Final Project Ideas

Favorite Six Photos (9/20)

This photo by Jerry Uelsmann is very eye catching.  After researching him, I found that he did not edit this photo digitally, instead he was very talented in the dark room and working with film negatives.  I think the meaning of this photo has to do (more literally) with the roots of where you come from.  The roots building the house is a great visual metaphor and the surroundings around the center of the photo are very drastic, but also has a very far depth of field.

This photo by Brassai is one of my favorites because it has a very peaceful feel to it because of the blurred out street lights in the back and their reflection on the water.  However, I like that it could also be a scary photo because the silhouette of the branch in the frame gives it almost a Halloween-ish feel, which is also enforced by seeing the lights and the bridge in a different way.  The fogginess and blurred out lights in the back seem to play on the more dark and scary features of this photo.  I Just really like the way he showed the bridge in this photo.

This photo by Bresson is probably my number one favorite photo of the six.  I like the way the man in the front is leaping over a puddle with a perfect umbrella, while the couple in the back seem like they are being blown away.  I think the drastic silhouettes give the photo a very dramatic feel.  I also think the Eiffel Tower in the far background makes the photo because otherwise these people would just seem to be standing in a huge, empty, wet lot of some sort.  

This photo, by Halsman, I found to be very interesting because of all the random things going on in the picture.  I really like all of the stop-motion with the water and the cats and the chair because I enjoy shooting stop-motion as well.  I think this photo just looks like it is comical and gives me the feeling that Halsman was a comedian in some way.  the mans expression in the photo is another reason why I think it just seems like a funny photo.

This is a photo by Ansel Adams that I really enjoy.  I like this photo because it reminds me of an octopus.  The huge tree branches are winding like the legs of an octopus, and the plants that are growing all around the roots almost look like they should be the suction cup looking features under the tentacles of an octopus.  I think overall I really like the texture of this picture as well.

This is a photo by Cory Smith.  I think what drew me to this photo was the odd symmetry of the faces becoming one face even though they are at different angles.  I think this photo has an underlying message of equality for men and women.  I believe that it is showing how similar men and women are, or even the idea that we "complete" each other by the way the two faces come together to become one face.

Burning and dodging

 

 

 

 


Dog, window & house = dodging
apple, fence & tree = burning

global corrections cartier

 

Critique 1 - Nicole Cartier

Michael D.

                One of the photos that I really liked was the extremely over exposed one of the girls face.  I think it brought a soft, delicate fell to the girl making her seem somewhat angel-like.  The glasses and the reflection in the lenses really stood out and I thought that it gave a good focal point to the photo.

                I also enjoyed the photo of the house and the yield sign.  I disagreed with the negative comments about the sign being in the picture…. I thought that the yield sign being in the photo made it more realistic.  The house would have just looked like a house in the woods without the yield sign in the picture and I think it almost just gives the picture a little more character.

Sarah W.

                I really liked the majority of her photos, my favorite was the one of the man with the light shining onto one side of his face.  However, I disagree that the picture needs more detail in the background.  I think that the dark room and less detail is more mysterious and dramatic, and gives the audience more room to create and imagine a setting of their own.  I really liked how the light not only made the viewer focus on the man’s face, but it also caused you to focus on the glass that he was holding since the light was shining through it at an interesting angle.  I thought it was a great picture overall. 

Maria

                The one picture I was not a fan of was the photo of the cannon.  I thought that the angle was somewhat awkward and I could not really find a meaning for why the photo was tilted that way.  I did, however, enjoy the picture of the bench.  I think it was a well taken photo, minus the b&w editing, and the statue was a great focal point.

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