Final Exam Review

1.

 John Jones, the monkey trainer at the zoo, approaches the monkey to whip him because he wasn't doing his part in the Russian circus. The trainer whipped the monkey so hard that he couldn't participate in the next show.

Karly and Michelle lay on their mats in Africa after being diagnosed with HIV last night. The HIV epidemic was spreading through their town after foreign travelers came and accidentally brought it to them.
2. 

• Rule Of Thirds- When the subject of the picture lines up with one go the lines of thirds in the picture.
• Balancing Elements- When there is equal amounts of something on both sides EX: color, open space, etc.
• Leading Lines- When something in the photo draws your eye to the subject with some sort of line or lines
• Symmetry/Patterns- When a certain pattern in the picture is repeated over and over in the picture EX: dots, bricks, color, etc.
• Viewpoint- When you change you perspective as the photographer by going above or below the subject
• Background- When the background of the picture is simple and doesn't take away from the subject
• Create Depth- When you make the photo look like some objects are closer or farther away than they really are
• Framing- When the subject in your is framed on at least 3 sides by something else in the picture. 
• Cropping- When you crop the picture to make the subject of your picture fill up more of the frame
• Mergers and avoiding them- 

3. 

• Aperture- the space where light passes through in the camera, determines how much light is let into the picture. The f-stop
• Shutter Speed- how fast the shutter closes when taking a picture, how much exposure is in the picture
• ISO- Camera's Sensitivity to light. lower setting makes it less sensitive and a higher setting makes it more sensitive

Magazine Cover

Portrait

Self Portrait

Fashion Photography

1.

• Her lips were made fuller
• Her neck/collarbones were made skinnier
• Made her neck longer
• Moved down her eyebrows
• Made her eyes bigger
• Ears made smaller
• Made her face skinnier
• Made her cheekbones more prominent

2. 

• Made her skin tone more even
• Made her lips fuller
• Made her nose smaller
• Raised her eyebrows
• Made her eyes bigger
• Made her eyes more detailed
• Lifted her shoulder
• Made her stomach smaller
• Made her legs longer
• Made her feet smaller
• Made her torso longer
• Made her arms longer
• Made her thighs smaller

3.

• Made her legs way skinnier
• Made her butt smaller and rounder
• Made her arms skinnier
• Made her torso skinnier
• Made her waist smaller
• Made her face skinnier
• Gave her more hair
• Made her boobs bigger
• Made her legs longer
• Made her head smaller

4. I don't think it is ethically acceptable to change people's appearance like how they did in these videos. I can understand if they changed one small thing like covering up blemishes but nothing extreme like the videos. They completely changed the way the model looked and I don't think that is okay. 

5. I think it would be even more ethically wrong to do this if the model was modeling for any campaign about natural beauty or anything like that. Even though I think it is always unacceptable it would be even worse in this case because they wouldn't even be showing the model's natural beauty.

6. Some changes that are okay are covering up small blemishes, changing the models hair color, or something very small like that. I don't think it is okay to completely alter the models face or body by making them skinner, fuller, or taller. 

7. Fashion photography is always about fashion and models while photojournalism could be about anything and doesn't have to have models in it. Photojournalism also always has an article to go with it while fashion photography doesn't. 

8. Fashion photography is not always close to the reality because they alter the bodies and faces of the model so that is definitely not real. Photojournalism is almost always very real because they don't really have anything they could alter or change. I don't think fashion photography is very ethical at all because  it is almost never the truth. 

9. I think you are showing us these videos so that we can see how much you can do in photoshop and to see what fashion photography is all about. 

10. I don't think any of these videos are about men because there is usually more of an issue with photographers photoshopping girls facies and bodies. Girls are also usually more self-conscious about their bodies so it is more of a big deal. 

Magazine Covers

Blog #1
5 things you should be thinking about while making a magazine cover are:

• Make it arouse Curiosity
• Make it emotionally irresistible
• Make it intellectually stimulating/interesting
• Make it efficient, fast/easy to read
• Make it worth the investment of money and time

Blog #2

1. informal 
2. formal
3. informal
4. informal
5. formal
6. informal
7. formal
8. formal
9. formal
10. formal 
11. formal
12. informal
13. environmental
14. formal
15. formal
16. infromal
17. formal

Blog #3

"Benjamin Lowy’s photograph of Floyd Mayweather wasn’t intended to be a cover; he took this shot for what we call a “technique shot.” Yet when we saw the defending champ demonstrating his famous shoulder roll, we knew it had to be the cover of our Fight Issue, one with profiles and separate covers of Mayweather and his opponent Canelo Alvarez. We decided to go with a bright white background—a rarity for The Magazine—to contrast the fighter’s dark skin, showing off the beads of sweat on his forehead and intense concentration in his eyes. We offer this cover as an athlete who is the embodiment of his craft in a rare moment when boxing rose to the top of the sports conversation."
  - See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.on0eLyhp.dpuf

