Magazine covers

self portraits

magazine cover

portrait and self portrait

4 Websites

http://petapixel.com/2014/12/31/10-photography-resolutions-new-year/
I looked at helpful tips for photographers and what should help them become better photographers and take better photos.
A: A few things I saw on the website were tips to help become a better photographer. It said photos are great and may mean a lot no matter what. No matter the gear, quality of the photo, it may mean a lot not only to the photographer but to other people.
B: I learned to appreciate what I have now and to appreciate my photos and ow good they are and what that has gotten me up to now. Be creative with my photos.
C: It gave tips to photographers on what to dots help them better their selves in taking photos.

http://petapixel.com/2014/12/01/6-types-photos-know-make/

I looked at many different types of photos to take and what types of
A: I learned new and different types of photos I can take with my camera and what types of equipment can make them possible.
B: Most of them are really advanced and may not be as helpful but the perspective photo will definitely be helpful as we may take some photos like tat later.


http://petapixel.com/2014/08/25/approaching-problem-style/
I learned to take things into a different perspective and make sure that you don't take boring pics.
A: I learned when taking photos for someone or something you don't only have to take photos for them but maybe a few for yourself too.
B: I can use this to make things a little different and use photos for personal use instead of just for your class.
C: nope.

http://blog.ted.com/2014/10/07/how-to-create-a-killer-timelapse-with-joe-capra/
A:I saw the beauty of Rio de Janeiro from around 4PM up to around 4PM and it showed the coastline and showed some of the rivers and falls they had there.
B: I learned what is better for time lapses and where I should go and what rhythm I should use and make sure it blends together with everything.
C: I learned the processes of making time-lapses and what the creator goes through.

Prompt Shoot #3

Photo 1: The End

Photo 2: Eight

Photo 3: Footsteps

Photo 4: Pose

Magazine Tips

1. Original/Original look-make sure its not the same
2. Make the cover pop/make people attracted to it.
3. Pulls in the average roaming and casual person in to look at.
4. Efficient and easy to read and fast to read.
5. Interesting and different to look and read on.

Self Portrait Preview

1. Go with a wide Angle and introduce movement and framing the shot.
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I chose these photos because the guy on the left is at his job catching fish and shows what some people do and the guy on the right is at his job too and is actually working and the photo is focused on him and nothing else.

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 I chose the photo on the left because of the cool effect with the paintbrush. I chose the photo on the right because the camera is focused more on the lens and blurs the guy's face and the lens makes the guy's eye look weird.
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 I chose the photo on the left because of the way it is cropped and how the people are in the photo and what they are doing. I chose the right one because of the focus and what he is doing in the photo, leaning on the edge in a city.

5. My plan for the portrait shoot is to have me throwing a football at the camera but not to hit the camera and it will look cool with the football coming towards the camera and the plan is to have about a 1/5-1/80 shutter speed. My goal is to show motion but also kind of freeze the football in air but not enough to where the ball is still. I will shoot in an open field to have a background and an open place to throw the football.

Ethics in Fashion Photography

1. Her eyesore made bigger and the ends of her hair were changed and her neck was made longer and he shoulders were made less broad.

2. They changed how big her legs were and how long they were and change he eye she, nostril size, and her neck size and arm and body size in general.

3. They played the first part in reverse and made the picture normal again then was a time lapse of them turning her into a piece of pizza.

4. No because it kind of degrades the image and makes it seem kind of fake and unreliable.
5. Yes, when it is really important for it to be raw or unedited or unchanged to send in somewhere, because then it doesn't become a reliable source.
6. Some are like small unnoticeable changes like some things that aren't in the main subject but major things like the body or a major part of the main subject are not good things.
7. Fashion is trying to appeal and advertise to people while photojournalism is using real photos in saying something and using it for real life.
8. Fashion's relation to reality is to appeal to people to buy products to look good like them, photojournalism's relation to reality is taking photos of things in the world and barely editing the to use them for personal things and to help others.
9. To show us what happens when photos are over edited and what a fake photo looks like.
10. Guys usually are always "perfect' and are usually used for more "masculine" things that don't need more perfection than woman do.

Funny Old People

This man in the photo is Billy bob Joe riding through the woods of Georgia in the morning because he forgot his medicine at his great grandson's girlfriend's place last night. His great grandson name is chad and his girls name is Murtle and he was at her place last night.

The woman in the photo is Edna, she is smoking a cigar on the corner of Bourbon street waiting for the party to start and she has about another 10 hours before everything starts. Bourbon street is the party street in New Orleans and Edna is happy and homeless in New Orleans but has a family who helps her out and doesn't know she is homeless.

