Week 8 Blog

Brassai

http://transversealchemy-raw.blogspot.com/2011/01/brassais-paris-late-night-ramblings.html?zx=fcbbf7177d40ed20

This photo has a great sense of mystery to it due to the unclear depictions of objects from the fog. We know there there is a car stationary on the road shining its light at something possibly out of the frame. The viewer also cannot tell if there is anyone actually in the car. The atmospheric perspective is also magnified by the fog. The silhouetted trees have great definition even though the fog is there adding a more graphic aspect to the photograph.

Joel Meyerowitz

http://www.theoriginators.com/joel-meyerowitz-photography/

This photograph is absolutely amazing and I'll tell you why. One, he captures a firework not only exploding but on its way up to create a "light star" in the sky. Two, he has an amazing tonal range in the middle of the night. Three, the detail he achieved really makes this photo. Okay so enough with the numbers, Joel makes something mundane into something beautiful. The texture of the snow on the car, the tire tracks from a car that was beside it and the tree in the foreground that still has definition while backed up to the row of trees in the background. I think the most amazing aspect of this photograph to me would have to be that is was taken at night and he accomplished a full tonal and detailed photograph.

Fazal Sheikh

http://photography-now.net/fazal_sheikh/index.html

This image really makes me want to go out and take some portrait photographs. Its very dark and yet there are still some very bright whites, and the gaze that the figure has is very engaging even though he is not directly looking at the viewer you can sense he is in deep thought. It is very rare that I want to go out and take some portraits but the lighting in this image is just so concrete. I also want to get into the studio and really start learning the numerous possibilities of lighting.