Abandoned Theme Parks

1. The amusement park I would like to visit with my camera would be Spreepark, Berlin, Germany. What made me want to go to this park is actually the importance behind it. Some people may not think much about it now but the owner was so in dept that he had to shut it down and either sell the land and the park or take everything that he has and move to Lima Peru and start again and he  never sold the land or the rides and its left as it was to this day, untouched.

   

    1. Austian abandoned buildings
    2. Abandoned churches
    3. Ghost towns
    4. Old fashioned gas stations
    5. Swamps
                                            

  I think that it would be fun to document that location because there is so much history in where that please was and little things left behind that shows what kind of a place it was and it would be fun to document it. What interests me is the unknown stories hidden behind the whole church. What it would take to take photos at this location would be myself my camera and the open church to myself untouched. I wouldn't think that this would be trespaing on private property but guess i wont have to worry about it if i dont get caught.

                           
                    

Ethics in fasion photography

1.  They had made her neck longer, her face more slender, her eyes bigger, lips bigger, and gave her skin a different tone.

2.  I beleive that this is not ethnically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo, because it not the truth and they aren't using this photo to tell a story their using it to sell a product that they didn't even use in the photograph.

3.  Yes there are and like in my last answerer its to sell a product that wasn't used to the woman in the shot at all. It's a lie and it's wrong.

4. The types of changes that are ok would be the way that they changeed the tone on her face, I do that even to my own photo's it isn't a lie and it just tweaks the photo enough to make the photo look good not the person.

5.  I think that a fashion photographer takes a photo that's true and changes it into something that's a lie. But a photojournalist takes a real photo, leaves it as is, and builds a story from the truth.

6.  A relationship each type of photography have to reality is that it's all taken from something that's real, true, and was happening at one point. Weather they were changed into something else or not they all started off with the same truth.

Negatives Evaluation

1. After looking through my photo's I believe there are six out of eleven photo's that turned out well.

2.  There were about five that didn't turn out well. For the majority of the pictures that didn't turn out well was because of the lighting, it was too bright. And the minority of the photo's that didn't turn out was because they were out of focus.

3.  A negative image that I will believe will turn out well would be the second photo that I had taken. I think that this photo will turn out well because there is perfect lighting, everything is in focus, and the rule of thirds was shown perfectly in this photo.

4.  The aspect of photography that i think is best presented in my best negative would be balance. The way the camera was angled to get that perfect shot of all the students working in a row.

5.  The advanced composition technique that is present in my favorite negative would be the rule of thirds.

Photo Manipulation and ethnics

1.
A: This story is about photographers that used photo shop or other editing resources to change their pictures.
They changed the was things looked in the photos that were very important.But they don't ever change things that aren't visible in the photo. For example, they change object dates and times and replace people in the photo with other people.


B: This is not acceptable editing for a photographer working for a newspaper. It's just disrespectful to all of their readers to lie and deceive them from the truth . I would like to read a story and look at the picture that shows me the truth as a reader.You also just loos respect for those who just don't have any integrity. So bottom line this type of photo editing is completely unethical.

 
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A: I think that this photo is the most unethical. Because it's telling a FLAT OUT LIE. Some unethical photos just twist the truth and what's really there. But this photo is taking two totally different extremely important people and putting them together to make a good story. I mean it's the president. This isn't subject you can just screw around with.

        B:  explain why you think it is not as bad as others.  I believe this  photo is least unethical because because the only reason the photo shopped this photo was to make the cover look more interesting. It's not as bad as the others because they aren't lying those two pyramids are something that are really there. they just tweaked it. And they didn't do it with dad motives like the last photo. I wasn't used to prove a fake story really happened.                                                                             

Drug Cartels in Mexico

What i found most interesting from this story was how quickly photojournalist Jeff Antebi was put to work after shortly arriving to Juarez, Mexico. In the story he says,"Once I arrived in Juarez within an hour over the police scanners a body was found and thirty minuets later another body and then another body and by the end of the day there were ten bodies found." This shows the seriousness of the situation out there.
A photo that really spoke out to me was the one were you actually can't see a person or a body. It's just the front of a car and all you can see is a crack in the wind shield and splattered blood is shown on the inside of the wind shield. One of the technicah aspects that is clearly shown in this photo is the rule of thirds.This was my favorite photo because it tells you a  story with ever seeing the story just the evidence of what happened.

Post Shooting Reflection

1.  The only challenges that I was finding a moment to capture. You we were supposed to capture a moment of a student or teacher working and almost all of the classes I had gone to there were many students that were off task. It was hard to keep the one's that were working in the picture, and the ones that weren't out.

2. The technical aspect that I found myself thinking about the most was focus. One of the reasons I did was because the one thing that drives me crazy about photography  is a blurry picture. So no matter what position I was in i held it for as long as it took to take a good, non blurry picture.

