What Is photography?
In small groups we discussed what we thought the answers to these questions could be. Finding out and defining photography although sounding simple is a good way to understand the importance and function of photography as a subject, hobby or creative idea.
- Why do people take/make photographs?
- Why is photography important?
- What skills do you need to be a good photographer?
- How many different kinds of photography can you think of?
- How does photography help us see the world?
- Can photographic images be trusted?
- What are the similarities and differences between photography and other types of visual art?
- When would it not be ok to take a photograph?
- How do you know when you've made a good photograph?
- Are photographers also artists?
- Where is the best place to see photographs?
- What kind of photography interests you most?
- What confuses or frustrates you about photography?
William Klein and Wolfgang Tillmans
We focused on two photographers named William Klein and Wolfgang Tillmans to see their interpretations of what photography is. Below are two short videos that we saw in which each photographer explains his viewpoint and opinion of photography.
My
I felt like one of many answers to what is photography, is to capture a moment and one person who I knew done that well was sports photographers. I done a lot of research on different sports photographers and I came across Bob Martin who photographed the Olympics in 2012. He had a large amount of images and I picked the ones that I thought was a perfect capture of a moment like picture. I then had to decide on how I would present these images and this is where I have implemented contrast. There are different types of sports, esports which is sports electronic sports and sports which is the sports outside such as golf or tennis. I decided to bring these together by presenting these images within game cases, they are two different types on games and two different types of sports. But the contrast between physical activity separates them both. I think this image was successful because you can clearly see that the images have been placed im game cases, however if I was to do this again I would focus more on the editing to make it look smooth as the colours heavily clash.