Part 3 of Interesting and Unusual Photos

1. Capturing a smile that tells a story would make a picture more likable. 
2.  A reflection can also make a photo look more dynamic. 
3. Have the subjects look like they are being affected by their environment, this will help your photo look better.

   

   I think that this photographer copied the other's fairly well.  I think this photo tells a pretty good story just like the original painting. 

Part 1 of Interesting and Unusual Photos

1. I liked his photos but I don't believe that they are real. they leave a erie feeling because of the ghostly figures that shouldn't be there but are there. 
2. I have to think they are photoshopped because there were too many landmarks overlapping each other.
3. I think that the U.T. Tower in Austin would look good like this. It is a public place but it is downtown Austin which would be hard to get a photo of it because of location. 

Academic Shoot

 This is framing because the stair case railing covers the space surrounding the girls in the photo. The subjects are the two girls shaking hands, which you can't see because they are behind the railing.

This is a rule of thirds. Her head would be in the top left of the grid if it were there. The subject of this is the girl putting sticky notes on her book.

This is simplicity because the only interesting thing are Ivy's hands on the keyboard. The subjects are the hands on the keyboard. 

Academics and Community Service

"Drop the Bass" I thought that this was the best image of this section because it does a good job of capturing everything going on in the image. She captured the girl with the googles poring paint into a black sound speaker and the paint is jumping around. I liked how the photographer used a depth of field to make the paint be in high focus and have the girl and the background out of focus give the paint more vibrance. The photographer used a rule of thirds in this image because the paint bottle is in the upper left hand conner of the picture and it gives the paint room to fall.

Academic Shoots

"Action and Emotion." I think that this is a great image of the girls in the lab having a reaction to their lab experiment. It makes the picture much more interesting because of the girls' reactions. 

" the Story." I believe that this had the best story because it visually shows how the students at the school will try to keep the school looking nice.  It tells a story because  maybe the school didn't look great before they cleaned it up then it'll look better after they finish cleaning it up.

"Filling the Frame."  I thought that this was the most interesting because it has a blow torch that gives the image light, it has a smoke or fog covering their work and the men are wearing welding masks which makes the image cool. 

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

 

Summary

         First, in the Middle East there was a photo of a cabinet but the photo was mechanically altered so that all the females weren't in the cabinet and they were replaced with two men. Next, Brian Walski was fired from his job because he manipulated two images of a soldier to make the one he posted have better composition. Then, Adnan Hajj took some pictures of house that had smoke billowing out of them and he darkened and added smoke to the image resulting in him losing his spot with Reuters and fired and image editor. Lastly, Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted an image of a missile launch in Iran. There was a malfunction in one of the missiles so they photos hoped the image to look like it was a complete success.                   These are some ways that photo manipulation can be good or bad.

 I think that this type of photo manipulation is bad because it covers up what is really happening in the world and I think that we should learn about it. 

I think this is the most unethical picture given. I thought this was most unethical because the article said Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro were both in New York but there weren't any photographers nearby so the publishing company had completely photoshopped this image to make it look real.

I think that this is the least unethical photo 

because they might have changed how she looked to make her seem prettier so she didn't get mad that they posted a bad image of her that everyone can see. 

Great Black and White Photographers: Part 2

Clarence J. Laughlin 

             Clarence J. Laughlin was born on August 4th 1905 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Laughlin taught himself how to use the camera. His first official job was working as a civil service photographer. This job was after he worked at the Vogue magazine studio in New York. He has published five books throughout his career, his most famous book is called "The Haunter of Ruins" which is a book about the dark and "brooding" parts of New Orleans. 

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Post Shoot Reflection

Challenges while shooting-

               The problems I had was trying to find a good subject for the image prompt. My partner Ivy was in a good mood last time; when we took pictures, so I took a picture of her being happy. I took a picture of the school "Kennel" as my metal photo because it had a metal "curtain" that had good lines across it. Next, when Ivy and I were walking, I saw a blue frame in the shape of a square around a display case full of art so I used it as my square photo. I didn't have any trouble with the Bowie theme because we're in Bowie so everything is Bowie related. 

               I was thinking a lot about focusing because I wanted crisp, clean photos which you can't get with an out-of-focus camera. we eventually learned that we needed to with the camera from manual to auto focus. Also i was mostly concerned on getting as many rules of composition in my image as i could.          

             If I could change my photos I would change how many styles of photos I took, meaning I would want to try and get every single rule once or twice and choose the best image out of all of them. 

                I would keep the way the camera was set up; I liked that factor. it kept up with what I wanted and did a good job at it has well.

                 I wouldn't want to do those prompts again because they didn't appeal to me that much, the only I liked was the happy one.



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On their first photo I liked that they tried to make the wind chimes be centered as they subject. I liked how they captured the feel of the area as a living thing. A thing that this person could fix would be to make the wind chime stand out even more, I was distracted by the sky and the tree.

