photography

Techniques

• Bokeh

Intentional use of blurring.

• Chiaroscuro

Dramatic use of dark and light in a piece of artwork.

• Intersection of threes

Is a grid and the center is similar to a view finder the image looks better when the subject is off center and along one of the lines.

• Cropping

This is were you remove part of the image to change the subject of the the photo such as the image of the moving car in the slide show. Cropping can also be used to remove part of an image which is not wanted.

Research

The first type of photography was to make an image appear on a piece off paper to draw by using a series of lenses these cameras where called camera obsucura and camera lucida. The reason that photography picked up is because with a camera you could capture a image or a significant moment easily rather than having to paint it. Using a camera was also useful for sculptors as the could just take a photograph of their work and show people it without having to bring the sculpture with them or show people the sculpture in person. As the years past photography became an form of art in its own right as it was made possible to alter images such as using chemicals and more recently photoshop. Photographers also started to show their images in different ways such as David Hockney started creating montages with lots of separate images similar to Jeff Wall.

Jeff Wall

Jeff walls photograph of three people walking down a street shows language of art in his photograph by capturing moments that could mean something in this photograph it is showing racism. Jeff wall is Canadian who sells his pieces of work for great amounts of money. Some of the skills he uses in his work is depth of field as the focus of the image is close to the lens but the photograph carries on down the street as well as bokeh to focus on the couple and the other person stood to the left , Jeff wall also uses the rule of thirds as the people are stood in the intersections this photograph was taken in North America. This image is also made up of lots of smaller image as his usually exhibits his work at a large scale, each part of the image is taken with a 8x10 camera.