This is Chris, he has gained 50 pounds since he moved Alabama and his favorite place to eat is at Wendys. Since he's moved into Alabama, he hasn't made his own food because his wife has passed away and his car was towed while he was doing 200 in a school zone and now he uses his scooter to get Wendys.

Prompt Shoot 2

Photo 1: Cold
Photo 2: Purple
Photo 3: Electric

Muhammad Ali vs Sonny Liston

1. I picked this image because it shows Muhammad Ali looking over his competitor and yelling at him because he won the fight.

2. Muhammad Ali was going into a fight against Sonny Liston who he had stolen a title from earlier in a previous fight. Muhammad, One minute and 44 seconds into the fight, had knocked down Sonny with just one punch and stood over him and yelled: "Get up, Sucker!" The photographer proceeded to snap the picture at the perfect time.

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Gorilla in the Congo

1. I picked this image because it shows a dead gorilla being carried by men on bamboo sticks from somewhere to somewhere. What caught my eye was how many people are with the gorilla.

2. The gorilla and other ones were shot when something erupted in a park and the gorilla was caught in the crossfire and was shot in killed. This photo was taken to show the 12 total men it took to carry the 500 pond gorilla and this picture went viral and nine African countries including Congo signed a binding treaty to help protect the endangered mountain gorillas.

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5. Brent Stirton
1969
Durban, South Africa
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The Hindenburg Disaster, 5 of 100

1. I picked this image because it looked surreal with how big the blimp was and hot it managed to catch fire and crash.

2. This photo was taken as many spectators and new anchors watch the Hindenburg fly but it caught fire causing it to crash. All 804 feet destroyed in one of the worlds most horrific accidents. 36 people were killed as the Hindenburg crashed. The crash shows how if one little thing goes wrong, how the something much bigger may occur.

3. The photo was used as the zeppelin album cover years after tragedy happened.

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5. Sam Shere
1905-1982
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Earthrise, 5 of the 100 photos.

1. I picked this image because I liked how the earth looked in photo and is contrasted with the blue to the other black and white photos around it.

2. This photo was taken while on the first mission to the moon and the spacecraft was coming around the moon on its 4th of 10 orbits and the spacemen saw the earth coming over the moon and was amazed and took a photo of it in a black and white camera but they had a color one too and got that on out and still had time to take the photo in black and white.

3. Photo was taken by William (Bill) Anders who was the electrical engineer on the craft that day.

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5.  William Anders
Born: October 17, 1933
British Hong Kong
H went into the Naval Academy then the Air Force then to NASA then to complete some classes at Harvard.

Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

Top photo (F2.8)

Bottom photo (F16)

1. We should relate aperture to the lens on the camera because certain Lens' can only go so far with aperture.

2. The smaller the aperture, the shallower the depth of field and the brighter the photo. The higher the aperture, the larger depth of field and the darker the photo.

3. Aperture affects depth of field by what is actually focused in the photo and the more the camera would focus on certain subjects. The lower, the more blurred out portions of the photo are and the larger, the more in focus parts of the photo are.

Top photo: (by me, High shutter)

Bottom photo: (by me, low shutter)

Shutter speed:

1a. 1/160

1b. 1/80

1c. 1/400 (with a higher ISO)

1d. 1/320

1e. 1/20

1f. 1/400

2a. 1/8

2b. 1/5

2c. 1/400

2d. 3"

2e. 1/25

2f. 1/4"

The camera has 1/4000 which is used in very bright light or when shooting a very fast subject.

The camera also has a BULB setting which you can create your own shutter speed but it is used more often for longer exposures the camera doesn't have programmed. 

The camera also has 30" exposure which is a long exposure and should have a tripod to keep the picture in focus and not blur from moving the subject in the picture.

Top photo: ISO 200

Middle photo: ISO 3200

Bottom photo: ISO 6400

all taken by me :)

1. Shooting at a higher ISO allows the camera to be more sensitive to the light making the picture brighter and making the camera able to shoot at a faster shutter speed making the picture in normal light.

2. The author suggests a lower ISO to defend against a high noise/grain result in the photo resulting in higher image quality.

3. The author says, only when absolutely necessary shoot at a high ISO because it becomes really grainy and ruins the photo and says you should stick to base ISO.

Camera simulator:

Aperture settings: F2.8-F22

ISO 100-25600

Shutter Speed: 1 Second-1/4000th of a second.

Great Black and White Photographer

1.  I chose Minor White because his landscape photos looked very sharp and clean and looked pretty cool for his period in time that he lived in. his photos are also very filling and show a lot even in black and white. His pictures show what some landmarks looked like decades ago and they show the beauty of the U.S. back then too.

