At this point I already have to start doing my research about 10 photographers, they work, achievement and impact to me. I find it very hard. When I looked other students’ blogs, some of them already are describing some of famous artists. For me, as I very new to this area of art, is very difficult, not like I haven’t seen any nice and beautiful images…no…I just never really looked who’s behind them. If you ask me about any famous painters or compositors I would make a list immediately. Photographers is different…any can take picture, but not any can get popular…and that’s the sad truth. I am sure for future I will take very beautiful images, but I doubt that I be famous…this is chance one of million to get on the top of this industry and not anyone is lucky… So I decided to write about not so popular people, but which I find interesting to me particular.
Jeff Revell
As my first photographer, to write about I choose Jeff Revell. Why?....As I said all about photography is very new to me....I was taking pictures for ages, but that about it and getting now more familiar with this subject is like a new world to me. When I started this course I bought my first professional camera Nikon D3000, is not the best choice, but considering costs of other cameras that was all what I can afford right now. I read somewhere: ".. is not the camera most important, but what you can do with it.... "...hope I will prove that theory! So I bought that Nikon and now all what I have to do was get to now it...which I have to say not easy for person who only know haw to use a compact cameras. When I looked at manual, that was more complicated. Manual does a good job of telling you how to use a feature or turn it on in the menus, but it doesn`t tell you why and when you should use it. So I went searching for a better option and find this -
The book by Jeff Revell is all about teaching you how to take great photos using the Nikon D3000. Explanations are clear and sample pictures provide the kind of visual instruction you would expect from a professional photographer.
The author does not repeat the owner's manual; instead, he guides you through what you need to know and provides many useful tips.
The author does not repeat the owner's manual; instead, he guides you through what you need to know and provides many useful tips.
I still not finish the whole book, but things what I learned already are amazing. The book goes beyond a tour of the cameras features to show me exactly how to use my Nikon to take a great pictures - how to take control of my photography to get the image what I want every time I will pick up the camera.
Jeff Revell- photographer from US has been shooting professionally for more than 25 years. As an early adopter of digital technology, he has been on the leading edge of digital imaging technology, education and instruction. Perhaps best known as the photographer behind the popular "PhotoWalk Pro" blog:
- where each weekday Jeff shares step-by-step tutorials on digital photography technique and editing of digital images therefore helping in digital photography training and education worldwide.
There is some of my favorite images which I find best from very best and some kind my style photography- get close and make most of it...
J. Deniss Thomas
A beautifully illustrated guide to the Nikon D3000 camera, same as J.Revell author explains all essential controls, features, and functions,what do you need to take amazing photographs. Digital Field Guide has all the answers from the basics of exposure to lighting and composition, which I find very useful for me and I had learn a lot of things already.
Like I mentioned earlier to start shoot great images first you need to know how...specially if your equipment is limited and I have to know how to get best of it. That`s why I decided to include J.Dennis Thomas in my research...paying attention of his work and saying thanks for amazing opportunity to understand better world of my digital photo camera.
Like I mentioned earlier to start shoot great images first you need to know how...specially if your equipment is limited and I have to know how to get best of it. That`s why I decided to include J.Dennis Thomas in my research...paying attention of his work and saying thanks for amazing opportunity to understand better world of my digital photo camera.
J. Dennis Thomas is from US Austin, TX owns his own company - Dead Sailor Productions, a photography and graphic design business. He freelances for companies like RedBull Energy Drink, Obsolete Industries, Secret Hideout Studios, and Digital Race photography.
J.D. Thomas has also authored series of specific Digital Field Guides:
Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D3100 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D300s Digital Field Guide
Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide
Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide, 2nd Edition
Nikon D90 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D700 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D60 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide
Nikon COOLPIX Digital Field Guide
He has been published in several regional publications and continues to show his work in various galleries throughout the US. He have a blog where everyone can find useful information about different cameras, lenses and many more:
Nikon D7000 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D3100 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D300s Digital Field Guide
Nikon D3000 Digital Field Guide
Nikon Creative Lighting System Digital Field Guide, 2nd Edition
Nikon D90 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D700 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D60 Digital Field Guide
Nikon D300 Digital Field Guide
Nikon COOLPIX Digital Field Guide
What from my point of view is a big achievement, where everyone who has a Nikon and are quite new to photography can find lot of useful information.
