photographer research

                                Elliot Porter

     Facts

1. What is the photographers real name and year he or she was born?Is he/she still alive?  The photographers real name is Eliot Furness Porter. He was born in Dec 6, 1901 and died Nov 2,1990.
2. What is their style of photography?  His  style of photography is american and landscape photography.
3. Are there any special photography techniques this photographer uses in his/her work? He uses black and white in his pictures but then he took up over the color
4. Who does/did the photographer work for? He worked for Alfred Stieglitz
5. What type of cameras and lens does this photographer worked with, and why ? he used a large format camera because Ansel Adams encouraged him. But he started with a Kodak box camera for the colors it gave to photos.
6. What type of lighting does this photographer primarily use and why? Eliot Porter uses artificially brightened light and strobe lights he wanted more color effect.

Thoughts 

1. What do you like (or not like) about their work, and why did you select this photographer?   I selected this photographer because his pictures have a good lighting and they have like a dull color it's dark but have some type of lightning. Eliot porter's work is all about nature but mostly bird pictures.
2. What about the photographer’s work made you chose them to research?  Is it mysterious? Is the lighting incredible? Is the editing really interesting?  Did the photographer capture the subjects in a unique way? Ask yourself why you chose this artist and answer the question.  Eliot’s work is about nature , it made me chose this researchers because i like how nature is and how the pictures come out. Eliot captured good quality pictures that made them unique also when he edited them. His editing is incredible because he keeps focus in the whole picture he adds more light to the main focus.