Assignment 12:

Reading Quiz:
1. How would you describe the look of Bryan Graf’s images? 2. How does he draw inspiration from the landscape?

Answers:1. His images suggest a lot of texture and feeling of touch.2. He draws inspiration from the landscape by taking or shooting landscapes in black and white and also in "Raw color".  Then during the printing process, he layers colors over the black and whites and maks them look different than just a normal landscape shot.  

Assignment 11:

-Retouch image (before and after)

-Reading Quiz

1. How do you change the order of the images in your slideshow?

2. What is Ryan McGinley inspired by? 

3. Why is he drawn to his subject matter?

Answers:

1. In the filmstrip below the screen, you can drag and move the images in the order you wish.

2. Ryan McGinley is inspired by his Family (brothers and sisters) and people who resemble them.

3. His family are the people who raised him, and to photograph those who resemble them, idolize him.

Assignment 10:

Watermark:

Reading Quiz

1. What is a watermark and why would you use one?

2. Why would you use the Publish Services panel in LR?

3. How are Loretta Lux and Beate Gutschow using digital techniques to construct reality in their work? Answer for each artist.

Answers:

1. Watermarks are typically the persons name embelished on a photograph. A watermark can act in multiple ways; it can be a way to brand and market your photos or it can protect your photos from individuals who steal them and try to make them their own.

2.If you upload your images to different websites, or want to keep track of the ones that are published the Publish Services panel in LR is good to use.

3.Beate Gutschow creates reality in her photographs. She uses about 30 different photographs for each picture, puts elements from each into one, and creates landscapes. Her work is a combination of photographic imagery with a hint of the idea of painting. Loretta Lux, on the other hand, is delicate with her alterations to her  images. However, she creates reality through the backgrounds of her photographs in an almost dreamy way. She uses paintings as inspiration and sources to help further the reality she is trying to create in her children's portraits.

Assignment 9:

Retouched Image:

Reading Quiz:
1.Why is Robert Adams drawn to photograph this body of work at night? What is it about night that is exciting for him?

2. Why is it important to use compact florescent bulbs with your clip lights or lamps for lighting a photograph?

3. Why would you want to diffuse your lights (or flash) when photographing? 

Answers:

1. The first function of landscape photography is geoegraphy- it is " the record of place." The second one being autobiography- which is the personal connection the photographer has and the message being captured for the viewer. Lastly, the third function is metaphor- for the image could potentially stand for something else, depending on what the viewer wants the image to mean.

2. It is important to use compact florescent bulbs because they produce less heat which helps not being a fire hazard.

3.Diffusing your lights gives you a softer photograph.

Assignment 8

Inspiration Board:

-Reading Quiz

1. How can you create a collaged look of overlapping images using LR? 
2. How can you change which images are in front or behind?

3. How does memory figure in Pedro Meyer’s process?

4. How does he view his work in relation to straight photography?

Answers:

1. To create a collage in LR you have to go to the print module and go to "Custom Package."

2. If you right click on the image and choose back/forward or bottom/top you can change the pictures arrangement from the front and back,

3. Pedro remembers by making images that will help him in the future. The images he creates are his memories.

4. Straight photography is a convention that in upcoming generations, the pictures taken and made will be considered just that.