Blind Photo_Rittenhouse

http://www.mccullagh.org/photo/1ds-15/swinging-action-shot

It wouldn't let me upload the picture but I chose this photo because it is a moment caught in time amidst the chaos of this man swinging from his trestraints. You can barely see his face and certainly not his eyes but you can sense the anger and ferocity he has. It gives you an overwhelming sense of emotion without the normal angry eyes and furrowed brow picture. 

Jehiel- Week 6

Corinna Portrait

By Jehiel Boner

I like this photo because of the cold tones and yet warm natural lighting.  

Mask

By Kurt Weston

Kurt Weston is actually a blind photographer.  This is a technique he uses by having his subjects place there faces on a photocopying device.  This offers an extremely shallow depth of field and offers a morbid effect as well.  

Ramesses II 

By Jehiel Boner

gray porto

This is a picture I took while in Porto, Portugal. The boats like this were used for port wine. I took this picture looking at the Ribeiro district along the river. I like the way the city and the boat reflect in the water and the composition of this picture.

gray blind photo

This is a picture of combat during the Vietnam War. It is an example of blind photography because it literally seems like someone just snapped the picture as some of the soldiers were carrying a wounded soldier to safety, as one was going down because he had been hit, and the one in foreground is grimacing in pain. It is a very real depiction of what war is like and this photo and ones like it are probably why so many people protested the Vietnam War whereas today you do not see nearly as many photos of combat so the anti-War movement is not strong hardly at all.

Hadley Manfredi - Week 6

The Thinker Sculpture by Rodin

This little boy is posed very similarly to the sculpture by Rodin and is very reminiscent of it.

Reich week 6

This is a picture I took in Florence over the weekend.  I really like the lighting in this image and how the bridge is much darker than the buildings on each side of it. 

Blind Photography

This photo was taken Hannah Marlin as a high school senior project. She titled the photo blind. It struck me as blind photography for a few reasons. First the person in the picture has their eyes closed, making them blind to their surroundings. The background helps capture this feeling because there is nothing but darkness with a little corner of light. Making the viewer blind to everything except for the girl. What really struck me though was the lace around her head. it reminded me of a gauze wrap that someone who sustained an eye injury, that may have left them blind, might have around their head.

I thought this photo fit into the idea of sight and gaze. While I and my two friends on the right are looking up at the Dome of the vatican, my friend on the left (with what almost look like blind glasses) is staring off in a completely opposite direction, as if he was in fact blind and therefore did not know where everyone was focusing their attention.

Wednesday Traditionall FIlm Course

The actress Aglaia Mora
is coming tomorrow at 13:30
for a portrait photo shooting

Please, if you have a digital reflex camera bring it in class

Corinna Rombi

Villa Borghese

Alanna - Blind

I consider this picture blind photography for two reasons, one being that the subjects are not facing the camera so they are unaware of the picture making it genuine. The second being that they are casted in shadow due to the lighting, I think this is a very beautiful and ambiguous way to take a picture, you don't need to see facial expressions or details for the picture to convey what it is meant to. It is a wedding picture and without faces you can still see love.

Smith Week #5: Amboise

I took this photo this past weekend in Amboise. Inset is Chateau Rideau, which sets on its own lake. The day was especially gray and made for an interesting effect with the water. See if you can tell what it is.

Alanna

Some of my favorite pictures from my perfect roll, they are not perfect due to a problem with some of the chemicals that were a bit old but I still love them especially since it was my first time developing black and white film.

Smith Week #5: Blind Photography

This picture caught my attention as an example of blind photography. However, I chose to post it this week because it toys with the idea of the gaze. Typically, the audience gazes at a photography and there is some fulfillment for the audience because they believe they can begin to understand what is portrayed in the work. In this photograph, on the other hand, the audience is robbed of their ability to gaze at the principle subject of the photograph which is behind the corner and out of sight. The audience is left in the dark when they are accustomed to the light.

Lindsey Blind Photography

This is what I consider an example of blind photography.  The children did not know the picture was being taken so they were "blind" to the camera.  They did not pose nor turn around to show facial expressions.  They were simply captured in a moment.  Additionally, not much scenery around them is in the picture so the viewer does not know the context.  We are blind to what is going on.  The children on the swings may be very happy or vary sad, yet we will never know because the photograph reveals no emotions.  

Tuesday photography class- On site class

Dear Students,

On-sit class in Villa Borghese and visit in the Museo Canonica

Tuesday February the 28h

Meeting point in Piazza del Popolo at 13:30

We will be waiting until 13:50

For further informations
In case of bad weather or rain, please call before coming

 ++39 3487148071

Lindsey Week 5

This is a picture I took while in Lisbon, Portugal.  I like the contrast in color between the sky and the sea and the way the bridge is a straight line above the water. 

