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Cameron Bloom

1. These three photos all are extremely focused on the natural lighting from sunset/sunrise and color. They all have the sun glaring off in the distance right at the horizon line creating an array of rays and glares against the ocean and mountains. They all use field of depth and have precise quality to them. The second image, like the others, focuses on the foreground and captures great color on the table reflecting off of the glasses.
2. Cameron Bloom has a passion for meeting people from different countries and cultures and capturing it. His ability to read and respond to a situation ensures an outstanding result. Bloom uses contrast to strengthen his shots. Texture, color, composition and lighting are all an intricate part of his works and when creating a portrait.
3. I really enjoyed looking at all of Bloom's pictures. These all caught my eye because of the effect the sun has on them and almost remind me of my recent landscape images. All of the colors that the sun is giving off onto its surrounding captures my eye and creates a beautiful effect. I really enjoy the table set up in the second one and how amazingly clear the reflection of the sky is on it. It brings it together for me. The way he uses the man in the last picture to block the sun itself creates an almost angelic glowing outline of his figure. The light from the sun intensely lights up the flowers in the field and gives off colors of magenta, yellow, and red throughout the image. 

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Stacey Tyrell




















Stacy Tyrell is an artist who deals withy identity and how she is as a person. By using her family members portraits as inspiration, she recreates scenes of ancestors past with her camera and costumes and a little help from photoshop.
              I feel like Tyrell focuses a lot on her lighting and her contrasts. I feel like she edits in a few different curve levels to her photos. I think that in some of her photos she also uses sepia tones to give it an old times feel.
             I do not really like Tyrells work, I think that her photos are great but her subjects are dry and boring. I will not be following this artist in the future.

Shane Ambrose Weekly Artist Post

These photographs were taken by Chelsea McNamara in Giverny, France at famous artist, Claude Monet's garden.  These pictures provide a ridiculous display of beautiful colors which accent the creatively constructed compositions.  McNamara uses a brilliant sense of rhythm in each picture with repetitious shapes and colors dispersed throughout.  She uses a technique for double exposure to create the allure of the man who once gardened them. 

McNamara's aim for these pictures was to establish a feeling of impressionism to embody the original inspiration of her inspiration, in Monet, and his style of art.  The double exposure effect in an effort to convey the sense of authenticity, as well as the mystique qualities of the art.

I think that these photographs are very well done, and crafted amazingly.  I feel the essence of Monet's vision existing vicariously through these images, giving me a feeling of the realness of photography, while simultaneously portraying a fantasy-like aspect to them, which is exactly what she was going for.

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Karin Apollonia Mueller

Karin Apollonia Muller is a photographer that graduated with her masters in fine art in Germany in 1992.  From 1990 on, she has been awarded many awards for her photography and has participated in many exhibits on her own, as well as with group exhibitions.

Karins photos are often taken from distant vantage points and does a wonderful job at capturing how man made structures often conflict with the natural terrain of the world.  She shows how beautiful the landscape can be but can often be damaged by new construction and objects.  The built world has taken over the environment and I think how her photos show the natural world still trying to flourish.

I like these photos because it shows how peaceful the natural world could have been, but now it is being taken over by buildings or dividers such as a fence.  Almost showing a hard line between the two environments.  I also like the soft tones and perspective that she chooses to make her photos.

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What are the artist's technical choices?

Trevor Powers' compositions often have a combination of subjects, objects, and things overlapping to create his background. He uses extreme light contrast as well, to the point where they are not competing, but working together to create a certain monotone in the photograph. Powers' photographs also include a variety of light and shadow, using time of day and the areas where the dog has dug holes to his advantage.

What are the artist's conceptual and/or thematic intents?

Hadleberg captures various types of holes dug by dogs in his photographs. They reveal the rawness, connection, emotion, realness, creations, destructions, and violence of today's society, while still portraying a sense of togetherness from a dog. His images bluntly display the landscape changes that a dog can do in any given area. Yet, even in his more excavating scenes that he captures, there is a sense of scenery and unification.

How do you respond to these choices and intents?

It is extremely difficult to capture scenes like Powers does. You have to be somewhere at the right time and place when the dog is about to look for a fresh area of land to dig up. You have to wait for the perfect moment with the right subjects. It is noble and takes skill. His work is truthful of today's society and allows extreme dog made landscape changes to surface for the viewer.

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Curran Hatleberg 

What are the artist's technical choices?

Hadleberg's compositions often have a combination of subjects, objects, and things overlapping to create his background. He uses extreme color contrast as well, to the point where they are not competing, but working together to create a certain tone in the photograph. Hadleberg's photographs also include a variety of light and shadow, using time of day to his advantage.

What are the artist's conceptual and/or thematic intents?

Hadleberg captures various types of people/communities in his photographs. They reveal the rawness, connection, emotion, realness, and violence of today's society, while still portraying a sense of togetherness. His images bluntly display the difficulties and hardships of life, especially in lower income areas. Yet, even in his more violent scenes that he captures, there is a sense of community and unification.

How do you respond to these choices and intents?

