Review

1 . Swimming with the fishes to celebrate Christmas, Joey Green dresses up as Santa at the New York Aquarium on December 25, 2011. Joey was dared by his friends to do something daring for Christmas instead of the old Christmas tree and stockings.

2. 1. Rule of thirds - placing the subject in the corner of a 3x3 grid.
    2. Balancing Elements - having subjects on either side to making the picture equal.
    3. Leading Lines - using lines to draw attention to the subject.
    4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition) - having two of the same thing in the picture, repeating something.
    5. Viewpoint - taking the picture from a different angle, like above or below the subject.
    6. Background - using a blank background so nothing distracts from the subject.
    7. Create depth - having foreground and background to highlight the subject.
    8. Framing - things surrounding the subject to draw attention to the subject.
    9. Cropping - removing some of the things surrounding the subject so there is nothing unnecessary.
   10. Mergers and avoiding them - not cutting people off or having things grow out of them.

3. Aperture: the opening of the camera. f-stop. The larger the aperture, the more focused the picture is. The smaller it is, the more widely focused it is.
    Shutter Speed: How fast the camera takes the picture. The faster it takes the picture, the less blur will be in the picture.
    ISO: Decides how much grain is in the picture. A smaller ISO will have less grain than a larger one. If its light then you can use a small ISO, if its dark, you'll need a bigger ISO to capture the picture.

4. To get on my folder first, you have to click on the shortcut called "server_drives". Then you have to click on the shortcut "computer", then on "jstudents(\\akinspubserver)(T:)", then "Photojournalism", then "8th Period", then "Jimenez, Micaela" then I'm in my folder.

5. If it stands out or blends in, Getting people to look at it, Interesting.

6. In manipulating photos it is acceptable to change the lighting, brightness, contrast, cropping, stuff like that. It is unacceptable to change the actual picture. To make it look like something is happening when it really isn't, or adding or taking away flaws on a person.

7. Formal - would be like taking a school or ID picture.
    Informal - still posed, but you can play around a little more not just be still
    Environmental - someone is in their everyday habitat, like a student in a school or dancer in a studio.

Best Mural

Self - Portrait

Best Covers.

1 - informal
2 - formal
3 - informal
5 - informal
9 - formal
10 - informal
13 - environmental
15- formal
19 - formal
20 - environmental
21 - environmental
22 - informal
23 - informal
24 - environmental
26 - formal
27 - informal
28 - environmental
29 - informal
29 - environmental
31 - informal
32 - formal
35 - informal
36 - formal
37(details) - formal
37(glamour) - formal

37(natgeo) - environmental
37(time) - formal

Favorite

This cover of People features a black and white photograph of Princess Diana, and the issue is a tribute to her life after she was killed in August 1997 in a car crash. Diana appeared on the cover of the magazine a record 52 times and was one of the most popular People cover subjects. In 1981, she married Prince Charles and arguably became one of the most famous women in the world. She was lauded for her high-profile involvement in AIDS issues and for an international campaign against landmines. Diana's death was greeted with extraordinary public grief, and her funeral at Westminster Abbey drew an estimated three million mourners in London, as well as worldwide television coverage.

When I see this portrait, I see beauty. In this picture it just showed how gorgeous Princess Diana was and the happiness of her life. This communicate the life that she lead by what she is wearing and the expression on her face. I think that the black and white expressed a more dramatic affect and the bright lighting just made the portrait more uplifting, and displayed her in an optimistic light after such a tragic incident.  

Magazine Covers - What to be thinking about.

1. Does it stand out or blend in?

2. The appeal.

3. Arousing curiosity, pulling the casual glancer in. 

4. Worth the investment.

5. Intellectually stimulating, interesting.

Lytro Warm-up.

1. What did you see happen when you clicked on the photo? When I clicked on the photo it changed focus between the back and foreground.
2. How does this new camera work? Instead of capturing a single plane of light, it captures all the planes of light so you can focus and re-focus later.
3. What do you think a photographer would have to know about to take this kind of photo (remember its a point-and-shoot, so its full manual mode, what do you need to know about) You need to know about the three pillars of photography so you can be able to get the right picture to make the specialized camera do its job.
4. Is it worth the money? Yes, because its a full manual mode camera, but not as expensive and you can refocus your photos later on.

