Photography

Yesterday, our group went out to take pictures of different compositions. The cameras we used had shutter speeds and F apertures, so we needed to know how to change the ISO so the images would turn out. Underexposing an image would make it dark, this is because not enough light reached the film to create an image. Overexposing would make the image too bright, too much light would make the image white (the film was exposed too long, or the surroundings are too bright, such as a sunny day). By changing the shutter speeds and apertures correctly, the images can turn out beautifully, and understanding how to use the camera, you can use many helpful techniques to really make your images look professional (panning and blur)

Unfortunately, since this was our first day with the cameras, our images didn't turn out as we wanted them too. When we went out to shoot, we took pictures of the same object to test out what different f apertures and shutter speeds would create.

shutter speed: 1/200 F number 22

This image came out clear (no blur) however is slightly underexposed

shutter speed: 1/50 F number 18

Now the image is too bright, it was over exposed

shutter speed: 1/200 F number 22

Image is way underexposed

shutter speed: 1/50 F number 36

This image came out perfectly (in my opinion) it is slightly bright though

Edward Burtynsky

We watched a film about a photographer named Edward Burtynsky. This amazing photographer went around the world to highly industrialized cities to take pictures of manutfactured landscapes.

Burtynsky is focusing on this theme to show the people how our idea of landscapes is changing, from lush and dense forest greens, to repetitive and depressing smog of todays technology. He shows through his photos how the industries are affecting our environment in a beautiful way. The documentary showed us cities in China which had workers amoung workers doing repetitive tasks over and over to create products for us (clothing irons), while other areas of the world showed what happens to the products when they are thrown out.

This documentary was amazing in representing the current modern world of today, showing the pros and cons. Made us (the students) rethink our lives, and how lucky we are, because other places are suffering, either having to work in a boring job for years doing the same task over and over, or having to live in a city of garbage, where the smog is so dense you cant see very far in the fog.

Burtynsky had to endure these awful surroundings to take these photos for his gallery. I think that he is an amazing photographer because even the landscapes he visited were horrid and depressing, he made them look beautiful, he must be pretty awesome to make oil spills, and coal mines look beautiful.

Edward Burtynsky Highway #1, Los Angeles, California, USA 2003 © Edward Burtynsky Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery & Hasted Hunt Kraeutler New York

Edward Burtynsky Recycling #2, Chittagong, Bangladesh 2001 © Edward Burtynsky Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery & Hasted Hunt Kraeutler New York

Edward Burtynsky Oil Fields #22, Cold Lake Production Project, Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada 2001 © Edward Burtynsky Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery & Hasted Hunt Kraeutler New York