Project 6: Final Submission

 

Project 6: Second Progress Review

 

Project 6: First Progress Review

Project 6: Proposal

First Proposal:

Topic 1: Mirror Pictures 

Proposal: This proposal is my first choice for the proposal photo essay. My goal when taking this pictures is to capture the environment and the plants and animals within it. For this topic I will travel to a variety of locations and capture the different settings at each. I want to emphasize the contrast in my photos with what is captured in the mirror and what is behind it. I also plan on using multiple mirrors to create quite a few different types of pictures. This can be done with capturing something light in the mirror and a dark background. 

Shot List Ideas:

1. Trees with blooms

2. Someone on a swing set

3. Stairs

4. A bench

5. Sunset 

6. Cincinnati

7. A creek

8. Trees in the woods

9. Flowers

Sample Photos:

Second Proposal:

Topic 2: Taking the same photo at different times of the day with different things in the background

Proposal: This is my second choice for the proposal. This is ideal for this project because the more variety of the weather allows for many different photos. The spot I have chosen is on the corner of my street right outside my house. The point of this proposal is to show the variety of events that take place over a three week span in the same spot. This topic would include taking images of people walking and carrying on in their normal lives. This is unique becuase it is not something that I have to set up. I will just capture images that occur naturally.

Shot List Ideas:

1. In the rain

2. In the dark

3. People walking their dogs

4. Sunset

5. Kids getting off the bus

Sample Photos:

Cartier-Bresson Image Critique

1.

                                      Fire in Hoboken, facing Manhattan. 

    One of the reasons I chose this photo was because of the deeper meaning that it portrays. As you look at the image the first thing that comes to the viewers eyes is the town in rubble, but after looking at the image longer you can see a city in the background. This leads me to believe that the people of this town are struggling, but there is an entire town of people with a safe place to live. I also chose this photo because there is smoke coming off of the rubble, which shows that this fire recently happened.

    There were many things about this photo that interested me. The first is that the subject contrasts very greatly with the background. The focal point of this image shows a part of a city that was destroyed by a fire and is essentially wiped out, while in the background there is a city that appears to be unharmed. Another factor in this image is the horizontal division used. On the bottom part of this image there is the destroyed city, while the top is the unharmed city. This conveys a very depressing mood because the smoke shows that this city was recently destroyed, and that whoever lived there has nowhere to go anymore, while the city in the background seems untouched. The second thing that interested me about this image is the variety of lines that attract your eyes in many different directions. Another thing that interested me was the black and white. Although all of his images are not in color, with this image in particular it adds to the somber mood.
 

                                        MEXICO. 1963. Popocatepetl. Volcano.

Project 5 Part 2

Document... F-Stop: 25 Shutter Speed: 1/100 ISO: 400

Environemntal... F-Stop: 6.3 Shutter Speed: 1/100 ISO: 6400

Symbolic... F-Stop: 7.1 Shutter Speed: 1/100 ISO: 6400

Project 5 Part 1

(Symbolic) Shutter Speed: 1/100 F-Stop: 7.1 ISO: 6400

(Environmental) Shutter Speed: 1/30 F-Stop: 16 ISO: 3200

(Document) Shutter Speed: 1/100 F-Stop: 8.0 ISO: 6400