dove fashion (sorry i went overboard with this)

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)
 (before photoshop)she had her eyebrows filled in, had contacts put in, foundation and toner on, blush, fake eyelashes, eye liner, lip liner, lipstick and gloss, hair curled, (after photoshop) defined hair, sculpted the lips, made neck longer, took visible blemishes off, aligned her eyes and eye brows, sculpted the nose, defined eye color, curved her shoulders, popped out collarbones more, made face skinnier, made eyes bigger.
2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
no because it looses reality and makes people believe in things that are not real, and people then eat their feeling like in mean girls, then they get bullied and everyone wants to look like something they are not, which makes this world so hard because everyone is trying to look like something that was created by a computer. everybody will die trying to be something that was never real which is actually the saddest part of this.
3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
yes, photoshopping lets say, a video image that could prove that someone was innocent but being lied to and having their picture there instead of the actual killer. that persons life is ruined and no one will ever believe that he was innocent while we have a criminal loose on the streets. but then again, its also bad everyday to do this. it  warps reality and now a day people are so gullible that they try to be something thats fake and people set higher standards according to these pictures,
4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
lilght is ok. 
whats not ok is to move someones head up or down in the video and change their have completely 
5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
fashion photography uses so much more photoshop than photojournalism because fashion eople try to get others to buy their products and by having someone "ugly looking" isn't going to get them to their goal so the use ps to "enhance" their pictures tp turn someone average looking into 'OHMYGOSH I WANNA BE JUST LIKE HER/HIM' while photoj just chills and is like 'hey, this is what reality looks like. come check it out. you don't have to look like that'
6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
fashion believes that beauty is so much more valuable than reality because if they thought that reality was better they wouldn't do so much to change a persons look. 
photoj used the least amount of ps because they believe that people have the right to know how life actually is. there are no such things as ugly people, they just don't know how to dress. reality is one of the best things to some like photoj unless you're in the fashion industry.

lyto warm up

1. What did you see happen when you clicked on the photo? really high definition photos came up and they looked so good!
2. How does this new camera work? it lets you pick what you want the camera to focus on instead of letting it do it for you so you can get the pictures just how you want them
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) first you would need to know how to turn it on and then how to set it up because a lot of people break their cameras because they don't know how to work them. 
4. Is it worth the money? yes! i would go buy one if i found where they sold it because i would love to be a photographer when I'm older and i would sure love to get this make.

american soldier

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

         image #59 because its showing how they still have holiday spirit even when they're in a strange place fighting for their country and lives knowing that they might not come back that evening. its so close to home because my tia is still over seas and its the holidays.

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #9

Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #10 to image #30
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #31 to image #70
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#71 to image #83

i think the first 9 photos were hard because hes having to leave behind his whole family and friends and habits. Hes having to change his whole life

the pictures are in order from when he first started to how hes in combat, they're in order

3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

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

          past tense

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?

           they explain what is going on in the photos

(IMG32)- Javier, standing in his bedroom along his father awaits what has 



4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING
img 1 - In Ian's hand he holds the army recruiter's phone number, debating wether to join the army.


img  6- Ian gives one possibly last goodbye to his close friends roger and ronnie before headed off to training with an army recruiter.


img 59 - even though ian is far from his home on christmas holidays he gets into the holiday mood by putting up chirstmas lights in the camp where he stays.

A. How do these other features enhance the photographs? they enhance the pictures by added depth and perception to the image instead of just being plain and flat.

B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site. in videos you can get a deeper angle on the things and see what parts move through out the video and in a picture you just see whats there and can't really get a clear idea of where things are headed towards

C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.nin photographs you can save them forever and you can play the memory over again in your head while in videos you have them but you can't really see on the cd or cassette or anywhere else you might have them what the video is about and you can soon forget about it.

shutter

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light

a.) the dunking booth    high

b.) the food eating contest high

c.) the rock climbing wall high

d.) someone working at a booth slow

e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle high

f.) the Diamonds performance. high

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 low with flash

b.) the food eating contest low with flash

c.) the rock climbing wall low with flash

d.) someone working at a booth low

e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle low

f.) the Diamonds performance.low

aperture priority, in this you can set the lens opening aka aperture and the camera puts the shutter speed by itself

shutter priority, you put the shutter speed and the camera does the aperture

manual, you set the shutter speed and aperture yourself.

slow

fast

aperture

f2.8

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture? pupils

2. Finish this sentence - the smaller the Aperture opening , the higher the Aperture number .

3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field? it changes whats put in the spotlight, if you want something in the background to show it can focus on that instead of the stuff in the front.

f16

mural pictures love

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.

six flags of new orleans. i would like to take a camera there and a gun just in case zombie clowns try to kill me. they scare me. but i would like to get some good shots of them around the abandoned amusement park before i kill them. that would look good in my portfolio for school. i like to get different angles on things that normally you wouldn't take or see things form just the normal angle. look at things differently you can always find surprises.