AJS - Blind Photo

This is a blind photo in the literal sense. The subject, for the time being, cannot see, does not know what is going on around them, and does not know how the photo looks. This represents the process of film photography, whereas as soon as the subject takes off their blindfold, they are able to see and understand what is going on around them, and they are able to get a sense of what the photograph will look like, which more represents digital photography.

Lindsey Week 2

This is a picture taken of the Arch de Triumph in Paris.  I like how the people are walking in one direction and the cars are going in the opposite and the picture all focuses in on the Arch.

This is a picture taken by famous photographer Dorothea Lange.  She was known for taking pictures of migrant workers during the depression era.  I especially like this picture because of the amount of emotion the women has.  The placement of her hand and her facial expression as well as the children hiding behind her make for a great picture. 

Nikki Key -- Blind Photography

Above are two examples of "blind photography."  The photographers simply happened to capture a picturesque moment, in which the subjects were unaware they were even being photographed.  I think they capture the candidness and beauty of the moment, especially since both are of children at play.

I also like how the top photograph is in black and white, which I believe adds to the action of the splashing water.  In black and white, it is clearly draws in your eye, whereas if it were in color, some of the drama of the effect may have been lost.  In contrast, the photograph below it beautifully portrays the sunset in a warm bathe of color.

Comparatively, this is obviously a very posed shot for the cover of Vogue Italia, in which the model stares directly at the camera.  Her eye contact adds a dramatic flair to the photograph, and is well accented by the "bold and bright" colors of her outfit, especially the bright orange jacket.

Lindsey week 1

This is a picture I took while in Budapest.  I especially like it because of the contrast of color with the white snow and the darkness under the arch.  It also displays good lines through the center of the picture.

In photography, shutter speed is a common term used to discuss exposure time, the effective length of time a camera's shutter is open.^[1] The total exposure is proportional to this exposure time, or duration of light reaching the film or image sensor.

Multiple combinations of shutter speed and aperture can give the same exposure: halving the shutter speed doubles the exposure (1 EV more), while doubling the aperture size (halving the focal number) increases the exposure area by a factor of 4 (2 EV). For this reason, standard apertures differ by √2, or about 1.4. Thus an exposure with a shutter speed of 1/250 s and f/8 is the same as with 1/500 s and f/5.6, or 1/125 s and f/11.

In addition to its effect on exposure, the shutter speed changes the way movement appears in the picture. Very short shutter speeds can be used to freeze fast-moving subjects, for example at sporting events. Very long shutter speeds are used to intentionally blur a moving subject for artistic effect.^[2] Short exposure times are sometimes called "fast", and long exposure times "slow".

Richard Avedon was a very famous American Fashion photographer.  He was able to get a lot of emotion into one picture without many props, backgrounds, or distractions.  He was famous for having models pose on plain backgrounds.  This is his famous picture of Marilyn Monroe.  

Rittenhouse_feb 22

This image creates order out of chaos because in the hallway there are people rushing past but the focus initially goes to the two lines in the dead center of the picture.

Rittenhouse_feb 8

The anti-scratch layer protects the emulsion which has halides that form the photographic images. The adhesive layer binds the emulsion to the film base which is transparent and supports the image. The other adhesive layer bonds the anti-halation and anti-curl layer which prevents the film from the rear and laminates it so it won't curl.

Rittenhouse_feb 8

This is another photo by Olivia Arthur, who I looked at the 2nd week. I like this photo because it seems to be so in the moment and it's difficult to even tell what is happening. It's also interesting that she chose to take a picture of someone taking a picture and the subject of these 2 photos doesn't seem to want to be photographed at all.

Rittenhouse_feb 8

This is a picture of the depictions of the Apostles on top of St. Peter's Basilica that I really liked because the shadow of the statues is so harsh against the bright blue sky.

Lou Reed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GphPmGOHy_Y

Favorite Scanned Negatives- Olivia

Reich Blind Photography

This is a picture my friend Adam took this weekend when we were in Naples/Pompeii.  I think its a really nice example of a blind shot since we didn't know that he was taking the photo.  I love the lighting in this photo and how we almost look like silhouettes.

This is a photo that I took this weekend of the Vatican.  Some of my friends were in Rome visiting so we went and took pictures of the Vatican from the top of a castle.  The sky was really cloudy, but at times the sun poked through.  I really like how the clouds take up a good chunk of the photo, but that you can still see the light peaking through.

This photo is another example of blind photography.  War photography is typically classified as blind photography.

Putting Order into Disorder in Photography

Photographers take photographs of disorganized scenes all of the time, but they manage to put order into it by taking the photo from the correct angle, setting the focus correctly and organizing everything in the clutter into one single shot.  An example of this was all of the disorder after the market in Campo De Fiori, with garbage and left overs all over the ground, if someone gets low enough and sets the diaphragm correctly they could get a very good picture, managing to organize the disorder of the scene.