In this photo there are several different sets of lines, some of which
overlap each other creating a sense of depth and dynamics.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Simplicity
This is a good example of simplicity because it has a plain
background and focuses on the painted design.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Great Black and White Photographers, Part 2
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, a region of Czechoslovakia. While growing up, he photographed his family and surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera (Bakelite is one of the earliest plastics made from synthetic components). In 1961, he earned a degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Later that year he staged his first photographic exhibition.
Koudelka returned from photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in 1968. He photographed the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague and destroyed the Czech reforms. His negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, who published them anonymously in The Sunday Times magazine. The photos became dramatic international symbols and the "anonymous photographer was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage.
In 1970 he applied for a three-month working visa and fled to England. He applied for political asylum, and in 1971, joined Magnum photos and stayed for more than a decade. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Koudelka sustained his work and continued to exhibit and publish major projects like his first book, Gypsies, and Exiles, his second.
Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, a region of Czechoslovakia. While growing up, he photographed his family and surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera (Bakelite is one of the earliest plastics made from synthetic components). In 1961, he earned a degree from the Czech Technical University in Prague. Later that year he staged his first photographic exhibition.
Koudelka returned from photographing gypsies in Romania just two days before the Soviet invasion, in 1968. He photographed the military forces of the Warsaw Pact as they invaded Prague and destroyed the Czech reforms. His negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, who published them anonymously in The Sunday Times magazine. The photos became dramatic international symbols and the "anonymous photographer was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage.
In 1970 he applied for a three-month working visa and fled to England. He applied for political asylum, and in 1971, joined Magnum photos and stayed for more than a decade. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Koudelka sustained his work and continued to exhibit and publish major projects like his first book, Gypsies, and Exiles, his second.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Bastrop Fire.
This picture is pretty cool. I think it would be creepy to be that close to the fire. The sky looks like it does before a tornado forms. I bet that shit's pretty hot.
Friday, September 2, 2011
The Camera
Aperture: a hole or an opening through which light travels.
Shutter: a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.
Exposure: controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time.
Depth of field: the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.
F-stop: the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.
Focal length: a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.
Shutter: a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.
Exposure: controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time.
Depth of field: the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.
F-stop: the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.
Focal length: a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.
Lens: captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or detector.
Focus: only objects within a limited range of distances from the camera will be reproduced clearly. The process of adjusting this range is known as changing the camera's focus.
Flash: a device used to produce a flash of artificial light.
Camera: a device that records and stores images.
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