HDR blog post
High Dynamic Range. 

• dynamic range is the difference between the lightest light and darkest dark you can capture in a photo. 
• Once your subject exceeds the camera’s dynamic range, the highlights tend to wash out to white, or the darks simply become big black blobs. 
• It’s notoriously difficult to snap a photo that captures both ends of this spectrum, but with modern shooting techniques and advanced post-processing software, photographers have devised ways to make it happen. 
• This is basically what HDR is: a specific style of photo with an unusually high dynamic range that couldn’t otherwise be achieved in a single photograph.
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/what-is-hdr-beginners-guide-to-high-dynamic-range-photography/
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• These images where taken with a canon rebel T1i
• I used photomatix to edit the images together, then used Photoshop for some simple touch ups.
• I manually focused the images and used the auto bracket tool to take images from a -2 exposure to a +2 exposure. 

Photo Essay 

 http://time.com/11254/afghanistan-msf-health-care/

          

          

          

          

Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov

In this photo essay found online, from TIME magazine, is about the hard to reach healthcare in all parts of Afghanistan. This essay is from earlier in the year in the time that foreign troops were leaving Afghanistan, after being located there for over 10 years, and documents the quality of healthcare that Afghans are receiving and will receive once foreign aid is no longer available. "access to emergency or basic medical care remains hard to reach" quotes the author of the title. In this article i learned that even though billions of dollars have been spent in humanitarian work in Afghanistan, There is still work to be done. Many people the authors interviewed stated that they had family members and friends die from lack of proper care. Many hospitals don't have the right equipment, staff, or even electricity to run a health facility. The only good note about the article is that the number of healthcare facilities has considerably risen, with having a health facility at least an hour walking distance. 

1. A photo essay is a series of photographs, normally documentary, which is meant to impact people and tell a meaning or story of current events in the world.

2. This article and the photos relate because they are evidence of what the article is talking about. We see in the pictures poverty all over Afghanistan, People receiving poor healthcare, and no help being delivered. 

W.Eugene Smith

W.Eugene Smith uses over exposure in the first image to darken out the surrounding areas of the image and focuses on bringing light to the face of the boy in the tub of water. Using this form of exposure you can see very good detail in the boys face and his body. He uses this to show his viewers the pain that he and his mother are in but also the darkness shows that emptiness and the helplessness they feel. By brightening whites and darkening blacks, He not only tells a story, but creates awareness to his viewers as a cry of help. In the second image most of it is underexposed, to show detail in both the girls face and the doctors face. He was able to capture sorrow, pain, and peace all in one image. The exposure allows for the wrinkles in the man forehead to be brought out and it allows for a softness in the girls face, which shows pureness and helplessness.

Alpha threat quarantine area 177c

On Friday October 31st 2014, we visited a top quarantined area located in an old shack a couple yards from a local high school. What we found there is something never seen, or photographed before. Walking in through the doors, following a CDC official, we were automatically surrounded by panels of barbed wire 9 ft tall. At that point most our crew wanted to return, but the doors were soon to be closed. Once inside we made our way around what seemed to be an abounded area, locating unnatural items all around the contaminated floor. We walked through a door to the left side, passed the wire, and through a room with contaminating trash all around. We had to be careful. Once inside we were left by our CDC guide as he check the last room in the area. We were in the dark for approximately 300 seconds, when suddenly we heard a noise coming from one of the doors. Scared, we opened the door, looked trough the small opening, and saw nothing. Nothing was there, but we knew something once had been there and it was waiting to return. We found our guide and made our way back to the front doors. As we reached to close the doors once our crew had exited the building, we heard a loud scream coming closer and closer, our guide hurried to close and lock quarantine area 177c before anything that didn't come in with us, escape. One must see these pictures, to believe what had happened that day.

So i decided to make my "about light" series about all different aspects of light. I choose to not only focus on one form of light such as the sun but also focus on shadows, mechanical light, sunlight, etc. I believe that light has many sources and is so beautiful that no image can really do it justice. It was harder than expected to "capture light" because i wanted it to be like a ray of light coming through a tree, but i later realized that there is light everywhere and you can photograph almost anything and make it about light, which is why my series is a mix and match of different images of light. My favorite image is the one of the concert. I  had such a great time, but i also got to experiment with what i wanted for the image and i think it came out better than i imagined. 

This image is about light because, it shows a light source coming through the water in the clear glass and its reflection on the hard surface. You can see the reflection of the glass on the surface and its long proportions and you can see the light through the reflection. 

