To me, this photo was the least unethical because like I mean so what if they pushed those mountains a bit closer? It didn't hurt anyone and it's not offending anything or anyone. It's not like someone is going to go to the mountains and be all disapointed because the mountains aren't that close to each other in person. These are the kinds of pictures where there isn't no harm behind it and it's okay and understandable to manipulate it. I mean the photographer did this to make the reader want to go there and see some time.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Manipulated photo (least unethical)
To me, this photo was the least unethical because like I mean so what if they pushed those mountains a bit closer? It didn't hurt anyone and it's not offending anything or anyone. It's not like someone is going to go to the mountains and be all disapointed because the mountains aren't that close to each other in person. These are the kinds of pictures where there isn't no harm behind it and it's okay and understandable to manipulate it. I mean the photographer did this to make the reader want to go there and see some time.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ethics and Fashion Photography
2. I don't think it's ethically acceptable for people to change somebody elses appearance like they did because they're trying to make her look all pretty and good for the bulletin when in fact she looks like an average person. That kind of thing is what makes teenagers worry about themselves in a way that is negative because you have them starve themselves and get plastic surgery and all those things. It's like when people manipulate with model's bodies to make them look "picture perfect."
3. I think that it's okay to do this for like a yearbook because what if people have really bad acne? What if their face is really oily? Those are the kind of circumstances in which photoshoping is okay.
4. In this video, I think it was okay to change her hair color and maybe the tone of her skin. In other situations, something that would be okay to change would be something like fixing a tooth gap, any discoloring of the teeth, hair color, bad acne, hairs in the way, change a bit of tone in the person's skin, but not to a point where they go from white to black like nothing too crazy and big just a tiny bit, a mole, and tattos I mean minor details like that but really nothing drastics and huge like the person's body like neck position and eyes.
5. To me, the difference is that fashion photography is more like advertising stuff and making the models look pretty so they can convince people to buy the item. Photojournalism is more taking pictures and making sure that if you manipulate something it's for like again bad acne and so that people don't look as bad to as fashion photography, they pretty much manipulate your whole body.
6. In my opinion, all types of photography don't really have much of a relationship because they have a different perspective towards it but they all want their picture to come out good and that it is presentable. It effects the ethical practice to each by them having a different perspective toward their work and what they want to achieve and how good it's going to look. For example, for fashion photography people change the model's whole identity so it makes people buy the item.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Manipulated Photo (most unethical)
Captions (for print)
Print Evaluation
2. Jonathan (the main subject) is what's in focus. The background is really not in focus, the computers on the table and the chairs pushed in are totally off focus.
3. I think that the main cause why it wasn't in focus was because of the distance between me and the computers.
4. I don't really think that there was a good contrast in my picture and the cause may have been the lighting at the moment when I took the photograph or I just chose a light contrast.
5. My photo is candid because it is showing education, which you can tell by looking at the computers on the background. The photo really doesn't contain much action exept for the fact that Jonathan is thinking/wondering downward. Next time, I would probably take a photo of something with more action such as giggling or laughter. The photograph fills the frame because it's focused on Jonathan and there really isn't much of a white gap and like a lot of people and you don't know what is your subject clearly. In the photograph, it consists of a Rule Of Thirds because Jonathan's head would be in the top left corner if you were to put a grid of 3 by 3 on top of it.
6. Yes, there are 2 spots on my print. They may have been caused by not drying right or when I set it down, somebody elses water spilled on my print or maybe chemicals remained there.
7. Yes, my negatives, contact sheet, test strip, and print are in my folder.
8. There is no print rings in my print.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Ethnics and Photo Manipulations
1. Well, I'm unsure towards which side I like, whether the "that's bad" kinda side or the "there's no harm towards it" side. First of all, I mean would you like a boring picture or a cool one? I mean it makes more action towards the picture if you put three bombs instead of just taking a picture of one simple bomb. On the other hand, there is a bad side to it because everything is just fake meaning that the photographer is going to get paid to just take a picture and manipulate it and turn it in like that. It's like taking a picture of a pig and then making it look like it's flying, I mean pigs don't fly and then the photographer wants us to believe that? OKAY!!
Friday, November 27, 2009
American Soldier Slideshow and Captions
2. In my opinion, the last sequence of photographs (coming home) were the most powerful to me because I kinda reflected the situation onto my personal situation, like just thinking how my sister wanted to join the army,so it's like seeing the future, her enrolling and just getting to see her for a little bit and there she goes, leaving for duty.
3. The images work together to tell the story by showing the actions and emotions of how it was for Ian to enroll into the army and how he had some ups throughout his life in the army and how he had his downs like how he let go of his girlfriend and found a new one in the end and ended up getting married. He had ups too, like how he got over his drinking problem and he had a fun time in the army despite how sleepy and stressed out he may have been at times. There were times where Ian would be a teenager and other times where he would be a complete soldier, meaning that he would act mature and on his game. His emotions would express how he felt for example, when he was training, he felt tired and hot from the sun and worked out, it was saying how much he was going through and felt like just giving up. There were also the happy times when Ian was with his friends and family and was partying and his emotions showed it as well as how the photographer captured the action of him fooling around with his buddies.
