Hurricane Ike

This is a good picture because it uses many of the rules of photography.  It used viewpoint, rule of thirds, lines, balancing, and patterns.  Viewpoint is by the height at which this picture is taken. Rule of thirds is used by having the grouped houses in two of the bottom thirds. The houses are in rows which shows lines and also patterns. And finally, balancing is used by having alsmost the same exact thing on both sides of the picture if you cut it in half vertically. It has many simple details in this photograph.

This picture is also very detailed. The rules of photography this picture shows are rule of thirds, depth, viewpoint, framing and lines.  The dock shown in the photo is in the rule of thirds, as you see the main part is in the lower right point (if you actually divide the picture in thirds and find the four points). Depth is used by taking a picture of the shore with the city and it goes waaay back.  Viewpoint is used by the height and view of this photo.  The long road, almost in the middle of the picture horizontally, frames the city.  Finally, lines are shown in the picture with the roads going vertically towards the city.

Brassai

Brassai-Gyula Halász

 

Brassai was born in Southeast Transylvania, Austria-Hungary in 1889. He and his family moved to Paris for a year while his father taught as a professor. He studied painting and sculpture in Budapest, then joined the Austro-Hungarian army and served until the end of WWI. In 1920 he went to Berlin where he worked as a journalist and also studied painting and sculpture there. In 1924 he officially moved back to Paris and became a journalist there, he also taught himself French by reading the work of Marcel Proust. His interest in photography came by his wonder in the city late at night. 

Gyula got the nickname "Brassai" meaning "from Brasso"

In 1933, Brassai published his first book of photographs titles "Paris by Night" (but in French of course). His work was "the eye of paris". He became famous from his work of photography.

 

 

Differences?

The differences i see are:

• picture is flipped completely over 
• where the picture was white is now black & vise versa

Negative Photography:

Noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

 

Bending:

Light rays adjust direction as they go from air into a sphere shaped container, and they change again when they exit the container and enter air. 

 

Walker Evans

Brassai

Imogen Cunningham

Avoiding Mergers

 

This is a good example of a merger because as you see on the far left of the picture, there is a person cut out. If the person was not cut out then it would of been a perfect picture. You can see all the people's faces (in the picture) and you can tell that they are all paying attention to one subject.

Framing

This picture is a good example of framing. It is taken from far away so the ocean and most of New York City is included.  This is a good picture because there is a lot of detail, especially the fact that it includes the smoke from when the twin towers were hit.

Balance

 

This picture is a good example of balance.  You can see that the picture is kind of smoky looking compared to the other pictures where they look clear.  This picture is also a little dark looking, probably caused by the type of camera.

The Rule of the Thirds

This picture is a good example of The Rule of the Thirds.  As you see, the people included in the picture are on the bottom of the picture.  The photographer meant to have all the smoke and the papers on the ground included.  So using the rule of the thirds, the photographer has the subjects in the bottom section (when divided into the thirds).

Simplicity

 

This picture is an example of simplicity since taking a picture of this one man is so simple yet has so much detail at the same time.  This looks like an easy picture because its just one man, not much of a background and its a body shot.

Lines

 

This picture is a good example of lines.  As you can see, the lines on the World Trade Center are not parallel with the framing of this photo.  If the photo was taken with the line perfectly straight when you look at the photo, this would not be a too interesting photo to look at.  The direction of the lines has a lot to do with the appearance of the photograph. 

Aperture: an opening; as a hole; slit
Shutter: a movable cover, slide for an opening
Exposure: the act of exposing
Depth of Field: the range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens, through which an object will produce a relatively distinct image.
F-Stop: the setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.
Focal Length: the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane.
Pellicle: a thin, partially reflective coating, as on a beam splitter.

Dark Room: a room in which film or the like is made, handled, or developed and from which the actinic rays of light are excluded.

Range Finder: any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.

Focal Plane: a plane through a focal point and normal to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system.

 

  

I liked this photo because it seemed to have a lot of life to me.  There is very much detail in this pinhole picture, it makes it very interesting to look at.  The way this scene is, makes the picture unrealistic.  But the fact that this is real, makes it really "wow".

I didn't like this picture too much since you cant see much except the sun's light.  That is probably what makes it interesting to the photographer but there is not much to this picture.  This picture keeps me wondering what the picture could have been.