Magazine Cover Images

 Magazine I

Magazine II

Self Portrait and Portrait

 Portrait 

Self Portrait 

SelfPortraits and such

1. What emotions did you feel as you worked your way through these images?
the first image was happy and cheerful, then as the images progressed I began to feel sad.

2. The photographer said this: "These photographs do not define us, but they are us." What do you think about this comment now that you have looked at the photos?
They are depicting 100% truth of the people.

3. Do you think you could shoot photos like this if you were in this situation?
No, I would be to sad to do anything but help.

4. If you could write Angelo a letter, what would you say to him?
You are the strongest photographer alive. 

Magazine Covers 3

"Edward Snowden didn't want to be photographed. He wanted his actions--leaking classified NSA files--to be the focus of any story, not his face. But. But. Being shot by Platon, who has photographed world leaders like Dick Cheney, George Bush (both of them), and Vladimir Putin, puts him on the same level as those subjects, elevating his message. So out of complicated motivations comes a tense and compelling photograph. As Snowden holds the flag, his face and his hands convey both respect and hurt--a flickering combination of protectiveness and vulnerability. Words would tip the reader toward a single interpretation. So. No design. No cover lines. Just an image, however you choose to look at it." - See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2015-winners-finalists#sthash.FbVao6Gj.dpuf


Critique:
   
        I like this cover because the picture is very simple, the persons face and upper body combined with the flag on an extremely simple white background make for a very appealing cover. There is no distraction from a complicated background or distractions in the foreground. Just a portrait and the flag make for a simple yet appealing photograph for this magazine cover. It also holds meaning as the flag is held in a way that shows he may of damaged something that the flag represents or hurt people who represent the flag. The exposure is very good as the lighting and other elements do show that the photograph is well produced and thought out. The photographer is very talented. In conclusion, I really like this cover due to its simplicity and subtle meaning. 

Fashion Photography.

1Her face was brightened and her eyes were enlarged. her hair was also elongated. 

2Her eyes were enlarged. and her legs were elongated, and also her skin was brightened significantly. She was drastically changed.

3her skin tone was deepened and her body was significantly downsized. her hair was also elongated. 


4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?
no, it is hiding their inner beauty. 
5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
in modeling and photos that are meant to show the real person. 
6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
Ok changes would be like cropping out distractions or blurring faces for privacy. 
7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
Fashion is about depicting people and models, and photojournalism is depicting stories and events. 
8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
Photojounralism is often not manipulated and depicts real events. Fashions photography is about mainly people. 
9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?
To show how fashion photography works, and also the changes and manipulations made in the fashion industry. 
10. Why are none of these videos about guys???
Because women are often more appealing to the masses then men are. 

Best Magazine Covers 2015 (Magazine Covers 2)

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Magazine covers 1

 5 things you should be thinking about when you design your magazine cover.

1) Attention getting
2)Easy to recognize
3)Emotion
4)Worthiness
5)Recognizable
6)Efficient. 

Prompt Shoot

 Purple Photo

Electric Photo                                

Cold Photo 

American soldier- Photos make the story.

Set 1 - at home  - Image #1 to Image 3#?


Set 2 - basic training - Image #3 to Image 13

Set 3 - in Iraq - Image #14 to Image #27


In Image #28 he is back at home in Denver


A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshow? Why?
Image 5, because it depicts Ian sitting alone, realizing everything he has left. 

C. Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?
The first set, because he is leaving everything to fight for his country. 


D. How do the images work together to tell a story?
They show Ian as he progresses and and moves from home, to training, to war, and then back home. 


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

F. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
They tell what is being shown in the photograph. Without the captions, we would not have a very good idea on whats going on in the photographs. 

Now go on to Part Two and Part Three - look at each photo and read the captions. There are additional images that were not part of the slideshow, be sure to pay attention to those images.

G. Summarize the story of Ian Fisher, based just on the captions. 
Ian Fisher graduates high school and a week later, he is at the recruitment office learning what to expect in training. His girlfriend and friends throw him a party for leaving. He then says his goodbyes to his family as his father is going to take him to basic training. Ian is now at basic training where he is caught leaning on his weapon, and has to do a lot of push ups for it. During a weekend break, Ian takes his girlfriend ring shopping. Ian and his fellow trainees make shelter out of a rubbled car. He is 10 days into basic training. Ian is called off duty because he has broken his ankle. His group experience a training attack, and he has to stay back. He limps on his injured ankle and secures the entrance. He is beginning to feel like glass because he has been injuring himself so easily. Ian's dad is concerned about the drugs Ian has been taking because of his pain. Ian is now in Iraq and driving a humvee. He has been instructed to not stop for anyone, and to drive aggressively. Ian is in downtime at his fort, smoking a cigarette and doing laundry with his teammates. Ian and his squad are responding to an overturned vehicle. Ian is charged with checking for explosives in each vehicle. Ian is now back home for a two week leave, and he feels like a new man. Ian makes his mom smell his boot, telling her thats what Iraq smells like. He has bulked up quite a bit in Iraq, he needs new clothes. Ian and his best friend get matching brass knuckles tattoos to signify all the trouble the two have been through. Ian is deployed again. 6 month later, he is back home again but this time for good. He has a brief welcome home ceremony and is welcomed by his mother and girlfriend. Him and his girlfriend get married and live on happily ever after. 

