Choice Sheets

I would like to be in yearbook because it seems not really easier but more fun. I'm more interested in the year book, and choosing how I want it to look at set it up. Plus I could get to go to most of the games, fun school activities and take pictures of memorable moments. Newspaper seems so serious and I;m not really into that. Plus 50 stories!!! That's a lot, and I know for a fact a bunch of students will want a yearbook over the school newspaper.

http://my.hsj.org/Schools/Newspaper/tabid/100/newspaperid/273/view/frontpage/Default.aspx

Abandoned Theme Parks

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph.


Its a tie between, Six Flags in New Orleans, or Okpo Land, South Korea. Six Flags because it looks so beautiful nad I love how abandoned it looks. Its like it has character. It also gives it this scary vibe and I want to go around and take pictures of whatever I see. Plus its kind of old school looking. The park in South Korea because it seems cool to go to a a park I've never even seen before because I've been to six flags before and in the pictures it seems so peaceful and I love the photos the photographer took of the park. They inspire me.

2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.

• Abandon Churches.
• Big cities.
• Under the ocean
• Paris
• Other countries.

4. Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.

5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there.


I am really interested in old places, or abandon places especially if they were around and running year and years and years before I was even thought of, I like to see how people back then lived and the differences between how those places look then to now. I would take pictures of not the church itself but parts inside like this one.

6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.

I would first have to ask the owner or some sort of authority to ask permission if I were allowed to go, if yes then I would have to find a way there, I'd probably get a crew of people to go with me and map out like 10-20 churches and rent a van and travel around to get to those places, I might have to take a plain a couple times but I'd do those last. I'd need of course a camera probably a camera light. I would also need a passport going into another country and such.
 

Portraits and self-portraits - start looking

I think what makes a good photo is when it either tells a story, makes a statement, or makes you feel what's going on in the photo. Has good detail, FOLLOWS THE RULES OF PHOTOGRAPHY. What I want to do is probably talk a picture of either telling a story or making a statement of some sort.

Print evaluation - My first print

Kiara Dailey, reading silently to herself in her 6th period photojournalism class after finish the days assignment. Kiara picked up and random book and suddenly got very interested in her readings.

1.) Is anything in sharp focus?
Her face.
a.) Describe what is in focus and what is not.
Her face is in focus and the top part of the book-self, you can see the details on her face, the bottom of the book self nothing is in focus, nor her clothes and the the photo is so light that you can barley make out or even see the words on the book.
b.) If not in focus, state the cause.
I wasn't focused on the book self or her clothes I was focusing on her face.
2.) Is there good contrast? (Look for the blacks and whites in the photo)?  The contrast is fine.
a.) If no, state the probable cause?

3.) Are all the rules followed? (Is the photo candid? Does the subject fill the frame? Does the photo contain action? Does it follow composition rules? Does it show "academics"?)
a.) If yes, explain what techniques were used and how you followed them in your photo. 
Yes I did follow the rules, all of the steps worked. The only problem we had was the paper was sort of old and so was the chemistry so the photo is more gray then black and white. How I took the photo was next to the book self there was a latter I just got on the latter until I found a good angle of her, checked the lighting and focus, then took the picture.
b.) If no, how will you correct this next time?

4.) Is there yellowing or are there spots on the print?
No.
a.) If yes, what caused it/them?

5.) Are there print rings or spots?
Yes.
a.) If yes, state the probable cause.
This could have happened during the chemistry part.
 
6.) Are your negatives, contact sheet, test strip and print stored in your folder?
Yes.
a.) If no, explain why.

Ethics in fashion photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

• Made her lips fuller.
• Lifted her neck up
• Made her hair a bit longer, more full, and moved it around.
• Made her eyes bigger
• Slimmed her face some, and bronzed her cheeks.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not? 

No it is not, I believe a person is beautiful no matter what. I can understand if she mas a few blemishes here and there to fix those or make them go away, but to resize and arrange a person face to make them look better or prettier is wrong. Everyone is beautiful in they're own way, plus if thats what the media feels is the appropriate way to look its not because when a girl gets ready in the morning they don't have the material to change they're appearance like that.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?

