Ten Pictures.

Merger

Balance

Balance

Cropping

Depth

Thirds

Framing

Thirds

Lines

Simple

Symmetry

Viewpoint

Hurricane Ike

During Hurricane Ike, the anticipation and fear of what was going to happen next kept people on edge. And when Ike hit, it hit hard. These pictures greatly capture the reform and rebuilding with great balance and simplicity. The first, with the man walking in the middle brings simplicity and a matched colored theme. The second has great balance with the three boys walking across and the lateral sign gives movement to the boys direction. The third one's composition is great, the man, waiting is the foreground but he fits the bottom thirds of the picture. The last picture is also another thirds one, it may seem like a lot is going on but what is being focused on is the men on the cars fixing what they can and the two buildings on each side draw attention what is further out there.

Great black and white photographers, PART 2.

Josef Koudelka, a Moravian native, was born in a small town. Born in 1938, he began photography with a Bakelite camera & later earned a degree at University of Technology in Prague. He went on to end his engineering career and pursue photography. Working on grants and other funding he was awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal of courage for smuggling pictures of the Warsaw pact invading the Czech for reform. Going to win many pretiged awards & recieve much praise from others he resides now in France & has two daughters and a son all living in different parts of Europe.

Pinhole

1) All the light spots on the negative were darker on the postie & also the positive was more detailed.
2) Dictionary;; Negative - noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.
My definition is basically that it captures the luminance or light of the picture. 
3) If the light in the picture hits 0 degrees, which means it's head on, it won't bend but if it is being hit at with an angle of 90 degrees or more it will bend the opposite direction.  

Merger

The pole leads you off the page and back to the men in uniform instead of blending in with them. But the buildings in the background drown out the soldiers.

Rule of Thirds

On this photograph the eye is attracted to the mother's lips the to the baby, who is the focus of this picture. He's centered to a third of the picture which adds to the dynamics.

Balance

This photo represents balance in a loop. It brings you back to the son kissing his mother then back again because of the focus on their heads.

Framing

The top picture's framing is the mess on the outside, it feels like the inside of the wreckage looking out.
On the bottom picture the flags lines lead straight to the woman talking, framing her instantly.

Simplicity

It's simple, the point of both pictures is of these people's grief of 9/11.The close up of the man's face shows his tears and the little girl crying with a picture of his father is straightforward.

Lines

The lines in the background adds to the firefighters in the foreground. It towers over them & reaches to the sky like an impossible mission.

Black And White

Alvarez Bravo

Roy DeCarava

Josef Koudelka

Exposure control
The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time, and the shutter controls the length of time that the light hits the recording surface. Equivalent exposures can be made with a larger aperture and a faster shutter speed or a corresponding smaller aperture and with the shutter speed slowed down.

Lens
The lens of a camera captures the light from the subject and brings it to a focus on the film or detector.

Focus
only objects within a limited range of distances from the camera will be reproduced clearly. The process of adjusting this range is known as changing the camera's focus.

Image capture
The process of obtaining a digital image from a vision sensor, such as a camera.

aperture
is a hole or an opening through which light travels

shutter
is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.

exposure
the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph.

depth of field
is the portion of a scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image.

F-stop
an optical system expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens; in simpler terms, the f-number is the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.

focal length
an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.

No time for cameras.

Men with words of wisdom.

Sometimes a blurry picture with an interesting enough foreground works.But it could still be improved.

Who would've thought the perspective from the gentlemen bathroom sink would be that amusing. It's something most people don't get to see, but I guess most people wouldn't want to see it anyway.

Warm lighting & fuzzy apertures adds to the early Sunday morning feel.

 

 

second.

The similar vibe both these girls are giving off makes this photo interesting.

I don't know what I was doing, but I like your head, Mr. Reeves.