Zombie Movie Poster

Poster for Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Crawley Futures

Photography treatment

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ok_15JAfRm5LIFKICS8cplxY3sojrsWhy1zTOWen3CM/edit?usp=sharing

Pictures for photoshop

These are the three images that i took for Photoshop.

treatment

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ok_15JAfRm5LIFKICS8cplxY3sojrsWhy1zTOWen3CM/edit?usp=sharing

Blur and Sharpening photo's

Here i have blurred the background and foreground and sharpened the church to make it the main focus of the image.
The mountains in the far distance are blurred by 85%, the next set are set at 50% and the closest set of background mountains are set at 25%. Also the foreground is set at 50%.

Battlefield 4 image

The Original

New Version

Here i have added blur to the image. I added it to the background so that the soldier is fully the focus of the piece as well as the rock to the left to add perspective. I used 75 and 50% strength on the blur tool.

Broken Glass

Future Crawley
For my futuristic Crawley pictures, i plan on turning Crawley into an overgrown abandoned town that has, within the past century has been devastated by a civil war. So buildings will be on fire, there will be plant life everywhere and crumbled down buildings

[Fashion Photography]

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

I think that images are allowed to be manipulated in fashion magazines but only to a slight degree. This is because i think that manipulations do help the magazines sell and so i can understand them doing it. However i don't think that models should be manipulated too much because some people then will go to extremes to try and look like what can only be achieved via Photoshop tampering which could ultimately harm the person trying to get that way by looking for unrealistic expectations.


When is an image a portrait and when is it a fashion photograph

The difference between portraiture and fashion photography is the focus of the piece. 
In portraiture the focus of the piece is the person that is being photographed. This might be a certain type of emotion the person is showing or just to present the persons characteristics. This is because the photographer is selling the image of the person rather than superficial stuff such as clothing.

Portrait of Barack Obama

 

Whereas in fashion photography the main focus is the clothing and accessories that the person has on them, such as a jumper or handbag, rather than the person. This is because the fashion company wants to sell the clothing rather than the image of the person.

Vogue November 2013 edition

Portraiture

Journey of Portraiture 

The earliest known surviving portraits, that aren't of emperors or kings were the funeral portraits that were painted in Egypt. These are the only surviving paintings from the classical world that have survived.

Ancient Egyptian/Roman Funeral Portrait

The Ancient Greeks and the Romans used it in their sculptures. The people wanting the portraiture were looking for individualized and realistic portraits, even if the portraits aren't flattering. After, during the 4th century, people who wanted portraiture began to want a more idealized symbol of what the person looked like.

Then during the middle ages, true portraits of the appearance reappeared in Tomb monuments, donor portraits, miniatures in illuminated manuscripts and then panel paintings.
The ancient civilization of Peru was one of the first that produced Portraits. These Portraits were the first to truly produce a persons features in good detail. However the people who were portrayed were members of the ruling elite, priests, warriors and distinguished artisans because the production of these portraits were expensive due to the time and effort that was required during production.

One of the best known portraits, of the Western world, is the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. The world's oldest currently known portrait was found in 2006 in Vilhonneur (southwest France) and is thought to be roughly 27,000 years old.

Today, Portrait photography is a very popular industry all over the world. Nowadays people have professionally made family portraits hanging in their homes or have portraits to show special events such as weddings etc.

The popularity of portraits has increased since the 19th century due to the reduction in cost to produce a portrait. Before the 19th century, only the rich (e.g. royalty) could afford portraits whereas today portraits are inexpensive to produce because we can use a camera which takes less time, effort and materials than it does to produce a portrait via painting.

Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was an American photographer and writer who was known for her black and white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people" (this included dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or people who by normality seem ugly or surreal. Arbus believed that a camera could be "a little bit cold, a little bid harsh" however through this truth was brought out in the pictures.

This truth was the difference between what people wanted others to see in their photos and what was really there (the flaws). Diane Arbus committed suicide on July 26, 1971 by taking barbiturates and slashing her wrists with a razor.

An example of her work is of the Matthaei family. In several of the portraits of the family, Marcella is seen interacting with her parents and siblings however when Arbus photographed her alone and isolated, we see her stand stiff, her face expressionless and her eyes have thick bags under them.
This allowed us to see what Marcella really felt like under the surface of the family dynamic.

Marcella Matthaei

Thomas Hoepker Profile

Thomas Hoepker Profile

Thomas hoepker is a German photographer who was born in Munich and is a member of

Magnum Photos (known for stylish color photo features). He started taking photographs when

he was 16 using an old 9x12 glass plate camera he received from his grandfather. He first

started making money selling photographs to his friends and classmates. During 1956, he

studied art history and archaeology at Goettingen, in Munich, Germany. This was important for his photography work later in the years because doing this taught him about understanding images and composition.

