assignment number two and half!

AFTA.









BEFORE.






sooo i love lightroom. although i told you today that i have major issues on editing my photos and i never ever know what to do or what to mess with...it kinda sucks. in this photo i just wanted to make the leaves a little lighter which weas good. i can see that you could really change your photos in bad and good ways. it will be interesting to see my extend of lightroom used this year...

UVU Vids

Travis says even though the location can kinda suuuuuuck that you can always make beautiful photos that people will react to. He went back to the same location everytime and he is never disappointed. when they ask where the picture was taken they are all surprised by utah lake. Whenever he goes back he finds something new to look for.

ted- mulitiple truths to every image taryn. i didnt really understand what she was putting forward...i did listen but i didnt really even understand....i really liked her photography though she was really interesting as far as art went. i loved the series of photos she took withthe people from jail....

ASSIGNMENT TWO

theee first assignment. kinda. welll im not so pleased haha.

i am happy about one thing really and that is that i completed the whole task. yes i shot from 0 to 99 hahah although my pictures as a whole suuuucked. first of all i didnt have any ideas at all it seems like. so i just thought itd be such a better idea to actually FINISH the project then try to be creative which i thought was impressive. but my photos were for most of the time boring. when i was in the grocery store i thought it was cool counting things off and like taking the pictrures of how many of an object were there. but then eventually i had to go and just started writing the numbers out....ha if i were to do this again. i wouldnt put a ton of effort into it but maybe a little more ya know. i needa work on my hacking focus. i didnt know how to focus till after this assignment. the next assignment will be better now that i know that. andddddd try to get my tripod! so those are my things to workk on!

tesst yess indeed.

sooo this is 'assignment one" hahahahaa

this photo basically served for my example picture to mess around with.
this was the first pic i took with my new camera. it was a pain to mess around with and i only took like six pictures under assignment one. but when i went outside to do our raw test that wasnt really legit i learned i can get almost perrrrfect focus without being crazy with my tripod... yet i still havent bought one. haha i liked those pictures a lot. well anywhere hers my test. and yayy lets do this buisness. i love lightroom.

FALL TERM '09

A new year, junior year. I am really excited for photo this year! I feel like i am going to have a successful year by cleaning up all the problems i had last year. I am going to be faced with a lot of challenges this year even outside of photo and i am ready to face them alllll. Let the fun begin!

Annie Lebovitz

Well i like had no idea who to do this last report on! While i was chatting with my auntie about how bad the lakers were playing tonight i asked her who i should check out and her first response was ansel but i already did him. then she said annie lebovitz. and i have never heard of her so i thought id give her a chance. she isnt the usual type of photgrapher but she seems really cool....
so here it goes haha


Born in Waterbury, Connecticut October 2,1949. She is the third of six children in a Jewish family. Her mom was a modern dance instructor, and her daddy was in the USA Air Force.In high school she began to write and play music. She went the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied painting. Then she became interested in photography after taking pictures when she lived in the Philippines, where her fathers job relocated them. When Leibovitz came back to the United States in 1970, she got her first job for the new Rolling Stones magazine. she worked for the recently launched Rolling Stone magazine, she gained the role of being cheif photographer.. Leibovitz worked for the magazine until 1983, her portraits of celebs changed the whole look of the magazine.

she contiued to shoot other celebrities and did some other noted accoplisments:

-In 1980 a photo shoot with John Lennon for Rolling Stone, then he insisted Yoko Ono be on the cover as well.
-Leibovitz photographed celebrities for an international advertising campaign for American Express charge cards.
-In 1991, she entered an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
-Also in 1991,she remade Margaret Bourke-White's feat, she put eagle gargoyles on the top floor of the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, where she captured the dancer David Parsons.
-A props to Leibovitz's work was held at the Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 2006 - Jan. 2007and was based on her book "Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 – 2005" The exhibition traveled around the globe for some time.
-In 2007, Leibovitz took Queen Elizabeth II's photo in Virginia.
-In 2007, she also worked with sisney
-On April 25, 2008, her most recent work included the photo of Miley Cyrus on the front of Vanity Fair that brought up a ton of issues.
I can't wait to see a continuation of work from her!
I really am glad i learned who this photographer is. she doesnt make the composition kind of art that we are usually used to but i love how she does portraits and i really think i can learn from her and how she captures a person. She is the only portrait artist that i have looked at and learning more about her makes me spark more intrest in other portrait artist. i also love how she brings kind of some contreversy into her work, without all the people freaking out about some of the things she puts together it wouldnt be as cool to hear her story because of so many people critisizing her, i think you can learn from critisizm.





