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. 

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1946/cla

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQFjABahUKEwiW8avD7IDIAhXJCZIKHeLoDuU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luminous-lint.com%2Fapp%2Fphotographer%2FClarence_John__Laughlin%2FA%2F&usg=AFQjCNEAKjbQriXkV2FD7Um_ihiLt3cp-w&sig2=RpWeFzYWVs5AKoS0fTHWDw&bvm=bv.102829193,bs.1,d.eXY

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.



http://averyphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com

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.