I think this story is very sad. Everyday these people fear for their lives, even if they haven't had any bad encounter with the drug cartels. "As many as 28,000 people have been killed by the cartels since 2007", these are dramatic death counts for any one city to carry. The death in this city makes for a very sympathetic environment to even photograph.
My favorite photo in the video is the one where the father to one of the victims of the cartels has his hands over his head with a painful look of despair on his face. The composition technique very clear in this picture is the rule of simplicity, the only thing in this photo is the father and all the attention is on his emotion of sorrow and despair. This picture is also very focused,making every tense in the father's face very noticeable and distinct. This photo caught my eye because the emotion caught in this photo strung a note in my heart and made me feel sympathetic to this person.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Final Exam Study Guide
1. In order for the server drives to show up, you have to go to the desktop and click the icon that says "server_drives". After you do that, you have to click on "My Computer", then all the server drives will appear. After that you will need to click on the server drive that says "jstudents on 'akinspubserver'", that will bring you to a folder that says photojournalism, click on that folder. You will see 5 folders in the window, click on the one that says "8th period", that will bring you to a list of folders that have names on them. Find the folder that has you name on it and it will lead you to all the pictures you're saved on that drive.
4. The pinhole camera transfers light through 1 needle-sized hole onto a strip of glossy paper thus capturing a picture. This paper is light-sensitive paper, so if too much light is exposed onto the paper the photo can be ruined.
5.
a) Rule of Thirds- Imagine that the image is divided into nine equal segments by two vertical and two horizontal lines. Try to position the subject of the photo along these lines, or at the points where they intersect.
b) Balancing elements- Balance the 'weight' of your subject by including another object of lesser importance to fill the space.
c) Leading Lines- When we look at a photo our eye is naturally drawn along lines. By thinking about how you place lines in your composition, you can affect the way we view the image, pulling us into the picture, towards the subject, or on a journey 'through' the scene.
d) Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)-Patterns can make for very eye-catching compositions, particularly in situations where they are not expected. A great way to use them is to break the symmetry or pattern in some way, introducing tension and a focal point to the scene.
e) Viewpoint- Take time to think about where you will shoot it from. Rather than just shooting from eye level, consider photographing from high above, down at ground level, from the side, from the back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.
f) Background/Simplicity- Look around for a plain and simple background and compose your shot so that it doesn't distract or detract from the subject.
g) Create Depth- You can create depth in a photo by including objects in the foreground, middle ground and background. Another useful composition technique is overlapping, where you deliberately partially obscure one object with another.
h) Framing- The world is full of objects which make perfect natural frames, such as trees, archways and holes; place these around the edge of the composition you help to isolate the main subject from the outside world.
i) Cropping- By cropping tight around the subject you eliminate the background 'noise', ensuring the subject gets the viewer's undivided attention.
j) Avoiding Mergers- Mergers are things that merge with the subject, causing them to take away attention from the main object in the photo. By avoiding mergers, the photo becomes a more extraordinary picture.
6. Action makes the photo more dynamic, it gives the observer more diversity to look at. Emotion makes it easier for the onlooker to relate to the subject. Emotion tells us the background of the photo, while action tells what's going on at the moment of the picture.
7. A photo can tell a story with emotion and action combined. With both the present action and the everlasting emotion, the photo can thus tell a story.
8. Multimedia means, the combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications. We have seen multimedia in the slide show about the soldier in Iraq.
9. First sentence includes major information about the photo (who, what, where, when, why, how). You may make up the information for this assignment, it should be written in present tense as if the action of the photo is still happening.Second sentence should be past tense, and should include background information. Information in caption should not be obvious by looking at the photo. Use strong action verbs whenever possible.
Johnny and Bill are sporting in the World Cup, when Johnny thought he should present to Bill a piece of his mind. Maybe if Bill hadn't diverted his jock itch infested jock strap, his gonads wouldn't be inverted.
Matt devoted the whole day aspiring to get into shape for the big game tomorrow night. If he would've spent the summer exercising instead of attacking everything in front of him he would actually be in shape for football season.
10. Strong action verbs enhance a caption because they help make the picture more dynamic.
11. The ethics of fashion photography are that everything has to be physically attractive not matter what the costs. These ethics are not okay because it sends the message that people should alter themselves in order to be beautiful. The ethics of photojournalism send a message that beauty comes from the relationship between everything in the world. The ethics of photojournalism basically say that everything is beautiful, and that there's no need for physical change.
