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johnmartinphoto · 3 years ago

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Recycle Evaluation + Final Recycle Image

This project Recycle gives us an opportunity as photographers to research and experiment with light painting techniques. This involves researching photographers who use lighting painting techniques in their work to get inspired and give us ideas then creating a set of used or discarded objects to photograph with light painting techniques. Using lighting painting techniques is much more involved than using traditional strobe or continuous light sources as this involves you moving a light source (a torch for example) around the scene to light parts of the scene not possible with traditional lighting. It also involves complex compositing of a lot of images as the individual images themselves aren’t anything worthy although when the best bits of each image come together, they can create a rather interesting image not possible with regular lighting. Personally, I like the idea of taking old objects and using this more modern and complex way of lighting them as these old and discarded objects tend to have much more texture and detail to them than something new for example. I also feel the process for creating these images is much more involved due to us having to light specific parts of the scene and them making decisions on what to keep or remove in post. For this project, I decided to photograph three tools an old chisel, a spanner, and a screwdriver all layed on an old cloth background with lots of texture. During this project, I most enjoyed compositing the images together and making decisions on what to keep and what to throw away in addition to this just saw the image come together from so many individual images with different qualities of light and texture. While working on this project I experienced many new techniques. Lighting painting was something I hadn’t really done prior to doing this project and was completely new to me I had also not previously used photoshop to combine such a vast number of images before. Going forward I would like to continue to build these skills and expand my knowledge with light painting and compositing. When I was getting inspiration for my image, I was looking at photographers such as Harold Ross, MIKE KUKULSKI, Philip Woolway, Velma Mercer. From this, I took most of my inspiration from Harold ross’s work by going with a flat lay concept and using the rule of odds for my final image. I think the most successful part of the project for me was being able to capture high amounts of details and textures in the tools in addition to this I was also able to add depth to an otherwise flat image by dramatically lighting the background although I did need to tone it done a bit in post, so it didn’t become overpowering. During this project, I took my images to feedback classes and got feedback about my work and where to improve it this helped me further develop my original campsite into my final image with the input of others. During this project, I didn’t have any major issues although due to unforeseen weather circumstances I had to work from home on the day I was meant to shoot this project, so I had to complete the shooting at home this introduced its own challenges such as having to work in a small space and only have access to one flashlight although this didn’t seem to create a problem itself. As I was completing the shooting for this project at home, I had access to my computer meaning I was able to shoot tethered this greatly helped my ability to assess the images straight away and would give me a much better insight into all the technical aspects of the shooting process. If I was given the chance to complete this project again, I would have researched more into painting with light before shooting my images this would have given me a better insight as what I was trying to achieve although, after a small amount of experimentation, I had a much better understanding of it so it didn’t cause any real issue. I found this project enjoyable. I think I was able to produce a good image to meet the project. If I was asked to complete a project again with this technique, I would like the

opportunity to work on location with these techniques to create an image not possible with daylight but only possible in darkness with a flashlight.

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hayko · 2 years ago

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Dear Friends and Valuable Clients, Throughout these difficult few years, we have been concentrating our efforts on constructively creative activities to benefit everyone associated with Hayko Fine Rugs and Tapestries. During my visit to Armenia in 2018, I discovered the revival of hand-made rug weaving tradition in full swing. Moreover, the preferable trend was to use yarns produced by traditional methods; i.e., using natural sheep’s wool and plant-based natural dyes in an eco-friendly environment. When I returned to New York City, that experience remained etched on my mind. Now, I am excited to inform you that the WOOLWAY Company -- which I established with my two business partners in Armenia, in 2020 – has reached an enviable position as the best resource for the finest woolen yarns on the market. After nearly two years of intense research and trials, we have developed methods and recipes to produce and dye the highest quality of hand-spun woolen yarns. Our entire production is eco-friendly and absolutely natural, which yields yarns with soft tactile feel and superb durability. WOOLWAY is ready to offer these exceptional woolen yarns to the U.S. market. As the second phase of the WOOLWAY’s business agenda, we have built a dynamic team of skillful rug weavers, who are capable of implementing our heritage-quality hand-woven rugs production plan in Armenia. With the same exceptional yarns, WOOLWAY can devotedly fulfill any special orders of private patrons, established companies, collectors, decorators, and individuals. Naturally, designs and colors of each rug will be decided after a thoughtful deliberation between our client and our team. Then, the hand-weaving of the rug will progress efficiently. During which, the client can be excited with the thought that since WOOLWAY is in complete control from the beginning to the completion of the special order—yarn production, design execution, hand-weaving, and quality control—the end result will be the creation of an exquisite Armenian rug. (at Woolway Armenia) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfpmUNoqRE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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stopjhutransphobia · 3 years ago

