Period 7 -- Critical Analysis #10

12/7/2018

Today you will be writing about this photograph by artist Jerry Uelsmann. This photograph is a composite, or an image made up of several combined photographs.

Your analysis must be 5 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded.

If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish it for homework by midnight.

Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--

Describe specifics.
Describe form.
Describe the content.
Evaluate the image

Your analyses will be graded on:

meeting minimum length requirements
depth of organization
evaluation of the content
grammar/punctuation

Some things to consider:

This photograph is a composite—i.e., it is made up of more than one image.

How is Uelsmann (the photographer) using compositing to influence the overall mood and feeling of the image?
How do you think this image was created?

Campbell Streak-Jensen

12/7/2018 01:10:32 pm

The image is of a house on top of roots. The house looks broken down and the roots are melding together with the house. There are only black and white colors in the photo. The photo looks like it is made up of two different photos. The houses windows are broken.

There are houses in the background. There is no open sky. The sky is full of clouds. The bottom of the house looks layered. The lighting is very dark.

It is not pleasing to look at for me. The reason is because of a lack of color. There is a deep field of view. The focal point is the house and the roots. The reason is because that is what the photographer wanted to focus on.

The idea of the image is that the home is creating roots. This could mean that ‘home’ is only one place. This could also mean that the house has been abandoned there for so long that it has grown roots. The photo is noteworthy. The reason is because it looks very confusing.

I do not like the photograph. The photograph does not have a lot of color which does not do well with me. The photographs that have a lot of color, look better. I think the photographer was successful. He was successful in making two photographs come together.

Paolo Hernandez

12/7/2018 01:11:03 pm

This image is about a broken down house with tree trunks in it. This image is very old looking. This image is white and black. It is very dark. There is no light.

It is interesting to look at. The focal point is the house. The lines direct your eyes to the house. The image is perfectly centered. There is nothing that is cut out of the image. Nothing important is cut off.

The theme is the old house. There is a story being told. There is an old theme in this picture. This image reminds me of an old movie. This image is very unique because not many images are black and white.

I don’t like this image because I just don’t like black and white images. I prefer images with color. They are more vivid and more creative. This photograph is unsuccessful for me because there is just no energy in this image. There is nothing happening in this image.

This image contains an old house, which is probably in the 1900s. It is definitely not a modern house. You can tell because of the branches and the house. The house has broken windows. The branches have leaves coming out of them. This is an interesting picture, but I feel like it could be better and more vivid with more colors.

David Scott

12/7/2018 01:11:56 pm

This is an image of a house that seems to be growing roots. It seems like a dark and dreadful photo based on the colors. The house seems to be surrounded by dark shadows. There are also other houses in the back. The house is giving off a haunted type vibe.

This picture is extremely pleasing to look at. I love how the branches tangle up the frame of the house. The rule of thirds is not being used here. The house which is clearly the subject is right in the middle of the frame.

A shallow depth of field is being used in the image. Most things are in focus. The focal point of this image is clearly the house. It almost seems like the branches lead your eyes towards the body of the house. The image is balanced.

There is some empty space in the image but not much. The frame cuts off a house in the background but it doesn't seem to important to the over all image. The themes in this image are clearly dark and spooky. It gives off a Halloween vibe. I don't know if there is a story being told here, it could just be cool imagery

I do like this image. It makes me feel a sense of uneasiness. I absolutely thing Jerry Uelsmann Is successful. He does such a good job in this image. It is so revolutionary in the way that it using compositing without modern day programs. It must have taken a very skilled person to create this image and I think the end result is worth it.

Sarah Guerra

12/7/2018 01:12:42 pm

The image is of a house that is built on top of a tree. The main colors used are black and white. The lighting I believe has a few shadows. The objects in the photo are the clouds, a house, and roots of a tree. The house seems to be old .

I believe the image is pleasing to look at overall. The composition functions well. The rule of thirds is being used by placing the house in the center. The point of view is from someone looking straight at the house. The depth of field being used as somewhat deep depth of field.

