Masters of Photography - Irving Penn

Irving Penn took household objects as well such as matchboxes and
 fruits to bring attention to those things that people usually overlook in our
daily lives. That type of pictures of his is what inspired me to take this one.

 Irving Penn did a lot of fashion photography especially for the Vogue magazine.
This one is one of the pictures that caught my eye of  a lady looking
into a mirror. I used a compact instead of the box mirror
 that he had used which inspired me to take this picture.

Penn was most known for taking portraits of people and
so I picked some of the portraits that caught my eye and
used their influence to take these pictures.

Irving Penn takes pictures of ordinary objects like shoes and
 brings attention to them which inspired me to take this picture.

Reflection

Irving Penn was born in Plain field, New Jersey in 1917 and died in New York, New York in 2009. He has traveled from New York to London and even Morocco to take pictures.  Most of his objects were people. He took many portraits and mainly focused on people as his subject.  However he also took pictures of a lot of still life such as shoes and fruits. 

Irving Penn is unique in that he takes pictures of things that people don't normally pay ttention to. For example, he tok a picture of a matchbox, which is something that people use but don't pay much attention too. I think that this makes him unique. We chose this photographer because when I looked him up,. his pictures were so out of the box. He looks at things from a completely different point of view and that definitely caught my attention. 

Irving Penn inspired me to look at simple things from a new point of view. He did a lot of fashion photography but didn't always ask the model to do regular poses. instead he asked them to do different and sometimes weird things which made it easier for him to catch people's attention with his pictures. In the beginning, I wasn't too interested in his pictures because something of them are weird and awkward to try and recreate. But soon I realized that I liked looking through all of his pictures and it was really fun to take pictures similiar to the ones Irving Penn has taken.I enjoyed looking at things from a similiar perspective to his. After looking through his pictures, i understand that he is a great photographer who looked at the world in his own unique way. 

ATPI Contest

"Every Sunset brings the promise of a new dawn."

Second Portrait-Another Group: Nitya

Composition Review-3 Rules

Before

After
My Three Rules
Viewpoint-picture is taking from the bottom instead of eye level
Framing- there is a circle around the eye that frames it
Simplification- brings the focus to the eye
http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/12/10-rules-of-photo-composition-and-why-they-work/

Flower

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. 

First Portrait-Group 1 Aileen

Aileen Hsu
Behind the Classroom in the E wing
I increased the vibrancy by 17 and increased the saturation by 2.

Shallow Depth of Field

Self Portrait

Third Photo Assignment; My Third Rule

Simplification: I tried to make the attention mostly focused
on the big flower by blurring out the background and
simplifying the picture.
My Three Rules
Viewpoint
Framing
Simplification

Second photo Assignment, My Second Rule

Framing: I was trying to focus the attention on the main subject and create a natural frame around her.
"Let your smile change the world;don't let the world change your smile."

First Photo Assignment, My First Rule

                        Viewpoint: Instead of taking a picture from eye level, I took it from a higher level. 

 Good friends are like stars.You don’t always see them,

 but you know they are always there.