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