Seeing Space.

http://tdinning.blogspot.com/2011/11/learning-to-see-space-part-6.html

On this website I looked at pictures and read about the concept of space. These pictures were all very random, but all show the ways that we see and fill space.

I learned that people are always trying to capture space. That space is forever moving and never stays the same. One second it could be empty and the next it could be filled with a dog, or a book, or a mug, or a sweater, always something different.

I picked this photo because I fell that it embodies everything that the post was talking about. Open air could easily be filled with concrete.

The rules of photography I see in this picture are leading lines, viewpoint, and balance.

Tom Dinning took this photo.

Jellyfish.

http://www.lightstalking.com/jellyfish

This website had 44 pictures of Jellyfish. All of these jellyfish were swimming around somewhere, some in the ocean, and some in aquariums. There are a lot of interesting jellyfish swimming and doing some really cool things.

I didn't really learn anything new, but I got to see some really cool things. I guess if I had to say I learned something, is that jellyfish some in some really cool and interesting colors.

I picked this photo because I really like that jellyfish. I think its cool that its swimming at a diagonal and it has a really cool design on it.

The rules of photography I see in this picture are background, rule of thirds, and cropping.

Cam Vilay took this photograph.

Rules of Photography Part II

Framing

Leading Lines

Merger

Viewpoint

Depth

Symmetry and Patterns

Rule of Thirds

Cropping

Balance

Background

Self Photograpy and Portraits Part II

1. Use props! Are you a dad and a rocker? Bring your kid and your guitar. Are you a photographer? Add camera gear. Painter? Paint. Poet? Words. Make-up artist? Guess… You get the idea.

2. Are there particular parts of their body or items of what they wear that are important to what they do for a living or a hobby? Does some part of them really stand out? Can you find a way to abstract what you want to say about the person by using one of these elements?

 Environmental Portraits:

 I really like this one because it shows the dentists doing what they do best, and in their everyday environment.

 I also like this one for the same reason. The firefighter using the hose to firefight. Sort of. 

Photography Self Portrait:

 I chose this one because it was really creative, and showed two sides to this girl.

I chose this one because it showed this girls inner fears. I'm assuming that she is afraid of clowns because she is dressed up as a clown, and there are arms reaching for her.

I chose this casual portrait because it really showcased this couple and their love.

I chose this casual portrait because it highlighted the family. I think it shows the family in a loving and caring way.

   When I shoot  will be shooting a self portrait. I will use a tri-pod to balance the camera. I want to shoot outside for more natural sunlight. To make this shoot successful, I will try to incorporate as many photography rules as I can.  I really want  a portrait that will capture my essence and  try to display that through this portrait. 

Shortlist Warm-up.

 Action and Movement Shortlist: I chose this photo because it expresses the genuine happiness of  the little girl as her dad swings her around.

 Creative License Shortlist: I chose this picture because it was super creative. I really liken the way the model was posing and the fact that it looks like its in 3D.

 Wildlife Shortlist: I liked this picture because it showed the tiger in his natural habit, trying to get his daily meal.

 Gardens and Plants Shortlist: I chose this one because it really told a story. The life cycle and how the flower went from young to matured to wilted to gone. 

 Documentary Shortlist: I liked this one a lot because it showed these kids' culture and them doing something they really really enjoyed.

 Portraits Shortlist: I chose this one because it showed the farmer with the thing that he spends most of his time on, the pigs. It really showed his personality.

 Family and Friendships Shortlist: I liked this one because it showed a very raw and intimate moment.

 Fashion Shortlist: I liked this one because of how elegant the model looked. I liked the way that her hair and make-up was done, along with her clothes. Then the rain-kissed umbrella just added a dramatic affect.

 Travel Shortlist: I chose this one because it showed a moment where a father and son were waiting for a loved run to return from her travels, which portrayed a very real moment.

Landscapes Shortlist: I chose this one because it captured a not so often moment as a violent storm crashed over the island.

I think that to have a good photo, you have to be able to capture the personality of the person. I believe that it wouldn't be a very good picture if it was just someone sitting there with a blank expression. Showing the characteristics and personality of the subject would make for a much better photograph.

