Portraits

Who Where When Why

My little sister Jessica against a wall in my room at night using my lamp as lighting

I wanted her fist to be out of focus with a black eye showing that aside from her black eye she is willing to fight through. 

 I took this to to focus on her big eyes and a contrast between the sheet made it more dramatic and i wanted there to be  texture in the photo

 I wanted play around with the options I had to make the picture "pop" and she ended up loving the paint on her face so we had a lot of fun with it. 

 I took this one because I wanted to capture her not looking directly at the camera

 This one was not on purpose but I was able to get it right before another shot she was ready for. I like this one a lot because i think that it looks really cool. 

 I feel that this one captured exactly the way she it. She is always laughing and I got the shot mid laugh

 I wanted to get a contrast between the lighting on her face and I feel that it turned out well

I wanted her to have a serious picture. 

I wanted to make a dramatic picture and I think that this one looked nice

Beauty

         Beauty is simply the satisfaction or pleasure someone gets after looking at a photograph. In photography it is the ability to portray something to be pleasing or intriguing to the eye. I think that in a good picture something "ugly" can easily be seen as beautiful because through the lens of a camera photographers are able to show the beauty in any ugly aspect of life by showing it in a different light. 

Pumpkin

Pumpkin in class

Brownie Camera

A brownie camera was an inexpensive, box shaped camera that introduced the concept of a snapshot camera. 
Eastman Kodak invented it in February of 1900. 
It changed the society by making everything easier for the photographer. There slogan was "You push the button, we do the rest" helped reach out to a more inexperienced photographer.  This changed the photography world by making it easier for others to take pictures. 

Alfred Stieglitz

Alfred Stieglitz is noteworthy in history because he dared to be different in the way that he took pictures that made a statement and showed what was going on in the world. He made an impact on those that looked at his photos and forced others to look at life in a different way. His photos were of American changing in the way that it he captured the urbanization, and industrialization of his time period. 

Aside from being beautiful I chose this photo because I think that it shows how he captured what was changing in his new life in America. I also love the fog throughout this picture. 

O'Keefe was Stieglitz's wife after divorcing his first wife. She was a painter and wasn't very famous when they first met, but he helped her take off by putting some of her paintings in his studio. They wrote to each other very often and had an undying love for many years. They both proceeded to do what they loved but still had each other in one another's hearts. 

Tilt Shift

Pin hole image

Nicéphore Niépce

 He is a very important person because he was the man to have invented photography.He is most known for producing the first known photograph in 1825. The photo is a picture outside of his window, it captures the roof.I think that he is extremely remarkable because he was able to produce the first successful permanent photo.