It is extremely difficult to capture scenes like Hadleberg does. You have to be somewhere at the right time and place. You have to wait for the perfect moment with the right subjects. It is noble and takes skill. His work is truthful of today's society and allows extreme emotions to surface for the viewer.

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Allison Joyce 

1. Allison Joyce discovered a young group of girls in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh who are given surfing lessons a few hours six days a week. Allison captured heartfelt moments as these girls were at the one place where they were allowed to be children, the water. Allison used their brightly colored clothing to bounce off of the dull, toned down colors of the water and sand behind them. She used a low ISO with a quick shutter speed to capture these moments. 

2. Allison is capturing special moments that are taken misunderstood in the young girls' world. These children live a life of only work, to support their families. The young girls aren't even given a chance for an education. Joyce learned that a married couple she knew took these girls under their wing, and gave them one to two hour surfing lessons six days a week.

3. The entire photo series is very moving. Allison shows the progression during the day of these girls. From early in the morning, selling snacks and jewelry to the tourists, to the afternoon where they can escape and be children. She captures the fun expressions and excitement that go on when children are allowed to be children, and play. 

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Melissa Catanese

So this post is very different from all of my other posts because this "photographer" did not actually make these photos. She is was is called a "vernacular photographer." She finds photos, collects them, possibly edits them, and arranges them in a way to tell a story or narrative.

The story she is telling with these images is unclear to me, and she doesn't really say what it is in the interview. However, it is intriguing to me the technique and reason behind this type of photography. When she talks about her methods and her years of working with another vernacular photographer, it really sounds more like hoarding than productive work.

I love the idea of collecting interesting images and interpreting them in completely your own way, regardless of or with ignorance of their original history or intent. Catanese even uses the word "liberating." It is a completely different way of looking at photography that I never considered. However, I am not seeing a clear narrative with these photos so that is confusing.

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Jennifer Mcclure

1. In Jennifer Mcclure series, A Certain Distance,  she focuses on real alcoholics and drug abusers in her community. After waking up from a night of partying and not remembering any events the night prior. Mcclure decided to focus entirely on real abusers and how they filled their days, how and why they got to where they are currently. It also served as a way for her to analyze her situation and decide if she too in fact has a "problem."

2. Mcclure's photographs main tool is use of aperture. For example, the pack of cigarettes and lighter in the first picture, stands out clear in the front while the clock and photograph of the young child are not as clear. Perhaps this symbolizes the user's focus on substance rather than time and family as the photo suggest. Also, the overall subject of the photos depicting a user smoking crack or the dealer standing outside the complex, gives a chilling feeling to the photos.

3. I really enjoyed Jennifer Mcclure's series, A Certain Distance. The use of natural light, attention to detail, and aperture are what stands out the most for me. I feel that the primary use of aperture helps the viewer see what the subject focuses on and blurs out the other things that lay on the outside perspective. The first picture is what captured my eye. The focus and detail of the cigarettes and lighter, as well as the blur of the clock and child photograph. 

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David Campany

David Campany creates these books with photography in them. This group of photos he did is called Gasoline. He put these photographs into a book to explain how the society is seen back then through the mass media (books, magazines, etc.).

He explains how photography is seen for its history and now how it should be interpreted. When they are put into these books on the pages, it changes them for what they are.

This has such a powerful meaning behind how Campany did this project. Sometimes pictures in books are overlooked by people and just because they are in them, can be seen in a different way. As opposed to on a screen or single one held in your hand as a developed photograph. They can lose their artistic meaning than the photographer was trying to portray. Which in turn can make how society thinks about the photograph, also different.

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Derek Payne

1. Derek Payne is a landscape photographer. He started his journey in 1996 and started out using a 35mm  SLR camera. It wasn't until 1998 that Derek Payne made photography his career. Most of his work is landscape during multiple times of day. Because he is from Worthing, West Sussex in the UK most of his photographs are made and taken there. 

2. Living in the UK Payne has drawn inspiration from his location. The photographs from above are form the album SEASCAPE. The small collection of photos are at the beach during multiple times of day. The pictures are either taken down by the shoreline or up on the dunes or cliffs. Payne places himself in specific spots on the beaches to capture the lighting on the beach.

3. The lighting and color created from the beaches natural beauty and time of day is gorgeous. The first picture looks like a filter was placed to look as if the overcast with a glow of sunshine created it. The second picture has a sunrise glow which reflects on the cliffs making them seem on fire. Also the sun gives the water in the foreground a green/yellow tint. The third picture, which is my favorite, has a creepy/moody fog look. There must have been a slow shutter used to capture this gloomy beach day.

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Melissa Catanese

In Melissa's photos the they are relaxed and not focused on one specific subject.  Her photos consist of flowers and humans not all the center of the photo. The photo of the sunflower seems to be taken in the dark. 

The center in the middle consist of a female who what seems to have fallen over. I enjoy the positioning of the girl in the photo even though she is not all the way visible. You can not even see her expression but you can still tell the photo has meaning.

I love how Melissa Catanese captures the moment without even capturing the whole photo. I can relate to this artist because i do not enjoy taking whole photos of where you can see the whole portrait. I love how the first photo looks like its vintage or somewhat haunted.