I think that the next time I shoot, I would like to shoot other people. I think that because if I stepped in front of the camera it would be awkward and I wouldn't know what to do instead of capturing other people. 

Ethics in Fashion Photography.

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)
      They elongated her neck, made it smaller on the sides,thickened her eyebrows, and took some extra weight off the sides of her face, making her face look longer.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
       I think it us ethically unacceptable to change a person's appearance like that, because it's not showing the world a real person. Its showing the people a mechanically altered person, something that they or anyone else for that matter, will ever be. 

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
      Maybe where they are claiming or selling a product that states that it changes something, and they change it in photoshop or something instead of the claim or product.

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
       I think changes in the brightness and contrast, or color are okay, but changing the actual subject of the photo is not acceptable.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
          I think in fashion photography, it's mainly selling a product. They are advertising the makeup or the clothes or the shoes so they have to make it look perfect. In photojournalism they are showing the truth and issues that are real.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
         Fashion photography has more of a relationship to where they try to get the people to want what they have, so they try to portray an image that is perfect, so everyone wants it. In photojournalism, they have more of a relationship in showing the people what really happened, so it's their duty to portray the truth and nothing but.

Photo manipulation.

1. A. This article is basically explaining the effects of manipulating pictures. It states the backfires it has had when people change the picture for something to make it look better or fit with a story.

B. This type of photo editing is unethical because it makes the situation look different from what actually happened, and shows people in different ways that what they actually did or acted like.

2. A. I felt like this photo was the most unethical because it made the solider look very mean and heartless. The picture looks as though the man is running to the solider with an injured child while the solider is yelling at him to get back, which is an incorrect portrayal of the situation.

B. I believe that this picture was the least unethical because it played Mrs. McCaughney in a better light. They just fixed her teeth a little bit so she wouldn't be embarrassed at having her teeth in not so good condition in the cover of a national magazine.

Warm-Up

This is my favorite picture because its so in the moment and modern. I like how they captured something that only happens once a year into such a cool picture. I also like how its more modern, incorporating the Dubai skyline, because that's what a lot of people know nowadays, big cities.

I think I would submit a photo of people hanging out at Barton Springs. It's something really cool that Austin has to offer, and I think the eclectic array of people there could make for some pretty cool photo opportunities.

Abandoned Theme Parks.

1.    The park I would like to visit the most is Takakanonuma Greenland in Hobara, Japan. I liked this park because it is a big mystery to the world. The article says that some say it is abandoned because of causalities that turned into hauntings which sounds pretty interesting. I think it would be cool to walk around there and take pictures, hoping to find something paranormal. Also the park just looks eerie, which would make for some cool pictures.

3. 1- Abandoned buildings
    2- Cemeteries
    3. Castles
    4. Underwater
    5. Zoos

Chenonceau Castle

 5. I would like to shoot this place because it looks really magical. Its a big beautiful castle surrounded by the Cher River. I think some really interesting pictures could be taken there. I'd also be really cool to go in and explore to see and capture all of the history inside.

6. Because the castle is in France, I would need the expenses to go to France. For the equipment I would obviously need a camera, and maybe a tripod. There may be some laws not letting me go in, or get too close to the castle so I would need to find those out and take them into consideration.

American Soldier.

What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
I think the picture that moved me the most was the one where his mother is crying when he is leaving. Because that kind of set it in stone that he's leaving and fighting for the country.

What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
Chapter 4: First Assignment, because it really showed the struggle of his journey and how he changed from a not committed soldier, to one that was ready and willing.

How do the images work together to tell a story?
This images work together to tell a story by capturing his journey of being a boy in high school, to the struggles he faced with addiction, the hard times he had with his girls, and him becoming a man and fighting and being responsible.

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

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.
1. (Basic Training, Second row; 1st picture)
Ian and his fellow soldiers scope the territory by leading gun first and taking in their surroundings on a training mission at Fort Carson.

2. (First Assignment, First row; last picture)
Ian and Pvt. Johnson clean the bathrooms as punishment before deployment in their training base. Earlier Ian and Pvt. Johnson were caught messing around during a training mission and had to clean as a punishment for not being on task.


