Friday, January 21, 2011

Chapter 9 Notes

Landscapes
  • landscape- wide views 
  • close-up capture landscape in detail
  • abstract images of landscape that accentuate texture, and pattern
  • Carleton E. Watkins wanted to capture grandeur of the American West
    • Yosemite Valley- opened his own gallery in San Francisco
  • Ansel Adams was also inspired by Yosemite Valley
    • visited when he was 14 years old 
    • best known for his Yosemite pictures
  • Timothy O'Sullivan 
    • Photographic Sketchbook of the War
    • famous for his picture of the Grand Canyon
    • took pictures of the Civil War
    • formed his own studio

  • Thinking Artistically-set up of a shot
    • look for elements and principles
    • look for balance
    • all objects work together in balance
    • light and dark
    • unity and variety
  • Camera Settings
    • f/16, f/22 
    • Adams used f/64
    • f-stops shutter speeds from 1/15 of a second to several seconds long--or even several minutes
  • Light- just after sunrise  light is good.
  • quality of light, shapes, shadows should be paid close attention to
  • color is affected much by lighting
  • Landscape pictures it is good when they look three dimensional
  • Film- Detail oriented images of landscapes 
    • 100 ISO film with 35 mm cameras capture all details
    • black and white photography to exentuate value, texture, and pattern
    •  
This photo has beautiful color, value because of the contrast,
texture because of the soft looking clouds, 
  • Lenses
    • landscape photographers prefer the wide-angle lenses that capture more of the scene.
    • Telephoto lenses good for concentrating on detail of an area
    • Macro lenses are useful for getting up close images
  • Filters
    • at least a yellow filter
    • to get black skies pair red filter with polarizer, which darkens the sky
  • Camera support- tripod!
      • f-stops
        • f/16 or f/22
  • The Grand Landscape
    • "big view" for pictures of the great outdoors
    • widepopen expanses that showcase the majesty of natural world
    • include large expansion of scene
  • Abstracted elements
    • images composed of lines, shapes, values and testures.
      • tree bark patterns
      • lichen on a boulder
      • trees
      • depth
      • color or black and white are good
      • make the photo look somewhat like painting

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