composition & light
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Photo Communications, Spring 2012 Columbia College ChicagoTRANSCRIPT
22-3530 - 01 PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS
composition & light
Aspect Ratio
Avant-garde photographers generally were not much interested in landscape, a genre associated with pastoral and sublime notions. Rodchenko characteristically found the natural setting of his country house accidental and unorganized: "A bush here, a tree there, a gully, nettles." There seemed nothing to make a photograph from, he wrote, until he looked up to see the trees towering above him "like telephone poles." His raking shot from below proposes vertigo instead of a sylvan calm, a dynamic alternative to the traditional horizons of the landscape view.
Director of the Bauhaus typography and advertising workshop, Herbert Bayer took up the camera about 1925, initially using photography in relation to his design work and later pursuing it for its own sake. In 1928, he traveled to Marseille, where he photographed the boats docked in the harbor from overhead, exploiting the camera's capacity to transform everyday reality into patterned abstractions.
White Balance
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm
Note how 5000 K produces roughly neutral light, whereas 3000 K and 9000 K produce light spectrums which shift to contain more
orange and blue wavelengths, respectively. As the color temperature rises, the color distribution becomes cooler. This may
not seem intuitive, but results from the fact that shorter wavelengths contain light of higher energy.
Auto white balance Custom white balance
Light as form
Frame dynamics
frame in frame
active space
rule of thirds/not rule of thirds
focal point