To help finance his education, Hoepker continued to sell his photography during his school years. During the years 1960-1963 he worked as a photographer for Munchner Illustrierte and Kristall which included him having to report from around the world. This happened up until 1964 where he started working as a photojournalist for Stern Magazine. During this time Magnum began to distribute all of Hoepker’s photo’s.

Then during 1972 he worked briefly as a cameraman and producer of documentary films for German television and after 1974 his wife, journalist Eva Windmoeller, and him collaborated work together. This was first done in East Germany and then New York, where they moved to work as correspondents for Stern in 1976. Then from 1978 to 1981, Hoepker became the director of photography for the American edition of Geo.

Thomas Hoepker worked as art director for Stern in Hamburg between the years 1987 and 1989, to which after this point he became a full member of Magnum Photos.

Hoepker specialised in reportage using pictures and stylish color features for which he received the Kulturpreis of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie in 1968 (Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography).

Among other awards he received for his work, he received one in 1999 from the German Ministry of Foreign Aid for Death in a Cornfield, a TV film on Guatemala.

Hoepker is also credited for the most controversial photograph of 9/11. It shows a group of young people sitting on the East River bank in Brooklyn who appear to be talking and relaxing while a black smoke cloud behind them shows the destruction of the twin towers.

Overall, Hoepker has made 5 films. This includes; The Village Arabati - 1973, Death in a Cornfield - 1998, Robinson Crusoe Island - 2000, Easter Island - 2003 and Ice-cold Splendor - 2005.

Today, Thomas Hoepker lives in New York where he shoots and produces TV documentaries alongside his second wife Christine Kruchen. Through the years 2003 - 2006 he was the president of Magnum Photos and his work, showing 230 images of fifty years of work, is touring Germany and other parts of Europe since 2006.

Alot of his work can be found on Magnum photo’s website here:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL5351FG

Sources:

http://www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R13ZFL3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoepker

http://www.anastasia-photo.com/thomas-hoepker-bio.php

Summary of work & accomplishments:

Education

1956/59  Art History and Archaeology, Goettingen/Munich, Germany

Awards

1999       German ministry of foreign aid, 1st prize for documentary Death in a Cornfield

1968       Kulturpreis, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Photographie

Exhibitions

2006       Photographien 1955-2005 - Photomuseum, Munich, Germany

1995       Retrospective - Claus Tebbe Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1994       The Maya - Kunsthalle Cologne, Cologne, Germany

1985/87  Retrospective, 25 cities in Germany

1976       Rizzoli Gallery, New York and Rizzoli Gallery, Washington D.C., USA

1965       Kunst und Gewerbe Museum, Hamburg, Germany

Books

2005       Thomas Hoepker, Photographien 1955-2005, Schirmer & Mosel, Germany

1998       Return of the Maya: Guatemala. A Tale of Survival, Henry Holt, USA

1991       Land of Enchantment, New Mexico, Philip-Morris books, Germany

1989       HA Schult, Fetisch Auto, Germany

1988       Rome, Hofmann & Campe, Germany

1987       New Yorker: 50 unusual portraits, Stemmle, Schaffhausen, Germany

1986       HA Schult, New York ist Berlin, Germany

1986       Amerika: History of the discovery from Florida to Canada, Germany

1985       Leben in der DDR. Life in East Germany, Sternbuch, Germany

1985       Ansichten.Fotos von 1960 bis 1985, Braus, Heidelberg, Germany

1984       Der Wahn vom Weltreich: Germany’s former Colonies, Sternbuch, Germany

1984       Now! Überdosis New York/ HA Schult., Germany

1983       Die New York-Story, GEO Buch, Germany

1983       Thomas Höpker (I Grandi Fotografi), Rizzoli,Italy

1978       Vienna, Time/Life books, Holland

1977       Heinz Mack, Expedition in künstliche Gärten. Art in Desert and Ice, Sternbuch,

             Germany

1976       Berliner Wände,  C. Hanser, Germany

1974       Die Iren und ihre Lieder, (Ireland and its songs), Germany

1967       Horst Janssen, artist’s portraits, Galerie Brockstedt, Germany

1963       Yatun papa. Father of the Indians. Dr. Theodor Binder, Kosmos, Germany

1963       Lebendiges Kiel, Presseamt der Stadt Kiel, Germany

1960       Finnland, Terra Magica, Germany

1957       Jugend in dieser Zeit, Steingrüben, Germany

Films

2005       Ice-cold Splendor

2003       Easter Island

2000       Robinson Crusoe Island

1998       Death in a Cornfield

1973       The Village Arabati

Photojournalism (War)

