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Rodchenko found the natural setting of his country house to be unorganized and without subjects to photograph. However, when he looked up he saw the trees towering above him "like telephone poles" and took a raking shot from below to propose a dynamic alternative to traditional landscape views. In the late 1920s, Bayer began using photography in relation to his design work at the Bauhaus. In 1928 he traveled to Marseille and photographed boats docked in the harbor from overhead, exploiting the camera's ability to transform everyday reality into patterned abstractions. White balance is the adjustment of the colors in an image to compensate for the color of the light source, with a color temperature of around 5000
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- 7. Avant-garde photographers generally were not much interested in landscape, a genre associated with pastoral and sublime notions. Rodchenko characteristically found the natural setting of his country house accidental and unorganized: "A bush here, a tree there, a gully, nettles." There seemed nothing to make a photograph from, he wrote, until he looked up to see the trees towering above him "like telephone poles." His raking shot from below proposes vertigo instead of a sylvan calm, a dynamic alternative to the traditional horizons of the landscape view.
- 8. Director of the Bauhaus typography and advertising workshop, Herbert Bayer took up the camera about 1925, initially using photography in relation to his design work and later pursuing it for its own sake. In 1928, he traveled to Marseille, where he photographed the boats docked in the harbor from overhead, exploiting the camera's capacity to transform everyday reality into patterned abstractions.
- 10. White Balance
- 12. Note how 5000 K produces roughly neutral light, whereas 3000 K and 9000 K produce light spectrums which shift to contain more orange and blue wavelengths, respectively. As the color temperature rises, the color distribution becomes cooler. This may not seem intuitive, but results from the fact that shorter wavelengths contain light of higher energy.
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