Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a french photographer and was considered the father of photojournalism.  He sees the camera as a sketch book and said "In order to “give a meaning” to the world, one has to feel involved in what one frames through the viewfinder."  

To capture photos like the one above he uses concentration, discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

The photo above shows geometry through the repetition of the fence and the ladder. how the reflection shows a totally different person because the foot is not touching the ground.  Bresson showed contrast, use of line and reflection really well in this picture.

Jay Maisel

Jay Maisel started by studying graphic design and once he graduated he began his career in photography.  He is best known for capturing light, color, and the simple things found in everyday life.  He doesn't use complex lighting or fancy cameras he just shots.  Over the last 40 years he kept busy with doing reports, magazine covers, jazz albums and more.

He stopped taking on commercial work in the late 90s, and now uses his time to focus on his personal work. He also does photography workshops throughout the country.

Annie Liebovitz

Annie is a portrait photographer.  She started her career as a staff photography working for the rolling stone magazine. After only 3 years of working there she was named Chief Photographer of Rolling Stone.  Why she worked for the magazine she realized that she was also able create personal work.  She worked with several models and took a lot of pictures of her kids. In 1978 Leibovitz was the first woman to photograph Joan Armatrading for an album, which was the fifth studio album called To the Limit, she spent four days at her house capturing the images.

       

Jerry Uelsmann

Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. When he was 14 an interest for photography sparked within him.  He believed that through photography he could live a different life, outside of his own, to live a life that would be captured through his lens.  After highschool he went on to Roshester Institution of Technology and earned a Bachelors of art from there.  Then got a Masters in Fine Arts degree from Indiana University.  Then began teaching photography at the University of Florida   



Uelsmann is a master printer, producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work.  He never sought to follow the rules or boundaries put in place by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time.  He simply wanted to make what he desired in his imagination to come to life.

               

Ansel Adams

Mr. Adams is one of the largest know name among photographers. 

A statement that was said about Ansel Adams by President James L Carter when presenting Mr. Adams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been a visionary in his efforts to preserve this country’s wild and scenic areas, both on film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature’s monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.”


      

Glenn, John and Thomas Knoll developing Photoshop

Photoshop began by a father and his two sons.

Glenn Knoll-the father of Thomas and John, he was a college professor and had two hobbies:computers and photography.
Thomas Knoll- a PHD student, adapted his fathers photography habit, the programmer/coder behind it all
John Knoll- purchased one of the first Macs available to the public, suggested that Tom suggested to turn it in to a full image editor.

The always in the dark room making pictures, but eventually started writing little bits of code to help display and to edit photos on one of the first mac computers.  They kept adding more and more code until everything came together and had there first buyer in 1988.  Mr. Scan was the guys name, bundled it with their scanners and then sold 200 copies.  The final and first version of Photoshop was licensed to adobe in 1990.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet was the founder of French Impressionist painting.  He did a series of 250 oil paintings called the Water Lillies. The paintings show Monet's flower garden at Giverny. 

The main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life, and most of them where painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.

The beauty of his work tends to be more attractive, as compared to traditional landscape painting.  Monet does a wonderful job in portraying how he felt about this place he was painting. It shows peace by the composition and color.

The Boston Marathan

As most of us have heard about the tragic event that happened in Boston not to long ago hits deeps within my heart, with my mom running the Boston Marathon exactly 10 years ago.  My mom stopped running shortly after the the Boston Marathon in 2003 because of knee problems.  Which on April 15th was the first time over the past ten years that I was happy over pain that my mother endures daily. The bombs went off with 4:09:43 on the clock at the finish line, with the second following shortly after.  My mom has ran over 30 marathons all with times between 3:40 and 4:15, so if my mom was still running she would have been there at the finish line, or really close by when it all happened.  I was deeply saddened just thinking of the possibility of my mom being there, I can not even began to imagine the pain and thoughts that other daughters, sons, husbands and wife where thinking of there loved one that was there.
This picture deeply disturbs me of the guy who lost his legs.  The guy in the cowboy hat saved his life by using pieces of clothing to try to stop the blood.

Here is a link to the full story of the hero.  http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cowboy-hat-hero-boston-marathon-watches-carnage-losing/story?id=18963955#.UYcU7LePVfQ

Dan Winters

Dan Winters

Winters studied photography at a College in California and finished his formal education at the film school of Ludwig Maimilian University in Munich, Germany. He started his career as a photojournalist in his home town in Ventura County, California.  After winning some awards he moved to New York City where magazine assignments where flowing in rapidly.  Most of his work was portraits that he did for magazines.
  He won over one hundred national and international awards from numerous organizations. He has had four exhibitions of his personal work in galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and had a book of all his magazine work published titled Dan Winters: Periodical Photographs published in 2009 by Aperture.

Eleanor by Harry Callahan

Eleanor

Harry Callahan spent a lot of his time photographing is wife Eleanor.  She was an essential part to his work.  He photographed he regardless of where they were, at home, in the streets, by herself, with there daughter, in color and lack of color, clothed and nude and he was always trying a new technical way to photograph her.  Double and triple exposures and played with the focus.
Eleanor (the picture above) is a picture that my teacher showed on one of the first days of class.  It was very rememberable picture because of the rules that were broke to make this picture the way it is.  We were talking about how to properly expose our pictures and talked later about bracketing to see how different the picture looks.

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry
McCurry was grew up in Philedaphia, studied film in college, and went on to work at the local newspaper. He did freelance work and during that time made a trip to India and then started exploring the world with his camera.

McCurry work was featured world wide in newspapers. When he is in other countries he photographs conflict such as Iran-Iraq war, and the Gulf war. He seems like a guy who goes to the places where no one else will go. He has been given many awards, such as magazine photographer of the year, and four first place prices in the World Press Photo contest.

This picture was a picture that McCurry took while in Kabul, Afghanistan. When I see this picture a see a young boy sitting on the side of the road trying to sell bread, to make money for his family. This picture makes me thankful that I have an indoor job a car that is reliable and my husbad that works hard every day to make a living for me. 

ME

This is me and my husband. We got married last august.  He is a computer engineer, and I am going to school for Web Development/Design and should graduate in December of 2014.  We live out in the country.  We love hunting, shooting, hiking riding and taking pictures together.

Geese

I love being outdoors, and it is very rare that you will catch me outside in the woods with out a camera. I love capturing those moments so I can cherish them forever.  This picture of the geese captivated me the most because it draws me in every time I look at it.  THe lines in the bottom of the picture, the detail of the geese and the water splashing.

Skulls

To represent skull week at St. Charles Community College I wanted to add my favorite pic of a skull that I took.  Skull weeks purpose was to draw the art department at scc together to form a since of community.

Sad story

This is probably one of the saddest thing I have ever read.  I know we did the first half in class but finish it, you will cry.  I think it is so important that he continued this, through the end, he never gave up or lost hope. What a hard thing to watch your father go through. His father had short term memory loss, and his mother passed away his father kept asking where she was.  When he would tell him that his mother died he was ask the same questions over and over again.


http://www.mrtoledano.com/days-with-my-father/01-Days-with-my-father

Rights as photographers

I found a few good websites about model releases.
The one from Dan Heller is a great site although its a hard website to navigate through but a lot of good information!
http://www.danheller.com/model-release.html
This one explained in def why you need them and why they are so important!
http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html#.UUnyOhy38rU