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.

I would probably want to visit Lincoln Park, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts and take my camera along. What made me want to go there is that I think it's kind've interesting that 2 men died and some passengers got injured there. The two that died was because they were doing crazy stuff on a roller coaster, a man stood up in a car and was killed going down a lift. The other man was killed trying to climb from one car to another while the coaster was moving. Then about the passengers, the last car detached from the rest of the coaster and rolled backwards until it derailed, tossing its passengers out, injuring them. I't would be cool to go look around the park & look at the roller coaster that the 2 men died in & the passengers got injured in.

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.

Idora Park in Ohio USA. Pripyat Park in Ukraine.  Rocky Point in Rhode Island USA. Enchanted Land in Rio de Janeiro.

4. Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.


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.


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.

Academic Shoot reflection

1. Most of the challenges that I encountered were that I was having to be really steady so the picture wouldn't be all blurry and make sure nobody moved to fast for the photo so they won't be blurry.

2. The technical aspects of photography that I found myself thinking about the most is focus & holding the camera still because I't was kinda hard to focus on people, also it was hard to hold the camera still for me.

3. I would try to take more photos so I could have a more of variety to choose from the photos.

4. What I would do the same would be to hold the camera still.

5. I think Avoiding mergers would be the easiest to achieve because all you have to do is take a bad picture that makes someone look different or take a picture of half of someone.

6. I think The rule of thirds would be the hardest because Its hard to capture someone moving.

7. Rule of thirds, I'm still not clear on & what I can do to figure out what it is, is to go back to that website that shows all of the rules.

The rule of thirds

Avoiding Mergers

1. How well did you follow the rule?

I followed the rule by having the guy on the right only have the top part of his body showing.

2. What is the subject?

The subject is that these guys are in the library and doing their work.

3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

4. If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?

Lines

1. How well did you follow the rule?
I think I followed the rule of lines pretty good.
2. What is the subject?
The subject of the photo is that its book shelves which have lines that lead into another book shelf.
3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?
I would think so because its pretty simple if you look at it.
4. If you didn't follow the rule well, what could you have done differently?
I think what I could have done differently would probably be the way I took the picture.

Africa and Mural Project

1. My reaction to the photos are that some of the pictures are pretty cool but on some other pictures I think some look plain, I'm not saying they look bad but I think they could do a little better then just an animal.

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3. I chose that photo for my favorite because I like how the lion looks and how focused its on the lion, it's a great photo.

4. I think he used Simplicity in this photo because all you can focus on is the lion, theirs nothing else you will focus on.

4. Look up the photographer on Google -

      a. He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses

      b. while he was shooting a music video for michael jackson he discovered his love for the east africa animals

      c. He has made these types of pictures so that humans can see the beauty of these animals and hopefully influence people to be cognizant about it. 

     d. "The photos are my elegy to these beautiful beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."

Academics & Community Service

              I chose "Drop the Bass" for my favorite photo. Its showing a girl dripping some pink liquid into some weird thing and it's exploding back up into the air.

1. I picked this photo because it looks interesting, it makes you wonder "how is she doing that"? It looks awesome how the liquid is exploding up while she continues pouring liquid into the thing.

2. I think avoiding mergers are evident in this photo because it cuts off some of her hand and part of the bottle that she is pouring.

Filling the frame

I chose this photo for filling the frame because its not cutting out the two girls in this picture, its a decent picture.

Action and Emotion

I chose this one because this photo shows that their doing some crazy experiment which is an action, also their emotion is that their like, "woah"! and their smiling.

The Story

I chose this photo for best story because It shows that the teacher gets along with his students and that their enjoying it because their smiling and laughing and also making a funny face. I think the story is that the students proved the teacher wrong in something and he's like, "ahh, okay your right".

Balance

The reason I chose this picture for balance was because if you fold this picture in half, it would look the same on both sides, which is the meaning of balance.

Avoiding Mergers

I picked this picture for avoiding mergers because at the bottom it doesn't show the peoples feet and the whole truck on the right of the photo which their trying to avoid. The picture wasn't good enough to have the whole photo so they had to cut the some of the picture for some reason which is Avoiding Mergers.