Week 10 Blog

Paul Strand

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This image captured my attention due to the oddity of its composition. While very good it is more unconventional of a composition. The wood of a building or shack is a frame for the snow and trees in the background. I think he may be using a telephoto lens because the trees and house behind them seem to be smashed together and almost a little flat. The texture and tones of the wood grain really makes the trees in the background pop, and even with the intense amount of light outside of the door it is not blown out. A great print and picture.

Edward Weston
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I am intrigued by the thing itself in this photograph. Weston has a knack for making the viewer really examine the subjects of his photographs. By my eye I would assume that these are rocks that have been decaying from water for hundreds of years. The light tones within the indented rock is very interesting because usually I relate these spaces with dark tones. The lines in this image guide ones eye around the photograph weaving between texture and tones. He also has captured some really great textures as well.

Walker Evans

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The first thing I noticed about this photograph is the repetitive textures against the more subtle background of clouds. Evans still gets a lot of information out of the clouds while getting everything he could want out of the pallets and wooden boxes below. This leads me to believe he burned the sky in or else it may have been blown out. The smoke stacks further the depth of the picture while adding a bit of variety. Still vertical repetitive lines but also diagonal lines cutting through the clouds. Also the subtle reflections in the puddles in the foreground really add a nice touch that may not be noticed from the viewer right away.

Week 9 Blog

Eliot Porter

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Porters work reminds me a lot of the thing itself. He creates different variations of what he finds aesthetically pleasing. What he changes about this landscape is the point of view in which he chose to shoot. The added reflection of the water lets the viewer see more of the rock face also in a different light than the direct image. He uses a warm saturated color palette with darker tones in the background. I have been very interested in reflections lately and I think Porter created a successful photograph of a reflection.

Rolfe Horn

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Horn's work reminds me of Tokihiro Sato's work. I chose this photograph for that reason and because Horn is using a neutral density filter to obtain this quality in the image. The long exposure makes the water appear as fog because it takes the white caps of the water when the image is exposed due to how bright it is. I will say that Horn has more of a fog effect then Sato's long exposure water pictures. Horn also gets tones from both the water and the sky, the sky is but ten percent darker than the water or "fog." And the emphasis is placed well on the darker group of rocks further back in space.

George Tice

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I respect this photograph because Tice goes against the rule of thirds and takes the photograph straight on but still creates asymmetry with the figure in the background. Although he is in a dark space he gets information in the much brighter direct sunlight beyond the bridge/platform. A subtle cityscape framed within the confines of a very design heavy frame. I also chose this picture because it reminds me of a bridge that i shot at this week for Photo II , the long arches on each side of the boards that show structure in the image.