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Week 2 – Composition: The Frame

September 13, 2021 / / 1 Comment

Lab 1 – Composition

  • Photographer: Michaelle Rojas
  • Photographer: Rezwan Haque
  • Photographer: James Bolden
  • Photographer: Jeremy Duenas
  • Photographer: Lisbeth Marmolejos
  • Photographer: Melisa Wu Lin

The Frame

Cropping: how much information is in the frame

  • a long shot
  • a medium shot
  • a close up
  • an extreme close up.
  • Alexander Rodchenko, Portrait of his mother, Olga, , 1926
  • Alexander Rodchenko, Portrait of his mother, Olga,side view, 1926
How does the difference in framing change the impact on the viewer of these two portraits?

Angle of View:  describes the camera position in relationship to the subject. The angle of view may be:

  • a worm’s-eye view
Andreas Feininger. 1962
  • a low-angle
Berenice Abbott.
  • eye-level
Edward Weston.
  • a high-angle
Edward Weston. 1931.
  • a bird’s-eye or aerial or overhead view
George Steinmetz.
  • oblique angle
Tram on Sukharevsky Boulevard, 1928. Alexander Rodchenko.

Angle of View Examples By Alexander Rodchenko

  • Fire Escape, from the series Building on Miasnitskaia Street, 1926
  • Pioneer Girl, 1930
  • Pioneer, 1930
  • City Street, Moscow, 1927
  • Courier Girl, 1928
  • Steps, 1930
  • Tram on SukharevskyBoulevard, 1928
  • Girl with Leica, 1934

Lab: Week 2 – Angle of View

HW 2: Hula Hoops

HW2: Hula Hoops

September 13, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Imagine that you have a hula hoop. Put it on the ground (during the day in a place with good light) and do not step out of it. You could also think that you are in one of those social distancing circles that have been drawn in some parks. Take 10 photos without leaving the circle. Use every strategy that we have discussed in class: angle of view, close ups and long shots, negative space, filling the frame, diagonal lines, leading lines, to make the most interesting and varied photos possible from that one place.

Find two more spots and repeat for a total of 30 photos.

Post to Flickr and put in an album.

Due Tuesday, September 21 at 2:30pm.

Lab: Week 2 – Angle of View

September 7, 2021 / / 0 Comments

2 pts. Find a subject. It could be a bridge, a dog or a person, a tree, a flower or something else altogether. (Try to stay away from street furniture.) Take a series of photos of that subject from different angles and with different cropping until you get two photos of the same subject that really look different.

The goal is to take two photographs of the same subject that are different in composition and mood. Make your subject look big in one and small in another, symmetrical and asymmetrical, cute and fierce, pretty and ugly, strong and delicate just with the crop and angle of view that you use.

Repeat for a minimum of 10 subjects. Select a range of subjects from huge such as a bridge to small such as a bee.

Once back in the classroom, download your photos and create an album in Flcikr with your final 10 pairs of photos.

Select the two photos of your most radically transformed subject and upload medium versions of them to a post on OpenLab with a description of the angles and other compositional devices you used to transform the subject.

Category: Lab: Week 2- Angle of View

Lab: Week 3 – Shallow Depth of Field

September 3, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Photograph the beautiful plants and flowers in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to show off their amazing shapes and forms. Take a minimum of 30 pictures of at least 15 subjects.

To make your photographs visually engaging, use:

  • the rule of thirds
  • figure to ground
  • fill the frame
  • pattern

To isolate the subject from the background, use shallow depth of field.

Put your 30 photos in an album on Flickr. Send your single best photo to the class group.

When photographing with a camera for shallow depth of field:

  • Use Aperture Priority or Av and set the camera to the widest aperture (lowest number.)
  • Use the telephoto end of your lens (zoom in.) 
  • Get close to the subject
  • Allow some distance between the subject and the background. There must be space between the foreground and background of your composition. 

  • Flower Close up with shallow depth of field
  • Flower Close up with shallow depth of field
Remember the focus does not have to be on the subject in the front of the photo!

When photographing with a camera phone:

Because of its very small sensor size, it can be very difficult to get shallow depth of field with a cameraphone. However, the same general approach will work:

  • Zoom in
  • Get close to the subject
  • Allow some distance between the subject and the background. There must be actual space between the foreground and background of your composition.

HW 1 – Composition

August 30, 2021 / / 0 Comments

4pts. Due Sept 14, 2:30pm. Post to OpenLab.
Review the Steve McCurry video:
http://petapixel.com/2015/03/16/9-photo-composition-tips-as-seen-in-photographs-by-steve-mccurry/

Look at the work of the photographers listed below. Then select one photograph by one of these photographers that really speaks to you and that you think is visually engaging. Once you have selected a photograph, write a 300-word post on OpenLab about the photograph. 

Category: Student posts>HW1-Composition

1. Identify the photograph with the name of the photographer and the name of the photograph. Write a short description of the subject matter and location. Then, identify the intention of the photographer. What is the purpose of the image? What is the mood or feeling of the photograph?
2. Select three of the formal elements from the Steve McCurry video that are most important in the photo that you selected. Write a second paragraph describing the photographer’s use of those three compositional principles. 

1. Rule of Thirds
2. Leading Lines
3. Diagonals
4. Frame within a frame
5. Figure to Ground
6. Fill the Frame
7. Dominant Eye
8. Patterns and Repetition
9. Symmetry

How do these elements help create the mood or feeling of the photograph?
Please include a link to the photograph so I can easily find it or describe it very clearly. 

1. Suzanne Stein
https://www.suzannesteinphoto.com
Pick from either New York Street One or Two

2. Dawoud Bey
http://www.dawoudbey.net/
Harlem Stories

3. Thomas Holton
http://www.thomasholton.com/
The Lams of Ludlow Street

4. Michael Kenna-
http://www.michaelkenna.net/gallery.php?id=14
New York

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