the author was trying to make was to give background information on the context of photographs to make better understand photographs when viewing them and to help us make better choices when we take them. Some of the context the author was trying to get across are internal context, original context, and external context.

2.  some of the things that I learned are the different kinds of contexts like external, internal, and original. According to the reading External context is "when the photographer is presented or found" (Pg.109).  Internal context is when "you pay attention to what is descriptively evident" (Pg.106). The way you view original context depends on the background knowledge of the photographer and viewer.

3. What I will take away from this chapter is how I view pictures, thinking of the context of which it is. Also knowing context helps you when taking a photograph, because you will keep in mind what the viewer maybe thinking.

Photographer for Presentation

The Photographer I choose to use for my presentation is Jon Cornforth. He is a wildlife photographer. I choose him because I enjoy wildlife photography and I enjoy the colors in his photographs.

Assignment Lighting

Part-1 Quality of Light- Zippo with Hard Direct Light.  ISO- 450, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.

Part-1 Quality of Light- Zippo using soft/diffused light. ISO-750 , Shutter 1/5, EV-0.

Part 2 Direction of light- Light from behind. ISO-500, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.

Part 2 Direction of light- Light from above. ISO- 500, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.

Part 2 Direction of light- Light from below. ISO-200, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.  

Part 2 Direction of light- Light from front.  ISO-200, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.  

Part 2 Direction of light- Light from side.  ISO-200, Shutter 1/5, EV-0.

Categories of Photographs

This is a photograph by Kenneth Josephson. It is called New York State (Ship) and was taken in 1970. It was done on Gelatin Silver Print. It falls into the theoretical category because it makes you think what if that boat was there? The URL is https://www.artsy.net/artwork/kenneth-josephson-new-york-state-ship. 

This photo was taken by Frans Lanting in 1989 in Botswana. It is called elephant at dawn. this would fall into the Aesthetically evaluative category because it is showing something beautiful to look at. The URL is https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/winter-2015/articles/into-africa-photographs-by-frans-lanting.

This is a photograph taken by Marc Ribound during the Vietnam war. This falls into the ethically evaluative category because it is showing a person saying peace instead of war. The URL is       http://art180grantzulick.weebly.com/critiquing-photography-challenge.html.

This photograph was taken by Mary Ellen Mark. It is called Rat and Mike with a gun and was taken in Seatle Washington in 1983. This falls under the interpretive category because it is describing the life of these two boys, but you don't know exactly what is going on.  The URL is https://www.flickr.com/photos/31187481@N03/3094252512.

This is a photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. It is called Spain and was taken in 1933. This would go under the Explanatory category because it is showing a way of life. It is showing how and where these kids are living. The URL is https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN.

This Photo was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope by the ESA/NASA on October 20th 2017. It is a twisted cosmic knot . This photograph best fits the Informative category because it was taken for space research. The URL is https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/iotd.html.