2. I see the sun blazing onto the two barns and grass and the blue sky as it starts to set.

I smell fresh air as the afternoon fades away.

I hear the winds and the quiet sounds of nature.

I taste the sweet taste of fruit that could be growing on the farm.

I feel the wind blowing on my face and the summer sun glowing on the earth and my skin.

Photoshop Edits

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

1. How photo-editing came into photography and how people use it these days. Some of the other main points are how easy it is these days to actually change or edit the RAW photo.

2. They used to use it but is starting to ban it as it makes the news an unreliable source (fake news) and then their company gets a bad image put on them.

3. You could probably take out small unnoticeable parts of the image and change the colors to be more appealing to the eye for the picture to be edited but still look real and natural.

4. I really thought this photo was unethical because the person was inserted from a completely different photo and scene and she looks like she doesn't belong in the picture because the guy has sunlight on his back while she doesn't and the edges of her body are really sharp to the original photo so she looks like she doesn't belong.



















5. I think is photo was the least unethical because of how they only got rid of the bird and changed the sky and the guy in the back right to where it still doesn't look fake and that norther parts of the photo were changed and it still looks natural and real.

Academic Shoot Critique

https://richardrphotoblog.blogspot.com

1. I like the framing in the bottom left because you got the entire table in the photo with the people and I also like how in the top right picture you isolated the subject.

2. I feel like the top left or bottom left could've been different people for more variety and the top right could've been moved more right to get the table in the picture because the windows are a bunch of open space. Otherwise good job.

Academic Shoot Reflection and Critique

1. Trying to get into some classrooms and some people didn't want their picture to be taken.

2. Mostly was framing and the people in the picture not moving or anything especially since it was a medium to low shutter speed. I shot at a higher Iso for a higher shutter speed to make sure there was less motion blur but the higher ISO added more grain to the photo.

3. I would definitely try and go to more classrooms knowing what I really need to do now.

4. Probably keep the same camera settings and go to the same classrooms.

5. Rule of thirds because we can adjust the where the subject is in the picture or framing because we just need them to move or the camera to move a little.

6. Avoiding merger's would probably be the hardest because in classrooms, we can't control what's in the classroom nor what is going on in the classroom as we're shooting.

7. Im still a little confused on merger's because I'm still not sure what exactly they are.

Academic Shoot #1

 1. I chose this photo because the students are in the bottom third of the photo and I was following rule of thirds.
2. The subject in the photo are the students and the main one is the guy in the right bottom corner.
3. I think it is pretty clear but some people may be confused because of how low they are in the frame.

4. Maybe move the camera a little closer to the ground but at the same angle.

1. I chose this for balance because the students are 2 o each side, the teacher in the middle and the student on the left is balanced by part of the flag on right.

2. The main subject is Mrs. Feen helping the students out with their experiment.

3. Its pretty clear just looking at the photo but because the students are somewhat in focus too, it may not be as clear as to who the main subject is.

4. Blur the students a little but more and get rid of the flag and the girl in the back.

1. I chose this because the it looked pretty cool as the the string in the middle of the bubble made a hole in which you could put anything through as long as it didn't touch the string or the bubble.

2. The main subject is the pencil going through through the bubble.

3. It's clear to almost anyone on what the subject is, the pencil going through the bubble.

4. I feel the pencil is a little out of focus as the hand in the back is more in focus but it was such a short time I had to capture the picture that I had to shoot fast before the moment was gone.

Great Black and White Photographers PART 2

Biography of Minor White

Minor white was 68 when he died on June 24, 1976, being born on July 9, 1908. His job was a photographer of landscapes and of people and of abstract subject matter. He also taught art and photo classes at colleges and some at home and he was secretly gay most of his life as he would fear he would be hated in his life because of his time period he lived in. White lived many places in the U.S during 1940-1970's up before he died in 1976 in his house in Massachusetts. White has written a book called The New Zone System Manual.

Websites used: https://www.moma.org/artists/6342
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Minor-White

Great Black and White Photographers

Top photo: Minor White

Middle: E.J. Belloc

Bottom: Micheal Meatyard

I like this photo and I chose it because it shows hard work and dedication to a certain task can help get stuff done.
A rule of composition that this photo demonstrates is simplicity and this is shown because the two people shown in the photo are building a structure or a house together.

I chose the photo below because it shows a group of hard working students working on what looks to be a science project.
I believe this demonstrates balance because it looks almost symmetrical with the way everyone is sitting at the table.