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UPDATE ON TRANS ISSUES AT JHU

Dear all,

Happy new year! We are writing to inform you about the most recent developments in our campaign against transphobia at Johns Hopkins University, for although you may not have heard from us, the fight has continued unabated! We have had two meetings with a board of university admins in order to discuss change in the four areas mentioned in our petition (click here for a reminder of what that was all about). We envision these meetings to continue on a roughly bi-weekly basis for an indefinite time but at least through the spring semester. Besides us, the board comprise

Kevin Shollenberger (Vice Provost for Student Health & Well-Being, Interim Vice Provost for Student Affairs),

Dr. Katrina Caldwell (Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer),

Meredith Stewart (Interim Vice President for Human Resources, Executive Director of Total Rewards),

Demere Woolway (Director of LGBTQ Life at Hopkins), and

Michelle Schramm (Nurse Practitioner at the Hopkins Student Health and Wellness Center)

The general upshot of these meetings is that the coming six months will be absolutely crucial for the future of trans people at JHU. The administration seems generally willing to move things forward, yet structural obstacles and institutional inertia are looming large. Whether or not the administration’s aspirations will be put in action depends on future conversations and the amount of pressure that students, staff and faculty put onto the administrative officials in charge. At the meetings it is generally understood on all sides that, given past occurrences, there is no reason to trust JHU administration over ameliorating the conditions for trans people. Yet the will to engineer change and to do so collectively persists. However, we see confusion about concrete responsibilities (who is doing what in the administrative edifice of JHU?), unfamiliarity with the issues at hand and hesitation regarding inclusion of trans people into the administrative process, the goal of trans autonomy over trans issues and the hires this ultimately requires in particular. The game is on and we need everybody’s help to turn the hand of time on trans issues at JHU. If you want to help, you can:

- Get in touch with us and say ‘I want to get involved’ (see emails below). Also cheering and all other kinds of support are greatly appreciated.

- Talk to your friends, your colleagues, your cohort, your department about these issues, not one time, all the time. Use your social media accounts, your departmental meetings, your private conversations and whatever other occasion presents itself. Get the word out. Forward this email widely, for example.

- Organize individual and departmental letters of support to be sent to Kevin Shollenberger, Katrina Caldwell, Meredith Stewart, Demere Woolway, and Michelle Schramm so as to signal the broad base that our demands stand on. If you do so: Make it specific (we will happily assist you with that).

- Be creative. Have a meme idea? Go for it. Want to perform your music at our next rally? We’re down. Want to write an article and get it published somewhere? Please do. We’ll assist you with all the knowledge and resources we have on offer. This is a collective struggle and it needs your initiative.

We will now provide the status of each of the four demands listed in our petition and how we expect things to move forward, ending with a call to action on several fronts.

1. Deadnaming (aka Down with SIS!)

a. Our suggestion to reset the whole system and stop using an overly complicated web of apps and cloud management softwares was dismissed.

b. The administration has agreed to prioritize allowing people to change their names in SIS, thereby avoiding the current system which systematically deadnames trans students and faculty.

c. Future updates of JHU data management will supposedly allow for people to input a chosen name and have that be the only thing which will appear to other users.

d. The issue now is holding them to that. The administration claims to have over 50 programmers working on altering the various entangled systems, starting with SIS and moving outward to other platforms. Yet a list of these programmers was allegedly not available.

e. Katrina Caldwell is taking personal responsibility for ensuring implementation of the naming system, and is making inquiries to determine why the problem had not been addressed when brought up years prior.

f. Our admin contact for this effort is Demere Woolway. Demere has been working on this issue for a good seven years at least, yet the results have been piecemeal and overall insufficient. The reasons for these shortcomings do not lay with Demere, but where exactly they lay is as of yet unclear.

g. You can help Katrina, Demere and us by way of expressing your support to them and the other members of the board of administrative admins as well as all administrative officials that you have access to and feel comfortable engaging with - individually or as a part of a collective letter of support.

h. The timeline they gave us for completion of this is vague, but they have indicated that it will start 1/1/22 and be done by the summer. Pushing for concrete dates and requesting reports on the concrete steps undertaken in this direction will be crucial in the process.

i. They have no stopgap measures in the interim and have consulted no one outside of admin for how the new system should look - neither students nor faculty nor extra-institutional sources. This is an example for why there is still reason to hold a healthy amount of mistrust towards the administrative efforts currently undertaken. Effectively, this is still a case of good cis people saving poor trans people from bad cis people.

