My big project artist Scott serfas

Scott was born in the suburbs of Vancouver and was an active Snowboarder and surfer. He started his carrer when a drunk french man left his camera in a bathroom stall. He had no teachers and no guide on how to use it. He is a self taught artist and one of the most well known photographers in active sports. He participated in the brainfarm film "the art of flight" featuring Travis Rice and Scotty lago and a hand full of the worlds best snowboarders and filmers. The way Scott uses his skill to show how intense the scene is and how life or death his job is is amazing. Here are a few photos of his work.


http://scottserfas.com/snow/

Natural light pre assignment

For this assignment i plan on taking pictures of my friends doing what they love witch consists mostly of skateboarding and snowboarding and skiing. The way i plan on taking photos is having them eather gazing out the window and having the natural light gloom on them or have a half face shot with the mountains in the backround.

Big Project

For my big project i decided to go and find my own photographer. I ended up finding a photographer thats name is Scott Serfas. He has taken photos of many of my favorite athletes and he has not had the easiest road to his success. I contacted him and i talked to him about his life and how he became a photographer. I also talked about what tools he uses and what   he like shooting the most.

Near and far assignment

The near and far assignment was pretty rad. i liked how people used different angles to get tremendous shots. The only problem i faced with this was i wanted to shoot on the water and it was about 20 degrees and freezing but im pretty happy on my work.A lot of people did different things and i think that what made this assignment fun to me. The challenge was fun and the shots were good.

20 Artists

Edward Weston
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Title of an image-Tenaya Lake pg 43, Dantes view pg 47, Eel river ranch pg 49


Tina Modotti
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Title of an image- Roses pg 21, Mexican sombrero with hammer and sickle pg 55.


Berenice Abbott
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Title of an image- A.J Corcoran water tanks pg 23, Pine and Henry Streets pg 29.


Harry Callahan
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Titles of an image- Sunlight on water pg 29, Chicago pg 69, Cutout pg 45


Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Titles of an image- Tree Struck By Lightning pg 23, Kiln pg 81


Man Ray
Masters of Photography
Aperture
Titles of an image- Flowers pg 27, Enough Rope pg 63


Ansel Adams  An Autobiography
Mary Street Alinder
Little, Brown and Company
Title of an image- Aspens Northern New Mexico pg 174, Mount Williamson Sierra Nevada pg 261


In Real Life/ Imogen Cunningham
Leslie Sills
Holiday House/New York
Title of an image- The wind about pg 9


In Real Life/ Dorothea Lange
Leslie Sills
Holiday House/ New York
Title of an image- Migrant Mother ( series of three photos) pg 24-25


In Real Life/ Carrie Mae Weems
Leslie Sills
Holiday House/ New York
Title of an image- Untiltled (Letter holder) pg 46


In Real Life/ Elsa Dorfman
Leslie Sills
Holiday House/ New York
Title of an image- Felicia And Family on the polaroid pg 61


Paul Strand 
Aperture
Paul Strand


Jacob Riis
Richard Lacayo and George Russeu
Time
Eye Witness


 Men At Work
Author/Editor: Lewis W. HinePublisher: Dover PublicationsPhotographer: multiple


 Timotion
Author/Editor: Jonathan Shaw, Eadweard Muybridge, Harold EdgertonPublisher: Dewi Lewis PublishingPhotographer: multiple



 Eugene Atget
Author/Editor:
Publisher: Aperture
Photographer: Eugene Atget


 Alfred Stieglitz
Author/Editor:
Publisher: Aperture
Photographer: Alfred Stiglitz

 Photography Encyclopedia
Author/Editor: Fred W. McDarrah, Gloria S. McDarrah, Timothy S. McDarrah
Publisher: Schrimer Books
Photographer: multiple


 Eikoh Hosoe
Author/Editor:
Publisher: Aperture
Photographer: Eikoh Hosoe


 Robert Capa Photographs
Author/Editor: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cornell Capa, Richard Whelan
Publisher: Aperture
Photographer: Robert Capa

