Up Close and Personal #10

Something I have loved photographing long before I took this class, is of food.  I always catch myself taking my camera phone or digital camera to get a cool picture of the food I'm eating at the time.  A photograph I took in the Reading Terminal Market and didn't use for my project is this close up of chips.  I really love the detail the picture gives of the chips and the translucent bag surrounding it.  I found a photograph that seemed to replicate that photograph of chips but in a different way.  The photograph i found uses light from behind the detail of the chips to be extremely visible.  The one I took allows the light to bounce off the bag.  I also really like the colors that both pictures entail.

 Mine

http://www.pxleyes.com/images/contests/junk%20food/fullsize/junk%20food_4b7980ef0d72f.jpg

Between the Lines #9

I really loved this photograph my sister, Jessie, took.  The vantage point is really striking with the light coming through the leaf.  I really wanted to replicate it with my own twist.  After i saw the photograph my sister took, i noticed a similar picture taken and posted on Pinterest.

 Hers

Pinterest http://media-cache8.pinterest.com/upload/156992736980519136_lbokBm94_f.jpg

Mine

Relax

I found the above photo on deviantart.com. It's by thepurple-horse. 

The photo below is one I took. 

Although my photo has two chairs and clearly has a different color scheme and lighting compared the first one, there are actually several similarities. First, both of us decided to photograph adirondack chairs. However, neither of us decided to photograph the entire chair, choosing to take a picture of the bottom portion. Also, these photos rely heavily on texture--the texture and grain of the wood. Thepurple-horse also focuses on the texture created by the water and water droplets in her photo, while I use the texture of the grass and brick. 

Piddle Puddle

I found this photo on Pinterest by Nellyb. 

I took this photo in an attempt to emulate it. 

Now, both photos are reflections of trees; however, mine is in color while Nellyb's is in black and white. The decision to make the first photo black and white makes sense because the tree has no leaves, while it is logical to make mine color because there are leaves on the trees. One does not have deep colors to portray, while the other does. Also, even though the pictures are roughly the same dimensions, mine has a distinctly horizontal look and Nellyb's has a distinctly vertical look. I believe that the lines in the photos dictate these illusions. The circle of my puddle is horizontal, while the line of the sidewalk edge in the first photo clearly leads the eye up, giving it a vertical look. 

Motions in Emotion

 The above picture is a photo I took of friends embracing each other. The picture below belongs to Cristina Garcia Rodero and was taken from one of her portfolios on www.magnumphotos.com

Both of these pictures display specific human emotions. While it is not hard to capture somebody's emotions on camera, I think it is hard to portray it accurately. With the use of motion (and the lack of) I feel that these two pictures display the photographed emotions very well. Usually when someone is sad they mope around; an action that is very slow and meditated. When photographing a sad person with a fast shutter speed you remove blurriness from the photo. By doing so you truly pause the person at a moment in time and highlight their slow movements and portray their overall mood very accurately. In the same sense, when people are happy they generally tend to move around a lot and be very active. By photographing happy people with a slower shutter speed you are able to show their movements and in turn are able to more accurately portray their mood and actions. Together, these two photos show exactly how important motion is in photography, especially when capturing certain moods.

Double Frame

 The above picture was taken by me in my dorm. The picture below is in response to my photo and was taken from Guadalupe Rosales' work on the homepage of www.iheartphotograph.com.

Aside from the presence of a person in Guadalupe's picture, these photos have a lot in common. The doorways, lighting, and framing all bare a strong resemblance. The part of the relationship between these two pictures which I found most striking though was the framing. Both photos use double framing to draw you to the subject of the photo. In my picture I use the edges of the wall leading into the hallway to give the viewer a sense of the subject. Guadalupe does the same thing by using the open doors in his picture. Both of us then take it one step further by using yet another frame within the broader of the two to highlight the subject of the picture. While I used the window of the door to frame the outside world, Guadalupe used (what looks like) an empty picture frame to do the same thing.

Vantage Point

 The above photo is a picture of John F. Kennedy's hands that was taken by Cornell Capa. The picture below is a picture I took of a miniature statue given to be my Latin teacher/adviser during my senior year of high school.

Both these pictures rely heavily on vantage point. By utilizing vantage point correctly, one can make their subject seem much more important, larger, smaller, etc. than what they actually are. In Capa's picture he uses vantage point to make Kennedy's hands seem huge, giving Kennedy a very important role in the captured scene while showing him in a way that also makes him seem much bigger than he actually is. By utilizing vantage point in my photo I made my one foot tall miniature statue appear life size. By doing so I not only increased its significance, but also made it appear to be human.