Assignment Three: Photo Editing

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Program Used: Photoshop CS4

1. I kept this simple - Black & White. But I added more contrast to the photo and make the blacks darker so they would stand out, and the whites even whiter. This photo came out pretty well.

2. Compared to the Original, the tone of this image is much more balanced. I also find that it makes the background nicer to look at since everything is a bit more balanced.

3. In this photo, I tried something called “Posterization” with Photoshop – it makes the photo look less real and more illustrated, but I think it probably would have been matter if I hyped it up a bit more since it still looks more like a photo.

4. I played around with the colors in this image a lot, and changed the phone. I find it would look better if I made the lights from the door stand out less.

5. In this imaged, I hyped up the image to its maximum contrast because it looked interesting – the only probably is that is you didn’t know what the original photo looked like, you mind have a hard time figuring out what it is.  

6. I tried to make the doors in the background stand out more than the foreground; and by doing so, I modified everything besides the doors in black and white, then hyped up the colors of the door. I also added some color to the blacks just so it wouldn’t seem like another black and white photo.

Assignment Two: Familiar Places & Objects

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Lee Friedlander: A Master of Photography

                 Lee Friedlander started shooting photos of the modern world in 1948. Like Walker Evans, Friedlander photos compose of everyday life of his time. He is known for his unique photos that include subjects being framed by things like fences and posters. Although a lot of his photos are taken in black and white, some of his colored images would be found on CD album covers for jazz musicians. Not only does Friedlander has a fair amount of photos shot both horizontal and vertical, but he has many square photos. In some of his photos, it is evident how he prefers to focus more on what is going on around him then of him.

In this self portrait, viewers see how Friedlander focuses on the woman behind him rather than of himself. This is slightly unusual seeing how this is supposed to be his self portrait.

This photo is very simple – done in black and white. Yet it shows a contrast because young and old.

In these images, both subjects are framed using other others around it. The woman above is standing behind a window, making her framed. Below, the pack of animals are framed with a car window.

Resources:

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/evans_walker.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Friedlander

http://www.artnet.com/awc/lee-friedlander.html

Walker Evans: A Master Of Photography

                  Walker Evans is known to take most of his shots containing people and society, especially during the Great Depression, making him a Social Realist Photographer. His photos capture some of the things that were doing on at that time. Evans shows some of the living conditions of the time through setting and the emotions captured through his subjects.

                 A lot of his pictures are shot in black and white, which makes viewers focus more on what's going on in the photo rather than the color. (At the time, most photographers shot in black in white anyway. So the fact that they were done in black and white is irrelevant. But it does give us an idea that it was most likely taken in the past). He keeps his photos very basic, where he takes vertical and horizontal photos, to focus more of what is going on in the photo. Evans captures the human expressions and emotions, as well as the living conditions during the time of the Depression that today, shows viewers how it was like and how people felt at the time, such as fatigue and stress from work and the worry in people’s faces. He also has a lot of landscape photo that show the heavy industrialization at that time.               

Shows how busy and tired people were.

In this photo, the stairs and the different floors seem to represents how high the industrialization has brought the economy, but only to a limit that is causing the depression.

Resources:
http://photography-now.net/listings/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=625&Itemid=249

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Evans

Assignment One: Self Portraits

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