Mar 11, 2015

Lecture Week 2

Transforming The World Into A Photograph

  • flatness
    • 3D world is transformed to 2D photograph
    • photograph is a 2D representation of the 3D world
    • relationships created in the image that did not exist before because photographs have no depth perception 
    • opaque photos - viewer is stopped by the visual plane
    • transparent - viewer is drawn into the space within the photograph
  • frame
    • frame encloses the content of the photograph all at once
    • for some pictures, the frame is active (the structure of the picture begins with the frame & works inward)
  • time
    • affected by 2 factors;
      • duration of the exposure
      • static nature of the final image
    • fluid world is stilled into photograph
    • length of time that is captured is dependent on the shutter speed
  • focus
    • camera creates hierarchy that controls what the viewer focuses on in the image
    • camera creates single plane of focus, this plane is parallel with the picture plane & gives emphasis to a part of the picture and helps distill a photograph's subject from content
    • hierarchical emphasis can be minimized by increasing depth of field (focus lessening on foreground and background)
Organizing a Picture
  • vantage point
  • frame
  • focus
  • time

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