Extra Credit For Final

1) The man that was killed by the subway was pushed onto the tracks, in the way of the train, by a panhandler. The photographer was able to take this photo because he tried helping the man, but he wasn't strong enough, so he tried using the camera flash to attract the attention of the driver of a train, and got the pictures while using the flash to try and stop the train.
2) The photographer was able to take the photo because he was in the location that this was occurring, and was trying to use the flash of the camera to stop the driver of the train. This allowed him to take a photo, and use the flash to try and stop the train.
3) I think that the man should've tried harder to help the man, and not worry about using the flash to slow down the train, because once you see a train, they can't slow down in time to stop before they reach you. However, I know that as being a photographer, you're there to observe, and you shouldn't interact with the subjects.
4) I don't think the photographer did the best to help the man in this situation because he could've got help from others to help get the man out once he saw the man being pushed. Also, like I said above, using the flash to try and stop the train wouldn't have worked because a train can't stop that fast.
5) I think as long as the family was okay with it, that it was okay for the New York Post to run the photo as the front cover. This is because it was the best photo to show what happened, and to give the best story, and since it was taken, it should be used.
6) To a photojournalist, capturing life as it happens is more important than stopping bad things from happening, because that's the job of a photojournalist. They're supposed to document things as they see, not save lives.
7) However, I think that it can be acceptable for a photographer to involve him/herself in a situation that he or she photographs if it means saving someone's life. They're doing their job by taking the photograph, and doing what most would consider a morally right thing to do, saving/helping someone else's life, but only if necessary.
8) I think that photographers should mostly stay away from influencing events as they happen because they're there to take pictures of an event and how it happened, and accurately display what's going on in a situation.
9) I think the most appropriate response for a photographer in this situation is that if you should continue to keep taking photographs, if like the photographer said, there's no way for you to help the man in danger.

Magazine Covers

Review

Writing Captions:

Mr. Marley Grinch is stealing the pies from the Opera Bakery in Wales on November 30, 2016. Mr. Grinch has been named the Pie Faced Bandit, and has stolen from over 30 different bakeries. 

50 geese are making their escape from the Austin Zoo, on October 17, 2016. The geese had been held captive with poor conditions, and were finally given the chance to live a free life.

Rules of Photography:

1. Rule of thirds- when the subject is in one of the intersection points in the corners. 

2. Balancing Elements- when the elements in your picture are balanced. 

3. Leading Lines- when lines are leading toward your subject.

4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)- when objects in the photo are repeated. 

5. Viewpoint- the angle that a photo is taken at. 
6. Background- creating a simple background to focus on the subject. 

7. Create depth- showing objects in the foreground and background. 

8. Framing- using objects as frames to frame your photo or your subject. 

9. Cropping- the way you size and crop your picture. 

10. Mergers and avoiding them- finding a plain background so you don't have things seeming like they are coming out of your object. 

Aperture, Shutter speed, and ISO:
Aperture:  how much light is let into the camera, which determines how focused the subject and background will be. 
Shutter Speed: the length of time a camera shutter is open, which determines how fast a photo is taken.
ISO: how sensitive a camera is to light, which determines the quality of a photo. 

Ethics of Manipulating Photos:
What's Ethical: cropping the image, and slightly making things larger or smaller. 
What's Not Ethical: changing colors. 

The Types of Portraits:
Environmental: a portrait taken in the subject's usual environment.
Self: a portrait taken of one's self. 
Casual: or portrait of a person. 
Formal: a carefully posed photo. 
Informal: a photo that's not not set up or posed.

Photographic Terms:
Exposure: how much light is in an area, determines how light or dark the image will be. 
Depth of Field: the distance between the closest and farthest objects in the photo. 
Focal Length: the distance between lens and image sensor that determines how zoomed in the photo. 

