Framing

I chose this one for framing because the window is like a frame which shows the U.S.A flag.

Lines

I chose this photo for lines because the smoke looks like lines going across the building.

The Rule of Thirds

I chose this photo for the rule of thirds because it shows the twin towers at the top of the picture and some of the shadow of the buildings.

Simplicity

I chose this photo because the background is clear and not showing much cause all you can focus on is the buildings which shows clearly.

Unusual and interesting photos

1. My reaction of his work is that his work is unique. His is different from others i've seen. I like how he makes the buildings into three, making it look like its shaking or something.

2. I think he made these photos by photoshop or some other editing programs.

3. I think the white house would be a great building to take a picture like that for which is in Washington D.C. You would probably have to go when they take tours and stuff to access.

 

Part 2

1.) I chose this photo because its basketball which is one of the sports I like to play and the game is on a ship.

2.) I found this photo in Sports Action.

3.) It got honorable mention.

4.) What the photographer did that attracted my eye was the basketball game.

5.) I think the reason the judges pick this photo was you can see the game goin on and the ship and how the sky looks. 

6.) The ship in the back.

1.) I chose this photo because you can see whats happening to the cars and it also looks awesome.

2.) I found this photo in Sports Action.

3.) It got 3rd place.

4.) What attracted my eye was the car in the air.

5.) I think the judges chose this photo because the cars were all crashing and on fire, How it was taken.

6.) The one car in the air and all the crashing.

1.) I chose this photo because this is my favorite boxer.

2.) I found this photo in News Portrait and Personality.

3.) It got Honorable mention.

4.) What attracted my eye was that its my favorite boxer.

5.) I think they chose this photo because its a great black and white photo.

6.) I think what made it unique was him looking fierce.

Part 3

I think this photo really looks similar to the painting above the picture.

4. Yes they followed the suggestions.

5. I think which style of painting that might influence me would be Sports Action because I'm an athlete.

Red, Metal, Happy

Red

 Metal 

Happy

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

There was a photographer who went to view her pictures but found that it was manipulated with. The site used was "Adobe Photoshop" and can be used to change people in pictures, almost as if copy and paste pretty much. When people send their pictures to "big" people like the newspaper or some sort of magazine, they get caught at least a week later. Once each photographer got caught, they lost there job. In other words, don't use photoshop because it will cost you your job & people will know who messed with the photos. I believe that photo editing is highly unacceptable because it's not the real picture. In photography, you're suppose to catch those moments that seem real to you, that have some sort of meaning. It's obviously not real anymore if you have to photoshop or photo edit the pictures.

A.)This photo looks bad because they darkened the picture and they used the spotlight effect. It was useless and shouldn't have been done because it looked better the first time.

B.)This photo doesn't look as bad because you really can't tell what they changed. The pictures look exactly the same from what they tried photo shopping from. 

National Geographic Warm-up

I chose this photo because its looks all freaky and cool. It's showing some light in some areas which make this photo look good. Another reason this is my favorite because you can see the difference from the sky and on ground.

Touching People

1. I think it's kind've weird that people take pictures of other people touching each other weirdly, so I think this project is weird.

2. If someone approached me with a camera and asked me to participate in a photo shoot and asked me to touch a stranger, I would say no because thats kind've disturbing and freaky. I wouldn't be able to take a picture doing that.

3. I think that one that would be fun would be taking pictures touching each other's noses.

4. I thought that the photo shoot was creepy because I couldn't see myself taking pictures with strangers.

40 greatest photos taken and Touching People

Justin Lane-Pool

What made me choose this photo was that he's at the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and he's is kneeling down on the thing where it shows the people that died. The guy in this photo, his son had died in the 9/11 accident and he's there at the tenth anniversary ceremonies. I think this photo made the top 40 because it was heart touching because of the accident.  

Mark Pardew

I chose this photo because he is giving the animal some water and helping it. He set this photo to show what kind people do to animals when their in need. I think this photo made the top 40 because it's inspiring to people that actually care about animals and don't abuse them.

