Raymond Thompson Jr.

This is a photograph made by Raymond Thomas Jr. I chose to write about this one because the cool colors were the first thing that captured my eye. After I clicked on the image, I was confused at what I was looking at. It took me a while to figure it out, and even then I still was confused. The only way I was able to fully break up the components of this picture was by reading the description. It was then that I found out that I was looking at a photo of a kid looking into a car during a car wash, and the window through which the image was taken on adds an effect of a layer that reflects the clouds and the blurred water droplets.

Link to image 2:  http://www.raymondthompsonjr.com/2535381-essay-justice-undone#6
I like this image because the fire is very focused and is basically the only warm color in the picture, being surrounded by the cool blues.

Link to image 3: https://www.instagram.com/p/_crYpQLUw8/?taken-by=raythompsonjr
https://www.instagram.com/p/9O6HXtLUwU/?taken-by=raythompsonjr
I like these images because they somewhat connect and I like the nature scenes and one of my future goals is to drive through a place like this.

Link to image 4: https://www.instagram.com/p/4Y9BkOLUwB/?taken-by=raythompsonjr
What I like about this image is that the bubbles almost seem photo-shopped. Also the vibrant colors of the bubbles add more life, you could say, to the somewhat dull looking setting.

My question to Raymond Thomas Jr. is: Do you travel a lot, and if so, what has been your favorite place you have visited?

Gwenn Dubourthomieu

Gwenn Dubourthomieu became interested in photography while working in Africa for humanitarian NGOs. He pursued this career in 2010 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In 2012 he settled down in Paris and works as a freelance photographer.  His work includes spreading awareness about the social impact of copper exploitation in the Dominican Republic of the Congo. He actually takes pictures of people in many different areas of the world.

Here are two of his photographs, and a photo of Gwenn himself. The first picture is of people carrying stuff on their heads, and it seems to be in the middle of a field. I like the second picture because the blue, which I think is water, really pops out. The surrounding rock really makes a nice contrast and puts emphasis on the blue in the bottom.

Photo Experience: Cat & Mouse Assignment

Today we went outside to do a "Cat & Mouse" assignment. So, basically what we had to do is take pictures of a person. You would start off by standing back to back and the photographer would take a picture of the model. Before taking each picture though, the model and the photographer both had to move two places in any direction and then turn to face each other. This would result with multiple pictures of the model in different distances, and possibly backgrounds,  from the camera. My model was Angelina. We took the pictures in the front office because Ms. Ramos was there and we knew she wouldn't get mad at us like the lady that is usually there. Anyways, it was an OK experience. It's kind of cool to look through the pictures and see how the model person would like move from place to place.

Matt Eich

Matt Eich is an independent photographer born in Virginia in 1986. He is a photographic essayist and takes portraits as well.  The way I would describe his photographs is things we see in everyday life. To be more specific, I would say he takes candid pictures as well as portraits of people. It also looks like the pictures of everyday life he takes are of things we see, but don't pay much attention to.

     

I found these images, and more, on Matt Eich's website. I chose to put these here because they were the first to catch my eye. The one with the smoke is cool, because you can mostly see the smoke only in the ray of light. The bricks and the tree are examples of what I meant when i said everyday life things we don't really pay attention to. The girl sleeping is a candid picture. The last one with the water ripple I just chose because I liked it. It is simple and has a value in the color blue. 

Photo Experience: Plus & Minus Assignment

 Today me and Thyara went out to take pictures for the assignment. Basically what we had to do was take a picture of the same thing, but change the lighting available to the lens. I chose to take a picture of some blooming flowers on a tree that had lost all its flowers because of the winter. My friend to a picture of two dandelions. I actually liked this assignment because you got to compare the same object under different exposure of lighting. I think the main reason I liked the assignment , though, was because of the camera we were using. My favorite camera out of the three the school has is the Sony because it just zooms in the best and has the best focus in my opinion compared to the others. It just overall takes the best quality pictures out of the three. If the pictures were uploaded to the server I would put one on here, but they are not so that is all. Bye.

Photo Experience: Spin like a Top Assignment

Today I went outside to take the pictures for the "Spin like a Top" assignments. We were out for like 5 minutes and then one of the staff people (not going to say names) told us that we need to stop just standing around and stuff. We were actually trying to fix the setting on the camera so that we could carry out the assignment. It took me like 5 tries and sets of photos to finally get the pictures how the assignment asked for. It was frustrating and awkward because I am not photogenic so I wasn't pleased with the pictures, or my face being in the photos. Eventually I didn't care and just wanted to get the assignment done, so I just kept the first 6 pictures that came out "right". Then I returned to class. I liked this assignment, just not that my face had to be in the pictures. I wish flowers and other inanimate objects had hands so they could take pictures of themselves for me. sigh.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was born on July 20th, 1895 in Hungary. He was a painter and a photographer. Below are some of his photographs. My favorite is the one with the two silhouettes. I don't know if they are actual people or not, but the image looks awesome. I also like the two cat photographs because it is basically the same cat, but the original image was flipped and inverted. The other two I like because they look abstract and like pieces of artwork. Laszlo died in 1946 from leukemia in Chicago.