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Rachel (Rae) Meltzer selected Gregory Crewdson as her inspirational artist.

raemeltzerphotography:

To me, every picture tells a story. However, Gregory Crewdson refuses to share it with you, sometimes even putting untitled as the caption. Every shot is perfectly staged and shot and can cause me to come up with a whole play in my head. Most of his shots are wide, but some are also cropped close into the person’s face to show the emotion written all over it. I think all his work is amazingly original and haunting.

Gymnasts in Motion

Another submission from our TA Rachel Murphy…

Think about how these images were created.

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I thought you guys would appreciate these photographs of gymnasts doing what they do best.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/eye-popping-images-gymnasts-motion-173300569.html

Yesterday we walked to the Schuykill River Trail so the class could take photos to use to make cyanotype prints.

Our feet were tired, but they got some great shots!

CYANOTYPE!

Here is a youtube video on a photographic process the class will be learning.

Karen will make cyanotype prints with the class next week, but we started editing photos for our large contact negatives.

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photojojo:

If you’re celebrating America’s b-day, try our 11 Tips for Sparkling Fireworks Photos!

Here’s the abbreviated version! →

1. Bring a tripod, bring a tripod, bring a tripod.

2. Bring a flashlight, charged batteries, and plenty of empty memory cards

3. Find a great location early

4. Turn your flash off

5. Drop your ISO to 50 or 100

6. Turn on noise reduction

7. Use the self-timer or a remote to reduce vibration

8. Use your camera’s fireworks setting

9. Focus on infinity

10. Use long shutter speeds: 2-3 seconds or longer

11. Take lots of pictures, be creative, and have fun!

Photo by rumpleteaser

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The Camera Queen

Margaret Bourke-White, who saw beauty in the lines of a steel girder and the blackness of a coal mine, pioneers a new era of photography.

by Richard H. Parke

WHEN I called on Margaret Bourke-White in her spacious penthouse studio in a Fifth Avenue office building, she had just returned to New York from photographing a new textile mill in the South. Piled high in the center of the vast room was the equipment she had carried with her: A couple of cameras, a box of flashlight bulbs, a folded tripod and three or four travel-scarred suitcases.

To me, they represented Exhibit A in the fast-accumulating evidence to prove that this dark-eyed, intense young woman is one of the world’s greatest photographers. I saw in them the spirit of adventure and pioneering which is the secret of her success, the same spirit which led her to go to New York ten years ago and embark on the development of an idea which was peculiarly her own.

Briefly, that idea was that there is beauty in industry—a beauty that lies in the clean-cut lines of a steel girder, the towering majesty of a city skyscraper, the shower of sparks from a blazing coke oven, the sombre blackness of a coal mine. She knew that the faces of factory workers could wear the nobility of statesmen, that farmers could plow their fields with the grace of athletes and that the skill in a workman’s toss of a red-hot rivet could be compared with the marksmanship of a rifleman.

Read the rest of the article here.

(Source: life)

Field trip to Gallery 339.

SADI Photography Student Blogs

It’s the moment you have all been waiting for!

The photography students of the Moore SADI program are required to post at least one photograph every day. Here is a list of their blogs:

Paige Biesel

Tatiana Bigliardo

Erica Coletti

Claire Durelli

Kerry Fulton

Lily Kaufman

Rachel Meltzer

Vivian Page

Catie Ritchie

Victorian Surrealist Photography

Thanks for the submission Rachel Murphy!

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My inspiration is Jeffrey Michael Harp. He creates Victorian Surrealist photography. I only found his work the other day, but I am fascinated with how he can trick the eye with some great manipulation skills.

Class member Paige selected Sandy Skoglund as her inspirational artist. Great post Paige!

paigenicolebiesel:

This photo was taken by Sandy Skoglund. As you can tell, she is not just an ordinary photographer. She goes into depth with her pictures, all of her pictures tell a story or have a message. This photo is called “Germs are Everywhere”, which we all obviously knew. But Sandy puts the known facts into another perspective. I liked this picture out of the many she has because it takes a normal, simple fact and puts it into an interesting picture. I think that Sandy chose to put everything in green except the gum (germs) because she wanted to show the main focal point of the picture, which is that “Germs are Everywhere”.