 Robert Capa/Tony Viccaro

• Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2 
• Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs

Eddie Adams

•  Describe the difference between the video footage and the photograph of the "Execution"

Remember to get a Merit grade


You will need to cover the above evidence in sentences/paragraphs and not as answers to the questions and then with you own thoughts and arguments discuss, what makes Photojournalism a reliable/unreliable style of photography 

To get Distinction grade

You will need to cover the merit question and then apply this definition to another example that you come up with yourself E.g. Modern approaches to photo gathering at news events such as crowd sourcing, twitter etc. Are these more effective?
Who imployed them
what pictures did they take

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Robert Capa and Tony Viccaro where both wartime photographers who made vast photographic coverage of World War 2. I think that the difference between Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro's views on war are extremely conflicting. Robert Capa said that "war is glorious". I believe this is partly due to the fact that he was able to just drop in and out of war and see what he wanted. Where as Tony Vaccaro saw the evil in war, which i believe is due to him having to stay and see all sides of war that Capa didn't stay around to see.

Robert Capa
Robert Capa was employed by a private company (life magazine) to take pictures of war times. This allowed him the opportunity to get in and out of the action whenever he wanted. His two rules were:
Rule 1: Get Close
Rule 2: Get Closer
Robert Capa used the Leica camera to take pictures during world war 2 because he got lots of money from life magazine and the Leica was the best camera you could get for portability. This was needed so he could get really close to the battle and stay mobile.


Some of his work:

                                     

First Wave of American Soldiers during D-Day

                                  

American Soldier capturing a German Soldier

Tony Vaccaro
Tony Vaccaro was drafted for the US Military in 1943 as a private in the 83rd Infantry division. This was good for his photography however because it allowed him to get to the front lines of the action and so allow him to take uncensored pictures. The military at the time was using the speedgraphic camera for photojournalism.

But Tony switched to the Argus C3 because the speedgraphic was only able to take 2 pictures at a time and was slow to put in a new reel of film. The reason Tony used the Argus C3 over the Leica is because the Leica was expensive and he didn't have enough money to get it.

Some of Tony's photographs of the war was destroyed by the military because a lot of his photos contained the pictures of dead US soldiers.
Some of his work:
                                                  

German Soldier returning home

Bomb Damaged Reichstag

 Eddie Adams
There are many differences between the video footage and the photo of the execution.

The picture isn't able to capture the shock of the people there as much as the video. In the video
the people around quickly move out of the way at the last moment when he pulls the gun up, showing how quickly and unexpectedly the event occurred whereas with the picture, it doesn't exactly show how on the spot that decision to shoot him was.
Also with the picture, that one frame is able to capture what looks to me like a split second of shock and pain from the person being shot like he didn't see it coming. However with the video it looks to me like he did see it coming as the gun was out for a few seconds and he looked really calm.

I think that, nowadays, photojournalism is really unreliable. I believe this because of the amount of editing that can be done to pictures. In pictures, you are able to completely remove some things from the image without anybody noticing and this could completely change the meaning of the image. For example even years ago Stalin was able to completely remove people from his pictures if he wanted to and that was done without the use of today's technology.
Also photojournalism is only able to capture one single frame at a time. This makes it unreliable because what was happening at that time could have been a one off event compared to what usually happens.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iuku5cBFJY

Photojournalism Part 1

Photojournalism - Explain what it is
Photojournalism is a type of journalism that involves reporting the events through a visual means (photographs). This is useful because it allows the reader to get a real sense of the events going on and also allows the illiterate to keep up with the story.

Henri Cartier Bresson

Why was he famous?
Henri Carter Bresson was famous because he was very good at envisioning good pictures and then acting on them. He was really good at being in the right place at the right time because he would wait in the right places for something to occur. He was also one of the first people to use the next gen cameras called the Leica.

Why was his work significant?
His work was significant because he helped street photography or life reportage gain influence throughout the world and because he was one of the first to use the Leica camera.

His work

His Camera & Technique
Henri was one of the first to use the Leica. It was a camera that took a photograph within seconds and so was revolutionary on the capturing of live events. His technique involved him patiently waiting for an opportunity to arise that would allow him to capture the perfect shot of an event.

Introduction

Photography is involved in my life because my father used to be a photographer for a club.
If i want to take a picture i could use my families canon. Hover i would probably just use my blackberry

I hope to gain skills in Photoshop from this course