Magazine Covers:
Early: the first type of magazine covers, had drawings on them.
Poster: a magazine where the image is the main thing on the cover. 
Married to Type: the headlines and font are arranged around the photo, and blend in with the image. 
Forest of Words: there are lots of headlines 

Deadlines, ARGGH

http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-are-they-called-deadlines

1) The origins of the word deadline are from around the time of the Civil War, in which it meant lines that don't move.
2) Missing today's deadline for will cause your work to not be graded, and possibly will affect your final grade.
3) I haven't had issues meeting deadlines for other classes or turning in work.
4) I don't miss deadlines.
5) I did meet today's deadline, but homework from other classes, guitar, and sports prevented me from getting the pictures done earlier.
6) To complete this task as quickly as possible, I want to stay on task and not have interruptions.

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/inside-the-classroom/8-ways-to-take-control-of-your-time

1) The suggestion that would help me be more efficient is not get sidetracked.
2) The suggestion that would be the hardest for me to complete is to not get sidetracked.
3) I'm a morning person.
3A) The problems I might run into, due to the fact that I'm more productive at night, are being tired from a long day, and other activities that I have to do.
4) I can create a dedicated study time for myself by putting down electronics and getting rid of distractions for a certain time every night.
5) Three things I could do to eliminate distractions are to put away my music, put away my phone, and put away the food.

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/get-started/inside-the-classroom/take-control-of-homework

1) There are correlations to taking control of my homework and time management, for example: if I manage my time, then I can get my homework done faster, and make time to control/do my homework.
2) My ideal study setting is at my desk in my room; and the mood is quiet, but not too quiet, with no distractions.
3) My biggest distraction when it comes to studying are my phone and everything on it.
4) Three things I could do to help with those distractions are: put away my phone, make time for breaks to be on my phone, and put my phone on silent.

My Magazine Cover Images

My Portraits and Self-Portrait

Top 100 Photos of All Time

Another Photo of Hers

1) I chose this image because I like the angle that it's taken at, and how the photographer focused on     the subject. The contrast of blacks and whites caught my eye. 

2) This photo looks like it came from a movie or T.V. show, but Cindy Sherman positioned herself in a way meant to showcase the way photos can allow you to become something you're not. In this photo, Cindy Sherman took this self-portrait as a type of performance art. 

3)  Cindy Sherman took this photo as a self-portrait, used to change her identity. The photo is meant   to captivate viewers with pictures in familiar places, but to deceive them at the same time. The subject of her photos was always herself, but she changed the way she looked, or her identity. 

4) Above                                                                                                                                                   

5) Cindy Sherman was born January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She attended the State         University College at Buffalo, New York. 

http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/photography-biographies/cindy-sherman

Another One of His Photos

1) I chose this image because I like the simplicity, yet depth of it. The action/motion of the photo is    what caught my eye.

2) Harold Edgerton put a milk dropper next to a timer and his camera and successfully caught the       milk dropping in mid-motion. He learned how to combine camera tricks to capture movements barely noticeable to the human eye. He used lighting and a very high shutter speed to get this photo just right.    

3) Harold Edgerton began coming up with a way to change photography in the 1950s. He figured out how to use stop-motion to freeze the impact of objects for just long enough to capture that image. 

4) Above

5) Harold Edgerton was born April 6, 1903 in Fremont, Nebraska, and died January 4,1990. He attended the University of Nebraska for his bachelor's degree, but attended MIT for his master's and doctoral degrees. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Edgerton

Another One of His Photos

1) I chose this image because I like the simplicity of the background and how the colors in the picture are used and highlighted. The impossibility of the shot is what captured my eye. 

2) Co Rentmenster captured Michael Jordan soaring through the air about to make a basket with his legs and arms stretched out in opposite directions. Nike actually paid Rentmenster to temporarily use the photo on the first Air Jordan shoes.

3) Nike continued putting this image on products that they produced, and now it's a commercial icon, that's very easily recognized. Rentmentster sued Nike for using the photo, but the profit is still coming in for Nike. 

4) Above. 

