architecture assignment

big picture

detail

big picture

detail

interior

Ansel Adams

 Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs was Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California. Adams developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. Adams founded the Group f/64 Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California, to distinctly upper-class parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. He was an only child and was named after his uncle Ansel Easton

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Heidi L. Kirkpatrick was born in Springfield, Ohio, but is now based in Portland Oregon. she has put her photos in shows over the last ten years. Kirkpatrick’s work is in collections at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio and The OHSU Corporate Collection. Kirkpatrick’s work is more a woman’s view. She develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, photographs using a Holga toy camera, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects. With being a great photographer she also teaches at a high school.

landscape notes 202-217.

thinking artistically

• composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography and viewpoint is the most important part of composition 
• landscape photographers pay special attention to where they position the camera an inch or two away can make a difference 
• value, an images light and dark areas, is especially important in black and white landscape photos
• imagines with a wide range of tones can be more dramatic while those with a narrower range seem quieter and more contemplative
• one goal of good composition is to achieve a balance between unity and variety 
• variety refers to all the diverse art elements found in a picture, such as light and ark, big and small, and smooth and rough
• unity makes a peaceful photo

camera setting 

• to create maximum depth stop down the lens as far as it will go 

light 

• best time to take photos is sunrise and sunset
• the angle of sun is low so shapes and textures are emphasized by side lighting 
• its easier to deal with direct lighing for distant object than it is for closer objects 
• for closer shots of trees and forest direct sunlight creates highlights and shadows that have no detail 
• for closer views people choose over cast days that reduce the highlights and shadows 

film 

• use a 100 ISO film with a 35mm cameras to capture all the details, or try a medium or large format camera to get sharper photos 
• black and white photos value, line, shape, texture, and pattern

lenses 

• landscape people like to use wide angle lenses that capture more of the scene 
• they also let you include really close objects and distant ones in the same shot
• use a telephoto lens
• macro good for abstract photos

filters 

• filters big part of a photo 
• good trick 
• use a yellow filter to bring out clouds 
• red filter for dark skies 
• polarize 

the grand landscape 

• the grand landscape is the "big view" for pictures of the outdoors 
• grand pictures always include a large expanse of the scene 
• the horizon should be placed either one third from the top or bottom 
• sky is a hard part of landscape photos 

landscape details and close ups 

• Japanese gardens are good places to take photos 
• direct sun creates harsh lighting in wooded areas 
• many people like to take photos in overcast weather to get rid of harsh shadows 
• light meters were designed to create an exposure that makes medium or middle gray out of the scene being metered 
• with mostly darker values close down the f-stop or choose a faster shutter speed for a shorter exposure  

abstracted elements in the landscape

• are images composed of lines, shapes, values, value, and texture 
• get really close to your subject and photograph only a part of it 
• use a telephoto lens for distant subjects or a macro lens 

notes

• wide angle the closer you are to the building the more distortion you'll get in the photo
• if you shoot straight infront the building will look flat
• a little bit to the side then you photo has better texture forms and shadows
• shooting from side creates a three dimensional shot reveals depth height and width
• detail shot features the individual archit. elements of a buildings interior or exterior
• interesting details are normally at eye level
• telephoto lens
• inside photos can be seen as mainly on the presense of the people who live there
• wide angle lens to shoot entire rooms for the big view
• detail shot then no wide angle lens
• the higher the f-stop number the more depth of field you get  

architecture and urban landscape notes 179- 189

• Architectural photographs are indirect portraits.
• architectural photography is a great way to examine the formal aspects of design, because people, using the elements of art and principle of design, created the building that make up our cities and towns
• similar to landscape photography
• can also be a casual “sketch” of a place and the emotions connected to the place
• a structures setting is an important consideration when composing an architectural image
• in architectural photos pattern the repetition of any of the elements of art,
• patterns help to enrich and strength your photos by adding visual complexity
• the difference in color and light between parts of an image-contrast
• tactile or touchable quality of a surface- texture
• either color or black and white
• color film emphasizes color and setting
• black and white films emphasize values, shapes and textures
• 2 types of photos- art and commercial
• Color of lighting important in interior photos

architecture notes

• indirect portraits
• mood, people that live there, people who built it
• big picture
• small details
• interior shots
• each city has different architecture
• sometimes side building help emphasize middle building
• early films were slow and needed hours to develop
• architecture never moved so prime subject used
• used for the designs on walls and such
• fredrick h evans best photgrapher of arct.
• liked to depict emotion with light
• try for a record of emotion rather than a piece of photography
• platinum papers
• gave up photography
• ezra stoller
• line shape and form mostly
• full space and emotion connected to it 
• or focus on the detail of a building 
• PERSONALITY of the space
• bricks fabric wall paper columns 

in class movie

• daily news 1st published 1919
• 1st page immediate appeal to the emotion
• evening graphic most extreme tabloid
• evening new did some very questionable things
• “the truth always looses out the fantasy”
• People believed in photographs
• Photography turned things into objects of desire
• By 1920s ads weren’t read they were seen
• 1^st time in history athletes were taken many pictures of
• Celebrity obsessed century