Architecture

 

The Dome 

 

Shiny Building 

 

Sea-goyle

 

Ladder 2 the Sky 

Glass Interior

Blog Notes Chapter 9: Landscapes

Landmarks in Landscape Photography 

• An innovator of landscape photography Carleton E. Watkins wanted to capture the grandeur of the American West.
•  Ansel Adams another great one was inspired by Yosemite Valley and made some of his best-known images there. 

Photographing the Landscape
 Thinking Artistically

• Composition is a vital aspect to landscape photography 
• Explore all the variations when you set up a shot
• Value, an image's light and dark areas 

Camera Settings

• Choosing small f-stops  will result in longer shutter speeds. 
• In some lighting conditions, this could mean that your shutter speeds could be anywhere from 1/15 of a second to several seconds long 

Light

• Their are two times during the day when many professional landscape photographers do most of their work .
• Its easier to deal with direct lighting for distant subjects than it is for closer subjects 

Filters

• Count on using a yellow filter to bring out clouds
• To duplicate the Ansel Adams look use a red filter 

Camera Support

• Use a tripod that is strudy enough to hold the camera, but light enough that you wont leave it in the car or at home when you go out

Th Grand Landscape 

• The big view for pictures of the great outdoors - wide open expanses that showcase the majesty of the natural world 
• While most of these images depend on a beautiful and striking subject 
• Grand Landscapes always include a large expanse of the scene and wide angle lenses will give you the wider view that you need. 
• To make clouds stand out use a yellow, orange, or red filter 

Landscape Details and Close Up

• Grand Landscape images can be overwhelming, with subjects so big they make us feel small and insignificant.
• Parks a re a good source of subject matter for detail-oriented photographs 
• We usually think of bright sunny days as the best for outdoor photography, but direct sun in wooded areas like a park create difficult lighting conditions 

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

• Abstracted Elements are images composed of lines, shapes, values, and textures 
• One of the best ways to turn an ordinary scene into an abstract image is to get really close to your subject and photograph only a small part of it.

Las Vegas 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2645082682_862bf26225.jpg

Disneyland 

http://www.photographymojo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fireworks-in-disneyland.jpg

Grand Canyon 

http://www.brooksphotog.com/images/grandcanyon/grand-canyon-9.jpg

Blog Notes pg.190-197

Shadows

• Instead of photographing actual objects, try capturing the shadows that they cast 
• Pay attention to the lines, shapes, and values of an object's shadow 

The Detail Shot 

• Features the individual architectural elements of a building's interior or exterior. 

Interior Views 

• You can record overall shot of whole rooms or you can focus on the smaller details
• The closer you are to the interior subject, the more depth of field you'll need, so get a higher f-stop

Blog Notes pgs.184-189

Camera Settings

• Select a smaller f-stop
• Use a bigger camera format for the most detailed images

Lighting

• Inside buildings, different kinds of lights are used
• There are incandescent lights(regular bulbs), slightly more orange
• Quartz lights (modern spotlights), somewhat yellow
• Flourescent lights, greener
•  To correct a photography being shot under incandescent bulbs, use a deep blue 80A filter

Camera Support

• If you like slow, fine-grained film and lots of depth of field you will use slow shutter speeds with a tripod

The Big View

• An image that show you the whole building is what most commercial architectural photography relies on 
• Prospective Distortion appears as strong converging lines in a building, where the sides of the building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality  
• The photographer must also decide whether to shoot straight on or from to the side 

Blog Notes pg.179-183

Looking Back

• Architecture was a popular subject for photographers for several reasons:
• Early films were notoriously slow 
• buildngs were stationary so photographers had ready subjects with lots of details
• British photographer Frederick H. Evans is considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the medium. 

Photographing the Built Environment 
Thinking Artistically

•   Use line to lead the viewer's eye through an architectural image
•  Observe the space that surrounds the objects or buildings in your photographs
• A buildings visual relationship to things around it can also reveal a great deal about its personality

Movie Notes

• Daily News was first illustrated in 1919
• It brought the events to the consumer of the paper to life by having photographs
• The Daily News brought a camera into an execution room
• Photographs started to take the place of drawings in public advertisements 
• In the 1920's photographs became a form of modernism
• It was the commencement of media celebrities (Sports Stars became Super Stars for example Babe Ruth became a spokesman/celebrity advertising different products)
• Media made serious invents such as Robert Valentino's funeral into a circus o
• Photography can reveal more then any naked eye can see 
• It appeared that photography had reach its peak while media has just started
• "The Golden Age of Photography was about to end"