Week 1 of digital fine arts photography was an introductory to the course. During this lesson we learnt about the programes that we will be using in class, such as Image Capture and Adobe Bridge CS4 and created Blogger and Flickr accounts.
Week 2 of digital fine arts photography we learnt about different photographers in history, such as Alexander Rodchenco, Eugene Ache ect. We learnt about Henri Cartier-Bresson (decisive moments photographer), Lee Freelander (2D shapes photographer) and William Egelston (colour photographer) who used a 35mm lens in revolutionary ways. My favourite of these photographers was Henri Cartier-Bresson because he was able to create beautiful unstaged images and could see the world for what it was through the lens of a camera.
(Image to the left is copyright: Henri Cartier-Bresson)
"The decisive moment, it is the simutaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of a event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression." Henri Cartier-Bresson.
After the presentation we were given a list of words in which we were supposed to take photographs of. These words were; Extreme-close up, wide angle, surface, mixed lighting, blurry, drab, tasty, self-portrait, semi, portrait of a stranger, beautiful and ugly. My issues with taking these photos was that for the first 20 minutes I was trying to work out the functions of the camera and how to focus and what to put the Aputure and Shutter speed on. Also I didn't know what some of these words mean and what the where supposed to portray/represent.
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