1. As i worked my way through these photos i felt happy at first and in aw then i felt scared and sad on how the last of the pictures where going to be, wondering what was going to happen.
2. "These photographs do not define us, but they are us." Now that i have looked through these photos i feel as the comment means so much more. I think the comment is defiantly right, the emotions in the pictures don't define them as humans but it is who they are.
3. Honestly i don't think i could, because to me it would be too emotion to handle. At the end of it all i bet i would of wished i did though to remember the good times of it all.
4. I would write to him that these photos are inspiring and amazing, they tell his and his wife's story. These photos are something to proud about and to always look back and remember who they where together.
Friday, December 11, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
SPIRAL STAIRCASE (EXTRA CREDIT)
http://petapixel.com/2014/12/19/disorienting-beauty-spiral-staircases-old-abandoned-buildings/
On this website i looked at different spiral staircases which where all different some where circle, square, and sideways it looked like. When looking at these staircases i saw the rustic railings and the peeling paint from the bottom and sides. I saw the detailed design of the wood on some of the railings and the rods attached.
I learned a new way to take photos and that anything can be created into something really amazing with different angles.
a. Why did you pick this photo? I picked this photo because of how the square is tilted to the side and you have to really look to follow the staircase from the bottom to the top. I also really liked how the rods attached to the railing looks brand new and white but the rest is all rustic.
b. What rules of photography do you see in the photo? I see leading lines in this photo because of the stairs leading to the top and simplicity because of the background of the photo.
c. Who took the photo? Christian Richter.
If you were directed to a site that you cannot answer any of the questions above, please do the following:
a. What did you see on the website, describe it in 2-3 sentences? I saw spiral staircases which where all different some where circle, square, and sideways it looked like. When looking at these staircases i saw the rustic railings and the peeling paint from the bottom and sides. I saw the detailed design of the wood on some of the railings and the rods attached.
b. What did you learn? I learned even though the most simple things can be turned into the best photo just by the angle.
c. How did the site relate to photography? It related to photography because this is what photography is, showing what people see that's different then what other people can see.
On this website i looked at different spiral staircases which where all different some where circle, square, and sideways it looked like. When looking at these staircases i saw the rustic railings and the peeling paint from the bottom and sides. I saw the detailed design of the wood on some of the railings and the rods attached.
I learned a new way to take photos and that anything can be created into something really amazing with different angles.
b. What rules of photography do you see in the photo? I see leading lines in this photo because of the stairs leading to the top and simplicity because of the background of the photo.
c. Who took the photo? Christian Richter.
If you were directed to a site that you cannot answer any of the questions above, please do the following:
a. What did you see on the website, describe it in 2-3 sentences? I saw spiral staircases which where all different some where circle, square, and sideways it looked like. When looking at these staircases i saw the rustic railings and the peeling paint from the bottom and sides. I saw the detailed design of the wood on some of the railings and the rods attached.
b. What did you learn? I learned even though the most simple things can be turned into the best photo just by the angle.
c. How did the site relate to photography? It related to photography because this is what photography is, showing what people see that's different then what other people can see.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
1. In the first video her neck was made longer, and her eyes where moved a little bit down, her hair was smoothed out. The girls eyes where made bigger and so where her lips, and the face was a little bit pushed in, also her shoulders.
3. In the third video the lady's short hair was made into longer hair, her shins where made to be skinny same with her thighs. It looks like the person smoothed out her skin from cellulite, her tummy was pushed in and her shoulders where widened.
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4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not? I think it is okay but only a few small changed like smoothing out the skin mostly but not changing the whole appearance like making the neck longer or the eyes, or making the person skinner. It's not right to do that because that's what makes the person them, and people shouldn't be able to change that.
5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't? Smoothing the skin out to looking better in the picture would be okay, but changing the person's body type is not okay, also making the eyes bigger or neck longer.
