architecture assignment

 Ghiradelli edited

 Transamerica building big

 house interior

 Ghiradelli big

 Ghiradelli Detail

Ghiradelli Interior

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
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• 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
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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

Landscape Photographer Biographies

1) Classic: Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams

• Born February 20, 1902
• Died April 22, 1984
• an American photographer and environmentalist
• best known for his black and white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemitee National Park
• He learned basic darkroom technique working part-time for a San Francisco photo finisher.
• Adams avidly read photography magazines, attended camera club meetings, and went to photography and art exhibits.
• With retired geologist and amateur ornithologist Francis Holman, who he called "Uncle Frank", he explored the High Sierra, in summer and winter, developing the stamina and skill needed to photograph at high elevation and under difficult weather conditions.
• One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California.
• In 1940, Ansel put together A Pageant of Photography, the most important and largest photography show in the West to date, attended by millions of visitors.With his wife, Adams completed a children's book and the very successful Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley during 1940 and 1941. He also taught photography by giving workshops in Detroit and his pupils included future photographer Todd Webb. Adams also began his first serious stint of teaching in 1941 at the Art Center School of Los Angeles, which included the training of military photographers.

This photo has the element of value because of the contrast of the bright mood and the shadows at the bottom. There is also some texture because you can see the ridges on the rock and can immagine what it feels like.

2) Contemporary: Heidi Kirkpatrick

 

This photo has symmetry, and lines from the parallel cigarettes wrapped in what appears to be newspaper.

• Born in 1959 in Springfield, Ohio
• Experience-- 2004-Present  Photography Instructor, The Northwest Academy, Portland, OR
  
  1997-2000      Head of Photographic Education, Safelight Darkroom, Portland, OR
  
    Teachers Assistant to Jim Henderson, Master Black and White Photography at Portland State University, Portland, OR
  Teachers Assistant to Richard Kraft, Basic Photography, 
• Professional Activities
• Cascade Aids Project Art Auction, Art Donor
  
  • Visiting Artist, Visual Communication through Photography, St. Mary's Academy
  • Visiting Artist, Pinhole and Toy Camera at Oregon College of Art and Craft
  • Curator, Silver Gallery
• Darkroom Assistant to John Barna, Head of Photography Department
• known for the warm and callming aspects of her photos
• soft corners, dents and dings
• reveal narratives of family snapshots, or complexities of the feminine allure
• her photos transform found objects into playful pieces of art

Chapter 8 Notes- Architecture and Urban Landscapes

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• indirect portraits- pics of buildings and homes in neighborhoods, towns, cities
• pattern- repetition of any of the elements of art, usually part of every image
• contrast- difference or range of values
• texture- the tactile or touchable quality of surface
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Film

• either black and white or color 
• empahsize color and setting, while black and white films emphasize values, shapes, textures.
• ex: magazines, brochures almost always in color

Lighting

• color of the lighting 
• very important in interior architecture
• orange colors can be seen when not wanted
• eyes automatically adjust, flourescent lights better

Lenses

• doing the big view and wider interior shots, wide angle lenses are best because you can't get back far enough to get the entire scene you want with normal lenses.

Camera Support

• tripod= slow, fine-grained film and lots of depth of field, you will probably be using shutter speeds slow enough to  use a tripod
• lightweight tripods better
• maximum support- only a tripod can give you

Filters

• filters can improve images in black and white
• bring out textures in stone and concrete, bring a more tactile or touchable quality to your prints
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The Big View

• big view- wide anle overall view
• perspective distortion- appears as strong converging lines in a building, where the sides of the building angle in toward each other instead of looking parallel as they are in reality.

Shadows

• good way to tune into visual world around us

Detail Shot

•  detail shot features the individual architectural elements of a building's interior or exterior 
• you can zero into an intriguing element of a photo
• ex: stainless steel buildings of a city

Interior view

• more detail than interior
• seen as concentrating on the presence of the people who live in and use those rooms
• detail- depth and field and the f-stop on lens
• reasonably close for interior, 4 feet or so to about 20 feet 
• closer to subject, higher f-stop

American Photography

• New York Daly Times is the first newspaper with pictures
• Always had big news everyday with pictures
• Staged pictures become popular
• pictures make art become liveable, celebrities
• Photographs liked much better than drawings.
• cigarette lighter, toilet, fender made into magnificent photographs
• Babe Ruth made millions for all his photographical advertisements and only thousands for his actual baseball skills
• In 1913 Rodolf Valentino moved to NY, became famous for his good looks, died of a bursting appendix when he was only 31 years old
• NY Graphic- Valentino in heaven
• influenced all aspects of life from the 20's till today