Composition & Manipulation - DJ
After reviewing the slides it refreshed some information I already knew from my photography dark room class, composition specifically. Rule of thirds is something I've known about for a while and try to work on it the best I can. I think I'm so use to placing the object I'm shooting in the center of the frame that it could be better to change that.
I think the photo on slide 7 is very interesting in the way it was shot. In class we talked about how maybe the photograph should've brought the camera dow to show what the kids are looking at/playing with. But I personally thought it was a good choice to not capture it because it leave the audience open to their own imagination. Are they playing a game, are they looking at something, we don't know. If the photo was shot with showing what the kids were looking at and in the background you could kind of see the makeshift window I think more people would be interested in what's happening in the background.
Looking into photography manipulation I always found it very cool, the photo by Ansel Adams 'The Tetons and the Snake River' is something that I feel mesmerized by because of how high quality it is for being done in 1942 where the technology wasn't as advanced as it is now. In class it was mentioned that the photo was developed in a dark room. With my history in the dark room I know how complicated it is to get a photo that high quality.
Good to hear your general reflections here, Deziree. The only element missing seems to be to address the role of "truth" when viewing an image. The Adams image, for instance, is both an incredibly impressive and visceral example of the science of photography, as well as the medium's power to persuade. Even without actual alterations (as in the Mussolini image, or in more recent digital composites), we can still engage a conversation about truth: what our eyes and hearts experience as "real" (whatever that might mean to us) versus what can be considered trustworthy photographic information (whatever that might mean to us). Hopefully your experience with analogue photography will help you think through your digital compositions as well!
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