7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism. Fashion photography is where you would only take portraits because it's of models for brands and company's, also where people do extreme photoshop to the models. With photojournalism people take pictures of anything and when people photoshop these pictures it's mainly cropping and changing the levels of the pictures and smoothing things out.
8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? Each photography both fixes the reality by changing things from the original picture it affects it because people only see the changed picture, not the original so people don't know the reality of it.
9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos? So we know what photoshop can really do and understand what fashion photography is and what it does.
10. Why are none of these videos about guys??? Maybe in the fashion world they're saying guys don't need to be photoshopped.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHY PART2
1. Rule of thirds
4. symmetry and patterns
5. Viewpoint
6. Background
7. Create Depth
8. Framing
9. Cropping
10. Merging
Monday, November 2, 2015
APERTURE, SHUTTER SPEED, AND ISO.
F2.8 
F161. We should relate our pupils to the aperture, the smaller the aperture the more focused it is on an object and the background is blurred out, the bigger it is the background actually shows. Kind of like a pupils grow with less light but when you shine a light on them it shrinks down.
2.the smaller the Aperture size, the higher the Aperture number.
3. Aperture effects depth of field because of the size of the aperture, an f-small number makes the background blurred or blend with the main focus which would be sharpened to make it pop out. An f-big number opens up the lens more so the background is clear and sometimes there isn't a focus because of the background being clear.
SHUTTER SPEED:
high shutter speed 
low shutter speed 
a. low shutter speed
b. low shutter speed
c. high shutter speed
d. high shutter speed
e. low shutter speed
f. high shutter speed
a. low shutter speed
b. low shutter speed
c. high shutter speed
d. low shutter speed
e. low shutter speed
f. high shutter speed
ISO
2. The three camera settings for shutter speed are Manual, Shutter Priority, and Aperture priority. For Manual it's where you the photographer has to set the shutter speed and Aperture yourself to control the settings for the picture without the camera doing it automatically. Shutter Priority is where the camera sets the Aperture for you but you set the shutter speed. Aperture Priority is like Shutter Priority but switched, the shutter speed is automatically set but you set the aperture settings.
ISO 200
ISO 32001. The advantages of shooting at a high iso for any sporting event would be that, the higher iso would help smooth out the image and freeze it so the image won't be blurry.
2. Suggestions the author said for a lower iso was to use it for dark environments to help with lighting and to use the base iso mainly and often.
3. Suggestions the author said for the higher iso was to set it higher when theres not enough light for the picture, it's best used for motion pictures so the picture won't be blurry.
what happens?
Aperture settings: from 2.8-22 on this camera
Shutter speed settings: go from 1 second to 1/4000 of a second on this camera
ISO settings: 100- 25600 on this camera
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
AFRICA AND ABANDONED THEME PARKS
AFRICA
1. What i saw while looking at Nick's pictures was a guy was devoted to getting amazing pictures of something he thought was amazing. These pictures are so incredible, you can see the lines and emotions on the animals faces, probably even guess what they're thinking. The closeness of the pictures is unreal, he was risking everything to make something of these animals to show the world what animals are like in their nature.
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3. This picture is of a lion doing his mighty roar, to me the lion is hungry and it's yelling for hunger or maybe the lion is a parent and is roaring to let the kids know to come. It's my favorite because it seems to me it'd be very hard to catch a lion roaring and get it from that angle where you can see the whole mouth and the eyes being closed. I love the element the lion is in and that theres so many possibilities of why the lion is roaring.
4. A rule in this photo would be simplicity because of the lion up against a background thats not distracting from the lion. Another rule could be framed because the lion is being framed by the clouds.
5. He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses, it's important because you should know what camera to use when you want to get close up to your subject and capture everything you want to get in the picture.
6. His reason for taking these photos is that he wanted to capture the Wild Animals in their element, or has he said "the state of being", His feeling while taking the picture is that he and the animal are equal and it affects him while snapping the picture. These pictures represent the beauty of the world while the world is being vanished.
