Final Exam study guide

Final Review

1.you double click on the server drive. then go to my documents and open up jstudents server T, then on the folder photojournalism, later to your class period and then you look for your name.
2. We would go to akins photoj blog spot to update new blogs about photography what we think and go over on what we do.
3. to make a pinhole camera would need to use a can of oatmeal and pour all of it out. later you would glue a black paper to the inside of it without showing any part of the brown from the inside, you would also need to glue one to the bottom of it. on the top of the can your also gonna glue a a black circle to it, so when you you take the picture there wont be any light.but then you would have to make a littlesmall hole for the light to get the picture,but  we would have to put a lap over it to let the light in and then dont let it in.
4. first we would get a paper in which the picture would be transferred and the shiny part of it would be facing the hole where once we open the flap the light will go through but we don't want it to catch a lot of light so it dependson how long you want it to get.

5a. Rule of thirds: Try to position the most important elements in your scene along these lines, or at the points where they intersect. Doing so will add balance and interest to your photo.
5b. Balancing Elements: Placing your main subject off-centre, as with the rule of thirds, balance the 'weight' of your subject by including another object of lesser importance to fill the space.
5c. Leading lines: There are many different types of line - straight, diagonal, curvy, zigzag, radial etc - and each can be used to enhance our photo's composition.
5d. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition): They can make for very eye-catching compositions, particularly in situations where they are not and expect break the symmetry or pattern in some way, introducing tension and a focal point to the scene.
5e.Viewpoint: massive impact on the composition of our photo, and as a result it can greatly affect the message that the shot conveys. Rather than just shooting from eye level, consider photographing from high above, down at ground level, from the side, from the back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.
 5f. Background/simplicity: look around for a plain and unobtrusive background and compose your shot so that it doesn't distract or detract from the subject.

5g. Depth: create depth in a photo by including objects in the foreground, middle ground and background. Another useful composition technique is overlapping, where you deliberately partially obscure one object with another.

Choice Sheets

Newspaper or Yearbook?

i would really like to join the yearbook next year. i was in the yearbook in eighth grade and i really liked it. i like how i'll be able to do something that everyone would keep forever. also i really think that this would be a fun thing to do especially since its gonna be my senior year next year and i really want to do something big and important that would make me want to be more responsible.

Yearbook website 

Newspaper Website

Kingston High School

Highlights

Kingston

New York

Abandoned Theme Parks

Theme Parks

1. From all the theme parks i would have to say that i wanna visit the six flags in new Orleans. i like how the theme is jazz land, which i would love to be back in that time and get good pictures from all the night light and how people would get so into the theme and also they would dress as it, to fit in. i like how there able to pull everything together and make it seem like its real. especially how the got the buildings to look like its the real new Orleans, i would love to take pictures of the buildings and getting different point of views.

• old cities
• abandoned places
• small towns
• old cafes from the 50s
• old school town or people

5. i would like to start a documentary about the old cafes and what was the main thing that brought so many people together during this time, and how during this time they used a lot of colors, especially the bright pastel colors which caught everyone's eyes. the cars are a whole different kind of shapes that seem to look okay when you use all these different colors. the style is what i love the most i like how everyone was so well dressed up and the girls never looked dirty nor the guys and they actually seemed to be good guys and gentlemen's. i would go back in time and take as many pictures to capture this time period which i love and what made it change so quick and is no longer like this.

6. i think that to take this pictures are gonna be a little to difficult to do it. mostly because all of the old school stuff are taken down and been replaced newer stuff, but most ly the old school stuff stay in place when its in small towns, which most are. another is to get the people to dress and get the colors which nowadays everything is so different and everything is modern. this would be a very difficult thing to do and find the right place.

Print evaluation - My first print

 My First Print

 Ricky and Luis are trying to finish there work, by staying on focus, there really trying got pass Ms. Patrick's, physics class this six weeks.Although, there's a lot of students who don't care as much as they do, and there off topic, while they stick to what they intend to do.

1.) Yes.
a.) The two guys doing their work, but the people behind him are not.

2.) Yes, the first guy close to the picture, is contract to the paper on the bottom right corner.