Happy, Bowie, Square, Metal, and "merger"

"Square"    Framing

"Happy"     Has no rule

"Metal"      Lines

 "Merger"  Has no rule

"Bowie"    Simplicity

Balance

This image has balance because the lady in the green jacket is relatively the same size as the city. If the woman in green was bigger or smaller the photo would be off balance by a bit. 

Avoiding Mergers

This is a merger photo because the people on the sides have been cut off. If the photographer wanted to have the firefighter in the middle as the main subject he could have zoomed in on him and just gotten him in the image. 

Simplicity

This photo shows simplicity because the man is the only person that stands out in the picture. There are others in this image but he is the only person to be in focus. 

Rule of Thrids

this picture shows rule of thirds because the firefighter is not centered, he is in the bottom right. This rule also captures how he feels by having him hold the flag. 

Lines

This image is showing lines. The building's vertical lines make the clouds of smoke coming out of the building more dynamic. 

Framing

This is an example of framing because the broken walls put a complete circle around 

the firefighter in the middle. 

The Camera (pg.2)

The Camera

Introduction to Exposure

1. If a photo has too much light the thing you were trying to take a picture of would be "washed out" by all the light. If there is not enough light then your picture will be too dark and the subject will be too hard to see.

The Universal Stop

1. The term "stop"is used a lot in photography to tell how much light there is in the photo. 
2. The new planet with two suns would be a stop brighter than the Earth.
3. A planet with four suns instead of two would be 2 stops brighter than the planet with two suns. 

Shutters and Aperture

1. The longer your shutter speed is the more light you will receive in your photo.
2. A shorter shutter speed results in having less light in the photo.
3. The aperture is like a pupil, it controls the amour of light being taken in at one point. the aperture is also called an F-Stop.
4. When adjusting the aperture, you need to make the closing larger to get more light in the photo.

The Camera

  

THE CAMERA 

1.  Camera Obcsura is when a light is filtered through a hole in a wall and comes out on the back wall upside down and in focus.
2. The 17th century brought us closer to the modern camera because Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens developed optics by making high focus glass lenses.
3. the first parts of the first successful camera was a glass lens, a dark room and film to develop photos on. 
4. Modern cameras still have film like Niepce's did. we still have films but they work in different ways and we still need a dark room to process the film.
5. Digital cameras have an electronic device that records the photographs called a CCD. 

 CAMERA MODES

1. The difference between auto and program is that in auto mode the camera controls when to flash and what the exposure should be and in program the photographer can control the flash and the exposure.
2. portrait mode tries to blur out the background for the fastest lens setting.
3. Sports mode will use the fastest shutter speed to capture moving things in full focus as if that thing wasn't moving at all. 

                                                                                      THE HALF PRESS

1. The half press is used when your subject is off-centered or if you want a faster response time; to focus easier or if you want a better composition. First, put your finger on the button and push it in a little before it takes a photo. Then let it focus on your subject then push the button in the full way.                  

Controlling Flash

1. That symbol means that there is no flash at all. You would want to use this button if you want to show off more of the photographs natural lighting and not the artificial flash of the camera. 
2. This symbol stands for automatic flash which is the camera using the flash by itself if it thinks the picture needs more light in it. 

Great Black and White Photographers

Clarence J. Laughlin "Besieging Wilderness"

I liked this photo because the photographer took a picture of a house and its front or back yard. He then overlapped the two photos to create this image. I think this gives the photo a strange, almost evil, dreary look.

Imogen Cunningham "succulent" 

    I like this image because            it shows  how a cactus can 

look fairly nice even though

a cactus isn't the most

 beautiful thing in the world.

Robert Adams "North Jetty"

                                                        

I liked this picture because it Shows a dividing point between two bodies of water. The angles in this image made it more appealing to me. I also thought that this photo is better in black and white and not in color.

First Day Photo #4

Free Choice

This is my free choice. I chose this one because I liked the depth of field on this picture. I like how the acorn and the leaf are in focus and everything else is out of focus and blurry. There wasn't much that I didn't like about it, I thought it was "ok" all around.

First Day Photo #3

First day of school

I posted this image because it reminds me of my first day of school. This picture is of the F hall at Bowie High. I like this photo because it captures most of what goes on in a hallway during a class. I didn't like that the railing was the most "in-focus''. 

First Day Photo #2

Photo of Partner

This is an image of my partner Abby. She wasn't expecting me to take this picture so I like it because I thought I was sneaky while taking it which leads me to believe that I can take more pictures of animals and other living things I won't be noticed. Something I don't like about this picture is that there are things in the background that I necessarily wouldn't want in the picture. 

First Day Photo #1

Living Thing Photo

           I chose this image for my living thing photo because I thought it  shows the inside of a sago palm pretty well. I liked this photo because the very center of the sago palm is in clear focus and the leaves are not. i could have made this better if i had a different angle that showed more vibrant colors than just that one green color. i liked the fact that i got to see the inside of the sago palm so well, it made me happy.