7. Nick hoped to have these animals be shown as beauty and make the world show that human and unhuman are equal.
8. "the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa." -Nick Brandt
ABANDONED THEME PARKS
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1. What i saw while looking at Nick's pictures was a guy was devoted to getting amazing pictures of something he thought was amazing. These pictures are so incredible, you can see the lines and emotions on the animals faces, probably even guess what they're thinking. The closeness of the pictures is unreal, he was risking everything to make something of these animals to show the world what animals are like in their nature.
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4. A rule in this photo would be simplicity because of the lion up against a background thats not distracting from the lion. Another rule could be framed because the lion is being framed by the clouds.
5. He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses, it's important because you should know what camera to use when you want to get close up to your subject and capture everything you want to get in the picture.
6. His reason for taking these photos is that he wanted to capture the Wild Animals in their element, or has he said "the state of being", His feeling while taking the picture is that he and the animal are equal and it affects him while snapping the picture. These pictures represent the beauty of the world while the world is being vanished.
7. Nick hoped to have these animals be shown as beauty and make the world show that human and unhuman are equal.
8. "the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa." -Nick Brandt
ABANDONED THEME PARKS
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Monday, October 26, 2015
FUNNY OLD PEOPLE CAPTIONS
Bernie, Marty, Effie and Earl where sitting at the bus stop at the corner, while a couple of teenagers run past them on their skateboards blaring rap music. Listening to the lyrics closely Bernie has to cover his ears by the trauma he was listening too, Effie flipped them off to make a point for old people.
Betty went to HEB in her favorite yellow "i hate everyone" shirt that her grandson gave her for her 80th birthday, she needed to get some apples to make apple pie for thanksgiving. Betty was thankful people got out of her way at the store because her shirt proved she didn't mess around.
Mae (swingset), Bertha, and Ida ran away from the old people home, so they decided to get a hint a youth back and be rascals by going to the playground. While at the playground, Bertha and Ida decided to catch up on some old people home gossip.
Friday, October 16, 2015
MURAL PROJECT
1. we could do a series of students in their own element at school, like walking to class while listening to music or secretly dancing in the hallway while no one is around or doing work in the library.
2. i like the phone idea but i also think it would be cool to use the cameras to mix it around and use both for fun and see how things turn out in the pictures.
3. The mural should be in the cafeteria so it could be seen or maybe in front of the library.
2. i like the phone idea but i also think it would be cool to use the cameras to mix it around and use both for fun and see how things turn out in the pictures.
3. The mural should be in the cafeteria so it could be seen or maybe in front of the library.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
ACADEMIC SHOOT REFLECTION AND CRITIQUE
1. Challenges i had during this shoot was trying to get good enough shots of the kids performing and not making them all the same rule. I had to get other rules to fit into the performances that the kids were doing then trying to get pictures around the room was hard because so many objects were on the table getting in the way and changing the rule i was going to do.
2. framing was the hardest for me during the shoot, then trying to focus on the kids when the tables were in the way so i couldn't get closer to focus. I just tried to sit on a table to try and focus in and frame.
3. I would probably stand in different areas of the room to get different angles.
4. I would scout out for kids who would make the most emotions to put into the picture.
5. The rules that would be the easiest to achieve would be rule of thirds and leading lines.
6. The hardest would probably framing and simplicity.
7. I'm not totally clear on balance, i could take a bunch of pictures and pick out the ones that look like balance and see if the match up to the definition.
http://ianphotoj.blogspot.com/
STEP 3: The students writing down, i like how you can see the emotion in their faces while they write. I also love the focus that's in the photos.
STEP 4: One thing that could of been improved was doing something else, because they all look the same with the subjects, like a student doing work sitting down.
2. framing was the hardest for me during the shoot, then trying to focus on the kids when the tables were in the way so i couldn't get closer to focus. I just tried to sit on a table to try and focus in and frame.
