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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.