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Top 100 Photos Of All Time

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye?
I picked this picture because I was curious about why the solider was jumping over the barbed wire and was interested in why there was more than one camera there.

2. Summarize what you read. How about 2-3 sentences explaining the photo.
It was after World War II when Berlin was split into 5 sections, and many people were leaving the Soviet district. In order to keep them in they leader built a mini wall out of barbed wire, but it didn't work, the photographer got news of it and came to take pictures of people leaving. A solider was standing trying to decide to leave or stay, he ultimately decided to leave and he became a icon of freedom, but he did't want to be and in 1998 he committed suicide.

3. Every photo has some additional information, links, readings, or videos associated. Please tell me what you learned in addition to the actual photo. If you need to watch a video, I can come put in my credentials so you can watch, just raise your hands. I couldn't find links on the picture, all i found was the paragraph under the picture.

4. Look up the photographer. Post this famous image of theirs PLUS one more of theirs that catches your eye. (This means I should see at least 2 photos per post).

5. Find a biography of the photographer and provide the following information:

Name: Peter Leibing
Birth and death year: Born in, 1941, and died November 2, 2008.
Born where: Hamburg, Germany
School attended (college or photo school): I couldn't find the school he went to but I did find out where he was working when he found out about Conrad jumping the wall. He was working for Hamburg picture agency.

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye?
I was interested to know what caused the Airship to explode and what it was. What caught my eye was the big explosion.

2. Summarize what you read. How about 2-3 sentences explaining the photo.
I learned that they called them Airships and that the hydrogen caught fire and caused the massive explosion that killed 36 people and ended the Airship craze. Every photographer headed to the crash so they could document it, while a radio speaker was telling the world what had just happened.

3. Every photo has some additional information, links, readings, or videos associated. Please tell me what you learned in addition to the actual photo. If you need to watch a video, I can come put in my credentials so you can watch, just raise your hands.
Led Zeppelin made the picture of the disaster the cover of his album in 1969. And there's a audio recording of Herbert Morrison crying, about what he was watching ands him announcing what had happened.

4. Look up the photographer. Post this famous image of theirs PLUS one more of theirs that catches your eye. (This means I should see at least 2 photos per post).

5. Find a biography of the photographer and provide the following information:

Name: Sam Shere
Birth and death year (if applicable): Born in, 1905, and died 1982.
Born where: Manhattan County, New York.
School attended (college or photo school): I found a website that looked like it would tell me the school he went to but Bowie won't allow me to access it.

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye?
What first caught my eye was the blurriness of the picture, I wanted to learn why it was blurry and why the solider was in the water.

2. Summarize what you read. How about 2-3 sentences explaining the photo.
The soldier was shot down and was stranded in the water for and hour and a half and when he made it to shore and saw the photographer he was frustrated. The solider didn't see the point of him being there, the photographer watched as people died around him. When he sent the pictures he took home they realized there weren't very many pictures, and this one showed the most action and was the best representation of war.

3. Every photo has some additional information, links, readings, or videos associated. Please tell me what you learned in addition to the actual photo. If you need to watch a video, I can come put in my credentials so you can watch, just raise your hands.There's a video that shows some of the other actions that occurred on the battle field.

4. Look up the photographer. Post this famous image of theirs PLUS one more of theirs that catches your eye. (This means I should see at least 2 photos per post).

5. Find a biography of the photographer and provide the following information:

Name: Robert Capa
Birth and death year (if applicable): Born October 22, 1913, and died May 25, 1954.
Born where: Budapest, Hungary.
School attended (college or photo school): As a teen he fled Hungary and moved to Berlin, Germany. Where he went to college.

1. Why did you pick this image? What caught your eye?
I chose this picture because I wanted to learn why he was falling.

2. Summarize what you read. How about 2-3 sentences explaining the photo. 
No one really knows who he is, but he shows the difficult choice some people had to make, die by jumping out, or die by waiting. The picture was published and the days after the 9/11 attack people had an out cry about the image. The picture was taken and wasn't seen for many years, but has now resurfaced.

3. Every photo has some additional information, links, readings, or videos associated. Please tell me what you learned in addition to the actual photo. If you need to watch a video, I can come put in my credentials so you can watch, just raise your hands.
With the mini article there was a video of the Fallingman, it shows what was happening around him and it sort of displayed the choice he and many others had to make.  /////  New York City.
4. Look up the photographer. Post this famous image of theirs PLUS one more of theirs that catches your eye. (This means I should see at least 2 photos per post).

