my favorite picture of the final project

This is my favorite picture because it was late at night, i love the way the lights of the Brooklyn bridge because it looks like bright stars. The combination of the bridge, moon, stars and the bright line is an airplane flying across so fast that you only could see a line, for me it looks like a shooting star. i find this picture so romantic because when i was taking pictures in seaport there were a lot of couples admiring the view but none of them wanted their picture taken for the sake of my project.

Annie Leibovitz at the Brooklyn Museum

The exhibit was really successful portraying Annie Leibovitz in a personal as well as professional aspect of her life through all her photographs divided in these two parts and sorted chronologically. This two bodies of works complement each other because is an interesting way to learn how is the life of the photographer through photos as well as the way her personal life experience is projected through the way she approaches the themes of her works.

My Father, February 3, 2005 Gelatin Silver Print after Susan was buried in Paris a week later she photographed her father death in his sleep early in the mourning and her mom holding him. This picture was taken in the room of her father because he didn’t want to go to the hospital. I think this picture was really strong in portraying her father death because it was in black and white and there was a predominant dark tone in the picture. The face of her father looked like sleeping peacefully. I really cant imagine how she felt having to lose two of her most important figures of her life one after another in such a short notice.

The US Olympic Synchronized swimming team, Culver City, California 1996 Gelatin Silver Print. This picture is in black and white and only shows the outlines of four Athletes swimming under water but she uses like the negative of the picture, which the color value is reverted because the four dynamic bodies of the athletes are white and the water is black. I find this picture interesting because the water and the bodies shows a dynamic movement.

The influence of the artist life its what shapes the style of the artist work as a professional photographer. Then you can understand the way that the she thinks and the way she interprets life portrait through her works.

-cont-(draft)

Final project new statement

New York hottest spots

I made a research on New York best places to hangout and sight seeing, i want to take the pictures that represents each place by its stronger chracteristic combined with the time of the day that fits the best for each place to achieve its idividual beauty.

South Street Seaport, Pier 17, Downtown Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan renovated along with the sailing ships, the former Fulton Fish Market, and modern tourist malls featuring food, museum, shopping and nightlife, with a view of Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge and Brooklyn Heights.

Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings located between 48th and 51st Streets in New York. Rockefeller Center is a combination of two building complexes: the older Art Deco office buildings and a set of four International-style towers. The nation's largest most elegant indoor theater, Radio City Music Hall, is located in the complex. When is Christmas time they held the biggest Christmas tree along with the Ice Rink.

Central Park is a large public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The park looks natural, but almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes, extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas used for various sporting pursuits, as well as playgrounds for children. The park is a popular oasis for migrating birds, and thus is popular with bird watchers. The 6-mile road circling the park is popular with joggers, bicyclists and inline skaters.

Flushing Meadows,Corona Park, is located in northern Queens, New York City, USA, roughly at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway. It is the third largest public park in the City of New York and was created as the site of the New York World's Fair. There is a great view of the Unisphere, built as the theme symbol for the World's Fair, is the main sculptural feature of the park. The US Open Tennis Championship takes place in Flushing Meadows Park at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Shea Stadium is the home of the New York Mets, sits at the north end of the park. Rental boats are available for rowing on the park's two lakes, Meadow and Willow. Bicycling paths extend around the lakes. The many recreational playing fields and playgrounds in the park are used for activities like soccer and cricket are especially popular. The Queens Theater, the New York Hall of Science, the Queens Museum of Art, "Terrace on the Park and an indoor ice skating rink are part of the park. The futuristic towers of the New York State Pavilion were featured as a key plot element in the movie Men in Black.

Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements and the theaters of Broadway. The part of the city that never sleep.

photo of the week

the brooklyn bridge picture was shot at seaport at night. i like the overall composition and the mixture of colors. The position of the bridge in relation to the size of the buildings below in the back looks like a division. The curve of the highway below the bridge and the reflection of the lights gives the water a stripe of dark yellow, white and dark tones.