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. 

bermuda triangle

the great blue hole of belize

the amityville house

target

driskill hotel

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. the driskill hotel looks like fun but its also scary cause of the ghost apparitions there have been there and the story of the little girl. but the building itself is amazing and i would love to go there and explore all the nooks and crannies.

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 need people that know ghosts so they can protect me from them so i wont die and i like to get different angles on things to find and see other things that people normally just don't see or ignore.

funny captions

 the students from lake way elementary are trying to cover the entire entrance of their school with snow on a cold december afternoon. lake way elementary has been known for their mischievous students.

 student, ronnie welkson is getting his head unstuck from a chair in his english class by specialists in this matter. thats the last time he tries to bet on something!

 Mamma duck and her ducklings come to a grate on the floor and doesn't notice her ducklings fall in through the grate. she was crossing the road to take them to the park so swim.

great black and white part 3

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?

 the things people would normally wouldn't even notice.

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: legs and shoes.

I smell: hot dogs, stinky feet

I hear: people on their phones and pagers

I taste: hot dogs ketchup and onions

I feel: a warm bun


second picture
i see: a sewer rats
i smell: car gunk, waste from bathrooms, nasty water.
i hear: water dripping echs, rats
I taste: i dont really want to taste anything.
I feel: sticky and nasty.

instagram inspiered mural

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

sports, dance, studies

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?

yeah, some people dont even have phones.

3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?

on the side of any of the buildings

africa photography

On your blog post your reactions to the power point.
the slide show showed many types of the rules and it has stunning photos that one, being amature, would never be able to get one without practice.

2. What was your favorite photo (find a way to get a copy of the photo and post it on your blog, you will probably have to look it up on google since you can't get it off the power point)? 

this elephant photo was my favorite,

 

3. Describe it and tell me why its your favorite.

 the elephant is just casually shaking the dirt off himself, and the way its just him in the picture without anything in the back is great.

4. What rules of photography are evident in the photos you selected, be sure to explain the rule to me?

simplicity, its just the elephant around, nothind is behind it or anything.

4. Look up the photographer on Google –

a.     What kind of camera did he use? pentax 7611

b.     What is his reason for taking the photos? to capture the animals spirit

c.     What is his hope by taking these types of photos? to show people how calm they really are

d.     Find something he has to say about Africa and post the quote on your blog.

"You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close"

academic shoot reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 
not too much to work with
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. it took me a while to get the right focus on some shots.
3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
go to classrooms not just the barn.
4. What things would you do the same?
go to the barn while people were doing stuff with the animals.
5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
rule of thirds
6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
merger.
7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
im ok with all the rules, you make them pretty clear, and i knew the rules from middle school because i was in yearbook.

lines

 How well did you follow the rule? very good.
2. What is the subject (be very very specific)? ffa.
3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is? yes. where else would you find goats on campus? :)
4. If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?
try another item or angle.

simplicity

i followed the rule really good.

the subject is halloween.

yes, 

take a picture of something else

mergers

 How well did you follow the rule? To my knowledge, very well.
2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?  lunch

3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is? maybe. if they know where this was taken at?4. If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently? have things be in the way.

rule of thirds

he is sad because he has to wear a blue dress/gown
i followed it well.
ffa.
yes. the barn is the only place where you can find goats at school.
find another item to take a picture of.

balance/framing

this is mr goat.

photo sesion thing

i think i could find a robotics class or go to art or band hall and take pictures like them.  try to get different angles.

academic photo p2

the picture i liked from the "yearbook contest book" was picture 22 because it has pink paint being splattered off a plastic covered speaker to see the vibrations of the bass in the music.

i picked this picture because i like pink a lot and the color attracted me to it and it looks cool(the vibrations) how the paint is being splattered off the plastic and just the girls face in the background is cool.

framing and simplicity

best story

i like this picture because it tells a "story" about how these kids helped feed the homeless people maybe voluntarily but its still nice. and they look cold and happy because they are getting food(homeless people) and the students look happy because they are doing something nice

filling the frame

this picture has a lot of different colors that attract me to it and the foam/fog in the middle is cool. there isn't a corner that doesn't have something to look at.

action and emotion

this picture has a really good action of the bubbles or whatever exploding all over and the face the girls have is great.