Critique: I really liked this cover because you can really see the concentration in his eyes and you can see how hard he was working because of the sweat. You can obviously see that Mayweather is a boxer just by looking at the picture because the photographer captured his boxing gloves and even the fist swinging at him which I think is very rare and cool. I also really liked how the made the magazine have a light background so that it contrasts really well with his skin and he stands out more. The lighting of this picture is really good because it is just perfect to see all of the details in his face. I think it was a really good idea to have the cover be black and white because it adds more emotion to the picture and it is really appealing to the eye. 

Blog #4

Early Magazine Covers didn't usually have an actual cover, they usually used the from page as like the title and table of contents. Most people who made magazine covers tried to style them after a book cover so they were pretty boring. Some covers just had an illustration that mainly related to what was in the book but it didn't reveal anything specific about what was inside. 

The Poster Cover was mainly just a very large picture or illustration with a title. It looked as if it was supposed to be printed out and hung on a wall instead of being read. They would sometimes also have smaller cover line that would further explain what the magazine was actually about. Poster covers still appear sometimes on magazines that are already very confident with the amount of readers they get. 

Pictures Married to Type covers were mostly just a picture of the model or subject with the title and few cover lines. There weren't too many words on the cover but the words that were on there didn't describe the articles inside as you might think. Most of the words on the covers were actually names of the people who contributed to the magazine and the title.

In The Forest of Words covers are the normal covers that we usually see. They have a lot of words on the cover as well as a main big picture of the model or subject. The words on the cover are the title and smaller subtitles that describe some of the bigger articles and content that are actually inside of the magazine so you  know what you are reading. 

Second Prompt Shoot

Cold

 Electric

Purple

American Soldier NOT FINISHED

1.

A: I think the most powerful picture in this slideshow is the one where Ian is walking towards the plane to leave. I think it is very powerful because you can see the emotion on his face because it is finally real and he is actually leaving for war.

B:
Set 1: Image 1- Image 9
Set 2: Image 10-Image 50
Set 3: Image 51-Image 75
Set 4: Image 76-Image 82

I think Set 2 is the most powerful because you can see the transformation in Ian's life as you see how hard it is for him and all of the things that he goes through before he actually gets deployed.

C: The images really work together to tell a story because you can see all of the steps and stages that Ian went through to join the army and all of the training he had to go through. It is real powerful because you see all of the emotions from his return and his leaving.

3.

A: For the photos where Ian is the main subject, the captions are usually written in present tense.

B: The captions enhance the photographs because they help you understand what is going on in the picture so it can help tell the story of Ian a little better.

4.

A:

Rules of Photography Part 2

 Rule of Thirds

 Leading Lines

 Viewpoint

 Balance

 Background

 Cropping

Framing

Self Portraits and Portraits Part 1

• Experiment with Lighting
• Break the Rules of Composition
• Experiment with Subject Expressions

 I liked this environmental portrait because you can see the old man's story about how his family is gone because he is sitting alone with all of the pictures. I like how the put the man in the center so you can see everything else.

I liked this environmental portrait because they only captured the lower portion of the subject. I also liked how they introduced a prop to the picture and used a simple background. The picture just looks really good because of all the things they put together. 

 I really liked this self portrait because he added his touch to show that he was a photographer by placing an image inside of his hands. I also like how it is in black and white and the background is white because it makes the picture look so simple. 

I liked this self portrait because I think it's really cool how he used the smoke effect to make it look like he is disappearing. I also like that it is black and white because it helps to make the portrait look even more dramatic. 

 I liked this casual portrait because I think the angle they got at makes the picture look really good. I like how you can see the little girl through the grass because it makes it more interesting than just a normal portrait. I also like how she isn't looking at the camera.

I like this casual portrait because the subject isn't looking down the lens, but they are looking at a different angle and it adds emotion. I also like the how the put him on a line of thirds so you could see the pattern of the fence in the background.

For my portrait shoot I will probably take pictures of my older sister because she has really bright blue eyes. I will most likely do a close up on one of her eyes with a blue background to bring put her eyes. I might also have her put on her glasses to frame her eyes and maybe put her right in the center go the picture. I will also take pictures of my friend Adriana while she is jumping on the trampoline. I will most likely be in worm's eye view so it can be a really cool jumping picture. I would also like if I could get a picture of her completely in the air on a line of thirds. 