5. Find a biography of the photographer and provide the following information:

Name: Richard Drew
Birth and death year (if applicable): Born December 6, 1946. Still alive.
Born where: 
School attended (college or photo school): 

Magazine Cover Images

Portraits and Self Portraits

Portrait

Self Portrait

Prompt Shoot #3

Circle

Edge

Numbers

Tiny

Fashion Photography

First Video:

They made the models neck longer, they also made her eyes bigger, and made her lips larger. They also made her head a little larger as well and they changed her eye colour, they changed it from a hazel brown to a blue, and they moved here eyes down closer to her nose.

Second Video:

They made her neck, legs, and torso longer, they also made her have a smaller stomach, thighs, feet, and butt. They also made her skin lighter. The model looks like an entirely different person.


Third Video:

She started out a little bigger, they made her boobs bigger, they cut off a lot of her middle section, and they made her but a lot smaller, and made her thighs smaller. They also made her head smaller to be in proportion with her body and they made her hair longer. They cut off a lot of her weight, basically all of it.

Following Questions:

4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?
Is it ethically acceptable, yes meaning we do it, but really it's not, it's wrong. It's wrong because we change a person entirely to the point where you don't even recognize them, and it sets an exception of perfection that can never be, it makes others feel bad about their bodies. Yet we do it because "it helps to sell a product" or just because it makes them look better.

5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?Yes, if you're trying to sell a product and you have a "perfect" person using it that's supposed to sell it better ok that sort of makes sense every one wants to be perfect so if a "perfect" person uses it they should but if you're just taking photo of a real event happening and there happens to be a larger person in it so you turn them into the "perfect" person it takes away from the realistic factor of the photo. It changes the picture entirely.

6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?If you need to make some one's facial features a little more noticeable, or the pose they're in gives them an unflattering definition and you just get rid of it, or the picture is a little dark and it's hard to see them and you make it a little lighter that's fine, but when we start going and changing the persons shape, size, eye color, figure, basically what makes them who they are it becomes rude and it makes this unrealistic expectation that we can change how we look and who we are. Change into perfection.

7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.With fashion photography they're trying to show off clothes, or a design. But with photojournalism we're trying to show ethereal world and real events. In fashion photography they can make the person look different because it can help the clothes look better and what not, but with photojournalism we're trying to show the truth so we can't manipulate a picture because that changes the picture.

8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?When people use photoshop in fashion they have to make sure that there's still some reality to it, otherwise it will looked photoshopped, but if we use photoshop in photojournalism it takes away from the reality of the picture. In fashion it's almost expected to use photoshop, but in photojournalism it's considered wrong because we're not trying to give the perfect expectation of the world, we're trying to show the truth.

9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?To show us how people use it and how it changes the reality and with our portraits coming up you want us to capture a moment that is real and that isn't fake or manipulated.

10. Why are none of these videos about guys???

Because women get body shamed more than men do and women are more sensitive and more vulnerable. And I think this bothers women more then it does men.

Magazine Part 2

In the 1930's instead of having pictures for a cover they had drawn illustrations for cover photos. They also used Type Based covers where they would use big font to grab the attention of the reader, and can sometimes express an idea more clearly than a picture can. Lines on a cover can also grab the attention of the reader because the lines make it look crisp and clean. Cover lines also give the reader more information so that the reader would become more interested in the article.

My Favorite Cover

Photographer: John Tlumacki
"At approximately 3:10 on the afternoon of April 15, 2013, the editors of Sports Illustrated returned from their Monday meeting to rumors of a terrorist act near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. With fewer than four hours until Si's weekly deadline, producing a definitive news account of what happened was impossible. Was there, however, an image that captured the afternoon's chaos, its tragedy, in addition to a city's capacity for resilience and goodness in the face of such terror? Yes, there was, dozens of images, in fact. By 4:30 p.m., half an hour ahead of the magazine's usual cover deadline, (Read More)

I believe that this picture shows emotion and it makes me want to know more about what was happening. One thing that I would maybe change would be where the title of the magazine is because it's really hard to see what the second word is and I would put the page numbers so that the reader could find the story. This is a very good picture though, it grabs the readers attention and as I said makes them want to read the article. There isn't much I would change at all, it does what a good picture should. You can tell the Police officers are engaged and are already going into action, you can tell the runner is in shock, and I believe I may see smoke in the background as if something were on fire. The lighting in the picture is perfect theres not too much light theres just enough. 

