Notes

Here are some important notes from class and readings I did over the course of my project.

Written notes on operating a camera

Notes from “Lanford’s Basic Photography: The Guide for Serious Photographers” (2015)

  • photography is “personal self-expression to explore your own ideas, concerns, or issue-based themes” (Fox & Smith, 2015: 3).
  • “Good composition will help the audience to ‘read’ the photograph in the way you intended, communicating your ideas in a successful way” (Fox & Smith, 2015: 9).
  • “Pictures have some characteristic mix of subject matter: mood…treatment…use of tone or color, composition… even the pictures proportions” (Fox & Smith, 2015: 21).
  •  “Meaning gives way to design and the photographer picks subjects for their basic graphic content which he or she can mold into interesting compositions, although in other hand even the simplest images of shape and form can carry meaning” (Fox & Smith, 2015: 23).

Notes from an academic journal “Some thoughts about Street Photography and the Everyday” (2001)

  • “generalized term to define both the subject (the street, the people in the street, the shops, the neighborhood and urban photography in general) and the activity of the photographer” (Wigoder, 2001: 368).
  • “Ever since the nineteenth century the objectivity of the camera and its reliable witness has been conceived in terms of the photographer’s ability to disappear.” (Wigoder, 2001: 374).

Random, Stray notes from class

  • how you are as a photographer influences your subject matter
  • composition – camera only sees what you want it to see
  • quality of light – weather conditions, time of day, etc.
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