My Photography Independent Study

My attempt at understanding the zone system

This semester I have decided to back up and really focusing hard on the technical side of my photography. As a landscape photographer (with a preference for B&W film and major interest in Night/Low Light Photography) I am finding that in order to gain this knowledge, I needed to take the time and learn that in which I am not learning via my standard instructions at LBCC and teach myself.

My Goals: 

• Learn the Zone System and Hyperfocal Distance
• Looooong Exposure
• Study the Romantic Period and Minimalism
• Study the Olde Master 
• Ansel Adam
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Carleton E. Watkins
• William Henry Jackson
• Dorothea Lange

• Study the Contemporaries
• Michael Kenna
• Lance Keimig
• Gregory Crewdson 
• Tom Paiva ( his Blog..... Wow!) 
• Jill Waterman

Tools

• "Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West" by Eva Weber (read)
• "The Land Through A Lens" Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (read)
• "Night Photography" by Lance Keimig (read)
• "Night and Low Light Photography" by Jill Waterman (read)
• Many hours of Podcast (faves Photography.ca and Harvard Extension School's Computer Science)
• Many hours of viewing actual and digital images (museums and on-line)
• Images captured via 35mm & 120 Holga
• ND Filters

Starting Monday (Feb 7) I will begin to process more film and see if the studies have progressed my work.

• I learned that "The Print" is EVERYTHING 
• You are only as good as your series.

THANK YOU! - DAY (-1)

DAY (-1)

I would like to Thank those of you who attended last night, 

making the opening to the gallery a huge success. I would 

like to acknowledge Neil and Phantom Gallery L.A./L.B. 

for giving me this amazing opportunity. Especially "Thank You!" to

Denise, Anders, Scott, Sister Mena, Latoya, and  Jade for all 

the prep work, keeping me sane, making me laugh, thus allowing 

me to concentrate on my work and getting me to the opening 

w/o stress. Its been an interesting journey and I owe a lot of the 

success to you all, we are a "Great Team!" Finally, thanks to those
that supported me from afar and those unable to make it out.

PHOTOS FROM THE EVENT COMING SOON!

"The Night Before" - Day 1 (image only)

 

 

0 days until the show

"NOT ALONE"

Presented by Phantom Gallery Los Angeles/ Long Beach

An exploration of solitude while in natural, urban, and/or open landscapes. by Darnell Bates

January 8 through February 6, 2011
Artist Reception: (Saturday) January 8, 2011 6 – 10pm
 346 E. 3^rd Street, Long Beach, California