2. Healthcare inequity

a. Three groups have been formed to ameliorate the situation of trans people at JHU: the gender affirming care team (GACT), the PATH working group and the transgender working group. Yet although we believe them to be geared towards trans health issues, their exact connections and functions are still unclear to us (see also point 4).

b. Hopkins admin, led by Meredith Stewart and in consultancy with the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender Health, has begun the long process of negotiating with the various health care companies for the various Hopkins health insurance plans: 1) The East Baltimore plan (Medicine, Nursing, Public Health) which includes all post-docs; 2) The plan for Homewood and other schools (KSAS, SAIS, Carey, Whiting, Education); 3) The faculty and employee plan with the ultimate goal of getting all to conform to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s (WPATH) standards of care.

c. Inclusive insurance policies should be implemented by August 15th, 2022 at the latest, but the goal is to have things switched by July 1st, 2022. Just as regarding ‘Down With SIS’, everything will depend on holding them to their aspiration and making sure they keep a tight timeline. You can assist with this by inquiring with them over their progress, joining our organizing group and taking initiative yourself (see above).

d. An important pressure point in the upcoming negotiations will be the exact scaffolding that the new trans health framework will be based on. Options are WPATH 7 (better than what we have now, but non-ideal, click here to see the document) or the new WPATH 8 (more inclusive, especially for non-binary people, click here for the document and click here for the ongoing review process, click here for more on the current development of WPATH 8) or the gold standard “no restrictions for treatment that is determined by an individual’s care team” (which is what we actually want). Events in the upcoming semester will partially focus on this question, as it marks the watershed between benevolent cis-centrism and trans autonomy in the medical sector.

e. This is being done in consultation with an outside medical consulting firm called Mercer. We have no indication that Mercer was especially versed in trans issues, if or how many trans people are involved in the process from their side or what their stance on these issues is. Our admin contact is Meredith Stewart. See 1.g) on how to assist us with this.

f. Michelle Schramm (Women's Health Nurse Practitioner at Student Health and Wellness center) is spearheading an effort to provide more trans affirming care through student health and will be seeking students to join a newly formed PATH working group for determining which services should be offered and how they should be rolled out. JHU has begun working on ensuring more UHS primary care providers are offering HRT and that there are providers capable of providing surgery letters to East Baltimore students, a population that was not able to access transition-related surgery letters through UHS in the past.

g. Kevin Schollenberger has checked in with higher university administration (unclear if this means President, Provost, Board of Trustees, or some other body) to ensure they will sign off on the changes in the insurance policy, which apparently they will.

3. Hopkins honoring transphobes

a. Kristina Caldwell has expressed interest in using a seminar series to address Hopkins’ historic support of transphobic academics, as well as its legacy of experimenting on, denying care to, and dehumanizing trans people as an institution.

b. While we are unsure of how this will look, some goals would include a seminar series, funding for trans post-docs and faculty to make Hopkins a center of trans studies and trans medicine, accompanied by public facing education on this history.

c. To start with, Jo Giardini has put in a formal request to remove Paul McHugh’s name from the ‘Program for Human Flourishing’ in the medical school.

d. An inquiry regarding whom exactly to contact over Angela Merkel’s honorary degree, sent 11/22, has as of yet not been answered.

4. More trans representation

a. The three committees mentioned under 2.a) have been meeting without student/faculty representation and - with one noted exception - without trans people in their ranks. The committees were formed on the initiative of JHU administration but without any consultation of anyone outside their circles.

b. Reactions to our suggestions about hiring more trans people into administration and staff were generally hesitant. We see no initiative on tackling the logic of good cis people save poor trans people from bad cis people on a structural, institutional level. That is unfortunate and will be conducive to the replication of past mistakes in the long run. However, we were assured that committees will soon open for student and faculty participation and comment.

c. More specifically, the three groups formed are:

- The Gender Affirming Care Team: This is a group of admins that are currently working on providing greater access to trans health care. Significant trans representation on this team is crucial so as to prevent the kind of oversight out of unfamiliarity with the issues at hand we have seen in past years at JHU. (See 4.b)