ONE.





the first photo above is of lebron james from the nba team cleavland cavs and geisel ha i cant spell but of course the supermodel. this is an example of a typical photo annie takes. she shoots a ton for vanity fair magazine which i love because she takes two different celebrities and makes their photos look like they are best of friends. i just love how simple this picture is and how the relationship of the people in it are.


TWO





this is the photo that brought an uproar. hah personally i think it makes miley cyrus (the crazzy teen idol that everyone loves) look gross..she just looks beat up. but once people saw this picture they were like oh no miley has gone all provocative with the sheet and stuff hah but it was annie's idea. i love it because it brings contraversy. the other pictures of miley in vanity fair captured by annie were beautiful yet opposite of what miley portrays which allure a lot of readers.


THREE





i love this picture for two reasons. one i love when city is in anything. city photography is my favorite thing to look at! and two i love the two men on the building i think it brings suspense and danger together it makes great composition because its somehting you wouldnt normailly see! i love it.


FOUR





so this one is another picture like the first one just simple. but i love how annie captures the body in each of the shots. how it moves and different angles. of the same person but put together acutally looks like its moving. i like how she created this and sometime in the future would like to work more with movement.


FIVE





ah last but not least. I really like this one again because of movement. These are two russian dancers she shot recently. i wanna shoot a dancer too because of all the different things they can do. i think this shot really portrays dancers to a different level because of the movement and different shapes the body is doing. and once again i love the simplicity!

ANSELLLLLLLLLL ADAMS

So! when deciding on who I shall research next I never knew anything about ansel and everyone seems to love this feelllow and i wanted to learn more about him!

Ansel Easton Adams born. February 20, 1902 in San Francisco. His grandfather founded and built a prosperous lumber business, which his father ran, though his father’s natural talents were in the sciences.Adams was a hyperactive kid and was always sick. He didnt have many friends and realllly loved nature then music became the main focus. He enjoyed the piano the most and was a concert pianoist for a long time. Adams first visited Yosemite National Park in 1916 with his family soon later
his father gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie box camera. It all started,in thee winter, he learned basic darkroom technique working part-time for a San Francisco photo finisher. Adams read photography magazines, went to camera club meetings, and went to photography exhibits.

He really focused on his piano playing skills and in the summer of his twenties he sold his early photos and they showed good composition. In 1927, Adams had his first portfolio which inclued Monolith, the vertical western face of Half Dome taken with his Korona view camera.With the promotion of Albert Bender, his first portfolio earned 3900 dollars and soon they wanted him to do commercial assignments. Then his carreer took off and he traveled and was honored and asked to do more jobs. In 1945, Adams was asked to form the first fine art photography department at the California School of Fine Arts. Adams invited Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham and Minor White to become faculty members.

In 1952 Adams was one of the founders of the magazine Aperture, he began doing annual workshops for students. Around in the 1950s, he thought that he was on the down side of his creative life. He continued with commercial assignments for another twenty years and became a consultant on a monthly retainer for Polaroid Corporation. In 1974, Adams had a major retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Then He made the first portrait of a president made a photograph.His legacy includes helping to elevate photography to an art compared to painting and music, and equal of expressing emotion and beauty.

Ansel Adams died on April 22, 1984, at the age of 82 from heart failure.Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,760 ft (3,580 m) peak in the Sierra Nevada, was named for him in 1985.The full archive of Ansel Adams' work is located at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson.



I think after looking at all of ansels work i feel like he was the actuall originator. All his workes were not based off others they were original. Now we are basing our work off him.. I like to see the evolving of photography and i think he plays a very big role in it.








out of all these photos i can say this is my least favorite...hahah i only like the way the sand dunes are formed because it entertains me...and it's prettty!





this one is kind of like the vantage point one...i like it because my eye goes straight to the moon... it interesting how the little bit of change can change where you focus.





This one shows me an example of getting close to your object and catching the DETAIL. this photo isnt about the backround and the backround isnt taking away from the photo it is clearly about one single thing the flower. I love love love getting close to my object and getting detail.





I love this one simply because it is a beautiful scene, and it carries simplicity which i think is key to having a good photograph like this one.





this one above is my favorite of all of them because, i loveeee the vantage point here and where my eye is wanting to follow i think it is a classssic example!