Michael Bosanko

 Michael Bosanko is a photographer that has done a series on writing with light. The series, titled "We Come In Peace", is made with figures drawn with light interacting with their environment. He also does light painting with cars, and other vehicles, some abstract series', iconic movie recreations, and logos etc. 

Writing With Light

By taking advantage of a dslr's ability to do a very long shutter speed, you can manipulate light into trails. Sometimes called painting with light, writing with light consists of using a dslr camera and a simple flash light to draw onto the camera's sensor paths of light that come together to create an image. Some ideas that i might want to try is to create a scene with stars above the subject as if he/she is stargazing inside a room. Or create some light orbs by swinging lights around in a circle. Examples from the internet are below.

Hyperlapse Photography

This friday for our fun project we made small simple hyperlapse videos. Similar to timelapse videos, except the camera moves too and shorter times between shots. To separate myself from the usual free hand and lack of a subject that most people did, I borrowed a friend to stand in each shot to make it seem as though he was moving without moving in the shots. Like some popular videos on youtube of hyperlapses. 

Rembrandt Lighting

Rembrandt Lighting is a form of studio lighting characterized by a light pointed at a face at an angle so that one side is completely lit and only a portion of the other side of the face is lit. It can be done using a single light and a reflector or two lights to achieve a natural but still artistic look with little equipment. 

This is a typical but wonderful example of Rembrandt lighting. All of the right side of her face is lit and a small portion of her left side is lit. If only a single light and no reflector was used, it is unlikely that the left side of her face would be so visible. 

Using Rembrandt lighting, I made the image below, but with a different pose. The main light shone on her hair with a secondary light facing the wall to reveal her face and the background.

Studio Portraiture with David Olkarny

David Olkarny is a photographer that does a lot of portraiture work and posts his work on flickr. He does some wedding photos as well as self portraits. In his portraits wherever they are, he often uses lights to accentuate features of the picture like the subject because the subject should be the face in portraits.
On flickr, David Olkarny has disabled the downloading of his pictures. So here's a link to his Flickr account. https://www.flickr.com/photos/olkaprod/

Gif's

This is the result from a project where we made Gif's. A .gif is a short video made of a few images played in an infinite loop. Using my camera on continuous shooting, I took pictures of a couple friends doing a twirl and a jump. The burst speed of my camera allows me to take enough images from each moment to moment as the action happens so I get a relatively smooth result.

Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra went to a beach to photograph portraits of adolescents. Her process is to take pictures of adolescent boys and girls right at the waters edge. The background is minimal with just the water and bland sky. A flash is used to reduce contrast and separate the subject from the background as I believe she intends the ocean scene only to be a consistency for the series, not an important part of it other than that because the kids are going to the beach they are in their swimwear. The subjects are standing rather straight and facing the camera.

2nd Chances

For my second chances project, I want to do more HDR's because I feel that I rushed myself with the HDR project and I could have put more of myself into my images. I could have used some of my more personal ideas and created a much better line of work. I have some ideas for better HDR pictures.

Winter Break Post

   
Over winter break, I flew to San Jose, Costa Rica. On the first flight, out of Tulsa to Dallas, I was given a great view of downtown Tulsa. You could see all of the major buildings like the BOK Tower as seen as the tallest and furthest to the right building. That same flight also gave me other unique, and for me, previously unseen views during the daytime of my home town. I was able to point out highways and roads that I am familiar with. Buildings and favorite spots around town. I was even able to see my own house from the sky.

W. Eugene Smith

       
        In Eugene Smith's photos he uses under and over exposure to bring out his subjects and give more of a dramatic feel to his images. In the photo of the explosion, the extreme contrast brought on by the over exposure makes it very dramatic. The bright fog and clothes on the two people in the second image creates a strong contrast with their hair and hands bringing out the people that are likely a focus point in the image. 

About Light Project

       For the about light project, we were sent out to capture images that characterize light. Hence, "About Light". These are my two favorite images from the project. Naturally they are both long exposures. The first is the milky way as seen from the top of a mountain. Its stunning especially since this picture is very close to what it actually looked like. The second one is a picture of my backyard. I like it because of the way it almost looks daylight and how the light from the small lamps flood across the scene in a way that is not actually visible.

Dynamic Range

        Dynamic Range in photography refers to, in a single image, the maximum and minimum of measurable light intensities. Such as the highlights of an image and the shadows of the image. A camera with a particularly low dynamic range may easily blow out the highlights and have shadows with little detail. But a camera with a higher comparable dynamic range will keep more detail in the highlights as well as the shadows. Exposure is measured in f-stops. Zero is a neutral exposure of the scene, and will typically have the most natural look. 2 stops or -2 stops are over and underexposed images. In these the highlights or shadows are exaggerated. The human eye in a general sense can see a range of 24 f-stops. But more accurately since we only look at a small amount of our world at a time, this dynamic range estimate is around only 16 f-stops. DSLR's can usually see around 9-14 f-stops (its worth noting that the camera used for the below pictures have the capability of 14 f-stops of range), and film, depending on the type of film, can usually see up to 14 f-stops. 
        Since this is an introduction to HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, and HDR image is multiple images of varying exposures to reveal detail in highlights or shadows that would, under a single normal exposure, would be difficult or even impossible to see. 