5) Co Rentmenster was born February 28, 1936 in Amsterdam. Co Rentmenster attended the Art Center College in Los Angeles. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Edgerton

Another One of His Photos

1) I chose this image because I like the repetition and symmetry-like pattern of the store. The amount of items and colors is what captured my eye. 

2) This photo was taken at a 99 Cents Store Only in Las Angeles, to look like there were an endless amount of products. The photograph was edited by stitching photographs together to resemble an abstract art way of photography. 

3) This photo took everyday tasks and turned them into art that's visually appealing. The photo was very popular, and sold for $2.3 million. 

4) Above. 

5) Andreas Gursky was born January 15, 1955 in Germany. He studied at Essen at the Folkwang Academy. 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harold-Edgerton

Another One of His Photos

1) I chose this image because I like the angle at which it was taken, and I like how you can see the emotions of the men moving the gorilla in this picture. The contrast of colors and symmetry is what caught my eye.
2) It took over a dozen men to lift this 500 pound gorilla, named Senkwekwe, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many endangered gorillas live in the national park in which Senkwekwe was shot.
3) This photo took place in 2007, after people were illegally harvesting wood for the charcoal industry. Just a few weeks after this photo was published, many African countries signed a treaty to help protect gorillas.
4) Above. 

5) Brent Stirton was born in 1969 in Durban, South Africa. He studied at the Durban University of Technology.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentstirton
http://www.axisgallery.net/exhibitions/circumcision/cv-stirton.html

Prompt Shoot #3

My Photos:

Circles

Edge

5 Websites

1) The Oldest Living Things in the World

http://www.rachelsussman.com/oltw/

This website was created by Rachel Sussman, who travels the world with biologists to take pictures of organisms that are over 2000 years old. She thinks of the organisms as if they're people that she's taking portrait photographs of. On this website, there are many different organisms that are very old, in their natural environments. The photographs are from many different continents, and they all vary in age. I learned what some very old organisms look like, and not to judge an organism only by its appearance, because all of these organisms have been on this planet longer than we have. I also learned another purpose for taking photographs, which is to use it for biology to capture the lifespan of a particular photograph. 

This is my favorite photograph:

I picked this photograph because I like how the stromatolites form a pattern of repetition, and I like how the photograph was angled, so you could see the foreground and background. The rules of photography that I see in this photograph are: repetition, and creating depth. This photo was taken by Rachel Sussman in Australia. 

2) 6 Types of Photos Every Photographer Should Know How to Make
http://petapixel.com/2014/12/01/6-types-photos-know-make/

This website explains different skills in photography that can enhance your photographs and make them more interesting. The website teaches you how to make a fake tilt and shift photo, how to make a forced perspective photo, how to make a long exposure landscape photo, how to make a digital infrared photo, how to make a double exposure portrait photo, and how to make a 360 degree polar panorama. You make a fake tilt and shift photo by applying a gradient blur to the photo in Photoshop. you make a forced perspective photo by placing the subject in a way to which they look like they're merged with an object. You make a long exposure landscape photo by using a Neutral Density filter which blocks light, a tripod, and crop the photo to a square. You make a digital infrared photo by using an IR filter or applying the infrared affect in photoshop. You make a double exposure portrait photo by using a multiple exposure mode that allows you to combine two photos. You make a 360 degree polar panorama by taking multiple pictures that you stitch together in Photoshop's Photomerge. I learned many techniques to make my photographs more interesting on this website. 

This is my favorite photo: 

I like this photo because I like how creative the photo is, and how it looks like an optical illusion. The rules of photography that were followed are: leading lines, creating depth, and viewpoint. This photo was taken by Kenzie Suanders. 

3) 10 Photography Resolutions for the New Year
http://petapixel.com/2014/12/31/10-photography-resolutions-new-year/

This website shows several ways to make your photography better and how to become a more confident photographer. Some things that are mentioned are: get better with photoshop; stop believing that your photographs aren't good; and to take more photos of loved ones/people that you know, that way your photos can mean more to you, and possibly turn out better. The website also says to use your photographs "for better," meaning to donate your photographs to charity. Another thing that was mentioned was to print out your photographs so that you can see them on a bigger scale, and to keep them for memories. I learned to not be so negative about my photos. 

