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