Touching Strangers

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay? I think this project and photo essay is very weird and interesting. I wouldn't have thought to do this kind of project, but it would be pretty funny to do because it's so awkward to ask people to touch.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger? I would be very creeped out and probably walk away.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot. I would ask people to draw all over each other's faces.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, are the photos good? Do you like looking at them? The photos are very good and cool. I do like looking at them.

Part 1 Christian Ruhm

1. What is your reaction to his work? I think his work is very unusual but very cool because his pictures are kinda like kaleidoscopes. His pictures are blurry but they are supposed to be that way. I think his picture taking is magnificent.

2. How do you think he made these photos? I think he altered them a little bit by using photoshop.

3. Think about the buildings you have seen, which ones would be good to take a photo like this? Tell me about those buildings, where are they, could you get easy access to them? I think the Eiffel tower is a good one to take a photo like that. The Eiffel tower is in Paris and I think you could have easy access to them. 

Great Black And White Photographers Part 2

 The person I'm doing this biography on, is Timothy O'Sullivan. He was born in Ireland but moved to New York City when he was two years old. As a teen, he was employed by Mathew Brady. He was a first lieutenant in the Union army. He did no fighting, but instead surveyed the battle grounds. He also took pictures of the dead and wounded soldiers. He went on as being well-known for his photographs. He took pictures of important things in history. From 1867 to 1869, he was the official photographer for the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel under Clarence King. He spent the last few years of his life in Washington, DC. He died of tuberculosis in Staten Island at the age of 42 on January 14th, 1882.

Red, Metal, Happy

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Happy:                                         

 

Metal: 

Camera history and information

1. Inside a completely dark room, a tiny hole is created in one wall. Through the hole light is focused, and the outside scene is projected (upside down) on the opposite wall.

2. When Sir Issac Newton and Christian Huygens made lenses and optics.

3. A glass lens, a dark box and film.

4. A digital camera is still composed of a lens, a dark box, and film.

5. Replacing old-fashioned plastic film, digital cameras capture the images with an electronic sensor called a CCD.

6. Unlike full auto mode, you can usually control flash and a few other camera settings with the program mode.

7. To attempt to blur out the background, camera will try to use the fastest available lens setting (aperture).

8. To freeze motion, camera will use the highest shutter speed possible.

9. Faster camera response time, more control over focus, and encourages better composition.

10. Disabled flash. There's no flash.

11. Auto-flash. The flash is automatic.

12. Too much light and the picture will be washed out.

13. Not enough light and the picture will be too dark.

14. The term "stop" is used in every aspect of photography to represent a relative change in the brightness of light.

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17. Longer shutter speeds = more light

18. Shorter shutter speeds = less light

19. Light.

20. Smaller F-stops numbers = larger openings. Larger openings = more light.

Masters of photography

Imogen Cunningham:

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: 

Timothy O'Sullivan:

The Camera

Parallax- Displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.

Pentaprism- A pentaprism is a five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by a constant 90°, even if the entry beam is not at 90° to the prism.

Pellicle mirror- A pellicle mirror (diminutive of "pellis" - skin or film) is an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight semi-transparent mirror employed in the light path of an optical instrument, splitting the light beam into two separate beams, both of reduced light intensity.

Optical- of or pertaining to sight or vision; visual.

Aperture: A space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument, esp. the variable opening by which light enters a camera.

Shutter: Each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out light.

Exposure: An act or instance of being uncovered or unprotected.

Depth of field: The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.

F-stop: a camera setting corresponding to a particular f-number.

Focal length: the distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.

First Photos- Best and Worst

This was my best picture because the photo was when she was looking away from the camera. It looks like she's looking off into the distance. 

This was my worst picture because I couldn't see her face. If you can't see the person in the picture's face, then that is an unsuccessful picture.

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