Comtemporary Documentary photograph " Marine Wedding" Nina Berman

© Nina Berman , Jen Bekman Gallery - Solo ShowAugust 8, 2007 - September 8, 2007New York City

How powerful this image is. I will never eliminate this image from my head.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer who was published and exhibited works on the American political and social landscape. This photograph comes from her work “Marine Wedding” .She captures a seriously wounded Marine sergeant, who was severely injured while serving in Iraq and his bride on their wedding day. Her work is considered an iconic image from the Iraq war.

Photographer, Nina Berman's website is available at http://www.ninaberman.com/

The Group f64

I shot a pepper as sharp-focused as possible and carefully framed it like the f 64 photographers.

I like the ways that Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston transformed ordinary plants and flowers to fine art.I tried to imitate the way they did. I chose a pepper and used black background. I shot it at maximum depth of filed and simply framed the subject.Well, it is still a photograph of pepper, but not art yet.I realized the f64 photographers chose their subjects carefully ,playing with lighting and discovered perfect framing. The result is they made prominent images.

"Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah" Frans Lanting,

This beautiful exploration image is Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah. The photographer, Frans Lanting, took a series of photographs on assignment for National Geographic magazine’s issue of “In canyon country”, published March 2007. This image is fantastic,
Lanting shot a moment in which the reflection of the water is painted on the wall. The water is partly colored brilliant green and the reflection depicts a beehive pattern on the wall.

Lanting is one of the great nature photographers of our time. At the same time, I feel his photographs have some differences from other nature photographers because his approach is to document wildlife and our relationship with nature. His recent work “Life: a journey though the time” represents the evolution of life on the earth. He shows us an endangered ecological system through his beautiful photographs. He gives audiences a message on how human beings maintain our natural systems.

Frans Lanting “web-site is available at http://www.franslanting.com/

“Portrait of Julia Jackson” ca 1867

I chose Julia Margaret Cameron’s “portrait of Julia Jackson”, because it is a strong photograph and is not typical of old-fashioned photography. This turns over my idea of 19th century’s female portrait photographs. The social status and lifestyle of many 19th century female portraits are represented by the subject’s hairstyle, make-up, and dress. But in this photograph, Cameron framed Julia in the center of the photograph and cropped it to make a close up. I could not see her social status and lifestyle from this photograph. I feel this emphasizes her personality. Julia is Cameron’s niece and one of her favorite subjects. I believe Cameron tried to capture Julia’s personality in her photo.

I am surprised that portrait photography has not changed since the 19th century. Since then, photographers have tried to capture both people’s personality and beauty. I can see similar types of portraits today.

Hello

Welcome to my blog! I believe I can enjoy this blog because all about photography. I am sure photography is part of my life. I have been loved to capture the moment which I admire.

I started to study photography after traveling California. (In this time, I lived in Japan.) I enjoyed studying and taking photography. I worked a photographer since I moved United State.

After I moved,I started to enjoy landscape photograph. At first we lived in San Diego. I excited taking exotic desert landscape and beautiful beach. Then we moved East cast, there is a lot of green and fall is amazingly gorgeous. But I realized I did not know digital photography and how to mange digital images. So I decide to return to study photography again.