Digital Photography - Reading Responce

Reading Response: After Photography by Fred Ritchin
Chapter: 5

This chapter focuses on war photography. War photography captures images of armed combat and what life is really like during war. The impact or war can be harsh and warring on a person. For the most part the images captured by war photographers are dreadfully depressing and extremely graphic in nature, but some photos break through that barrier and manage to capture the delight of war despite misfortune and pain.

A great example of war photography is a film called Blood Trail. This film follows Robert King, a 23-year-old art and photography graduate with dreams of becoming the world’s youngest Pulitzer Prize winner by going to Iraq and documenting the war. Another great example of the realities of war is the movie Restrepo. The Sun Dance award winning documentary takes two journalists and puts them in the middle of a war zone. They are dug in with the Second Platoon in one of Afghanistan's most strategically crucial valleys. This film reveals extraordinary insight into the surreal combination of back breaking labor, deadly firefights, and camaraderie as the soldiers painfully push back the Taliban.

Digital Imaging - Time

Ditial Photography - Project1 Finals

- 1x6 Layout

- 8x10 Saturtion


- 8x10 B&W


- Selective Saturation




- Split Tone

Digital Imaging - Composite

-Graffiti

Digital Photography - Reading Responce

Reading Response: After Photography by Fred Ritchin
Chapter: 4

A photo mosaic is a photo that has been cut up into 1000s of different smaller photos. I have recently experimented with different photo mosaic programs and discovered that these are very powerful programs. What they do is basically read and scans the hues or colors in the smaller photographs, then matches it up with the color in the bigger photograph, and decides which color goes where and does a pretty good job at doing it.

A great example of an artist that is doing great work with photo mosaics is Chris Jordan’s pieces called ‘Running the Numbers.’ He is best known for portraying mass consumption and waste. He feels very strongly about the green movement. A great example is his image: Toothpicks in 2008. A serine skyline depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail. His images put the problem we are having into perspective and numbers we can actually wrap our heads around.

Digital Drawing - Project2 Backpack Contents

-Pens


-MACbook PowerCord


-Ipod USB


-Books


-Barbasol


-Final

Digital Photography - Black & White

HSL - Saturation and Luminance


HSL - Black and White


Basic

Digital Photography - Reading Responce

Reading Response: After Photography by Fred Ritchin
Chapter: 3

It is amazing what we are capable of with the technology we have today. A simple romanticized photograph of a beach scene can be comprises on hundreds of different photographs of that same beach. One photo could have children running. Another one could have a man selling ice cream, and yet another one could surfers in the water all that you want to take out. Software now is capable of using deferent photograph of the same scene to fill in of parts that you would like to take out that can make it possible to have ‘the prefect photo.’

With Google maps on Street View one can visit, with a 360 degree view, amazing places like: Stonehenge in England or the Norte Dame Cathedral in France, or even Pompei in Italy. It is like you are there without having to leave your computer. The different angles and positioning are put together from pictures that are made up from images found all over the internet, mostly off of flickr.