Food Photography

What is food photography? Food photography is taking pictures of "still life" food in an interesting manner to look good, and can be used in various things such as cookbooks, magazines, products... The main goal is to make food look attractive and can be set up similarly to a portrait. In general their are two type of food photography pictures either fine food photography or just pictures one can see in things like cookbooks.

Here are some pictures of food photography that I really liked:

We can see the differences between the pictures, some look very posed, while others it’s more in the moment.

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By Jan Kornstaedt

By Jan Kornstaedt

By Jan Kornstaedt

By Paul E. Williams

By Paul E. Williams

Andy Warhol

When reading the quotes on the back page of the assignment, the one that pulls me in is " I think everybody should be nice to everybody" because no matter the day or age this doesn't happen. It is a goal we all should have, we all should be able to say  " Hello" to anyone no matter their differences, but on a major scale this doesn't happen. However, by just looking at the exhibit I assume Andy Warhol was a free spirit, one who didn't judge character, just lived with no regrets; somebody I aspire to be like. Who wouldn't want to live their life to fullest no matter what others think? In the exhibit, his pictures were bright, poppy and creative. Warhol pictures were interesting because through them you could see what he was like, but I don't think his photos would be very different today. Since his photos were very bright and happy I assume that was also a contrast to some things going on in society. His photos remind me of a Utopian world and though we don't like in a Dystopian world, it's not perfect, and his photos reminded me of a different reality.
Some photos I really liked from the art museum were:
These photos were all very pretty and caught my eye, either by the portrait, or the colors.

Family Photos and photos of me when I was younger

When looking through the photos to find one of myslef, my mother and I came across a lot of hers from high school and other past memories. Besides the fact that it’s really cool to see images of the past maybe remember a time you once forgot about, it was also unique to see the different types of photos. One my mom showed me of her friends and her in highschool, the differencies between the photo was the size and though it was in color it had a brown tint. But the biggest differance was the the clothing and hair. It is really interesting to see a different time througout a photo, because all you have is what’s in the photo to base it of off. One can tell the pictures were taken from older cameras, for the most part it has a brown film over and some have a boarder, making me think they were taken by a polaroid.

Looking through my photos thier were a lot of myself, many when I was a baby I was eating. This one photo I was a bit older but I still have the same personality.  The photos is not just of me but my sister and mom, all people who have influenced me then and now, it’s also taken around Chr-
istmas which is my favorite time of year. This is because everyone seems joyful, so happy, present in the picture. I’m also wearing a cute outfit so even from a young age I’ve enjoyed fashion. In the picture if we were to take another one this year everyone would look pretty similar, family photose are always hard to get right. The one aspect on my face I really see is me smiling and my dimples, that even now is visible.

Star Books

For our self portrait unit, one of the projects is star books.  Though their seems to be only pictures on them, most of the projects were focused around one subject either science, the stars, portraits. Similar to ours, it's about our everyday life the things that make us, us. Pictures of a dog, clothes, shoes... anything that influences you, affects you daily. The books we made are about ten pictures and look similar to these:

Carolyn Trant

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Self Portraits

A self portrait in a simple definition is a portrait of an artist produced by that artist, and that will be the next unit. Self portraits have been around for a long time, though it wasn't until the Early Renissancce that one can make out the artist in the picture. Jan Van Eyck "of 1433 may well be the earliest known panel self-portrait." Self portraiture became increasingly popular during the renaissance due to more wealth and interest in being the individual subject.


Here are some beautiful self portraits I found:

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Alex

Blog name "Rhapsody-in-white"

Lidia Vives

Lidia Vives

Vandyke Prints

I made my first Vandyke print this past week, and I really love it. Not even the fact it turned out well but I love the transformation from a photo taken in current time and simply changed within an hour to look like an old postcard. These alternative processes are so easy and completely change the photo. This process was "invented in 1842 by the English astronomer, Sir John Herschel. Both processes utilize the action of light on ferric salts and their chemistry is very similar. The Vandyke process gets its name from its similarity in color to the deep brown pigment used by the Flemish painter Van Dyck."

Here are some images of Vandyke prints I really like:

Tim Mispagel

Matt Marrash

Lidija Ivanek

Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes are of my favorite type of prints to do, there so easy and fun! Within in a day you can make a print come to life, while using a cool color scheme. One of the cyanotypes I've done that I took in the summer look like it was taken in the exact opposite season due to how it turned out.  The clouds are enhanced looking like a winter storm. Though I'm not the best painter I like the hands on experience you have with a photo from start to finish, even getting to paint what you want to show up.

Here are some cyanotypes that I really like:

Michael Wittig 

By Michael Wittig

By Two Kitties (blog)

Japanese Stab Binding Books

 Throughout the last two classes we have learned different techniques and styles of making a Japanese Stab Binding Book. This being Japanese 4 hole binding, Noble binging, and Tortoise- Shell Binding. Though the earliest known book binding was “ Butterfly Binding” in China in 1000 C.E. “Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.” The stack is bound together along one edge by threads that can make numerous different desighns as wells as a colorful cover, typically. 

Here are some examples:

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By Unknown

By Iveta Krajcirova

Final Portfolio

Urban Landscape

Contemporpary Street Photographers:

Anna Delany

New Zealand/New York-based Anna Delany documents gritty street life and urban decay architecturally and in portraits. Anna may be one of the most successful street photographers in terms of her ability to capture facial emotion in a split second.

