Architecture Assignment

This is a water fountain in front of the Levi Store downtown. this water fountain is in graved with every important place in SF.

I'm not really sure what building this is, but its downtown SF. i took a picture of it because i thought it showed a big picture and also the building has a lot of detail when you look at it closely.

This picture was taken inside the Williams Sonoma building. It shows detail inside the building.

This is the actual William Sonoma building i liked it because it was surrounded by giant building while this one was just there. when i first saw it it caught my eye.

This is inside the William Sonoma building. i liked because from the outside it looks like a tiny building with only 3 floors, but when you go inside it has up to 5 floors.

Timothy O' Sullivan

Timothy O' Sullivan

He was born in New York in 1840. he Learned about photography through Matthew Brady in one of the best known studios in new york. Sullivan was also a photographer for the civil war when it was happening. After he came back from the civil war he became the lead photographer survey of the lands west of the Mississippi river in 1867.  this included the grand canyon, the Colorado river, death valley in California and canyon DE chelly in new Mexico.  Sullivan passed away at the age of 42 in 1882. even thought he passed away his photography still lives and he is know as the one of the best photographers of all time.

Landscape Notes Ch. 9

Landscapes

• landscape photography includes people and their stories in the photograph
• they are usually exercised in composition, incorporating, and many other art element
• uses a lot of element and principles

Landmarks in landscape photography

• they use to use paintings to capture landscapes in till 1839 when photography was invented
• paintings and they also look at the land
• Carleton E. Watkins (1829-!916) wanted to capture the grandeur of the American west
• he opened his own gallery in 1858 in SF
• Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was inspired by the Yosemite valley
• he always tried to capture the wilderness in Yosemite and the world

Thinking Artistically

• composition is one of the main points in landscape photography
• landscape photography pays a lot of attention to the position in which the camera is in.
• the position can make en enormous difference
• when taking pictures you have to pay really close attention to a good shot.
• Value, balance, unity, variety are all very important to landscape photography.
• also shape, size, texture, value, and color.
• balancing unity can make an interesting shot with out being chaotic

Composition, balance and the rule of thirds.

• place object within the frame or space of the image
• balance referred to how those objects relate to each other in size, value color and location.
• but these rules can always be broken if it doesn't look good

Camera Setting 

• developed specific ideas about how photography should look
• characterized by maximum depth  of field
• stopping down the lens as far as you can will prevent that's
• f-Stop will result in longer shutter speeds

Light

• best time for landscape photos are just after sunrise and just before sunset
• shapes and textures are emphasized by side lighting
• color photography is really beautiful
• direct lighting creates the highlights and shadows that make landscape seem three dimensional
• photographers choose overcast to reduce highlights

Film

• landscape is mostly detail oriented picture.
• black and white photography is still he look of choice for landscape photo's
• color can over power other elements in the picture

Lenses

• Landscape prefers a wide- angle lens that captures more of the scene
• really close objects and distant one in the same shot
• creates a better depth to photography
• some photographers use telephone lens to capture a pictures physically close
• macro lens are good for creating abstract images of bark and rocks

Filters

• filters is really big part to landscape photography
• it makes a dramatic difference in the photos

Camera Support

• it wont do any good for the pictures if you don't have a camera with you

The Grand Landscape

• grand landscape is the big view for pictures of the outdoors
• national, state and city parks are great location to explore landscape photography
• it also matters on the subject in which is getting photographed
• grand landscape always includes a large expanse of the scene and a wide angle lenses
• if you change the filter color you can make a simple picture turn out completely different

Landscape details and close ups

• grand landscapes images can be very over whelming
• often less imposing landscapes are more inviting and comfortable
• Japanese gardens are good for photographing streams, small waterfalls and expertly places trees
• direct sunlight in wooded areas like parks or gardens create and difficult lighting condition
• highlights will be blown out or the shadow value will be blank
• eliminating harsh shadows
• light matters are designed to create an exposure that make a middle gray out of the scene being captured

Abstracted elements in the landscape

• Abstracted elements are images composed of lines, shapes, value, and texture. abstract get really close to your subject and photography only a small part of it
• the closer you get the more choose you have
• it also helps if you change your shutter speed.

