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Basically, my process of recreating one of Jerry Uelsmann's photos didn't go as I had originally planned. Rather than recreating one of the many images he has created, I decided to reflect upon his entire style so that I could experience the true Uelsmann style for myself. Overall, my creation is composed of a total of six photos that I took during the spring break shooting session. The mother duck and her reflection, the lake with the trees on both sides, the sky and the sun, the bird feeder, the duckling, and the reflected bark are all separate images placed ontop of one another using difference foregrounds and backgrounds. Each individual photo was desaturated before being placed onto the canvas for the final rendition. The levels, along with the brightness/contrast of each photo was slightly altered in order to bring out Uelsmann's great talents using black and white. After the images were compiled onto the final canvas, the levels, brightness/contrast were all slightly altered once more in order to get the detailed lighting effects just right. It was difficult to come up with an original idea for my rendition on my own, but there was inspiration from many of Uelsmann's photos. I attempted to express every aspect of his unique style into this single image.

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Early Info (school, early work, etc.): Jerry attended high school at Cooley High School in the inner city of Detroit. He did not earn good grades and decided to pick up photography as just a hobby at first. While in high school, he worked part time assisting a photographer at a studio; Jerry was shooting weddings in high school. After high school, he joined a two-year program at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) in order to be a portrait photographer. Eventually, RIT expanded to a four-year institution with both photographic science and illustration programs. After leaving RIT, Jerry went on to Indiana University. There, he began working on obtaining his Master of Fine Arts degree in the art department. After obtaining his Master's (1960), he began teaching photography at the Universtity of Florida.

-His first major solo exhibition was held at the art museum in Jacksonville, Florida (1963).

-became associate professor at University of Florida (1966) and elected to the board of directors of the Society for Photographic Education

-awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for "Experiments in Multiple Printing Techniques in Photography" (1967)

-made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in the U.K. (1973)

-became graduate research professor at University of Florida (1974)

Inspiration: From an early age, he wanted to recreate other photographer's images because he thought he could do better than the original. He imagnes what he wants the image to appear as, then, rather than planning out his entire process, Jerry experiments in the darkroom.

-believes photography is both camera and computer oriented

-wishes more photographers used darkrooms instead of computers

“Photographs,” Uelsmann argued, “could do more than merely describe literal objects and scenes; they could evoke elusive states of feeling and thinking triggered by irrational and imaginative juxtapositions of disparate images”.

Uelsmann set about to convince critics that “photography offered alternatives to the conventional ‘purist’ sensibility that had driven the medium since the time of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand”.

Influences: His major influence was his University Lecturer, Minor White. White encouraged Jerry to trust in his intuitive self. White taught Jerry to play with his ideas and use the style, "I wonder what would happen if...".

-Earlier in his life, he was influenced by Harry Callahan, Frederic Sommer, Wynn Bullock and Edward Western. They gave him visions to explore.

-Ralph Hattersley

Images Chosen:

Image #1

I selected this image because black and white images appeal to me more than any other kind of image. I know that the image is surreal, but the way Jerry has composed it keeps leading me to believe that it could be real, which makes his images surreal. The image also has a holy feel to it. I feel as if I would see either this image or one similar to it in Church or even sunday school/ CCD.

Recreation:

Water

-take pictures of Sylvan Lake or another still body of water

-photoshop out everything but the water

-find tutorial to create glowing trail following the man in the water

Sky

-either find tutorial to render clouds and glowing effect in sky OR take my own pictures of sky during an overcast early afternoon (most likely 1 or 2 PM)

Man

-use a model

-he won't be standing in the water

*if the photoshopped experiment of placing him in the water doesn't appeal to me, i'll take a picture of my model standing in the lake

*the wings will also, obviously, be photoshopped on after attempting to take a picture of some type of large bird (turkey buzzard, hawk, etc.)

