Imogene Cunningham

I like this one of the man in the hat because it conveys a small sense of mystery since his face is partially obscured.

I LOVE this picture of the magnolia because it is so detailed. Look at all of the little curls on the center part!

This is a picture of Frida Kahlo who was a famous artist. I think its cool that Imogene cunningham made an artist in to a piece of art.

The cala lilies in this picture create a really interesting line that draws the eye to the center of the flower. Pretty contrast.

I think this picture is very romantic. I couldnt find any information on who the people were, but the picture really conveys a lot of emotion.

About: Imogene Cunningham was an American photographer known for her photography of botanicals and industry. She was born in Portland, Oregon in 1883. When she was 23 she first encountered the work of Gertrude Kasebier which influenced her to take up photography as an art. She subsidized her tuition at the U of Washington by taking pictures of plants for the botany department. After graduating she went to work with Edward S Curtis in Seattle. She went on to win awards for her portraits that she took in 1913.

Work: Imogene Cunningham is the name of my enlarger and I couldnt think of a photographer to do this on so I looked her up. It turns out I really like her pictures. She took lots of photographs of plants and I love taking pictures of plants so thats one reason I really like her. Her portraits also do a very good job of depicting emotion and I really like that. Since she took her pictures so long ago that the film has a very sepia colored tone and I like that a lot too. It gives the pictures a much different feel.

Final Project

For my final project I have come up with two ideas

1) The cliche but potentially really cool one, age. Old people and young people, the things time does to people, and so forth. Like I say potentially really cool but I think lots of people will have this idea.

2) This one I like better. Being in Utah at this season you can see multiple seasons in one place. Therefore you could photograph pictures that depict spring, summer, and winter all within one week in the spring term. I could take pictures of spring flowers, the snow in the mountains, people at the pools that open soon, all sorts of things. It represents time passing as the seasons change, but the funny thing is they're all taken within a few weeks of each other.

Paul Caponigro

I particularly like this one called pond scum, because he takes something so gross (pond scum) and makes it very beautiful. The contrast and focus are very nice I think.

This Stonehenge one is one of the ones that documents something in a way that is beautiful. The rock in the foreground works very well I think because it balances out the field with the rock formation.

This photo is pretty stunning. At first it confused me because I thought that the black sky was actually the clouds. When i figured it out i was like whoa! because how do you even get a shot like this? It looks like the tree is glowing and the clouds are white and the sky is black! Very cool.

This one is called running white deer for obvious reasons, and it is one of his most famous photos. It almost looks like its a negative since the background is so dark and the deer are so white. But no. The blur is amazing and works very well on the black background.

This is one of the still life portraits. They almost look like paintings because of the way he shoots them, and I like It a lost. I think the contrast says a lot in this one, and the pears being in the circle plate really draws the eye. Also the fact that the pears are so stunningly white!

About:
Paul Caponigro was born in Boston, MA in 1932 and is renowned as one of America's most prestigious photographers. He first started to become interested in photography when he was thirteen and continued in the field throughout his life. Through various side jobs with photography in his early adult life, he became grounded in the career. Some of his major photographic influences were Ansel Adams, Minior White, Edward Weston, and Benjamin Chin. He went on to become a great photographer.

Work:
Paul Caponigro is my favorite photograper of the few that I know anything about. He photographs nature the works of early man in a way that had never been done before, and his prints make a lasting impression on the world of photography. Many of his simple still life portraits are just that, simple, but still manage to convey a much deeper meaning than what is simply there. His photographs of places such as Japan, and architecture from early England and Ireland is simply amazing. Some photographers document things with their pictures. Some make pictures that are intriguing to look at. Caponigro did both. His pictures are amazing and I hope one day I can be as amazing of a photographer as him.

Final Project- MAILBOXES

So this is my final project!!!!

I did mailboxes and it turned out pretty great I think. I spent a whole Saturday driving around up in Midway/Heber looking for sweet ones and I think I fould some really really good ones. My favorite is the old rusty mailbox and the flamingo. I took them both in color and converted them later and when they're in color you can really see how fantastically great the light was. I took most of these between 3 and five and they turned out really good.

My next favorite is the old fashioned mailbox, and you cant see it in black and white but its a copper mailbox that turned blue with age and it and the gate of the house that it was at were so pretty!But dont worry because I wasn't just seduced by color because I think that they are still great pictures compositionally.

As for the entire term of photo, I think I really learned a lot about how to take pictures well and how to make them better. The most valuable things I learned were definitely;

1) How to bracket!!!! It helped me get good exposures all term long and I actually ended up liking the bracketing assignment.

2) TRIPOD! the tripod saved me so many times and made my pictures way better. On the reshoot assignment I was able to reshoot that Hymnbook about a million times better just because I had a tripod and was able to hold the camera still and move it in new places that I wasn't able to before.

Without these muy importante things I would not have been able to produce the images that I did this term. Also good lighting makes a big big big big big difference too.

ASSIGNMENT #5 - Reshoot

So I liked this assignment. This picture is one of my favorite ones that I've done all term. It was a really difficult decision to choose just one though!

My favorite thing about this image is definitely how great the lighting was. It was by this window in my dining room, and its actually shot in the exact same spot that the original one was. Its amazing that even though they're in the same spot the reshot one is so much better! I mean they were even both at the same time of day!

Also I retouched it in like 2 steps! extra credit!!! woot!!!

Ok so here's the deal....

Well last night I reshot my reshoot assignment and they turned out freaking sweet since I found this great window to put them by. I was way excited to come and work on them today but then I woke up with a sore throat fever and headache so that didnt really work out. But then I was talking to my dad and it turns out that we have photoshop and bridge on our mac so I imported all of the pics! Im putting them on here UNEDITED because I like them so much :D i dont know how ill choose one for the actual assignment.

Ok so the first two arent as cool picturally as the other four but here is why they're sweet.

So I was taking pictures of this little book and my mom saw me and she told me to be way careful with it. When I asked why she said that that was HER great-grandma's (my great-great-grandmas) mormon hymnbook that she had brought to salt lake with her from sweden when she was fifteen and had converted. Cool huh? Inside of the cover is her dated signature from the day that she arrived in salt lake. I took a picture of the text because swedish words are funny to read Hannah- I dare you to pick a hymn and sing those words to it
Slade-you better comment because I am practically on my deathbed here

Final Project Ideas

In order of greatest to not as greatest

*Sweet Mailboxes
*Churches (theres a couple of way cool catholic churches downtown)
*REALLY tall buildings (well, as tall as we have here in salt lake city, which admittedly isnt very tall)
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