Architectural

Detail: My house.

Big: Camelot Fish&Chips.

Big: Dial Glass Window Co.

Interior: Dial Glass Window Co.

Detail: Dial Glass Window Co.

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Born 1959 Springfield, Ohio

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Ansel Adams

• (Feb. 20 1902 — Apr. 22, 1984)
• Born in San Francisco
• When he was 12 taught himself how to play the piano
• Played it for years, and in 1920 wanted it to be his career
• Piano brought structure and discipline to his youth 
• Loved nature very much and had loved Golden Gate
• He went to Yosemite from 1916- his death 
• He first started using a Kodak No. 1 Box Brownie his parents had given him to take photos
• At the Sierra Club his first published photographs and writings appeared in the club's 1922 Bulletin
• In 1927 he made his first fully visualized photograph, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome.
• Adams was one of the founding members of the f/64 school or group
• A group of  photographers who shared similar interests and goals
• A commercial photographer for 30 years,
• made visionary photos of western landscapes
• won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the national parks (1944--58)
• developed zone exposure to get maximum tonal range from black-and-white film
• Adams saved the Yosemite National Parks because he showed people the beauty of the nature through his own lens and showed them how beautiful Yosemite is.
• Mostly all of his pictures are captured in Black and White

There is a lot of value, line, shape, form, and contrast in this photograph. There is also balance by position in this photograph. The road seems to be getting smaller because it is getting farther away. There is great texture in this photo also. The framing of this photograph is symmetrical balance. 

Chapter 9 notes: Landscapes

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

• Carleton E. Watkins - capture the grandeur of the American West
• Photographed in California
• One of the first to have pictures as art
• inspiration - The land and painting
• Ansel Adams - photographed Yosemite Valley to promote conservation and capture how it feels being in the wilderness

Camera Settings

• stop down the lens
• maximum depth of field
• small f-stops 
• longer shutter speeds
• tripod
• sharp
• vibration-free images

Light

• after sunrise or before sunset
• angle of the sun is low
• shapes 
• textures are emphasized by side lighting
• direct lighting 
• 3D

Filters

• yellow - brings out the clouds
• red - deep black skies & stark white clouds
• red filter & polarizer - ultimate black skies & maximum contrast

The Grand Landscape

• Outdoors
• "big view" 
• Can be any nature setting
• Emphasize the clouds in the sky
• Use rule of thirds
• Use polarizing yellow filters to make clouds stand out
• suburban housing tracts - repeating shapes of the houses
• horizon should be placed one-third from the top or bottom
• 19th century - print a sky from one negative onto another negative

Landscape Details & Close-ups

• parks are good spots
• Focus on smaller elements of landscapes 
• Japanese gardens 
• meandering streams
• small waterfalls
• expertly placed trees
• focus on vibrant flowers
• Shoot in cloudy & overcast conditions 
• sunrise & sunset 
• quality of light with a special glow
• light meters -find medium gray

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

• images of lines, shapes, values, & textures
• Get close and personal to a subject - Macro lens
• Lots of depth and field
• Patterns in nature 
• Interesting shapes and forms

Architectural notes/Chapter 8 notes

-Architectural photos are indirect portraits.

-Not just shooting a building, trying to show personality to a space.

-Cropping is a big key in photos

-Color contrast draws viewers in

-If you use people, make sure they don't draw too much attention away from the photo

-In 1853 one of the first Architectural photos were taken

-Popular because you can find principles of elements of line, shape, and form in every Architectural photo.

-Fred Evans used emotion in his photos and took most photos of cathedrals in London

-Evans primarily worked in platinum papers

-This gave more level of detail then other photographs

-Platinum papers were used in bombs, so the price got higher

-Evans gave up photography because his medium was taken away

-Light is a very importaint thing

-Big picture shot, Detail shot, and interior shot are the 3 types of Architectural photos.

-Ezra Stroller was forst an Architect but loved taking photographs of Architectural buildings.

-Apply artistic emotions to Architectural phots so that its not just a photograph.

-Personality and relationship!

-Patterns dominate almost every picture.

CHAPTER 8 NOTES

-indirect portraits - buildings materials, styles and scale provide clues to who the people are that built them where and what their lives were like.

Thinking artistically: 

-Lines - can be used to lead the viewers eye 

-pattern - the repetition of any of the elements and adds complexity

-color=Setting and emphasize color

-texture=tactile or touchable quality of a surface
-black and white=Texture, value, and shape

Camera Settings

-Make as sharp as possible for interior so very detailed and clear

-Bigger camera format-provides more detail

-Smaller f stop

The Big View:

- aka overall view, wide-angle view

-Shadows

-straight forwards shot creates a 2-dimensional image

-perspective distortion:

-appears as strong converging lines in a building

The Detail Shot

-detailed architectural elements of buildings exterior or interior
-want to use telephoto lenses because you can stand at street level 

Interior Views
-can create a image of the of the people who use the room

- detail shots and up close pictures
-higher f-stop the more depth of field you get

-wide-angle lens

Movie Notes

-Pictures are used to attract arrention. -In newspapers newspeople want the biggest baddest picture so that it will make the front of the news paper.
-New York groffic was the biggest tabloid.
-Real life was not good enough for pictures
             -they would stage photos so that it would look better
-A woman was found gulity for killing her husband.
               -A photographer hid a camera on his ankle to take photos of her being electrocuted
               -It was on the front page with the headline "Dead!"
-Angle and how you take a picture of an object was key to how their photos were sold
-Photography made celebrities more famous
-Babe Ruth was the first baseball player to have his face posted everywhere
                 -"As a baseball player he made money, as a celebrity he made millions"
-Valentino died and one newspaper decided to show a picture of him in "heaven"
-Some people can only believe through photos
-naked eye can only see thousands of stars, but the milky way has millions of stars
                    -Photos can capture more then the naked eye
-Photographty has made our 5 senses more extreme to more then what we could ever imagine