Still Life – Basic

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Highest ISO

Location: Green House
ISO: 12800
Aperture: f/25
Shutter Speed: 1/125

 

Lowest ISO:

Location: Green House
ISO: 100
Aperture:f/4
Shutter Speed:1/200

 

Overexposure:

Location: SBS
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/250

 

Underexposure:

 

Location: SBS
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/320

 

Normal Exposure:

Location: SBS
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5,6
Shutter Speed: 1/160

Incorrect White Balance:

Location: SBS
ISO:
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed:

Incorrect White Balance:

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture:f/3.5
Shutter Speed:1/80

 

Correct White Balance:

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture: f/4
Shutter Speed:1/200

 

Fast Shutter Speed:

Location: Wang
ISO: 200
Aperture:f/16
Shutter Speed:1/160

 

Slow shutter speed:

Location: Wang Fountain
ISO:200
Aperture:f/29
Shutter Speed:1/6

 

Shallow depth of field (wide Aperture):

Yellow – Orange

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture:f/5
Shutter Speed:1/100

 

Deep Depth of Field (Narrow Aperture):

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture:f/4
Shutter Speed:1/200

 

Standard Angle of View

 

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture:f/3.5
Shutter Speed:1/30

Into the green

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture:f/3.5
Shutter Speed:1/30

Still Life: Plant Portraits

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This is a series of photos I took of the plants around campus.

Playing with Shadows

I took this picture while doing my first project. It is near staller. This was around 5.30 pm so the sunlight was softer but this short plant was in the shadow of a tree but the light was perfectly streaming in, lighting few of the leaves and there was a light stream right behind. So I took a few photos in various angles. I noticed the cigarette behind but I sort of left it where it was, kind of adds to the photograph. Later on, when I was going through the photos I noticed the spider web line, which was a good surprise. The thing I am happy I was able to capture was the way light streamed in, keeping half of the plant in dark and the other half in light.

Light and Dark

Location: Staller Center
ISO:200
Aperture: F/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200

This one was taken while I was with my friend, she had to click photos for her biology class and I never pass up on a photography opportunity. So I accompanied her, while she took pictures of specific leaves. I was walking around when I noticed these two leaves in the middle of the sunlight streaming through the trees. I liked how there are two lines and the leaves are sort of in the way of one.

Shapes and lines

Location: Javits
ISO:100
Aperture: F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80

Shapes and Lines II

Location: Javits
ISO:100
Aperture: F/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80

The next two pictures are from the greenhouse. They are both part of the same plant and the first photo I like to call it Snowflake, that is what it reminds me of.

Snowflakes

ISO: 100
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/100
Location: Green House

 

SEEDS

ISO: 100
Aperture:f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/80
Location: Green House

 

Playing with colors and angles

Orange fire

ISO:100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/200
Location: Green House

    

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture: F/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/200

 

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture: F/5
Shutter Speed: 1/125


ISO: 100
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/320
Location: Wang Center

 

ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/640
Location: Wang Center

 

 

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture: F/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/50

 

Location: Green House
ISO: 100
Aperture: F/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/30

Circular

 

Location: Green House
ISO:100
Aperture: F/5
Shutter Speed: 1/320

 

 

 

Time of Day ARS 281

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These photographs are for the Time of Day Project.
I had a fun time clicking these photos, walking around the  SBU campus. It made me find a few new places around the campus to take photos at.

I have been wanting to take photos at the library for quite some time now. I had noticed before, depending on the time of day and the sunlight, the glass windows would cast shadows in the main library. So for this project I tried taking a few photos in the library although a lot of the days I went to take photos – it was cloudy.

LINES

Location: Frank Melville Library
Time: 9.51
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.0
Shutter Speed: 1/125

This was shot at Fire Island. This picture was taken while my camera pointed directly towards the sunlight so I think that is why it is so bright even after I adjusted the setting on my camera. Another reason I took this picture was because of the surfer. It was a nice sunny day and there were people surfing and I wanted to capture the surfers.

Waves

Location: Fire Island
Time: 12.08
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 1/640

This is another picture from Fire Island around mid-afternoon, but this time the sun was behind me.

Horizon

Location: Fire Island
Time: 13.00
ISO: 100
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/1600

This picture is also from Fire Island. The thing I loved about this was the way the light was hitting this sitting area, casting shadows additionally the perfectly lines boats in the background and the clouds. It is a very dreamy, vacation like photo.