Aaron Thompson

I picked this photo also because the kid is crying and is getting the american flag for his dads death. They set it up to show the emotion of the kid when his father that had died. I think this photo made the top 40 because its sad about what had happened to the kid and its a great photo.

Great Black and white photographers, part 2

Gordon Parks

My favorite black and white photographer is Gordon Parks. His full name is Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, he was born November 30, 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas and died March 7, 2006 at age 93. He attended a segregated elementary school. The town was too small to afford a separate high school that would facilitate segregation of the secondary school, but blacks were not allowed to play sports or attend school social activities. In 1929, He briefly worked in a gentalme He was a photographer, music, writer, and film director. In the 1950's, Gordon worked as a consultant on various Hollywood productions. He later directed a series of documentaries on black ghetto life that were commissioned by National Educational Television. In 1971, Parks directed a film starring Richard Roundtree, called "Shaft". It became a major hit that had a series of films. He made several of films for television and composed music and a libretto for Martin, a ballet tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Which premiered in Washington, D.C. during 1989. It was on National television on King's birthday in 1990. His first job was a piano player in a brothel when he was a teenager. He also performed as a jazz pianist. Parks composed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra at the encouragement of black American conductor. These are two of my favorite pictures that he created.

The Camera

• Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
• A pentaprism is a five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by a constant 90°, even if the entry beam is not at 90° to the prism.
• An autofocus system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a man optical manually selected point or area.
• A pixel is a physical point in arrestor image or the smallest, addressable element in a display device; so it is the smallest, controllable element of a picture represented on the screen.

Aperture-hole or an opening through which light travels.

Shutter-device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.

Exposure-presentation to view, especially in an open or public manner

Depth of Field-the range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument,usually a camera lens.

F-Stop-the setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.

Focal length-the distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to thecorresponding principal plane.

• Zoom
• Trash
• Display
• ISO
• AF
• Menu
• Play
• Set 
• WB
• Power 
• AV
• On
• Off
• M
• Av
• Tv
• P
• A-Dep

Great black and white photographers

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Gordon Parks

John Gutmann

Camera history and information

The camera obscura effect was discovered by greek an chinese philosophers and came to be know as the first camera, the obscura effect is achieved when inside a dark room a small hole in the wall projects light an through the hole the light is focused on the opposite wall upside down. In the 17th century Isaac Newton an Christian Huygens pieced together an perfected high quality glass lenses and optics, thus bringing man a step closer to modern cameras. In 1827 Joseph Nicephore added the last pice of the equation to successfully build the first portable camera, film. Still to this day Nicephores camera and modern cameras are very similar when it comes to the aiming, pointing, and shooting. Digital cameras capture pictures with an electronic sensor called a CCD unlike nicephores did. When taking a picture you have two modes Auto ( which is when the camera will completely control flash an exposer) and Program ( which is basic point and shoot and unlike auto you can control flash and a few other camera options). The portrait mode is when the camera will try to blur out the background. The sports mode is mostly used for sports or fast moving moments which freezes the moment, the camera will try to use to fastest shutter. The half press is a easy and essential step to help beginners  with a camera due to its faster camera response time, more control over focus, and encourages better composition. Disabled flash, which is when the flash is off and the camera uses natural light. The auto flash, which is usually on by default will flash if the camera thinks it needs more light. When your photo is exposed to too much light it will be washed out or too bright. If the photo doesn't receive enough light it will be too dark. The term " Stop" represents a change in the light. The new stop will be 1 stop brighter if the new planet has two sons instead of one. If there is 4 sons instead of 1 then the stop will be two times brighter. A longer shutter speed has more light vs. a shorter shutter speed which has less light. The aperture is like the pupil of your eye, you can increase the amount of light with the aperture by making the opening of the aperture larger.

Best & Worst

 This photo was my favorite because he was smiling. Another reason why is because he's standing straight up and not moved around. You can see everything clearly and he's steady.

This photo was my least favorite because he doesn't look like he wants to take the picture. Also because he isn't smiling. He also doesn't seem happy. The picture also looks too plain.