The class VSAR 302 with Professor D was awesome I thoroughly enjoyed the class. The lectures were enlightening, and I’m glad she made us look at different artists because it led to knew inspirations! All the projects I enjoyed because they were challenging, one project that I didnt like was the alphabet project, but only because I’ve done it a few times before! Other than that I did enjoy the class and would definitely recommend it to others!
REMEMBER
Alphabet
Contemporary Artists
Edward Burtynsky-
This artist takes large format images of landscapes being destructed by industries such as mine tailings, quarries, scrap piles. His artwork is not only beautiful but it definitely displays the destruction that industry has on nature. I am intrigued by his style and technique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burtynsky
Denis Darzacq-
This artist, from France, focuses primarily on the individual, and their place in society. Which is shown through his work, which is through pictures of people “levitating” in space, defying gravity and being “free”. I think his work is creative and innovative. I like his style deep contrast.
http://www.fountainheadresidency.com/denis_darzacq.html
Uta Barth-
From Los Angeles County, this artist likes to play with the perception and ties between what the camera sees and what is missed by the human eye. She tends to focus on light as the subject because there is an “absence absence of a clear object or landscape, atmosphere and light become her subjects.” Her art is interesting because this absence of the subject makes us create a subject out of light.
Mid Semester Quiz
1) A camera is a box that captures light.
2) Depth of Field is the definition between the background and the foreground, I would use a Depth of Field that blurred the background in a portrait to focus on the subject. You can change depth of field by changing the aperture.
3) Birds Eye View, Worm View, Framing, Leading Lines, Distance to Subject
4) If i’m in a low light situation I would bump up my ISO to about 500-1000, if your ISO becomes too high your pictures then become grainy.
5) Aperture is like the pupil in the eye and it controls the depth of field, aperture is defined in f-stops. Shutter speed is the speed at which the shutter opens and closes, it is defined within 1/second.
6) Red Eye Correction, Crop, Brush, Mask
7) Lightroom you can hit black and white in develop, or you can bring down the saturation to grey scale. In photoshop you can go to the channel mixer, and hit monochrome and set the values for RBG.
8) Street Photography is taking pictures in public, opposite of studio, either take candids of people and the settings and buildings.
9) He used a light sensitive chemical plate in a truck (a pinhole camera) and exposed the chemicals to the light and developed them on the spot.
10) Richard Avadon was best known for fashion photography, and then dived into portrait photography towards the end of his career.
Photo Booth Video Link
Photo Booth Project
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was an amazing and inspiring Landscape Photographer, in his best days he was terrific. He was inspired by the fantastic landscapes of Yosemite, and his life was changed by the Sierras. Ansel Adams had a message about the World and how people were a smaller part of that world, throughout all of his work.
Ansel Adams was in consonance with the photographs when he took them in his town landscapes, such as those within the high Sierras. He changed the personal thought of the people and what they thought about the land. He put his sole within his work and tried to convey it throughout his lifetime. He spent his life through the western untouched landscapes of the United States.
He always had a sense of high humor and eagerness. He was born in San Francisco, he was formed by his early experiences with in the Landscapes of the bay area. The stressors at home and being an only child created him to be a wound up with energy and drive, it made them give up on conventional schooling to give him the space he needed to release this energy, he spent a lot of time in the outdoors. Ansel Adams was a creative genius, with every piece of medium. But especially with that of the Camera.
The camera and music was a stress reliever for Ansel Adams, getting rid of all the stresses of home life. He was trying to make an objective life of all the chaos within the environment.
Ansel Adams is truly inspiring because he allows us as ordinary people can do anything we can put our minds to. With all the struggles the Ansel had in his early childhood, he turned it around and fed it into his artwork, who then became very successful. Ansel Adams, though a recent and new idol and influence for my artwork, will always be.
STUDIO WORK
MOPA
Other than the fact of the rude and incompetent staff that I had to deal with it was definitely interesting to see other artists putting out work from using the inspiration of other artists.
When I first entered the Exhibit I was wowed by the very first image, “Matter” by Michael Lundgren, inspired by the work of Ansel Adams. Its enormity was intriguing it and its simplicity was astonishing, and the detail of the piece was breathtaking. The photographs, although separated, were somehow connected, and your eyes wanted to wander and wonder throughout looking at the piece. These two artists are inspiring to me because of their pieces are simplistic with no loss of detail, and this is something I would like to bring into my photographs.
As I went through the second half of the exhibit I found myself within the Aperture Remix. The first thing my eyes were drawn to was the piece of Rinko Kawauchi, who’s inspiration comes from Sally Mann. One of the major things I found interesting about this photograph was its dark imagery and message. Although I wasn’t a huge fan of the subject matter I did enjoy the stylistic elements of the piece. The black and white and the deep contrast and saturation was interesting and it helped portray the message of the piece further. I also appreciated the way the four photographs were put together to tell a story. These two additional artist also add inspiration to my work because I would like to incorporate the their styles into my work, as well as be able to tell a story.
In the end, I was able to look passed the rude staff members and I was able to appreciate most of the artwork there, with the ability to walk out with a multitude of inspiration.
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