Prompt Shoot #3

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This photo made me feel saddened when i saw all of the people's heads down and mourning for the dead. I love how mysterious the photograph looks with the candles lighting up the dark sky.

This photograph is one of my favorites because the photographer caught the strip of light in action. The city lights in the background look really cool because they are like in the distance. 

This photograph creates a creepy mood with the blood stain, dirt , and the boy that looks like he is either sleeping or he died. This photo gave me the chills with the boy The mood makes the photograph mysterious and makes me want to know what happened.

1. My favorite song of 2014 is Thinking Out loud by Ed Sheeran. I love how slow the beat is in the song. The song is really catchy even though it is slow song. Ed Sherran has some really good music recently.

2. My favorite movie of 2014 is the maze runner because it was very intense and interesting to see them finding out ways to get out of the maze. At the end of the movie it created a lot of suspense because they are prepared for phase 2.

3. The Ebola news made a very big impact in America because of the stories of it coming to U.S. Ebola is fatal disease that destroys your body internally. This is an inflectional virus that has made a huge impact on the people

4. The most important person in 2014 would be Shailene Woodly. She stars in two most famous movies right now the Fault in our Stars and Divergent.

5. The most important sports player would be Tom Brady. He is 37 and plays on the New England Patriots and is #12. He is a NFL player and is the quarter back on his team.

Extra Credit

1. Explain what happened to the man that was killed by the subway and how the photographer was able to take the photo. The photographer was able to take the photograph because he was trying to alert the train to stop with his flash on the camera.

2. Why did the photographer say he took the photo? he probably said it because he was trying to help stop the train.


3. Do you think the photographer should have taken the photo? Yes I think he should of taken it because he was doing all he could to help out because, he wasn't strong enough to help.


4. Do you think the photographer did the best thing he could have done in this situation? Why or why not? I think he did the best thing in this situation because if he wasn't strong enough to help him out then he need to alert the train to stop and, he did all that he could do.

5. Do you agree or disagree with the decision to run the photo on the front page of the New York Post? Explain why or why not. I don't really mind if he did or didn't. I mean it is a grabbing image with an interesting story and is cool to post it. But, sometimes it is sad for it to be posted because he tried to save him but unfortunately the man died.

6. What is more important to a photojournalist, capturing images of life as it happens or stopping bad things from happening? Why or why not? For a photo journalist i think it depends. If it means saving someones life, if i were a photojournalist going through the experience of saving someones life is better then capturing an image of it.

7. Do you think it is ever ethically acceptable for a photographer to involve himself/herself in a situation that he or she photographs? Explain why or why not. I think it was ethical because he wasn't really trying to take a picture of someone dying… it was him trying to alert the train to stop.

8. Should photojournalists always avoid influencing events as they happen? Explain your answer. I don't think it is to that point for a photojournalist to avoid, because any event can come up at any given time.
 
9. After reading the responses from the professional photographers, what stands out as the most appropriate response for a photographer to this situation. I'm pretty surprised how most of them left some negative comments on his post because, all he was doing was trying to alert the train to stop.

Final Review

1. Pick a couple of photos and write captions for them. There are already captions there, don't copy them. You can make up names and situations if necessary. Post the photo and the caption on your blog. 

Angela Smith and Carlo Santiago are in the Caribbean having a picnic on the beach spending their last day there when a huge hurricane came in. Angela and Carlo were evacuated safely to a shelter before the hurricane could hit them. 

Lindsey, Christina Johnson, and their mom Annie Johnson are sitting on their beautiful house that is now torn apart from a huge tornado. Annie's dog Coco wasn't able to get to a safe shelter and the the girls still haven't found him.  

2. You will need to know all the rules of photography and be able to explain them. Here are the rules again:

1. Rule of thirds When the main subject isn't directly in the middle. Rule of thirds are imaginary lines through the photograph

2. Balancing Elements Balancing Elements is when two things balance each other out in a photograph. 

3. Leading Lines Leading lines is when some sort of line is leading to the main subject. 

4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition) Symmetry is when two subjects are exactly symmetrical in the photograph.

5. Viewpoint Viewpoint is when a photo is taken from birds eye view and you are looking down onto the photo.

6. Background Background is when you have a blank background with nothing in it at all/ All you see is the main subject.

7. Create depth When you can see depth in a picture. When you take a picture from an up angle and you can see more then one subject.

8. Framing When the subject is being framed by any object. Such as a person being framed by a shadow.

9. Cropping When two or more objects or subjects cropping the main subject.

10. Mergers and avoiding them When a picture has something wrong in the picture that takes away the view from the subject.

3. You will need to know and understand Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO.

On your blog retype the words and explain what each means.

Aperture-  How blurry the background will be

Shutter Speed-  Certain speed light will be captured in.

ISO- The light sensitivity.

4. You will need to know and be able to explain the ethics of manipulating photos in photoshop and what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.

Photoshop can only be acceptable if you are taking away little things. Such as, taking out blemishes, stray hairs or maybe a little cut or bruise. Changing the whole picture like size, adding hair or adding length to the subject just takes away he natural beauty of it. 

5. You will need to be able to explain the three types of portraits you read about – Environmental, Self and Casual.

Environmental- When the subject is in their rightful place. (ex. A president in their office, or a cheerleader in her cheer gym)

Self Portrait- A photograph taken by yourself of yourself.

Casual- A photographer taking a photo of someone else.

6. You will need to be able to explain the photographic terms: Exposure, Depth of Field, and Focal Length. Look those words up again.

Exposure- How much light is exposed in a picture.

Depth of Field- distance between the farther and closet objects

Focal Length- The distance from the optical center of any lens.

 

 

7. You will need to know the four types of magazine covers: Early, Poster, Married to Type and Forest of Words and how to tell the difference.

 

Early- The magazines contain a table of contents on the cover and are printed in black and white, unlike the ones we have now.

 

Poster- a photograph cover that doesn't relate to anything inside the magazine yet its created to set a mood.

 

Married to Type-it is a photograph where 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.

 

Forest of Words-all of these 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. 

 

 

Magazine Cover

Portraits and Self Portraits

Portrait

Self- Portrait

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.