Maybe, if the changed everything about a model, like hair eyes, face, neck, body, color ect.
4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?

Okay-blemish removing, make up fixing, or applying make up to a person, teeth whitening ect. Wrong-making them look skinnier, or changing any part of they're body that is permanently them, like eyes, nose, face, head shape ect.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

Photojournalism, you capture a moment, a REAL moment nothing is being fixed edited out or made to look better. Fashion photography is changing a person appearance to enhance them, to sell a product or make the media feel like this is how 'beauty' looks.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? 

 The relationship between photography of fashion isn't real. Its all fake. The relationship between photojournalism, is like I said to capture a real moment. Fashion photography, will do whatever they want because all they have on their mind is sell sell sell and what more they can do to catch a persons eye, as for photojournalism is to tell facts, what you see is what you get.

Negatives Evaluation

1. From looking at your negatives, how many of your photos do you think turned out well?

5 or 6, but I can't tell that well, because I am looking at them from my film

2. How many of your photos appear like they will not turn out well? Why do you think these photos did not turn out (Ex: Over/under exposed, not focused, bad composition)?

5 and because they weren't in focus.

3. Select the negative image that you think will turn out the best when it is printed. Why do you think this photo will turn out well?

I'm pretty sure it will, its in focus, the lighting in perfect and its a good angle.

4. What technical aspects of photography (focus, exposure, composition) do you think are present in your best negative? What evidence can you provide from the appearance of the negative to support your answer?

Because the picture looks clear, there are no really dark or light parts on the negative photo.

5. What advanced composition techniques (Ex: rule of thirds, leading lines) that you have learned in class are present in your favorite negative?

Rule of thirds.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. Summarize the main points of the story in 1-4 sentences.

These photographer went around messing with other photographers photos. Telling false stories that didn't happen. 1 was the rocket ships, the original photo (what really happened) the 3rd rocket didn't launch, but those photographers edited the photo and made it seem like every rocket had launched, therefore telling false stories.

B. Explain why you think this type of photo editing is unethical or acceptable.

Its unethical, because one these photographers had no right going around messing with photos which didn't belong to them, especially if its for a story. Changing the story, to make people believe its true when its not isn't a good thing.

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A. Post the manipulation that you think was the most unethical, and explain why you think it was unethical.

 Before..

After..

This one told a false report making it seem like the that solider was going to hurt the man with the child.

B. Post the manipulation that you consider the least unethical, and explain why you think it is not as bad as others. 

This photo is not that bad at all, the only thing that was done to this photo was moving the pyramids closer together to make the photo look better behind the camels.

Making a Black and White print

 Definitions

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, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc. Also called aperture stop . Optics . an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

Masking easel-A darkroom device used to hold paper flat while exposing it to light from an enlarger. An easel creates a white border surrounding a print because its "arms" block light from striking the print paper's edges.
Exposure-the act of presenting a photosensitive surface to rays of light.

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.

the image resulting from the effects of light rays on a photosensitive surface.

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-(in printing) to shade (an area of a print) from exposure for a period,  

while exposing the remainder of the print in order to lighten or eliminate the area (sometimes fol. by out )
Burning-Basically, a darkroom process that gives additional exposure to part of the image projected on an enlarger easel to make that area of the print darker.

Materials

• Safe light

• Paper 

• Liquid Measurement Devices (graduate)

• Tongs
  

• Thermometer

• Squeegee

• Hanging Clips

• Darkroom

• Enlarger, 

• Easel, 

• Processing Trays (at least three, preferably five),

• Sink

• Rubber gloves, 

• A length of string or sturdy cord to hang prints from when drying, 

• Tacks or push pins to attach the string to the walls, 

• Plastic or wooden clips to attach the prints to the string.

•  Timer

Chemicals

Developer  Stop Bath and  Fixer.

 

 

  Switch on the enlarger light. Place a masking ease on the baseboard.

