Angles, View Point and Cropping

Degas

Degas was a famous painter from France who did a lot of paintings of dancers and had the deception of movement within his paintings. A lot of Degas's painters almost looked like photographs, with a lot of movement from contemporary dancers. In most of his paintings dancers were shown back stage or performing to show it as a professional job. He started off wanting to be a history photographer but as times changed he realised photography was a new way of capturing images, this then made him relies that not everything has to be "correct" "idealistic".








In this image on the right you can see the movement really well. This almost looks like he has taken a picture as someone's dancing and then gone on to paint it. Most photographers thought badly about photography creating imperfections. A lot of painters resented photographers because painters were payed to paint an image of someone or something perfect and almost staged and it was a long process. What photographers did was do this job a lot quicker and just as good of quality. All painted images were perfect with no cropping and everything centre of the painting. As painters realised that photography can show imperfections and still really good, the majority of painters changed their style just like degas did.



Early Kodak Photographs


Early Kodaks were very big and look like bad quality photographs. The people with these cameras were amateurs and were just taking pictures on holiday or when they were out because it was one of the first portable cameras available. This meant a lot of photographic errors were made.

A lot of these photographs were badly composed cropping a lot of the image out the image on the right shows a boat that has cropped out a lot of the sails and poles sticking up. A lot of professional photographers were almost perfectionists, having to have everything perfect in the photograph nothing cropped and the camera was straight. Amateur photographers using Kodaks and making a lot of mistakes showed professional photographers that it was good to make mistakes. Some of the photos were tilted and cropped and that made the photos more abstract and photographers thought it was a good new style to copy and carry on with.


Angles, View Point and Cropping





In this photograph I was aiming to get a cropped look. I cropped off the top of her head to decrease more focus on her bracelet and pass lanyard. I like how there is nothing else in the photo to take the attention off of the main subject.I think I did this well but I could have cropped more or a different part of it to give it an opposing affect.

In this photo I took it looking up, this gives it an abstract effect. I think this photograph would look better if I hadn't cropped the side of the building in subject. I could of done this by standing in a different place.






Although this picture on the left isn't very good quality i think this is a good representation of take a picture from below the object. I like how there is nothing taking you attention away from the tree and the leaves. All I would change is maybe the amount of leaves on the right hand side of the photo, although I can't control that I could change it in photoshop.




For this picture I took it from higher than the subject; Elentari. I think this has a good effect of leading lines unto the person in frame. The only things I would change about this photograph is the objects in the background, which are almost distracting, also I would move Elentari to the middle of the bottom of the stairs. I think her being off centre looks a bit strange and untidy.