This is my noir themed photo safari for the week! I took 5 individual photos but the themes I found were: Angled camera, NoirCat, one-sided lighting, drama or moodiness, and grittiness of a built environment. 1) Angled camera   2) Moodiness   3) Lighting on one side 4) NoirCat 5) Grittiness   In this assignment … Continue reading Noir Photo Safari!

This week was all about visual elements to capture meaning and tell stories. I gained a great amount of knowledge of how to improve my skills with taking photography as well as a little bit more about visual elements in noir. Coming into this week I knew a little bit about taking photo from past […]

For this assignment, we were asked to create at warning sign for something of our choosing.  I decided to do…

For today’s daily create we had to draw a picture without picking the pencil up. I loved doing this because…

Urban Nightscape off kilter/unusual camera angle moodines noircat one side light

  When I saw this software in the visual assignment post, I thought it’d be a really cool way to…

I watched the Killer’s Kiss and The Hitch-Hiker, as both pieces demonstrate popular techniques in cinematography to achieve the noir genre.     Killer’s Kiss This is the “Venetian blind” effect. I have noticed this in other movies I have watched before but never put much thought into it. I learned only earlier this week that the popular shadows […]

One of the films that I chose to watch is that of the Killers Kiss. Below are two screen shots that I think represent what noir. Both of these screen shots absolutely scream noir to me. In the first screen shot, we see the very distinct shadows on the characters face with represent a kind […]

To me I have always been interested in photography but I never really taken the initiative to learn more about photography until I got a GoPro; probably because I did not want to spend money on a good camera. I first got interested in photography when I took a photography class in high school. This […]