Academics and Community Service

"Never Ending Math Equation"

1) I choose this photo because I like the plain concentration of the professor face while she is solving a math equation on the overhead. I also like the way the photographer captured the shadows as well as the actual picture.
2) The rules of photography shown in this picture is rule of thirds and a frame from the lighting around the woman.
3) I believe I could take pictures similar to the community service pictures I saw today in a downtown marathon supporting a specific charidity or in a soup kitchen.
4) I would preferably take pictures in the library since thats where a good deal of kids do academic work.
5) To get a good photo I would have to use photography rules and try to avoid mergers. I would also try to get a good angle instead of taking a picture just straight on.

Academic Shoot Preview Assignment

The Story 
The story of this picture is that a nonprofitable company set up a food stand for people in need or people that have a hard time providing for their children or themselves. A group of high school volunteers contributed, by working the food drive and raising enough money to purchase such food at their local high school.

Action and Emotion 
The action taking place in this photo is the two students working on a science or engineering project and the specific tools working on some type of mechancial engine. The emotion taking place here is the inference of the male student behind the other student staring in awe and closely examining the action taking place.

Filling the Frame

The frame is filled by having a group of students gathered around what looks like a pole in a prayer-type motion. This particular picture is interesting to me because it provides a clear view of a academic activity taking place and it makes me think about what could be going on and the reasoning behind the holding of hands. 

Manipulation Photos

Most unethical:
This is the most unethical because the photographer made it look like a troop was going to shoot and father protecting his child. It was unfair to cirque the picture in this fashion because it makes the solider seem more harmful than he actually is.

Least Unethical:

This is the least unethical because no photographer was present during this event so they recreated the event so they can use and image to out up on their magazine. 

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

The main point the author wanted to get across was the way falsifying photographs can be highly offensive to readers and will bring up unwanted discussion of the photograph. Such discussion could cause photographers or journalist their jobs, because of the cruel tactics that display untrue photos. The author also stresses the fact that photographers continually make this mistake and choose not to learn from previous actions that has taken place in the photojournalism field.

I believe that is unethical to produce photos that discriminate others and purposely create problems between people. It is unfair to allow journalist to put themselves before others. It just shows how selfish they are, since they falsify images for their own amusement or to get attention.

Post Shoot Refection

Refection
1)Some challenges I found with trying to get photos for the first 4 prompts was the limited amount of people I came in contact with to get some happy people.
2) Some technical aspects of photography that I found myself thinking about the most was by getting a picture from the side and holding the camera differently. An example of when I did this was in my photograph for metal.
3) If I could do this assignment again I would probably use framing and capture photographs differently by adding more interest into the picture.
4) I would probably keep the metal picture the same because I really like that style and the way it turns out.
5) Check out prompt photos.
6) I wouldn't really mind redoing this prompt again but I would prefer a new topic so I can have a fresh start and really focus on how to make better pictures.

The First 6 Rules of Composition 9/11

 Line: This photo shows line because of the burned trees leading the eye up into the foggy sky. Line is  performed by capturing several lines in the surrounding area and make it have one focus point ( where the eye ends up on the screen)    

Simplicity This photo shows simplicity because of the way the photographer zoomed in and manly only captured the two subjects. The technique is to capture you subject and a simple background, but the photographer wasn't very accurate and cut off the lady's head, but for the most part its pretty simple. 

Balance: 

This photo shows balance by allowing the viewer to see both sides of the city. The landscape is somewhat symmetrical making it balance out the city and the buildings. Balance is demonstrated by having two similar objects in size or value and putting them side by side to make it seem balanced.

Framing

This picture shows framing having the people on the street stand out by having borders of newspaper missing people around the area. Framing is done by having at lead two borders around the main focus point and making it stand out .

Avoiding Mergers 

This is a picture of a merger because the man is having a flag shoved in his face. I believe this might be intentional merger since the photographer specifically captured this moment. Mergers are bad photographs that have things sticking awkwardly in the way of the picture or having people heads or bodies cut off from the picture.

Rule of Thirds

This picture shows rule of thirds because the main subject is directly on the line that proves its rule of thirds.Rule of thirds is done by having the main subject on the rule of thirds line and having a line that makes your eyes follow to the main subject.

National Geographic

Eruption of the Cordon del Caulle
Ricardo Mohr 

This is my favorite photo from the collection because of the unrealism look of the picture. I also like the worm's eye view, letting me see everything around the eruption. I think thats its very cool and interesting to look at because of the sudden burst of color and the outstanding background.



If I could summit a photo for this contest I would probably want a landscape picture of some beautiful, snow covered mountains in Switzerland. I would most likely want a view of a lake or a valley in the photo as well.

Touching People

1) I think that this project and photo essay is vey humorous and creative.
2) If someone approached me with a camera and asked me to participate in a photo shoot and then asked me to touch a stranger I would become very awkward and confused. I would probably even turn them down.
3) I think it would be cool to have total strangers feed each other whatever type of food they desired and take pictures of it.
4) I think that the photos are very interesting to look at. I do think that they are good pictures, I like that they change backgrounds drastically, giving you insight of the different places the photographer went to.

