Photographer

Danny Santos' Bad Weather brings me the idea about focusing on which part of the people in the rain.Martin U Waltz is the other street photographer who gives me helps. On his website, he write about how to do street photography in the rain.Exclude the basic tips, such as take a umbrella or make the camera waterproof, he also gives an important tip to me. He stresses that in the rain, a kind of weak light environment, looking for other interesting light is very important.In his examples, car lights, city lights and neon lights can be good light sources in a photo. He likes use figure to ground in his pictures by using the strong background light.That's a direction which I am also practicing during my shooting.But in my project, I will focus on people's faces.So I think I can try these technique as the background.

http://dannyst.format.com/bad-weather In my Project3, I decide to shoot the people in the rain.Because I am interested in their faces.Have a lot of unusual emotions. Danny's Bad Weather series well shows what I want to shoot. Most of photos in this series have exciting emotions.In fact I want shoot more other emotions from the people such as worried, frustrated or anxious.

Josef Koudelka is a Czech Photograher  who’s most famous images were of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Prague in 1968.His photography works are good at narrative and composition skills. Koudelka can maturely use figure to ground to stress the dominate element.The other elements in these pictures are inconspicuous. He also use lead lines to lead our eyes to the most important part of his pictures.And he luckily meets the  historical event for him to give play to his skills.And create the masterpieces.

On a Chinese website calls ZhiHu, I saw a question about some Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama's works.The questioner just asks how is these photography works and then show these pictures. There are many answerers think these pictures are really bad on skills.But as a worldwide famous photographer. Daidō Moriyama must have his reason to shoot these works.And then they start to feel these pictures with difficulty.I am also in doubt for these pictures.Is these works really good? But my question is answered when I see an answer.In this answer, the answerer pastes some other pictures.These pictures are about the same works with those works in the question, but they are in different mediums. These are shot from Daidō Moriyama's personal photography magazines Record. Those works bring us the entirely different feelings on the large size and finely printed magazine.When we see these pictures from the website or our phone screens, we can only see the weird s...

Long shutter speed is really an interesting element of the camera.It brings a lot of possibilities to photos.When I helped my friend to do the light project,  we had an idea.Let two camera faced each other's lens and let one camera zoomed during the other camera's shooting process.The final effect looks good but still can be improved. Then luckily I saw Jakob Wagner's Urban zoom series, the idea in this series resembles our idea.But Urban Zoom is let the shooting camera itself zooms during the shooting.And the item is the city scenes.The result in the photos is the lights lines are vey impressive and powerful. It's also depends on the camera's big zooming scope.

Fan Ho is a very famous Chinese photographer in 20 century.His technique on composition，light'n shadow and artistic conception inspire me a lot on how to record people's lifestyle in a city.

Arnold Newman was a American Photographer who is famous on portrait photography.Not just depending on the subjects theirselves, Arnold is good at combining the subject and the background to exhibit their characteristics.Most of his portraits are about the artists or politicians. Igor Stravinsky, composer, pianist, and conductor Aaron Copland, composer, composition teacher, writer,  and conductor Jackson Pollock, painter Isamu Noguchi, artist, and landscape architect Joseph Albers, artist Salvador Dalí, painter In these portraits, Arnold combines the subject and their most typical elements, such as their works, work environments or equipments.So through his photos we can easily get more informations about the subjects.

Still life photography maybe is not what I must to learn, but I did shoot a lot of still life photograph as a personal daily mission.(Though I didn't know they are still life photographs.) When I search on the Internet, I found a lot of pictures are included into still life photography, such as many wallpapers, commercial advertisings or even those photos about the lifeless things. Laurens Kaldeway is a photographer who attracts more on the subject's sense of form. All these pictures are screenshot from Kaldeway's 500px website. In some of his works he tries to create interesting narrative in the subject.He will use many creative ideas to compose those articles in the pictures.Some of his works are just about some simple articles in a little bit special shooting techniques to bring some basic emotions to us.Weak in narrative is a trait of still life photography.The important part is the framing of lines, planes and spaces.Light and colour are ...