Research for Making Strange Project

For the last few days  i have been researching for my making strange project, the people a have been looking at are Ansel Adams for the tonal range, Trent Parke because of the use of perspective and tonal economy within his images. these two are just two out of many, i picked these two because i feel that within anyone's photography career you have to see or read about these photographers.

Ansel Adams has great tonal range in his images alongside the composition.

Proactive day

Today i saw a dear friend of mine Niki Hanna, who is also studying photography. It was nice to discuss and reflect on the photographers we had/are studying, she was able to help and open my mind to some ideas for a upcoming  project which you will all see soon!. One photographer that was coming up in discussion was Steve McCurry and his photo Afghan Girl. Our discussion was mainly about if really this is the Afghan girl after 17 years, as even thou it says that it is her, Steve McCurry was never 100% sure. We decide it very well could be, after talking for awhile about this subject i ended up buying the latest and photography issue of national geographic celebrating 125 years!! i recommend getting this issue!!

Believe

"People want to believe the camera never lies but in some cases it does" - Alison Rich 

Documentary

so end of last week beginning of this week i was ill and missed two very important lectures, first was a contextual on documentary and the second one was a visual practice, looking at the documentary power-point that was shown i noticed some familiar photographers name like Don mccullin and Rodger fenton. The lecture was mainly about how some documentary photographers changed the truth when people believe the saying "the camera never lies" the image that caught my interest was  The home of the rebel sharpshooter, Gettysburg

This image has been manipulated by the person was moved from where they had died to point and had their face move to face the camera, the gun was changed and placed in a way that seems very unnatural because if it was in the person hand when he died it would not have landed in this way. 

New start, New blog

I have started this blog so you can follow me in becoming a professional photographer, it wont be easy and i know i am going to struggle but hopefully we'll get through it together and get to be who we want to be.