Place a used piece of photographic print paper white-side-up on the easel. Switch on enlarger light. Scale and focus image. Create a border around the image by sliding the easel arms up to the edge of the image so it just overlaps. Switch off the enlarger light and place a sheet of unused print paper emulsion-side-up on the easel. Close the top of the easel so that the arms are centered on the page. Select a filter if using variable contrast paper. Filters are usually placed inside a slot in the enlarger head and come in five grades, 1 being low-contrast and 5 being high-contrast. Place filter in filter holder and close securely. Set the aperture and timer using the test-strip as a guide. Switch on timer. After exposing the print paper, place it in the developer tray and proceed with processing. 

 

  Place the exposed print paper in the developer tray. (Time varies by paper type. Resin-coated paper stays in the developer 1 minute, while fiber-based paper stays in for 2 or more minutes.) Take the paper out of the developer with tongs. Let all excess liquid drain off of the paper before placing it in the stop bath tray. Place in stop bath tray, leaving resin-coated paper in the stop bath for 15 seconds and fiber-based paper for 30 seconds. Take paper out of the stop bath and place in fixer for 1 to 2 minutes for resin-coated paper and 2 to 10 minutes for fiber-based paper. Remove from fixer and place in wash for 2 to 5 minutes when using resin-coated paper and 30 to 60 minutes when using fiber-based paper.Take out of wash and place on drying cabinet.

 

Processing Black and White photos

You will need...

1. A metal or plastic film tank
2. Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry
3. Graduates (used to measure chemicals)
4. A darkroom timer
5. A can opener
6. A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible).
7. Developer (see other sidebar)
8. Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath)
9. Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended) 
10.  Hypo Eliminator
11. Scissors 

Pictures

Summary

Remove the film from the canister, use the can opener. Use scissors to cut off the film leader. Load the film, Get a developed film and try to load the film reel in daylight until you are confident with the process, then you do it inside the changing bag. Load the film reel. Mix the chemicals according to instructions. Start the timer. Agitate the film, stop the agitation. Add stop bath with fixer. Wash and rinse with water. Carefully remove the film from the reel and hang it up to dry. Use the squeegee to remove excess water from the film and leave it to dry.

Definitions

• 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 or process of agitating
• 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.
   

What the pros are you doing-Repetion

An anti-government "red shirt" protester scans the area surrounding the protestors' barricaded encampment in the financial district of Bangkok.

Wine bottles await tasting during the 27th International Wine Challenge in London, England.

 

A pattern of lights forms a giant 275-foot jack-o-lantern on the side of WaMu Center in downtown Seattle.

American Soldier slideshow and captions

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?

The first picture in the slideshow Life in Iraq. I think the photo is very powerful, I love how the background lighting makes the rest of the photo look like a shadow.

B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?

In the Army. It shows the determination he put to get it, how important it was to him, and all the hard training and work he went threw.

C. How do the images work together to tell a story?

They start from the very first thing that happened in the sequence and work there way to the very last thing that happen, there fore 'telling a story'.

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A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?

Present tense.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?

It helps you more about the photo, and get a better look on whats going on.

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A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.

• Ian arms wrestles a friend of his in the Basic Training camp (Basic Training, First row, 5th picture)
• Ian hugs his father just right before he leaves to Iraq.
• Excited and very relieved to be home Ian celebrates a night out with his girlfriend and close friends at the bar.

 

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A. How do these other features enhance the photographs?

Well not only do you have the videos for background information but you also have captions to tell you whats happening in the photo and they are set up as a telling a story sequence.

B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.

In signing up, the video was better than the photographs, because you got a better look and you actually know the background information and what it took, or got a view from Ian himself, his dad, mom ect.

C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site. 

Some of the photos are better cause you can actually see some of the action that he faced as for the video he just explained what he went threw and with the picture you actually got a visual image. Army blues.

 

 

Funny Captions

 You know what they say...you are what you eat.

Jerry Wynn, (man on left) Tom Nyoman (man on right) are captured by fisherman from the island of Getmeouttahuuria. They thought it was a rescue boat coming for them and headed out for seas.

For all you cat lovers out there...

 Tiffany Sue, has found a new way to give her cat Ms. Priss a bath. Every once in 3 months or so she will give Ms. Priss a bath finally getting tired of it she threw her in the washing machine, Ms. Priss wasn't a very happy 'catpur' about this.