3. In about two of the pictures I took I used, I attempted to use the technique of lines. And in allot of the others i used the rude of thirds and framing.

4.  One thing that I would do differently the next time to improve my shooting would to be more "out there"

Materials:
1. Processing sinks with hot and cold running water (a single faucet is advisable)
2. Tanks for roll-film processing
3. Timers
4. Thermometers for processing tanks
5. Film clips or a drying cabinet
6. Graduates
7. Negative envelopes or sleeves
8. Sponges
9. Film squeegees
10. Scissors

Chemicals:
1. Developer
2. Stop Bath
3. Fixer

Procedure:
A metal or plastic film tank,Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry, Graduates (used to measure chemicals), A darkroom timer, A can opener and, A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible). Developer (see other sidebar), Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath), Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended) and, Hypo Eliminator. Remove the film from the cassette. Load the film onto either a metal or plastic film reel. Place the loaded reel in the film tank ad cover. Posses film by laying out the chemicals in front of you: a film developer (nickname: soup), a stop bath, and a fixer with hardener, and a hypo eliminator bath. Most film is processed between 65 and 75 degrees. Pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank. Pour running water into the pour spout for one minute to stop development let the film sit in that for 30 seconds to wash off the developer. Pour in a tankful of Hypo Eliminator (also called Hypo Clearing Agent) and agitate for two minutes. One final wash, for five minutes. In about 1-2 hours, the film will be dry. Use scissors to cut the film into strips six negatives long. Be careful to cut the film in the space between the images.


1. emulsion- a composition sensitive to some or all of the actinic rays of light.
2. aperture- a hole, gap, crack, slit, or other opening.
3. masking easel-a glass coverd easel used to hold down pictures.
4. exposure- presenting a photosensitive surface to rays of light.
5. 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.

6. dodging- 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
7. burning- to copy
 

Prossesing Black and White Photos

1. A metal or plastic film tank,Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry, Graduates (used to measure chemicals), A darkroom timer, A can opener and, A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible)
2.), Developer (see other sidebar), Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath), Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended) and, Hypo Eliminator.
3.) Remove the film from the cassette. Load the film onto either a metal or plastic film reel. Place the loaded reel in the film tank ad cover. Posses film by laying out the chemicals in front of you: a film developer (nickname: soup), a stop bath, and a fixer with hardener, and a hypo eliminator bath. Most film is processed between 65 and 75 degrees. Pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank. Pour running water into the pour spout for one minute to stop development let the film sit in that for 30 seconds to wash off the developer. Pour in a tankful of Hypo Eliminator (also called Hypo Clearing Agent) and agitate for two minutes. One final wash, for five minutes. In about 1-2 hours, the film will be dry. Use scissors to cut the film into strips six negatives long. Be careful to cut the film in the space between the images.

1. Contact sheet- a contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.

2. 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.

3. Developer- a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
4. Stop Bath
5. Fixer

What the pros are doing - repition

American Soldier

  The most powerful image would have to be the photo with Ian laying on a bed with a phone held up to his ear in one hand and a shot gun in the other. because it shows how different Ian's life has changed sense he signed up into the army. The most powerful sequence of photos in my opinion  would be life in Iraq. Because it documents what's really going on out there for not just Ian but all our American soldiers. Each photo is placed uniquely to where they all flow and work together to tel a story. The photo's are in present tense. The captions enhance the photographs by how they don't say to much about the obvious but more of the background story of the photo.

Under "Chapter 7: Life in Iraq" group of photos, look at the thirteenth photo.
 Ian couldn't help but  stay up to write a letter too his fiance while his room mate, Bobby, is watching an old t.v. show he used to watch back at home.






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

Funny Captions

Mr. Grouchy pants here is getting a nice afternoon bath in the kitchen sink as a punishment for being lazy and totally useless. Just early this morning a rat had a gotten into the kitchen and eaten just a little bit of everything in the pantry, later when the Loyd family had gotten home they had found Mr.Grouchy Pants laying comfortably in his bed next to the pantry.

Bobby is experiencing what it's like to play in the snow for the first time this morning in late November at a local park with his friends. Bobby had just moved from the San Diego zoo and all his new friends found him very different but now they realize he's just one of them.

Lola is stuck in a car with her family on their way to Colorado from California and it's been about two whole days sense they left and the got one day to go. You see Lola didn't even want to go on the trip in the first place, the only reason they're going is to go see family that they have out there and Lola isn't the best of friends with her cousins

Marlboro Marine

Skills that Luis Sinco has shown other than his photography work would be how he could really see the story in this and understand what's going on in this man's life. They aren't just photographs there's far more to it and Luis got all that in his photos, editing, auto, and text, to make them more than just photos. The effects of the multimedia effects of  the slide show was emotion and a sense of understanding and being there in that situation with the marine. The most powerful image from the slide show was the photo with the marine in the back and a gun in full focus sitting on the counter. Because it shows the real importance of his condition. The sequence of photographs that were the most powerful, were th ones with his wife before she left when you can just see their stress in the photographs. To be honest when I was looking through this slidshow I was watching it with out sound so it was just the pictures telling the story, so to me the audio didn't enhance the photographs at all and it didn't need to. What made the images work together to tell a story, was the way that each one was timed and how they were arranged. For example if you would have shown the pictures of the soldier with out his wife when she had left and then following have a picture when they were together it wouldn't have played out.

