Science of photography

This whole process was very time restrictive because the plate needed to be wet during the whole process and thusly the process had to all be done in the close proximity of a dark room. The photographer would set their camera up and focus on the ground glass in the camera to make sure everything was to their liking, then they would make their plates using the collodion process, the photographer would then take the plate in a negative holder to the camera and expose the negative. After the…

When Harvey Wang grew up not many people had cameras so he was considered to bet he guy with the camera taking pictures and documenting life around him. Harvey Wang’s New York was published in 1990 which was portraits of self portraits and then a book called Flophouse Life on the Bowery which was profiles of men living in last remnants from skidrow New York. After that came his first digital camera piece. He thought it was cool because after taking these digital pictures he was able to go play…

It is heartbroken to look at a picture of a little boy locked up in a room with brick walls, a hard bed with a thin mattress on top, and a window on top of the wall or at least that’s how it appears the way the light is entering the room. It makes me think what if that were my son. That is the first image we look at when reading the informative article of the Caging of America. Mr. Gopnik the writer of the article presents us with the “six million people under correctional supervision in the…

“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to…

Here’s the truth - taking your photography hobby to a place where you’re making a good living is going to take a lot of work. But if you do right, making sure you’re having fun along the way, you’ll be able to accomplish your dreams! If you would like to learn how to transition from being a photography hobbyist to a professional photographer then read on. PASSION Passion is vital if you want to excel in this field. You can’t go into photography thinking that it’s all about the money. If money…

Last weekend when my friend Karen created her new instagram account she was childishly relieved to now have a location where she could outsource her selfies. Thankfully, with 15GB memory storage on her phone, she was then blessed with the daunting task of picking the best one out of the 500 pictures of herself taken in an assortment of angles, diverse places of lighting, and various facial expressions. What a disgrace would it have been had I not been present to save her from selecting the…

This last February’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit catalog has received a lot of heat for the risque image on the cover of the issue. The beautiful 24-year old, Hannah Davis, was given the rare the opportunity to be this year’s SI cover girl, and has unfortunately gotten a bad wrap for the image that she has produced. She looks stunning and incredibly fit in the photo, but many viewers are unhappy with the sight of “dangerously low-slung bikini bottoms” (Business Insider). Hannah is a model,…

The photographer divided the subjects into two subgroups. One is about blurry and hurried pedestrians in the streets, and the other is about a young girl in the front . The blurriness of the pedestrian may show their busy life pace of the night. But the young girl, who is the main figure, looks calm and energetic. Her poise forms a strong contrast to the pedestrians, and she becomes the focal point in the picture. This street snap compares the mediocre culture of young and the public. The…

Notion Reality The Innocent Eye Test was painted by Mark Tansey in 1981. It is an oil painting picture. It is being exhibited at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. We can see in this painting, there is a cow standing and observing a picture of the other cows. While around a cow are a group of well looking men, they all dressed in suits and wearing glasses, look like they are watching and recording a cow’s performance. It can be said a cow that the men are watching is a “real” cow and the…

In the attempt to bring light to the widespread death from starvation in Ethiopia in 1985, Stan Grossfield captured this photo of a starving mother and her child and he called this”Famine in Ethiopia”. After visiting the Ethiopians he was feeling extreme sadness over the struggles he saw.While this image may seem visually simple, this image has a powerful emotional effect on others, winning the Pulitzer Prize of 1985. Stan Grossfield photographed the "Ethiopian" which references madonna and…