Landscape Series

Food Series

Online Photographers #2: Sharon Hill

Sharon Hill is another photographer that I looked up and studied a little bit on. She likes to take photo's of birds. Another photographer where timing is crucial to get that perfect picture. Especially with birds it can get really irritating because birds can move as oppose to a certain landscape. So looking for the perfect picture can be nearly impossible but with patience it can be done. I like her photo's of when the birds are flying, when they are flapping there wings because most of the pictures of birds I see the wings are blurry. I want to see the detail of the wings as they are flying. She really brings out the beauty of the birds whether they are flying or just sitting down somewhere in there nest. What inspired me was her timing that was done to get that perfect bird picture. She gives us a chance to see a bird up close and what it does. Like when the bird is swooping down to get food that is something hard to see close up and in detail.

Online Photographers #1: Joseph Holmes

Joseph Holmes is one of the photographers that I researched because I like his style of photography, which is landscape. I too like to take photography of landscape because there is so much that the landscape can offer to us. What inspires me from him is his ability to really take the boring colors and make them stand out in his work. He can take the color brown and make it seem like an important color. Like for example his photo's of the cliffs or canyons, he made them less boring by waiting on the right time of day to take the photo. He has influenced me by learning that timing is important for that important picture. Taking a picture or a flower will look different if it is taken at 12pm and in 6pm when the sun is setting or when there is clouds or completely sunny. This is when the cliche patience is virtue really comes into play.

Field Trip #4: Peter Fay

I went to the Ordover Gallery in Solona Beach to view the works of Peter Fay. His work that I saw in the gallery was very dark and had a sad tone to it because of the color of the photos. The photos taken by him were dark. He had this infrared look to most of his photography. I was looking at a stack of his work on a table and all of it was infrared. The ones that looked the best were on the buildings. The infrared look mixed into the picture of the buildings really made the buildings stand out because the buildings have this boring look to it. The buildings just stood there. They were old apartment buildings and he brought it back to life by putting in infrared. Peter Fay's work in the gallery is simple but he likes put meaning in to his photographs.

Field Trip #3: Baja California by Ralph Lee Hopkins

I went to the Natural History Museum and it was worth it. I went to see the Baja California photography by Ralph Lee Hopkins. His photographs were amazing to look at. About half of the pictures that he took I thought were paintings. The picture of the whale made me look at it for a few minutes because I couldn't believe that was an actual photo of the whale and not just a well painted picture. The picture was probably taken with precise timing with the right angle. With the right timing the photo can make a big difference between a hit or miss. Most of these pictures were very clear. The pictures of the different reptiles were very interesting because I have never seen the side of the reptiles. They were like models for the camera. Especially the iguana because of its color green which stands out and the blue sky which really makes the iguana really stand out.

There were other pictures there that were interesting to see, but this one picture that really made me think. It was the picture of the clear image of the cactus but at the same time the sky was a little blurred which made me wonder how would that picture form without enhancing it using programs like Photoshop. When you look at the cactus it feels like time is moving slow but when you look at the sky it feels like time is moving really fast. This picture causes confusion in a good way because it can make you think about it and just stair at it even more.

An-My Le

Le has an interesting approach to her photography. In the video we saw she photographed a lot about the military and her approach to how she wants to photograph them. When she showed the photograph most of them were black and white. She enjoys having them in black and white because they give kind of a not so boring picture because of its two colors but more of an original look to it. It is a more classy look. And when she took the photographs of the military the black and white fit the theme of how the military looks. Her camera is an old school camera that takes only black and white. She seems to not like the newer cameras that can change it into black and white.