Assignment 3

"Transform 4"
For this image I increased the shawdow. I put the soft focus light on where the light bulb is. I also sharpened up the image. I wanted to add a warming effect.

"Transform 3"
For this image I increased the shadow and saltration. I added differnt cold colours.

"Transform 2"
For this image I added the effect of granulated tint. I decreased the shadow, fill lights and the highlight. I added different colours to different places on the image. I like this image this best. I like it beacasue of the different colours. I find this image looks like a drawing.

"Transform1"
For this image I added the glow effect to it. I decreased the fill lights, highlights and shadows. I add saltration and changed the colour of the image. I also sharpened up the image.


"Original"

Lee Freidlander

Central Park, 1992

Washington, DC, 1999

Lee Friedlander (1934-present) is an American photographer who got started in photography when he was 14 years old. His pictures are mainly of street images, flowers, trees, gardens, landscapes, nudes, the industrial environment, portraits, self-portraits. His photographs are very unique. He to take pictures that portray the everyday life. The camera that he used was a Leica 35mm with black and white film, but now he primarily uses medium format cameras. He has his own distinct style are pictures that have a meaning to them. A lot of his pictures include the shadows of the images, he even uses his own shadow. Friedlander has a series of many self portraits.

http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/leefriedlander/leefriedlander.shtml

http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/friedlander_lee.php

Edward Weston

"Shell" 1927

"Nude" 1936

Edward Weston, (1886-1958), was a famous photographer during the 1900’s. He was renowned as one of the masters of 20th century photography. He was 16 years old when received his first camera which was given to him by his father. The camera was a Kodak Bulls-Eye # 2. His earlier work included taking pictures in Chicago parks, where he was raised, and pictures of aunt’s farm. In 1927, Weston’s focus of photography took a turn. He concentrated on taking photographs of seashells, vegetables, plants, landscapes and the nude. He became known as the “pioneer of precise and sharp presentation”. Weston’s photographs were in black and white. His pictures were taken in natural lighting and he only produced some coloured photographs while working with Willard Van Dyke in 1947. Weston attain sharpness in his images by never enlarging,cropping or retouching the photographs.

http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/EdWeston.htm
http://www.photocollect.com/bios/weston.html

Assignment 2

Lamp





http://picasaweb.google.com/lindsay.smith11/EverydayThings#

Assignment 1

-What kind of camera do you use? A Nikon CoolPix S210
-What is the resolution? (ie. 4megapixels) 6.0
-What kind of media storage does it have? 1GB
-How do you download images to the computer? I plug in the USB to the camera and also to the computer. I turn the camera on and trasfer my photos to picasa
-What is the name of the cord connecting the camera to the computer? The cord name is USB
-How many low res images can you store on your disk? 1500 pictures
-How many high res images can you store on your disk? 250 pictures
-What kind of image (file format) is stored on disk? JPEG
-Do you have a camera manual? Have you read it? Yes I have a camera manual and I have read some of it.

link to photos