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