Depth of field changing.

In this image I have used several different blur and sharpen strengths to change the depth of field of the image.

Glass Photoshop.

Glass Photoshop

I used Q, L and some other ones that I cannot remember.

Fashion Photography

Fashion Photography

When is an image a Portrait when is it a fashion photograph?

I think that a fashion photograph and a portrait are very different. I think that a portrait is when the photograph is mainly focused on the face of the subject and the way that the subject looks by way of facial features or something like that. Therefore I think that a fashion photograph is based on the clothing. You can usually tell when a photograph is based on the clothing because the subject is usually more of a vehicle for the clothing. Whereas in a portrait the clothing isn’t the important most important thing, it tends to be the subjects facial expressions. Another way of telling the difference between a fashion photograph and a portrait would be the editing that goes into a fashion photograph compared to a portrait. Portraits don’t tend to be edited that much compared to fashion photographs because fashion photographs are supposed to sell the clothing or the style, they have to look good for magazines whereas portraits aren’t edited as much as fashion photographs and don’t have to be sold.

To what degree should an image manipulated to go into a fashion magazine?

I think that fashion photographs should not be edited at all on the computer using programs such as Photoshop. The only editing that should be done is makeup to the model or the subject that is presenting the clothing. I think that the manipulation of makeup should definitely be allowed because everyone has access to makeup and that’s always how we have seen fashion since the beginning. If people limited the amount of makeup then the images would look less attractive to the consumers, but when the images start getting manipulated on the computer that is when it takes away its legitimacy which makes the image more of a lie to the consumers.

Is there a clash between the creative and commercial side of fashion Photography?

There is definitely a clash between the creative and commercial side of photography, a lot of the creative fashion is refused entry to magazines because the commercial side doesn't think that it is able to be used and isn't able to make money.

The Journey Of Portraiture / Tony Vaccaro's Work

Journey of portraiture

Portraits have been around since the beginning of time, that we can record, they have always been around  and have represented different things as time has progressed, the main thing that has been represented about portraits has been power, the person that was having an image made of them was seen as powerful.

The first piece of portraiture to be found was in 1365 BC, when Egyptian Pharoh Akhenaten carved a picture of him and his wife into stone. But even further than that some portraits have been found in cave drawings, the oldest art style to be found.

Portraiture changed massively when the camera was invented because it meant that people could take pictures of people when the photographer was ready, not when the subject was ready. This gave way more control to the photographer and meant that once the photographer took the image that was it, it had been taken and it could be seen by everyone. Portraits before the camera had been controlled by the subject, this meant that the subject could always look the way they wanted, whether it was to look powerful or rich they could choose. But when the camera was created people could see the rich and famous as they were when they were not in front of a camera.

Tony Vaccaro's Work


Tony Vaccaro was a good example of this because he would take pictures of the famous and the rich but he would pretend that the camera was not working and then he would take the picture once the subject had relaxed and stopped trying to look good for the camera. His work was based on taking pictures of people when they are being themselves, when they least expect it meaning that the images were of the famous and rich when they were being relaxed. A lot of Tony Vaccaro's work is based on this strategy and he has a lot of images that has used this.

Tony Vaccaro called this waiting for the decisive moment, this is what he did before he took a picture. This made his work unique and therefore made his images different because he captured the rich and the popular for who they really are and what what they seem to be, not who they are making themselves out to be.

 

 

 

 

Thomas Hoepker Profile

Thomas Hoepker was a Gernan photographer, he took many famous and well known images, one of these images was the 9/11 photograph that he took.

This image had a massive negative response by the public and as a response to that Thomas Hoepker removed the image from public observation for 10 years. The response from people was that they assumed that the people in the photograph were relaxed and uncaring about what was happening behind them. This is not the only photography he does, Thomas Hoepker has done landscape photography and taken pictures of different cultures around the world. One of the places he has been to is Japan, he took a lot of images of their culture and way of life while he was there. Thomas Heopker was born and raised in Munich, Germany.