Gotta do whatcha gotta do...

 Mrs. Stevenson comes home from a hard day at work and finds her husband "only doing his job" he just wants to make her happy. Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson have been married for 6 months now, and the newlyweds are already have marridal problems Mr Stevenson can't seem to do the dishes.

Academics Preview

Tell a Story.

 I selected this photo as "Tell a Story" because it looks like there could be a story to go along with this. The children look like they're on an adventure. Adventures always tell a story.

 Emotion.

I selected this photo for "Emotion" because the emotion and love from the boy, holding the girl. The little girl looks so happy,and the boy looks like he loves her so much.

 

 Interesting.

 This photo has many different kinds of shapes colors and art put together to make the photo a lot more interesting and less of a boring photo. There is a lot more going on.

Marlboro Marine

A. What skills besides photography did Luis Sinco utilize to produce this slideshow? (Think about the overall presentation: audio, editing, text)

He actually got to know James Blake Miller, he was able to get close to James to show how upset Jmes was really feeling threw all the struggles he went threw. He helped James get help. He was a friend to him. He had conversations and really tried to understand him.

B. What was the effect (added power or meaning) of the multimedia effects of the slideshow?

Since it was photography and the voice over, it should how intense it really was. It added more power and meaning to the slideshow.

3. Think about the power of the overall piece.

 

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshow? Why?

 

I think the most powerful picture was the default of him, where's he's in Iraq and all dirty with a cigarette. You can see the pain, hard work, intense, exhausted, worried look on his face, and of course his cigarette in his mouth. I like to think of it as his signature move. Him having a cigarette.

B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?

The very beginning where all the soldiers were all running out of the room, and when you see the building fill up with smoke and gunshots. That was a very power sequence, it shows the struggles they went threw and how scary it was to think when your out there your all alone. On your own.

 

C. How does the audio enhance the photographs?

It helps you comprehend the photos and feeling behind them better. It helps tell you more whats going on. Give the photo more emotion, to make you feel what James was feeling. Helps you understand the photo better.

D. How do the images work together to tell a story?

 

They start from the beginning when he was married, until the end when he's on his own working hard to pull himself back together.

Photoblog Statesman

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1418565568?bctid=58144301001

I found this photo interesting because I love Austin Skyline and the way it reflects off of the water, plus fireworks I find incredibly interesting. Now the video I thought it was cool,showing everything that happened in the year of '09 but showing everything that happened in pictures.

Contest Preview, Show and Tell

Winter.

 This photo really does inspire me, I absolutely love the fish eye lends look. I love how the lighting in photo only focuses on the person and how the lighting fades in the corners of the picture. I love how clear the picture is and the greatness of the quality. I love how the colors in the background are sort of a faded bronze/sepia look. What really stands out to my are the vines coming up the wall, or curtain I also adore how the wall is a curtain. But my favorite in the photo is the old fashion camera the boy is holding. Over all this picture inspires me, it makes me want to go look at more photos by him, or more like this a long the lines. I really want to ask him what made him want to take this and what his inspiration was towards this.

Great black and white photographers part 3.

I feel the cold air piercing my face and hands bringing chills down my spin. The terror and shock all around me. I feel my legs getting numb and my stomach turning from my hunger.

I smell the women and the different variates their fancy perfumes blowing in the wind. The humidity in the air, and the smell of rain that has just fallen. I also smell the factories and the smoke they let out just a few blocks away.

I hear the the different concerned conversations all around me. I hear the loud whistles the wind plays in my ear. I hear the footsteps running towards the tragic accident.

I taste the hard, flavorless piece of gum in the back of my mouth I've been hiding under my tongue for a few hours now. I taste, the dryness of my mouth, and my throat craving water. I also taste sorrow-more like shock, but in the air. All around me.

I see everything. I see the dark gray sky hovering over me. I see the birds flying south for the winter, I see Men, Women, Husbands and their wives, their children, elders, grandparents, people. I see anger. I see sorrow. I see excitement. I see buildings, and trees. I see a horse that has fallen. I see pain in the horse's eyes.