12. A portrait is a photo of someone else, while a self-portrait is a portrait of oneself.
13. A good portrait uses most of the rules of composition and yet are still able to keep the emotion within the relationship between the subject(s) and the photographer.
14. Newspaper prints stories every six weeks, while yearbook prints a whole 200 page album from that whole school year.
2. We use blogger.com to blog our assignments that were issued to us in the class. It is also used for us to blog what we've learned from photojournalism class.
3.First you have to put black construction paper all around the inside of the can (including bottom), be sure to glue the paper to the inside of the can. Next, you will want to tape (black tape) the black construction paper on both sides of the lid of the can. Make sure that no light is shown through the lid into the can. After you have light-proofed the can, get an X-Acto knife and cut a rectangle horizontally in the middle on the outside of the can. You should be able to push your finger through the rectangle. Then get a piece of foil and cut a square that is slightly bigger than the rectangle you've cut in the can. Paste the foil inside directly covering the rectangle light from showing into the can. After you have secured the foil, with a needle, poke a whole directly in the center of the rectangle foil. To finish it off, with the extra black construction paper, cute a decent size square to be the "flap" of the pinhole camera. tape the "flap" over the rectangle and secure it with black tape on all sides. Make sure you can open and close the flap easily.4. The pinhole camera transfers light through 1 needle-sized hole onto a strip of glossy paper thus capturing a picture. This paper is light-sensitive paper, so if too much light is exposed onto the paper the photo can be ruined.
5.
a) Rule of Thirds- Imagine that the image is divided into nine equal segments by two vertical and two horizontal lines. Try to position the subject of the photo along these lines, or at the points where they intersect.
b) Balancing elements- Balance the 'weight' of your subject by including another object of lesser importance to fill the space.
c) Leading Lines- When we look at a photo our eye is naturally drawn along lines. By thinking about how you place lines in your composition, you can affect the way we view the image, pulling us into the picture, towards the subject, or on a journey 'through' the scene.
d) Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)-Patterns can make for very eye-catching compositions, particularly in situations where they are not expected. A great way to use them is to break the symmetry or pattern in some way, introducing tension and a focal point to the scene.
e) Viewpoint- Take time to think about where you will shoot it from. Rather than just shooting from eye level, consider photographing from high above, down at ground level, from the side, from the back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.
f) Background/Simplicity- Look around for a plain and simple background and compose your shot so that it doesn't distract or detract from the subject.
g) Create Depth- You can create depth in a photo by including objects in the foreground, middle ground and background. Another useful composition technique is overlapping, where you deliberately partially obscure one object with another.
h) Framing- The world is full of objects which make perfect natural frames, such as trees, archways and holes; place these around the edge of the composition you help to isolate the main subject from the outside world.
i) Cropping- By cropping tight around the subject you eliminate the background 'noise', ensuring the subject gets the viewer's undivided attention.
j) Avoiding Mergers- Mergers are things that merge with the subject, causing them to take away attention from the main object in the photo. By avoiding mergers, the photo becomes a more extraordinary picture.
6. Action makes the photo more dynamic, it gives the observer more diversity to look at. Emotion makes it easier for the onlooker to relate to the subject. Emotion tells us the background of the photo, while action tells what's going on at the moment of the picture.
7. A photo can tell a story with emotion and action combined. With both the present action and the everlasting emotion, the photo can thus tell a story.
8. Multimedia means, the combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications. We have seen multimedia in the slide show about the soldier in Iraq.
9. First sentence includes major information about the photo (who, what, where, when, why, how). You may make up the information for this assignment, it should be written in present tense as if the action of the photo is still happening.Second sentence should be past tense, and should include background information. Information in caption should not be obvious by looking at the photo. Use strong action verbs whenever possible.
10. Strong action verbs enhance a caption because they help make the picture more dynamic.
11. The ethics of fashion photography are that everything has to be physically attractive not matter what the costs. These ethics are not okay because it sends the message that people should alter themselves in order to be beautiful. The ethics of photojournalism send a message that beauty comes from the relationship between everything in the world. The ethics of photojournalism basically say that everything is beautiful, and that there's no need for physical change.
12. A portrait is a photo of someone else, while a self-portrait is a portrait of oneself.
13. A good portrait uses most of the rules of composition and yet are still able to keep the emotion within the relationship between the subject(s) and the photographer.