3. I would probably stand in different areas of the room to get different angles.
4. I would scout out for kids who would make the most emotions to put into the picture.
5. The rules that would be the easiest to achieve would be rule of thirds and leading lines.
6. The hardest would probably framing and simplicity.
7. I'm not totally clear on balance, i could take a bunch of pictures and pick out the ones that look like balance and see if the match up to the definition.
http://ianphotoj.blogspot.com/
STEP 3: The students writing down, i like how you can see the emotion in their faces while they write. I also love the focus that's in the photos.
STEP 4: One thing that could of been improved was doing something else, because they all look the same with the subjects, like a student doing work sitting down.
ACADEMIC SHOOT
1. For this picture i followed the rule of thirds, because i wanted the guy to be to the side and in focus in rule of thirds.
2. The subject in the photo is the guy to the left side in the purple shirt with a little smile on his face.
3. Yes, because he's very in focus and takes up a lot of the picture.
4. People may think that it's the shoes but it's in the background so i guess i could of cropped it out.
1. This picture is simplicity because of the background and the simpleness of the girls lined up with different expressions on their faces, the background does't steal away.
2. The subject is the four girls standing in a row doing their slate for theatre.
3. yes it is clear because of the focus on the girls.
4. The subjects are a little blurry in some parts so i guess i could of focused more on them.
1. this photo is balanced because of the arrangement of the girls and their heads turned.
2. The subject is the girl in the blue t shit and the other girl in the tank top, one girl has an awkward face and the other is smiling.
3. I thin kit's clear because the two girls are in focused but there is a girl in the background who isn't in focus.
4. I could of tried to have gotten the picture without the third girl in the background so it wouldn't so weird.
1. This photo is a little of rule of thirds because of the two boys in the left corner but then also a little balance.
2. the subject is the three boys performing a pantomime, the one guy standing up in the blue shirt and the guy taking a pretend selfie and the one guy sitting down in the blue shirt.
3. yes it clear what the subject is.
4. In this picture you can really tell what the subject is.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
UNUSUAL AND INTERESTING PHOTOS
PART 1
1. My first reaction was "woahhh" like what made him think to do that?, like it's really creative that he thought of that and i'm wondering how he thought of that.
2. I think he took the photo and went into photoshop and copied the original buildings then cropped the copied one and rotated it.
3. When i first saw the buildings he was doing it made me think that the frost bank building in downtown would be great to do this because its one of the main buildings in the austin skyline.
PART 2
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PART 3
1. Photographers should look for that one moment, create your own memory and story in your head while taking the picture, try to see one thing but take the picture and be surprised to see something else are suggestions photographers should think of while shooting. It's also important for the photographer to make sure to grab attention in the photos.
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4. By the photo, theres a story thats being told but also a memory that you could tell for ages. This picture shows that the photographer is following the rules fully. Maybe the cops just learned they'll be moving up to sergeants or maybe the guy looking away was telling him some weird news.
5. I think the paintings that show quiet moment that no one can tell what they are until you look closely and see if theres a story involved within the painting. Those paintings really capture me into the painting with them, it makes me want to be in the painting and know whats going on at that moment.
1. My first reaction was "woahhh" like what made him think to do that?, like it's really creative that he thought of that and i'm wondering how he thought of that.
2. I think he took the photo and went into photoshop and copied the original buildings then cropped the copied one and rotated it.
3. When i first saw the buildings he was doing it made me think that the frost bank building in downtown would be great to do this because its one of the main buildings in the austin skyline.
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PART 3
1. Photographers should look for that one moment, create your own memory and story in your head while taking the picture, try to see one thing but take the picture and be surprised to see something else are suggestions photographers should think of while shooting. It's also important for the photographer to make sure to grab attention in the photos.
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5. I think the paintings that show quiet moment that no one can tell what they are until you look closely and see if theres a story involved within the painting. Those paintings really capture me into the painting with them, it makes me want to be in the painting and know whats going on at that moment.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
The photo i choose is in the background theres a girls with science glasses on with a red rim on top, she's holding a bottle of pink dye i'm guessing and shes puring it into this black tub thing and in the middle looks like pink paint being thrown up and splattering.
