Extra Credit Final

1. A man was pushed onto the tracks and was hit by the on coming subway. The photographer didn't have enough time to physically save the man from getting hit, but he attempted to stop the subway by flashing his camera at it, at the same time taking a picture.
2. He tried to warn the subway that something was wrong with the flash of his camera.
3. I believe that he honestly tried to save the man's life, so yes.
4. He could have ran towards the scene to cause more attention, but then again nobody knows how much time he had and how far he was from the actual scene.
5. I disagree because I feel like its disrespectful for the family of this man, they basically published this man's death all over magazines.
6. I believe that a photographer can only do so much, just as any other human being. While its important that we have photos of bizarre moments, its also important that we try and look out and help others in need.
7. Most of the time, yes. They are there to capture the moment and should understand what's going on before exposing photos with false information and assumptions.
8. No, sometimes its good to just educate and help people understand and see whats going on out in the world. But its good to try and avoid bad events.
9. That its 50/50, many don't know the full story but what he did was reasonable. However, posting this photo to the public is wrong.

Final Review

1.

 

Cindy stands near the coffin that lays her brother's body in her hometown in Austin, Texas on a breezy evening where the funeral will take place. Earlier that week, Cindy's brother, Chris, was shot and killed while defending his country in war.

The remains of a roller coaster in a theme park lays under the Atlantic Ocean with only the top half of the roller coaster visible after Hurricane Sandy arrived. The destruction caused scarred many with the disastrous aftermath of this hurricane.

2. Rules

• Rules of Third  - taking pictures with the grid and focusing picture on intersection of lines.
• Balancing - having objects that balance out the picture
• leading lines - lines that lead to the main object
• symmetry and patterns - repeated patters or a symmetrical set up to the picture.
• viewpoint - certain viewpoint that the photographer has.
• background - creating a simple background to bring more focus to the main subject.
• create depth - adding in depth to the picture to see backgrounds of the scene where the picture took place.
• framing - using something to create a frame for a picture thats in the picture.
• cropping - cutting the photo so you can have a better focus on your main subject
• mergers and avoiding them - avoid having people/objects/etc. that are cut out of the picture, try fitting them all in the photo or take them completely out.

3. ..

• Aperture - helps picture look sharp all around, or only in specific places. (smaller aperture number, high the aperture focus)
• Shutter Speed - exposure time, effective length of time a cameras shutter is open, for fast or slow pictures.
• ISO - to help you take a better quality photo, take light into consideration, and able to freeze the movement of image.

4. You open up the journalism drive which is on the home screen thing. Find your folder.

5. Its acceptable to enhance a photo, like for an advertisement to cover up small flaws and to make it more appealing, but no to lie to the public and change the concept of a story that can be offensive

6.

• environmental - includes the environment, creates many details
• self - taking a photo of yourself
• causal - normal photo that you would normally see, person is main focus

7.

• exposure - amount of light allowed to fall on each unit of a photo
• depth of field - distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear sharp in an image
• focal length - determines its angle of view, and how much the subject will be magnified for a given photographic position.

Lytro Warm Up & Ethics in Fashion Photography

1. Whenever I clicked on the photo, the focus point would change to the part I clicked.
2. The camera has to be able to focus on all different areas at one moment/capture.
3. They would need to understand how to use the camera and its settings and the prefocus, how to take a picture manually and use all the different functions.
4. I believe that if you have a passion for photography, then its worth the money.

VIDEO:
1. EVERYTHING. Her eyes were enlarged, neck elongated, lips plumped, face thinned, etc.
2. I don't agree with it, advertisements like these only create profits for the company by lying to the public and destroy self esteems of ordinary people.
3. If they were trying to change a picture in order to change a story, then it would be ethically wrong.
4. I believe enhances to a photo are okay, but turning someone into someone they're not and portraying false ideas are bad.
5. Fashion photography is used to create pretty photos to look at that would help advertise their products, while photo journalism photography is used to tell stories.
6. The public sees both of these types of photography. Sometimes one will impact the thoughts of publicity more than others, but either way they give false photos that don't show complete reality.

