Photography Masterclass: Part 4
Thanks for joining me back here, it is our second to last week of Photography Masterclass: Creative Techniques of 100 Great Photographers by Paul Lowe. I will be interested to see how we transition from Ideas to Moments.
Moments:
That random moment, which looks so natural, so effortless-is truly the opposite. Often times its that one shot in ten you just took which was "perfect" or an unnatural manipulation of light-all to say that there is no such thing as random or coincidental. A go to favorite place to practice that eye and reflex to catch those moment is the streets full of all sorts of life.
Examples:
Manuel Alvarez Bravo - The daughter of the dancers
Robert Frank - Trolley, New Orleans
William Klein - Four Heads, Thanksgiving Day, New York
Tony Ray-Jones - Ramsgate
Garry Winogrand - Apollo 11 moon shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida
Lee Friedlander - Hillcrest, New York
Elliott Erwitt - Felix, Gladys, and Rover
Josef Koudelka - Portugal
Alexa Webb - India, Bombay
Dougie Wallace - Stags and hens, blackpool
David Alan Harvey - Havana 1998
My take on this chapter is:
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Stories:
For many, the purpose of an image is to help tell or visual a story. The way it would tell it is with how it is shot, interactions between the subject and the surroundings, and juxtapositions. But each one of us, when we look at the same image, can come up with a different story for how that photo came to be.
Examples:
Weegee - The First Murder
W. Eugene Smith - A woman spinning
Anders Petersen - Lilly, Rose, and Scar in Cafe Lehmitz, Hamburg
William Albert Allard - Henry Gray, Arizona
Sebastiao Salgado - Guatemala
Raghu Rai - Local commuters at Church Gate railway station, Mumbai
Larry Towell - Shadow of the Photographer, Lambton County, Ontario
Paolo Pellegrin - Civilians arrive in Tyre after fleeing their villages in southern lebanon
John Stanmeyer - Signal
My take on this chapter is:
As we get into the final chapters, I find myself unable to use photos I have taken-and as a photographer that is OK. To find a good photo, or to have people in the industry you look up to, is just as important as taking the best photo you can take. One more week to go! Let's finish this out with Documents and Histories next week!
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Moments:
That random moment, which looks so natural, so effortless-is truly the opposite. Often times its that one shot in ten you just took which was "perfect" or an unnatural manipulation of light-all to say that there is no such thing as random or coincidental. A go to favorite place to practice that eye and reflex to catch those moment is the streets full of all sorts of life.
Examples:
Manuel Alvarez Bravo - The daughter of the dancers
Robert Frank - Trolley, New Orleans
William Klein - Four Heads, Thanksgiving Day, New York
Tony Ray-Jones - Ramsgate
Garry Winogrand - Apollo 11 moon shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida
Lee Friedlander - Hillcrest, New York
Elliott Erwitt - Felix, Gladys, and Rover
Josef Koudelka - Portugal
Alexa Webb - India, Bombay
Dougie Wallace - Stags and hens, blackpool
David Alan Harvey - Havana 1998
My take on this chapter is:
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| Outside of Grace Kelly's Home - France |
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Stories:
For many, the purpose of an image is to help tell or visual a story. The way it would tell it is with how it is shot, interactions between the subject and the surroundings, and juxtapositions. But each one of us, when we look at the same image, can come up with a different story for how that photo came to be.
Examples:
Weegee - The First Murder
W. Eugene Smith - A woman spinning
Anders Petersen - Lilly, Rose, and Scar in Cafe Lehmitz, Hamburg
William Albert Allard - Henry Gray, Arizona
Sebastiao Salgado - Guatemala
Raghu Rai - Local commuters at Church Gate railway station, Mumbai
Larry Towell - Shadow of the Photographer, Lambton County, Ontario
Paolo Pellegrin - Civilians arrive in Tyre after fleeing their villages in southern lebanon
John Stanmeyer - Signal
My take on this chapter is:
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| Marilyn Monroe |
As we get into the final chapters, I find myself unable to use photos I have taken-and as a photographer that is OK. To find a good photo, or to have people in the industry you look up to, is just as important as taking the best photo you can take. One more week to go! Let's finish this out with Documents and Histories next week!
P:(657) 246-2298-Email Me - Moxi Zombi Marketing - Blog-Twitter - Instagram - Facebook - Flickr - LinkedIn
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