Archetecture Assignment

Location 3: Interior

Location 3: Detail

Location 3: Big Picture

Location 2: Detail

Location 1: Big Picture

Landscapes (pg. 202-217)

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

· Carletion E. Watkins (1829-1916)

o Wanted to capture the grandeur of the American West

o Learned photography in 1854

o Open his own gallery in 1858 in San Francisco

· Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

o Best known for his Black and Whites

o Primarily shot Yosemite National Park

o Born in San Francisco

o First camera was a Kodak Brownie

· Timothy O’Sullivan (1840-1882)

o Most well known for documenting the Civil War

o Provided the first photographs of the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and Colorado River

o Responsible for the “New Topographics” movement

§ A documentary approach to landscapes

§ Shunned the romanticism of Adams

§ Popular in the 60s and 70s

Photographing the Landscape

Thinking Artistically

· Composition is one of the most important aspects of landscape photography

· Viewpoint is most important of composition

· Pay attention to where you position the camera

· Explore all the variations when you set up a shot

· Go as high as you can then as low as you can

· Move the camera to the right and left

· Move closer and farther back

· Achieve a balance between unity and verity

Camera Settings

· Stop down a lens-f/16, f/22, f/32

· f/64 is usually the smallest f-stop

Light

· professional photographers do most of their work just after sunrise or just before sunset

o light is wonderful at these times

o angle of sun is low so shapes and textures are emphasized by side lighting

Film

· recorded as much information as possible

· use 100 ISO flim with 35mm

Lenses

· Wide-angle lenses

· Really close and distant objects in same shot

Filters

· Yellow brings out the clouds

· Red filter adds contrast

Camera Support

· Tripod

The Grand Landscape

· Big view for pictures of the outdoors

o National, stare, or city parks are great locations to explore landscape photography

Landscape Details and Close-ups

· Sunny days can be bad for the landscape photography

· Light meters are designed to create an exposure that makes medium or middle gray out of the scene being metered

Abstracted Elements in the Landscape

· Abstracted element

o Images composted of lines, shapes, values, and textures

Architecture and Urban Landscapes (190-197)

The Big View

· Wide angel over all view

· Image that shows you the whole building

· The closer you are to the image the picture will get more distortion

· Farther you are from the building will have less distortion

· Shooting from the side naturally creates a three-dimensional view of the building

Shadows

· Try and capture the objects shadow

o Pay attention to the lines, shapes, and value of the object

The Detail Shot

· The individual architectural elements of a buildings interior or exterior

o Door

o Set of steps

o Top of a column

o Carved ornaments

o Decorative brick work

Interior Views

· Wide angle lens

· Slow f-stop

Architecture and Urban Landscape (179-189)

Looking back

· 1840’s Charles Negre

o Began to use photography to create studies for his paintings.

o He used to paint, but then he turned to photography.

o He started to see photographs as an end in themselves.

· Federick H. Evans

o Photography made from the late 1890s and 1920s are filled with emotion and light.

o Advice from him to other photographers:

§ “Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece of topography.”

· Eugene Atget

o A former actor and sailor turned to photography in his late 1890s

o When in his 40s he was a self-taught photographer and used lenses that were considered old-fashion.

Photography the Built Environment

Think Artistically

· Can be a visual recording of a building’s appearance.

· Key Ideas

o Use the corner of a room or the curve of a walkway or stair you can use line to lead the viewers eyes through an architectural image.

o Vertical and horizontal lines at the edge of buildings

o Observe the space that surrounds the objects or buildings in your photograph.

§ Can reveal a great deal about its “personality”.

o Patterns

§ Bricks

§ Designs in a carpet

§ Wallpaper

§ Arraignment of windows

§ Helps by strengthen your photography.

· Camera Settings

o Small f-stop gives a greater depth of field

o Bigger format

o Bigger negative the better detail it will capture

o Slower film

· Film

o Color Films

§ Emphasize color and setting

o Black and white

§ Emphasize value, shapes and textures

· Lighting

o Color of lighting is important in interior architectural photography

· Lenses

o Wide-angel

§ More distraction you get

· Filters

o Black and white

§ Include sky and clouds