I cant find lots of his pictures on internet, seems to me the best is in inside a books, but anyway I manage to get some what I liked the most...specially the way how he see things, giving the front a main focus.
Charles Clyde Ebbets (1905–July 14, 1978)
Charles Clyde Ebbets was born in 1905–Gadsden, Alabama (US). He bought his first camera at the age of eight by charging it to his mothers account at a local drugstore.
Ebbets started his career during the 1920s in St. Petersburg, Florida, as a still photographer. He eventually became involved in early motion picture work both in front of and behind the camera. That time he was also prizefighter Jack Dempsey's official staff photographer, a staff photographer for the Miami Daily News and a freelance photographer.
By the 1930s Ebbets was a well known and had his work published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times. In 1932, he was appointed photographic director for the Rockefeller Center which was under construction in New York. In September of that year, he would take the photo which would later define his work, Lunchtime a top a Skyscraper.
Ebbets started his career during the 1920s in St. Petersburg, Florida, as a still photographer. He eventually became involved in early motion picture work both in front of and behind the camera. That time he was also prizefighter Jack Dempsey's official staff photographer, a staff photographer for the Miami Daily News and a freelance photographer.
By the 1930s Ebbets was a well known and had his work published in the major newspapers across the nation including the New York Times. In 1932, he was appointed photographic director for the Rockefeller Center which was under construction in New York. In September of that year, he would take the photo which would later define his work, Lunchtime a top a Skyscraper.
As long as I remember myself I new this picture and I absolutely love it...everything about it I think everyone does...is the most printable poster of all times and a lot of people have it in the living room. That`s way I decided look behind and find out more about person who took it.
/ eleven men sitting on a girder eating lunch, their feet dangling from the beams hundreds of feet above the New York streets below was snapped on September 29, 1932, and appeared in the New York Herald Tribune shortly after. The photo was taken on the 69th floor in the last several months of construction./
A photo of 11 lunching workmen dangling on a steel beam high above the Manhattan skyline has been an American icon for more than 70 years, but the most funny thing is that it wasn't until October 2003 that Charles C. Ebbets was officially recognized by the Bettman Archiveas the photographer of Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper.
As you look at the images is not a perfection of sharpens or colour considering the age, but is some greatness about it what will make them eternal.
Ebbets created a photographic record of a good deal of American history from the 1920s through the 1970s. To take a close a look an find out more anyone can visit a official Ebbets Photo-Graphics online catalog which is divided into 8 unique galleries, each containing vintage images taken by renowned American photographer Charles C. Ebbets:
http://www.ebbetsphoto-graphics.com/#/page/home/
Neieguldiet naudu fotokamerā, ieguldiet sevis attīstīšanā. Jo šedevrus jau netaisa kamera, tos rada cilvēki. /G. Binde/
Gunars Binde /Gunārs Binde/
Neieguldiet naudu fotokamerā, ieguldiet sevis attīstīšanā. Jo šedevrus jau netaisa kamera, tos rada cilvēki. /G. Binde/
Do not investing money in your photo camera, investing in self development. Because not a camera make masterpiece, but people. /G.Binde/
As a continue to my research I want to write about someone from my own country...Latvia. We have lots of great artists in every aspect, so as photography and a most remarkable is Gunars Binde.
G.Binde born in 1933. 27.December ...in the small Latvian village. He start learn photography by himself (self instruction way) 1957. and by 1965. he get his first gold in Buenos Ares photo exhibition for Latvian famous conductor E.Smilgis portrait:
Since then images of Gunar Binde have become classics of photography. His work - a devotion to black and white photography and an optical camera, it's endless experimentation with the possibilities of form and light...