- The PATH working group: Based on our meetings, we are not exactly sure what this group is based on or what it does. However, this group apparently had students (who may or may not have been trans) be involved in the past, but it is unclear to us who these students were. Some of them may have graduated. This is a group that will be seeking student participation in rolling out more trans friendly policies for the student health system and an opportunity for you to get involved. (See 4.b)

- The Transgender Working Group: This group was mentioned in the Roadmap to Diversity statement, and seems to not yet exist. They might have been referring to us, we thought, but the question could not be clarified. When this group begins we envision it as a body which will keep administration accountable to their promises they have made throughout this process. Yet, as it stands, this is an imaginary group without function, members or meetings. We voiced our concern that it is currently purely a device to pink wash JHU, meaning that it makes JHU look more queer and trans friendly on paper than it actually is so as to make undergraduate education more marketable to a wider audience of customers.

d. If you are confused about the number and the composition of these groups: everybody is, including the administrative board we are working with. The multiplicity of boards and the people involved is partially a result of the sprawling structure of JHU’s administrative system, which we take to be a symptom of mismanagement that is not specific to trans people. However, the effect of this structure is to build a smoke screen that makes it very hard to understand responsibilities, liabilities and the right addressees for specific concerns. In fact, much of our work while drafting this report was to gather the composition, the names and the responsibilities of these groups and the people involved in them. That everybody is overwhelmed by the completely artificial complexity of these issues is not an accident. It is a device that smothers critique and self-determination.

5. To repeat our general stance:

Violence against trans people consists partially in the denial of self determination. This denial can occur as the denial to change one’s name (see 1) or as denial of medical treatment and bodily representation (see 2) or as denial of the power to make decisions about oneself, as in 4, or in other ways (3). Cis people have decided what is good for trans people for hundreds of years and as Prof. Jules Gill-Peterson pointed out during her speech at our rally in November, Johns Hopkins University has a long and shameful history that entails all kinds of violence against trans people – a history that is not only indicative for the treatment of trans people in the US and globally but is constitutive of this history. This history is well documented. However, our suggestion is not to form another committee consisting of a majority of cis people and on a generous time line, making suggestions to other such committees, some of which do not exist. What we need is swift action towards self determination and overall transparency so as to maximize collaboration on these vital issues.

6. In addition to our original goals, we have also put pressure on the university’s lack of inclusive facilities. Initially we have focused on the state of the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center, which only has a single gender neutral stall. This stall is notorious for not having proper ventilation, for having no seating, storage, or a laundry bin, and for not meeting ADA accessibility standards despite being labelled as an accessible facility. Demere Woolway and Kevin Schollenberger have now been in contact with the Rec Center administration, and we have been assured that a laundry bin, bench, and some storage options are being installed in the space, and that ventilation issues are due to be addressed. There are now plans to construct a second gender neutral space which will also meet ADA requirements, as according to Demere the current space is not possible to retrofit. Jo Giardini will be doing a walk through with some of the Rec Center administration in the new year to discuss other ways to make the Rec Center more accessible for trans, queer, and gender non-conforming students–anyone who has ideas is encouraged to be in touch. We hope we can use momentum on this to address the lack of accessible spaces throughout the JHU system.

One thing that we can certainly do to move admin forward on all of these issues is inundate them with complaints, advice, and vocal calls to action. We also need to stack the committees (see 4.) wherever possible and ensure that no policy is made without the trans community of Hopkins learning about it and having input on it. We encourage you to be ready to push for these policies and join these committees. It seems that the admin knows that they are in the wrong, but we worry that without vociferous opposition, they will return to business as usual, trying to adjust as little as possible so as to incapacitate future outrage and leave it at that. That is why we have to act now and not wait to see what the administration will propose to us and then react and adjust to it. We have listed some things you can do in the beginning of this message. If you have any questions or want to be involved with our meetings, please contact one of us. With that, until next time.

Ryan

[email protected]

Luce

[email protected]

P.S.: Let it be noted that partaking in these meetings, preparing and debriefing them and writing this report took us many hours of unpaid labor. Furthermore, there is a fair chance that none of us will see the fruits of this labor.

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woolway · 4 years ago

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https://vimeo.com/hayko

#woolway #exploreyourcreativity #haykofinerugs

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rjzimmerman · 4 years ago

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Excerpt from this story from EcoWatch:

Heatwaves are not just distinct to the land. A recent study found lakes are susceptible to temperature rise too, causing "lake heatwaves," The Independent reported.

For the first time, researchers showed how lakes experience heatwaves and are sensitive to variations in the climate, lead author Dr. Iestyn Woolway, a research fellow at the European Space Agency's Climate Office in the UK, told The Independent.