4. In the photos in which Ian is the main subject, the verbs are usually written in the present tense form.
5. The captions enhance the photos in a way that it makes the reader understand the photo and know what's really going in on in people's mind. It takes the photo to another level in which you get to know what's going on behind the image.
6. Chapter 6:In the country- 7th picture
Ian prays to god while in his room, wishing to see another day and praying for his loved ones hoping they're okay.
7. The other features enhance the photographs by adding the full story towards the picture, like for instance, if you just see the picture of Ian with the sticky note that said "Army Recrurter", you don't really know more to it except for the fact that he might be thinking about it or something, and then in the video, his father says that, "He thought about it out of the blue and he might have been thinking about it for a while." That gives you more of a statement that yeah he's been thinking about it and he's made up his mind. These other features allow you to do that, meaning that it will give you more of the story and why he felt like that, just by looking at the pictures, you might have not known that Ian and his dad are like BFF.
8. As I have said before, the videos are better than photographs because they let you know more than just by looking at this simple image that might give you questions.My example: In chapter 10: Coming Home, in the beginning it shows how there's a bunch of people waiting for their loved ones and a bunch of banners and a lot of soldiers were expected and you could see the soldiers departing from the plane to the families. In the pictures, all you see is Ian smiling and like happy to come home (DUH!), but you would never have known how much his parents were proud of him and all the emotions running through everyone and each of those who are proud of the soldiers and for them to come home.
9. The photographs are better than the videos because of the emotions that are caught in the moment. You know how they saw that a photos speaks for itself and it's worth a million words? (or something like that), well that's how it is at times because yeah the videos might say what's going on and what leads to that photo. My example: Chapter 10: Coming Home, (I was comparing the video with the photos) when Ian is in the table with his family, you can see that he's exited and anxious to tell his stories and get caught up with the 411 (haha lol!).
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Negatives Evaluation
Well there were like 3 pictures that weren't really good in my perspective because of the composition due to someone's head kinda being cut out. Others were because of the light I had taken them in, meaning that it didn't have much light or too much light. Some of them were too blurry which I think was caused by not getting to close at times.
I think that the picture(s) that I choose later on will turn out well because it wasn't too blurry and a lot of chunks weren't cut out in the picture.
I think that in my picture, focus was a technical aspect involved. Some evidence is :it's in good position and it's not too blurry.
In my favorite negative, I used the rule of thirds and simplicity because Jonathan's head would be in the top left corner if you were to put a grid on top of it. It also has simplicity because it's taken in an angle without a crazy background and just trying to get the main subject, whick is Jonathan.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Marlboro Marine Audio Slideshow
In my opinion, the effect of the multimedia in the sllideshow was that in some parts of it, there would be like a mini clip of him just looking stressed with his head down or smoking his tragedy through a cigarette. It puts a meaning that is emphasizing how he doesn't want to remember what happened in Iraq and like then he got married to Jessica and he had a lot of mixed emotions about the attack and the newly wife and he just wants to EXPLODE!!! (Or in other words, he wants to escape from everything and DIE.) Another effect that the multimedia had on the slideshow was that the tone was set from the background music that was playing and at times it makes you put yourself in his shoes and just feel like crap.
2. I think that the most powerful image from the slideshow was in the beginning where you see soldiers just traumatized by what they had just done, which is to kill people for the benefit of their country, but really they have to kill after being taught that it was wrong no matter what. If you were to just see that image, you would be like "Wow! who knew soldiers just sat there and cried themselves out", but once you think about you would put yourselves in their shoes and be like "I can't believe what I just did that" and the images of the war would go round and round in your mind.
The most powerful sequence of photographs were the last ones where the dude was just saying how it's not right to shoot another human being regardless of what your causes are or what their causes are. I think that this sequence is powerful to me because it made me really think about how much war there is and Iraq but Milller said, "What have we gained as a country?" and it's true because everyone has their own opinion about why we are there and what we want to do about it, but is it worth it? Is it going to make us a better country?
In my opinion, the audio enhances the photographs in a way that it added that extra "spice" to it is what I would call it. The rhythm was blended in with the photos to make that sorrow kind of tone to it.
The images work together to tell the story in a way that like in one of the pictures, for instance, Miller is sad and depressed while at the same time he's saying how it's ruining his life and he just wants to get away from it, and at the same time he's saying that, the picture shows him sitting down in the carpet and there's a gun in the table, which represents that he could just pull the trigger at any time and just really escape from the war.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
I was probably focused more on composition and that the lighting was good because I didn't want to get a dark picture or too bright I guess... so yea. To do this, I kept checking on the little light meter thing and check that it was ok and it wasn't in the negatives or anything. I also took pictures of the composition viewpoint by getting up close to people and taking a picture of what I had them doing or what they were already doing.
I think I attempted to use patterns by taking a picture of someone with a striped shirt that looked pretty darn cool.
