Landscape Activity 3

Activity 3

Compare and contrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument. Choose your examples carefully as representative of the medium.

Photograph by: Sakikodai

Painting by: M. Rajeshkumar

In both of these images mediums I chose to focus on landscapes with the reflective water as part of the scenery. I think this are the most beautiful landscapes because it adds a certain layer of depth. In the photograph, The colors are just overall, clearer and richer. As this can only be truly captured in a photograph. Although the colors in the painting are pretty they are not quite as real, and enthralling. The photograph clearly captures the glassy property of the lake while in the painting, the image looks more flat and dimensionless, making it less interesting to look at. I love both of the images although if I had to choose between the mediums, I would prefer photography.

Landscape Activity 2

Activity 2

Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

Photograph by: Neal Oshima

In this controversial image, There is a little girl standing in a very run down part of town, as some would say, "The other side of the tracks." Kind of ironically captured in this piece. You can see there is tons of waste in this area, old appliances and old shacks to live in. This piece is controversial because right above the broken homes of the poor there is a display for a home company with new homes and living spaces displayed upon it. This is a very clear image to show the split of our society and their living. It clearly defines the further deterioration of the bridge between classes in his society.

Photograph by: Mark McGowan

In this image there is a more rebellious feel. Showing there is beauty and art all around us, even in the most unexpected places. The Graffiti displayed on the walls gives the stigma that it shouldn't be there because graffiti is considered, "Unnatural" in our society. It is our of place and unexpected. Which makes it all the more beautiful. This image kind of shows the deterioration of traditional values in our society. 

Landscape Activity 1

Activity 1

View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis).

Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer.

Make sure you include the image in your blog post with credit in the citation. When you analyze the photo, look for deeper meaning beyond the literal description of the Photo.

Photograph by: Walker Evans

    In this black and white photograph we can see a graveyard with the main subject as the main cross gravesite. with the rest of the city in the background.I believe the picture creates a sad a depressing feeling about life, with the picture in back and white it creates a solemn setting for the subject. I believe the picture kind of gives the feeling that life is smaller than death. The cross in the foreground is more drawing of attention and the city in the background seems less important in comparison. Life will ultimately end in death just as this picture is portraying.

Light Activity 4

Activity 4

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• Find two examples of photographs, which make use of maximum depth of field, and two examples, which have very shallow depth of field.
• Describe how the photographer’s selective use of aperture affects the subject in each of the photographs you have chosen.

Great Depth of Field

Photograph by: Jim Zuckerman

In this photograph, the landscape shows great depth of field. This is created by using a very small aperture (large number) to let the camera have the sharpest focus on the details of the photograph. 

Photograph by: Jose mbrito

In this photograph the urban landscape shows max depth of field with the buildings in extreme focus.

This is achieved the same as in the last picture through a small aperture. 

Shallow Depth of Field

Photograph by: Anthony Dudley

In this photograph with the ballet dancer we see that she is in focus but the background is blurred out, this is an example of shallow depth of field using a large aperture.

Photograph found on Marguerite Beaty's Pinterest

In this photograph we see the daisy in focus with the rest of the daisies blurred in the background. This final product is achieved through a large aperture(smaller numbers).