FUNNY CAPTIONS

Buddy is on a motorcycle in the woods. He is obviously not wearing any visible clothing. He was chased out by his wife, he did not even have any time to put clothing on.

 This guy's name is Jack, his eyes appear as if they will pop out of their sockets. Jack has a special talent for doing this to his eyes, because he practiced as a young child to scare people on halloween. Now he does it for money.

This woman's name is Maria, she is lighting a cigarette with a birthday candle. She has made it quite far, and is smoking a cigarette to celebrate a long life, ironic because cigarettes are extremely harmful to health.

GREAT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHERS PART III

1. What theme, that we could take here at school, could we do a series of these panels to place around the school?
Bull dogs. 

2. Should we use phones only, or should we open it up to our regular cameras for those people that don't have camera phones?
Pretty much everyone has a camera phone. Even flip phones have cameras. 
3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?
The foyer. Its widely seen by people and a commonly used area. 

1.) What first caught your eye while looking at your photographers photos? Is there something in particular about their photos that made you want to choose them? Post the images with your writing.

2.) Look at those 2 photos you posted last time in the assignment Great Black and White Photographers Part 2. Use your five senses to tell me more about those photos. Answer them on your blog.

I see Giant Turbines

I smell Concrete
I hear Workers moving
I taste Metal and Sweat
I feel Vibrations from heavy machinery.

You can do this in 2 ways. You can either put yourself in the photo and pretend your standing next to the subjects in the photo. I know smell and taste are hard but you can do it.

Or, you can pretend you were the photographer and use those same senses.

On the one titled - I feel - you may either touch things in your photo (imagination please!!) or you can tell me what you (yes, you in the real world) feel or felt the first time you saw the photo, or how it makes you feel when you look at it now.

BE REFLECTIVE HERE - try to be descriptive, try to write more than you think you can. 

One sentence per prompt is NOT ENOUGH, write at LEAST 3 sentences per!!! 

Write more, if you think its enough, its NOT.

3.) Finally, what would you like to create to show the world your great photographer. 

Ideas include, posters, power points, a blog, etc. 

You tell me what you would like to create so we can come up

 with a plan to share your thoughts and ideas about your photographer 

with your classmates and with the rest of the school.

Powerpoint showing all of their accomplishments and stuff. 

Academic shoot reflections and critique.

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 
Getting permission to go shoot a classroom. 

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
Focus, and Holding the camera steady. If I was shaky in holding the camera the picture would come out badly.
3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
Follow the rule of thirds, Frame better and stay in focus. Also pay attention to simple backgrounds.
4. What things would you do the same?
Holding the camera.
5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
Thirds and Simplicity.
6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
Avoiding Mergers.
7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
Framing. 



BLOG I CRITIQUED.

Positive.
I like your photos. The subjects in them are good and they are following the Rules of Photography well.

Things you could improve on.
The hairdryer photo is a bit out of focus.

Academic shoot

 1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?
Rule of thirds on the bottom left where Michaels head can be found. 
2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?
 Michael being choked out by someone in theatre arts class. The two people are in the photo. 
3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?
I think so. The subject is the only people in the frame. 4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently?

Kept in focus and be more clear about the subject.

 1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?
Rule of thirds. The subject can be seen in the upper left quadrant. 
2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?
The person pondering about something. 3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?
Yes, the entire subject is in the frame fully and is pondering something. 
4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently?

Focus, and keep him in the frame. Maybe crop all the extra stuff out. 

1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?
Simplicity, there is a simple background. 
2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?
The person working on a worksheet. He seems to be concentrating very hard on his wrok
3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?
Yes, he is in the middle. 4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently?
Keep in focus and keep the full subject in the frame.

Shutter speed, Aperture, and ISO.

 Aperture.

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture?
The eyes because your pupils control the amount of light by changing size just as apertures do.

2. Finish the sentence. 

The smaller the Aperture lower the number, the higher the Aperture higher the number.

3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field?

A smaller aperture keeps the foreground and background in focus. A larger aperture blurs the background creating a larger depth of field. 

F18 Aperture.

F2.8 Aperture.

Shutter speed. 