The focal point is the house.the tree roots direct you to the house. The image is symmetrical. The subject does not fill the frame completely. The frame cuts off some of the roots. The negative space I believe is where the clouds are.

There seems to be a story being told but I don’t know what it is. I believe the artist’s intentions was to use this photo to represent feeling. The image reminds me of an abandoned house that could be in a movie. It also reminds me of a dream like situation. I believe the image is noteworthy.

I personally like the photo. This is because it makes me wonder what is happening in the photo. The photo also is very sad. I believe the photo is successful. That is because the photo gets people to think and understand what the artist was feeling when making this photo . Overall the photo splendid.

Hannah Barrow

12/7/2018 01:13:32 pm

This image was made by Jerry Uelsmann. He composited the image by cutting the images and blending them in a dark room. He didn't composite them digitally. This image is of a half-tree-half-house. The top half of the house is connected to the trunk and roots of the tree.

The image is in black and white. The lighting looks like it is daytime. There are other houses in the background and the and there are a bunch of dead leaves around the tree roots. There are no people. Nothing is happening in the image.

The rule of thirds is not being used. The point of view is eye level to a person. The image is facing straight to the front of the house. The depth of field is shallow. Even the house-tree that is the subject of the image is blurry. The image is not being frames by anything.

Lines that direct my eye are in the root. The bring my eye up to the house. The image is balanced. The house is level on the ground. The house-tree doesn’t fill the image. There is a hill and other houses in the background. Some of the roots are cut out of the image.

I don’t know why the artist made the image. The image kind of reminds me of blending more modern things into nature. This image is very interesting and beautiful. I like the image a lot. I would love to like in a house that looks like that. Jerry Uelsmann was successful, especially because he had to composite the image manually.

Andrea G

12/7/2018 01:14:45 pm

Critical Analysis

This is an image of a house with its roots going into the ground. The picture is in black and white, which gives it an eerie feel. The windows of the house are broken, and the whole structure seems to be deteriorating. The high contrast on this picture makes the lights bright and the darks black. The whole image has a dramatic energy.
In my opinion, this image is not pleasing to look at. The roots coming from the house have made a mess into the ground. The rule of thirds is not being used as the house is the center of the photo. The depth of field being used is deep and everything is in focus. The house, or the subject of the image, is framed by the sky and hills around it.
I believe that the theme in this image is how our homes seem to root themselves in us. The place where we were born, grew up in, and have our earliest memories in will always have a special place in us. However, as we grow up, these special places get old and forgotten. We seize to remember how good our past was, and instead everything ends up left behind. The colors reflect the ideas in the picture.
The artist made this photograph to warn us about letting go of where we came from. The second we forget these places, they become gray and bleak. We must never forget where we came from. These are the things that can help us remember our past, and everything that has helped make us who we are. That is why the artist went through the trouble of making this image.
In the end, I liked this image. It brought me back to a simpler time. A time that I can look back on with a smile. It helped me focus on how I will preserve my old memorie, and do my best not to forget them. We all need to hold onto these memories, as we are who we are on account of them.

Hannah Growney

12/7/2018 01:18:46 pm

This is an image of a tree morphing into a house. It is an old photograph, so it is in black and white. It is cloudy outside. In this image it is kind of dark. There is a tree and a house. In this the tree seems to grow up and create a house.

I don’t think that this is pleasing to look at. The rule of thirds isn’t being used because the tree/house is in the middle of the frame. This was taken from straight on. This is using a deep depth of field. I can see the other houses and land behind it. The image is balanced because the house as symmetrical.

The subject does fill the frame. The house take up the majority of the frame. At the edge of the image there is empty space and sky. The only thing the image cuts off is the hill in the background of the image. The positive space is the house and tree. The negative space is the land in the background, and the sky.

This is showing a tree grow into a house. This reminds me of a tv show i watched when i was little. It was called the berenstain bears. In that show all the bears lived in a tree. This image made me feel happy because i liked that show.

This image was hand composited. I think this is cool. I like how the artist took the time and effort to make this. It must have been quite difficult so do this without photoshop. I think this image is kind of bad, but the fact that it was done by hand makes it ok.