3. (Life in Iraq, First row, last picture)
Ian, Pvt. Johnson, and Pvt. Rash are taking a test on their basic army knowledge to receive a higher rank after being in Iraq for a few months. Ian was getting frustrated because the written exam isn't his strongest point and he seems to be having some trouble. 


How do these other features enhance the photographs?
These other features enhanced the photographs by giving a more in-depth view of the photograph, and explaining more what was going on.

In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Website.
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/videochapter2.html (First Day, Second Thoughts) This was better than the photographs, because the pictures couldn't really tell us thoughts unlike here.

In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoprojects/specialprojects/ianfisher/photochapter5.html (Army Blues; 2nd row, 2nd picture) I think in this way the pictures were better, because it was able to capture expressions and emotions in situations where he couldn't just drop everything and tell us how he felt and what was going on.

Funny Captions.

Here in this picture paramedics and teachers at Dalton Elementary School help Jimmy Dumbo free himself from his chair. Earlier in the day, Jimmy decided to take a dare that his friends had given him to stick his head through his chair back, therefore getting stuck in this situation, literally.

Tommy Tuner and His dog Killer wait patiently for mom to get home from a long night of fun. When mom made last minute plans and couldn't find a babysitter, she decided that keeping little Tommy in a cage would be the safest route to a cleaner house.

In a Woodlands Area Hospital, and black bear cub decided to look for some good old cafeteria food. When the little cub wandered away from its mama and stumbled across the hospital, it entered through the automatic sliding door and wandered around looking for mom.

Cool Video.

I think I would be cool to feature all the aspects of the yearbook. Like sports, student life, clubs, stuff like that. To make this video better, the maker of this video could feature more information on what's going on, instead of just like random video and picture, then at the end have a little bit of talking.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3.

1. I think the people in the pictures caught my attention the most. How the photographers captured the emotion of the person sitting for the picture, and what he did to make it stand out for the rest.

2. Churchill
I see: An empty dark room with not a lot of emotion. I man leaning on his cane with a displeased look on his face. Another man with a camera and he's going as fast as he can. The man leaning on his cane looks like he's ready to leave and he doesn't want to be there.
I smell: Wood of the man's cane that he's leaning on, one of the only things in the room. Dust that coats the floor and floating around the room. Coming in from outside it everyone smells like it.
I hear: The creaking floor as people try to take small steps not to make too much noise. The man sitting for the picture coughs ever so often. The noises from outside, like birds chirping and people yelling seep through the paper thin windows.
I taste: The sunshine gleaming through the windows. The not so fresh air of this rarely used room. The smells I smell fill my mouth because sometimes there are those scents that you can just taste.
I feel: When I first saw this picture it made me wonder. Who was this man? What is he know for? Why is his picture so important? I wanted to find out more about him and why he was the way he was.

Einstein
I see: The man's crazy hair and dress, he was a quirky character and it showed. The wrinkles on his worn face showed years of experience and life. All the furniture in the room and all the windows with the light shining through.
I smell: The strange smells and dust left floating around in the room. Everyone's 'home' smell, the smell you know when you walk into someone's house and it just smells like 'them'.
I hear: The shutter and flash of the camera. Fidgeting people, coughs and sneezes, things like that.
I taste: Smells that float around in the room. The fresh sunshine and dust particles.
I feel: This picture leaves me awestruck. The emotion in his face emotes true brilliance. He stands there looking like a true genius.

3. I think the best way to share this man's images is to create some mural with some basic information about him, to show the school his work.

Instagram.

1. Student life, what kids want to look at the most. Kids doing the activities they like to do, not academics or something boring they don't care about.

2. Phones only. It would look cooler, just to be able to use instagram and edit it like that.

3. I would put it somewhere where everyone would see it, like by the fishbowl or the main entrance. Somewhere where it could be viewed the most.

HDR Photography.

1. Exposure bracketing, or any camera that you can manually over or under expose the image can be used to create an HDR image.

2. The Canon T3 has a feature called Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) that allows you to take a minimum of three pictures with different exposure levels without having to manually change the settings.

3. The parking lot, with all the cars coming and going. Or the courtyard with all the students in the morning, throughout the day, and in the afternoon leaving.

4.

