Thursday, September 23, 2010

Genna Boland

My best friend that I have grown up with is about to graduate from  photographer. I decided I would do this weeks blog on her because I love the  passion she has for what she does. Her favorite things to shoot are food. She loves to cook and plate her own food for her photography. The last picture is of my sister that she took a couple of years ago for one of her photo projects. Genna did my sister's Senior pictures this year and has shot a lot of portraits through out the years. She is truly a wonderful and passionate photographer.

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Sky Photos

For this assignment we were to take pictures of the sky and with them show 3 different rules of dominance. 

                      Jagged lines are more striking than curved ones.



                               Light is more attractive than dark.



                      Difference draws more attention than conformity.

Monday, September 20, 2010

Dominance

The most important paragraph in this book talks about Dominance. It says, "establishing visual priorities for picture elements is based on an intuitive sense that renders these kinds of conclusions... (photos are of Glacier National Park taken by Robert Zavadil and can be found on the following website:
http://www.glacierparkphotos.com/index.html).

                               Red is more attractive than yellow



Large draws more attention than small
 



Difference draws more attention than conformity



Jagged lines are more striking than curved ones


Diagonal lines are more attractive than vertical ones


Sharpness is more attractive than blur



Light is more attractive than dark
 

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Robert Zavadil


This picture is taken in Glacier National Park. I chose this because it is my favorite place to go. I grew up spending time here and it is pretty much my home away from home. This photo was taken by Robert Zavadil. 
Living in the Flathead Valley, landscape photographer Robert Zavadil has the opportunity to visit Glacier National Park frequently during every season.  He has chosen this place and focused his life around it.  Although the park has taken on a special significance for him, as evidenced in his photography, it is no more inherently beautiful or meaningful than any other place on earth.  What makes a place special is the way it buries itself inside the heart, not whether it is flat or rugged or wild or tame.  Every place is elevated by the love and respect shown toward it, and by the way in which its riches are received. What Robert receives from the Park, he attempts to give back to others through his photography.  Whether he has chosen to capture the close-up detail of a small wildflower or the grandeur of a panoramic view from a mountain summit, his resulting photographic prints are stunning.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Keith Carter

Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948,he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange-Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 1997 Keith Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national network television show, CBS Sunday Morning. In 1998, he received Lamar University's highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer. Eight monographs of his black and white photographs have been published: From Uncertain To Blue, 1988; The Blue Man, 1990; Mojo, 1992; Heaven of Animals, 1995; and Bones, 1996. A mid-career survey, Keith Carter Photographs - Twenty Five Years was published in 1997; Holding Venus and his eighth book, Ezekiel's Horse, were published in 2000. Called "a poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter's haunting, enigmatic photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America. They are included in numerous permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the George Eastman House; the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston; and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University.

I stumbled across Keith's photos while I was hanging out with some of my friends in Bozeman. They are Photography majors and were working on a project that involved his photos. As I was flipping through them they really caught my interest. My favorite pictures came from a group of his photos called "Talbot's Shadows". Below is a description of this gallery from his website that explains the images.


"Talbot's Shadow"

This series was inspired by my admiration for the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the positive/negative process from which modern photography is descended. Some of Talbot's earliest experiments involved placing objects (such as a leaf or a fragment of lace) on a piece of sensitized paper and exposing it to sunlight. He called these images "shadow pictures". I have attempted to blend this elegant 19th century process with 21st century techniques.

To create the original image I have used a photographic paper that has been continuously manufactured since the 19th century. Objects were placed on the paper and exposed to light, then treated in arcane chemistry, including gold and platinum toners. The resulting 20x24 image is one-of-a-kind.

Chromogenic prints are then made to translate that unique image into a small, carefully matched edition. This series, called Talbot's Shadow, is printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Beth Moon

 Beth Moon
I found Beth Moon's work through my friend who is a photographer. Beth's Pictures are all done in black and white. All of her photographs are platinum/palladium prints. These metals are hand coated on 100% rag cotton water color paper. According to Beth, "Since platinum, like gold, is so stable and permanent, the platinum print is the most archival of any image on paper. A platinum print can last for centuries". She does a lot of plant life and people images.