Shades

Location: Fire Island
Time: 13.54
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/640

This is another picture from the library on a different day at a different time. It was a sunny day.

Location: Frank Melville Library
Time: 16.30
ISO: 200
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/320

Location: Frank Melville Library
Time: 16.45
ISO: 400
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter Speed: 1/1000

Location: Staller Center
Time: 17.27
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/400

Location: Frank Melville Library
Time: 19.20
ISO: 800
Aperture: f/3.5
Shutter Speed: 1/13

These last two pictures I took during the summer break, 2018, near Stonybrook.

Location: Stonybrook Beach
Time: 19.50
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/9
Shutter Speed: 1/100

 

Location: Stonybrook Beach
Time: 20.00
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter Speed: 1/30

 

Jacques Henri Lartigue

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While working on Jacques Henri Lartigue, few of the words that popped up in most articles or book I read about him were, ‘spontaneous’, ‘captured life itself’, ‘joyful’, ‘nostalgia’, ‘free spirit and love of life’, ‘captured a sense of movement’, etc.

He was born in Paris, June 13, 1894, in a prosperous family. Lartigue got a camera at the age of 8, and he started capturing photos since then. Most of his well-known work are the photographs he took in his childhood. He made the most of his privileged life, capturing moments, a lot of them of his family and friends. His photos also portrayed motion –  mid-action shots which could easily be manipulated now with shutter speed but during those days must have been more difficult which probably means he had developed a good intuition as to when to have his camera ready.

His childhood photos consist mostly of him and his cousin trying to fly planes, build cars, car races, and families and animals. Later in his life, his three wives became his muse, and he uses some amazing shadow play to capture their photos. Also, he would go to events – horse racing and capture the women in their beautiful attires.

      

He was an amateur photographer who became known when he visited New York City and caught the eye of MOMA curator, John Szarkowski, who gave him a solo exhibition in the year 1963 when he was 69 years old.

He even did color photography and once he became a known artist, he got the opportunity to shoot for magazines and even the then French President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

I really enjoyed going through his photographs, these photos have joy, happiness captured in them and one can’t help but smile. Also to be able to capture a moment as it truly was and people not showing discomfort I think is one amazing strength. It was something I loved about his work – people never seemed conscious or uncomfortable. He was a good photographer – in the sense he was able to make himself invisible to the subjects. Even his later photographs where he took portraits they are so beautiful, capturing the beauty in the women he shot.

 

 

 

Sources:

http://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/jacques-henri-lartigue
http://moma.org/d/c/exhibition_catalogues/W1siZiIsIjMwMDE0NzA2NiJdLFsicCIsImVuY292ZXIiLCJ3d3cubW9tYS5vcmcvY2FsZW5kYXIvZXhoaWJpdGlvbnMvMjU2MyIsImh0dHA6Ly9tb21hLm9yZy9jYWxlbmRhci9leGhpYml0aW9ucy8yNTYzP2xvY2FsZT1lcyJdXQ.pdf?sha=525a1a01790fcd05
https://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Jacques-Henri-Lartigue.html
https://www.jacksonfineart.com/artists/jacques-henri-lartigue/
http://jumblepusher.com/post/146574561113/jacques-henri-lartigue-vera-villepion-arlette

Introduction

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For the most part of my life, photography has been part of my life, through my mother –  she loves taking photos. First, we had the film camera, then a Handycam (a small video camera), a point and shoot digital camera and finally a DSLR camera. So I used to take photos but was never interested like my mother. It was with the Canon DSLR that piqued my interest. At that point, I came to the United States.

So, last year I saved my own money to buy myself a camera and since then I have been having fun with my camera taking various types of photos – although I really enjoy taking portraits and landscape and sometimes food ( when I remember to click before I eat). I definitely appreciate things around me more, looking around all the time and especially look for beauty everywhere I go, even in everyday things.

So here are a few of my favorite photos from the past year, which I hope would serve as a baseline for the class.

The first two photos are the first few photos I took right after I bought the camera.

I still definitely have a lot to learn. I hope through this class I understand more about the concepts related to photography, learn about more photographers, understand photography in general.

I also want to learn more about editing (Photoshop and Lightroom) and get better at it.