1. I choose this photo because of the pink paint being thrown up in the air, to me it's really amazing that the photographer caught this moment of the paint in the air and her reaction.
2. I'd say balance becuase the pink paint is really in focus but the girls balances it out.
1. I choose this photo because of the pink paint being thrown up in the air, to me it's really amazing that the photographer caught this moment of the paint in the air and her reaction.
2. I'd say balance becuase the pink paint is really in focus but the girls balances it out.
FILLING THE FRAME
The students are framing the foggy table with them sticking out their hands to touch the fog, the table is framed by students in the science lab.
ACTION AND EMTION
This picture shows happiness and silliness, the students seem to be teasing and joking around with the teacher which is making him laugh and them to smile.
BEST STORY
This tells the best story because of the emotion shown on their faces and the actions they're doing, the story in this picture could be that one cold morning, volunteers went down to help serve food to the need, and maybe one of homeless people told the server how much this meant to them and it made the servers day.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
GREAT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS PART 2
BIOGRAPHY!
On June 16, 1917 in Plainfield, N.J, Irving Penn was born, he was educated by public schools and later on he attended Museum of Art in Philadelphia from 1934-1938. Penn's first job was graduating in 1938 as an art director for the Junior league magazine, he later on quit and used some saved money to go to Mexico, at the age of 25. Penn later on returned to New York and got and assistant job for Alexander Liberman, the art director for Vogue magazine. A picture of an arranged big brown leather bag, beige scarf, gloves, lemons, oranges, and a huge topaz that Penn took was published as Vogues october issue in 1943 and started Penn's career. He mainly did portraits but threw in some creative stuff from time to time, his portraits where series he did around the world like Peru, London, Paris and New York. Penn started to use his Rollel and made 200 portraits in color and black and white, in a studio he rented from an artist. In the 1950's he founded his own studio in NY, he worked on fashion, commercial and his own personal work for the rest of his career. A lot of his series where mainly for Vogue, like his christmas editions. Penn died in 2009 which spread his work all over the world in famous museums and later on in 2013 the Irving foundation donated 100 images to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
MANIPULATIONS
A. This manipulation was the worst to me because they didn't even use Oprah's real body for the article they used Ann Margaret's body for this picture and Oprah's head. The photographer probably didn't ask Oprah to do a photo shoot for the magazine. Using someone else's body is practically saying Oprah's is not good enough on the front cover of this magazine. That probably hurt Oprah really bad on the inside. This is very unethical and very wrong to do, if Oprah is the richest woman on Tv then show us why, show us the real Oprah and not someone who is photo shopped.
B. Every one of those manipulated photos is bad, but the least unethical one to me is this one because the length of how close or how far away the pyramids are from each other doesn't really matter. It's not a life changing thing or something to make a debate about, the photo before was probably amazing but when the person pushed them together they helped with the camels being in front of them and getting an eyeful. It's not a great thing to do but I wouldn't have even noticed if i bought this magazine because I don't know how close they originally are, but it's not a threat to the world.
ETHICS IN DIGITAL MANIPULATION
A. This story talks about how journalist in the middle east like to manipulate others peoples photos on aprils fools and risk losing their jobs. Menahem Kahana took a photo of the new cabinet and was shown in a ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper, but someone messed with the photo and changed two girls in the photo to men to make it an all male cabinet. The people who mess with photos and change them get fired and get all their photos ever taken dismissed from where they work at.
B. It's not acceptable at all because the photographer took that one picture for a reason, capturing the moment and telling the people what happened but actually showing them with a picture, but when these people disrupt the photo then it's not whats showing what really happened.
B. It's not acceptable at all because the photographer took that one picture for a reason, capturing the moment and telling the people what happened but actually showing them with a picture, but when these people disrupt the photo then it's not whats showing what really happened.