Below is an under-exposed image of my headphones. This exposure brings out the detail in the brighter parts of the image. However the rest of the image is too dark. 

Now this is an over-exposed image of the same scene. Now the details in the darker parts of the image are more visible but the highlights are overblown.

In both of the images look at the texture of the headband and ear cups. This is where it is most easily shown what I mean about viewing detail that is either washed out or too dark. Now the next image is both of these images and the zero exposure combined in an HDR. For the sake of visuals, the final HDR has been tone corrected to look more like it did in real life. Since this isn't a particularly high contrast scene and for example, I have left out the zero exposure image because the dynamic range of the scene is really close to being within the dynamic range of my camera. But in this image most of the detail in both the shadows and highlights are now visible. 

Alexander Harding

      Alexander Harding has a body of work on "Visible Light" that shows some of the mechanics of light through a series of images. This specific image shows a bright light shining through four glasses of water. Since the glass and water is not perfectly see through, the light does not shine straight through it. It is bent and refracted by the water forming the interesting effect seen on the sheet behind the glass.

Benjamin Von Wong

     
     Benjamin Von Wong the self made, self taught professional photographer. Extremely proficient in the use of Adobe applications and has even had a series sponsored by Adobe. The images above are actually some of his less spectacular images to say the least. He has a very unique style. He uses extreme amounts of photoshop to create other worldly images. He is, to put it lightly, a technical master of imagery. Even though these "lighter", "softer" (content wise) images are not his everyday thing. They are my favorites. His usual style of imagery to me is a little 'out there' for me to thoroughly enjoy. However I can appreciate the technicality and required skill both with the camera and on the computer, but the angelic feeling of the chosen images are where I feel most attracted to his works. 

Benjamin Von Wong

Taken by Benjamin Von Wong, this majestic underwater image is a step away from his usual works. Quite opposite actually. This self taught photographer has a way with fire. So water, i guess, would be the natural next step to achieve contrast with his entire works. Using the Nikon AW-1, the worlds first waterproof DSLR, Wong stuck with his usual majestic and surreal qualities he puts into his product. The color makes it look like the picture was taken in shallow ocean water, with the light shining on the top and side of the face. With reflecting refractions of light on the other side of the face. The focus of the image is primarily on the forehead and hair. The lines of light and strands of hair lead the viewer to this area. The background is very obscured with a soothing shade of greyish green. Two qualities of this image are in the lighting and the composition. The sharpness of the hair and the tiny bubbles give this image detail and depth. 

"Ulysses" By Alfred Lord Tennyson

        The poem is about taking advantage of life itself. The little things and big things and all thats inbetween. The time you have to be able to spend time with your friends and family. Maybe a significant other, the journey that is life and included the search for love. From your old and new friends and the one you call your better half.
Little remains: but every hour is saved 
From that eternal silence, something more, 
A bringer of new things; 
         Even if you were to have only a little bit left of your life, you still have every hour to make it count. Even in death is something new. It stands out because it makes you want to live your life not in fear or as if it were your last day on earth. But to live your life without fear of death, to an extreme sense would be the popular term among teens this last year "YOLO" meaning "you only live once".

PInhole Experimental Images

           Using a pinhole camera is close to the most basic form of photography. Simply a box with a hole containing light sensitive paper. The primitive nature of the pinhole camera means exposure times are extremely long compared to today's cameras. But a long shutter speed is not all bad. Long exposure photogaphy is very popular and looks cool. It allows for some neat experimentation with light and your environment. Below are some examples of experimental images that would be interesting to make someting similar.

 This appears to be a bridge with people walking across it. The pinhole camera was set on the ground and the paper exposed for long enough that the people are blurred as they walk through the frame. A recreation would be to take my pinhole camera somewhere with an interesting subject and lots of foot traffic.

 This next image was taken in a car. Not a very clear image but the idea is wonderful. Open the shutter in a car moving in a staight line possibly on the highway to get an interesting effect.

Since i do not own a record player or know someone who does, i cannot exactly recreate this image, but it does provide inspiration. A playground roundabout would be a good place to start. Taking a portait or even self portait mid spin could be a dizzying result.

Alfred Eisensteadt

       Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German photojournalist that contributed to history with over 90 Life Magazine cover images. He photographed a meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, he took portraits of Ernest Hemingway, Sophia Loren, and Albert Einstein. Alfred believed in documenting the "lighter side of life".

                                        

This is a 35mm image of a rose I found while walking in my neighborhood. Intended for a project titled Up Close and Wide Open, I loved it regardless that it was required for school. The analog look of the film grain after I removed the scratches gives the image what I feel is a very professional look.

With the formal image project, I wanted a simple result. The simplicity of this image is unbelievable to me because of how amazing it turned out. A lamp, brown paper, and a lime. The right shot and a small boost of contrast and saturation made this simple image one of my favorites in photo one.