Architecture and urban landscape

Architecture and urban landscape

• ·         Photographs are indirect portraits
• ·         The material and style of the buildings provide clues in which hoe peoples life’s are
• ·         Indirect portraits
• ·         Modern societies can also give us clues about our own lives
• ·         Great way to examine the formal aspects of design
• ·         Same styles of composition work for both kinds of subjects
• ·         Photography can be formal or informal
• Looking back
• ·         Architecture if a popular subject for photographers
• ·         Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image
• ·         1840 Charles Negre an artist and painter living in Paris, France began to use photography to create studies for his paintings
• ·         British photographers Frederick H. Evans is considered to be one of the greatest aritexture photographer in history
• ·         Eugene Atgets a former French sailor and actor turned to photography in the late 1890 when he was 40
• ·         Paris and it surrounding towns had amazing architexture
• Thinking Artistically
• ·          Photographers can simply be a visual recording of buildings appearances
• ·         Focus on just the details of a building
• ·         They used lines to lead the viewers eyes though a building
• ·         Divided you image into different section for a better picture
• ·         Observe the space that surrounds the objects and building
• ·         The structure setting is really important
• ·         Reveal a great deal about a buildings personality
• ·         Buildings have patterns and have repetition
• Value and Texture
• ·         The difference or range of value is called contrast
• ·         Accentuate texture which is tactike or touchable.
• Film
• ·         Architectural photographs can be either black and white or color
• ·         Generally architectural photo’s cane be divide into two types commercial and artistic
• Lighting
• ·         Lighting and the color of  the lighting is really important t=in these types of pictures
• ·         Incandescent light is slightly more orange and somewhat yellow
• ·         Making the various types of light all seem like plain white
• Lenses
• ·         Keep in mind that the wider the lens the more distortion you get
• ·         You see an exaggerated perspective with  the bottom of the building drastically wider then its top
• Camera support
• ·         If you like slow and fine film and a lot of depth you need a slow shutter speed
• ·         Balance and stability
• ·         Lightweight tripods are usually not very stable
• ·         Single legged camera supports might work for walking around the shooting details
• Filter
• ·         Black and white there are some filters that can improve your image
• ·         Yellow and orange filters make the sky look better
• ·         Nice tactile or touchable quality to your print
• The big view
• ·          Photographers use a wide angle lens that captures the entire scene
• ·         Perspective distortion
• ·          You see less distortion in professional photography
• ·          They should also decide to take the picture from a portrait or landscape angles
• ·         Architecture photographs relies on the big view
• ·         Shooting from the side usually creates a three deimeional photo
• ·         Combined with the side lighting it visually creates the picture
• The detail shot
• ·          Detail shots in indvidual  buildings interior or exterior create and detailed shot
• ·         Individual element of a building from the entire structure requires a observant eye
• ·         A telescope lens is good for detail shots
• ·         Coulums are a great detail shot for architecture
• ·         City with modern buildings are really good for new detail shots
• Interior views
• ·         The exterior photographs tend to provide indirect portrait of the creators of buildings
• ·         The big view is important
• ·         You will need a wide lens to get entire room
• ·         When you take a detail shot and provide great depth and detail
• ·         For interior you will need to be about 4-20 feet away for good shots
• ·         Another complication occurs when you want detail in photohgraphs
• Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)
• ·         THE VALUE OF BEING A SELF TAUGHT ARTIST IS WHGAT SHE DID
• ·         At the age of 20 she moved to Paris to become a sculptor
• ·         Her work cauterized by exquisite lighting and interesting poses and precise
• ·         His realistic, care boned approach to photography with a new and fresh outlook

From On High

Movie Notes 1-10-11

• The first paper to sell its self on pictures was called the daily news
• they wanted to use pictures that would grab peoples attention and make them want to buy there news paper
• in 1920 the tabloid wars started
• also in 1920 pictures change and replace drawings in news papers
• people liked seeing pictures because when they saw a picture they had a sense that it was actually real.
• at the time photographers learned how to make the loneliest objects look glamorous
• by the 20 advertisements weren't read they were seen with photographs
• during this time celebrity photography became very popular
• when it came to celebrity's it didn't matter if they sucked at there job all that matters was if they looked good in there pictures
• Babe Ruth was the first to become a commodity
• images defined gravity
• enabled peoples 5 senses to be expanded
• influenced all aspects of life