The thing I would do differently would be get more emotions into the picture and do more compositions (if possible) like depth or symmetry.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Processing Black and White Photos
Step 2: Load your film onto a -preferably- plastic film reel because if your like me, who are new to all of this "things" you won't really have a hard time with. Then, you move the film onto the slot and keep on moving it into the loader.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE PRACTICED LOADING A FEW TIMES!!
Step 3: You can place the loader into the film tank and read the directions on how to cover it. Since the film is secure tightly in the tank you may turn on the lights and not be in the dark no more... yay!
Step 4: Make sure you have a temp. of about 68-70 degrees F.. Spread out the chemicals needed for processing the film.
IF YOU WANT TO GET A GOOD NEGATIVE, THEN DON'T EXCEED 75 DEGREES!!!!
Step 5: Pour developer into film tank and don't open the tank. Agitate for one minute to remove all of the air bubbles.
Step 6: Pour the running water to stop development, which is called "stop bath"
Step 7: Fix the image and use the fixer with hardener
Step 8: Remove tank cover and sit film in cold running water make sure you inspect the little film to make sure everything is going good.
Step 9: Pour your film into hypo eliminator and agitate it.
Step 10: Final wash (YAY!)
Step 11: pull film out of the tank CAREFULLY! Dont touch surface and dry film with clips dust free area.
Step 12: Give it 1-2 hours for the film to be dry, then cut six negatives long.
CONGRATS!!!! your done with this whole thing.......about time huh?
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
What the pros are doing- Repetition
What the pros are doing- Repetition
This picture has rays being repeated.
What the pros are doing- Repetition
Friday, October 23, 2009
Academics Preview- Filling the frame
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Academics Preview- The story
Academics Preview- Emotions
What the pros are doing-sports
Shot with: Canon EOS-1DS, EF 24mm f/1.4L USM, shot at 1/250 f/5.6
The effect of Shooting at this shutter speed: it came out good and it wasn't blurry or anything
The effect (Depth of field) of shooting at this aperture: it made it seem as if there were depth between the roof and the floor and like within the bleachers.
I think that the photographer was standing a bit behind the basket. I'm going to guess that it may be like a foot or two behind the out-of-bounce line.
Show and Tell - video
I was interested in this video because it's proving that people care about the environment and are taking some actions into making a difference. It's pretty cool how they have a day where they're like "we only ask for one day, that you guys go out in your bikes and go to work without using gas and polluting the earth." It amazes me how people actually do really go out in their bikes, because whenever people say "Oh lets do this" or "Hey lets do that" most of the people won't do that so yeah. This video really captivated how powerful a day without using cars can make a difference.
Show and Tell - image
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Contest Preview
The thing that makes this photograph powerful, is how its been taken in black and white and to me, it adds a more mysterious thing to it. Like there was something weird or creepy about that building. If it were to be taken in say "normally", which would be in its true colors, the building might perhaps look plain and dull. Now that I think of it, this photograph fits with the composition of viewpoint because of how the student took the picture from the bottom lookint up and the affect makes it look good and inspiring because you have to kind of take a second glance at it. By looking at the picture, it doesn't seem like the sun was really shining much, but I could be wrong and it may have been a factor in the picture as well.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Great Black and White Photographers 3
Great Black and White Photographers 3
Great Black and White Photographers part 3
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Hurricane Ike
Monday, October 12, 2009
Jerry N. Uelsmann Bio.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
He was born on July 11, 1934 in Detroit. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida, which he referred it as "my first job offer." Uelsmann got his B.F.A degree in 1957. In 1960 he received his M.S. and M.F.A. at Indiana Universtity. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. Now he is retired and lives with his wife, Maggie Taylor who is an artist, in Gainsville, Florida.His photographs are in the permanent collection of many museums worldwide.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Hurricane Ike
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
9/11 Compositions- Simplicity
9/11 Compositions- Rule Of Thirds
9/11 Compositions- Lines
9/11 Compositions- Balance
9/11 Compositions- Framing
Negative and Positive pics
- The negative picture is the opposite from the positive picture and vise versa.
- the colors changed, the negative picture took everything that was dark and took it white. Then, when we turned them into positives, the white part became dark/black and the dark/black parts became white.
- To me it seemes like in the negative picture, the trees were somewhat smaller than when I looked at them in the positive picture, but maybe I'm just halusinating.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Camera
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Pinhole Cameras
I didn't like this picture at ALL because I think it was kept too simple, I mean it doesn't really have anything to it.
There isn't anyone in this picture except for the vases.There isn't a blur what so ever to it or a type of warping going on. The vases are in focus, but the background isn't, it's somewhat softer.
Pinhole Cameras
I really liked this picture because to me it seems like somewhere I would like to be at that moment. I love the view and how Rayn Maloney took the picture. It's a true scenic view.
There is no person in the photo and I really don't see it blurry or warpy. The middle, which is like the road and the snow around it was the more focused thing. I think that the trees were out of focus.