Lynn Davis attempted emulation 2

My Attempted Emulation of Lynne Davis "Great Wild Goose Pagoda"

PDN Dec. 2007

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Lynn Davis attempted emulation 1

My Attempt at a Lynn Davis Picture (PDN, Dec. 2007)

A Soldier

(Picture From Photo District News, August 2007)

Robert Frost: A Soldier

He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust, But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust.If we who sight along it round the world, See nothing worthy to have been its mark, It is because like men we look too near, Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere, Our missiles always make too short an arc. They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect The curve of earth, and striking, break their own; They make us cringe for metal-point on stone. But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone. (Picture From Photo District News, October 2005)

Photo Montage

Renee Introduction

Renee Matthews PictureBook __________________ is a set of 8 photographs which show the feelings and action associated with the feared morning routine of waking up. All of the pictures are black and white, a rather ingenious insight. There is in every picture a contrast between an extreme dark value and an extreme light value with myriad grays in between. The movement of the viewers eye over the image takes them from the light to the dark (except for in the case of the faucet) This allows the person viewing the book to see the stark contrast between being asleep and being awake as well as the gray are in between often experienced when someone has just woken up.

The pictures are almost all balanced in a similar way and seem to share a repetition in placement of the subject of the photograph. This is not to say that the subject is always located in a certain place in the picture, but rather that the subject is never located in the exact center of the image. The images are balanced so that one side or another has a subject crisp and clear in the foreground and next to it lies either a blank wall, dark window or balled up blanket, all of which are just barely out of focus. We see this general pattern until the last picture. This better allows us to see the not so fine line that that each of us treads as we traverse the hallways and rooms of our homes early in the morning. The use of space through the placement and size of the subject is almost the exact same in every picture. The main point of focus always takes up around fifty percent of the image This further helps to balance the image in a manner which chows the uncertainty and fog which clouds our minds upon first waking up.

________________ makes me feel tired, but in a good way, as well as exhilarated. By this I mean it make me remember, and through that feel, like I do every morning upon first waking up. It evokes for me that feeling of wanting to crawl back under the blankets into the warmth so that I can sleep, but also the feeling that you experience once you have fully woken up and gone through your morning routine. These pictures create a mood more then they do a meaning. Admittedly, we have all experienced what they portray and therefore the pictures have a different meaning to all of us, but the way in which they were shot seem to evoke a sort of grudging acceptance of what is to come in the day ahead.

Photo Montage proposal

For my Photo Montage, I will use pictures of a stream, waterfall and stone slab bridge that i have. The finished picture will hopefully be not be too distorted and random from what one picture would normally look like. The picture on the left is one of the pictures that I took, but hopefully after piecing all of the pictures together there will be more of a curve to the stream. This David Hockney is similar to what I hope to do, and had he continued taking pictures to the right of what is shown in his image, it would be closer to my goal.

Dave Hill Part II

Dave Hill Part I

I admire this image by Dave Hill because of his portrayal of the subjects and their actions as well as his light scheme and coloring. The clear enjoyment that the subjects are feeling, in particular the aging Golden Retriever, gives a great sense of enjoyment to the viewer. The way that the colors are aranged on the image allow for a remarkably clear image as well as moving the focus towards the dog and the frisbee, the only two things in the image that do not have similiar colors to the background. I do believe, however, that although his lighting in the image does better highlight the dog and the two men, the darkness of the trees behind the man in blue is a distraction as it is not even with the relative lighting of the sky behind the man in green. The lighting in this image is also different from that of other Dave Hill images which use back lighting rather than a light source in front of the subject. The subjects of this image all recieve an equal amount of light, but because of the uneven backlighting i would have switched the two men in the background as the green shirt would have stood out better in the lowlighting found in the shadows of the trees.