Katvan Still Life & Shapps

http://www.katvan.com/

The reflection of the base with the flower is tranformed into a shadow and reflection of the water and pattern of the base combined forming an extraordinary object because it looks like some screensavers for the computer that has those different gradients of lines and shapes inside the shadow in the wall.

Shapps Photography

















http://shappsphotography.com/07.html

This photographer uses a different aproach by drawing a realionships between the two objects, which are an ordinary Sapporo can beer with a full glass next to it and in the left the symbolic representation of the beer with the pouring water and the gold fish, which it draws a color relationship with the color of the beer.

favorite of the week

I chose this picture as my favorite picture of the week because the way the brooklyn bridge overlaps the manhattan bridge and the williamsburge bridge from the third floor of pier 17. The range of sizes between them because of the distance creates like a scale of similar objects. i love the color and pattern reflected on the water.

The Photo Expo

My trip to the photo plus expo

Its amazing the variety of companies offering a large range of services, cameras, printers, accessories, programs and equipments that I found in the expo that I didn’t have enough time to check them all.

I find really interesting the lecture that Apple Store gave about the cool features of their new program for photography called Aperture, which allows you to work with the raw pictures and edit them more accurately. They include more flexible photo management options that let you store images more conveniently. It already come intergraded with adjustment tools and color management, which makes the process of managing the photos easier in one program.

The booth that I liked the most was the LiveBooks, which is an editable portfolio websites for professional photographers. I have been trying to find an e-portfolio that is affordable and easy to arrange the photos. What attracted me the most was the student discount that they were offering and free magazine subscription for one year. I also checked their website which is livebooks.com for more information about their services.
There are two types of services available for the student and faculty, the professional Folio and the Pro version.

The product that most attracted me was the flexible tripod called Jody GorillaPod because is very light, its legs bends to secure the camera in any kind of surface and also can be attached to anything from a bench to a tree branch. This product is available in three sizes. I bought the smallest version for my digital camera because is small enough that could fit in my purse, it cost around $25 dollars at www.jody.com or at www.jr.com.

Mili

Blossfeldt Delphinium

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/blossfeldt/blossfeldt_larkspur_full.html
Delphinium Larkspur Part of a dried leaf magnified six times

This leave is a two dimensional composition and the curls on the tip of the leaves makes the subject transform into a graphic design. The subject is no longer recognizable as a leave because of the shape and curls combined with the texture. It looks like a set of gift wrap ribbons with its tip curled in all directions. Its just amazing how a leave could turnout with those shapes and forms. Especially the way that those curls are formed makes the object looks like the classical antiquity pattern in their artwork for decoration called organic interlace, which it was really popular at that time.


Best Photograph of the week

















This photograph was shot at Bryan Park 42 street late at night but the sky wasn’t that dark because of the fog, which added a gray and purple tone in the sky. I was behind the Pond ice skating rink, which it was really well light up that’s why the beautiful color of the leaves were visible and framing the picture from the top and upper left corner. This image is interesting because of the combination of the weather and seasonal changes makes a regular place look out of the ordinary.

Nick Koudis

Ironic Death #1, Seat Belt Distraction


Photographed by Nick Koudis at http://www.koudis.com/portfolio/index.htm

This composite has a landscape of a mountain and a closeup of car on a dangerous road, where it shows the car going off the cliff because the driver got distrated trying to put on the seat belt and she didnt notice the sign dangerous curve. This type of photograph will be hard to take in real life unless you have a great amount of money to create such scene just for one picture.
Sometimes the client wants something different and strange that will catch the attention of the customers and also a composite image is more flexible because it could be edited to communicate the message clearly by adding the neccesary elements. The manipulation can communicate fictional themes where your imagination could take you with no limits or boundaries such as surrealism, thats what straight photograph is not totally capable of communicating.