2024年5月13日发(作者：oppo强制刷机怎么刷)

What is an image?

• A visual sign in which you can see not reality but a certain representation of

reality.

• In the narrowest sense, a picture is simply one of those familier objects that we

see hanging on walls, pasted into photo albums, or ornamenting the pages of

illustrated books.

• In a more extended sense however pictures arise in all other media In its most

extended sense, then, a picture refers to the entire situation in which an

image has made its appearance. An image in this sense is above all an object

(technical) as it represents a three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional

surface.

/AMBIGUITY

REMEMBER : the word image itself is ambiguous. It can denote both a physical

object (a painting or a picture) or a mental, imaginary entity, the visual content of

dreams, memories and perception.

/ROLAND BARTHES

• THE IMAGE IS A VISUAL SIGN WHICH REFERS TO ANOTHER

OBJECT BY REPRESENTING IT.

/MAGRITTE

/You should also concentrate on

• The focus : which aeras appear clearer or sharpest in the photograph? Which

do not?

• The light: what areas are highlighted. Are there any shadows. Can you guess

the time of the day. Is the light natural or artificial? Harsh or soft? Reflected or

direct?

• The lines: are there objects that act as lines? Are they straight, curvy, thin,

thick?

/Also focus on..

• Repetitions: are there any objects, shapes or lines which repeat and create a

pattern?

• Shape: do you see geometric or organic shapes? What are they?

• Space: is there depth to the photograph or does it seem shallow?What created

this appearance? Is depth created by spatial illusions

/

• The texture: if you could touch the surface of the photograph, how would it

feel?

• The angle : high-angle-shot -angle shot

• The background v. the foreground

• The balance: the distribution of visual elements in a photograph.

• The central focus : the object(s) or person(s) which/ who appear most

prominently and/or most clearly.

• / The contrast: strong visual difference between light and dark, varying

textures and sizes.

• The framing: le cadrage. What the photographer has placed within the

boundaries of a photograph.

• The vantage point : the place from which a photographer takes a photograph:

close-up shot, general shot, American shot…

/ VOCABULARY

linear perspective: the idea that converging lines meet at a single vanishing point

and all shapes get smaller in all directions with increasing distance from the eye.

medieval: the Middle Ages — a period in history between the last emperor of

Rome, 475 A.D., and the Renaissance, about 1450.