Re: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:42 pm
Photography was thought to be only focused as a scientific tool but soon it reached an artistic approach. Gabriel Peters brings to the reader a new lens to view photography. With the use of color, form, spatial organization, motion, depth and the human body a photo can be read in different angles, emotions and depth. New meaning and perspective is drawn that was not there before or further developed upon.
In Color Peters touches upon minimizing the amount of color or having a minimal amount of colors while having a powerful focus throughout the frame. Complimentary colors, monochromaticity and black and white tones draw the viewer as it is pleasant to the eyes. In movies complimentary colors are heavily exploited, the teal and orange rage is all across twenty first century films. Can you spot the similarities within these images?
Not many people can say they spotted this off the bat when watching a movie. But once a person reads the blog post a person cannot ‘unsee’ what has happened to cinema. The use of complimentary colors is a key point to making almost all images pleasing and interesting. It’s not something that should be condemned; it’s actually a great way to make a film strikingly beautiful and rich in color. Such as The Fall containing vivid colors without abusing the teal and orange.
Color and form meshes together to construct a photograph that is visually stunning among the rest of the film. The use of perspective (form) using the archway to draw in the viewer to this poised battle ready Indian with rich green colors. The monochromaticity of the picture is engaging and rich, and not heavily drenched in the same color but a variety of green. Clear perspective allows for as Peters says it “appeals favorably to our visual system.”
Spatial Organization is also seen in The Fall the viewer is overwhelmed by this vast beauty of the orange colored desert and black little figures. The space in the picture is not dedicated to the small dark figures but the vast desert. A singular stoic line of light yellow color crosses the lower plane of the picture only reinforces the thought of organization put into the scene/shot.
To momentarily step away from the movie scene, motion in photography has evolved where the use of light is a great tool to capture the movement of something or someone. Trevor Williams uses light painting and night photography to create depth of space of light that was once there. The viewer can now see the motion which light was used and manipulated to create a certain object or a beautiful photo. It contains Blur, the indication of movement, and Distinct motion Phases, the number of motions in one single image is quite high in light painting as it captures the movement of the hand (or tool used) with the light source.
Depth is one of the many ways photography has been greatly enhanced and is seen in almost all photography. The sense of importance is visually highlighted as a certain person or object is crisp and clear while everything else is usually out of focus or blurry. The viewer is then capable of knowing where there attention is supposed to be grabbed. It‘s not to be overly used or heavily depended on since light and shadows and/or linear perspectives can play a role in a photograph to bring in the viewer. The image below captures Autumn colors—a pallet of yellow, orange and brown—complimented by a one point perspective made by the trees. This visually stimulates the gaze of the viewer. The trees and foliage in the middle is the sharpness of the picture while everything else is unsharp/blur. This aesthetic contrast stimulates the viewer’s senses to focus on the specified area.
The Human Body in itself is a great form for photo manipulation or to capture movement. The body is flexible and able to move in different ways from normal to abstract. In the gif below a person cannot clearly see the human figure but a person can tell it is human for the arms and flowing hair is visible to the viewer. These clues give to the viewer that it is human after all. The beauty of the fabric movement and air movement submerges the human body into a different form and environment. It’s as if the figure is no longer human but another being as a spirit or deity easily defying gravity.
Images in the end moving or non-moving are always stimulating and adapting to the new technology of the era. Without color, depth, motion, perspective and the human body photography would not have been able to grow from where it once stood.
Sources:
The Abyss Gazes – Teal and Blue
The Fall
Trevor Williams
In Color Peters touches upon minimizing the amount of color or having a minimal amount of colors while having a powerful focus throughout the frame. Complimentary colors, monochromaticity and black and white tones draw the viewer as it is pleasant to the eyes. In movies complimentary colors are heavily exploited, the teal and orange rage is all across twenty first century films. Can you spot the similarities within these images?
Not many people can say they spotted this off the bat when watching a movie. But once a person reads the blog post a person cannot ‘unsee’ what has happened to cinema. The use of complimentary colors is a key point to making almost all images pleasing and interesting. It’s not something that should be condemned; it’s actually a great way to make a film strikingly beautiful and rich in color. Such as The Fall containing vivid colors without abusing the teal and orange.
Color and form meshes together to construct a photograph that is visually stunning among the rest of the film. The use of perspective (form) using the archway to draw in the viewer to this poised battle ready Indian with rich green colors. The monochromaticity of the picture is engaging and rich, and not heavily drenched in the same color but a variety of green. Clear perspective allows for as Peters says it “appeals favorably to our visual system.”
Spatial Organization is also seen in The Fall the viewer is overwhelmed by this vast beauty of the orange colored desert and black little figures. The space in the picture is not dedicated to the small dark figures but the vast desert. A singular stoic line of light yellow color crosses the lower plane of the picture only reinforces the thought of organization put into the scene/shot.
To momentarily step away from the movie scene, motion in photography has evolved where the use of light is a great tool to capture the movement of something or someone. Trevor Williams uses light painting and night photography to create depth of space of light that was once there. The viewer can now see the motion which light was used and manipulated to create a certain object or a beautiful photo. It contains Blur, the indication of movement, and Distinct motion Phases, the number of motions in one single image is quite high in light painting as it captures the movement of the hand (or tool used) with the light source.
Depth is one of the many ways photography has been greatly enhanced and is seen in almost all photography. The sense of importance is visually highlighted as a certain person or object is crisp and clear while everything else is usually out of focus or blurry. The viewer is then capable of knowing where there attention is supposed to be grabbed. It‘s not to be overly used or heavily depended on since light and shadows and/or linear perspectives can play a role in a photograph to bring in the viewer. The image below captures Autumn colors—a pallet of yellow, orange and brown—complimented by a one point perspective made by the trees. This visually stimulates the gaze of the viewer. The trees and foliage in the middle is the sharpness of the picture while everything else is unsharp/blur. This aesthetic contrast stimulates the viewer’s senses to focus on the specified area.
The Human Body in itself is a great form for photo manipulation or to capture movement. The body is flexible and able to move in different ways from normal to abstract. In the gif below a person cannot clearly see the human figure but a person can tell it is human for the arms and flowing hair is visible to the viewer. These clues give to the viewer that it is human after all. The beauty of the fabric movement and air movement submerges the human body into a different form and environment. It’s as if the figure is no longer human but another being as a spirit or deity easily defying gravity.
Images in the end moving or non-moving are always stimulating and adapting to the new technology of the era. Without color, depth, motion, perspective and the human body photography would not have been able to grow from where it once stood.
Sources:
The Abyss Gazes – Teal and Blue
The Fall
Trevor Williams