Ernst Haas Analysis
Swimmers-Olympics
Ernst Haas
Los Angeles, 1984
https://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=43
Ernst Haas
Los Angeles, 1984
https://www.photographersgallery.com/by_artist.asp?id=43
With my personal description for this image is that this is about the movement of swimmers that are in the Olympics. The main point of focus in this picture is the movement because the artist of this photo focuses mostly on movement. The best thing about this photo in my opinion is the fact that it is about swimming because I personally love swimming. Ernst Haas has probably used slow shutter speed (below 60) to get the movement picture because if the shutter speed is below 60 then you would need a stand or something that could hold your camera still while you take the photo, otherwise it would be blurry. There isn't a main focal point in this photo but the lighting goes from dark to light.
My shutter speed experiments.
This is my first successful photo of movement using the shutter speed of 1/60th of a second.
This photo is the second successful picture using the shutter speed of 1/20th of a second.
In this third photo I have used the shutter speed of 1/6th of a second.
This photo hasn't worked so well because you can't really see the two people walking by, I have used the shutter speed of 1 second.
For my fifth photo I have continued to use the shutter speed of 1 second to attempt a better picture but there were no better results.
The two people walking by in this photo were walking quite fast so they look like mist in the photo, I am still using the shutter speed of 1 second.
Using my teacher Mrs L, she was waving her arms in a bird action while I was taking a photo using shutter speed of 1/6th of a second. The second photo is 1/20th of a second and the third is 1/60th of a second. For the fourth photo I have also used the shutter speed of 1/60th of a second.
1/20th of a second.
1/60th of a second.
In this last photo I have took a picture of a class doing Sports Studies, they were playing cricket and somebody had hit the ball with the bat, with the shutter speed of 17 I took the photo of the person, who had hit the ball, running.
Eadweard Muybridge
Deer running
Eadweard Muybridge
1878-1884 (The years the photo was possibly taken)
Eadweard Muybridge
1878-1884 (The years the photo was possibly taken)
In all of these 18 photos I have done a sequence of movement using my classmates as models. The setting on my camera was on continuous mode. I was influenced to do this by Eadweard Muybridge to create the sequence of movement. These are my successful photos because in my previous photos my classmate Luke looked as if he was hopping, this resulted to me not using that series of photos because they didn't show any signs of movement.
Michael Bosanko
This photograph was taken by Michael Bosanko, the website I have got the photo from doesn't include the information of when it was produced but the original painter of this piece produced it in 1989, the title of this photo is 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa'. The website I got it from was http://www.michaelbosanko.com/illuminating-hokusais-the-great-wave
In this photograph I can clearly see the ocean forming a wave to what it seems to be a boat but in the original painting it is a mountain. The ocean has clear lines from the light but to make it look more like an ocean Bosanko has made some of the ocean smooth-looking to fill out the blank spaces between the thin lines. The main focal point of this picture is probably the big wave going over the boat/mountain because to me it has got the most detail.
In this photograph I can clearly see the ocean forming a wave to what it seems to be a boat but in the original painting it is a mountain. The ocean has clear lines from the light but to make it look more like an ocean Bosanko has made some of the ocean smooth-looking to fill out the blank spaces between the thin lines. The main focal point of this picture is probably the big wave going over the boat/mountain because to me it has got the most detail.
Movement of light work
For all of these 9 photos I have gone into the dark room with a camera and a torch on a phone. I had to re-create my name backwards with the torch. We left the shutter open for 8 seconds so we were able to keep the letters the way we wanted them.
My Mini Project
So far in movement I have enjoyed the sequence movement (something like the Deer Running by Eadweard Muybridge). In my mini project that I will be doing, the plan is to do something similar to Eadweard Muybridge but instead of doing a wild animal I will be doing something simple like my pet cat. Muybridge has influenced my ideas by me deciding to put the photos together of my cats movement to create a sequence. This links to my theme because it includes movement and it links to my artist choice because he was my inspiration to do the movement sequence. All I would need to do this project is any camera and my movement model. What I think would improve my picture is to include depth of field, I am only going to focus on the cat and maybe blur out the background. My plan is to be using natural lighting because I haven't learned yet about artificial lighting.