READING ASSESSMENT ON BARRET CHAPTER 4

Philip Castellano

Professor Bozzuto

Digital Photography

September 25, 2017

Reading Assesment 

    

     What I found interesting when reading Terry Barett's article Criticizing Photographs is the history of photography. One thing in particular is when Barett mentions the four stylistic trends. These trends are straight, formalistic, documentary, and equivalent. What I also found interesting is the categories of photographs. Some of the categories of photographs that Barret mentions are "The thing itself- photography deals with the actual, the detail- photography is tied to the facts of things, the frame- the photograph is selected not conceived, time- photographs are time exposures and describe discrete parcels of times, vantage point- photographs provide us with new views of the world" (pg. 61). Learning basic history of photographs like this helps you better understand the process and different types of photography which are in use today. This perhaps could be what Barret intended to convey to the reader. 

    Another thing that I enjoyed about the reading is that there was examples of styles of photographs. Two of the photographs that caught my eye were Sandy Skoglund's Walking On Eggshells and Gregory Crewdson's untitled (Women at the vanity). I wish Could say that it had a deeper meaning to me, but I think they stood out to me because I enjoyed the weirdness and colors in them. Also out of all of the categories of photographs which we use presently, I would say my favorite one is descriptive photographs. I say this because I love photographs which are taken to inform people. The example used in the reading was photographs that NASA takes which I love. After reading Barett's article Criticizing Photographs I believe it was informative and something that I can build upon. 

SHUTTER SPEED AND MOTION

These 2 pictures were taken with the ISO of 34 and an EV of 0. The shutter speed of the first picture was 1/50 and that is why the car is foggy and bright. The shutter speed of the bottom picture was 1/8000 and that is why it is crisp but dark.

REDO PART 2B

For these 3 pictures the shutter speed was 1/800 and the EV was at 0. The ISO starting from top to bottom is 34, 150, and 50. It was really bright out.

REDO PART 2A

 For these 3 pictures the shutter speed was 1/800 and the EV was 0. The ISO starting from the top to bottom was 34, 150, and 1250.

REDO PART 1

 The ISO for all 3 of these pictures was 34 and the shutter speed was 1/30. The EV starting from top to bottom was -1, 0, and +1.

Part 2 -B

These three different shots are were taken with three different ISOs. The ISOs starting from the top are 100, 34, and 50. I used a 100 ISO for the first shot because it was under trees, so it was darker. For  the second shot I used a 34 ISO because there was nothing above it to block the sky, so a higher ISO looked too bright. For the third shot I used a 50 ISO because anything below 50 I couldn't see the statues face and anything above 50 the background got super bright.

Part 2 ISO

These three Pictures I adjusted the ISO. The three ISO settiings starting from the top to bottom are 150, 250, and 400. As the ISO went up the EV did as well.

Part 1 (Bracketing)

These Photos are for part 1 of the homework (Bracketing). These pictures were taken to demonstrate 3 different exposures. These three pictures exposures starting at the top are 0, +1, and -1. Bracketing is when you take multiple photos of one scene with different exposures for each. The settings I manipulated on my camera (iPhone) was the EV.