Minimalism is a style employed by many 20th Century artists, using a minimum amount of components such as colour, shape, line and texture. Within the art world it is considered an extremely subjective concept, leaving interpretation and meaning up to the viewers perception of the work.
I was inspired by his use of light in reflections on the water to recreate the same style.
In the image above, Ernst Haas applies the Rule Of Thirds method to give the image an off-center composition. This gives the image a more natural feel which is appropriate as the photo is of a street scene. It creatively makes use of the negative space by having the shadows of the man and cart to the left.
I liked the two images above and decided to edit it into one as if the legs had gone through the water and came back out at the top of the photo.
I made two versions of this image. On one I used the rule of thirds to make use of the dark negative space in the background to give the subject the focus. I cropped the other to show off more of the abstract detail in the facial features.
I decided to play around with other filters like the negative one such as infrared.
I used overlays of shapes with less opacity , like Moholy Nagy’s work, on a simple image like this one to emphasize the wooden planks that can be seen through them
I also used overlays of the same image like the one below but brought them closer to give a double vision effect.
I decided to see what this image would like if I made it negative.
I feel this image has an older looking style due to its grain. The shadows of the subjects push them forward allowing the focus to be on them.
When creating this image, I changed the hue to an orange tone and increased the saturation. I felt it emphasized the wavy line that crosses the center of the image.
In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”.
To achieve the Bokeh effect you should:
Depth of Field (DOF) is that amount of your shot that will be in focus. A large depth of field means that most of your image will be in focus whether it’s close to your camera or far away, whereas a small (or shallow) depth of field means that only part of the image will be in focus and the rest will be fuzzy
The size of the aperture has a direct impact on the depth of field. A large f-number such as f/32, (which means a smaller aperture) will bring all foreground and background objects in focus, while a small f-number such as f/1.4 will isolate the foreground from the background by making the foreground objects sharp and the background blurry.
Aperture is ‘the opening in the lens’ to allow a certain amount of light in. The aperture that you set impacts the size of the hole in the lens. The larger the hole the more light that gets in – the smaller the hole the less light.
Aperture is measured in ‘f-stops’.
A smaller f-stop means a larger aperture, while a larger f-stop means a smaller aperture. For example, f/1.4 is larger than f/2.0 and much larger than f/8.0.
The genres for this photo are street photography, journalism, documentary photography and portrait.
The photo had a long exposure time and therefore this created a high contrast image. The lighting at the scene is predominately natural daylight. The shutter speed must have been fast in order to capture the moving trolley full of people- however, it’s possible that the trolley stopped for a period of time and therefore the shutter speed could have been longer. The image is black and white with a vast tonal range (Ansel Adams zone system) which supports both the darkest black [000000] and the whitest white [ffffff]. Finally, the image uses the rule of thirds and as a result of this, the eye is drawn into the centre most part of the image.
The image is naturally split into three sections due to the rule of thirds; the top, middle and the bottom third. The image is also naturally framed due to the background and white stripes. Although the image is tilted slightly it doesn’t lack the aspect of symmetry. The texture of the trolley is successfully portrayed in this image along with various patterns such as the bolts in the lower half of the image. Furthermore, the contrast between white and black in both the photo and the social situation is extremely vivid.
This photograph explores the divide between black and white people in America at the time. It also shows the difference in classes and ages; the older woman looks as if she’s turning her nose up at the photographer whereas the kids look very interested, this could be due to the fact that they’ve never seen a photographer before and are fascinated by the equipment and concept of taking a photo. The photo was taken in 1955, the year of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (a movement that sought to challenge the views of society on people of colour and rebrand America as the land of equality).
Typology is the study of types, and a photographic typology in a set of images or related forms, shot in a consistent, repetitive way.
The couple where conceptual artists and photographer who worked together. They were best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids.
Each series of images are capturing typologies, types of things. Each image is taken from the same perspective, angle and distance from the subject, this is an essential reason for why the series’ are so effective. All the images in each series have something in common which links them together, for example the images below the darkest part of the image is always in the middle of the building.
Different sources of light have a different ‘colour’ (or temperature) to them which can change the overall colour of an image. White Balance helps to get rid of of this and replace it with its more accurate temperature.
Here are some of the basic White Balance settings you’ll find on cameras: