Alfred Stieglitz (born January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who has a career in making photography an accepted art form. He was best known for the modinest movement.

These photos show a large range of repetition as the majority of his photos are taken of the sky so therefor they consist of clouds.

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I feel as these photos work best as you can clearly see clear repletion of clouds as well as the bright tones the sky has which reflects on the clouds which adds further contrast. Additionally the warmth light helps the photographs show depth as well as enhances them making them show clear details.

Nick Albertson

Nick Albertson is an artist from Boston Massachusetts and was born in 1983. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco and New York as well as internationally. His work is very pattern bases and focuses on themes such as repetition, line, shape and texture. I have shown some of his photo shoots below.

Immovable Shadow

Manufactured Gestures

White Light

Tape Cuts

Photo Sprays

Ernst Haas

Haas was an Austrian-American photojournalist and during his 70 year career, began using photography to express creativity. He was born in 1921 and died in 1986. He is famous for his long shutter speed images that really show natural movement. One of his common subjects for his photographs was water and throughout his career seemed to have a passion for different ways light is reflected and refracted. Haas photographed many different things throughout his career which i have listed below.

Flora

Creation

Abstract

Motion

Americas

Comparison

The lighting in Albertson’s image is very bright and we can tell by the type of light that the image was most likely taken in a studio using artificial light. Also there is contrast between the bright and vibrant colours. However, in Haas’s image we can tell that the light is very natural and there is little to no contrast. Also the colours in the second image are not vibrant and the lack of colour creates a dull tone.

Alberton’s image is taken as a close up as we cannot see the surrounding of the image which was done deliberately to compare and contrast the colours to the dark and angular shadows in the background. However in Haas’s image the photo is taken as a medium length photo as we are not seeing the image from far away but at the same time we are not seeing it up close.

The first image is very angular and colourful, however it has not much depth but we can still see the shadows made from the angular tape. This is similar to Haas’s image as it also is very angular and casts angular shadows but lacks the vibrancy of the colours. The first image is most likely cropped to get the very angular and minimalist features but i do not believe Haas’s image is cropped because he wanted to keep the man made and light and dark features.

Albertson’s images were taken from the early 1990’s – now so he had the opportunity to work with the best equipment to take precise and vibrant colours to his wishes compared to when Haas took his photos from around 1930-86 when he died.

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Edited/Reflected Image

Process:

• I opened the image up in Photoshop.
• I cropped the image down to my preferred size.
• I selected the entire image and copied it.
• I doubled the width of the canvas size. (image – canvas size)
• I then pasted the original image and flipped it horizontally. (edit – transform – flip horizontally)
• I lined the layer up with the original image so that there is no overlap or blank spaces.
• I merged the layers and repeated this process once again horizontally and once vertically.

ARTIST REFERENCES:

Saul Leiter was a American photographer and painter whose work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography. He enjoyed taking night photography, colour photography and depth of field photography, which is shown in the photo above. In the image above the tones are very neutral due to the black and white adjustment which has be made. You can clearly see the different focuses of the photos as one twig is very clear compared to the background which is blurred.

Uta Barth’s photography is a German-american photographer who mainly takes photography of optical illusions, perception and non-place. Her work emerged in the late 1980’s to 1990’s , which included her inverting the notion of background and foreground. This may have changed the viewers perception of her work due to the optical illusions as well as the different focuses. For example in the image above it shows that the background is out of focus, whereas the figures of people are still in focus. I find her work very compelling as it attracts all of you attention to certain parts of the photograph.

A second artist which I decided to look at is Ralph Eugene Meatyard who is an american photographer. I feel that the image above creates a darkening mood as the baby dolls are highlighted due to the fact that they are the main focus of the image. However the figures in the back also add to this as you can still identify that they are young children who are wearing intimidating masks over their faces. Additionally the way the photograph has been changed to black and white adds to the darkening mood that has already been created, as the tones have been enhanced because of the lighting.

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I feel that these are the best images which I took as they reflect Uta Barth’s work the best as it focuses on certain objects which in this case were leaves and blurred the background adding contrast to the photographs. I done this by experimenting with the aperture as well as the iso on the camera. The lighting off all of my photos in this shoot are natural as they were taken in natural settings which enhances them.

