Monday, March 31, 2014

Tina Madotti & Laszlo Maholy Nagy



Tina Madotti

  • She was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini in Udine, Fruili, Italy. She was born on 16th or 17th of August 1896.
  • She died on the 5th of January 1942 at Mexico City, Mexico.
  • She's an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.
Her work (early) was in the style of pure photography and precisionism of the American avant-garde. She perfected the specificity of the photographic rendering: geometrical, elementary, abstract compositions, and extremely precise focus; play of texture, shadows, and light; familiar objects isolated and placed in new perspectives.

Some of Her Photography:



 Always, when the words “art” and “artistic” are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.  ~ Tina Madotti


Laszlo Maholy Nagy

  • He was born Laszlo Weisz in Bacsborsod to a Jewish-Hungarian family. He was born on 20th of July 1895.
  • He died on the 24th of November 1946.
  • He's an Hungarion painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration technology and industry into the arts.
He broke new ground by advocating that industrial technology should be used in the arts. Technology's blistering evolution in the late 1800s and early 1900s was the main motivation influencing the studies and creations of Laszlo Maholy Nagy. (Credits)

Russian Constructivism, Laszlo's primary learning, was a political and artistic movement influenced by the 19th century's industrial revolution. Among its main principals was the belief that art should use industrial machinery to serve the construction of a new socialist world. This movement's main aesthetic characteristics are the use of primary colors, geometric elements, and photomontage. This last technique especially stood out in Laszlo's work. (Credits)

Some of His Photography:



Monday, March 24, 2014

Analysis

Here's my analysis...




I'm planning to make some changes for my next photo shoot. Changing the background, some camera settings, the camera angle, and the amount of light and darkness. Might take some photos outside with the guitar. Then, I'll take another set of photos. This time, I'll take some photos of lyrics. After that, I'll edit all of them and try to do some layering stuffs. So, it'll look like there's a photo of a musical instrument or anything that is related to music and lyrics in the background.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Photoshop (During the Course)

During the Course...

We had a 2 days course off site last week (Thursday & Friday). During the course, the teacher taught us lots of stuff about Adobe Photoshop C6. We did some editing, applied those things that she taught us. Here are some examples of those stuffs:

Using the patch tool, healing tool, spot healing tool and clone stamp tool.





Using random photos and put them all together by doing some layering and use some effects (like mutltiply, soft lighten, etc.) :


Using that rectangular marquee tool & lasso tool:


Using the quick selection tool then combined it with another photo:


Using transformation: Focus on the bird lol


Using layering, quick selection, etc.:


Yeah that's all for the course thing (: