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What Makes a Creative Photograph?
The document presents five approaches to creating creative photographs, focusing on the concepts of creating and breaking context, prosopopoeia, short exposure time, and long exposure time. It emphasizes using visual context, unexpected elements, and human-like imitations to engage viewers and evoke emotions through photography. Examples are given throughout to illustrate these techniques, culminating in a discussion on the impact of high-speed and long-exposure photography.
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What Makes a Creative Photograph?
- 1. What Makes a CreativePhotograph? Jia-Bin Huang jbhuang0604@gmail.com http://jbhuang0604.blogspot.com/ July , 2010 Taiwan 1 / 202
- 2. What this talkis about? Five approaches to make a creative photograph Hundreds of fantastic photographs as examples Only talk about ideas, no difficult technical stuffs 2 / 202
- 3. You don’t takea photograph, you make it. -Ansel Adams 3 / 202
- 4. Outline 1 Create Context 2 Break Context 3 Prosopopoeia 4 Short Exposure Time 5 Long Exposure Time 4 / 202
- 5. Outline 1 Create Context 2 Break Context 3 Prosopopoeia 4 Short Exposure Time 5 Long Exposure Time 5 / 202
- 6. Create Context What iscontext? Context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event. How can we create a visual context? Single object Composition of shape and texture Multiple objects Putting (different objects) in context Putting (human and objects) in context Putting (objects and environments) in context 6 / 202
- 7. Create Context Composition of shape and texture Putting (different objects) in context Putting (human and objects) in context Putting (objects and environments) in context Taking shape from one object and texture from another object to produce a new object. 7 / 202
- 8. Shape = scorpion,Texture = carrot 8 / 202
- 9. Shape = hourse,Texture = cloud 9 / 202
- 10. Shape = shoes,Texture = Bread 10 / 202
- 11. Shape = frog,Texture = fruits 11 / 202
- 12. Shape = lightbulb, Texture = fruit 12 / 202
- 13. Create Context Composition of shape and texture Putting (different objects) in context Putting (human and objects) in context Putting (objects and environments) in context Combining different objects to create an event. Usually transform one unrelated object into another via similar appearance/shape/texture. 13 / 202
- 14. Fork + Lines(transformed to noodles) = Pasta 14 / 202
- 15. Match + Grain(transformed to fire) = Match on fire 15 / 202
- 16. Flame + Lollipop(transformed to match) = Match on fire 16 / 202
- 17. Bulb + Match(transformed to light from bulb)= Light bulb turning on 17 / 202
- 18. Plant + Bulb(transformed to pot) = Pot plant 18 / 202
- 19. Create Context Composition of shape and texture Putting (different objects) in context Putting (human and objects) in context Putting (objects and environments) in context Putting human and objects in perspective creates an interesting image. 19 / 202
- 20. Interact with apicture 20 / 202
- 21. Interact with apicture 21 / 202
- 22. Interact with adrawing 22 / 202
- 23. Interact with aphotograph 23 / 202
- 24. Interact with apainting 24 / 202
- 25. Interact with thesun 25 / 202
- 26. Interact with thesun 26 / 202
- 27. Interact with thecarpet 27 / 202
- 28. Interact with architectures Youprobably use this trick often 28 / 202
- 29. Create Context Composition of shape and texture Putting (different objects) in context Putting (human and objects) in context Putting (objects and environments) in context Putting objects and environments in perspective creates a reasonable image. 29 / 202
- 30. Photograph in perspective 30 / 202
- 31. Postcard in perspective 31 / 202
- 32. CD cover inperspective 32 / 202
- 33. Monitor desktop inperspective 33 / 202
- 34. Souvenir in perspective 34 / 202
- 35. Souvenir in perspective 35 / 202
- 36. Souvenir in perspective 36 / 202
- 37. Framing 37 / 202
- 38. Framing 38 / 202
- 39. Framing (by hand) 39 / 202
- 40. Outline 1 Create Context 2 Break Context 3 Prosopopoeia 4 Short Exposure Time 5 Long Exposure Time 40 / 202
- 41. Break Context Where dothese visual contexts come from? Laws of physics and common sense How can we breack them? Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense 41 / 202
- 42. One example 42 / 202
- 43. Break Context Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense We expect that light path follows the principle of least time in optics (e.g., Snell’s law of refraction and the law of reflection.) 43 / 202
- 44. Wrong reflection 44 / 202
- 45. Wrong direct lighting 45 / 202
- 46. Wrong refraction 46 / 202
- 47. Break Context Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense Scale is the relative size of different objects or of an object to a common standard. Images that violate our commen sense on the scales of objects create dramatic effects. 47 / 202
- 48. Big heads 48 / 202
- 49. Huge fish 49 / 202
- 50. Small sharks 50 / 202
- 51. Tiny mushroom cloud(or huge hands) 51 / 202
- 52. Extremely high building 52 / 202
- 53. Large chair (thisis real) 53 / 202
- 54. Use perspective toenlarge a little girl 54 / 202
- 55. or diminish thesize of a man 55 / 202
- 56. Break Context Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense Geometry is a part of mathematics concerned with questions of size, shape, relative position of figures, and the properties of space. 56 / 202
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- 61. Impossible escalator 61 / 202
- 62. Impossible maze 62 / 202
- 63. Folding the city- Inception 63 / 202
- 64. Break Context Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense In everyday life, gravitation is most familiar as the agent that gives weight to objects with mass and causes them to fall to the ground when dropped. 64 / 202
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- 76. Break Context Lighting Scale Geometry Gravitation Position, functionality, and common sense Objects appear, behave or are used in an unexpected way. It contradicts our daily experiences about these objects.Therefore, it can catch our attention. 76 / 202
- 77. Dinosaur in thestreet Wrong position 77 / 202
- 78. Opposite position ofhuman and bear Wrong position 78 / 202
- 79. Boat in afield Wrong usage 79 / 202
- 80. Woman shaves thebeards Wrong usage 80 / 202
- 81. Use fork andknight to eat a pill Wrong usage 81 / 202
- 82. Use telephone linesas ropes Wrong usage 82 / 202
- 83. Use fingernail asa tin opener Wrong usage 83 / 202
- 84. Water pours outfrom a painting Contradict common sense 84 / 202
- 85. The human melt,not the popsicle Contradict common sense 85 / 202
- 86. The human shattered,not the vase Contradict common sense 86 / 202
- 87. The ants thatmove money Contradict common sense 87 / 202
- 88. Out of expectation 88 / 202
- 89. Outline 1 Create Context 2 Break Context 3 Prosopopoeia 4 Short Exposure Time 5 Long Exposure Time 89 / 202
- 90. Prosopopoeia Why we wantto imitate human? We human are interested in and sensitive to everything related to human. What aspects about human can we imitate? Form Emotion Behavior 90 / 202
- 91. Prosopopoeia Form Emotion Behavior Arranging objects to imitate the human form (e.g., eyes, noise, face, and body). 91 / 202
- 92. Imitate a mouth 92 / 202
- 93. Imitate a face 93 / 202
- 94. Imitate a happyface 94 / 202
- 95. Imitate hands 95 / 202
- 96. Imitate a humancranium 96 / 202
- 97. Imitate a face 97 / 202
- 98. Imitate a humanskeleton 98 / 202
- 99. Imitate a humansillihoute 99 / 202
- 100. Prosopopoeia Form Emotion Behavior Imitate the human emotions by expressions. 100 / 202
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- 131. Short Exposure Time Whydo we use high-speed photography? High-speed shots provide us with photographic glimpses of faster-than-sight phenomena invisible to the naked eye. Popular topics in high-speed photography? Water Smashing stuffs Deformation 131 / 202
- 132. Short Exposure Time Water Smashing stuffs Deformation Capture the moments of the splendidly water splashes. 132 / 202
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- 157. Outline 1 Create Context 2 Break Context 3 Prosopopoeia 4 Short Exposure Time 5 Long Exposure Time 157 / 202
- 158. Long Exposure Time Whendo we need long exposure time? People use long exposure time to Capture the trajectories of light sources Express motion Produce silky smooth effect on water/cloud 158 / 202
- 159. Long Exposure Time Capture the trajectories of light sources Express motion Produce silky smooth effect on water/cloud Time-lapse photography in dim light environments can record the trajectories of light sources (e.g., stars, fire, flashlight) 159 / 202
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- 171. Long Exposure Time Capture the trajectories of light sources Express motion Produce silky smooth effect on water/cloud Motion blur in part of the photograph can express the motion. 171 / 202
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- 201. Photo references Top 10 Most Awesome Approaches to Photography 60 VIsionary Examples of Creative Photography Part 1 60 VIsionary Examples of Creative Photography Part 2 Creative Photos Part 1 Creative Photos Part 2 56 Awe Inspiring Must See Creative Photographs Deviantart The source links of all photographs used as examples in this slide are listed in http://jbhuang0604.blogspot.com/ 201 / 202
- 202. Thank you foryour kind attention. Questions? For more complete materials and explanations, please visit my blog http://jbhuang0604.blogspot.com/ 202 / 202