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Proposal for the project 4: Narrative-Storytelling

Proposal for the project 4: Narrative-Storytelling

Duane Michals

ADRIENNE DEFENDI: RELINQUISH

http://lenscratch.com/2017/08/adrienne-defendi-relinquish/

 

These are some of the most impressive photos I’ve taken for this project. Before deciding on the topic of the story, I was worried about what story would be the most effective and dramatic for the project. I looked at the above pictures during my research to appreciate more works and I thought that my personal experience and story could be the main theme. I will carefully observe the changes in the people and things that happen around me, and I will try to express their stories by photographs.

 

 

ARS 281 Project 3 – Altered Perception

 

Altered Perception

Color Blindness, Recovery of Light

 

Even people with perfect eyes who can identify all colors sometimes only see what they want to see. Having a color blindness does not prevent it from seeing the color you want to see. It’s just that I see only the colors I want to see. It’s just to let things that I do not want to see flow into a black and white world.

 

f/5   1/50s    ISO250

f/22   0.50s    ISO100

f/16   1/13s    ISO100

 

People with monochromacy who are not able to identify all the colors are sensitive to contrasts that can be distinguished. It means they are sensitive to light and darkness. I supposed when they saw the light with the colors, and thought to them how the light would feel.

 

A Moment

f/5   1/50s    ISO2500

Evening Lights

f/4   1/15s    ISO3200

An Outside Chance

f/4   1/40s    ISO2500

ARS281 William Wegman Presentation & One page Summary

Expressing Human in the Form of Dog

William Wegman is a witty photographer who creates curiosity by adding interesting ideas to everyday and ordinary material with abundant im agination. He used photographs as a means of play and saw the joy of working as an art, and the evidence for it was his photographs. It is getting popular response with the use of simple tools. Recently, he shows the dog who is trapped in color splitting by multi – personality of modern people with neoplasticism factors.

There are people’s stories in his photographs. He completes one story through a series of photographs, allowing the audience to find their way in the story. There is also humor in his photographs. It is not a heavy and profound material, but it also rests on light, witty and sometimes humorous photographs. But behind these witty photographs lies a story that is very closely related to our real life. Wegman expresses this with his lovely dog as the main character.

Wegman’s photography is not very difficult or profound. Behind his photographs there is a process of taking a photo and a flowing story. When Wegman tells the story with his lovely dog, the audience enjoys himself and cultural life. Wegman made the dog a protagonist in his photographs, but the audience will find their own story by looking at the dog.

 

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Monochromacy – Complete Color Blindness

Symptoms that literally can not distinguish all colors. One out of every 300,000 color blindness is color blind. The whole world is seen in black and white, and as much as possible is the degree of discrimination. Sharks are among the animals. It is the most rare case of color vision abnormality. If only one of the three cones is left, the world will be recognized as monotone. In this case, there are several cases. If only blue cones are left, there is no blue cones in the center of the retina and in the center, so it looks more blurred than when only red or green is left. When all three cone cells are lost, only the glandular cells will see the world. Only the faint lightness is distinguishable, and the shape is not clearly seen. If there are no glandular cells, the vision is completely lost.

 

Oilver Sacks

 

Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnet syndrome — when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon.

 

Color Blindness

Most of us share a common color vision sensory experience. Some people, however, have a color vision deficiency, which means their perception of colors is different from what most of us see. The most severe forms of these deficiencies are referred to as color blindness. People with color blindness aren’t aware of differences among colors that are obvious to the rest of us. People who don’t have the more severe types of color blindness may not even be aware of their condition unless they’re tested in a clinic or laboratory.

Inherited color blindness is caused by abnormal photopigments. These color-detecting molecules are located in cone-shaped cells within the retina, called cone cells. In humans, several genes are needed for the body to make photopigments, and defects in these genes can lead to color blindness.

There are three main kinds of color blindness, based on photopigment defects in the three different kinds of cones that respond to blue, green, and red light. Red-green color blindness is the most common, followed by blue-yellow color blindness. A complete absence of color vision —total color blindness – is rare.

Sometimes color blindness can be caused by physical or chemical damage to the eye, the optic nerve, or parts of the brain that process color information. Color vision can also decline with age, most often because of cataract – a clouding and yellowing of the eye’s lens.

 

 

 

 

Hallucinations

 

Hear voices. Your doctor may call this an “auditory hallucination.” You may sense that the sounds are coming from inside or outside your mind. You might hear the voices talking to each other or feel like they’re telling you to do something.

See things. This is also known as a “visual hallucination.” For example, you might see insects crawling on your hand or on the face of someone you know.

Sometimes they look like flashes of light. A rare type of seizure called “occipital” may cause you to see brightly colored spots or shapes.

 

 

Aperture and Shutter Speed Study

 

Aperture

There are a number of results of changing the aperture of your shots that you’ll want to keep in mind as you consider your setting but the most noticeable one will be the depth of field that your shot will have.

Depth of Field (DOF) is that amount of your shot that will be in focus. Large depth of field means that most of your image will be in focus whether it’s close to your camera or far away. For example the landscape shot above has an aperture of f/16 and the result is that both the mountain in the background and the boats in the foreground remain in focus.

Small (or shallow) depth of field means that only part of the image will be in focus and the rest will be fuzzy (like in the portrait at the top of this post. You’ll see in it that the subjects eyes are in focus but the background is blurred. Even her hair which is only a little behind her eyes is blurred. This is a very shallow depth of field and was taken with an aperture of f1.8).

Similarly this creative birth announcement image was shot at f1.8 and again you see the shallow depth of field with the ultrasound in focus but everything else blurred.

 

Shutter Speed

 

Shutter speed, also known as “exposure time”, stands for the length of time a camera shutter is open to expose light into the camera sensor. If the shutter speed is fast, it can help to freeze action completely, as seen in the above photo of the dolphin. If the shutter speed is slow, it can create an effect called “motion blur”, where moving objects appear blurred along the direction of the motion. This effect is used quite a bit in advertisements of cars and motorbikes, where a sense of speed and motion is communicated to the viewer by intentionally blurring the moving wheels.

ARS 281 Project 2 – Still Life Landscape Part2

ARS 281 Project 2

Still Life Landscape Part2 –  a cohesive series of images

f/5.6 1/80s ISO160                                            Skin

 

f/5.6 1/100s ISO160                                            Hair

 

f/5.6 1/100s ISO100                                           Body

 

f/5 1/60s ISO1000                                          Family

 

ARS 281 Project 2 – Still Life Landscape Part1

ARS 281 Project 2 – Still Life Landscape

<Exposure>

f/6.3   1/160s   ISO620

 

f/6.3   1/40s   ISO640

 

f/6.3   1/640s   ISO640

 

 

<Exposure2>

f/6.3   1/400s   ISO100

 

f/6.3   1/100s   ISO100

 

f/6.3   1/1600s   ISO100

 

 

<ISO noise levels>

f/6.3   1/250s   ISO100

 

f/6.3   1/250s   ISO800

 

f/6.3   1/250s   ISO6400

 

 

<White balance settings>

f/6.3   1/200s   ISO125

 

f/6.3   1/200s   ISO125

 

f/6.3   1/200s   ISO125

 

 

<Shutter speed>

f/5   1/4000s   ISO1600

 

f/32   1/10s   ISO100

 

 

 

 

 

<Aperture>

f/5.6   1/60s   ISO1600

 

f/36   1/60s   ISO1600

 

 

<Angles of view>

f/4.5   1/60s   ISO400

 

f/5   1/60s   ISO400

 

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