This is my favorite photo:

I like this photo because I like how the meaning, to me, seems to be lonely, yet determined. The rules that are followed are: leading lines, and creating depth. This photograph was taken by Jenna Martin.  

4) The Disorienting Beauty of Spiral Staircases in Old Abandoned Buildings
http://petapixel.com/2014/12/19/disorienting-beauty-spiral-staircases-old-abandoned-buildings/

This website many different photographs of spiral staircases in old abandoned buildings. Christian Richter, the photographer, is an architecture photographer, and he enjoys finding the beauty in spiral staircases. All of his photos are taken from the top of the staircase, looking down, for he finds that they look both "beautiful and disorienting," when taken from that viewpoint. Each of the photographs are unique, and show a different kind of beautiful staircase. I learned from this website how to find the beauty in simple things. 

This is my favorite photo:

I like this photo because I like how the leaves on the staircase help enhance the beauty of the spiral staircase in an old building. This photo follows repetition, viewpoint, and leading lines. This photograph is by Christian Richter. 

5) 7 Tips to Shooting Great Portrait Photographs
http://blog.phowd.com/2014/09/7-tips-shooting-great-portrait-photographs/

This website teaches you how to make your portrait photography look better and how to make it be more interesting. The tips include breaking the ice, bringing the model out of their comfort zone, having the subject look of camera, using negative space, breaking the rules of photography, and tilting the horizon line. I think the most useful tip is to break the ice with the model because that way the photos won't look as forced and as boring. However, I do believe that bringing the model out of their comfort zone is very important also, in order to have the photographs more unique and interesting. From this website, I learned how to improve my technique on portrait photographs. 

This is my favorite photo: 

I like this photo because I like how the subject isn't looking directly at the camera, and I like how the photographer played with the model's expression. The rules that are followed are rule of thirds, simplicity, cropping, and viewpoint. This photo was taken by Rajib Mukherjee.

Local Austin Photographers

The photography company I picked is Cory Ryan Photography which consists of two photographers, Cory and Gia. Cory loves her job, partially due to the fact that it includes getting to meet many wonderful people. She considers pictures to be very important so that you can have memories to look back at in the future. Gia also loves her job and all it inhibits, including the people and the destinations that she gets to travel to.

Their style of photography is very unique because they try to make their wedding pictures abnormal and more interesting, compared to the ones that you normally see. They consider their photographs to be modern and stylish, and hope to capture the essence of Austin. They want the photographs to include all the moments that come with having a wedding.

I like the photographs that they have taken because they're different and more interesting to look at than the typical wedding photos. All the pictures are vibrant and show different stages involved in a wedding, as opposed to just photos of the bride and groom dancing. They came up with a way to make the photographs unique, and that's why I like them.

Here Are Some Photos:

I like this photo because I like the setting that it's taken in, and how it's unique, due to the fact that it's after the wedding took place. This photo follows framing, creating depth, avoiding mergers, viewpoint, and leading lines. 

I like this photo due to the way the lighting is used to show the main subjects. This photo shows the rules: leading lines, and repetition.

I like this photo due to unique angle at which it's taken at. The rules that the photo follows are: leading lines, viewpoint, and repetition.

I like this photo because it shows a different/less formal wedding than what I always picture in my mind. This photo follows rule of thirds, leading lines, and creating depth.  

I like this photo because it shows what happens before the wedding, which isn't usually shown when you see wedding photographs. This photo shows rule of thirds, sort of leading lines, and creating depth. 

Mural Project

Our theme was different colors throughout nature objects that we found. For example, my colors were green and yellow, so I had to take pictures where the main subjects were those colors.

