Margaret Bourke - White

I have chosen to do my PowerPoint project on Margaret Bourke-White. She was a very brave woman and a pioneer for women. First known for her architecture and industrial photos. She then began photographing social movements. She photographed the Dust Bowl and was one the first female war corespondent World War II allowed in combat zones. Bourke-White's photographs are intriguing and she had a desire to show the "utter truth" through her pictures.


The photo to the left it is a self portrait taken in 1943 when she flew in American Bomber planes to photograph the US aerial attack on Tunis. In my opinion, this photo captures how brave and adventurous she truly was.




This is one of many that photographs that Bourke-White had taken of Gandhi. I like this photo because the natural light cascades down on Gandhi and the cropping of the picture draws your eye not only to Gandhi, but the spinning wheel.




This is a photo from Buchenwald, Germany, one of the concentration camps of World War II that Bourke-White captured. It is an important photograph because the whole world was able to truly see how horrific the concentration camps were.



This last photo represents one of Bourke-White's early photographs. It is a photograph of the Chrysler building and was taken in 1931. I find this photo interesting because it is at an odd angle and the vertical lines and the triangles add interest to the photograph. I also like that you can see the texture of the clouds.

Indoor Picture Without Flash

This is my photo taken indoors with no flash. It was dark outside so the overhead can lights were on. With one row of lights above my son and another row of lights above my daughter. Those casting shadows. The color hue is off because it has too much orange/red hues. Nicole's skin tone is naturally dark, but in this photo it appears orange.








This is the same picture after adjustments. I added more blue and then yellow color hues. I also adjusted the brightness of the picture. This is a good representation of what I saw when taking the picture because all three subjects' skin tone looks more natural in this adjusted picture.

My name in pictures

The images I choose to use to spell my name are as follows:
T - the arm of a rocking chair
R - the spout to a bar faucet
A - picture frame
C - a side of a basket
Y - a candle holder, which I turned upside down prior to taking the picture

I edited all of these photos and arranged them together using Photoshop. This was a fun assignment which encouraged me to look at objects in a different perspective than they were normally perceived.

Here are the individual photos prior to cropping and placing them together. Note that the bar faucet is also facing the wrong way for an r so it had to flipped in Photoshop.

Powerpoint Logo

I choose to do a logo such as this because one of my hobbies is scrapbooking and the majority of the photos I take are of my family. I choose the wording, moments in time, because each picture captures memories of people, places, and important life events.

Cropping

This is one of the photos that I did while learning how to control the aperture to create depth. I liked this photo, but even with several adjustments and many pictures later, I still could not get the hammock to get out of focus.









After cropping this photo, I was able to adjust the positioning of my daughter and eliminate the hammock. She is now off center and is still framed by the pine tree branches. Thus drawing the eye towards her even more.

Adjusting Photos with Photo Enhancing Software

This first picture is one that I took without flash at 6pm. It was a picture that represents how lighting from different times of the day changes the photo. I do not like this picture because I think that the poor lighting causes the picture to exhibit more "cooler" colors.








This is the same photo as above, but it has been enhanced in order to brighten up the photo. I also added some warm tones which seem to increase the balance of colors in the picture. You can now clearly tell that the sun was setting to the left of the picture. You can also see the various colors in the tree bark and on the large rock.