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I choose this old lady as a subject for my portrait as i felt compelled towards her cigarette. At such a stage in her life where she should be worried about risks towards her health she is peacefully smoking. This is interesting as it makes the audience wonder what events have happened in her life to make her relaxed from a cigarette. Or it could be that she is addicted and needs to smoke to be satisfied. I choose to capture the image close to her and ensuring her hands in the v formation is at focus. I asked her to angle her eyes slightly away from the lens to capture her true emotion. On the second photo i dropped the color to black and white. I felt the tones and contrast showed her wonderful age.

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I choose Greg as the model as i felt his unique character gave an incredible impression on me. The long hair and bushy beard suggests he is laid back. I wanted to capture his expression by having him glance directly into the camera lens.

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Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.

Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment. Though people usually feature directly, street photography might be absent of people and can be of an object or environment where the image projects a decidedly human character in facsimile or aesthetic.

Street photography can be described as a genre which aims at capturing opportunistic moments of an unsuspecting urban public space within a camera’s frame. Although the word street can be found in the very name of the movement, this sub-genre of photography does not strictly demand that the image is made on the actual street. 

Boogie

Boogie is a photographer from Serbia, based in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for his documentary and portrait photographs of people on the margins of society and for his street photography. His work has been published in The New York Times and others.

He shows the world a disturbing reality of living in Brooklyn New York. In his photography he displays people that have tattoos which most likely are in a gang also photographs people using drugs and with guns or some object that can be used to cause harm. He created the shocking image of his city exposing it for all the bad things that go on around all the people that live there and are oblivious to the shady part of the city. he shows a different reality that for example a tourist would see.

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Visual:

The black and white of the image is very common in Ansel Adams work, with dark sharp shades on the walls and piano, with a very clear contrast. There’s no texture as the objects in the image are basic shapes with flat surfaces, not leaving much surface for reflective light. The subjects posture imitates the arms stand and lid of the piano, linking the the subjects environment to himself. The image focal point is the piano, with Igor Stravinsky located in the left bottom corner.

Technical:

The lighting of this image is generally quite bright, seemingly taken with daylight. The image looks generally underexposed, with a high contrast between the soft grey toned walls, and the black piano lid and stand. The aperture has a large depth of field, and the shutter speed seems to be quite short, maybe 1/320 as the image looks quite focused and sharp.

Contextual+Conceptual

Newman liked to capture the essence of his models in all his images, and so chose to have them in their natural environments. Here he had Igor Stravinsky who was an influential composer, and therefore he positioned him by a piano

It is important we look at other examples of project work for ideas…but also to see how other students have performed and scored across the Assessment Objectives

Assessment Criteria

You must spend some time during Monday’s lesson to complete some peer assessment and must use the table below to complete this simple task…

Start by looking each of these blogs by previous students…

Nathan Healey

Orla Worthington

Stanley Lucas

Ansel Adams was born on the 20th or February, 1902 in San Fransisco, California. He is one of the most important portrait photographers in the 20th century, creating iconic black and white photographs that established photography as a fine art. Adams particularly photographed famous people such as Pablo Picasso and Marilyn Monroe.

Lots of his work focused on photography of people in their natural or working environment, where the subject feels and looks most comfortable. ” There are many things that are very false about photography when it is accepted without question,”

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“An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography”

The environmental approach has the subject in their environment be that a work, leisure, social or family life. They are usually taken without the subject fully taking notice of the camera, so that the image shows the true essence of that moment in time. However, some portraits are taken with the subjects staring into the camera to add more depth and meaning. Environmental pictures can have good historical and social significance, as they are primary sources of information.

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Environmental photography portrays a strong meaning as it expresses the interests of each individual, in their regular environment, and is a effective photography technique

Urban landscapes is an approach to urban design in which the elements of cities, water, land-form, vegetation, vertical structures and horizontal structures are composed: visually, functionally and technically with regard to human use and the landscape context.

Urban landscapes photography about making images of man-made constructions within the city. It is about isolating the smaller parts the city is built upon, as buildings, bridges, and streets.

I think it is a variation of sort, of cityscape photography, but it focuses more on details within the city. These details are not the people but the architectural aspects and street photography. In urban landscapes, we preferably want to avoid too many people in the images because then it can turn into street photography.