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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 

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Disneyland 

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Grand Canyon 

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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"

Proportion

Baracka

Baracka was a greatly produced movie it was a movie of vivid shots without any dialogue. I think it was a plus that the movie had no dialogue because if it did it would just have been a bland documentary. The fact that it had no dialogue made it an awesome film to watch I tried to figure out which country in the world each shot was taken in and I enjoyed it a lot.

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Dear Cassie,

I enjoyed viewing your pictures of a concert at the Shoreline amphitheater. They had a couple elements and principles such as Unity and Proportion and I am pretty sure that their are other elements found in these pictures that I did not spot. The photo you took with your family was classic, and I really liked the picture of you and your pals playing video games   I would like to see more spontaneous shots in the future.Keep up the good work 

Sincerely,

 Joshua

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How to Shoot a Formal Portrait

1.       There should be about 10-20 feet of clear space in front of the background, plus some room to the sides. Put a stool in front of the background about 4-6 feet in front of the background.

2.       Place the light about 45 degrees to the right side of the subject

3.       Set the camera directly in front of the subject, anywhere from 6-10 feet away. The more telephoto the lens is the further away you’ll have to be.

Camera Settings

·         It is a good idea to shoot with wide open aperture to make the background out of focus

Lighting for Formal Portraits

Indoors

·         Place one light at approximately a 45 – degree angle on one side or the other of your subject.

·         Use a reflector on the opposite side of the subject from the light

Outdoors

·         Try shooting in open shade, such as the shadow of a building or tree

·         Cloudy days are great for photographing

The Candid Portrait

·         Capture a person going about everyday life and activities

·         Don’t try to pose your subject, try to take the photograph without the subject noticing you.

·         Be sure to include your subject’s surroundings in candid portraits

Camera Settings

·         For candid subjects you might take action shots

·         If your camera has flash you can use it for candid portraits

Enterprise

Self Portrait