I can`t say that I admire his works, I find a bit strange his vision and themes what he choose for his images. But I have to admit he is a great artist with his special point of view and what he deliver to the public. The woman, her image and her uniqueness - always was, is and will be one of the main themes G.Binde, who invariably, when he looks at her, attends an inspiration.
There is some of the works what I find interesting to me:
There is some of the works what I find interesting to me:
/Girl with a cross/
/Nude with flowers 1967./
/Nude with chair 1967./
Other main theme of creativity - the person, his psychological movement, relations with the outside world. Like a painter and carefully studied the anatomy of the human body, G. Binde took up the study "architecture" of nudity. his first work, made with a fine sense of proportion and taste, allowed to speak about the author as one of the best photographers in Europe. However, removing the nude, the author always leaves a major component of the dramatic and artistic imagery in his works.
The all G.Binde material is grouped in several thematic sections:
Was an English photographer and writer whose photographs and writing were featured in more than 50 books. His first book, Master Photography, has sold over a million copies worldwide.He has also written and illusrated eight titles in the BETTER PICTURE GUIDE SERIES, on Travel Photography, Photographing Gardens, Black and White Photography, Landscape Photography, Photographing People, Still Life and Close-Up Photography, Colour Photography and Vacation Photography. These are published by Rotovision with co-editions in eleven languages. I recently bought one of his books /Better picture guide to Flower&Garden photography/...so I decide to include him in my artist research. I haven't read book completely just jet but I already get some tips about choosing a better viewpoint, learning the art of composition, photographing close-ups and making the most of garden features. It is very good book and how I currently find out - created by a great photographer, who all his life and work was dedicated to photography.
Take a close look of M.Busselle work through internet I notice, how close his works is to my initial idea about great images...and how I one days want to became same successful. I know I cant camper my photographs to such a famous artist, but still i find a similarity in how the main points is delivered to create a resulting photograph.
There is some examples:- -Theatre and Film,
- -Master and models,
- -Portraits or "people I met,"
- -Work series "The Flight",
- -"Erotica".
During the 1959th to 2004. year he had 35 solo exhibitions, held in Latvian, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Russia and Poland. His works can be seen not only the Latvian Museum of Photography, but also the French National Library prints Cabinet, G.Binde's works are in private collections Latvian, USA, Argentina, Lithuania, Estonia, Russia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Austria. Gunar Binde works also have been published in several foreign encyclopedias (such as "Photographers International Encyclopedia" (Paris, 1997). His works are regularly published art and photo magazines as Latvian, as well as abroad.
If someone is interested to find out more, you can visit :
Michael Busselle(14 November 1935 – 13 July 2006)
/Beach Stones by Michael Busselle/
/My stones by me/
/The Somme in Winter by Michael Busselle/
/Winter by me/
/Sebastian by Michael Busselle/
/Maksimuss by me/
Most photographers have one or more favourite themes, a particular type of subject which attracts their eye. If we look through M.Busselle photography it is - trees, and again we have something in common.
Trees by me:
Michael Busselle main love, except trees, was also for travel and landscape photography. Anyone who are interested can still buy his works, as a posters or canvas prints, through the internet and of course a lots of useful books, which I will probably getting more into my shelf with hope to learn right way of capturing a spirit of a world around me.
/one of my favorite image of M.Busselle/
Hey Kristine, it's great to see your research as I know you weren't looking forward to doing this part of your supporting evidence! You Have chosen very diverse artists which is great to see and your also comparing their work to your own. If you could put each artist into a seperate blog that would be easier to keep track of how many artists you have etc. Your critically analysing each artist which is great, if you continue in this way you're working towards distinction as your work is clearly taking shape and flowing nicely :)
ReplyDeleteHi there! I just stumbled across this post. Thanks for including me. It's nice when people appreciate my work. I wish I'd seen this earlier.
ReplyDeleteThanks again,
J. Dennis Thomas