14. Newspaper prints stories every six weeks, while yearbook prints a whole 200 page album from that whole school year.
- Emulsion- a composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light, consisting of one or more of the silver halides suspended in gelatin, applied in a thin layer to one surface of a film or the like.
- Aperture- an opening, you can adjust this opening on most cameras
- Masking Easel- A frame, often with adjustable masks, used to hold photographic paper flat and control borders when printing enlargements.
- Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination
- Safe Light- A darkroom light with a filter that transmits only those rays of the spectrum to which films, printing paper, etc., are not sensitive.
- Dodging- To shade part of picture from exposure for a period, while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area.
- Burning- To expose one part of an image to more light by masking the other parts in order to darken and give greater detail to the unmasked area.
- Contact Sheet- A contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.
- Agitation- The act of moving something vigorously; the shaking or stirring of something.
- Enlarger- An apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.
- Developer- A reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
- Stop Bath- An acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
- Fixer- A chemical substance, as sodium thiosulfate, used to promote fixation.
- Single Lens Reflex Camera- In the single-lens reflex camera the photographer sees the scene through the camera lens.
- Pentaprism- five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by 90°.
- Image sensor- is a device that converts an optical image to an electric signal.
- Parallax- an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
- aperture- a hole or an opening through which light travels.
- shutter- a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.
- exposure-The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene controls the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time, and the shutter controls the length of time that the light hits the recording surface.
- depth of field- the portion of a scene that appears acceptably sharp in the image.
- F-stop- expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens; in simpler terms, the f-number is the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.
- focal length- a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Yearbook Spread
Yearbook Spread-
Newspaper spread-
http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/newspaperid/51/Default.aspx
http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/newspaperid/51/Default.aspx
Abandoned Theme Parks
1. The amusement park that I would like to visit is the Spreepark in Berlin. The part about this photo that makes me want to go there and take photos is the greenery and the unique attraction qualities. The colorful dragon covered by a forest of trees seems like a unique subject to take a picture of. the trees and the tracks add a mysterious ambiance to the photo, while the colorful exotic animals balance the photo out.
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3. Moon Valley, Bolivia
Dinosaur Provisional Park, Canada
Chocolate Hills, Phillipines
Burren Landscape, Ireland
Petra
4. Felix Hugs
5. I think it would be fun to photograph this location because the colors are so vibrant and the hills resemble hershey kisses. I think the types of photos taken here would have really great balance because to balance off all the green there is also a nice variety of brown within the hills.
6. To be able to take a photo like this is that I would need to get all my shots for all the different diseases out in the Phillipines. I would also need a lot of money to buy all the equipment such as a professional camera, a plane ticket, money for a hotel and food and a rental car. I would also need access to a helicopter to take an aerial shot like this.
3. Moon Valley, Bolivia
Dinosaur Provisional Park, Canada
Chocolate Hills, Phillipines
Burren Landscape, Ireland
Petra
5. I think it would be fun to photograph this location because the colors are so vibrant and the hills resemble hershey kisses. I think the types of photos taken here would have really great balance because to balance off all the green there is also a nice variety of brown within the hills.
6. To be able to take a photo like this is that I would need to get all my shots for all the different diseases out in the Phillipines. I would also need a lot of money to buy all the equipment such as a professional camera, a plane ticket, money for a hotel and food and a rental car. I would also need access to a helicopter to take an aerial shot like this.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Portraits and Self-portraits
My favorite self portrait was of Sydney Herndon in the ATPI contest in 2002. I like this photo because it shows emotion in such great simplicity. The photographer demonstrates techniques such as "Rule of Thirds", leading lines, balance, simple background, and framing. These techniques help to create so much depth, even with minimal objects in the frame.
My favorite professional portrait was taken by Mark Seliger of Willie "The Lion" Smith. I like this photo because it captures a blues vibe in a very classy and sophisticated way. I think the photographer used great techniques such as, leading lines, "Rule of Thirds", repetition. these techniques help to demonstrate a sense of comfort that is presented within the photograph.
My favorite professional portrait was taken by Mark Seliger of Willie "The Lion" Smith. I like this photo because it captures a blues vibe in a very classy and sophisticated way. I think the photographer used great techniques such as, leading lines, "Rule of Thirds", repetition. these techniques help to demonstrate a sense of comfort that is presented within the photograph.
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