Shutter Speed Assignment 2

Fast Shutter Speed

ISO(25,600)Focal Length(18)Shutter Speed(1/4000)Aperture(3.6)

Slow Shutter Speed 

ISO(3200)Focal Length(18)Shutters speed(1/3)Aperture(3.6)


Reading Assignment #1

1. 1. What is the author’s thesis?
   Barret believes that above all description is the most important step in analyzing a photograph, or a text describing a photo, or anything about a photo. He describes analysis of a photo and terminology through a strong belief that description is essential to understanding and making a judgement. And that the judgment of a critique will be that much stronger if the piece they’re critiquing has been described accurately.
   2. What examples does he use to support the thesis?
   He uses other photographers articles, learning techniques and his own opinion as well as looking at other critics pieces and photographers opinions on photographs and how there interpreted.
   3. In your own words, how does Barrett define:
   1. Description - is defined as truth, fact and the knowledge given before you. What you see, What you’re given and what you know, no judgments or opinions are involved. The raw factual knowledge and truth given or seen or known by the viewer.
   2. Subject and Subject Matter - subject is the meaning or interpretation or belief behind what an individual or critique sees in a photo. Whereas a Subject is the physical thing, person, place, or thing that is actually seen in the photo.
   3. Form - Form is the way a photographer would use formal elements of design choice. How a photo is actually thought out and certain choices the artist makes when developing an art.
   4. Medium - Medium is the physicality of the photo itself, not just from the type of equipment but also the atmosphere in which it was filmed.
   5. Style - Style a unique way an artist perceives their art, time periods and locations playing an aspect that could characterize an artist.
   4. In your own words, summarize what Barrett means when he refers to:
   1. Comparing and Contrasting - Comparing and Contrasting a work of art is an analysis of looking closely at one photographer and comparing it with another to see similarities or differences and creating a new prospective.
   2. Internal and External Sources of Information - Using external and Internal Sources of Information help create a more found understanding of a piece of information. Or adds another layer to help an idea that the author may have be communicated better to another individual.
   5. In your own words, summarize Barrett’s position on the relationship between:
   1. Description and Interpretation - it’s impossible to interpret individual elements of a work without interpreting the whole work as a whole, so you cannot describe a detail without acknowledging the detail in the work as a whole.
   2. Description and Evaluation - Describing something is factual only, to describe a work with an evaluation, an opinion can change the description. They cannot go together, to describe something is to describe then evaluate why you decided to describe it.
   6. Write a concluding paragraph that includes:
   1. Description plays an essential role in understanding and interpreting works of photography. Being able to describe and understand not only what you see but also what other individuals see is a skill to learn and master through reading of others knowledge. Through your descriptions of what’s there and what is just an opinion, and is your opinion yours or has it been influenced by others work.
   2. I learned that to read an article like this is vital to my understanding of photography, and my knowledge of future works. And i learned that subject and subject matter are crucially different and that there’s a logic to learning the difference and accepting what’s my thoughts compared to others.
   3. The other concludes by saying that all these points he’s made are very important but he believes the most important again. Is to know how to describe a work of art. Using all these tools can create a whole idea and knowledge behind a work of art that another individual made.
   4. I really loved this reading, it took me a second to understand it but the reading questions actually really helped me understand this better and I ended up really liking it. Reading texts like this is often hard for me. Especially because he loves to reference so many things at once but, I really loved reading this and look forward to the next chapter.