3.) I used some rules, one was rule of thirds, balance.
a.) One was the rule of thirds, in which there's heads are where it at. Another was balance where the first guy with the white shirt balances the white paper on the corner.

4.) No, none.

5.) No, none.

6.) Yes, all of them.

Caption


Who is in the photo? Ricky and Luis

What are they doing? There doing there work.

Where are they? There in Ms. Patrick's class room

When is this happening? During 1st period.

Why are they doing this? There trying to pass the six weeks.

Portraits and self-portraits - start looking

Self-Portrait

Professional Portrait

 On self portrait its more about trying to get one person and its point of what there thinking without being so glamorous and whats in there mind. professional portrait is mostly trying to be so glamorous what most people want to see. like this picture defines everything it has like the lighting how it has all the compositions that make up this picture. and by making it in color its best, self portrait its mostly in black and white cause that's how they express the pictures.  

 

Ethics in fashion photography

Evolution

1. her hair color, and the size of it, they make her face longer, well her neck they lower her eyebrows, then make her hair fuller from the side of her neck, her cheek bones are skinner, her skin color is brighter, her eyes are made bigger and bolder.

2. i don't think so, it shows that no one is perfect and by changing the photo they want people to think that there is such thing as perfection, when in reality there isn't just a cold computer who fixes the mistakes.

3.it is so many girls are pressured to look like that, and so they do whatever it takes to look like that which ends up making them hurt themselves.
4. maybe like the hair is probably a good change, but by changing there skin color, and her bone structure especially making her neck longer and making it thinner are all bad because no one can fix those but just that one computer with all the technology.
5. fashion you do alot of editing, cause most of the time you didnt get what you actually wanted. you fix it to get it perfect, but on photojournalism you get what you mean to get.
6. Photography captures real beauty, not by using a computer to fix it and perfection it.

Negatives Evaluation

Negatives

1. honestly i think that neither did, but maybe just like two.

2. maybe all of them but two, because i did everything wrong, like i under exposed to were it didnt get enough light, there too dark and cant get anything out.
3. i think that theres like two of them like, the number five, and number seven are probably my best one, which i wouldnt say, best of the best, but the one which i didnt do so bad.
4. not enough exposure, hmm kinda, not really, but there alright, i guess, well the have a little more exposure than the rest of the pictures
5. some compositions are like viewpoint and background, are probably what i used the most on my pictures, since i forgot about the others.

Photo Manipulation and ethics

Ethics in the age of digital manipulation

The article was pretty much about that you can take a picture and if there happens to be a mistake or something, you just don't like in the picture, you can just change it. It's easy to loose your job over something like changing the photograph; it changes the "realness" of the photo. And pretty much makes the picture not real.

I don't believe the manipulation is very ethical. It makes the picture unreal whether it may look real or not, because it's changing the original picture to something that wasn't even taken. It can make the picture look better but that doesn't make it right. It just makes the picture fake.

To me, this picture is the most unethical. It completely put a person in there that wasn't even in the photo. They randomly put the this black guy from out of the nowhere in the picture. Who knows why..

 

This photo is the least ethical to me because the photo actually looks better. It shifted the woman walking on the left side of the picture, which also works as the rule of avoiding mergers. It also makes the picture have a better lighting focus.

Drug Cartels in Mexico

A photographer's journey below the border 

"When I arrived in Juarez, within an hour, over the police scanners, a body has been found. And maybe 30 minutes later, another body. And then another body. And by the end of the day, it was 10. The next day, 10. The next day, 10." says journalist Jeff Antebi. From what I have read, this is a very dangerous and deadly place. Antebi mentions that you can have a distant family member that did something wrong and the cartels may be out on revenge looking maybe for you to even kill. He especially avoided being out at night because the cartels "own the night." Even the Politicians are "at risk of becoming targets." I personally think this is a horrible situation and something HAS to be done. I don't know what, but it has to.

     The picture that I liked is the one where two police officers are carrying what seems like a dead body to the van, down a dirt path, along a town. It seems like this photograph has the rule of balance because the van and part side of the town are on one side and the dirt path and officers are on the other side. I like this picture because it was a good shot, no mergers seem to be sticking out of anywhere and it doesn't seem as violent as the rest of the pictures.