This picture is interesting and caught my eye because of the position the player is in. That's what i love about athletic photos because you can see what you usually see in athletics but its in still life, like in the photo you cant see that the OU player is falling but hasn't even hit the ground yet and the UT player is also falling in the most awkward position.

Georgetown RV park floods as remnants of Hermine reach central Texas.

Georgetown RV park floods as remnants of Hermine reach central Texas.

PIEA Photo Contest

What makes the photo powerful is the emotion in the photo, the bright lighting but the photo's in black and white, and how everything is fit in the frame.

ATPI Self Portrait Contest

What makes the photo powerful is the the shape that the people are in in the photo, the angle its taken at, the dim lighting, and how the reflection of the people in the photo is most of the content in the photo.

ATPI Fall Contest

What makes the photo powerful is the large reflective object that takes up most of the space in the picture, the bright lighting, and most of the content in the photo is just a reflection of the object.

What first caught my eye when looking at Mezyerowitz's photos was all the activity going on around the frame but in all of his photos he has one focus.And what he chose to focus on is somthing that we in the real world find ourselves passing by or not even noticing.

I see, A bridge in a park with random people, a boy jumping off the bridge, and a blind man in the right side of the picture.I smell, fresh air.I hear, people talking and kids laughing. I taste a sweet loly pop that im sucking on while walking through the park. I feel the fresh breeze running through my hair and water splash as the kids are playing in the water

 I see, a busy little town with young children and parents walking around and in the right hand corner of the picture it shows an old blind man just sitting and relaxing. I smell, gasoline coming from the moving cars driving by. I hear, People and children yelling and talking to each other. I taste, a nice ice tea while observing the scene. I feel, the energy and busyness going on around me

Filling the frame

This frame is filed with the band conductor, what the conductor is standing on, the football field, the band and the bleachers and stadium light.

Action and Emotion

               There is a great amount of emotion although there isn't as much action as there is emotion. But you can tell in the photo that action had to be involved, and you can see this by the emotion in the photo

The Story

In the photograph you can see that there's a band playing on the stage. You have you lead singer, your lead guitarist, and your base player. Although this pictures story is a little mysterious because the identity of the band members aren't shown, and neither is the bands audience. 

Hurricane Ike

Rule of thirds
  The Photo stuck me because of no one being in a city setting except for the one man cleaning the damage, it was more of the composition than the concept. Because of the way the photo was taken.

Balance
    All of the trash and mess in the middle of the road and on the car is what stuck me, it was the subject. Because this kind of setting wouldn't be set anywhere other than a hurricane site.

  

Great black and white photographers, PART 2

 Joel Meyerowitz, born in 1938, began photographing in color in 1962, he was born in the  Bronx, New York , graduated from Ohio state, In the early 70's he taught the first color course at Cooper Union, He is the author of 16 books including the seminal book, Cape Light.

Mergers and avoiding them

Cropping

Framing

Create depth

Background

Viewpoint

Symmetry and Patterns

Leading Lines

Balancing Elements

Rule of thirds

Pinhole Pictures

The differences between the negative and the positive pictures is that everything is switched meaning the car in the positive picture is on the right but in the negitive picture its on the left. Another difference is that everything that is light in the positive picture is dark in the negative. Negative- characterized by the absence of distinguishing or marked qualities or features; lacking positive attributes. Photography Negative- used chiefly for making positives.

The Rule of Thirds

This picture includes the boy, the father, the light shining on them, and the shadow cast behind them and all at a lower right angle. This is a perfect representation of the rule of thirds.

Avoiding Mergers

This photo completely singles out the smoke, building, and plain running into the twin tower, which makes the point of the photo very clear and avoids all merges.

Framing

This picture has great framing allong the outlining of the picture. from the water memorial to the different shade of sand on the top of the picture and the shade from the water memorial.

Balance

This picture has good balance because of the way it was taken to where the the flag the woman holding the flag the man and the woman behind her and the building all contrast perfectly together in the photo and the was that the angle was taken.

Lines

This picture was chosen to represent lines because it shows people all in a graceful "s" line from an angle above the scene.

Simplicity

I chose this photo to represent simplicity because of the way it was taken. Behind the buildings all that you have for a backdrop is the sky so all the focus and attention goes straight to the smoke and explosion coming from the twin towers.



Paul Strand

Joel Meyerowitz