Photography Class

  1.       W WWhat is it? It’s supposed to be a display of a thoroughbred racehorse, but beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. This object is clearly less than perfect, being that it is subjected to the town’s modern psychedelic creative interpretations as opposed to traditional depictions of racehorses. Yet, these photos capture a clear and apparent inner beauty and majesty associated with the subject matter.   2.      How I made it? The essence of this photo series was captured maximizing the later afternoon sun. The midday sun would have blurred out the visual details of this horse’s paint job. The paint job is the essential component that makes the thoroughbred simultaneously ugly and compelling. This photo truly exhibits unique and exceptional creative, compositional, and conceptual skills. A point of view is clearly expressed, an environment is clearly established, composition is captured, the photos most certain...

  The first picture in this series was taken at 4:45AM, in one of a number of similar rooms in my home, before the natural light of the sun illuminates this room. No camera flash was necessary. Establishing the composition and environment was essential to capturing the intended essence of this photograph. This is to say, the backdrop, setting, and visual sets the thematic impact. Note that the depth of field aperture is distinctively clear despite being wide, capturing the relative size of the room with the central subject-matter of the photograph. The photographer’s framing draws the viewers’ eyes to the Chinese floor cabinet, specifically the oriental clock, and Ritual Candle regardless of the coffee table and other objects in and beyond the room. This is done with manipulating slow ISO and a soft light impact in the primary room. Amazingly, this is all accomplished with a soft light backdrop. The second picture introduces the subtle presence of morning sunlight as the camera’s f...

  I paraphrase when I say, “I suspect this course is teaching us that every good photo requires good use of light, color, a captivating moment, correct composition for the given situation, and the photographer's choice of distance to their subject.” (Krause’s Photo Idea Index, 2023) Although the loading into the Blogger software didn’t do the photo justice, I believe the following pic captures these necessary requirements in a keenly satisfying way. See the photo in the Flickr Software Site. In addition to the prementioned requirements, this photograph offers an excellent exempt of (A) Establishing Environment, (B) Capturing/Picturing People, and (C) Thinking Creatively. Establishing environment while the exterior of the sanctuary and church offered many possibilities, particularly in the midday sun; the interior of the structure with this nun is overwhelmingly captivating. The backdrop and its value contrast make the humans subject matter and her act of prayer all the more tra...

  Sharon Farmer was a White House key photographer who worked for the Executive Branch Photography Office at the White House Executive mansion. Farmer also worked for the Smithsonian Institution, the Washington Post, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was the first African American woman to ever be hired as an official White House photographer and the first female to be Director of the White House Photography office. Farmer’s photographic work has been presented in exhibition at many museums and cultural institutions, nationwide. This includes Art against AIDS, Gospel in the Projects, Twenty Years on the Mall, Washington, D.C., the Beijing Exchange, and Our Views of Struggle. Farmer has a unique approach and style or genre in photography, which specifically centers on shooting photographic coverage of news stories, political campaigns, cultural events, conferences, and portraits. Well respected for her craft and in the field of political & social p...

Using Lightroom was highly satisfactory and easy to function/navigational. The experience was fairly basic with settings for brightness, color, clarity, cropping, and spot-blemish removal. To add depth to the photo, I selected resize. I removed color altogether and cropped the photo in closer on the subject matter. Through the process-editing, my father and the solar panel takes on a deeper expression of illustration.   

I randomly selected the human subject matters, first asking their permission to secure greater measures of posing participation. The way I posed, arranged, and composed my human subject matters was to capture them in their natural activities. Some of the camera settings was full lens shots to catch a full environment setting while other camera settings were zoom-ins with crops. The camera settings were selected according to what the human subject matter was actually doing and the sense of emotional vibe potential relayed in the activity being photographed. Three things I did well was putting the subject matters at ease asking their permission beforehand, photographing them in a timely manner, and connecting the human subject matters with the immediate environments. Three things I didn’t do as well and need to work further on as a beginning photographer are improving my technique at camera angles and lighting selections, style, and conceptual results, as well as allowing for more time t...