Original Image

Edited Image

How I did it:

– Select : all
– Edit : copy
– Image : canvas size
– Change the reflection to how I want the image to look and change width or length accordingly by doubling the original number
– Edit : paste
– Edit : transform : flip vertical
– Flatten image

Ernst Haas vs Alfred Stieglitz

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These two images from Ernst Haas and Alfred Stieglitz have a lot of similar features as well as many differences.

Alfred was born in 1864, which means that photography was a lot different to when Ernst was taking photographs as he was born in 1921. One key difference that can be seen is that Alfred took many of his photographs in gray scale, where as Ernst took lots of his photos in full colour.

Despite Alfred shooting his photographs in black and white, there is still a blue hue/tint to the image. This is similar to the Ernst image on the left as it also has a blue hue to it. This makes both images have a cold feeling to them. The cold blue tones also show the weather at the the time the photographs were shot. For example the blue tint to the cloud formations on the right show that there may have been a cold breeze in the air, and the blue hue in the left image emphasizes the coldness of the running water in the photograph. In both of the images, it adds more atmosphere and feeling to the photographs.

The lighting in both of these images seem similar. This is because there is a natural light source that can not be seen in the shot. In both images, the highlights and most exposed parts of the image is towards the bottom of the photograph. This emphasizes the depth of the images, as well as creating contrast between the front of the waterfall/cloud forms and the back of them.

The shutter speed of the Ernst image on the left is quite high, about 1/60-1/20. This is to create a smooth motion blur of the water falling down the rocks. This allows for the whole rock behind the water to be seen, and for it to be in focus by using a high aperture, eg. f22. This creates a similar effect to Alfred’s image on the right. This is because the cloud is stretched out as if it is flowing. Despite this image having a fast shutter speed, the cloud shape creates the effect of movement.

Both images create straight, directional lines from the top to the bottom of the frame. This again adds to the effect of movement within the photograph. Both images also have a darker background, adding more depth and contrast to the image.

Although both images look fairly similar, the camera angle, positioning and framing of the images are very different. Ernst’s image on the left seems to be taken from eye level, looking parallel to the floor directly towards the waterfall. The framing of the waterfall centered. Ernst has also stood a distance away from the waterfall and zoomed in with a lens, cutting off the edges and top of the waterfall, making the overall size of the waterfall unknown. Alfred’s image on the right has been taken from the ground looking up at a very high angle to capture the cloud. The cloud is centered in the middle of the frame, also slightly zoomed in but most edges of the cloud can be seen, giving a bit of scale to the image.

There is no official context to either of these images, but they are both of natural forms which create similar shapes and lines and they both seem to express nature.

Firstly I selected the image (by pressing Ctrl A) and copied it. Then going onto the image tab I increased the canvas size width by doubling the measurement. After I pasted the copied image and then transformed the image and flipped it horizontally. I then copied the new image and doubled the canvas height then flipped the new image vertically. Repeated this a few times to get the final outcome.

Original Images

My Interpretation

I firstly opened the image in Photoshop. I then selected the image and copied it. Then I edited the size of the canvas to double the width of the image. Then i pasted the image so two of the same image are side by side. Then I flipped the image horizontally so the background from on the side meeting both images were the same. I then flattened the image so that the two previous layers became one single layer. Next I copied the image again and extended the canvas vertically doubling the height. I then pasted the image and flipped the image vertically. Finally I cropped the thin white border around the image and saved it.

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Final outcome

First I cropped my image to the size I wanted then I copied the image by pressing control A then going into edit and copy, after increasing the canvas to the right by going into image, canvas size then pressing the left middle arrow and changing the width size to 31. I pasted the image and flipped the image horizontally by going onto image, image rotation and flip image horizontal and flattened the two images together by pressing the four horizontal lines where the layers are and then pressing flatten image. I repeated the process but flipping the image vertically.

I used Photoshop to layer photos of cutlery and lower the opacity of them in order to achieve this final image