Reagan

12/7/2018 01:21:02 pm

The image is in black and white. It has two different photos in it. One half of the photo has a hold house on it. The other half has a tree trunk. Their is also a ground with tree leaves and dirt.

You can’t tell what kind of lighting there is, because of the black and white filter. They clouds are swallowing the sky with their murky filter. In the distant background you see little houses. They cluster in a small area and then disperse. You can’t see the true color of the house, though.

This photo has a wide aperture. You have a wide aperture to make is so you can see everything in the picture. The rule of thirds is not being used. The focal point is the house. With first glance you think only the house is the focal point but really it is the house on top of the tree trunk.

It has a deep depth of field. If has a good focus on everything. The picture was probably taken on a tripod. The lines of symmetry are the mountains. Those lines go to the house. The positive space is the house. The negative space is the background.

I like the photo. I think it is unique and a little creepy. The photographer's point was to creep you out. I think he got that through to the reader. He was successful.

Paul Borrego

12/7/2018 01:24:34 pm

The image is of tree that transforms into a wooden house. It is a black and white image. The photo was taken in broad daylight. There are some houses and hills in the background. A tree is withering into a wooden house.

The photo is pleasing to look at with the tree transforming into what it might be used, a house. The rule of thirds isn’t being used. The photo uses a shallow depth of field with the houses being blurry. The photo was taken from the point of view of a person. The focal point of the story is the house and tree in front.

The roots of the tree direct the eye to the house. The image is mostly asymmetrical with the background and tree root aren’t symmetrical. But the house is mostly symmetrical. The subject does not take up all the frame. The sky, houses, and ground are the edge of the frame.

The theme might be turning one thing from nature into something man-made. There may be a story about destroying nature with the tree decaying. I think the artist made the image to make a message with compositing. I think the image is beautiful and looks cool. The tree turning into the house turns reminds me of the snap in infinity war.(Picture link for reference.)

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.comicbook.com%2F2018%2F10%2Favengers-4-infinity-war-deaths-halloween-graveyard-1141982-1280x0.jpeg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcomicbook.com%2Fmarvel%2F2018%2F10%2F31%2Favengers-4-infinity-war-deaths-halloween-graveyard%2F&docid=nKiC9IPJoAI8lM&tbnid=kjx2UiQY20EaNM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwjxl6O7047fAhUMWK0KHR4eCCIQMwhDKAgwCA..i&w=1280&h=735&bih=854&biw=1209&q=spider%20man%20infinity%20war%20death&ved=0ahUKEwjxl6O7047fAhUMWK0KHR4eCCIQMwhDKAgwCA&iact=mrc&uact=8

I like the photo. It looks pretty and is really good not only for it’s time but now too. Especially with it being made non-digitally. I like the photograph because it looks nice. And also that it has a cool design.

Jack Waters

12/7/2018 01:25:22 pm

This is an image of a tree that morphs into a house. It is in black and white due to the age. There are some building in the background and it appears to be a town. The house is quite beat up and it looks like it is abandoned. The tree appears to fairly large although that could just be camera trickery.

It’s pleasing to look at, it looks really well made. Around the subject is what appears to be a town which gives the weird feeling of why does everyone just accept that this is here. Your eyes are focused up the trunk of the tree to the house up through the image. The depth of field is fairly deep, the entire image is in focus. There is a lot of negative space up top in the sky but even that is kind of important as it gives a stormy and spooky atmosphere.

The theme is that the house is so abandoned and old that a tree has grown around it but no one has bothered to get rid of it. It could also be that the house and its inhabitants have grown roots. For some reason it reminds me of the giving tree maybe it’s because houses give so much and this house is literally a tree. It also reminds me of a movie where the house is alive. I feel that there is a story being told in this image, i feel like it was made to be more than surface level.

