Monday, November 24, 2014

Fashion Photography

1.List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer.

  1. They enlarged her eyes
  2. They thinned out her face
  3. Moved pieces of her hair
  4. Covered up blemishes 
  5. Lifted her neck
  6. defined her check bones


 2.List the changes that were made to the model's body in the computer. 


  1. Made her nose smaller
  2. Made her pupils small
  3. Enlarged her eyes
  4. Made length to her legs
  5. Highlighted her whole body
  6. Lifted her shoulders
  7. Made her feet smaller


23.List the changes that were made to the model in the computer.

  1. Added hair
  2. Thinned her arms
  3. Rounded and thinned her butt
  4. Shaped and rounded her breasts
  5. Thinned out her legs
  6. Thinned out her stomach
  7. Thinned out overall figure
  8. Thinned her face



ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

4. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not? I don't think it is ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance because it is changing and destroying the show of there natural beauty.

5. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation? Yes there is a circumstance that could be more ethically wrong which is  changing someone that is a plus size to making them skinny. That gives a message to say that you aren't beautiful unless you are skinny.

6. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't? Making little changes taking away blemishes are OK but, changing your size and adding hair are not OK.

7. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism. PhotoJournalism is about taking photographs and what comes out of the photo through emotion. On the other hand fashion photography deals with how the person appeals or appears through beauty.

8. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each? Photojournalism does connect to reality because, you aren't changing or distorting the photograph to make the subject prettier, unlike fashion photography.

9. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos? To show how fashion photography manipulates photographs but not in a good way where photojournalism we are just changing the levels and smaller things.

10. Why are none of these videos about guys??? Guys are probably not in these videos maybe because, it is more of a woman like thing to do… to make them more beautiful. They don't manipulate guys photos because they don't want to take away their natural beauty. 

Purple, Cold, Electric

Cold


Purple


Electric



Sunday, November 23, 2014

Magazine Part 2

Early magazine Covers are drastically different from the kinds of magazines that we create now. The magazines contain a table of contents on the cover and are printed in black and white, unlike the ones we have now. The magazines didn't include information on what would be inside the magazine and they would have publication dates. The Poster Cover is a photograph cover that doesn't relate to anything inside the magazine yet its created to set a mood. They contain a little cover line that presents the theme. They only present such little information on the cover. In Pictures Married to Type the subject is mostly in front blocking a little bit of the cover title. They most likely did this to draw attention to the subject and avoid the cover lines. In Forest of Words all of the magazines mostly contained a couple short captions in front or on the side of the subject that are sometimes bigger than the title. In some of these covers there is literally no space on the magazine cover because they are full of the captions. 

My Favorite Cover


Photographer: Martin Schoeller

Designer: Arem Duplessis

- See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.xqBovkox.dpuf"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." - See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.xqBovkox.dpuf


I think this is a really great magazine cover because of the way it draws attention to me. The color of the suit and the goggles she has on are vivid and the colors give the magazine pop. I like how simple the background is and how there wasn't any words popping out that would draw my attention away. The words "The Flight Risk" are in bold and are centered in a way that makes me quickly focus straight to it. I love how she isn't smiling because it gives the magazine cover a dramatic look. Overall this magazine cover is amazing.



Best Covers

  1. Formal (New York)
  2. Informal (Bloomberg Buisnessweek) 
  3. Environmental (Secret Lives of Gems)
  4. Environmental (Sports Illustrated)
  5. Informal (Fight Issue) 
  6. Formal (Flight Risk)
  7. Informal (Runners World) 
  8. Informal (Oprah's Hair) 
  9. Formal (Brides)
  10. Formal (The Art Issue)
  11. Formal (Summer Fashion Issue) 
  12. Formal (Spring Fashion)
  13. Informal (The Fader) 
  14. Environmental/ formal (Fix The World)
  15. Formal (100 years)
  16. Environmental (The Body Issue)
  17. Informal (Beyonce)   

Magazine Tips

The 5 things that you should be thinking about when you design a magazine cover are:

  • Emotionally irresistible.

  • If the cover pops out from its background, don’t weaken it by fussing with it.

  • Arousing Curiosity.

  • Efficient, fast, easy to scan.

  • If you are making a magazine out of paper it is best not to rely on it virtually.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

American Solider

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
I think that the most powerful picture was the first time Ian left and they (Ian's family) knew it was for real because it was a sad time and Ian's family and friends knew that he would be a long time before he comes home.

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.  

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #7 
Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #8? to image #29
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #50 to image #70 
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#71 to image #82

Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?


Home in Denver with his family because he only spent so little yet meaningful time with them.

C. How do the images work together to tell a story?
They all work together because they all give into the emotion of hime leaving.
3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the 
Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written? They are written in present tense. 

For those of you who have forgotten your verb tenses see the example below.

Present Tense: John jumps down the stairs.
Past Tense: John jumped down the stairs.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
I feel like the captions enhance the photographs from the emotion written in the captions.
4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. 
Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.

Ian and Jacob, one friends that he met when he was in training, collected a shirt from a clerk. Ian got a bloody nose from the clerk throwing the shirt to hard.
Ian was hugging Devin (his girl friend) after he was finished with his efforts in Iraq. The happy couple got married soon after.

First sentence:
Subject -- action verb (present tense) -- object -- how -- why -- when -- where.

Second sentence:
Subject -- verb (past tense) -- object (describes background [context] of the situation shown in picture.)

Example:

Image #2

Ian studies his transcript and diploma as he departs the Bear Creek High School commencement at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. He dismisses the importance of the ceremony but not of the diploma. "If I didn't get my diploma, I couldn't join the Army. I couldn't do anything like that - and where would I be?" Looking back, he said, "I wish it went by a lot slower and I did a lot of things differently - grades." Ian's grade-point average was 2.0346.

Monday, November 3, 2014

Rules of Photography Part 2

BACKGROUND 

BALANCE


CREATE DEPTH


CROPPING

FRAMING

LEADING LINES

MERGERS


RULE OF THIRDS

SYMMETRY 

VIEW POINT