Burtynsky

The other day we watched the movie; Urban Landscapes by Edward Burtynsky. This movie really showed us Edward's "larger than life" photography. It also really taught us the importance of audio working with imagery to give us that overall mood. You can look at the same image twice with two completely different feelings and ideas just by switching the background noise you hear. An exciting loud boisterous sound can be put next to a depressing, sad picture and brighten it up a lot, or vise versa. This really gives the artist maximum control over the impact they have on the viewer. We can give multiple feelings to a viewer through multiple senses. Taking control of all sensory intake would be the ample situation every artist should look for; and combining pictures with sound is a great start. You should never look at art listening to your own music, first always ask the artist what he thinks would work; because what you're hearing affects the way you intake what you are viewing. And proper intake is important.

PHOTO EXERCISE

Here is our first exploration in photography; now we are beginning to play around with aperture size and shutter speed, giving us maximum control of how an image comes out. First what I was starting to discover is how easy it is to over expose and image. Here we see a sunny day landscape shot by our school. The top image was over exposed on f/5.6 and 1/250 shutter speed, so by making the aperture hole smaller and shutter speed faster, less light was taken in and a successful picture was produced.

The next thing we began to play around with was the shutter speed and catching a moving subject. Having a quick shutter speed is essential for catching a crisp still moment of something moving, but a blur effect is achieved by using a longer shutter speed, as visible in the over exposed top picture. The bottom picture was shot on f/16 with 1/3600 of a seconds if exposure. This quick shutter speed really captured that crisp exact movement of the jump, and really goes to show how many different looks you can get by playing with camera settings.

Finally the last thing we decided to experiment with was the focus change the aperture gives you. We tried first capturing the foreground and background in a crisp clean matter. Seen on the top picture you can point out that the dandelions in the front are in focus but the fence behind them is not blurred or out of focus, where as in the below picture there are only a few dandelions in focus, and anything more than two feet from the camera was out of focus and blurred. This really emphasizes the flowers in the front and makes them stand out very well. Just by making a few adjustments on your camera a plethora of image qualities can emerge.

Dawson, Jaylen, Kevan