Hand Held Essay And Romania And The Romanian Orphans Today

A few days ago we watched a movie called hand held and it was about a photographer from mass who was invited to Romania and was set to try and take pictures of the city and show that everything was not okay. He ended up finding out that the children were not even remotely safe. The nurses are giving 2 needles a year and are not equipped with the proper knowledge of how to treat babies and how to treat them with the proper care that they need. Mike Carrol a Photographer from Massachusetts was invited on a trip of a life time to Romania where little did he know his life would be changed forever. Romania today is still a povertable country and they are still under the map as so called by a few people who visit the country annually. Around 700 to 900 children are being adopted from Romania out of the 1200 to 1400 available for adoption. After watching the movie and it being filmed about 15 to 20 years ago i figured that by now the country would be blooming with things and children and that they would be out of poverty but it turns out that things only got a little better but hopes are still high and people are whats going to make this change that is needed for this country. When you are asked what country's do you think are in poverty most people focus on Africa and around there witch is true but little do the know that places like Romania and little places around Europe are just as bad. Mike Carroll is a very skilled photographer. The way he captures the sorrow and cadged feelings of these orphans is tremendous and its photos like this that made America think and changed Romania tremendously  its a brutal aspect in life but the human mind doesn't think much about anything until the eye itself recognizes the horror and fear of an image, then the mind starts to think ''okay this is not write and something needs to happen and something needs to change''. So who knows what could of happened if Mike was never brought over as the first photographer to take photos in Romania.
 These images are the most stunning pictures to me. They show how every kid is looking and wanting something but can not have it. all they really wanted was to be held and shown that they do mean something to someone. And these pictures show it well.

Edward S Curtis

Edward was a photographer and an ethnologist of western native american people. born in whitewater WI on February 16, 1952. he moved to Washington in 1887 and this is where the photography begins. he took a portrait with chief of Seattle daughter, princess Angeline and won first place.he did a lot of photography with native tribes  west of the Mississippi. he completed his life long project in 1930 with 20 volumes each with 75 hand pressed photos and 300 pages of text
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Photos from the shutterspeed

 

                                                      Noah Grammas doing a boardslide.

 

Noah Grammas Doing a Foot plant nocomply

Andrew Grammas doing a tre flip off the bank.

The shutter speed assighnment

The shutter speed assignment was probably the funnest assignment yet.  it was very tricky because the light was not in my favor. but after adjustments and shooting over 130 something pictures i found the pictures i liked and they came out very good to me.

shutter speed pre assighnment

The overall view of this assignment should be really fun because i do enjoy action shots and i do enjoy motion shots. I believe the tricky park is having the camera catch the right frame that i want. And the other problem would be light.

Ansel Adams

He was born February 20th 1902. He passed April 22 1984. He was a photographer and an environmentalist. His pictures of Yosemite are what he is most known for. His landscapes of mountains and trees and plants and the clouds casting shadows over the land. Here are a few links to what he was best at.


http://thecommittedindian.com/beard-of-the-day-june-23rd-ansel-adams/

http://lorinabinning.blogspot.com/2013/06/bw-photographer-ansel-adams-nature.html

Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton was a teacher at the school of electrical engineering in Massachusetts.He was born in April 1906 and died in 1990 of January.  His awards where National Medal of Technology and Innovation, SPIE Gold Medal,National Medal of Science for Engineering. He has some amazing photos and some with a dragged fram witch is very cool. His art is somthing that is very interesting to the eye.

Edward Muybridge

 Edward Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion. He adopted the name Eadweard Muybridge, believing it to be the original Anglo-Saxon form of his name.

He immigrated to the United States as a young teenager but remained hidden when his large photographs of Yosemite Valley, California, made him world famous. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used 

In his earlier years in San Francisco, Muybridge had become known for his landscape photography, particularly of the Yosemite Valley. He also photographed the Tlingit people in Alaska, and was commissioned by the United States Army to photograph the Modoc War in 1873. In 1874 he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife's lover, and was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide. He travelled for more than a year in Central America on a photographic expedition in 1875. He passed in may in 1904.

Elliot Erwitt

Elliot Erwitt has some amazing photos. the photos scream out that somthing is wrong and to me they show the hard times back in that time but it also shows how the times are coming up and the future to what is about to come
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My opinion on the Paul Strand's photos are that the way he captures the light with the dark and the gloomy parts that dont catch they eye when in color really motivate me. some of the pictures he has with the indians faces you can almost read the whole life and everything they have seen. when you look at the faces you almost can picture the pain that that person has been threw. It almost screams to the viewer and i really like that.

Why am i in photo?

Why am i in photo? To be completly honest im in photo because i love the photography of the action sport world. Im always looking at Transworld.com and there are so many pictures that inspire me. One of my favorite pictures are the black and white photos of mountains with the creamy clouds drifting and melting over the peaks. Here are some photos.

http://chriswellhausen.com/SNOWBOARDING/10/

How to fix bad photos

The way i could fix my bad photos are by the ISO and Shutter speed. This taking bad photos project was actually really hard and challenging. When you try to use a camera you want to take good photos. Nobody unless told tries to take bad photos because people who even take bad photos think that the photo its self is an art for and it speaks for itself. The thing i liked most about this project is how you had to open your mind to everything and be creative but not stress out about having good photos.

Spider

This little spider I found near my door. 

Bad Photo B Block

The light project B block

The way the light fades out in the corners and they way the blue fades with white is very intriguing to the eye. When the birds flew past the frame the beams of light faded out to dark fades then came back to the shiny white beams that filled the sky. 

Bad photo B block

bad photos