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Cameron Bloom

1. In Cameron Bloom's Instagram @@penguinthemagpie. She tell a story through pictures about her son and a magpie he rescued as a baby bird later to be named Penguin and raised by the family. Unlike many birds who are stuck in a cage by their owners, Penguin is free to roam around like your average bird, but often sneak back into the house through an open door or window.

2 Cameron Bloom's photographs captures the loving relationship between Penguin and her family.  The photographs of Penguin are playful, artful and inspirational. These photographs shows about love  and how people and even animals are grateful when people help them through their time of need and show them love and compassion.

3. These pictures that Cameron Bloom captured are bittersweet. I am happy that Cameron and her family took care of Penguin and showed her what love is truly about; however, there are many animals who are being mistreated by people who are supposed to love and take care of them. There are people who do not believe that animals do not have feelings and they are at the bottom of the totem poll and consider them as property rather than family. These pictures of Penguin show that animals do understand emotions such as love even though they can not articulate it in human speech.

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Petros Koublis

        Petros Koubolis is an Athens-based photographer. In his series In Landscapes, Petros Koubolis captures the countryside that resides around Athens. In this series Petros Koubolis has produced mesmerizing images that masterfully blend light and color. In Landscapes is a series about landscapes, obviously. Therefore, all of the pictures will be taken outside, obviously. It can be assumed that Petros Kouboli would use a lower ISO. On cloudy days he would most likely set it to 400 or higher, but for the most part it should be around 100. It appears that most of his photos have a deep depth of field. This would be achieved by closing down on the aperture. Since his subject is not alive and walking around, obviously, he can slow down his shutter speed. If he his handholding then he would want to keep it around 1/60. However, if he is blessed with the ability to be absolutely still, or he has a tripod, then he can slow down his shutter speed even more. This will also allow him to close down his aperture so he can achieve a greater depth of field. As for the lens, I think he is using a shorter lens. I assume this because in his photos I notice a separation between the foreground and background.

        Overall, I think Petros Koubolis wanted to express the misconception and fear of wilderness that many people possess. According to Petros Koubolis, "we have misplaced that which is beautiful, primordial, and essential within ourselves." His series In Landscapes captures both the beauty of nature and the fear of nature that has manifested in the modern man. In order to express both of these ideas, Petros Koublis manipulated light to create a mystical atmosphere. Many of his photos have intense shadows that evoke fear, while subtly light peaks through the shadows to show the beauty of wilderness. The contrast of light and color convey these two contrasting ideas.

         Initially, I thought this series was an homage to Greek mythology. The intensity of the photos made it seem as though they were from a magical world. I really do get a sense of fear, like there is something in the shadows. However, that fear is pushed aside and pure wonder and curiosity takes over. I appreciate the message that Petros Koublis is presenting to world. Do not be afraid of nature for it is beautiful and has so much to offer.  

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JASPER WHITE

     UK based photographer Jasper White shoots many series of subjects. He chooses a subject, whether it be a gun, a series of beach towels or in this particular project, views of the Eiffel Tower.

Technically is it likely that white has used only available light to shoot each landscape, even in the night photo, where he probably simply adjusted to a higher ISO. To get most of the towers as well as the surrounding scenes in focus he had to have used a deeper depth of field which requires a smaller aperture. 

    White's intent was to take this "Folly", architect talk for architecture made solely for decoration, and explore the impact it has as an icon for people all over the world but especially Parisians. Built to a scale for all Parisians to see regardless of where one is Paris, literally and socioeconomically speaking, White wanted the viewer to personally experience real vantage points from the apartments of Parisians. When looking at each photo you get to see how each person relates to the tower on a daily bases as well as an insight to the residents lives whether they are avid readers, parents, a single shopaholic or someone who lives for concerts. Even though the landscapes are void of people you still get to know the people and their space.

  I realize after looking at Jasper Whites work and the work of other artists that I have chosen to post in the past that I may have a thing for series that revolve around one central subject in different environments. There was one photographer that traveled and just shot elderly peoples' sinks, one traveled and photographed children with their toys, and another traveled and only photographed the colorful subway stations of Berlin. I think i might be onto something and I am going to challenge myself to do a series surrounding one object or subject.

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Christopher Rimmer

In this set, Christopher Rimmer's technical decisions probably include a low ISO, for shooting in the bright South African light, a closed down aperture, for a deep depth of field, and probably around 1/60th (or higher) shutter speed, to let in enough light, but still capture the motion of the cows.

His thematic intents are to capture the daily life of these cows and bulls.  He portrays their pilgrimage, and the intent of their pilgrimage very well.  You can tell that these beasts are enjoying the water, after spending the day in the hot sun

I respond very well to these intents too.  I enjoy seeing documentation of nature, especially nature that I don't ever get to see.  The European Aurochs are extinct, and the American Bison are endangered.  Africa is one of the only places on the Earth that have free range cows like this, and I enjoy seeing them frolic in the ocean like this.  He does a great job portraying their personalities.