Making a Black and White print

 Dark Room

Equipment 

• Enlargers 

Condenser Enlarger
Diffusion Enlarger
Color Head Enlarger 

• Filters 
• Safe Lights
• Film Processing Tank
• Thermometers
• Print Trays
• Timers
• Print Washing Tray
• Print Tongs

Film Processing Chemicals 

• Film Developer
• Stop Bath
• Fixer - (Also called Hypo) 
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• "Wetting Agent" 
• Chemical "Life Span"
• Chemical Disposal 

1. emulsion: a mixture of two or more immisible (unblendable) liquids.
2. aperture: a hole or an opening through which light travels.
3. masking ease:  Use photoshop masking, one of the most effective image manipulation techniques.This tutorial will focus on using Channels to help mask out a complex objects with clean edges.4. exposure: the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph
5. safe light: is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom
6. dodging & burning: are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure.

Post Shoot Reflection

Photo Shoot

1. Well tryin to get the emotions wasnt too hard, most people were just into there work, not trying to show any emotion. but it was hard to get the perfect lighting.

2. The exposure was the hardest, cause i had to pay more attention to it, but i think i had a very difficult time trying to get the right lighting, focusing the pictures was really easy and simple.

3. Well i tried to get the point of the picture like higher and lower views called as in creating depth and the view points.

4. actually pay attention to the exposure, cause i was having a very difficult time with that.

American Soldier slideshow and captions

 American Soldier

A.  The most influenced is from the album "First Assessment", it just shows how there live isnt that bad. the most influenced picture has to be, when there out in the sunset next to one of there vehicles. 

B.  the most powerful potographs have to be " Life in Iraq", it shows how there lives are and how they just have to adjust to a new environment. especially when they still do normal stuff, just like they would do at home, and then they have to go out with there job and do what they need to do.

C.  The start from he was decidind on signing up for the army, all the way up to were he goes home. and i like how theres like chapters and they actually tell the story and capture the moments, like when hes sad, happy or angry, it gets the point of the story very good. 

3.A. from the outer person view, what the see that he is doing.

B. it explains whathes doing and his actions

4. its two in the morning, and john is still up with a couple of hes members realizing that there gonna have to go out there and do some job, thats gonna need alot of work. the streets are very quiet, but not dark, it very lighted up to where they can see each other perfectly, johns captain is shorter but sure knows what hes doing.

Processing Black and White photos

Black and White

Materials:

 Metal or plastic film tank  
 Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry  
Graduates (used to measure chemicals)  
Darkroom timer    
Can opener  
A room that is light proof (not even a sliver of light should be visible). 
 Developer 
 Glacial Acetic Acid  
 Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended)
 Hypo Eliminator

Define:

Contact Sheet: is a photographic image produced from film: sometimes from a film negative; sometimes from a film positive.
Agitation: putting into motion by shaking or stirring
Enlarge: photographic print that is larger than the negative it is printed from,
Developer: a chemical, often a mixture of metol and hydroquinone, which converts the latent silver halide Stop Bath: image in the exposed photograph material into reduced, opaque, black silver metal
is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photograpgic films, plates, and paper used after the material has finished developing.
Fixer: a chemical that removes unexposed silver salts from photographic media and renders them insensitive to light.

Funny captions - learning how to do it RIGHT

Bettle Bug Birthday

So people cant believe, that this is really may car! Ahh. im so happy i got my buggy for my sweet 16! i've been begging for a monroe, but a car like this is more thoughtful and sweet. sally, maria, nelly and yolis, are so jelous right now. just look at there faces, i cant wait to see what i get next year for my 17 birthday!

Water on Road

So water is gonna be on road, what would be on the road if it shines? Im appreciate the caution, because i wouldnt have notice that there would be water on the road. So what would of happened if i didnt see the sign? it makes me wonder.

Bump

Sally is not the best reader nor speller, so when she tried to give people a caution of the bump, she kind of misspelled it. dont worry most people are smarter than her and realized what it means, but for this mistake, people would not hire sally for no jobs, so she just stands theres and tells people "bump ahead"

Marlboro Marine

2A.) Luis Sinco utilized his skills of friendlyness and care to approach his friend James Blake Miller and get close to him, to try to help him.