These Are My Photos:

Magazine Preview Assignment- Magazines Part 2

The main attributes of an Image Based cover type are to have a photograph as the biggest and most important part of the cover. The photograph is the biggest part and is like a background. The type of photograph has to make sense with what the magazine is about. The main attributes of an Illustration Based cover type are to have the most important/biggest part of the cover be a background that's drawn or computer generated, instead of a photograph. The picture is the main background and shows something funny usually. The main attributes of Type Based cover type are to present the information using shocking and powerful text instead of images. The main attributes of a Concept Based cover type are to use a mix of the other cover types and to make the covers funny and understandable to readers.

The relationship between words and photos on a cover of a magazine is to have them work together to make the cover interesting and appealing to a reader. This is important so that people like the covers, and then possibly buy the magazine.

Magazine Preview Assignment- My Favorite Cover

My Favorite Cover:

The New York Times Magazine, November 24, The Flight Risk

Photographer: Martin Schoeller

Designer: Arem Duplessis

"For this cover story on the U.S. women’s ski-jumping team, we featured the Olympic hopeful Sarah Hendrickson as photographed by Martin Schoeller. Schoeller captures the competitive spirit of Hendrickson, who wears her competition gear, in her body posture and intense gaze."

My Critique:

 I like this portrait cover a lot because I like how the background is plain so that way you can really focus on the subject and the bold colors. The fact that the subject is in her competition gear and the way she looks at the camera goes along with the bold and intense look of the cover. That communicates that the subject is powerful, and the way that the light shines on her and the bold colors are very vibrant add to that. The cover looks very bold due to the way that the subject is fierce her posture is perfect, and the intense look in her eyes. 

 

Magazine Preview Assignment- Best Magazine Covers 2013

1) Formal

2) Informal

3) Informal

4) Environmental

5) Informal

6) Formal

7) Informal

8) Informal

9) Formal
10) Formal

11) Formal

12) Formal

13) Informal

14) Formal

15) Formal

16) Environmental

17) Informal

Magazine Preview Assignment- Magazine Tips

Things to Think About When Designing Magazine Cover:

• Make the image appealing
• Make the cover interesting and make people curious
• Make the wording clever
• Make the cover intellectually stimulating
• Make the cover easy to read

American Soldier

A) The most powerful image is Down and Dirty, where Ian Fisher is praying that God will help make his life easier or as he says, "I've been praying that God takes this stuff off my back." I think this image is the most powerful because it shows how he fights through the pain and how he deals with the struggles that he encounters.

B)  The images work together to tell a story because they show his journey through his career fighting for his country and what happens when he comes home. The pictures display all the emotions that he experienced from happy to sad to tough.

C) The captions enhance the photos because they tell you exactly what's going on in the photos so you can better understand the meaning and what's happening in that photo.

D) Ian Fisher graduates high school, ready to join the Army and fight for his country. Fisher gets enlisted to the army, and has to say goodbye to his family before he leaves for 14 weeks of training. The beginning days in the army are tough, and his childhood injury comes back to hurt him. Fisher and his squad go through basic training and receive their guns, to then take place in a stimulated explosion of a village. Fisher's Drill Sergeant reveals that he got attached to Fisher because he was a good kid who came a long way. There are weeks of hard training, and when he comes home to his father, he reveals that he has a drug addiction, then later turns himself in to his commander. When Fisher comes home from Iraq, he has a large welcoming ceremony, then gets engaged to his girlfriend, Devin. 

E) In the photos where Ian is the main subject, the verbs are usually in present tense for the first sentence of the caption, and past tense for the second sentence of the caption. 

F) 

1. The captions are usually 2 sentences. 

2. The first sentence tells what's going on and who, what, when, where, why, and how. 

3. The second sentence gives background information that we can't tell from just looking at the photo. 

4. The third sentence gives more background information from a quote. 

5. Some of the captions do include quotes. 

6. No captions have 4 sentences. 

G) I think it's possible to tell a story with just pictures and captions because the pictures should tell a story themselves, and the captions provide more background information, which is what makes a story. 