Best Covers

Best Magazine Covers:

1. New Yorker, May 20, Micheal Douglas is Liberace. Informal.
2. The New York Times Magazine, May 19, The Secret Lives of Germs. Environmental.
3. ESPN The Magazine, September 16, Floyd Mayweather in The Fight Issue. Environmental.
4. The New York Times Magazine, November 24, The Flight Risk. Formal.
5. O, The Oprah Magazine, September, Hair! Formal.
6. Brides, October/November, Get Inspired! Formal.
7. W, December/January, The Art Issue. Informal.
8. Harper's Bazaar, May, Summer Fashion Issue. Informal.
9. New York, February 18–25, Spring Fashion. Informal.
10. The Fader, February/March, Solange. Formal.
11. Wired, December, Bill Gates Wants You to Fix the World. Formal.
12. Runner's World, December, Get Fit Have Fun. Informal.
13. Sports Illustrated, April 22, BOSTON. Informal.
14. Bloomberg Businessweek, December 2–8, J Crew: Teaching the World to Dress American. Formal.
15. Vanity Fair, October, 100 Years. Informal.
16. ESPN The Magazine, July 22, Kenneth Faried in The Body Issue. Informal.
17. GQ, February, Beyoncé. Informal.

Magazine Tips

Magazine Tips:

1. When I'm taking my self portrait I have to think about how it will look with the text that will be on it just like a magazine cover has.

2. I have to remember to make sure that the audience can understand what I'm trying to tell through my picture.

3. I have to keep the audiences interest in my picture.

4. Making it easy to understand and get, don't make it difficult to understand the audience should be able to look at it and get it.

5. A picture that when you look at it you want to know more about it and the story behind it.

Funny Captions

Now at the Holby City Hospital they created a special wing for Alzheimer's it was built June 9, 2014. Here Alzheimer patients love to take a walk through this fun and exciting trail, they walk around laugh and have fun. This was built by a hospital nurse who felt Alzheimer patients didn't get the exercise they needed and didn't get the fun so he decided to put both in one.

Edna's 100th birthday party, August 15, 2016. Edna instead of blowing out her birthday candles lights a cigarette. Edna was tired of wishing for the same old thing so she decided to take matters into her own hands and gave up on wishing and just decided to take a breath and relax.

Maureen at the 50th Super bowl. Maureen loves football she comes to every game  and this year she came to come to the super bowl. Maureen is a huge fan of football ever since she was a young girl, she was a cheerleader at her high school just so she could be closer to the action, she always wanted to go see the super bowl in person and this year she did.

Portraits and Self-Portraits Preview

The best 2 tips are:
1. "Looking off camera – have your subject focus their attention on something unseen and outside the field of view of your camera. This can create a feeling of candidness and also create a little intrigue and interest as the viewer of the shot wonders what they are looking at. This intrigue is particularly drawn about when the subject is showing some kind of emotion (ie ‘what’s making them laugh?’ or ‘what is making them look surprised?’). Just be aware that when you have a subject looking out of frame that you can also draw the eye of the viewer of the shot to the edge of the image also – taking them away from the point of interest in your shot – the subject."
2. "The settings in which you make pictures of people are important because they add to the viewer's understanding of your subject. The room in which a person lives or works, their house, the city street they walk, the place in which they seek relaxation—whatever it is, the setting provides information about people and tells us something about their lives. Seek balance between subject and environment. Include enough of the setting to aid your image, but not so much that the subject is lost in it."

Environmental Portrait:

 I chose this environmental portrait because I felt that the story they were trying to tell was very clear, and it made me feel, and what I mean by that is the picture made me wonder is there anything I can do, what can I change, or how can I help because I felt bad for this man.

I chose this environmental portrait because this old man shows how hard life can be but you don't have to think about it being hard but you just have to look on the bright side. If you look at the old man he does't look sad or upset he's just doing something that he loves.

Self Portrait:

 I chose this self portrait because it's from the famous see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. I believe the photographer was showing how he wanted to be the best he could trying to avoid all the evil and bad in there world.

I believe that the photographer was showing how she is/was "invisible" and she wasn't easily seen, I think this because the mirror is making it as though half of her isn't there, as if half of her is "invisible".

Casual Portrait:

 I just thought that this photo was a good example of a casual portrait, but I do think that this picture has good lighting and I do like how she is framed by the pillars.

I think that this photo also has good lighting and the photographer also made sure to be close to the subject so that you could see her face fully.

My Paragraph:

I'm going to take a picture of my friends on the right, me in the middle, and my parents on the right. My first portrait idea is going to show how a lot of the time there's a lot of drama happening around me and how it's formed me as a person every one will be arguing and I'll just be sitting there, or my second portrait idea will be my parents arguing and my friends will be standing there supporting me and helping me. I will most likely take my portrait in the Circle C park because I would like a calm back ground, and I believe if I make sure my portrait represents who I am it'll come out the way I want it to. I'm defiantly going to take multiple different portraits and I'm going to experiment with different settings and different ideas so  can get the best portrait I can. My portrait is definitely going to show who I am and how I become who I am, its going to have my friends and my parents in it because they are the reasons I am who I am, they helped form me, and I'm starting to think instead go going somewhere like a park I'm going to go somewhere that we've been or impacted us.

American Soldier

Step 1:

A. What is the most powerful image from the pictures printed in the Denver Post over the three weeks they published images from the year of coverage? Why?
The most powerful image is the one where he is sitting on the bench and every other soldier is watching and listening the speaker but Ian is in the back facing the other way looking down. The reason this is the most powerful image is you can see how he was afraid and how he didn't want to go, you could see him contemplating his choices.

B. How do the images work together to tell a story?They show how he went from being a normal high school graduate to becoming a part of the U.S. Army and what he went through emotionally, mentally, and physically. The images also showed us how war can affect the ones who are protecting us.

C. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
The captions tell you a little about why this picture was taking what was happening before the picture to cause this event, the captions tell us a little more detail about why he was feeling this way or what was going through his head at that exact moment.

D. Summarize the story of Ian Fisher, based just on the captions.Ian called the recruiter after he graduated high school, he wanted to make sure he was on the enlistment, but after a few days of extreme work and little rest Ian no longer wanted to recruit, but he didn't give up. After being enlisted he had to say goodbye to his friends and family for fourteen weeks he said goodbye his eyes full of tears, before being sent to Iraq he had to go to training where the drill sergeant yells at the recruits asking who they think will quit first and yelling at them not to "piss" him off. Ian hurt his elbow as a child and the first two days of training had caused it to hurt so he tried nursing it, because had not told the army about is so he couldn't let any one know otherwise he would've been in serious trouble. Ian and some other recruits had to tell another recruit to behave better and take training more seriously, because he had been causing a lot of trouble but every one was paying the price. The first few weeks of trying are meant to break the recruits so that the army has a clean slate, eight weeks into training the have a battle exercise where Ian;s squad is attacked (not for real though) and have to fight back. Ian has made many sergeants very proud and has come a long way, after a long day Ian prays, he needed to talk and get important issues off of his shoulders.

E. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?
The captions are written as if it were happening right now, so in the present. 

Step 2:

1. How many sentences are they on average?
On average they are about 2 to 3 sentences, because they want to give you a little background but they want the picture to tell the story. 

2. Read the first sentence of a couple of them, what information do they provide?
They tell me the location, who is in it, and when the picture was taken.

3. Read the second sentences of a couple of them, what information do they provide?
The second sentences usually say what is happening in the picture and why its happening. 

4. If there is a third sentence, what information does it provide?
 The third sentence usually just adds somethings that you might not be able to see in the picture, and possible why that is.

5. Do any captions include a quote?
Yes quite a few do, usually what is being said to Ian.

6. Are there any that have four sentences?
Yes there is but very few.

G. Why do you think it is possible to tell a complete story with just photos and captions?
Well the captions tell you a little bit about what happened right before the picture and/or why a certain thing is happening in the picture, but the picture shows what that person is doing or what they ate feeling. And all you need to have for a story is why something happening (the captions), and then a description of what is happening (the pictures).

H. If you can create a story with just photos and captions, why bother writing a story at all?

Well the story goes into more detail and gives more information about not just the picture but what was happening hours/days before the picture was taken.

Photoshop Practice

Trial #1

Trial #2

 

Trial #3

Trial #4

Trial #5

Trial #6

Composition Rules pt. 2

Rule of Thirds

Balancing Elements

Leading Lines

Symmetry and Patterns

Viewpoint

Background

Create Depth

Framing

Cropping

Mergers

Prompt Shoot #2

Purple

Electric

Cold

Warm-Up

1. What emotions did you feel as you worked your way through these images?

I felt extremely sad, because one of my close friends was diagnosed with cancer a year ago so it brought those feelings bubbling up. These pictures also showed how much she was loved, not just by him, but every one she had encountered.

2. The photographer said this: "These photographs do not define us, but they are us." What do you think about this comment now that you have looked at the photos?
In the beginning of this I believed that he meant that the pictures taken don't say what/who they are, but show how they were/are feeling and what they went through.

3. Do you think you could shoot photos like this if you were in this situation?
I want to say yes, but honestly I have no idea because you want to remember a person the way they were, happy and enjoying life. Not sad and sick, so it shows how much he loves her, and how he just wants to be with her.


4. If you could write Angelo a letter, what would you say to him?
I would tell him I sort of understand what he went through because I'm going through it right now, and how he should enjoy his life and remember his wife and never for get her, and she is watching over him now and forever.

Abandoned Theme parks

Step 1: 

On the first website I would want to go to Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan. I'd like to go there with my camera because it's very old which makes it so much cooler, the rides are all rusted and broken down and the paint is all chipped which makes it look creepy, and if you can't go either at sunset or later in the day the way there will be some light in some spots and some darkness in others would make the pictures look very creepy. I like old abandoned buildings so an abandoned amusement park where there are creepy face and rollercoasters that are falling would be so fun. There would be so much I could do to show it back then and now.

On the second website I would want to go to Six Flags, New Orleans. I'd like to go with my camera because there would be so much to take pictures go, because Six Flags is a more or less recent establishment, so seeing it all broken down and abandoned would be so cool especially with the New Orleans sky and how they incorporated the New Orleans theme into it and how its all fallen and how things that were once fun and playful are now scary and now look evil.

Step 2: 

1. The first place that would be an interesting place to take photos would be Jerome Grand Hotel, in Arizona.

2. The Connor Hotel, in Arizona.

3. Belle Island Zoo, in Michigan.

4. Michigan Central Station.

5. Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital.

It doesn't seem like anyone has done "research" on the Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital, also known as Michigan State Asylum, but there are a bunch of pictures of it.

6. It would be so cool to shoot here because of the interesting history behind the building, and how it's old and how it's changed. The way it's changed and what happened here in there past would give a new life to the building and how it possibly could be haunted, and how I could get pictures of patients old rooms and then I could write about what happened here and why certain people were put in this facility.
7. I believe I could use a tripod, to old the camera steady. It would be more or less easy to get there all I need to do is get a plane ticket and fly over to Michigan and get a hotel rom and a rental car. I believe I would have to talk to the police and get permission to go here to take pictures, I would have to money fir food, hotel, and any other expenses I may encounter.

Africa

Step 1:

I think that it is very interesting that Nick Brandt captures animals in their "state of being" I would watch documentaries about African wildlife. The documentaries never just showed the animals being themselves so to speak, they always showed action and drama in the animal kingdom. Nick Brandt wanted to show us what the animals were like just walking or laying around. His pictures are meant to show us the peace in the animals.

Step 2:

This is my favorite image because the lioness herself is beautiful, and the lion cub is also so cute, but the lioness holding her cub in her mouth shows how lions protect their cubs and shows motherly love and instinct. The lioness has her ears pushed slightly back as though she is listening to the space around her, listening so she can protect her cub and herself.

Step 3: 

The rules of photography that are in this picture are simplicity, rule of thirds, and framing. The background is very simple, there's nothing really in the background except for some hills and mountains but it's very clear that the subject is the lioness and her cub. The lioness' face and her cub are in the upper right hand corner, drawing your attention to her face and the cub in her mouth which is rule of thirds. Finally, the darkness in the sky may be a storm or just clouds in the sky but how the darkness in the sky frames the lioness and her cub from above and then how the rocks and the dirt frame the from below, shows framing.

Step 4: 

1. Instead of using lenses that can get a closer picture Nick Brandt uses lenses that can't go in so close so that you can get a feel for that area around the animal.

2. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show us the animals in their state of being before they go extinct, and he's trying to show us what we are destroying so we can stop.

3. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show animals in their natural "state of being" meaning not hunting and not all the drama we see in documentaries but to show us what they are like just being.

4. "the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa." -Nick Brandt