Reading Assessment Chapte. r 4

This chapter of the book touched base with the history of Photography. According to the very first paragraph, Photographer historians divide photographs into four stylistic trends: straight, formalistic, documentary, and equivalent. These categories relate to the actual deed of taking a picture, however, according to John Szarkowski, how we view photographs are divided into five characteristics: The thing itself, the detail, the frame, time, and vantage point. This chapter touches theories and ideas from numerous historical figures in photography. The author is trying to aware the reader about all the different views to photography. Colored photographs,announced by Sally Eauclaire, was divided into seven subsets: self reflections, formalism, the vivid vernacular, documentation, moral vision, enchantments, and fabricated fictions.

The author included salient images to make point of what was being said. They raised comprehension to the numerous different categories and styles related to digital photography, and had insight from credible photography scholars. These pages were very detail oriented with a lot of historical figures being made more aware. This chapter helped me gain a better understanding of all the different terms and categories related to digital photography.

Shutter Speed and Motion

 This photo was taken with a SP 200 ISO 25.

This photo was taken with a SP 29 ISO 250.

Bracketing and ISO

                                                        Part 1- Bracketing 

 Photo 1 shown above was used with meter at 0. NO effects, this is the plain image.

 Photo 2 was shown at meter -1.5. This created a little darker image but still looks natural.

Photo 3 was shown at meter +1.5. This sparked the image to be brighter, but still gets the context of

 the picture. 

So, what is bracketing? Bracketing means you can take the same photo and make it into multiple images at different exposures. I took my camera and first took a normal image, then moved to a negative exposure, decreasing the light in the picture. I then followed by doing the opposite and made the image even brighter than average. This is good to use when photographing in extreme brightness or darkness. 

Part 2A- ISO

 Photo 4- This picture was taken in my town, Ringwood, NJ. This was used with ISO 32 and S 8000 during midday and bright sun.

Photo 5- This same photo was taken with an ISO of 50 and S 1250. As you can see, this image has a brighter contrast, still without taking  away the clear picture, because the ISO was a higher percentage.

I realized when I changed the measure of ISO to a smaller number, the effect of the other exposure settings changed in the same direction as the ISO.

Part 2B

Photo 6- This image was also taken in Ringwood, NJ. This photo was taken in midday, very bright from the sun with a low ISO of  50.

Photo 7 was taken in the East Village right around the corner from my apartment. As you can see, the image is a little grainy because the ISO was 1600 during sunset. 

Photo 8 was by the creek in my home of Ringwood. This was early morning, not a lot of sun due to shade by trees, used ISO of 160 to try and brighten the image.