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Black and White Photography II

My favorite black and white photographer was E.J Belloc because all of his pictures were of women and to felt like he was trying to make them stand out and show women matter as well.

He was Born in 1873 and worked in New Orleans until 1949 when he died. He photos were never discovered until 19 years after he died. Some say his photos were haunting like because of the masks some of the women wore, or how some of their faces were scratched out.

E.J Belloc was a commercial photographer in New Orleans during the First World War I. He also took nut an bolt pictures for the ship in the war. I think that pretty cool because he was helping them and not just taking pictures for his own pleasure. He probably helped a few ships not sink.

Some people who met him said that he was a little weird like not social and didn't really know how to act around people. Because he was so used to old cameras, when new ones came out into the market, he did not understand how to use them. I think that kinda funny because that is how older people are today also with phones and technology. Apparently he had plates and pictures of New Orleans prostitutes and some say it was not for his pictures. That was his secret life. When prostitutes became legal, he took pictures of them and no one knew until he died and they found all the pictures he was taking.

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Bellocq.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Bellocq

Mural Project

1. What theme, that we could take here at school and think of one for OFF campus too, could we do a series of these panels to place around the school?
We could do something like buildings. We could go downtown to take pictures of the buildings and then pictures of the school too. But i think we are deciding on downtown pictures.

2. Should we use phones only, or should we open it up to our regular cameras for those people that don't have camera phones?
We should be able to use phones too because we always have our phones and if we see something cool we should be able to use the picture.

3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?
Maybe on lockers or on empty walls.

Africa

1) To be honest, I fell in love with the pictures he took. They looked so good and thought out. They were all black and white, so it really captured the light and shadows.

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3) i chose this picture because it puts out a message. Elephants are being killed for their tusks and they are so big compared to man. You get more of a perspective of things from the pictures that he takes.

4) It is obvious that repetition is taking place in the photo. Also rule of thirds because the front guy is not centered and then you can see how many people are there.

5) Brandt works in a hybrid film and digital process. He photographs using film on a Pentax 67 camera with modified lens (creating a soft focus, tilt-shift effect). The film is scanned and toned in the computer before the works are rendered as digital prints.

6) His goal is to take pictures of wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man.

7) He hopes to put out that we are destroying their home and that we are creating a worse place for them.

8) "I want my images to achieve two things in this regard - to be an elegy to a world that is tragically vanishing, to make people see what beauty is disappearing. Also, to try and show that animals are sentient creatures equally as worthy of life as humans."- Nick Brandt

Abandoned Theme Parks

1) The theme parks that i wanted to go to is the now in New Orleans because that is the like crime and lots of Voodoo star. So that just makes it a little more creepy and scary that it could be "haunted". I also chose this park because my family lives in New Orleans so it wouldn't be that hard to go and actually take pictures.

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3) Some areas that would be interesting to go to and take pictures would be an abandoned house, graffiti park, taking pictures by an ocean, on a beach walk where there are a lot of people biking and roller skating. Also a skate park would be cool too. It just depends what your interests are.

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5) Obviously i would expect to take pictures of graffiti, but sometimes it can be a whole lot more than just spray paint. People put their art work out for the public so they can see what they can do. It is not always bad words and messy writing. Some of them put times and effort, and money, to please the public. like in down town, Castle Hill, there is a lot of artwork there and people spray painting to have fun and do what they are good at.

6) I can ask my parents to go down and take me and my friends to take pictures. We live by graffiti parks and we have cameras. So it wouldn't take that much work. You just have to make sure you are not trespassing. But it is out in the open so i don't think that will be a problem.

Great Black and White Photographers part 3

1) What caught my eye on the first picture was that her leggings were an interesting pattern. Some things that i see is the pictures behind her and the small wooden chair. 
2) I feel like there is more to the picture because of the way she is smiling like she is hiding something. she is also looking at something so that might have to do with something that she is smiling about. I think the house or room she is in would smell clean and like spring because the light coming from the windows. Also maybe like there is something baking like bread or cake. I think I would hear children running around and playing outside. trees getting cut down to store wood for the winter. I could feel the wood creaking under my feet and the hard rough carpet. I could taste the fresh air from the windows being open exposing the fresh air and my mouth start to water from the cake baking in the oven.

1) What caught my eye about the second one was that she was just sitting there not doing anything.I chose these photos because her pictures were only women so i figured that she was all about empowering women and wanting to show they are important.
2) I see the women looking in to the distance and the white cloth behind her. The small wooden chair about to break with the old loose clothing on her body. Her hair is messy and not done to be very pretty. I feel the pain that she goes through from the look on her face wondering if her life at home is as great as she says it is. The small spaces of the house closing in on me as I try to get a good angle. I smell the old books that keep her happy and let her imagine. The laundry detergent that she uses to clean the clothes and sheets. I hear her yelling at her kids to be quite and her husband yelling to see if dinner is ready yet. I taste the damp air filling my lungs from the rain outside and the humid weather.




3) I think poster would stand out to the school. Also flyers of paper with information and some pictures she took would also work. 

Photoshop tutorial

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Avoiding mergers
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