ISO

 Photo taken at ISO 6400

Photo taken at ISO 200

1. The advantages of using a higher ISO during a sporting event is because you can freeze motion better and can get a good action shot. 

2. The author suggested lowing a lower ISO whenever you can because the photo won't have as much noise and the quality will turn out better.

3. The author suggested using a high ISO when there isn't enough light for the camera to quickly capture an image or when you are focusing more on freezing the action.

Aperture:

The highest aperture setting is 2.8 and the lowest is 22. 

Shutter Speed:

The fastest shutter speed is 1/4000 of a second and the slowest is 1 second. 

ISO:

The lowest ISO is 100 and the highest is 256000.

Shutter Speed

 Photo taken at high shutter speed

Photo taken at low shutter speed

1. Sun still up

a) High shutter speed

b)High shutter speed

c) High shutter speed

d)Low shutter speed

e) Low shutter speed

f) High shutter speed

No sun 

a)Low shutter speed

b)Low shutter speed

c)High shutter speed

d)Low shutter speed

e)High shutter speed

f)Low shutter speed

2. Auto mode- Shutter speed and aperture are decided for you by the camera
Shutter Priority- Aperture is decide by the camera but you manually set she shutter speed each time
Manual- You manually set shutter speed and aperture each time you shoot

Aperture

 Photo Taken at f2.8

Photo Taken at f32

1. We should relate aperture to our pupil because they work very similarly. 

2. The smaller the aperture the larger the f-stop, the larger the aperture the smaller the f-stop.

3. Aperture definitely affects depth of field because when the aperture is smaller it means that the depth of field is very large so almost everything is in focus. When the aperture is larger, the depth of field gets smaller and focuses only on the foreground objects. 

Love and Loss

1. At first I felt really happy for the couple because they looked like they loved each other very much and they both looked happy. As I kept scrolling down I started to get more and more sad when I saw the wife slowly dying and how sad her expressions were.

2. Now that I have looked at these photos I can really understand this comment. I think it makes a lot of sense because the photos are actual events that happened in their life and that is their story. They don't define him because that is him and that is his life.

3. I personally don't think I could shoot photos like this if I was in this situation because it would just make me really sad to capture the emotion and look at those sad pictures all of the time. On the other hand I feel like I would want to capture the happy moments to remember when they were gone.

4. If I could write Angelo a letter I would tell him that he did a great job capturing all of those moments to completely tell a story. I would also apologize for his loss because that must have been a really hard thing for him to go through because he lost his wife and best friend.

Abandoned Theme Park

Abandoned Theme Parks

1. I would like to visit the Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan because it really caught my eye. I really liked how unique the cars on the ferris wheel were and how rusted they were. I think it would be really fun to go out and take pictures there because you could get up pretty high and take pictures of the whole park. I also liked the big roller coaster and how the cars were just stuck up at the top of it. I also like how the weather is foggy because it makes for a really spooky picture. 

2.

3. Places I thing would be interesting for photographers:

-Graveyards

-sunken ships

-old churches

-hot air balloon festival

-sunsets on a mountain

4.

5. I think it would be really fun to take pictures of a sunken ship because it is really creepy and unusual. It interests me because you can explore through the ship and get so many different kinds of pictures that most people would never see. Since it is underwater you always have the chance to get a picture of fish swimming through the ship. I just think it would be fun to take pictures here because you could swim around an explore. 

6. It would be very challenging for me to take pictures at a sunken ship because I would need to get a scuba diving license which would be pretty hard. I would also have to research places where sunken ships are and travel to them. I would need to get a very expensive camera that can take pictures underwater so it would be pretty hard for me to get some pictures. 

Africa

Africa

1. I really like his work because he just captures the natural beauty of animals while they aren't doing anything exciting. I like how he tries to get as much of the background and landscape as he can in the picture. His pictures really stand out to me because they are so natural and calm and very pleasing to the eye. I think its awesome how honest he is when he says he doesn't have a connection with the animals he is just obsessed with their beauty. 

I really liked this picture because the photographer captured a really nice balance between both zebras and the background helps the main subjects really stand out. This photograph is balanced because both zebras are right next to each other, looking in the same diraction, and they split the picture right down the center.

5. Nick Brandt uses a Pentax 6711 while he takes pictures of the animals. That is important because he doesn't use zoom lenses or telephoto because he likes the actual beauty of the animals and actually being close to them.


6.Brandt takes these photo because he wants to capture the wild animals and places before they are destroyed or changed in some way.

7. His hope is to show people the natural state of being that the animals are in and to to show the world their natural beauty before they are gone.

