Science of photography

Amongst the variety of selective works from our readings, my attention was particularly drawn to the work of Jeff Thomas. The piece titled, “Culture Revolution” left a key interest in where my attention was drawn. The photograph brings a tense feeling and draws the viewer’s attention to the details amongst the figure in it. When looking at the photograph, there is a sense of wonder to it. Jeff Thomas gives his audience a way to wonder what the meaning behind the photo is; while it seems as if…

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” However, media does not transmit the appropriate thousand words that they should in their images. The different broadcasting forms have corrupted the perception of beauty into something surreal, incredible, and, very often, unhealthy. It is no secret that beauty standards portrayed in pictures from magazines, and other similar mediums, make adolescent girls vulnerable to these false representations of beauty early in their age. Beauty fabrications are…

In the picture I chose for my article, there are two people in it. There is a boy dressed with a black suit and a green tie, smiling, at the camera with a girl in a green dress. I chose this picture because although they both look happy in the picture they have a bad past. The boy in this picture is the girl’s brother, Francisco, and the girl in this picture is Sandybel (me). In the past both the boy and the girl would fight all the time no matter what. Whether it was about food or whenever it…

What I find beautiful is something that catches my attention. Say I am walking down the street and see a mural of some sort; I am not going to stop and take a break for just any painting. I stop and look because it catches my attention. Usually being something that I am interested in. Going with that it has to catch my emotions. If it is a happy painting or a sad painting, either in my eyes can be beautiful. If it is trying to portray something meaningful through their artwork using emotions.…

Abstract Crime Scene photography is one of the most important aspects of documenting crimes scenes and evidence. Photographs are often used as courtroom exhibits to support witnesses’ testimony and to prove or disapprove issues or theories before the court. Because of their value as court exhibits, the crime scene photographer’s goal should be to take photographs that meet the requirements for admissibility. It is possible to reconstruct a crime scene by analyzing the location and appearance of…

During the period of 1885 to around 1920, Pictorialism photography dominated , which was likened to paintings as the image had visible brush strokes. Australian artist Harold Cazneaux produced images, which contained an atmospheric sense displayed by soft hues and grainy styles. This specific style was used throughout the world, and was also called the “Fuzzy Wuzzy Style”. Shortly after Pictorialism declined in popularity, Modernism was pioneered in Germany at the Bauhaus school of design. This…

example films, designs, paintings as well as photographs. In deed it can be applied to any subject to improve the composition as well as the balance of your images. This composition technique is very fundamental as it can be used in all types of photography in order to yield images which are better balanced and more engaging. The rule of thirds basically involve mentally dividing up your image using two vertical lines and two horizontal lines. The important elements in your scene are then…

of her notes; her desire to understand the “folkloric” and psychological facets of contemporary society is one with which I deeply empathize. After becoming enamored with Arbus’s philosophy, appreciating her contributions to street and portrait photography was natural. Studying the various methods and styles through…

Szarkowski’s “The Photographer’s Eye”, discusses the transition at the beginning of the age of photography. One of the most striking statements he made was the fact that photography has made impacts on modern artists. Not only has it affected fellow photographers, but also painters, sculptors, and even writers. Being able to look at actual still photographs long after the moment it was taken has completely changed the way most people look at the world around them. Photographers are considered…

It’s not real. It’s artificial. Photoshop has an ever lasting effect, they’re what stays in a person’s mind, real or not. A fake image that influences what we call “beauty”. A society that’s exposed to the many advertisements that uses manipulative body images to sell yet they’re unreal. Many people don’t even notice what’s real and what’s artificial in these photos. Photoshop shouldn’t be argued if it is good or bad since it results in people suffering from low self-esteem, poor body images…