HELP photography techniques - famous photographers
Mar 29, 2012 22:16:51 #
[quote=lawana]I am working on my final assignment for class and have to chose a photographer to emulate. /quote]
lawana, if you are still in the building, I will say that to emulate any great photographer will mean to rise to that level. That said, to pick Ansel Adams will be like photographing Yosemite Falls with a new spin on it. One of my favorite living photographers is Melvin Sokolski.
lawana, if you are still in the building, I will say that to emulate any great photographer will mean to rise to that level. That said, to pick Ansel Adams will be like photographing Yosemite Falls with a new spin on it. One of my favorite living photographers is Melvin Sokolski.
Mar 29, 2012 22:28:21 #
Mar 29, 2012 23:30:22 #
as a retired pprofessional of some 50 years.I would suggest that you emulate yourself......find within you a niche ,a favourite,someting that rings your bells.
Even Ansell Adam's works, though great in their day...... are so simple to understand and copy with todays digital. I would suggest also that you have the potential to be greater than anyone you try to copy. It dosent have to be spectacular just something that others can relate to.
Beside in the old days we mainly used 10X8 glass plates with all the extensions. I personally always favoured the war photographers who risked their lives to get their stories to the world. Hope this helps.
wjames
Even Ansell Adam's works, though great in their day...... are so simple to understand and copy with todays digital. I would suggest also that you have the potential to be greater than anyone you try to copy. It dosent have to be spectacular just something that others can relate to.
Beside in the old days we mainly used 10X8 glass plates with all the extensions. I personally always favoured the war photographers who risked their lives to get their stories to the world. Hope this helps.
wjames
Mar 30, 2012 00:19:06 #
I just did a Google search of Annie Leibowitz and did not see anything like you describe. I did find a wealth of amazing photographs from a photographer I have heard of before but am not familiar with. And she is contemporary, not a dinosaur like the rest.
larrycumba wrote:
This is easy. Find an underage girl and photograph her half naked. Voila, Annie Liebowitz.
Mar 30, 2012 01:46:32 #
Check out Jane Bown and James Vanderzee. Not sure about Vanderzee but Bown did a lot with one standard setting on her camera that she never veered from and only used ambient lighting.
Also, you might check out a very, very good book DIANA AND NIKON by Janet Malcolm. It's a book of her essays on photo and photo technique and heavily illustrated with samplings of work by Steichen, Vanderzee, Avedon and others. The Malcolm book I bought at Strand Books for $5 and I re-read it frequently.
Good luck on your project!
Also, you might check out a very, very good book DIANA AND NIKON by Janet Malcolm. It's a book of her essays on photo and photo technique and heavily illustrated with samplings of work by Steichen, Vanderzee, Avedon and others. The Malcolm book I bought at Strand Books for $5 and I re-read it frequently.
Good luck on your project!
Mar 30, 2012 02:24:45 #
Reginald wrote:
Check out Jane Bown and James Vanderzee. Not sure... (show quote)
All of these photographers mentioned are/were great in their day. I'm not sure why so many are recommending black and white. Did I miss something in the original request? Can you get black and white photography with pure untextured whites, and pure blacks with digital? Using a dark room to develop B&W adds a whole new dimension of skill requirements and learning, not to mention time.
Learn from people like Ernst Haas, deceased, and Pete Turner, alive and kicking it in color.
Now I think the guy has had enough advice. Maybe we should cease and desist. I know I will.
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Mar 30, 2012 02:56:22 #
lawana wrote:
I am working on my final assignment for class and have to chose a photographer to emulate. My problem is just doing a google search for famous photographers doesn't really lead me anywhere. I don't want to just chose a good photographer but rather a specific technique the photographer uses. Any advice would be greatly appreciated
One of my favorite photographers is William Henry Jackson.
His photos went before congress and when they saw them they set a track of land aside and thus the national park system was started. That track of land was Yellowstone. If you ever saw the picture of Mt.of The Holy Cross you have seen his work. He fought in the civil war and lived long enough to see the bombing of Pearl Harbor. National Geographic done and article on him and one photo shown of him was in Yellowstone using an Argus C3 35mm camera! All his famous work was done on 8x10 glass. He also took many Indian photos! The book " Time Exposure" is out of print but you can still find it. He died at the age of 99 and saw so much during his lifetime, he was also an artist and done some paintings that are in Washington D.C.. When he was 90 he moved from NYC to DC.
Mar 30, 2012 14:15:21 #
Hello Lawana, here's a link you might find interesting. No photoshop involved. All the real deal. Enjoy.
www.ashesandsnow.org/vision
www.ashesandsnow.org/vision
Mar 30, 2012 16:15:05 #
georgevedwards wrote:
Only time I ever watched the Oprah network and it was because there was a one hour segment on Leibowitz. She was doing a shoot of Cherise Theron (wrong spelling but irrelevant). She had her 2 assistants set up the shoot which was outside at the ocean. After all was set up Leibowitz came out and fired off 100 or so photos and then headed back to the studio. There she had 2 techs sitting infront of 2 40 inch monitors. She stood behind them, told them what she wanted in the photo and the 2 techs Photoshopped it FOR her until they got it to what she wanted. She was one of my favorite photographers until I seen this. Either she was too lazy to do it herself which I doubt or when you make the $$$ she makes you don't need to learn PS yourself you just hire someone to do it for you. For those who like to compare PS to the darkroom which I think is a joke this would be like Adams taking a photo and then having someone else do the darkroom work. Lost alot of my respect.........I just did a Google search of Annie Leibowitz and did not see anything like you describe. I did find a wealth of amazing photographs from a photographer I have heard of before but am not familiar with. And she is contemporary, not a dinosaur like the rest.
larrycumba wrote:
This is easy. Find an underage girl and photograph her half naked. Voila, Annie Liebowitz.
Mar 30, 2012 17:18:36 #
coco1964 wrote:
quote=georgevedwards I just did a Google search o... (show quote)
Thanks for sharing that about Leibowitz. How the mighty sometimes disappoint.
Mar 30, 2012 17:31:44 #
coco1964 wrote:
quote=georgevedwards I just did a Google search o... (show quote)
I truly believe ALL the pros do this. I read an interview with a National Geographic photographer. He said he would UPS his film, and "send" them in the digital age, back to the head offices for processing. By the time he got home, they were ready to critique for printing.
I think whomever does this work should have their name beneath the photo right next to the photographer"s.
Mar 30, 2012 18:01:07 #
Roger Hicks
Loc: Aquitaine
pigpen wrote:
I think whomever does this work should have their name beneath the photo right next to the photographer"s.
Just as the typographer or layout artist should have his name next to the writer?
Cheers,
R.
Mar 30, 2012 18:21:25 #
Roger Hicks wrote:
Just as the typographer or layout artist should have his name next to the writer?
Cheers,
R.
pigpen wrote:
I think whomever does this work should have their name beneath the photo right next to the photographer"s.
Just as the typographer or layout artist should have his name next to the writer?
Cheers,
R.
Apples and oranges.
Mar 30, 2012 19:09:54 #
Why not Google onto Deaf Photographers. You might also find a copy in library of Deaf Artists in America: colonial to contemporary by Deborah Sonnenstrahl. She includes photographers. I think she includes "Deaf Maggie Lee Sayer" (?) and many others. You might find an area and a people of actual interest to you and others. At any rate, good luck with your project!
Mar 31, 2012 02:04:36 #
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