Monday, 15 October 2012

Annotation of My Own Photo Montage





By looking at this photo montage you can see a female in a deserted area. The image shows that she has nowhere to go. This shows that there is darkness and misery by looking at the background. Looking at the female, you can tell she is in deep thought of sorrow. It looks like there is a full tied coming in. By looking at this montage you can tell the creator of the montage has taken a lot of time to create this image. The creator wanted to show a lot of feeling and emotion throughout the image. You can tell there have been several images that have been blended in together. The creator wanted to catch the viewer’s eye in order to get them thinking why this female is sitting alone in a deserted place without any clothes. She could have been abused or homeless. The jewellery could be a sign of a memory that all she has left.

Annotation of A Photo Montage


Hannah Hoch has created this photomontage to show to the society about where they stand as an agenda and women's sexuality. Hannah has used a number of photographs from magazines or newspapers to make this montage. The photographs she used were from the company she worked for. This photo montage was aimed to the government rising questions behalf of all the woman agenda. The image shows that Hannah has taken her time to put the pieces together blending in the different types of colour. She must have glued them to a paper cutting out the photography’s of different areas to represent the society. I think she has picked the photographs very carefully in order to get her message across to the government. She has used very little amount of text to describe her photo montage. As far as my knowledge goes in those times the photos were black and white but looking at this photograph it has a touch of colour to it.


Weegee


Weegee was born in Złoczów now known as Zolochive, Ukraine. He has worked alongside of other commercial photographers doing different types of jobs. He decided to leave his old job in 1935 and he decided to become a freelance photographer. He worked at night and competed with the police to be first at the scene of a crime. In 1957, He developed diabetes, he then moved in with Wilma Wilcox, who was a social worker whom he had known since the 1940s, she had cared for him and then cared for his work. He travelled widely in Europe until 1968, working alongside the Daily Mirror and on a variety of photography shoots.

Most of his photographs were taken with very basic press photographer equipment and methods of the era, he used a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera present at f/16 at 1/200 of a second, with flashbulbs and a set focus distance of ten feet.  He developed his photographs in a homemade darkroom in the rear of his car. This provided an instant result to his work that highlighted the nature of the tabloid industry and gave the images a “hot off the press” feeling.





Rut Blees Luxemburg


Rut Blees Luxemburg works with photography in order to investigate the significance of the modern project on the city. Her large-scale photographic works expand the concept in relation to urban public space and representation. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Rencontres d'Arles, Photo month Krakow and Digital Arts Centre, Taipei. In her photographic work she brings to light the overlooked and the unforeseen which creates immersive and exposed compositions that challenge prevailing representations of the city.

The projects by Rut Blees Luxemburg are located in the urban complex and series include Liebeslied /My Suicides (London), Phantom (Dakar) and Black Sunrise (New York). Her photographs have been exhibited.

I like the style of photography techniques she has followed and will like to create wonderful images like her. Looking at her photos she has created a montage using various types of reflection and lighting to compose several images together. You can tell by looking at her montage that she has taken a lot of time to create her final look in her montage.






Q&A on ISO


Which film is more sensitive to light, ISO 100 or ISO 400 film?
·         The ISO 400 is sensitive to light.

Which film is more likely to allow a fast shutter speed in low light?
·         A higher ISO is required to get a faster shutter speed in a low light situation.

Which film would you use in very bright sunlight?
·         In a bright sunlight it would depend on the environment which you are in.
  
Which film would you use when working in low light conditions?
·         You would need to have an ISO 400 or more to match the light conditions that you are in.

Give an ISO setting suitable for recording fine detail with little grain?
·         You would be using ISO 100 to get less grainy in your images.

Holocaust World War 2


In this image you can see dead bodies that have been left for days after the starvation that took place in Germany, as you can see that the bodies are decomposing on the streets. According to the photographer many of the people have been shot dead by Gestapo men at the camp. Many of the people among the dead were slaves who were captured to do slavery for them and if they refused them would have been beaten up and no food will be given to them. This photography tells a story about what happened and why it took place. You can see most of the people in the photograph are out of focus this might be due to the type of photo the photographer wanted to capture. You can also see that the buildings on the left hand side have been badly damaged due to the war that took place at the time the incident people who died. The fences on the right hand side show the effect of the war.  The dead bodies have been place in all different directions. You can see people walking down the rows in between. These people can be survivors or the army.  In my opinion this looks like a wide angle shot that has been cropped in to show the people who died in focus. This image shows the rule of third in my opinion and the frame is filled. I think this image was captured by a F/8 with a shallow depth of field.