Food Photography

• 3 types: -packaging- realistic, no change; advertising, use props and special effects; editorial, lighting important
• use bold and vivid colors and contrasting textures
• shot from low perspective
• crop out background, focus on detail
• use minimum focus
• add oil to make food look hot or wet
• not too many props- only used to enhance not distract
• add oil to enhance food and make it look hot and wet
• high or low key mood
• make 2D subject look 3D
• small light sources better= more texture
• use mirrors for light and no shade
• use really short tens or really long one to give different perspective

Bourke White (1904-1971)

Bourke White was a photo journalist and one of the first female to be hired as a war correspondent. She was born on June 14th, 1904, in the Bronx, New York. When she was young, the family moved to a rural suburb in New Jersey. She and her sister were taught by her mother who was was strict in regulating their outside influences. Her father was an engineer and inventor.If something interested Margaret's father, it also interested her, therefore her father's interest in cameras carried over to her. She pretended as a girl to take photographs with an empty cigar box and she claimed that she never took a photograph until after her father's death. Her cousin Florence remembers her helping her father to develop prints in his bathtub. In 1917, her father suffered a stroke but by 1919, he had recovered enough for the family to take a trip to Niagara Falls and Canada. While there, she began to make notes on his photographs, and helped him set up shots on several occasions. Here she obtained her love for photography which continued through her life and purse photojournalism, making her one of the first women to do so. 

In 1929, she accepted a job as associate editor and staff photographer of Fortune magazine, a position she held until 1935. In 1930, she became the first Western photographer allowed to take pictures of the Soviet Industry which was rare for a female. She traveled to Europe to record how Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were faring under Nazism and how Russia was faring under Communism. She was then hired by Henry Luce as the first female photojournalist for Life magazine in 1936. She also was honored with the first Life cover: a picture of the Fort Peck Dam construction on November 23, 1936. This cover photograph became such an iconic image that it was featured as the 1930s representative to the United States Postal Service's Celebrate the Century series of commemorative postage stamps. She officially held the title of staff photographer until 1940, but returned for a period from 1941 to 1942.  She returned again in 1945, and fully retirement in 1969. Despite were success over those years, she is more commonly known for her photographs of the Great Depression victims in the mid-1930s. These images are still revered today and though she is no loner here, her work lives and legacy live on.
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Mercy Day Rally

Mercy Skittles Day

Mercy bowl-a-thon

rockstar Mercy day

Mercy Disney Day

Group assignment photos

Photojournalism

This is a picture taken by Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist. Its a tragic photo of a young child in

sub-Saharan Africa who is so weak and starved that a vulture is right next to her just waiting for her to die. Vultures typically only eat dead animals and it senses that the young child will soon die so it just awaits its next meal and it should also be noted that it looks a lot better fed than the child. Carter put great emphasis on the child by taking the picture from an angle where her ribs are clearly visible and people could see just how emaciated the child is and also it is in font of the vulture. The picture has a very strong impact because it shows the urgency and severity of the situation in Africa. This photo, though tragic, brings awareness to the extreme poverty in Africa in a very powerful way. Carter won the Pulitzer for this picture but died a year later.

This picture depicts the lynching of black men in Marion on August 7, 1930. It was estimated that 2,000 people gathered to see these men lynched after being in jail for charges of killing a white man and raping his girlfriend. Before being tried they were beaten and two where hanged and one was released when a man stepped up and said he had nothing to do with it. Corbis Brettman photographed this and the emphasis put on the men hanging along with the capturing of the background of whites in the fame really brings to life the injustice of that time because the whites seem pleased about the situation. The black and white add to the effect and work to add a sadness mood to the picture.

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima was taken by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. It shows the United States raising the flag on Mount Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. It is also a black and white photograph and that makes the value element more prominent and the mood more heroic. The emphasis is definitely on the U.S. flag which is towards the center.

This is a picture of an unknown man who became a hero from this photo that shows him standing in front of four army tanks in Tienanmen Square on June 5, 1989. It was photographed by Jeff Widener from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel which makes it possible to see all the tanks and the man from above. It shows the bravery of this man and how the Chinese people were so tired of not being listened to. The frame just lets the tanks ans the man in the image but its just as powerful because the emphasis is still on the man though he is far smaller and to the side. This picture also consists of very few colors and none too bright which is good because they don't distract or take away form the photograph.

This is a photography by Mike Wells in 1980 which shows a young, starving child's hand in Uganda with that of a missionary. The contract is horrifying and tragic but definitely an eye opener. This is a very powerful image even thought the only thing in the frame are the two hands. The fact that there are only two hands present shows the outstanding proportion differences. Color, in this case, works to emphasis the difference between both hands and the detail in the fagile hand.

Elements and Principles

Emphasis: The telephone is being emphasised in this picture because it is the most prominent and important object.

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Value: The light and dark values give dept and shape to the picture.

Proportion: The watch looks bigger than all the other things in the background.

Notes (p.65-72)

Low-Key or Dark Scenes:

This photo was taken at F16 while the bottom right was taken at F8 which exposed to much light, distorting some of the detail and shadows.

F 22

F 3.5

Notes (p.60-65)

F-stops

This photo was shot at F5.6 which gives it a smaller depth of field making the background blurry and the watch in focus.

The background is also out of focus in this picture because it was taken at F4.5

Speed

The speed was adjusted in this photograph giving the water a frozen look.

These pictures show camera movement because while I was taken the one on the left, I was attacked by my dog which cause my camera to move so then I redid it.

Notes (p.42-48)

Proportion:

In this picture the green dog treat looks bigger than all the other ones.

Choosing Subject and Setting:

I decided to take a picture of this painting because it really captivated me and I also realized that by takin it at this angle I was also able to get it to reflect onto the mirror on the side of it. With this picture I also decided to go with the sepia setting to give more character and a certian mood to the painting and make it look older and in a differnt time period.

Viewpoint:

This picture was taken from a staircase to gice it a bird's eye point of view.

Timing:

In this picture I had to quickly snap the picture of my lovely friend to capture her movement.

Choosing Lighting:

I took this from this angle to get the sunlight to come in from the right and hit the side of the building.