Published on Wednesday in Nature, the study analyzed how hundreds of lake temperatures changed across the world, from the period between 1901 to 2099. If greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, lakes will experience hotter and longer heatwaves, researchers found.

Woolway and his team studied lake temperatures during heatwaves under two scenarios: high greenhouse gas emissions and low greenhouse gas emissions. Compared to data from the period between 1970-1999, the average temperature of global lakes could increase to about 1.7°C during heatwaves by the end of the century in a high greenhouse gas emission future, The Independent reported.

But high greenhouse gas emissions could increase more than just a lake's temperature during a heatwave. The average length of a heatwave could also increase from eight days to 95 days by the end of the century, The Independent reported.

"As lakes warm during the twenty-first century, their heatwaves will begin to extend across multiple seasons, with some lakes reaching a permanent heatwave state," the study noted.

Over the summer, the Great Lakes experienced some of their warmest temperatures on record. Surface water temperature in all the Great Lakes, except for Lake Superior, experienced temperatures in the 70s, The Washington Post reported in July. Lake Erie even reported temperatures in the 80s, similar to that of Virginia Beach.

"Ultimately, lake temperatures follow the temperatures of the atmosphere," Dr. Woolway told The Independent.

#climate change #global warming #heat waves #marine ecology #lakes #Great Lakes

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vm4vm0 · 4 years ago

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Gracey ft. Alexander 23 - Like That from Fiona Jane Burgess on Vimeo.

Directed by Fiona Jane Burgess Producer: Frankie Willcock Executive Producer: Mary Calderwood Production Company: Lez Creative Commissioner: Emily Tedrake 1st AD: Jack Meredith DOP: Eoin McLoughlin 1st AC: James Wicks 2nd AC: Jomar O’Meally Gaffer: Leon Pyszora Electrician: Pete Reriches DIT: Matt Cole Choreographer: Simon Donnellon Production Designe: Meryn Cobbin Stylist: Cora Delaney MUA: Abbie May Covid Supervisor: Rosie Owen LA DOP: Jackie Radinsky LA Producer: Katie Jewell Editor: Rich Woolway at Stitch VFX: Felix Silvestris and Maxi Galgenmaier Colourist: Richard Fearon at Black Kite Studios Runners: Sam Slade Edmonson and Ozzy Emery Visual researchers: Emily Macrander and Izzy Petherbridge

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johnmartinphoto · 3 years ago

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Recycle - Research

Photo By Harold Ross

This photo by Harold ross shows us a collection of tools that include a brush a pair of scissors and what looks to be a Kinfe on the right-hand side of the frame. The composition this photograph uses is the rule of odds as we only see three objects in the frame this gives a more dynamic and pleasing composition to the photo this type of composition is quite popular in still life and seen in many successful still life images. While this image doesn’t show a great range of colors it does show some great vibrant and saturated yellow tones in the Kinfe handle and brush hairs these colors and tones stand out and create a fantastic contrast with the grey tones seen in the other parts of this image. The textures we are shown in this photo are excellent and show tremendous detail and add to this image and make it much more interesting in addition to this they are lit very well with painting with light techniques that show lighting that wouldn’t have been possible in a single frame. the lighting in this image is second to none and shows us great attention to detail across the image as this was made using painting with light it allows are highlights and shadows that wouldn’t normally be possible in a single frame this allows for this dramatic lighting that is exceptionally eye-catching. The background Harold ross has chosen for this image is also great and complements the subjects in this image very well. I like this photograph because of the textures we see in the subject and the great lighting is seen across the frame which is only possible with painting with light techniques. Harold ross is a well-established fine art photographer from the USA, Who is known around the world for using these painting with light techniques.

Photo by MIKE KUKULSKI - Riveting Experience

This photo by Mike Kukulski shows us a collection of tools and fixings that looks to be a drill and some sort of clamp. The main subjects in this photo are the clamp and drill they create a nice “V” shape in the photo and are surrounded by other smaller objects that help fill in the space between the main subjects. This photo makes great use of leading lines moving your eye around the photo in an almost “V” Shape. The smaller objects surrounding the main subjects have a great reflective texture and stand out greatly compared to the drill and clamp. This photo doesn’t show us a great range of colors although the color we do see in the fixings surrounding the drill and clamps do create a great contrast with the rest of the image and almost create an outline of the main subjects. The textures we see throughout this photo are pronounced and eye-catching these textures add detail to the overall photograph and make it much more intreating and pleasing to look at. The lighting Mike has used to light this photo is lighting painting which allows him to create lighting not possible with traditional lighting methods in a single frame. This has worked well in this case as it has allowed Mike to create some great highlights and shadows not possible to capture in a single frame. The background we see in this photo matches with the subjects of this image very well and complements them well as the texture is consistent across them both. Mike Kukulski is a photographer who is known for his website “NotQuiteInFocus” where he shares his work and stories about photography. Mike’s photography journey started back in the 70s when he was in high school and got a Yashica electro 35 GSN rangefinder.

