What is your interpretation of this quote?
To me, I feel that this quote means that you can find beauty in the smallest things or things that ordinarily would not be considered beautiful. Opening your eyes to find the details the God put there allows you to welcome the beauty and the potential for beauty in unlikely situations. Most, like myself, view God has a powerful and inspiring thing, details can be powerful too.
How can we see God in the details every day?
God can appear to us in unusual ways. That is why I feel to see God, we must be open to seeing God. That may seem a tad redunt when I say it, but I really feel it is true. We have to be able to look in places and objects in nature and seek out the beauty and inspiration that lies behind them. The story that they want to tell us. It is all about taking that extra step than we normally would, putting forth that extra effort to get a better understanding and meaning from things in our lives and possibly find God in them.
How might we use our cameras in order to discover and preserve these details?
By using our cameras, we can capture a moment in time, or a memory. By doing this we can preserve the details from the scene and get a closer look at how special and unique they are. When we have a picture we can focus on areas that we might have not been able to before, and truly seek out what its specific detail has to say about it.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Gary Winogrand Quote
"Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts." -- Gary Winogrand.
To me, I really feel that this quote reflects what we studied and learned about point of view. I feel that we decided it is better as photgraphers to work with the camera and our positioning first to make the best picture before cropping or addtional work. I feel that this quote defines this idea. By using the frame, you can create a story and a message. I agree with Winogrand when he states that ,"you change those facts," when you capture a picture by puting edges around it. This means that you can see an image but your point of view can change the way ohters precieve it. Meanings and connotations can be tagged to items and figures in the picture that normally wouldn't have been there before. Point of view, framing and composition are so important. Doing extra work in programs such as photoshop can help and be useful, but what is better is to use good framing techniques before the create the store and facts in the picture.
To me, I really feel that this quote reflects what we studied and learned about point of view. I feel that we decided it is better as photgraphers to work with the camera and our positioning first to make the best picture before cropping or addtional work. I feel that this quote defines this idea. By using the frame, you can create a story and a message. I agree with Winogrand when he states that ,"you change those facts," when you capture a picture by puting edges around it. This means that you can see an image but your point of view can change the way ohters precieve it. Meanings and connotations can be tagged to items and figures in the picture that normally wouldn't have been there before. Point of view, framing and composition are so important. Doing extra work in programs such as photoshop can help and be useful, but what is better is to use good framing techniques before the create the store and facts in the picture.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Lighting
I think that overall I did well on the lighting project. The feedback I recieved from the class seemed to agree with the idea I had set out for my picture. Most of it seemed positive. I tried to think outside of the box and find light that I could work with, such as streetlights or the sun. What I feel I gained most from those elements in my photos. I had shadows that really helped define that direct lighting, I was trying to capture. The feedback is a better idea of what is a better idea of what the different type of lighting is. When others commnet on the pictures, they pointed out things that I didn't even realize on my own. I was pleased to see that I achieved that.
I feel that the outcome of my photos where successful, but the process was difficult for me. The concepts behind the pictures and the lighting were difficult for me to understand, especially the diffused lighting. Maybe a suggestion to improve the understanding would be more examples of how to achieve this type of quality of picture. I feel that I would have had more of a wider variety of picture to picture to choose from, if I had a better understanding.
I really liked when we made a controlled lighting setting in class. I felt that, that activity really helped me with my understanding, but I had trouble keeping those ideas outside of the classroom.
Because I had so much trouble, I found that it was really beneficial that we had that in class discussion and feedback from others. I feel that I had it set in my only a few ideas of ways that the pictures could take form and my seeing the others it really opened my horizons, especially in silhouette.
I feel that I have learned a lot through this process and project. i feel that my pictures overall were successful.
I feel that the outcome of my photos where successful, but the process was difficult for me. The concepts behind the pictures and the lighting were difficult for me to understand, especially the diffused lighting. Maybe a suggestion to improve the understanding would be more examples of how to achieve this type of quality of picture. I feel that I would have had more of a wider variety of picture to picture to choose from, if I had a better understanding.
I really liked when we made a controlled lighting setting in class. I felt that, that activity really helped me with my understanding, but I had trouble keeping those ideas outside of the classroom.
Because I had so much trouble, I found that it was really beneficial that we had that in class discussion and feedback from others. I feel that I had it set in my only a few ideas of ways that the pictures could take form and my seeing the others it really opened my horizons, especially in silhouette.
I feel that I have learned a lot through this process and project. i feel that my pictures overall were successful.
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