Birds

-go to Delaware River at Burlington City waterfront or Florence waterfront and take multiple pictures of seagulls

-3 of the best ones will be photoshopped in the final image

Image #2

Recreation:

Hill

-go to the dam at Sylvan Lake and take a picture of the dam/hill from the bottom, wooded area

Tree

-go to Green Acres or another heavily-wooded area where there will still be smaller, leafless trees

Flower

-find a sunflower or another large, similar-looking flower

Style: Jerry Uelsmann takes photographs of all differenct types of images, whether they be buildings, people, or natural objects, such as trees or flowers. He then comes up with surreal ideas in his mind, which he beings to life in the darkroom. In the darkroom, he combines his chosen images using different foregrounds and backgrounds. His final product usually contains things that one wouldn't normally see combined.

For example, one of Jerry's images includes a boulder on a hill. This boulder is accompanied with a handful of smaller boulders trailing down the side of the hill. In the middle of the largest boulder, there is a doorway. In the doorway resides a door and a set of stairs leading upward.

**The way he composes his images into a surrealistic vision of art is his most iconic and impressive expression of his style.**

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Aperture: (using Aperture Priority mode) The aperture is simply the diameter of the lens of the camera being used. The selected aperture determines how much light will pass through the lens and make contact with the film; the retina controls this. On many cameras used specifically for photography rather than point-and-shoot cameras, the aperture is determined through f-stops. These f-stops are numbers (ie. 2.8) that express the diameter (aperture) of the lens. The smaller this number is, the larger the opening of the lens.

Apertures can be shown in many ways. For instance:

Maximum Aperture

Ie. F2.8

Aperture Range

Ie. F2.8 – F8

The aperture range shows the minimum aperture as well as the maximum, while also assuming there are standard increments (f-stops) between them. Between the maximum and minimum aperture are 5 f-stops.

(ie. If the maximum were F1.8 and the minimum were F16, the in-between increments would be as follows: F2.8, F4, F5.6, F8, and F11).

**If your aperture is currently set at F5.6, closing it by 1f-stop would put the aperture at f8, and opening it by 1f would put the aperture at f4.**

**A “good” aperture range is usually between F1.8 and F16**

(http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_aperture.html)

Shutter Speed: (using Shutter Speed Priority mode) The shutter speed is literally the amount of time the shutter itself is open. In digital photography, it is the length of time that the image sensor on the camera “sees” the scene the photographer is attempting to capture.

It is measure, mostly, in fractions of seconds, sometimes in plain seconds. The larger the denominator, the bottom number on the fraction [ie. 1/30 (30 is the denominator)], the faster the shutter speed is. (ie. 1/1000 is much faster than 1/30).

Usually the shutter speeds double in speed, making it easier for the photographer to determine which to use (ie. 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500).

**Increasing shutter speed by one f-stop and decreasing aperture by one f-stop should give the photographer similar exposure (amount of light taken in) levels.

In most cases, a digital photographer will usually be using shutter speeds of 1/60 or greater.

(http://www.digital-photography-school.com/shutter-speed)



This photo appeals to me because the macro setting has been applied, bringing out a higher quality in the railroad track itself. The glass ball, or “the thing”, also brings an interesting touch to the picture; not only does it reflect the scene, but it seems to show the rest of the picture (leaves, ground, trees, sky) in a higher quality.

I located this photo on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/axel_diederich/5401144238/).

I would like to recreate this effect because not only do I enjoy experimenting with the macro setting, I also would like to know how this “thing” was formed and how the rest of the scene was incorporated into “the thing” itself.

This photo appeals to me because its definitely abnormal and out of the ordinary. It looks like an infected person from a horror movie (ie. 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later). I located this photo at Flickr

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/elementoneutro/5398803032/in/photostream/).

I would like to recreate this effect because it is very intriguing and it catches my eye beyond belief (no pun intended).

This photo appeals to me because the color purple usually isn’t a color that appeals to me, but for some reason the different shades of purple in this photo do. The scene in the reflection of the sunglasses also seems very realistic because the subject’s nose can also be seen in the reflection. I located this picture at Flickr

I would like to recreate this effect because the different effects one can do with reflections in sunglasses, mirrors (cars especially), and glass are really cool to look at, and some of them even look pretty realistic.