8. "To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera." -Nick Brandt

Captions

John, Peter, Ella and Lee sit posing on a bench outside their home.
They imitated the 3 Wise monkeys, and John, Peter and Lee seemed to
be more photo-ready than Ella.

(See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, take no crap)

Martha and Stacy laugh and joke around as they take pictures at their friends 70th birthday party. They have known each other for years and love to party.

Grace doesn't actually hate everyone, her granddaughter, Priscilla made her wear this shirt. Grace and Priscilla have a very good relationship, in fact, Priscilla is Grace's favorite grandchild.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

1. Jerry Uelsmann's photos definitely caught my eye as soon as I looked at them because almost all of them are 2 pictures morphed together and they are very edited. I think his photos are really interesting and unique because the way he edits them is very different.
2. I can see the the dark black lake draping the photo. I see the wrinkles and lines covering the hands. I see the trees and mountains in the horizon. (picture 2)
I smell the crisp, stale air. I smell the earth dirt and roots hanging from the tree. I smell the murky, smelly, brown water. (picture 1)
I hear the rushing water falling off the cliff. I hear the screams of people falling into the endless void. I hear the hollow boat slowly falling to the water. (picture 3)
I taste the cold air and snowflakes covering the mountains. I taste the dirty, murky water in my mouth. I taste the earthy and natural feel in the picture. (picture 1)
I feel fear as I stare into the dark black water. I feel the cold water resting in the palm of my hands. I feel the storm clouds slowly moving in to the scene. (picture 2)
3. I would like to create a blog or powerpoint to share Jerry Uelsmann with the world because it would be kind of hard to see his pictures on a poster since they are so dark.

Photo Mural Project

1. A theme we could do here at Bowie is maybe a panel for each of the dress up days we have had like pink out, black out, and America day.

2. I think we should use phones and cameras just depending on what the photographer wants to use.

3. I would just put the murals like in the hallways or by the library so people could see it.

Academic Shoot Reflection and Critique

1. Some of the challenges I faced during this shoot were that I found it hard to walk into the classrooms and ask the teachers if I could take pictures because I was embarrassed.

2. I found myself thinking a lot about what I wanted the camera to focus on in the picture. I think I did a good job of doing this in my Lines photo because it partly focused on the left line which is what I wanted.

3. If I did this shoot again I would think more about all of the rules that I wanted to incorporate in this picture and focus more on that.

4. The things I would do the same were go to the library and get pictures of students because it was a really good place to see everyone working.

5. I think the easiest rule to achieve without noticing is Rule of Thirds because it is kind of the natural thing to do.

6. I think the hardest rule to capture is framing or simplicity because they are hard to naturally capture in a lot of situations.

7. I honestly understand all of the composition rules because I have learned them before.

http://emmaphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/balance.html#comment-form

I think her photos are all really good because they follow the rules really well and they are very creative. One thing I think she could change is to make sure her pictures have a little more to do with academics.

Academic Shoot

Balance

1. I think I followed the rule well because you can easily see that the binder splits the middle and there is one boy on each side.
2. The subject in this photo is the boys studying or looking at their binder in the middle of the picture.
3. I think it is clear to see what the subject is because there is no other people in the background and it is focused on the subject.
4. I followed the rule pretty well and I don't think there is anything I could have done differently.

Framing

1. I followed the rule in this picture because the students in the classroom are being framed on 3 of the 4 sides of the photo.
2. The subject in this photo is pretty broad because it us focused on all of the students that are working in the room.
3. It is somewhat hard to find the subject in the picture because there isn't one specific subject that you are supposed to look at.
4. I could have followed the rule better by maybe getting the students to be framed on all 4 sides instead of just 3.

Lines

1. I followed the rule in this photo because you can easily see the lines going across both sides of the picture.
2. There isn't really a subject in this photo because it is mostly just focused on the lines on the picture.
3. It is pretty hard to find a subject in this picture unless you consider the students in their desks a subject.
4. I could have followed the rule a little better by making sure that there is one thing that the lines are leading to.

Rule of Thirds

1. I followed the rule for this picture because the two boys are right in the perfect spot to please the human eye.
2. The subject in this photo is the 2 boys looking at their computer and working.
3. It is pretty easy to find the subject in this photo because it is focused only on the boys and they are right in the rule of thirds
4. I could have followed the rule better by maybe shifting the camera over to the left just a little bit.

Simplicity

1. I followed the rule in this picture because it is only focused on the boy and his work and their is nothing in the background.
2. The subject in this photo is obviously the boy working and it is pretty clear.
3. The subject is really easy to see in this picture because it is the only thing going on.
4. I could have followed the rule by maybe getting the backpack on the table out of the picture because it is a little distracting.