 

Thomas Hoepker started taking photographs when he was of the age of 16 when his grandfather gave him an old 9x12 glass plate camera, he would sell his images to his friends and family members at the time, he would develop his images in the bathroom and kitchen of his parent’s house. Thomas Hoepker studied Art History and Archaeology during his college years and photograph throughout this time to help finance the money he owed for his education. After he had finished his education he became a photographer for “Münchner Illustrierte and Kristall” and was reporting all around the world, soon to become a journalist for Stern magazine and further on from that he became a cameraman of German TV Documentaries which is how he met his first wife, Eva Windmoeller, who was a journalist. The two of them decided to relocate to New York in 1976.

 

Thomas Hoepker was mainly famous for his image of 9/11 when some people were relaxing as if nothing was happening, this was a very popular image and get a lot of negative feedback, as a result of this Thomas Hoepker removed the image from public observation for 10  years. Then he finally made it available for people to see. Another image he was famous for was the pictures he took of Muhammed Ali.

Portraiture

Tony Vaccaro

Tony Vaccaro looked at portraiture in a way that he would only take images of people when he was ready. This means that a lot of his images captured people for who they really were and not what they were trying to be. Portraiture has been around since the beginning of time as a way of showing power or displaying a person or what the look like. Vaccaro took pictures of people when they were not posing, which showed the person for who they really were.

Tony Vaccaro

Photojournalism (War)

Tony Vaccaro and Robert Capa were both photojournalists that took photographs during the war, however they were both very different photographers. Tony Vaccaro was a soldier in the second world war and was a photographer saa secondary part of his job. Tony took pictures of people in the war that were dead or dying and took images of the real war, the war that was not hidden by magazines. As a result to his images being so real and uncensored a lot of them ended up being "deleted", by the American Military because it showed their own American soldiers dead instead of the enemy which is what people wanted to see. Tony Vaccaro used a Argus C3 camera to take his images of the war, at the time the American Military used the Speed-Graphic cameras to take their images however Vaccaro used the Argus C3 because he could fit 32 shots into the camera which meant that he could take 32 images of the war whereas the Speed-Graphic could only take two pictures at a time.

Robert Capa was also a war photographer however his images were different to Tony's because Capa believed that war was a romantic and glamorous thing, this meant that a lot of his images showed the war in a completely different way, a more censored way than Tony's did. Robert Capa also had images "deleted" but it was not a deliberate act, it was an accident by the company Life Magazine, they were in such a hurry to get these images out for the public that they ruined them by developing them too quickly. Another reason why Capa was different to Vaccaro was because Capa was employed to go into the war by a private company called Life Magazine. Life magazine employed Capa to take images of the war, and as a result Capa never really saw the war for what it really was meaning that Capa and Vaccaro had very different perspectives of war.

Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro also used very different cameras during the time of taking the war images, Robert Capa used a Leica camera which was very expensive at the time of the war and as a result Tony Vaccaro resulted to using a Argus C3 camera.

Eddie Adams was a photographer during the Vietnam War. During this time he took a very famous image of an execution of a prisoner that happened so suddenly and quickly but he managed to capture the image just as the bullet hit the prisoners head, this image was famous because it showed everyone what was going on in the war and how real it actually was. There was a video clip and an image of this decisive moment, but people find that the image was much more effective than the video. I believe this is the case because in the video you see it all happen, you see the man being shot the shock from everyone around him. The image captures the decisive moment, the moment in which the soldier decides to shoot the prisoner dead on the spot without hesitation, that is why the image is much more effective than the video, is because it captures that split moment that we can't see with out human eyes.

1. Photojournalism

Henri Cartier Bresson - 

• A.  Henri used a Leica camera, one of the revolutionary cameras at the time that changed a lot of photography. Henri used this to his advantage to capture images at the perfect time.
• Q. Why is he famous?
•  A. He was able to capture a moment at the perfect time and still reveal a story through what it was he was taking a picture of.
• Q. Why is his work significant in Photojournalism?
• A. His work was significant to photojournalism because because he showed everyone what he could capture using the camera and he could capture images in a split second making every picture that he took real and not staged, they were images of the real life.
• Q. Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
• A.  Done.
• Q. What Camera/Technique did he use?
• Henri used the Leica