Rules of Photography II

FRANK OCEAN

Rules Of Third

Cropping

Avoiding Mergers

Background

Balancing

Create Depth

Framing

Simplicity

Symmetry and Patterns

Viewpoint

Leading Lines

Self Portrait Part I and II

1. 

• Have fun with it. Be sexy. Be yourself. Be awesome. Be different. Be creative. Whatever you do, have fun with it. That’s part of the point, after all.

•  Seek balance between subject and environment. Include enough of the setting to aid your image, but not so much that the subject is lost in it.
• You don't want them to appear aware of the camera. 

2.

I really like this photo because it has a great scenery background. I personally love nature and adventures and this picture captures a great moment that should be one to remember.

This photo has a humorous feel to it as there is a giraffe somewhat posing in the back. Although the guy eating is the main subject, the giraffe take a lot of that attention away.

3.

This photo also has humor in it as this man uses a giant old fashioned camera to take a picture of himself.

This is a very interesting one to me as its unique and abstract looking. It definitely caught my eye.

4.

I adore this picture of this mom and her child, it makes me happy looking at them.

This is a very casual photo that has a nice and calm background. The color adds to the calmness of it all.

5. For my portrait assignment, I'm not exactly sure of who I want to take photos of, but I would want to take photos outside with a grassy background where the person is enjoying nature. It will be a posed shot but the person won't be looking at the camera. They will be enjoying themselves and it would be at a nice angle where you can see a clear sky.

American Solider Slide Show

1a) I choose #77 as the most powerful picture because its a very special moment whenever a solider is able to return home to their family and friends alive.
1b) Set #1 At home in Denver, 1-9
      Set #2 At Basic Training, 10-50
      Set #3 In Iraq 51-75
      Set #4 Back in Denver 76-83

      I believe that Set #2 is the most powerful because it shows the transition of an ordinary young man into a grown and tough army guy. He has to go through the struggles of transformation and leaving his family.

1c) The images work together to show the timeline of how the transition happened, before entering the army and his journey throughout all the way to the end of leaving the army.

3. Present Tense

4. Ian patiently sits in a chair as one of the leaders shaves his head bald with an electric razor. All of the Army members look similar with the same haircut so Ian's appearance blends in with the other's during Basic Training in their bedroom.

5a. It gives more background to the pictures and the captions that are already provided.
5b. The videos tells and lays out exactly how each picture came upon. It explains the unknown details rather than just explaining what was happening at the moment. For example, from the pictures you couldn't tell that his parents were divorced and we had a very close bond with his father.
5c. The photos can be better than the videos because it captures the moment and you're able to create your own assumptions of how the story went.

Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO

 Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO.

Aperture

F16

F2.8

1. The eye.

2.The smaller the Aperture number, the higher the Aperture focus.

3. Aperture helps the picture look really sharp all around, or look sharp only in one specific place. 

Shutter Speed

High Shutter Speed.

Slow Shutter Speed.

1. At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a) very fast
b) moderate
c) moderate
d) slow
e) slow
f) very fast

Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other;
a) very fast
b) moderate
c) moderate
d) slow
e) slow
f) very fast

2. 

• “Aperture Priority”: Setting the lens aperture manually while the camera a sets the shutter speed.
• “Shutter Priority”: Setting the shutter speed manually, while the camera selects the aperture. 
• “Manual” Setting both shutter speed & aperture manually.

ISO

ISO @ 3200

ISO @ 200

1. By increasing the ISO you get to freeze the movement in the image.

2. To always use a low ISO to retain the most detail & increase the quality of the image.

3. To increase the ISO when there is not enough light to capture an image quickly, & to think about whether or not it would be good to allow noise in the picture.

Sim Cam

 F4 looks best at 1/250 sec.  It is the closest to what you would see with your own eye view, the background is blurred out enough to where you know exactly that the couple is your subject.

F5.6 looks best at 1/125 sec. The background is again, blurred but, not as much now. You can tell that the background are buildings & the couple still stands out clearly.

