Story Photos

Jamel Shabazz

Jamel Shabazz is a photographer who has a self professed goal of "spreading the message of love and peace". He was born in Brooklyn NY and has been photographing what he entitles "urban culture" for 30 years.

His work Back In The Days chronicles the hip-hop culture at its birth in the New York region attempting to contrast the vast differences between modern day hip-hop and the culture of hip-hop before it became commercialized. Hip Hop in the 80s revolved around New York and there in he chose to primarily photograph its boroughs and those that represented the scene at that time.

I personally can relate and enjoy his work as hip-hop in this era was largely connected to fashion and what would become the sneaker culture. Thus, his work is highly representative of, not only the lifestyle, but also the apparel of those who represented this birth of hip-hop and its various facets. This is visible in the sneakers and clothing photographed above.

Jamel Shabazz also reflects on New York in a time period before my generation and therein holds another element of intrigue for a student like myself. Shabazz photographs areas of New York that hold completely different significance in my era than they did in his. It is vital to understand what these areas were when analyzing what they are now in my day and Shabazz facilitates this trip back in time. This is visible in the photography of the subway car featured above.

Abstract Photos Without Photoshopping

Shooting Assignment 2

This is all my favorite white stuff

Photo Analysis

Writing Assignment 2

This photo appears to be of cupcake like items decorated in bright colors to look like faces. This remind me of the restaurant cupcakes by Melissa in Soho and makes me hungry and nostalgic.

This photo is of a bear looking in on a swimming pool at a girl who is staring back at him. This photo reminds me of my time spent in Colorado in which i frequented the public swimming pool as well as saw alot of wildlife and thus this photo also makes me feel nostalgic for my youth which i am seeing may be a factor as to why i am drawn towards photos.

F stop and Shutter speed shooting assignmentshutterspeed

In this assignment you can see the difference between f stop and shutter speed as explained in the previous post.

f4.0 1/50
f4.0 1/40
f4.0 1/30
f5.0 1/20
f13.0 1/10
f10.0 1/5
f8.0 1/10
f5.0 1/10

f3.5 1/20

My day at the park :):D:DDo)

Today I tested the difference between shutter speed and appeture n terms of aesthetic, in this one had to compensate for the variable which is why exposure is harder to achieve (this is also exampled). Appeture controls ones depth of field where as Shutter Speed controls the blurred the motion in the photo is. 
f 18 at 1/30
f 7.1 at 1/60
f 10 at 1/50
f 9.0 at 1/40
f 29 at 1/20 (underexposed)
f 6.3 at 1/10 (overexposed)
f 20 at 1/10
f 18 1/10
f 16 at 1/10
f 13 at 1/15
f 8.0 at 1/30
f 5.6 at 1/50