9/11 part 2

1. it was hard because everything was so simple and obvious that i felt like i didn't have anything to work with.
2. well i was in the yearbook class last year at my middle school and we had to do a lot of learning of different rules of photography and it was fun because we got to go to different places and with different people.
3. well since i knew the basics already i kind of took that in mind.
4. take the same pictures.
5. i got leading lines for red, merging for metal. (in this case it looked pretty cool!) i didn't have one for happy.
6. i would like to shoot these again but with more options not just that. i like to take pictures with a open theme/prompt

"Simplicity, The Rule of Thirds, Lines, Balance, Framing, and Avoiding Mergers"

framing

 merging

simplicity

 rule of 3rds

balance

lines

touching people

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay? i think its a good thing to do and also depending on the person who is asking for people needs to have a good adittude when asking.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger? i would do it but only if the person who had asked me didn't look like a creeper. he/she has to look professional when doing a project like this.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot. i don't know any names of fun photo shoots but i would like to ask people in random places to do something. that would be fun!

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, are the photos good? Do you like looking at them? i like them! they are pretty cool, the different couples he/she made! that would be fun to do here in austin texas

national geographic warm up

its hard for me to chose which one is my favorite because they all have something different about them that catches my attention but if i have to pick i think it would be this one.

this picture shows the difference between the outside and inside. its gloomy inside but cozy looking, and warm and happy outside. i like how the outside is blurred so you can only try to see what is there and i like the soft inside.


i have a photo of a bunch of flowers with one being focused on more because of the bee that was on it. i would submit that one

photo ethnics right wrong

this picture isn't really all that bad because opera might have kinda looked like that but wasn't quite there yet so she probably asked the editors if they could get her a body,  but the head doesn't match the body's skin color enough.

 this picture should not have been edited because it make the guy with the baby look like he is trying to steal her or something and in the left hand corner you can see the people at the end of the picture were put there because you can clearly see them on the inside and they took out the army tank that was in that corner and darkened the clouds in the back.

photo manips ethnics 2/2

manipulation of photos can be dangerous because for example if you make one that shows that some place is "bombing" another place and that country who is supposedly being "bombed" can get mad and start to actually bomb the place where the picture was saying it was from. its not right to manip photos a lot because then you loose the truth and spend your whole life believing the lie someone made in the first place and that can change someones beliefs, lifestyles and anything in between.

photo manip ethics

the story was talking about how manipulation of pictures or anything can affect peoples life even if it had happened before or after the manip. manipulating photos can determine the future, past, present and can alter a lot of peoples lives. for instance if you commit a crime and you have access to get the photo that proves you were there committing the crime, and you know how to use photoshop you could alter yourself out of there and blame some one else so it looks like they didn't. but thats not right. follow the rules of photo-manipulation!

red metal HAPPY

 I couldn't find anything "happy" so i decided to write "be happy" with a rock outside of the cafeteria so others who are not having a good day could also see it, the handwriting is bad but i like how its in a open space where you can see the grass and the pillar from the cafeteria in the back.

Red METAL happy

I chose the gates to represent metal because I liked the way the light was contrasting the courtyard and the outside. it gave it a more free look and i like how if one pays close attention you can see the locks on the gates.

RED, Metal, Happy

Red: i chose this because the red hallways and the person in the end of the hallways was also wearing a red sweater. 

unusual and interesting photos

1) the pictures didn't catch my attention much because of the way they were.
2) he made the photos by either using photoshop or a selective program that
 focuses on just the main subject the photographer was focusing on.
3) the longhorn tower in the UT campus would be good because its thin-ish and it will not take up the whole frame. it does have easy access unless you have a gun, which you should not because its on a public campus and people might think that you want to hurt them, others or yourself.  
       i chose this one because i really want to go to paris when i get older so yeah....

