Photo Communications, Spring 2012 Columbia College Chicago

1. 22-3530 - 01 PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS
composition & light

2. Aspect Ratio

7. Avant-garde photographers
generally were not much
interested in landscape, a genre
associated with pastoral and
sublime notions. Rodchenko
characteristically found the
natural setting of his country
house accidental and
unorganized: "A bush here, a
tree there, a gully, nettles."
There seemed nothing to make
a photograph from, he wrote,
until he looked up to see the
trees towering above him "like
telephone poles." His raking
shot from below proposes
vertigo instead of a sylvan calm,
a dynamic alternative to the
traditional horizons of the
landscape view.

8. Director of the Bauhaus
typography and advertising
workshop, Herbert Bayer took
up the camera about 1925,
initially using photography in
relation to his design work and
later pursuing it for its own sake.
In 1928, he traveled to
Marseille, where he
photographed the boats docked
in the harbor from overhead,
exploiting the camera's capacity
to transform everyday reality
into patterned abstractions.

10. White Balance

11. http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm

12. Note how 5000 K produces roughly neutral light, whereas 3000 K
and 9000 K produce light spectrums which shift to contain more
orange and blue wavelengths, respectively. As the color
temperature rises, the color distribution becomes cooler. This may
not seem intuitive, but results from the fact that shorter
wavelengths contain light of higher energy.

13. Auto white balance Custom white balance

16. Light as form

20. Frame dynamics

31. frame in frame

36. active space

40. rule of thirds/not rule of thirds

46. focal point