Monday 16 January 2017

Quotes About Photography

Form 10
Comment on the quote you like most.

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls!

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.
Joan Miró

Sunday 15 January 2017

Comparing and Contrasting Two Photographs

Form 10
Learn how to compare and contrast two different pictures that are related to the same topic:

1. Start by giving a brief description of the pictures
The two photographs show people doing sport/were taken in a restaurant.
The people in these pictures are studying in different situations.

2. Make factual statements about the photos, including the most obvious similarities and differences.
In the first photograph/In photograph A there is/there are…
The second picture shows…
These photographs are very similar because they both show people reading but in very different situations. In the first picture there are two women reading on a crowded train, but the man in the second picture is reading on a deserted beach.

3. Use contrast linking words and phrases
On the one hand in this photo… on the other hand in the second photo…
Photo 1 shows a lion in a cage whereas photo 2 shows a group of lions in the jungle.
The woman in picture A is enjoying herself but the woman in picture B looks very unhappy.

4. Use comparatives and superlatives, if possible
The room in the first photo is bigger and more spacious.
The people that are sitting on the bench are the most overweight.

5. Make comments which involve opinion and speculation
In my opinion, the lion in the photo 1 looks a bit depressed.
The lion in this photo is probably in a zoo or in a circus.
It looks like a London underground, but I’m not sure.
The man could be somewhere like Jamaica.