Love Quote

5 Common Techniques in Forced Photography

• Foreground and background arrangement
• Tilting camera to change picture plane orientation
• Size and proportion changes
• Drawing a portion of the scene on paper
• Playing with light and shadow

Depth Of Field

Forced Perspective

Romantic Effect



Filter Experimentation

Macro Photography

Types of Perspective in Photography

Linear Perspective:

This photo shows linear perspective because the elements of the scene diminish in size. As you look further back, you can see the buildings getting smaller and smaller.

Rectilinear Perspective:

Rectilinear perspective is shown in in this photo because the lines are straight with really no effects of perception.

False Perception:

This photo shows false perspective because it's not how the human eye usually sees. The scene in the photo appears to be slightly rounded or seen through a "fish-eye" lens.

Vanishing Point Perspective:

The lines in this photo come together as perception goes on, creating a feeling that the objects in the photo go far back; creating a vanishing point perspective.

Height Perspective:

In this photo, there in no clear distinction to how far the ground is from the point of view, therefore, this is an example of high perspective.

Overlap Perspective:

Both pyramids are in the same line of sight in the photo, but the first pyramid overlaps over the second; and the even smaller pyramids overlap over the first.

Dwindling Size:

As perspective goes back, the objects, in this case crayons, appear to be getting smaller and smaller; especially with the first crayon so up close to the camera. This creates a dwindling size effect.

Volume Perspective:

Though you really cannot decipher the definite volume of the shapes in this photo, the way the light hits the objects help you see the three dimensional form.

Atmospheric Perspective:

The farther away and the higher up the picture is taken, the more visible the air particles become in the photo, giving it a hazy look.

Birds-Eye View:

The point of perspective in this photo is very high up, giving it a "birds-eye" view.

Worms-Eye View:

This picture is taken from a perspective that is very close to the ground; from a worm's perspective.

Forced Perspective:

This photo is purposely set up to make it look like the girl is eating the car. In the positioning of the objects and people, it creates an illusion.

Peer Critique

For my peer Critique, I've chosen Julia's "Morph Me". She morphed her face, doing things such as making one eye bigger than the other, or stretching her smile, chin, and nose. In the picture, she is clearly the focal point, drawing your attention directly toward her "sexy face". Her purple shirt also stands out against the dull yellow lockers.
The look Julia has created makes the work silly; the colors making it look bright, and the shape of the face is somewhat realistic, yet it is morphed enough to look abstract. It looks as if she were going for the "troll face", even though her eyebrow proves to be quite provocative. I find this piece of art to be very successful.

Vintage Colorization Photo

Vintage Photo

ELF

Iconic Photo Analysis

Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)
Gloria Swanson

Born in Luxembourg, Edward Steichen and his family moved to the American Midwest while he was just a toddler.Throughout the 1890's, Steichen pursued his artistic ambitions in painting, and in the 1895, bought his first camera; becoming a driving force behind the first school of Milwaukee. In the fall of 1900, Steichen went to London where he met the American photographers Fredrick Holland Day and Alvin Langston Coburn and participated in the New School of American Photography exhibition organized by Day.

This photo is interesting because the black and white color contrast is appealing to the eye. Even though the print over the picture is interesting in its self, the fact that her eyes can still pull you in is intriguing.

Steichen’s portrait of Gloria Swanson has taken on iconic masterpiece status overtime. Created in 1924, just as the first feature-length sound movies were emerging—effectively truncating the actress’s brilliant silent-film career—this image caught the essential Gloria Swanson.