At the beginning while the sun was still up and the courtyard had reasonable good light

a.) a booth in the middle of the yard near the Tree

1/2" Middle

b.) a food booth outside under one of the big red awnings

Slower

c.) the Stars performance inside the gym

Fast

d.) students dancing near the center of the courtyard
Fast

e.) people streaming in from the front doors
Fast

f.) the basketball booth where students are shooting basketballs at a hoop
Slow
Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.

a.) a booth in the middle of the yard near the Tree

Medium

b.) a food booth outside under one of the big red awnings

Very slow

c.) the Stars performance inside the gym

slow

d.) students dancing near the center of the courtyard

slow

e.) people streaming in from the front doors

medium

f.) the basketball booth where students are shooting basketballs at a hoop

Medium.

2. List the three settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website. Explain how each works - DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, use your own words.

Aperture priority mode, The camera selects the shutter speed based on aperture. 

Shutter Priority mode, the camera selects aperture based on speed.

Manual Mode, everything is controlled by YOU.

                                               High shutter speed example.

                                                        Slow shutter speed example. 

ISO

1. What are the advantages of shoot at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game?

The camera needs less light to shoot high speed.

2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO?

Outdoor and low motion stuff. 
3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO?

When there isn't enough light to for the camera to go fast. 

 ISO200 example

ISO3200 Example.

Unusual and Interesting photos

1. What is your reaction to his work?

Its quite strange. I like it.

2. How do you think he made these photos?

He moved the camera while taking multiple photos and stitched them together. 

3 Think about some buildings you have seen, which ones would be good to take a photo like this? Tell me about those buildings, where are they, could you get easy access to them?

The UT tower and the Texas Capitol. 

my favorite photo. 

Post Shoot Reflection.

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos of your first 4 prompts (Square, Metal, Happy, Bowie)Trying to find good examples of each prompt. 
2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
Focus and holding the camera to get the correct orientation. 
3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
Follow the rules more clearly.
4. What things would you do the same?
The camera position. 
5. Finally - go back and edit your blogs with the 4 photos (square, metal, happy, Bowie), tell me what rules of composition (which you just learned about) did you end up actually achieving? Did you have any?
Rule of thirds and Simplicity. 
6. Are you interested in shooting those same prompts again, why? No. I like doing new things and not repeating things. 

MADISONS PHOTO BLOG

The happy photo is my favorite because the subject is very joyous and it includes a simple background. 
Another thing I like about the set of photos is the square photo. It is simple and dramatic. 
It includes the rule of lines quite well.

One thing she can improve on is the Bowie photo. 
The Bowie Photo's subject is directly in the center. 
Placing the subject slightly off center creates a more dramatic effect.
(Comment on her blog)

Photo Description.

My favorite photo from the 2nd link is called "Drop the Bass''. I like it because it is very interesting. It depicts a girl dropping paint and corn starch into a speaker which is playing a low frequency bass tone. It is causing the non-newtonian fluid to jump around as if it were alive.


1. Why did you pick this photo?
Because it is interesting to me. 
2. What rules of photography are evident in the photo?
Simplicity and avoiding mergers. 
Finally - your next shoot will involve shooting academics, which means in classrooms around the campus.

1. Where do you think you could take photos like the ones you look at today?
Science rooms and History classrooms. 
2. Whose classroom would you like to visit and take photos in?
My Geo classroom and Biology classroom.
3. What will you do, as the photographer, to get amazing photos like you look at today?
Follow the rules of photography

Filling the Frame.

This picture filled the frame with the most interesting things because it depicts cool floating things in the air. The students look amused by it and overall interested in everything thats happening. Overall, it fills the frame with interesting stuff.

Action and Emotion.

Action and emotion.

This photo is the best depiction of action in my opinion because somthing is happening that is making the students curious and full of wonder. It is full of action and excitement. The students depict excitement in the photograph. 

The Story.

This Photo tells the best story.

This photo tells the best story because she is deeply involved in her books. She could be reading a story about anything. This shows that she could be studying and really cares about school.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

The article tells about multiple digitally manipulated images that where submitted on April 1st on various years. The people who created said images where penalized by being fired and having their images blocked and/or removed. It is overall unethical and morally wrong to edit or 'doctor' photographs to fit stories captions or beliefs.

This photo is an unethical manipulation because Saddam and Bush never debated. This photo is completely fake and is lying to its viewers. 

                                  This photo is an ethical manipulation because it was 

                                   done to simply make her teeth look better. It could 

                                       boost her public image because her teeth look nicer. 

Great black and white photographers PART 2

Jacques Henri Lartigue was born on June 13th 1894 and died on September 12 1986. He was born in Courbevoie, France. He started taking photographs when he was 7. He mostly photographed airplanes, cars,and Parisian female models. He also photographed sporting events such as Coupe Gordon Bennett and the French Grand Prix. His first book ahas Diary of a Century in collaboration with Richard Avedon. The book was mentioned at the Rencontres d'Arles Book award in 1971. The next year he elected as Guest of Honor. He attended Académie Julian.

Prompt shoot pics 9/15/2015

 Square Picture. 

 Metal. 

 Circle

 Merger. (the tree is coming out of his head.)

Bowie Photo.