Blur/focus

In this photo i used the blur tool to make the church stand out the most.

on the mountains i used the blur tool at 85%
on the closer mountains i used the blur tool at 50%
on the foreground i used the blur tool at 50%


I then used the sharpen tool to make the church stand out more, this was at 20%.

Photoshop glass

Photoshop

Alan Sugar photoshop

 

 
Lasso = L key
Quickmask = Q key
Modify the edge of selection  = Select/Modify/Expand
Turn the selection into a layer= cmd/ctrl J
Move the Layer to another Photo= Move tool =V key drag to another photo
Scale the layer= cmd/ctrl T
Copy the Layer= cmd/ctrl J

Portratiture

Portraiture. 

Portraits have been round for hundreds of years, although not by camera technology but by paintings and drawings. Portraits are used to identify people, promote famous people such as Kings, Queens, Actors, Singers Ect. But Portraits have been 'around' for so long, The first piece of portraiture that was found was in 1365 BC, an Eygyption 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 this is the oldest art style to be found, this shows how fascinated people have always been with creativity and it shows people have always thought about how to represent a 'Model'. Painters/Photographers/Camera's were only available to the Rich and more upper class, the portraits were usually for family photographs, celebrity photographs and royalty but now cameras upto the 1930s where photographers become more widely available and lower prices therefore more and more people are available to have portraits of family done. 

Cameras eventually became more affordable so a wide range of people do now own a camera of some sort, if it's on a Mobile Device, Computer or a hand held camera, a lot of people have access to one. Now Portraits are used for mainly to identify people (I.e.  Mugshots, social networking, school photographs and passports) also to advertise (Fashion, Celebrities for magazines/online).  Portraiture can be creative and each photographer uses a different mind, ideas and interpretation from taking the photographs. 

Diane Arbus. 

Diane Arbus was a photographer that used the camera to strip away what the person being photographed didn't want to see/know about them selves. She was born on March 14th, 1923, as an artistic youth she took interest in photography and learnt it with her husband, Allan Arbus - who was an actor.  She started doing fashion photography and then in the 1950s went on to demonstrate her unusual talent within photography, she travelled around New York City and took photographs of people in seedy hotels, public parks, a morgue and other locations. She was drawn to outsiders of society and a lot of these images were published in July 1960's issue of Esquire magazine. 

Arbus' photograph of Colin Wood shows a young boy holding a grenade, this is interpreted as a precursor to the violence within that time that was kicked off by the Kennedy Assassination. She took photographs of the unseen side of society at the time. Diane Arbus, took her own life in 1971, the reason why is unknown but she showed everything that was wrong with society.

Photo Journalism part 1

What is photo journalism?
Photo journalism is the use of photo's to tell a story about a event that focus' on a certain aspect of it to tell a narrative of the event it's self , they can be used on their own or along side a story and can be used to support a news. It's used in newspapers, magazines and on the internet.


Henri Cartier Bresson

Bresson is known as the "god father" of photo journalism as he transformed the face of photography by being one of the first photographers to record everyday life events without anyone "posing" (although current photographers argue the fact). Bresson was known for he's perfect timing on he's images, he knew where and when they best photos could be captured and would wait until the time was right to take the photos. One of he's famous photographs is a man jumping over a puddle, this as a decisive moment that he captured, the photography was called "Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare" and shows a silhouette jumping of a scrap piece of wood into a deep puddle. I believe the photo demonstrates the use of reflections. 







Robert Capa

D Day landings 6th June 1944

Robert Capa was a photojournalist, he was hired by 'Life Magazine' he covered 5 different wars but his most famous photographs were taken in 1944 (D Day) when he assisted in the second wave on Omaha Beach, where there was a fault in the dark room, and he lost 3 and a half rolls of photographs and only 11 frames were recovered.  He was known for capturing the moment, and he had 2 rules for his photography, 1. Get close and 2. Get closer. Capa famously said that, “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”. He risked his life to inform people of what was going on in the wars, He was considered one of the worlds 'greatest war photographers' as he's images captured reality. He unfortunately died at the age of 41 as a result of going into the war zones.




Tony Vaccaro


Tony Vaccaro was a soldier and recorded the war from a soliders point of view, he would carry a Gun and a camera with him, he used the Agra C3 to take the photographs. He always carried his camera with him whilst on the field, he took many shocking photographs of the war and was often taking images whilst being shot at, he risked his own life to take the images in the most dangerous situations. Some of his images were damaged in the harsh conditions of the war, he had to improvise when developing the images, he done them his self, which was a complicated and usually ended up damaging the photos with chemicals. He sent his images home to his sister but was confiscated by the military censor and were never recovered. He had a talent of capturing a moment if it's joyful or devastating, Vaccaro was able to capture them. He was more interested in capturing the image, rather than surviving.



Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams was an American photographer known for his work of portraits of Celebrities and politicians, but also for his war photography of 13 different wars. He is well known for his image he took in The Vietnam War, 'The Execution', which was one of the most iconic pictures of the war, it showed a man being shot by the Vietnamese general. The image was a shock to the entire world and Eddie Adams says to have 'regretted' taking the image since. It had a massive effect on Americans, people who were against war changed their minds and the photograph was not put in context and was used as propaganda to influence war, it was used to remind people who they are fighting and why they are.

Introduction of joanne

My name is Joanne and i use my Samsung Galaxy Ace to take images, also i use my Nikon P510

 

I enjoy taking pictures of my cat, and would like to either go into animal photography or music photography and hope that this course will help me get skills to do this.