Chapter 9 Notes

• Ansel Adams took many pictures of Yosemite in black and white
• composition is a huge part of landscape photography
• in composition, there is supposed to be a balance between unity and variety to make other parts of the image stand out
• variety is all the different parts of an image, but there cannot be complete variety in an image
• in landscape photography, people use wide lenses
• landscape photographers often take pictures of the sky with clouds or sunsets
• 

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 and died April 22, 1984.  He was a conservationist who was born in San Francisco.  His photos were inspired by a trip he took to Yosemite when he was a boy.  He took photographs of Yosemite and other landscapes.  He took many black and white photographs.   




This photo is in black and white and uses the rule of thirds.  It also has texture and proportion in it.

Chapter 8 Notes

• Architecture pictures can be formal or informal
• Charles Negre was an artist and a painter
• Frederick H Evans was one of the best architecture photographers who used light to depict emotions
• Photographing the Built Environment
• Focus on details of buildings
•  Almost every image has pattern
• The Big View
• For a two dimensional view, stand in front while shooting
• For a three dimensional view with textures, forms, and shadows, stand slightly to the side
• Shadows
• Focus on the lines, shapes, and values of shadows

Architecture notes

• architectural photographs are indirect portraits
• early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image- architecture was a perfect subject

Frederick H. Evans

• one of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography
• large part of work focused on cathedrals in London
• depicted emotion with the use of light
• his advice to photographers: "Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography."
• worked primarily in platinum papers
• during WWI, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions
• rather than switching developing processes or changing papers, he gave up photography forever

Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)

• influential architectural photographer

Thinking Artistically

• you can focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait
• or focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images

Patterns

• in architectural photography, patterns are very important

Video Notes

• "The Daily News" is the oldest newspaper in the United States
• big pictures are used on newspapers to attract attention and get people to buy them
• people knew that drawings could lie, but photographs were true in advertising
• people would buy things because they were attracted to the photographs in the advertisements
• a camera can elevate any object into something magnificent
• a cigarette lighter could be turned into an object of desire
• people are moved by pictures of celebrities
• 20th century astronomy would be unthinkable without the photograph
• astronomers used to look through telescopes and draw what they saw
• photography allows us to see things in the univers that the naked eye cannot see