Photo Alphabet

Alfred Stieglitz

1. Who was Alfred Stieglitz and why is he noteworthy in the history of photography?
He was a photography enthusiast who beleived, with many others, that photography was just as capable of artistic expression as other mediums, and he aided in the advancement of Pictoral photography.

2. Choose a photograph he made, upload it to your blog, and explain why you chose it as your favorite by him.

I like this one because of its softness and the breath and heat that appears as fog and adds to the photograph; the picture overall only depicts everyday life, yet seems surreal and apparently different at the same time.

3. With what famous painter was he in a relationship? Who was she?  Upload a painting by her that you like.
In 1924, Alfred Stieglitz got married to Georgia O'Keefe, who is known today as a very famous and accomplished painter.


Extra: How did they influence each other in their art making?
For Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keefe inspired a series of photographs, consisting of herself as well as other artists.

Macroflowers

I really like this one; I think that the lighting is good, and the focus is where I wanted it. For touch-ups on this picture I lens-blurred the background more and did general exposure/brightness and hue/saturation adjustments.

I think I took this one this last year,  and for this picture I adjusted the color levels to have more red and blue than green and yellow and other colors, and I also did normal adjustments. It was a little difficult though to balance contrast and brightness with the white of the snow and the white of the flower, because I wanted it to be bright, but if I made it too bright then the ice on the flower would not have enough shadows to be easily identified.

Macros

More Macro

For this one, I blurred the background a lot, and also decreased the saturation so the mushrooms would stand out more. Overall, this picture definitely didn't turn out like I wanted, but I think the root of the problem with this picture was that it was taken with flash and it gave it a different appearance that I'm not too pleased with.

For this one, I wanted the flowers to be emphasized a great deal, so I lasso-ed the flowers and increased the brightness and sharpened them, and I also darkened and lens blurred the leaves/background. I think it worked pretty well and it looks like the flowers are luminescent or glowing and it improves the picture.

In this picture, I mostly removed the saturation except for the flower, and changed the flower's color to be more red color.

Kitty Reflection

Macro Photography

 

 

 



First Roll of Film

First ever roll of film!!!

Same film in negative

Left to right: A flower, ceramic cat, real cat, bowl of grapes, and my dorky dog scratching his ear

Wooden birdhouse looking structure, my dog again (this one looked a lot better when I was actually taking it), another flower, spider,and more flower

Pure piglet, my awesomely painted shoe, french writing and a french pen, one of my drawings and a souvenier

Wild animals

My kitty

Wings

Didn't turn out as well as I would've liked, but it was the first try.

Pinhole Pictures

Pinhole #1. Not very good.

 

Hello, motion blur. Actually, I think it looks kinda cool, but not what I expected it to turn out like. But thats true of a lot of photos.

Tilt-Shift Photos

I like the color, but this one needs to be from higher up.

Yay. Mini Cowies.

I think this one turned out pretty well

But this one is better

I like this one a lot

Photoshopping Around

My Kitty

Tilt-Shift Photograph #1

Photo of the Pink-Out volleyball game against Tigard

Brownie Camera

1. What is a Brownie Camera?
A small, simple box that could be used to take snapshot photographs.

2. Who invented it, and when?
Frank A. Brownell in February in the year 1900.

3. How did it change society, and of course, the photography world?
The Kodak Brownie Camera made it easy for anyone, not just professionals, to take pictures.