Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Robert Doisneau Bio

Robert Doisneau is best known for his street photography, his most famous example being 'Kiss in front of the Palace of City Hall' (1950). But he took thousands of photographs striving to capture the pulse of Parisian life. Like his contemporary Brassaï, Doisneau liked nothing better than to walk the streets never knowing what sights he was to encounter.
Doisneau's work has been enormously influential on many photographers and film directors. His talent lay in his ability to capture a moment of poignancy, absurdity or just plain strangeness. Whether it was a sailor staring up at his pinups, 'Pinups' (1952), a dog with wheels replacing his hind legs, 'Dog on Wheels' (1977) or a portrait of Pablo Picasso with loaves of bread for hands, 'Picasso and the loaves' (1952), Doisneau's work contained a distinctive sense of humour as well as a deep empathy for his subjects.
Robert Doisneau was born in 1912 in Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne near Paris. He studied engraving and lithography and went to work at lettering and advertising photographs in 1930. He began working for André Vigneau in 1931 as his cameraman, and then joined the Renault factory in Billancourt in 1934 working as an industrial and advertising photographer.
Doisneau was fired in 1939 for being consistently late and joined the Rapho Photo Agency taking some of his first professional street photographs. With the outbreak of the Second World War, however, he was called upon to serve in the French Army for a year before working for the résistance until 1945.
At the end of the war he joined the Alliance Photo Press Agency but returned to Rapho a year later. In 1949 he joined Vogue as fashion photographer where he remained for three years before going freelance. Robert Doisneau died in 1994.
"I've never examined why I make photos. In truth it's a hopeless struggle against the idea that one will die. It's something I'm more prepared for, because one shouldn't think that every action is temporary and momentary. I try obstinately to stop this time that is passing." Robert Doisneau.

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Turning Microsoft word into the blog

(1).hit the "Office button" (2). go down to publish (3). hit "Blog" .(4).select "Publish (5). select blog service (6). input username and password (7). select picture options

Rule of thirds (ouch)


Above= Uncorrected
above= Corrected (using protocols, levels, dodge and burn)

Monday, April 4, 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011

Protocols
1) Levels
2) Colour Balance
3) Contrast/Brightness
4) Copping
5) Comparison Background
6) Adjust - Sharpen
7) Dodge/Burn
8) Quick Mask - Blur
9) Camera Options JPEG - Compression Format RAW - Uncompressed- Unaltered
Save to Blog From Photoshop
1) Flatten Layers
2) Reduce Size to 72 dpi
3) Save As JPEG/RGP

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Original Edited


Monday, February 14, 2011


Portrait of friend

Wednesday, February 2, 2011






The Photographer I am interested in is Philip Jones Griffiths. Philip is a war photojournalist, Griffiths was no stranger to the warzone and had spend nearly 50 years taking photos. Throughout his 50-year career, Griffiths travelled to more than 120 countries around the world but frequently visited war zones in Vietnam and Africa to study the effects of conflict. His coverage of the Vietnam war – as well as its after-effects – has been described as “unprecedented”. His work was published in 1971 under the title, Vietnam Inc.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

New Strand of Photos