Eliot porter Born He was born December 6
Eliot porter Born: He was born December 6 , 1901 He was died on November 2 1990 Occupation: photographer He is good at a lot of areas , except the photographer, porter got a degree in chemical engineering , and medicine, and once in the biochemical researcher at Harvard University
Eliot Furness Porter was born in 1901 in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois, the second of five children in an upper-middle-class family. His father, an amateur architect and natural history enthusiast, managed the family Chicago real estate and infused in his children a love of learning and the sciences. His mother, a Bryn Mawr graduate, shared her active support for liberal social causes. Given his first camera in 1911, Porter immediately challenged himself to photograph birds, first around his Winnetka home and then at the family summer retreat, Great Spruce Head Island, in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Sent East for high school, he followed family tradition by enrolling at Harvard, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1923 and a medical degree in 1929.
Eliot Porter taught himself how to photograph and make his own black-and-white prints during his early teenage years. In the mid-1930 s, he became a master black-and-white printer and, in late 1938, started gaining widespread renown for his quiet, elegantly balanced landscapes. While he never fully gave up black and white after he took up color in 1939, he was focusing almost wholly on color by the mid-1950 s. After experimenting with tri-color carbro printing, Porter taught himself Kodak's new wash-off relief process. He switched to the dye transfer process when it superseded wash-off relief printing in 1946. He remained committed to dye transfer printing for the rest of his life, appreciating the extensive color control that the process offered
, Eliot’s photographic style landscape mostly are birds
He likes to shoot the bird , use the composition. He can reflect the details of the birds
He is good at a lot of areas , porter got a degree in chemical engineering , and medicine.
Eliot’s camera Linhof Since 1929, Linhof has produced a folding camera with its own characteristics. The folding movement is also carried out by shifting, tilting, swinging, etc. , and these actions have been hailed as German technology by the people of the time. German technology is another manifestation of detail is to pay attention to detail in these two cameras have been fully reflected: such as the most stringent precision machining of three-tier extended down-floor, the former group of the upper and lower gear shaft / gear system and its With the lever operation. This is a masterpiece of mechanical processes, so many people regard the linhof respected as a photographer in life need to personally own the camera.
Eliot’s film Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography. For many years it was used for professional color photography, especially for images intended for publication in print media.
Eliot’s uses natural light and exposure Can be more clear
He being color into the picture, rather than continue to work in black and white. Porter almost immediately took up color to create more accurate photographs of birds. Soon he added other woodland subjects to his repertoire and became the first established artist-photographer to commit to exploring the colorful beauty and diversity of the natural world.
I like photography , like your camera to record life. Eliot’s photos are natural landscape and birds , I like the quiet of the natural , I like nature of everything
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