Two Boardwalks, Dunalley, Tasmania, Australia. 2013

This is my favorite picture by Mr. Kenna. I love the use of the deep deep blacks without the really bright whites. I love how the whole image is done in a black-grey scale using different shades of the color, black, to achieve the look. This image is in a very "iconic" style, meaning many people have done it, but i really enjoy Kenna's version. I feel that the picture has a lot to say and thus why it has been copies so many times. I love how the boardwalk that the image was taken on is from a perspective that makes the boardwalk look so long. I feel that the longness of the boardwalk is almost a representation of the paths that we choose in our lives. I can be long and dreadful and it may seem like it is never ending. I really think that this image represents that perfectly. I also love the blurry affect of the boardwalk on the left. To me it represents a different path that you made have taken in your life and it is always there in the back of your mind. My FAVORITE part of the image is the deep black of the water on the right-side corner. It is a beautiful deep black and i feel that i means evil i someones life. I also like the mountains in the very very far left corner. I feel that they might signify a greater power over your life, It might be a spiritual, emotional, religious, etc power but it is there clear and present in your life. I also love the white that is overcoming the dark, its like a dark vs light conflict. I love images like this. Why? Because you can make your own stories to it, like everything that i just wrote is what the image means to me, but someone else could come and look at this image and find a completely different meaning to this image. That what i love about photography overall. It like a complete book in one image. You can look at it and come up with a complete story in your mind, and it can be a different story then everyone else's. I believe Mr. Kenna is a great photographer, he captures moments, feelings, and stories all in one image and i believe that is great talent. Mr. Kenna uses Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras to achieve these images. "Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours" (Wiki). I admire Mr. Kenna for all the time and dedication that he puts into his images and it really shows this dedication because his images are truly beautiful. Every time i look at his photography i feel really inspired to go out, grab a camera, and just start shooting the beautiful things around us that we take for granted everyday, that is why i choose Mr. Kenna to do my research project over. 

I choose to do my biography research project over Michael Kenna. Kenna is a black and white landscape photographer and although he grew up England, he moved to the states in the 80s to pursue his career in photography. He moved to San Francisco but traveled all throughout the world to take landscape pictures. 
 Mr. Kenna uses Hasselblad medium format and Holga cameras to achieve these images. "Kenna's photography focuses on unusual landscapes with ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with exposures of up to 10 hours" (Wiki). I admire Mr. Kenna for all the time and dedication that he puts into his images and it really shows this dedication because his images are truly beautiful. Every time i look at his photography i feel really inspired to go out, grab a camera, and just start shooting the beautiful things around us that we take for granted everyday, that is why i choose Mr. Kenna to do my research project over. 

Mt. Pilatus, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. 1998

Chateau Lafite, Study 12, Bordeaux, France. 2012

Akul's View, Mid Levels, Hong Kong. 2010

Torii Gate, Study 2, Shosanbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan. 2014

Waiting Freighter, Port Angeles, Washington, USA. 2013

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Respond answers:

1. The poem is clearly written in a first Peron point of view, so the narrator has written as if writing from this persons mind.  The meaning of this poem to me is like a last wish. In the poem Tennyson references death ion several occasions, so its like he has this last wish to explore the seas with his men instead of sitting on a throne commanding people who don't truly know or worship him. 
2. My favorite lines: 51-52

"Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done."

In these lines i believe the narrator is trying to say that he understands that one day he must go but, he has things that he still can do for the world and he would rather go out, explore, and make a difference instead of dwelling one that fact the one day he must day and being miserable in his life at home.  

Experimental pinhole photography

 

What is a pinhole camera?

    A simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture, a pinhole. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the light proof box (Wikipedia).

 

Regular pinhole photography:

 

 

 

 

Experimental pinhole photography:

 

This image is my favorite for experimental pinhole. I love how this person took something as simple as your mouth and turned it into a camera. I know that this person worked very hard on this image because I have worked with pinhole cameras before and they are a handful!! I could image doing all this while you have a piece of photo paper inside your mouth. I would definitely try this because I think it is so unique!

I also think that another experiment you can try with pinhole photography is having moving objects instead of still objects. with people this gives the "ghost" affect that looks super cool!

 



My favorite experiment to do with pinhole cameras is to take your box and poke several apertures (pinholes) through it to make a multi pinhole camera. This gives you several different images layered on one another and the end results are pretty cool. 

Hand scans layered together.