Biography

Cris has a passion for photography and takes pride in studying the various creative poses that he will present the subject he is photographing to engage the audience in his work. He also retouches photos with ever so much care. He believes a photograph is not just a photograph, but a still image of time that only comes once, so being there to catch that photo in time is his job.

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Assignment 2 - Self Portraits

9/21/11 0 comments












Hello blog, quite simply I enjoy to the fullest playing handball, it is not an official sport but is the sport that I grew up playing with in my community. I went to the this school and grew up playing handball during recess. I'm a very funny guy and have a strong attachment to my community and to the people around my neighborhood. It always make me really happy to play handball, it takes stress out of me and takes my mind of what ever is going on when I'm playing a handball match, even when I pass through a park and see people playing handball I get very happy and feel like playing aswell.


Writting Assignment #1

9/15/11 0 comments



In order to find and try to decipher the silence, people make art from one another to portrait emotions, feelings, moods etc that can't be portrait with something that's not alive. Trying to talk about humans in a photo is more interesting in my opinion than talking about a landscape. You could see the expressions and their unique human characteristics giving you more hints as to how old he or she might been what they might do, they class, etc. In comparison to a landscape its a little less descriptive and narrower to the imagination, how ever in my opinion if a photograph of a person is well composed as in also portraying its setting and environment, then is a story.

An artist main intention is to try to get his thought across to his audience, to show what is going on, to portray it in a single frame. For this reason portrait artist might talk about what is happening with their subjects, or how the subject can relate to his main idea as an important part of it.

Photographic portraits are different than other mediums because now they can show more detail specially during this times in which technology it's so advance that the cameras that are made have very high megapixels which are perfect for portraits. One can even see a single hair strand in a picture which is something very awesome. On the other hand if using paint as a medium one will not be able to notice as much details as possible in comparison to digital photography. Also when using film or black and white pictures it gives the image a different feeling and sort of puts more focus into the subjects that the artist is trying to present.



Assignment #1 - Aperture and Shutter Speed

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APERTURE

f4.0 - 1/160

f5.6 - 1/100

f8.0 - 1/50

f11 - 1/30

f16 - 1/40

f22 - 1/25



SHUTTER SPEED

1/8 - f20

1/15 - f14

1/30 - f9.0

1/60 - f6.3

1/125-f5.0

1/250 - f4.5


Assignment #1

9/7/11 0 comments


PART 1

Jill Greenberg

Steven McCurry

Dorothea Lange

I really like a strong focus on the main subject when taking portraits, this group of pictures caught my attention because there is barely any noticeable background that can help our idea of why the main subject is posing or feeling in such a way, thus leaving us sensible in a broad way of what their emotion/pose might be a result of

PART 2


Cristhian Atahualpa
Portrait & Studio Photography
Assignment #1