This picture is my favorite because it sets an emotion and tells a story. This photographer uses leading lines, with the rope, rule of thirds, because the main focus of the picture, the boat is in the upper left corner, and framing, with the rocks in the foreground and the boat in the back.

Fixed Photo Shoot Post Shoot Reflection

1. I learned that the shutter speed impact the picture A LOT and the fstop says how much it impacts. Lighting and focal length play a big role too.

2. All the pictures are in focus, but as the shutter speed go faster, the picture got darker. And as the aperture got smaller, the levels of darkness would get darker. Like when it was 1/1000 sec and F5.6 it wasn't as dark as 1/1000 sec and F29.

3. There's not much difference in the ISO other than grain. The bigger the ISO got, the more grain a picture had.

4. This says that in broad daylight, the smallest ISO is best because it will capture the whole image without the grain. You'd change it when it got darker out to capture all the picture.


5. With the focus you can see a slight difference but not much. As everything increased, it was a little less focused. But for the most part, everything was focused the same.

6. ISO100, 1,/1000, f4.5, 10ft. ish, 18mm, Very Sunny.

7. Next time I would focus a lot on the shutter speed, because I think that's what impacted my pictures in how dark they turned out. But also looking at ISO not to get grain, and the f-stop to  get the perfect focus.

Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO.

Aperture:

f2.8 aperture.

f16 aperture.

1. The eye.
2. The smaller the Aperture the larger the f-stop, the higher the Aperture the smaller the f-stop.
3. The smaller the aperture, the more focused the entire picture will be. the bigger the aperture, the more focused the picture will be in the foreground, with the background more blurred.
4. F5.0, F5.6, F6.3, F7.1, F8, F9, F10, F11, F13, F14, F16, F18, F20, F22, F25, F29, F32,F36.

Shutter Speed:

high shutter speed

low shutter speed

1. At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth - 1/2500
b.) the food eating contest - 1/1000
c.) the rock climbing wall -  1/500
d.) someone working at a booth 1"
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle 1/2
f.) the Diamonds performance. 1/1000

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.) the dunking booth - 1/250
b.) the food eating contest - 1/100
c.) the rock climbing wall - 1/50
d.) someone working at a booth - 5"
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle - 2.5"
f.) the Diamonds performance. -  1/100

2. "Aperture Priority" - you manually set the aperture, but it sets the shutter speed for you.
    "Shutter Priority" - you manually set the shutter speed, but it sets the aperture for you.
    "Manual" - you set both the aperture and the shutter speed.

3.  30", 25", 20", 15", 13", 10", 8", 6", 5", 4", 3"2, 2"5, 2", 1"6, 1"3, 1", 0"6, 0"5, 0"3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/8, 1/10, 1/15, 1/20, 1/25, 1/30, 1/40,1/50, 1/60, 1/80, 1/100, 1/125, 1/160, 1/200, 1/250, 1/320, 1/400, 1/500, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000, 1/1250, 1/1600, 1/2000, 1/2500, 1/3200, 1/4000

ISO:

ISO 200

ISO 6400

1. Because there isn't as much light, so it would capture the image better as a whole and not missing anything.
2. Stick to the base ISO, when there is plenty of light use the lowest ISO, use it in a dim-lit room if your camera is mounted on a flat surface or tripod.
3. Use when there is not enough light for the camera to be able to quickly capture an image, when indoors use a higher number to be able to set motion, when you need to get extra fast shots use higher ISO.
4.  100, 200, 400, 800, 1600.

Sim Cam:
F4: looks best at 1/125sec - the background is barely visible, it is really blurry and you can't really make out shapes, the couple is the only thing visible.
F5.6: looks best at 1/60sec - background is more visible, you can kind of tell what's back there, but couple is still main focus. 
F8: looks best at 1/60sec - background is more visible, you can tell there is a building with windows back there.
F11: looks best at 1/60sec - background is clearer, you can see more of the colors back there.
F16: looks best at 1/30sec - background is more clear, you can see other objects on the building like ladders and a tree.
F22: looks best at 1/15sec - background is pretty much as clear as the couple, you can see everything in the picture.


I did good on both test. I think I understand the pillars of photography a lot better now, and it will enable me to take better pictures now.