F8 looks best at 1/60 sec. the background continues to be blurred & the couple looks the closest to the picture from a persons eye view.

F11 looks best at1/30 sec. The background is still blurred while the objects look clear & live.

F16 looks best at 1/15 sec. Background is still blurred and the object is slightly blurred blending in.

F22 looks best at 1/8 sec. The background is blurred along with the main focus of the picture.

At slower Shutter Speeds, the photo comes out very bright and very dark at high shutter speeds. They should keep a shutter speed in the middle so they quality would come out right. I would say that the lowers shutter speed to use is probably 1/8th.

Mural Project

Abandoned Theme Parks

1. I would choose to go and visit the abandoned theme park in Prypiat, Ukraine because it has a very interesting history to it. The people who lived in this city were evacuated on April 26, 2986 due to nuclear disasters when a power plant exploded. The people had no choice but to leave the area for their own safety, also leaving behind this theme park. Its now a sad and lonely place as grass is growing over everything and the rides are rusty. I feel like these photos would be interesting since the area was abandoned for "dangerous" reasons, adding that extra edge to it. The snowy scenery is just a bonus.

2. 

3.

• a haunted house
• a place where a crater hit
• an island
• a volcano
• a desert - Death Valley

4.

This is a giant fire crater in Darvaz.

5. Craters are interesting to me in general and I find this one super fascinating because first of all, its a crater! And also its on fire. I would expect to get real close up shots that show the smoke and texture of the crater.

6. Well first, I would need a passport to fly all the way to Darvaz. I'm not sure what kind of camera I need but something with a good zoom because I can't get too close to the actual crater. I'm not sure if I'm actually able to visit this spot and take pictures so hopefully its open to the public. I think the plane and traveling ticket would be the most cost, along with food and a hotel.

Funny Captions

Little Roscoe sits and guards his food bowl in his home in Austin while his owner makes a trip to the animal shelter to bring him home a new puppy friend. Little Roscoe has had a history of scaring off any new comers into the house, marking his territory.

Baby Joe sits in the mess that was self created this afternoon during his first birthday party where the main dish being served was spaghetti. Baby Joe has always had a habit of dressing himself in this meal rather than eating it the proper way.

Annie sits in the middle of a walkway and reads the latest paper while she waits for the mailman to come and deliver her a package containing her new adult sized chair. The week before, she came to a conclusion that it was time for her to grow up and become a big girl, using her toy doll's chair one last time before it was time to retire it.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

1. Gordon Park's photos really stood out to me because they didn't only show photos of real life, but you can tell that there was a story behind every picture.

2.
You see the struggle that people experienced back in the day, especially if they were living in the lower classes. I smell an unsanitary scene as if I am really there. I hear the motivational boost to be a successful individual during a tough time. I taste the strive for success and a bright future. And lastly, I feel sorrow, yet hope, for those you fight for a better future and justice to prove those who doubt.

I also see the strive to provide for the weak ones that we love, giving sacrifices. I smell the strong stench of unsanitary bodies that have no choice. I hear the desperate cries and prayers of the ones who need a miracle and help. I taste the tears for those who suffer. And I feel grief and hurt for those who fight to live through everyday.

3. I like the idea of displaying posters with some of Gordon Parks artwork. We could include his actual photos with little descriptions and captions that explain the story behind these pictures that explain why he took these photos.

Academic Shoot - Peer Review

1. AT's Framing, Rule of Thirds, Simplicity
2. BR's Lines, Balance, Thirds
3. KS's Rule of Thirds, Simplicity, and Lines

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. I think that lines was probably the hardest thing to do. But even though there are many different categories, it was pretty simple.
2. The focus was probably my main concern, I get annoyed when something isn't focused.
3. I would get more unique picture rather than the typical and simple ones.
4. I really think I handled the camera well.
5. Simplicity and thirds.
6. Lines
7. I think the mergers is still a little tricky to me.

Mural

1. I think a good idea for a theme would be school spirit where we make a mural with all the school activities that goes on around the school.
2. I think all cameras should be acceptable because if someone doesn't have one, they'll have another.
3. At the entrance of the school so everybody could see it when they walk in.