B.) The effect of the multimedia effects of the slideshow make it seem more story-like and it kind of added more significance in trying to make us get feelings toward the slideshow.

3A.) I think that the most powerful image from the slideshow would have to be the one where Miller is leaning, with a cigarette in his mouth. To me, it seems powerful because you can see the bravery in his face and how he's all dirty from his hard working job. Just the expression in his face makes the picture powerful.

B.) The sequence of photographs that is most powerful is the ones that were used at the beggining of the slideshow, grabbing the audience's attention and trying to make us feel something.

C.) The audio enhances the slide show as back up. The audio tells the story, the struggle that's going on and the tone in the speakers voice.

D.) The complied images show the story, the actual real life people involved in Blake's life.

Contests Preview, Show and Tell 2

Picture and Video

i like this picture because it shows how the little boy loves baseball, that he would walk trough the rain

just to show how much dedication he takes on this sport. also how hes so dissapointed in how

its raining while hes leaving or preparing for a game

Video

http://photoblog.statesman.com/grease-is-the-sign 

 

the reason i like this video is because i love this play grease, and i love how they found a way 

for not only the people who can hear, but now for people who are deaf. i,m glad that

they can enjoy it by acting it out, and doing a very fun play.

Contests Preview, Show and Tell

Inspiration

 

i love everything about this picture. the lighting is like perfect and the angles is just right.

for example if the cars were straight up and not on a diagonal, and i especially like the colors on theres.

it explains how you can have a blank baground with a light color on top and on the bottom its dark, 

but you can be able to see the colors just right.

Great Black and White 3

KLEIN

Most of the of the pictures have where something like that's just not right, 

there's a lot of people which they seem and pass by like everything is normal. which its not, 

there's a picture with kids pointing at guns, and another with a gun on his head.

which the kids around him seem to look like its a joke, or a game.

so it makes me want to learn and makes me wonder a lot, 

of how can poeple not notice that there something wrong in this picture.

1. i see a young boy wos wondering why does he seem so upset to point this gun, 

in which he must of seen someone that heard him as much as he would see them hurt.

2. i smell the the gun powder that's so close, once hes fingger is released, 

not only would they smell the gun powder, but death.

3. i hear the young boy whispering to hes hear why are you doing this?, 

who hurt you this way, theres no need for this.

4. i taste the hate in which he bites his lip so hard, i taste the saliva, 

going down my throat as i swallow so he wont see the fear.

5. i feel all the pain he feels inside, which he feels so much hatred on someone, 

which makes me wanna colceal him, before i feel nothing after that shot.

1. i see the young boy smiling with a gun on his head, reaching to grab some candy 

and how the young two girls smiling as well, 

watching straight ahead without realizing that theres a gun very close to them.

2. i smell the food from the restaurant behind them and the woman who,

walks behind with fresh bread in the basket.

3. i hear the busy cars and people walking around, but no complains about the young boy 

with the gun on his head, or neither from his surroundings.

4. i taste the candy which is going in his mouth, but after that the only sweet thing that he would taste is death. like as if death was so sweet he would even know the difference and smile along.

5.i feel that he feels the pain inside in which he scared for his life, but outside he feels like life goes on and he rathers would feel like dieyng is a thing to smile about.

IDEAS

i would like to go to places people have never thought of taking pictures of, anf how maybe the ugliest things in life could become the most people. i would also make it get the point of the picture and not wonder as much, and either if you see the picture you have a story to the picture but someone else sees it different but in reality theres no right from wrong. i would do like a powerpoint in which the there would be pictures, in a slide show wich they would tell a story, like a short movie,but just pictures with no sound, no moving.

Academics Preview

The Story

The story, is that these kids are builing a bridge, 

which its like a metaphor, which it saying that

there building there bridge to get to a part of life where they wanna be when they grow up

Action or Emotion

The action is of a band who is expressing the way the feel through playing there intruments, 

although you cant really see there faces, you see the body language. 