Academic Shoot Preview Assignment

The Story

 This photo really does a good job of telling us the story that all of these students gathered together to pray before school. The photographer did a really good job at capturing the moment where everyone is still and their eyes are closed while they are holding hands praying. This photo appeals to the eye because there is a lot of repetition with the people and there is balance going on since there is the same amount of people on both sides.

Action and Emotion

This picture doesn't really show any action but I feel like it has a lot of emotion. The photographer fit a really good job of getting a good angle so you can see her emotions and all of the books. You can tell that she looks happy while she is reading and this picture just looks so emotional. The photographer used rule of thirds by putting the girl on the upper third of the picture so you can see more of whats going on.

Filling the Frame

The Photographer did a good job at filling the frame and getting as close as they could to the subject. If they got any closer than you couldn't tell what was going on in the picture. The frame is filled with a lot  of interesting stuff because you can see everything thats going on and the light and smoke look really cool. 

Part 2

My favorite picture was the "Melancholy" one. It is a picture of a boy poring two different chemicals into one beaker at the same time so it looks really cool. It is a very close up picture and it is taken kind of from a worms eye view. 

1. I picked this picture because I really liked the colors in it and I like how it was focused on the boy. I also like how interested he looked in what he was doing. 

2. Some of the composition rules in this picture are balance because the picture look almost symmetrical. It also really fills the frame because it is so close to the subject. 

Pictures I could take

1. I think I could take pictures like these in science classrooms where there are experiments going on. I also think I could take some in the library where people are working. 

2. I would like to visit Mr. Damman's classroom, Ms. Holloway's room, and the library. 

3. I would make sure to use as many composition rules as I can to be the best photographer I can.

Unethical Photoshopping

A. On April 1st in Israel it was portrait day for the cabinet and someone ended up editing the picture that the photographer took. They went over the two women in the cabinet and digitally replaced them with men to make it an all men cabinet. On April 1, 2007 another photographer and photoshopped a picture of the Bluffton University baseball team. They were all praying about fellow team mates that they lost and the photographer edited a man in the background so that he had no legs.

B. I think this kind of photo editing is unethical because it completely changes the meaning or purpose of the picture. I think it is okay to edit a picture and emphasize certain parts to make the photo look better but I don't think its okay to change the subjects of the photo.

I think the editing they did to the photo above is very unethical because it changes the meaning of the picture. Before it was edited the soldier had his arm out like he was telling the man to stop but now he has no arm out and its just him and his gun. Now it looks like the soldier wants the man to come to him so that he can kill him.

I think the editing of this photo isn't that bad because it doesn't have a very significant change. All they did was move the pyramids a little closer together to make the picture look better. I don't think anybody would get offended by the change in this photo so therefore I don't think it is unethical.

Post Shoot Reflection

Part 1

1. I faced some challenges during this shoot because about halfway through it a bunch of people came out and it was hard to take pictures with them in my way. It was also challenging to find a lot of happy stuff outside except flowers.

2. I found myself thinking a lot about how I wanted to focus the pictures and what angle I wanted. While taking the picture that I used for metal I had to take it in several different angles and I had to make sure that it focused on the vine.

3. I'm not sure I would do much to change the pictures I took because I already knew the composition rules. I might just make sure that some of my photos were more in the rule of thirds.

4. I would keep using lines and focusing on the subjects that I wanted if I had to do this shoot again. I think most of the pictures I took were pretty good and used some of the composition rules.

5. I did have some of the composition rules that I wanted to have. I had leading lines a couple of times and rule of thirds.

6. I liked the prompts that we had to shoot because you could be really creative with them but I don't know if I would shoot them again.

Part 2

http://jackphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/metal-bowie-happy-square.html

1. I think his Happy photo is really good because it is focused on the pink flower and that is automatically what your eye is drawn too.

2. I also really liked his Metal photo is really interesting because it is so close and focused and it is really appealing to the eye.

3. I think he could have leveled out his square picture a little more and maybe have gotten a little closer.

Avoiding Mergers

This photo doesn't avoid mergers very well because it looks like the girl and the buildings are on the same plane. The picture isn't very appealing to the eye because its hard to focus on both of the subjects.

Simplicity

This photo really shows simplicity because it is a simple blue background with nothing in the way. It focuses your eye to look at the building and you don't get distracted by anything else.

Rule of Thirds

This picture uses rule of thirds because the towers are not directly in the center, they are shifted more to the right. The rule of thirds helps draw your eye to the towers and it is more pleasing to the eye.