Lines

1. i did okay, the lines don't point anywhere but they create a tunnel like view.
2. the subject is the poles making a walkway.
3. yes, they can see the view that i see.
4. i could have found a different picture with lines that led to something.

Avoiding Mergers

1. i cut off part of the guy on the right.
2. a class is going on.
3. kind of, it looks like a little group talk.
4. i think i did a good job

Balance

1. the two shorter girls balance out the tall guy in the middle.
2. balancing the three people
3. yes, its focused on them
4. i could have gotten a straight pose of them

Framing

1. i followed the rule very well.
2. Kevon in the window frame of a door.
3. yes
4. i could of made the quality better so you could see the subject better.

Simplicity

1. i followed the rule very well.
2. the subject is the stairs sign.
3. yes because its focused on the sign.
4. i could of gotten rid of the border on the left side.

Rule of Thirds

1. this picture follows the thirds rule because its positioned at the bottom right corner.
2. this is an ant pile that has a spork sticking out of it.
3. yes, its clear because the picture is focused on the subject.
4. i think i followed the rule very well.

Africa Black and White Powerpoint

1. All of these pictures were amazing, I love the black and white theme and all of the animal pictures were very close up and detailed. The photos all seemed to express the beauty of nature and animal life.

2.

3. I really love this picture of the elephants because it shows how they act as a family and travel orderly in a pack. The focus on the big elephant thats taking the lead followed by the many others on the back has a really nice effect to it. Annnd I love elephants.

4A. Pextax 67 II with 120 film

4B. So he can show and use these photos in a way to stop the killing of wildlife for money.

4C. To help prevent and stop the killing of wildlife.

4D. "Africa is Africa because of the animals there. The elephants, lions, giraffes, cheetah, rhinos - they are all iconic creatures that exert a powerful, deep emotional and mythical hold over our imaginations."


NEXT:

1. I think we should do a theme of outside school activities that would inspire more people to participate in. We should include all the sports groups, after school activities, and out of school events.
2. I think we should allow any kind of phone. If someone doesn't have a camera, then they can have the other option of using the camera on their phone. 
3. We should put this mural near the entrance of the school so we can display it to everyone who comes in and leaves the school. Its a popular entrance so everyone would be able to see it.

Favorite Photo

1. I chose the picture of the two football players on the ground supporting one of their teammates who probably got injured. I really like this because it shows the closeness of the players and their compassion for eachother as if they were all a true family.
2. They used the thirds rule and really focused on the 3 football players.

1. Probably in a science class room on on the field or court where a sports game is going on.
2. Anywhere in the gym.
3. Follow the rules of photography and focus on the quality of the picture and angle and position of the subject.

Most Interesting Stuff

I chose this one to be filled with the most interesting because you see many people in this photo. The color and tone of this photo also soothes the picture and somehow blends it all together, making it into one nice filled picture.

Action or Emotion

I chose this one as best action because the picture was captured in the middle of an explosion of a experiment. There's a lot action that's caught up in the moment, including the girls' faces.

Best Story

I chose this as the best story because you can obviously see teens helping out and serving food. I'm guessing its for some sort of a charity where they're putting in volunteer hours to help out.

Post Shoot Reflection

1) It was kind of tricky to get these photos because I didn't want to just get the first red, medal, or happy picture I saw because it wouldn't have been original.

2) I focused mainly on how to focus the picture. I would half press the button to focus it.

3) I would focus on the thirds rule.

4) I really liked the actual pictures that I took.

5) GO TO OTHER POST.

6) Yes i would like to do this again because I actually know how to take better quality photos this time.

Avoiding Merges

There are two men and the ends of this picture that are cut out, so they didn't avoid a merge.

Framing

The window acts as a natural frame for the outside and the flagpole.

Balance

The big tower stands tall in the middle while the two smaller ones on the sides are there to balance out the picture.

Lines

 

The four flag poles great a series of lines, three are straight up while the other kind of slants. The slanted one creates an disproportional look to the picture.