Hamey Hoag:

 photographs are purely architectural and almost always contain white frames. He’s awesome at noticing humorous things that are slightly off in otherwise normal situations.

Richard Sandler

Richard Sandler is a street photography veteran, who continues to shoot and show work in galleries. Photographing in black and white, he usually makes either subtle or overt suggestions about social injustice in powerful ways.

Contemperary Urban Landscape Photos

Linda V

Linda V

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Historical Landscape Photos

Unknown

Website:Ancient City of Nessebar

Website:Ancient City of Nessebar

Website: City of Nessebar

The Natural Landscape

Beauty in nature to me, is when the view is breath taking without any filtering. A perfect landscape that fits miraculously together. A pretty photo that shows different natural aspects; for instance a tree, lake, blue sky, and in that the colors blend well and you can see the reflection in the water. Typically to me, if it's in nature there is no outside influence, or manmade structures. A couple pictures I believe exemplifies this is 

Federico Bottos

Robert Servais

I think typically when I go to the beach is when I find the most beauty in nature, I love the silence and how you can really hear the birds, or water crashing. I really enjoy walking and just seeing the long beach grass or having your feet in the sand, it's the perfect place to think. Also, near my house is a little lake and on sunny summer day you can see the reflection of the trees in the water which is always beautiful. I believe the best part when one is in nature is how small you seem in comparison to everything else and it seems as if your worries aren't as big. 

Visual Metaphor

Ellie Pagnano

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A voice that can barely speak

David Rosenberg

 

I am now old,

though that wasn’t always the case,

I have seen more than I should have,

And lived longer than many of my kind,

Some believe what I went through was a myth,

Though I would love to ask them how they would feel if their mother, brother, or father got Taken away,

If you never got to see them again,

How would you feel?

When the people that used to be your neighbors got thrown into gas chambers,

Other starved to death,

How would you feel if you got reduced down to numbers

Digits that cause you to be inferior; less than,

I have seen more death than I would like to admit,

And though these events happened long ago,

The memories are etched in my mind,

I wonder sometimes why me and not them,

Why was I spared out of the six million taken?

This world makes me sad, angry, upset,

Why so many people waste their lives when so many didn’t get the chance to lives thiers,

Through my eyes I cry for the ones that don’t believe,

Though I speak for the ones that do,

And I am a SURVIVOR.

I am a blanket of darkness,

I’m the whisper that sends chills up your spine,

The one so many are afraid of,

I am the cool, eerie feeling you get when you hear footsteps in your house late at night,

I am misunderstood,

To some I’m a celebration,

And to other the worst thing that their mind can imagine,

I’m the unfathomable,

The one thing people aren’t sure of,

I’m the question that people would love to answer,

As she is one of the last survivors,

Soon I will absorb her too,

No one knows me,

No one can see me,

And no one can even visualize me,

But the people who suffered the Holocaust can come pretty close,

Their experience people may say is worst than death,

Though I know similarly to Hitler people fear me,

Because I am the time bomb that will explode,

And no one knows when,

I am Death.

I am not old,

I have not lived through a Holocaust,

But I know those who have,

The event is not burned in my mind,

The numbers are not  burned on my skin,

I see the blanket of darkness though,

We share that fate,

I know what’s it’s like to have the blanket absorb a soul,

To see the light fade out at the end of the tunnel,

While your hands begin to shake,

The feeling of loss consumes you,

The darkness eats you up inside,

Life is a constant struggle to survive,

Step by step she continues,

While in my own mind I’m drowning,

Struggling to come up for air,

To get out of the haze and find myself,

To know what I want to do in this life,

While she has no one left in hers,

A fight were battling,

As seconds tick by,

Time.

Time has separated us,

Left us on a street with no map,

And though we’re more common than not,

Our paths will never cross but they do merge,

Because she is a hero,

And soon,

Darkness will absorb us both.

Group Portraits - Inspirations for what I want to do

These are some portraits of group photography that I would like to emulate. I really enjoy the style and fluidity of the photo even though they’re posed.

Annie Leibovitz Life Through a Lens- Summary and Inspiring pictures

Annie Leibovits definatly is one of those photographers that when you see her pictures it makes you think. Her work for Vanity Fair and the Rolling Stones was both interesting and unique, it had her trademark. She knew the “ defining moment” even when others would of put down thier camera. I really enjoyed her pictures for both magazines both different but equally as memorizing. Though if I had to pick one over the other, I would say Vanity Fair. I think for two reasons, one it’s really hard to position people the right way and get the photo to look good ( I know from the Magazine project last year) and two because of how crazy her photo shoots were; she branched out and tried new stuff.  I also enjoyed the colos she used in her photos. I don’t think I’ve seen photos from the film before, or at least not that I remeber. Throughout the film we got to know Annie as not only a famous photographer but a person. How the role just became her and how she adapted to such a crazy lifestyle. At first she wanted to be an art teacher and it shows how easy things can change, wich I think was an importand message. I believe Leibovitz had such a long career because she was creative, bossy, smart, she saw an image and she fufilled the idea despite the cost. As others said in the movie she saw things others didn’t.

Here are some of my favorite photos done by her: