Unusual and Interesting Photos

Part1

1.  I'm impressed with this photos. The building look really cool repeated two times.
2. I'm guessing he used photoshop or just moved the camera while taking the photos.
3. I would probably use the twin towers and really tall buildings. I would most likely be unable to get a photo of those pictures because I don't live near big cities. These buildings are located near big towns.

Part2

1. I picked this photo because the idea of it looks really cool.
2. Photojournalist of the Year (smaller markets)
3. 1st Place
4. I would say that he blurred the background, which makes the photo stand out to me.
5. A lot, since the whole point of the contest was to get a shot of the market and what better way is to take a photo , than in mother nature.
6.  He would of probably gotten informed about the book project maybe.

1. I picked this photo because you don't you don't see that in our everyday life's.
2. Domestic News
3. 1st place
4. The lights in the background look really nice and abstracting.
5. The violence and police make up the title of the contest.
6. Maybe if he looked at the newspaper and was aware of it.

Part3
1. I think the three most important ones are the Bathing at La Grenouillere, Chez le pere Lathuille,
 and Poppy.

4. I don't think he tried to follow this image, it probably just came to him.
5. Maybe using chalk into my artwork would influence me.

National Geographic Warm-up

This is my favorite photo because I like how the photographer caught the photo of the cheetah getting ready to jump off the branch. Also, how the tree angles around the photo. The color of the photo brings out the bright foggy sky in the background. 

I would probably have used this photo on top because nature is beauty in our world and also the living creatures, such as the cheetah. Nature never needs to get ready to take a photo, its just naturally beautiful and gets many people's attention.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

   Basically, newspaper photographers would use the program photoshop to edit their pictures. Many of them got fired after they eventually got caught of their fake photos they would publish to their newspaper. Also, since many tried editing their photos, there would be one original and the rest, were all fake. Newspaper companies don't allow their workers to use edited photos because it kills the whole point of being a photographer and it makes them look bad.

  I think editing your pictures into a newspaper is unethical because it just shows that your photos are really bad that you have to add touch ups to it, which ruins the original copy of it.

  The most unethical photo was the one where George W. Bush appeared in a photo that he was never in. It shows false information and can get the reader the wrong idea if they continue to publish false information.

  I think this photo isn't as bad as the other ones because anyone could care less to what her teeth look like. They are talking about her issues and not her appearance. This photo to me looks reasonable and formal because it gives a clear message to the viewer.

40 Greatest Photos Taken and Touching People

Image by Yomiuri Shimbun / Reuters

The baby is all wrapped up and safe from being lost for about 4 days. The pink blanket got my attention right away. i think it made it to the top 40 pictures because its just a miracle caught in a photo.

Source: apod.nasa.gov

Seeing earth from far away got my attention by the first second. This photograph looks really unique because earth looks like a crystal marble. I think it made the cut because in the picture, you can see a planet and the moon, which is really awesome.

Source: bokeh.fr

This photograph and really nice because the women is trying to bring peace with the solders. She looks like a brave women for getting near a dozen solders and trying to bring peace. It made the cut because this picture inspired flower power, which is an organization for peace of war.

Touching People

1. I think this was a cool project. Experimenting like that is a great way to come up with new ways of taking pictures now a days. More people should do this project in the future.

2. I would feel awkward and uncomfortable with it but agree to do it anyways.

3. Maybe like someone hugging another person from the back and the other person not hugging back.

4. I thought the photographers were really good. They look very unique and different.

Great Black and White Photographers PART 2

Manuel Alvarez Bravo was a photographer. He was born February 04, 1902. He passed away October 19, 2002. Bravo grew up in Mexico City, Mexico.  He began to publish his photos in magazines by the 1930's. Bravo later on began to teach about fine art for about 36 years. His work was associated with Mexico's politics. One of his photos was the "Portrait of the Eternal".

 
Another of his artworks was the "Running Boy". He was a well known man in the 20th century.
He created a book called The Daughter of the Dancer.

Bravo began to get creative with the camera and started to focus on his photographs he took using wide–angle cameras. He would most likely prefer to work in his backyard. Bravo got married and remarried twice in his life. He got to live for 100 years. He mostly focused on Mexican subjects.

Red, Metal, and Happy

Red

Framing

Metal

Happy

Avoiding Mergers

The Camera

Parallax- its the effect where the position  an object shows to differ when its viewed from a different position.

Pentax- a type of lens that is very thin and light. It has the highest index of refraction.

Pentaprism- is a five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by 90°.

Camera lens- is an optical lens used in conjunction with a camera body and mechanism to make images of objects on medias being able to storage an image electronically.

Aperture- a space which light passes in an photographic instrument.

Shutter- each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed to keep out light.

Exposure- is the amount of light that allows to fall on each area unit of a photographic medium while taking a photo.

Depth of field- the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that give an image to focus on a camera.

F-stop- the f-number  of an optical system expresses the ratio of a camera's lens.

Focal length- the distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.

Camera history and information

The Camera
1. The camera obscura effect is a hole which light goes through, to appear light on the wall to a chamber.
2. Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens finally understood how the lenses worked.
3. The first parts of the first modern camera invented by Niepce were the glass lens, a dark box, and film.
4. Light goes through the lens, to the camera, and gets put into the film.
5. A digital camera uses a electronic sensor called a CCD.

 Camera Modes
6. Auto mode will control flash and exposure and the program mode will automatic-assist, then point and take the picture.
7. The portrait mode is used for the background to get blurred, and then the lens will try to take the picture as fast as it can.
8. The sports mode is used for freezing motion, and will use the highest speed. 
9.  To get a better view of the picture your about to take.
 
Controlling Flash
10. It shows that there will be no flash added to the picture. You use it for nature light.
11. The shutter opens for a longer extended amount of time to show the background. You use it indoors, or a party.

Introduction to Exposure
12. The picture would be washed out.
13. The picture would be too dark.

The Universal Stop
14. A stop contains a shutter, film setting.
15. 1
16. 4

Shutters and Aperture
17.  It give much more light to the film.
18. It gives much less light to the film.
19. It helps control the light.
20. You can increase the amount of light by opening the aperture.

Great Black and White photographers

"Running Legs"

Lisette Model

 

"Sweet Emma Barrett"

Lee Friedlander

"Portrait of the Eternal"

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Best and Worst

  This is a good picture because I got to angle the camera while taking the picture. You can see him clearly, and there is no blur. You also have a clean background.




















  I could of done better job on this picture. I cut off the flag, when I was trying to get it in the picture.  And also, I got apart of the piece of paper my partner was holding by accident.

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