"40 greatest photos taken"

 terri gurrola and her daughter

 1) It has 2 great fighters here with their top weakness, mother and daughter being reunited after mom came back from army.2) it puts the main subject in the middle to get the attention of the viewer.3) how such a brave woman can break down just being with a tiny human being.

 christian golczynski accepting his fathers flag during a memorial service. 8 year old

 how strong the little boy can be knowing that that is his fathers flag giving to his family for his loss and  how he can be so strong as not to cry in front go them. i absolutely love how the light just shines on the little boy's face  and upper body it gives a feeling of its going to be ok. just the look of the little boy made me feel so thankful that my mom isn't an army mom.  it shows how even small young people can be just as brave as others and just the meaning of it is great.

 wait for me daddy by claude p dettloff october 1 1940

the little boy thinks he can go with his father on this "trip" not knowing where his father is going. its set up to where one can see the huge line of recruits for the military and the shops. the innocence of this picture is so pure and simple.

camera history and information

. Explain the “camera obscura” effect. How is it achieved?
Inside a dark room, a tiny hole is created in one wall. Through the hole light is focused, and the outside scene is projected on the other wall but upside down.
2. What invention during the 17th Century helped man get a step closer to creating the modern camera?isaac newton and christian huygens perfected their understanding of optics and the process needed to make high quality glass lenses
3. What were the parts of the first modern camera invented by Niepce?
film. the others were already there made by other inventors.4.What do modern digital cameras have in common with Niepce’s camera?
a lens and a take the picture button and a photograph.5. What do digital cameras use to capture an image?
a computer chip. and a memory card to store it in. and a person that works it. also a glass lens.





6. What is the difference between the Auto Mode and the Program mode?
auto controls flash and exposure while program its more of a just point and shoot mode but it lets you control flash and other settings that auto doesn't allow you.
7. What is the Portrait mode used for? How does it work?
to attempt to blur the background out so it can focus on whats in front. the camera will use the fastest available lens setting(aperture)
8. What is the Sports mode used for? (not just sports) How does it work?
to freeze motion in the pictures/photographs so it doesn't look like you were moving and the picture comes out good. the camera will use the highest shutter speed possible.
9. Why should you do a half press on the trigger button?
to have a better camera response time, more control over the focus and it encourages to have better composition 
10. What does this symbol mean?

no flash





 When would you use this?
when its bright or when you can see what your trying to take a picture of.
11.What does this symbol mean?
the flash will come on if it feels like it needs extra light.

When would you use this?
when your not sure how it will look better.


12. What happens to your photo if there is too much light?
the photograph looks white ish and looks not at all professional
13. What happens to your photo if there is not enough light?
the picture will be too dark to see what your trying to take a picture of so you need to take it again.



14. What is a “stop.”
a relative measurement of light
15. How many stops brighter is the new planet if there are two sons instead of one?
1 stop
16. How many stops brighter is the new planet if there are four sons instead of two?
2 stops


17. What affect does a longer shutter speed of have?
more light
18. What affect does a shorter shutter speed have?
less light
19. What does the aperture control?
how large or small the opening is and how much light there is going through it.
20. When adjusting the aperture, how can you increase the amount of light?
by opening the aperture more.

aperture-  chieflyan opening, hole, or gap:apertural adjective
shutter- Photography a device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.exposure-the action of exposing a photographic film to light or other radiation:
depth of field-the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
F-stop-a camera setting corresponding to a particular f-number.
focal length-the distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.
ground glass-glass with a smooth ground surface that renders it nontransparent while retaining its translucency.
still camera-A still camera is a type of camera used to take photographs. Traditional cameras capture light onto photographic film. Digital cameras use electronics, usually acharge coupled device (CCD) to store digital images in computer memory inside the camera. The digital image can be transferred to a computer for later processing.
darkroom-a room from which normal light is excluded, used for developing photographs.
scale focusScale focus, or zone focus, is a type of focusing system used by many inexpensivecameras from the 1940s and 1950s. These cameras have an adjustable focus, but lack a focusing aid such as a rangefinder. It is necessary to determine the distance to the subject and set the focus using a scale printed on the lens. If you are good at estimating distances, or have a tape measure at hand, you can get precise measurements