I like the image. I like that it is in black and white as you have to translate a wheel of colors into just a line, and still capture the same feeling and emotions. I think the image is successful. It gives a feeling of wonder and amazement. Overall 10/10

I admire Jerry Uelsmann. He had to work with just black and white which is much harder than color. He also had to composite before photoshop. The skill and effort it must take to composite like he did is immense. Also I can imagine trying to composite before ⌘Z was a thing must’ve very frustrating as if you mess up you can’t go back and the image is ruined.

Joey

12/7/2018 01:31:50 pm

This is a picture of a tree house on the top of a tree. The picture is black and white. The picture is bright and the lighting is good. The house looks old as we can see some windows fell off and the wall looks old. The sky is cloudy and the ground seems wet.

The main object of the image is centered. The picture used deep depth of field because we can see both the background and house clearly. This picture is kind of symmetrical. The picture is pleasing to look at because it is creative. The picture is took parallel to the house.

This might be a crazy dream of the author. We all know that a house doesn’t grow out of a tree normally. This picture is interesting because the picture is creative. There isn’t any people in the image. That’s why this makes me thinking about some destroyed cities in the science fiction. The picture probably took in winter and the author wants to tell a sad story.

This picture reminds me about the environment. We should protect the forest rather than cutting down more and more trees. In the picture, the tree is cut down and used it to build a house. The background of the image is a town. This implies that people cut down the entire forest in order to build their house.

I like this picture because it is creative. The author is the first guy who used composition. He cut two pictures and put them together. Compositing an image without photoshop is impressive. The picture is successful because it looks natural and creative.

Anson Adamek

12/7/2018 06:01:04 pm

The image is of a house and roots. The colors are simply black and white. There is decently bright lighting in the image. There is an old building in a desert and there are roots that look like they are growing into the house. There are hoses in the background on a hill.

It is pleasing to look at because the house is right in the middle. The rule of thirds is not being used.This looks like a first-person view. This depth of field is sort of both. The focal point is the house and the roots.

The lines are the roots leading up to the house. The image isn't symmetrical. The subject does not fill the screen, there is the background of the houses and the hill. The edge of the image is the hill and the bottom of the hill. The negative space is the area behind the house.

I believe the theme of the image is age and disease consuming our lives. I think the story being told in the image is that the house represents someone and the roots are the dark clutches of death consuming them. The roots consume energy and take what's beautiful in life. The roots take and they don't go away. I believe the the artist’s purpose is to tell the story of a lost loved one, as that's what I think of when I see this image. This image reminds me of my grandfather that was fighting cancer for 8 years, he sadly died a few months ago.

I do like this image. It reminds me of the good times in my grandpa’s workshop admiring his old army jeep. It reminds him of his legacy and the sacrifice he made to serve this great country in the Navy. I believe this image is very successful none other for the reason that it gave me the ability to look back at memories. That is the greatest ability. In conclusion, I believe this image is very successful and I enjoyed it.

Shayna Bolton

12/13/2018 12:57:32 pm

The image shows an old house sitting on an elevated platform. The house has the illusion of roots coming out of it and growing right into the ground. Around the house there is a hill and other homes in the distance. The photo was taken in black and white with no other colors used. This might be because they want to add to the creepy feel of the house.

The lighting is focused specifically on the center of the house. The windows are dark to show that the lights are off and maybe no one has been there in years. The background is also dimmed to show that it is farther away. Other than the house, the only other things in the photo are the other houses on a hill. No people or other signs if life are shown in the picture.

In the image the house seems to be taking root into the ground. This could have been created to show that it is very old. The rule of thirds is clearly not being used in this photograph. The house is in the center of the frame and there are no other focal points. It seems to have been taken from a middle point of view, neither bug’s nor bird’s eye.

A very deep depth of field is being used in this photo. The house is very clear and sharp in the foreground. However, the houses in the background are also very clear, the viewer can see every detail in them. The focal point is the main house, and only that house. It is being framed by the hill behind it.

The lines are from the roots and they lead you straight to the house. This is used to draw the viewer’s eye to the house and showing its the focal point. I think the image is balanced in the main piece and the surrounding things. The house it a very strong object, it is large and important. This balances well with the many other houses behind it.

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