 

Filling the Frame

This picture, makes me wonder whats the spot light on,

it seems like hes interested in this one thing on the table, 

and how its so dark in there that his shirt blends in with the darkness of the room 

Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike

this picture shows how it the before and after, but i really like how it gets the perfect view, 

and you can she major difference, from the before

on the after theres like no house which arent there anymore.

 

i like how you see the emotions to this picture. and how the background does too, 

not only did this hurrican affect on one person, 

but to many familys which they have no option but to go on with life.

i like how it focus on this person, even though thers people on the baground,

you focus on him, and wonder whats going trouhgh his head, 

if he has family, or is he lost, it just makes you wonder

B&W photographers in history

Klein

 

most of the photos of the milanese exhibition

were from 1954-55, shot by Klein for his celebrated, series 'new york'/

'life is good and good for you in new york', for which he won the 'prix nadar' in 1956.

klein went after the urban crowd with a wide, angle lens, with confrontational close-ups,

instinctive grab shots, sharp contrasts and harsh, printing methods.

in 1954, he went to new york to start his new documentary in the city.

Great Black and White photographers preview

Klein

i like this picture because it focusd onthe little boy,
but its kinda of coming towards you, from around him,
which brings more focus to him.

Parks

this picture shows how its like a daily job for them, 
and how nothing is going on, but just an normal day, as the others.


White

i love this picture, its like what we did from the first photo we took,
from the positive and negative, this picture is the positive picture,
i love how the sky is black and the sky and bothe the ground is white
its showing, and the barn is black

Advanced photo composition

Rule of thirds

Balancing Elements

Leading Lines

Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)

Viewpoint

 Background

Create depth

Framing

Cropping

Mergers and avoiding them

The Camera

aperture:

• In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane

shutter:

• In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene

exposure:

• In photography, exposure is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium (photographic film or image sensor) during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value (EV) and scene luminance over a specified area.

Depth of fiel:

• the distance in front of and behind the subject that appears to be in focus

F-stop:

• Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls

focal lenght:

• The pinhole camera model describes the mathematical relationship between the coordinates of a 3D point and its projection onto the image plane of an ideal pinhole camera, where the camera aperture is described as a point and no lenses are used to focus light

Pinhole finale

1.) The diifrent things i see between the positive and negative pictures is that there the opposit.

and ones darker than the other, the negative is a lot more clearer.

for example theres a darkspot on the top left corner on the negative picture, 

and on the positive the dark spot is on the top right corner.

            2.) Photography . noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

           Google: definition: characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features; "a negative outlook on life"; "a colorless negative personality"; "a negative evaluation"

; "a negative reaction to an advertising campaign"

Basically its the opposite of the picture, by the colors if the negative is dark then,

the positive will turn into white, it shows more brightness on the positive than the negative.

3.) 

Composition 9/11 - the basics

Simplicity

On this picture it shoes how its focus on one person and showing the emotions,
it centers the interest of the most vision attention. and by that they
don't steal the attention from the pictures.

The Rules Of Thirds

in this pictures its shows of how bringing the person closer to the corner,
and its an odd-center placement ob the picture.
and by being on the bottom you can she the full shadow too.

Lines

this picture shows how there is a line of people walking through.
this is the most popular kind of line, is the s curve.

Balance

this picture shows how theres many shapes to this picture,
for example they caught the buildings in between,
ans still get the shape of the rectangular buildings.

Framing

in this picture the three is the main focus,
its right in the center of a grave were this stones surround it,
with a fence around it, but get the pictures better

Avoiding Mergers

The statue of liberty is the main focus,
it shows how it the center and how even though its spaced out,
it the only thing your gonna see.

Pinhole camera

this picture is really good, but thits not one of my favorites

i kinda like how its blurry and you can see someone

but i dont like is what the reason for this

like i just have like my ups and downs about this picture, 

its really good, but somehow i dont like it

i love this picture, i really like the colors

i like how it look like someone is taking a picture

and someone took a picture of them 

i like how its blurry, but its focus enough to get the picture

"My first photos".

the reason i like this picture is because its focus.

like i took a picture and got both of them.

and its kind of close so its shows both of them

i dont like this picture becasue its so unfocus.

another reason its so far, 

and i dont like how i took a picture and it shows all of the class