 

I feel smitten. I feel his soft passionate lips pressed up against mine. I feel his arm over my shoulder for support. I feel people passing me and the slight breeze running threw my hair. I feel the butterflies filling up my stomach.

I smell his sent all around me. I smell the different people passing me. I smell the sweet air and the beauty of the day.

I hear his voice inside my head, repeated those last 3 words that left his mouth. I love you. I hear the footsteps and the busy city streets of Paris. I hear the bell of the clock going off. I can sort of make out casual conversation all around me. But most of all I can hear nothing but my mind wondering. Thinking so loud that I can barley tell whats going on around me I can only hear the thoughts of him running threw my mind. Focusing on this one kiss. Because I may not see him anymore.

I taste him. I taste his sweet lips. His flavor. I taste everything around me.

I see his face in the back of my mind. I see everything we've been threw and are going threw. I see our future together. I see how much he means to me. I see how much I mean to him.

Hurricane Ike

Symmetry and patterns. The first photo I chose, I liked it because of all the random clutter, the picture is very clear. I really like how the red chairs just pop out compared to the rest of the photo, and honestly I really love just that 1 tiger in the photo. I think the photo looks better now then it did before the hurricane.

 Framing. The second photo I like cause it shows how bad the hurricane hit. You can really see all the damage done.

 

 The third I like how is shows so much in the photo and you can see how high the water got. You can see the whole town, it looks so dirty but you can tell things are slowly getting better. Create Depth.

Advance Photo Composition

Simplicity

Depth

Rule of Thirds

Lines



Symmetery and Patterns



View Point

Balance



Cropping



Framing

Mergers and Avoiding Them

Boigraphy

Robert Doisneau

Doisneau was born 1912. He is France's most noted and famous photographers. What makes him so famous is his unsuposing and playful images of everyday french life. Doisneau published over 20 books consisting of realistic quiet images of usually personal moments between everyday people in France. He was exposed to photography from Advertising Department of a Pharmaceutical Firm. He taught himself the way around the camera. He looked at it as a hobby. He would wander down the streets of Paris and take photos of what he thought was unexpecting, spontaneous, and exciting people or things he would come across. He wrote "The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street." He started talking photos of just object themselves in 1930 and in 1932 he sold his first photo-story to the Excelsior newspaper. During World War || not only was he a solider in the war but he was also a photographer of the war as well. Some of his best work was known as his picture of  small children and how they interact with each other. Doisneau won the Prix Niepce award in 1956. In 1973 acted in a short film as a consultant to Expo '67, Canada. His later years he spent to himself, just like his photos he was a very shy away man just observing peoples way of life he was a very unassuming man, but a very talented one at that and loved by many. He past way in 1994, but his photos still live on.

Pinhole Final

1. Well for one, ones a negative and ones a positive.
2. There is a lot more gray in the positive picture then I expected
3. The positive is more clear.

Negative- noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

It looks different because the negative has no detail to it, you can't see everything exact. PLus we had to put it threw all those chemicals to make the picture clear.

Composition 9/11

Simplicity

The photo demonstrates Simplicity because it background is really simple but you also get the idea of whats going on. Plus you can see how dramatic the scene is, coming from the look (sorrow and worry) on the women's face.

Rule of Thirds

 This photo demonstrates Rule of Thirds because it shows the Twin Towers in the corner of the picture so you can see the rest of the image and get a feeling of what was happening before the tragedy of 9/11.

Lines

 This photo demonstrates Lines because well its pretty obvious that there are a great deal of different kinds on lines in the photo. Plus the man free falling really brings excitement to the photo.

Balance

 This photo demonstrates balance because the photographer chose a great angle to shoot. All the buildings (form shapes) and they are all close yet spread out,

Framing

 I think this picture shows framing because well for one there really is a frame around the 3 images and 2 because it focuses the subject (big picture) in the middle the the photo itself.

Avoiding Mergers

This picture focuses on the people and they're excitement from 9/11 and the background doesn't have much going on so you can really and truly understand whats going on in the photo.