Heidi Kirkpatrick:

Heidi Kirkpatrick is a wonderful art photographer. Her work often depicts a view of the world experienced by women. She develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects. This is one of her most famous photographs:


 This is called Gray Area and it was taken in November 2009. One element in this photo is value. The light-colored arms really stand out in the black background. This photo also has texture because you can see that the edges of the blocks are worn. Here are two more of her photographs:


 

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was an American Photographer, best known for his black-and-white photos taken in Yosemite National Park. He was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California and he died on April 22, 1984. One of his most famous images was Moon and Half Dome, taken in Yosemite National Park, California:





















 One major artistic principle in this photo is value. The value in this photo ranges from the darkness of the shadows to the whiteness of the moon. There is also shape in this photo because the shape of the mountain really stands out. There is also space in this image because you can tell that the moon is really far away and the mountain is much closer. Here are two more of his photos:

Chapter 9 Blog Notes

• 3 types of landscapes: the grand landscape, details, and abstract
• landscape photographers: Carleton E. Watkins, Ansel Adams, Timothy O'Sullivan
• Composition, value, unity, and variety are important to have in landscape photos
•  Camera settings--small f-stops
• good times to take landscape photography: just after sunrise and just before sunset (Golden Hours)--good quality of light--angle of sun is low, so shapes and texture are emphasized by side lighting
• lenses: use wide-angle lenses-they allow you to include really close objects and distant ones in the same shot
• Grand Landscape--the "big view: for pictures of the great outdoors-wide open expanses that showcase the majesty of the natural world

Architecture Notes

• three methods for photographing architecture and urban landscapes: the big view, the detail shot, and the interior view
• pattern-the repitition of any of the elements of art
• contrast-the difference or range of values
• texture-the tactile or "touchable" quality of a surface
• big view-the wide-angle, overall view
• perspective 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
• detail shot-features the individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior

Architecture Powerpoint Notes

• Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image-architecture was a perfect subject
• One of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography-Fredrick H. Evans
• Large part of work focused on Cathedrals in London
• Worked primarily in platinum papers
• During WW1, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions.
• Rather than switching developing processes or changing papers, he dropped photography forever.
• Ezra Stoller (1915-2004) influential architectural photographer
• Thinking artistically-You can focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait.
• Or focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images.
• Patterns-In architectural photography, patterns dominate almost every part of the image.

Video Notes

• Illustrated Daily News-started in 1919
• it was the first newspaper to sell itself on pictures
• used big, bright pictures to attract attention
• staged a lot of photographs
• photos were also used for advertisements
• photos influenced people to buy products
• photos also used in Hollywood-made people look glamorous
• Rudolph Valentino-photographed a lot-women across the country fell in love with him
• astronomers started to use photos to photograph the sky
• photos started to appear in magazines too