Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor: This Is Not Photography

He experiments in a darkroom. She composes on a computer screen. Together, husband-and-wife artists Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor create haunting, layered dreamscapes that push the boundaries of photography's possibilities. This documentary from lynda.com explores both the technical and emotional aspects of Jerry's and Maggie's work, from the composition to the criticism, with insight from other preeminent voices in photography.

Jerry Uelsman: "My main technique involves combination printing."

Combination printing is the technique of using the negatives of two or more images in conjunction with one another to create a single image. The results of these experiments are just incredible. Jerry Uelsman is one of my favorite if not my absolute favorite photographers.

 

 

 

http://www.uelsmann.com/

"Features." Jerry Uelsmann. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.

Maggie Taylor: "If all the shadows are not quite in the right place, I like it a little better."

Taylor has created a method of editing photographs that came before programs such as photoshop but follows the same basic principles. She uses digital methods in order to achieve a surrealistic composition that results in beautiful works of art.

 

 

http://www.vervegallery.com/?p=artist_gallery&a=MT&g=1&r=1&photographer=Maggie%20Taylor

"Represented Artists at VERVE Gallery of Photography." Represented Artists at VERVE Gallery of Photography. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2013.

HDR Shooting

 

In this incredible image the artist has used high dynamic range to capture the beautiful detail of this old decaying shipwreck. The immense detail and vivid color of the boat in the foreground is balanced nicely with the strong blues and large range of value shown in the sky and clouds in the background. The placement of the wreck also draws interest because the boat is not quite centered in the composition and it is leaning at a slight angle. The colors in the composition are vivid, not washed out, and at the same time the artist has not overly saturated them which creates an almost dreamlike quality that adds to this beautiful image.


Ásmundur Þorkelsson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asmundur/133381950/
Asmundur. "I Have Sailed the Seven Seas ..." Flickr. Yahoo!, 23 Apr. 2006. Web. 21 Feb. 2013.

Table-Top Photography

 

 

Lori Nix

"Beauty Shop"

 

http://pdnphotooftheday.com/2011/06/9906

"Photo Magazine | Photography Magazine | Photos Magazine | Professional Photographer Magazine | Photo News | Best News Photos." PDN Photo of the Day RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Feb. 2013.

 

In this photograph Nix has utilized table-top photography in order to create an image that looks as though it has been edited in a surreal manner but it is in fact a miniature set created by the artist. Nix creates these scenes by hand to replicate a real life setting. By incorporating the hand reaching into the scene she has given a surrealistic sense to the image while also giving us an

idea of the scale to which the scene was built. As far as quality of the actual miniatures that she has created it is in the style of an old run down beauty salon and she has used various techniques to give the impression of dirt and grime throughout the piece. This creates a very unique effect and also feeds the idea that this could actually be the inside of a run down salon somewhere in the world. The immaculate attention to detail that she has completely pays off in the final composition of this scene.

STEVE O'LOUGHLIN

http://www.mccelticdesign.com/americanceltic.php

"Michael Carroll - American Celtic." Michael Carroll - American Celtic. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2013.

 

 

In this painting O'Loughlin uses a repetitious swirling pattern that

creates a rhythmn and movement throughout the piece. The variety in size of the

individual curves of the design create a much more interesting piece

than had the curves been restricted to a uniform size.

Similarly,the circular designs that are contained within the

swirling pattern are both repetitious as well as varied. Each of the areas

are in the shape of a circle however, the detailed patterns inside of them as

well as the size used are also varied. At the same time the arrangement

of them creates a harmonious composition that unifies each

of the individual pieces. The color palette used mainly consists

of the complementary colors orange and blue. This creates a striking piece

that is hard not to notice immediately. The repetition of these two colors throughout

the entire piece nicely ties together every element that O'Loughlin has used.

Scanography - Ken Ketcham

Ken Ketchum utilizes scans of various different kinds of objects to create these beautiful images that cannot be considered anything other than fine art. These images are not simply random objects strewn across the surface of a scanner. There is thought and rhythmn and flow and pattern in his pieces. Whether it is the color that he uses or the layout in which he place the items. In many of his pieces he even goes steps further using the scans to create patterns by overlaying and multiplying them to create beautiful, classic and unique images. The work that Ketcham creates could not be called anything other than fine art.

 

"Scanography." Scanography. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.

http://kenketchum.viewbook.com/album/scanography?p=1&s=UA-22404387-1#8

Diane Fenster Photography

THE WALLS OF THE CITY SPEAK

 

 

"A BLUE FLAME DENOTES DISAGREEMENTS." A BLUE FLAME DENOTES DISAGREEMENTS.

N.p., n.d. Thurs. 7 Feb. 2013.

http://www.art.net/~fenster/ritofab_Home/blueflame.html

 

 

 

 

"TO DREAM OF A KEEN-EDGED SWORD." TO DREAM OF A KEEN-EDGED SWORD.

N.p., n.d. Thurs. 7 Feb. 2013.

http://www.art.net/~fenster/ritofab_Home/dream.html

 

 

 

T H E - P O I N T - O F - E M E R G E N C E - S E R I E S

(this series includes nine images total, I've included two examples here)

"NIGHT ONE." NIGHT ONE. N.p., n.d. Thurs. 7 Feb. 2013.

http://www.art.net/~fenster/ritofab_Home/night1.html

 

"NIGHT TWO." NIGHT TWO. N.p., n.d. Thurs. 7 Feb. 2013.

http://www.art.net/~fenster/ritofab_Home/night2.html

 

 

 

 

Capturing Water

 

For this assignment we were to capture water using various different methods.

For capturing running water the settings were to use a long shutter speed as well as

a filter for a glowing effect, or we used a very fast shutter speed to catch a still of the water.

For some of the images I used a colorizing technique which could isolate and

enhance certain colors in the image. We were also taught a technique called high pass
sharpening (which I used in the image of the fish tank) which brings out some fine detail
that may have been otherwise lost.

 

 

 

 

 

Imogen Cunningham

Imogen Cunningham

"Leaf Pattern"

 

In this image you are first drawn in by the dynamic shapes used. They all

appear to be reaching towards something relatively near the lower middle area of the photograph. Another element of this photograph that makes it so successful is

the high range of values. There is an overwhelming presence of the darkest darks, nearing black but there is also this refreshing splash of white which lightens

the tone of the image. The ambiguity of the subject matter also creates a point of interest

because we are not quite sure what exactly we are looking at. There

seems to be a leafy quality to the figures on the left but this is then challenged by

the almost graphic looking elements on the right. This image is an excellent example

of how an image taken from life can serve in a graphic design sense.