Photojournalism

Landsape writing

Ansel Adams: Clearing Winter Storm

I chose this landscape photograph beacuse it just really stood out to me the most. It has a dramatic feel and also is sort of mysterious in a beautiful way. I chose it beacuse of the feeling or mood in conveys when you look at it and I think it is also a great photograph overall. I have never been to this specific place in the photograph, which is Yosemite National Park in California. I have been to the park once but it was on a trail and was a different part of the park than in the photo. However, this photograh makes me really want to take a trip back to Yosemite and go to the secific place that it is showing.
My favororite part of the photograph would have to be the middle to upper part of the picture, where it shows the mountains and all the clouds that are around and surrounding them. I like it because of the way it seems so mysterious and almost surreal in a sense. It makes me feel really small, too because of the way it shows the mountain's height and it makes them look like they just keep on going.
The photograph is all in black and white. I think that this makes the picture a lot stronger than it would have been if it were in color, and conveys a stonger mood. The contrast between the shades of white, grey, and black are also really good. There are your bright whites from the snow that stand out and also a very complete black from the shadows and one side of the mountains and a wide range of greys inbetween from the clounds, mountains, and trees. The compostiton of the photograph is also really good because your eye is drawn all over the picture from the lines of the mountains on either side, so the focus isn't just in one little place. It fills up the whole space of the picture without being too busy or crowded.
I wouldn't change anything in the picture honestly. I think it is great the way it already is. If I could be in the place in the photograph right now, I would probably be taking a very long hike in the forest and mountains of the photograph. I would also be taking tons of photographs to remember the scene. If I were to put myself in the photograph, I wouldn't be noticable. I would be way to small compared to the distance away it was taken, plus with all the huge trees and tall mountains, you wouldn't be able to see me. However, if I had to, I would be way up on top of one of the mountains, with the clouds and snow. It would be really cool to be up that high and have such a beautiful, breathtaking view.

Motion Writing

My photograph I found that conveys motion is a picture of a girl dancing. The photograpg shows several images of the girl, all overlapping doing different motions in order. This makes it so that you can see the whole dance in the same picture, or at least one of the moves in the dance. The movement is very fluid. Also, the background is completely black and the girl is wearing all white, so it makes the photograph completely focused on the movement in the picture. Through the sequence of the mvements, your eye is drawn from left to right across the whole picture, so and even off the photograph because you can tell that the movements continue beyond the space in the picture.
The movement is important to this perticular picture because that is the whole point of the photograph. Without the movements of the girl, there would be no picture at all. Also, if there were only one image of the girl, instead of the sequence of images, the photograph would have a completely different impression than in does now. It wouldn't be as strong of an image i think, and it would be more plain or ordinary. Movement is the main principal in the picture, and basically the only principal of the photograph. The other elements that work with the movement are, of course the black background and white clothes so the whole focus is on the motion. Also, the series of images helps make the motion much more lifelike and real to those looking at it. You can piece them together so that its like the girl is really moving, not just still in a picture.
One goal that I have for incorporating movement in my pictures is to be able to show exactly what the images are doing. The world is never still, and we are constantly in motion, so I want to be able to actually portray that, and show how the world moves. I hope in my pictures that the people looking at them will be able to see the movement clearly, and predict what is going on after the picture was taking.

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Colors (1)

Color writing assignment

William Eggleston- Yellow Flowers

This photograph is of a field of bright flowers. The flowers are a really vibrant yellow with an orangeish tint and with patches of lavender flowers speckled here and there throughout it. The little bit of the sky that shows is a very bright blue. The flowers look very yellow in the front of the picture, but as it goes back and where the sky connects, they look more orange. I would describe it as a sort of macaroni and cheese color, since it's still yellow but adds orange in there too. These colors make the picture very warm looking and really portrays a sunny and cheerful outlook.
The flowers work woth other elements of the picture because since blue and orange are complementary colors, they set each other off really well, which makes the photograph stand out that much more. Also, even though the lavender flowers are lighter they pop out of the yellow/orange really well. The lavender flowers are not the majority of the picture by far however, I think because of the contrast between them and the other flowers, they draw your eye to them for that reason. They are different so they stand out in the picture despite their lighter color compared to the bright blue and vivid yellow/orange ther flowers. Overall, the colors in the picture set each other off really well and makes the photograph stand out. The photograph seems to have been taken in the daytime when it was very sunny out. This element of the picture, lighting, also has a big factor because it makes it so you can very clearly see the colors and shows you just how vibrant and bright they are.
If the colors were changed in the picure, then I don't think that the picture would be nearly what it is now, in quality. If it were a black and white picute, it definatly wouldn't be as interesting to look at. What makes this photograph so interesting and stands out is its bright colors. Plus since the colors go together so well and complement one another, if you were to change them, then they wouldn't work as well together and help eachother stand out while standing out on their own. What draws your eye in is the color scheme now, so you would make it less interesting if you changed that. Also, it would loose the mood that the picture conveys now, of warmth and cheerfulness, and so I don't think the picture would be as strong. The photograph works really well just as it is now and the colors stand out so well, that to change them would make the picture loose it's uniqueness.

Hands

the second is my favorite

Patriatism

In Class-Art Items

My Box

Representing Me

Texture

Reflections

Motion

Critical Response- Motion

1. Both of the photographs show motion in the same way: as a series of movements the object goes through that ultimately creates the whole motion the photograph displays.

2. The photographs show motion, not through a blur or panning, but in a slow motion that displays the object going through a series of movements that make up the whole motion, so they display the process of their motion that allows us tho see all the movements they make.

3. The first photograph's purpose is to show all the little movements the horse makes that essentialy make up the whole motion. I know this because there are individual, seperate pictures that go in order and if you follow them, it creates the horse's motion of pulling the carriage but also shows the individual movement of the horse seperatly. The second photograph's purpose is to show how a series of motions all together make up a whole. I know this because the man's movements are all sort of blended together as he walks so you can see how each movement makes up his motion of walking as a whole but you can also see the motion as it happens.

Angles

Shadow project