H) I think people bother writing stories if you can make one with just pictures and captions because the stories will tell you more than you could learn from a picture and a few sentences in the caption. So, it's because a caption only has a few sentences, but a story has many more sentences that can provide more information. 

American Soldier

A) The most powerful image is Down and Dirty, where Ian Fisher is praying that God will help make his life easier or as he says, "I've been praying that God takes this stuff off my back." I think this image is the most powerful because it shows how he fights through the pain and how he deals with the struggles that he encounters.

B)  The images work together to tell a story because they show his journey through his career fighting for his country and what happens when he comes home. The pictures display all the emotions that he experienced from happy to sad to tough.

C) The captions enhance the photos because they tell you exactly what's going on in the photos so you can better understand the meaning and what's happening in that photo.

D) Ian Fisher graduates high school, ready to join the Army and fight for his country. Fisher gets enlisted to the army, and has to say goodbye to his family before he leaves for 14 weeks of training. The beginning days in the army are tough, and his childhood injury comes back to hurt him. Fisher and his squad go through basic training and receive their guns, to then take place in a stimulated explosion of a village. Fisher's Drill Sergeant reveals that he got attached to Fisher because he was a good kid who came a long way. There are weeks of hard training, and when he comes home to his father, he reveals that he has a drug addiction, then later turns himself in to his commander. When Fisher comes home from Iraq, he has a large welcoming ceremony, then gets engaged to his girlfriend, Devin. 

E) In the photos where Ian is the main subject, the verbs are usually in present tense for the first sentence of the caption, and past tense for the second sentence of the caption. 

F) 

1. The captions are usually 2 sentences. 

2. The first sentence tells what's going on and who, what, when, where, why, and how. 

3. The second sentence gives background information that we can't tell from just looking at the photo. 

4. The third sentence gives more background information from a quote. 

5. Some of the captions do include quotes. 

6. No captions have 4 sentences. 

G) I think it's possible to tell a story with just pictures and captions because the pictures should tell a story themselves, and the captions provide more background information, which is what makes a story. 

H) I think people bother writing stories if you can make one with just pictures and captions because the stories will tell you more than you could learn from a picture and a few sentences in the caption. So, it's because a caption only has a few sentences, but a story has many more sentences that can provide more information. 

Self Portraits and Portraits Part 1

The Best Tips Are:
1) Shoot Candidly
2) Fill the Frame
3) Engage Your Subject


Environmental Portraits:

I like this photo because it changes up your perspective and view of what would be a very boring photo originally. I chose this photo because it also followed a few rules of photography including avoiding mergers, simplicity, viewpoint, and balance.

I like this photo because the man is staring off into the distance which makes it interesting, and I like how they blurred the background and focused on him. I chose this photo because it's interesting and it follows leading lines, and rule of thirds.

Photography Self Portraits:

I like this photo because it's creative how the man showed his interests of photography while holding a camera in a picture. I chose this photo because I like how it was done, and because it follows rule of thirds, cropping, and simplicity. 

I like this photo because it's very interesting with the splash of color created, and I like how the self portrait represents that he likes art. I chose this photo because it's very creative and it follows cropping, rule of thirds (the paintbrush), and simplicity.

Casual Portrait:

I like this photo because it shows a kind emotion and I also like the background where the photo was taken. I chose this photo because it's well done follows framing, avoiding mergers, and leading lines. 

I like this photo because of how he's staring outside of the portrait and how he was focused and the background wasn't. I chose this photo because it shows simplicity, rule of thirds, and background.

For my portrait assignment, I want to shoot a picture of my friend staring straight at the camera from close up, while she's in her swimwear. I will take this picture at the Circle C Pool. To make it successful, I will make sure I follow some rules of photography and take many different shots to make sure I get a good one. 

Prompt Shoot

Electric

Cold

Purple

Purple