Architecture Pictures

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Born: 1959 in Springfield, Ohio.

She lives in the Portland, Oregon and joined the Northwest Academy in 2004 to teach high school students photography. She is well known for portraying the world as a woman would see it. Kirkpatrick develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, photographs using a Holga toy camera, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects.

All of these pictures standout to me because they all have women in them. She is a big influence on me and other women wanting to be a photographer or just to learn about photography. She influences us not to be afraid to take pictures.  She shows us that women can take photos just as good as men.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco to Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. They were both members of the upperclass. He died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey. He was known for black and white photographs of Yosemite Valley. Thankfully to his photographic memory, Adams received a Doctor of Arts at both Harvard and Yale Universities. His dad gave him his first camera, which was a Kodak Brownie box during his first trip to Yosemite National Park when he was 14. Though his first job was a custodian, it helped him with his photography greatly. His photos were used for environmental purposes and to protect the environment from destructive projects. In 1927, Ansel Adams started work on his first portfolio, "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras". With generous sponsorship from a Albert Bender, his portfolio was successful.  In 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger conducted Adams in the California Hall of Fame. 

In these few pictures, we realize that Adams uses the sue of line very well. They all stood out to me because you can distinctly see where the lines are. In the first picture, the line is in the middle, making it look like the road goes up to the sky. The second line is in the path of the river going back to the mountains. And lastly, the freeways all make lines themselves. Though they are all very different, line imagery is still there.

Chapter 9: Landscapes!

Camera Settings!!

Depth of Field

• Maximum (f/16, f/22, f/32)
• longer shutter speeds= more detail.
• Tripod= necessary for these types of shots.

Light

• just after sunrise, just before sunset.
• low sun, shapes/ textures emphasized.
• Grand Landscape photos direct lighting is good.

Film

• 100 ISO film.
• Details, slow film needed to capture all of them.

Lenses

• Wide Angle lenses typically used.
• Telephoto lenses used to concentrate on details.
• Macro lenses= for close up images, like detail or abstract shots.

Filters

• yellow filter brings out clouds.
• Red filter= dark black skies, stark white clouds.
• red with a polarizer = max contrast.

Support

• slow film and smaller f-stops for slower shutter speeds.
• tripod is needed to get non-shaky shots.
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The types of Landscape Photography:

The Grand Landscape, Abstract, Detail

Landscape

• "big view" for pictures of outdoors.
• Wide open expanses.
• Large expanse of the scene
• Wide-angle lens: used to capture more of it.
•   Sky is an important part

Abstract

• composed of lines, shapes, values and textures.
• (Tree bark patterns.)
• Get really close to your subject
• Photograph a small part of it.
• When using a macro lens on small subjects you’ll need as much depth
• field as possible.
• Use a slow shutter speed and a tripod for sharper images.

Details

• Rocks,Vibrant Flowers,Simple trees.
• Before sunset, after sunrise.
• Close down the f-stop
• choose a faster shutter speed for a shorter exposure.
• There was a tradition: photographers would look at paintings to gain idea
• for their work.

Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)

• Capture the American West.
• Learned photography in 1854.
• Opened his own gallery in 1858 in San Francisco.
• Began photographing Yosemite Valley in 1861.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

• inspired by Yosemite.
• Known images in the Valley.
• Changed the way the public views natural world.

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)

• learned photography in 1860 from Matthew Brady.
• Photographed the Civil War.
• Principle photographer for Gardner's famous book,
• the Photographic Sketchbook of War.
• Lead photographer on the survery on western lands past the Mississippi
• River.
• Died of tuberculosis at 42.
• Inspired other photographers of the 1960s-70s with his documentary style.

Composition= most important aspect of landscape photography.

Viewpoin=t most important aspect of Composition.

Move Camera in all directions to encourage different views.

Achieve balance between unity and variety.

Variety in everything (texture, size, color, value, appearance, subject)

Value- important in black and white shots.

more dramatic = large range of tones.

"contemplative"=less differnt tones.


Visuals/Examples:
Grand Lanscape

Detail





Abstract Landscape

CHapter 8 notes

LOOKING BACK:
Films were slow buildings were stationary
 photographs had a lot of detail, 
varied tones/ value 


Charles Negre- 1840s: used photography to create studies for paintings;  
use photographs as "sketches" for paintings 
photographs= indirect portraits

can be formal or informal

Film

architectural photographs divided into two types, commercial and artistic

commercial- magazines, brochures: most always shot in color

artistic- black and white emphasize values and shapes and texture

Lighting

important interior architectural photography

inside building have dif. lomds pf lighting used

film cant adjus to differnt colors

Lenses

wide-angle lenses are very useful

wider the lens, the more distortion you get

Camera Support

slow, fine-grained film and lots of depth of field

 use tripod when walking around taking snapshots

monopods, single-legged camera supports for walking around, but not for interior photographs

Filters

using yellow or orange filters will separate the clouds form the sky 

the clouds stand out; 

also brings out the texture in the stone and concrete

THE BIG VIEW

shooting with wide-angle lens is convenient

has drawbacks:

perspective distortion- the closer you are the more distortion you'll get

get as far as possible and use the least wide-angle lens possible

shoot straight from the front

 make building look flat and 2D

Detail Shot

features the individual architectural elements building's interior or exterior

telephoto lens: stand at street level and zero in on an intriguing element

Interior Views

need wide-angle lenses to photograph entire rooms for the big view

look better when nearly everything in the picture is in focus, requires great depth of field

closer to the subject= m,ore depth of field so higher f-stop

Class Notes architecture and urban landscape

-Architectural photography is indirect portraits
--material. style and scale provide clues about who people are
-use of symmetrical balance. minimal use of people (alters you to size and porportion)
-find line shape and form in every picture for architecture. all things exist.

Fresdrick H. Evans
-cathedrals in London-emotion with use of light (record emotion rather than photography)
-worked with platinum papers (silver and platinum=chemical reaction=exposes)--platnotype
-WW1-platinum was used for bombs=prices went up so he couldn't use it.
3 kinds of shots:
DETAIL SHOTS-specific part of big picture
BIG PICTURE-everything around
INTERIOR
Ezra Stoller
Influential architecutral photographer
-use of framing and black and white

-focus on full view-emotions of full space and emotions connected to it. Like a portait
-either have emotion or ideas of the detail
-personality of the space and its relationship to its surroundings

PATTERNS:
-find it everywhere (glass. stairs.buildings. windows.)