David Hockney Joiner

What is important when capturing movement with a camera for a joiner type of composition?

  • It’s important to follow your subject when you are capturing movement in a joiner composition, because otherwise it will look like a person who is just standing there, not moving.

How do joiners give the illusion of time and space?

  • Joiners give the illusion of space and time, because the photographer can bring out the picture to make it look like it’s going off the page (give it a different dimension) and they could make it look like you are in two places at once.

How is physically arranging the photographs like arranging the photographs in Photo Shop?

  • You both choose from a pile of pictures at you have taken, and then you can rearrange the pictures however you like, or you can discard the ones you feel like are unnecessary.

What are some pros and cons of Photo Shop joiners vs. physically printing and joining the images?

  • The pros of using Photo Shop is that it isn’t as expensive as paying for physical copies of the photos and you can save paper. The cons of using Photo Shop is that physically printing the photos is easier to arrange the pictures because you get to see “the bigger picture” as a whole compared to using a computer.

Do you prefer the very ‘organized and exact’ style or more ‘broken up’ style of joiner? Why?

  • I guess I prefer the more broken up style, because I like how you can see movement in the picture and it’s cool how you can see different perspectives in the image. I also like how abstract it looks.

30 Photos That Changed the World

1.) Earthrise; William Anders, 1968
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders snapped this shot of the Earth rising over the Moon’s horizon as he and Frank Borman orbited the Moon. The shot changed the way we think of our planet and its place in the cosmos

I really enjoyed this photo, because it makes us look at the world in a different way. It makes me feel smaller than I actually am. And sometimes we all need to realize that we aren’t as “big” as we think we are.Tetons and the Snake River; Ansel Adams, 1942

2.) Tetons and the Snake River; Ansel Adams, 1942                             Ansel Adams is a legend among photographers, and his 1942 “Tetons and the Snake River” is a prime example of the stark nature photography that he elevated to fine art. It was also one of the 115 pictures embedded on the golden record and sent on the Voyager spacecraft. The picture also fueled an environmental protection movement that lasts to this day.

I like to look at this picture, because every time I look at it I see something new. I love how you can see multiple landscapes throughout the photo. It makes me want to travel and walk across this beautiful earth that we live on. This image makes me realize how amazing our world can be.

3.) V-J Day in Times Square; Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1945
No image said more about the relief Americans felt at the end of World War II than this classic image of a sailor sweeping a nurse into his arms for a kiss when hearing the war had ended.

When I see this picture, it gives me hope. It makes me think that there is some good left in this world. Even after they went through this terrible and traumatizing time, they were able to find love. They were able to look past everything and just be happy with being in the moment that the war has come to an end.