Photo by Philip Woolway – The situation

This photograph of a typewriter by Philip Woolway shows us a typewriter with a piece of paper saying the situation and a scrunched-up piece of paper off to the side. This photo makes good use of a centered composition but still manages to be interesting and has the frame covered with an object from left to right. The piece of paper coming out of the typewriter leaves a lot of mystery in this photograph as we can only see the heading of the page this creates tension and suspension in the image creating an atmospheric mystery with more to be known. The scrunched-up piece of paper also further adds to this and could make us wonder what the situation is about. This photo doesn’t show a large range of color although what it does show is a great tonal range within the colors, we do see in the photo these tones add to the overall photo and make it more interesting. This photo shows amazing texture particularly within the mechanical part of the typewriter and the scrunched-up piece of paper at the left-hand side of it. The color of the paper in the image looks a bit on the yellow side making it look would and worn this further adds to the old feeling of this image along with the typewriter it being used on creates an atmosphere of the past century. The table the typewriter is sitting on also looks to be rather old and further adds to the old rustic atmosphere of this image. The table and the black textured background work great as a backdrop for this scene and work great with the subject. I like this image because it shows us a type of writer in action almost and also shows the cavities of having to start again as suggested by the folded piece of paper off to the left I also really like the way this image has been lit with light painting techniques and the way the photographer has lit the mechanical part of the typewriter along with the table and piece of paper I the foreground. Philip Woolway is a still-life photographer who is always looking to be inspired by all types of photography and thrives on overcoming challenges still-life photography presents.

Photo by Velma Mercer - Velmerc – Still Life…late night contemplation.

This photograph by Velma Mercer shows us quite a lot in the scene with a couple of books one opened and another closed along with a candle and a cross leaning on the books. As the background in this image looks like a window on a cold night it creates an old and unsettling atmosphere across the photo although we can see there is separation from the background and subject in this photo as we can see the great depth of field between the subjects in the foreground and background. In addition to this, we do see a lot of colder tones across the image to add to this. Unlike many other still, life images I have looked at this image shows the most amount of color so far and this makes It stand out especially with the blue in the background. In the foreground, we see great tonal ranges across the books, cross, and candle with the candle jumping out to me as it contrasts from the background although due to the size of the window in the background this is muted out for the most part. The texture we see in the foreground looks nice and shows detail and sets apart the foreground and background of this image as the background is rather lacing in texture due to the depth of field. The lighting we see in this image was done with painting with light techniques which have allowed the photographer to show highlights in places not possible in a single frame it also looks like there could be some ambient lighting from the window in the background. Velma Mercer is a photographer who covers a wide range of subjects such as still life, landscape, and food just to name a few!

Photo By Harold Ross

This photograph by Harold Ross shows us a Globe, a dairy, and a pair of binoculars all sat on top of what looks to be a record player possibility. This photo shows us a good range of colors throughout the frame and while they aren’t saturated or vibrant, they stand out enough against the background and other elements of the image to draw our eye to the globe. The texture we see in this image is great and the different objects all have contrasting textures as the globe has a smooth plastic texture while the along with the binoculars and the more interesting and rough textures of the record player and dairy this creates a contrast between the subjects and makes them stand out against each other. The texture we see on the holder of the globe is also very nice. This photograph follows the rule of odds by having an odd number of objects in the shoot this is more pleasing to our eyes and creates a more interesting image. The collection of objects we see in this image all work together very well with the globe and binocular to a diary as well this is because they are objects, we would associate with each other compared to having random objects filling the frame. the lighting used to create this image is painting with light this allows the photographer to have great attention to detail when it comes to deciding what to have in shadows and highlights and allows for lighting conditions not possible within a single frame. this works well in this case as it creates a very dramatic image and has allowed Harold Ross to create his style using this painting with light technique. I like this photo because of the lighting we see and the combination of objects in the image and how they all link up to each other I also like how the background complements the objects seen in the foreground of the image.

#recycle

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