Friday, September 18, 2015
PHOTO SHOOT REFLECTION
1. For me metal was the hardest, while there is a lot of metal in bowie i wanted to do something that people didn't first notice when you walk into bowie. Square was also pretty tough sense you could make anything in a photo square so i walked around until something really caught my eye. Bowie was somewhat easy but also complected because anyone could take a picture of the bowie sign or just the hallway but i wanted to get the view of the "campus" so i tried doing that from a higher view. Happy was the easiest because a lot of things around bowie makes me happy like the flowers in the front.
2. While taking the pictures i thought about holding the camera in unique angles to get my pictures coming out good which meant laying down on the ground and pointing the camera up, also gently pressing the button to get the focus i wanted in the photo, like what i wanted to show and what i didn't.
3. If i could do it differently i would try and be more creative with my pictures and think of places around school people don't think of.
4. The one thing i would do the same is defiantly be unique with my photos and try to think of amazing angles and framing i could do.
5. I didn't really learn anything new but i did use rule of thirds and framing the most.
6. I'm very interested in doing the happy and bowie prompt again because i got the most excited when i shooting pictures for them.
STEP 2:http://anaphototjournalismblog.blogspot.com/
STEP 3: i love the bowie photo because i would of never thought of going into the library and shooting there i also love the focus on the dog. For the happy photo it amazing because you can tell it's not modeled or fake, it's like she was just walking around and they where laughing so she captured the moment.
STEP 4: One thing that could be changed is the lighting on the square photo, it's not that hard to tell what it is but i think it could of been at a better angle with better lighting.
2. While taking the pictures i thought about holding the camera in unique angles to get my pictures coming out good which meant laying down on the ground and pointing the camera up, also gently pressing the button to get the focus i wanted in the photo, like what i wanted to show and what i didn't.
3. If i could do it differently i would try and be more creative with my pictures and think of places around school people don't think of.
4. The one thing i would do the same is defiantly be unique with my photos and try to think of amazing angles and framing i could do.
5. I didn't really learn anything new but i did use rule of thirds and framing the most.
6. I'm very interested in doing the happy and bowie prompt again because i got the most excited when i shooting pictures for them.
STEP 2:http://anaphototjournalismblog.blogspot.com/
STEP 3: i love the bowie photo because i would of never thought of going into the library and shooting there i also love the focus on the dog. For the happy photo it amazing because you can tell it's not modeled or fake, it's like she was just walking around and they where laughing so she captured the moment.
STEP 4: One thing that could be changed is the lighting on the square photo, it's not that hard to tell what it is but i think it could of been at a better angle with better lighting.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
MERGE
This was defiantly avoiding merges, because of the bright yellow bike there was nothing for it to blend in with the background.
BOWIE
This was balance for the photo because i wanted to get a fullish view of the bowie "campus" and not really make anything a full focus but the whole thing as the focus.
METAL
This photo was supposed to be rule of thirds but i kind of failed to make that happen, because of the angle i really wanted. So i ended up trying to do simplicity for this photo.
HAPPY
I really tried to balance this photo and also avoid merges to really put the focus on the flower and the rain drops on top.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
AVOIDING MERGERS
Avoiding merges shows in this picture because none of the colors of the main focus blend into the background of the picture. No one is cropped out the picture except her leg and his shoulder but it doesn't show that much because your paying attention to him carrying her and what's happening.
FRAMING
This is a great eample of framing because of the ground zero aftermath surrounding the two working in the picture. They're walking on top on the disaster but they're in the middle of it with all the trash around them, it's framing them in. It would be different if the workers where in the corner of the disaster and not the middle.
BALANCE
Balance really shows in this picture by the officers in blue hugging a guy also in blue but covered in dust, and the background isn't taking away from the main focus but the other people in the photo surrounding the two hugging doesn't take away either. It all blends in together nicely.
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