Top 40 Photos

 I picked this photo because I like all the unsaid emotion shown from the girl. I think what made my eyes gravitate to this picture is the way the photographer angled it to show the whole scene. I think this picture made the top 40 because of the sad truth behind this picture and that everyone feels really sympathetic towards children and their animals.



Isolation
Yuriko Nakao/ Reuters

 I picked this picture because I like the way you can look back into the past and see the way each sister has grown or changed. The photographer just took the photo strait on without any particular angle, but it is in black and white to symbolize the time line of this photo. I think this made the top 40 because it has a cool way of showing the then and now and it also tells a story without words.

Time Passing
Via blameitonthevoices.com
(photographer not listed)

I picked this photo because of the inspiring message it represents. It also has a very cool, faded kind of look. The photographer set this picture up by angling it show not only the main subject , but the solders in line as well. This composition is what made my eyes gravitate to the  picture. I think this made the top 40 pictures because it became the symbol of the flower power movement, which gave a lot of people hope and peace in what's to come in the Vietnam War in the 1960's to the 1970's.


An Eye for Peace
Marc Ribond

Prompt Pictures

Metal

This photo contains line that makes the eye move either up or down depending on how u=you ooh at it.











Square

This picture has simplicity because it has a ver simple background and clearly shows what the main subject is.








Happy

This picture has bad merger by having the post go straight through his arm and having unneeded objects in the photo.








Bowie

This photo contain line by leading the eye straight to the group of people. The ceiling and the floor act as lines. 

Warm Up 9/15

1) I think that the unique idea is actually very creative and artistic. It makes you look at things from a new perspective and it makes you notice different details.
2) When I first looked at the pictures I immediately thought of a gorilla, but slowly started to see the human face upside down.
3) Sometime maybe I could try something unique like this by taking pictures of downtown buildings upside down.

Great B&W Photographers Part 2

Garry Winogrand Biography 

He was born in New York City in 1928, bout sadly died in 1984.
Education: He studied painting in the City College and studied development and print at Coulmbia University.
Jobs: He worked for photography agencies, freelanced for magazines, and did his own personal work in things that interested him. He also on the side taught photography at the School for Visual Arts, Cooper Union( New York), and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Some books published with his work include Winogrand: Figments From The Real World, The Man in the Crowd: The Uneasy Streets of Garry Winogrand, Garry Winogrand: Public Relations, and Gary Winogrand: The Animals.
A quote by Garry is that, "Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts." 

Beginner's Guide to Photography

The Camera 

1) The camera obscure effect is when Latin and Chinese philosophers came up with creating a dark room with one hole inside one of the walls. The hole projects the scene outside the room upside on the opposing wall of the hole.

2) In the 17th century the lenses and optics helped man get a step closer to creating the modern camera.

3) The parts of the first modern camera invented by Niepce are glass lens, a dark box, and film.

4) The modern digital cameras and the Niepce camera have in common the fact that they both have to get light to pass through the lens and into the film to expose it to the film. 

5) The digital camera that is used to capture an image is called CCD.

Camera Modes

6) The difference between the Auto Mode and the Program mode is that you can control flash and a few other camera settings.

7) The portrait mode is used for blurring out the background. It works by using the fastest available lens setting. 

8) The spots mode is used to freeze motion. It works by using the highest shutter speed possible.

The Half Press

9) You should do a half press on the the trigger button because the camera will respond faster.

Controlling Flash 

10) The controlling flash symbol means to fire the flash when the lighting is low.

11) The Auto-Flash means that the camera will automatically fire if the camera thinks it needs more light. You would use this when the lighting may be somewhat dark.

Introduction to Exposure

12) When your photo has too much light it will make it look washed out.

13) When your photo has too little light your photo will come out dark.

The Universe Stop

14)  A "Stop" is a relative measure of light.

15) There is 1 stop brighter when the new planet has two suns instead of one.

16) There are 2 stops brighter when the new planet has four suns instead of two.

Shutters and Aperture

17) The longer shutter speed affect has more light.

18) The shorter shutter speed affect has less light.

19) The aperture control allows you to control the amount of light you want.

20) When adjusting the aperture you can increase the amount of light by going to stop f2.8. 

Great Black and White Photographers

Paul Strand
Fifth Avenue
New York, 1915

 Sebastião Salgado
San Juan, Chimborazo
Ecuador, 1979

Garry Winogrand
Untitled
1954

First Photos

First Photos

Brianna Garcia

This is my best photo because of the angle and better focus than the rest of my pictures. I like the way Reagan and Priscilla are positioned, it gives the picture a more relaxed kind of feeling. I picked this picture because of the unusual faces the people in this picture have on their face. 

This is my worst picture because it too far out of focus. I would prefer if it was closer in to Priscilla  and I would like it if I didn't get Reagan's arm in the picture. It looks out of place and I feel like it could of been better if I got a better view or angle.