Avoiding Mergers

This photo falls in the "avoiding mergers" category because there are building blocking the catastrophes   happening at the twin towers, so it takes away the main point of this photo and its focus.

Framing

The framing in this photo is created by the bridge in the top right and they ocean coastline at the bottom. These two object help create a frame that focus on the city, and the tragedy that's happening within it.

Balance

In this photo, there is balance because the three girls are all of equal size, and by connecting imaginary lines between them they create a simple geometric shape (triangle).

Lines

The lines in this photo created by the windows of the twin towers help lead the eye to focus on the falling man. This helps reveal the difficult decisions victims of the 9/11 attack had to face; falling to their death or burning to death.

The Rule of Thirds

In this photo, it displays the rule of thirds by placing the firefighter in the bottom right position, and giving him a path from which he walked to get away from the smoking debris from the collaption of the twin towers.

Simplicity

This photo is a good example of simplicity because is shows one of the twin towers smoking from the impact of the airplane with the plain blue sky as its backdrop. This helps create the focus the photographer was looking for on the beginning of the collapse of the twin towers.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

The main points of the story is to tell and show how photo manipulation in wrong and the side effects to it. Although some intentions of photo manipulation is to be good it is very wrong. It is wrong because it is a false statement, and it leads people to believe something that is not true which can lead to terrible side effects.

This photo of Oprah is very unethical because they took her face and put it on Ann Margaret's body to make her look more appealing and attractive. This is unethical because the editors are pretty much insulting Oprah by putting her head on a skinnier persons body implying that they don't think she is attractive enough, and also because it shouldn't matter what shape of size you are because everyone is created different and beautifully.

I think this photo is the least unethical because it isn't really an insult to anyone, and the editors of the cover are just trying to get more than one pyramid to fit on the cover. It also isn't really stating anything false about the pyramids or it isn't changing it in any shape of form.

40 Greatest Photos Ever

Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.

• I picked this photo, because I like how the three sisters took the same photo years apart, and how the flower on the left symbolizes that one of the sisters has passed away.
• I like how the photographer placed these two photos side by side showing that as time passes by everything in life continues to move on.
• I think this photo mad the cut for the top 40 photos ever, because it is relatable to everyone that not everything stays the same, and with time also come loses.

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.

• I picked this photo because I think it was cute but also sad how the dog went to lay by her owners side; not wanting to be separated.
• The thing that drew my eyes toward this photo was how it shows all of the other graves dug up in the background waiting to be filled, while the dog is laying by the owners grave waiting for them to come back.
• This photo made the cut for the top 40 photos ever because it shows the deep connection that the dog has for their owner, and how much they really care about them. It also creates a big deal of emotion because a lot of people love their animals, and can sympathize with this photo.

“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff, October 1, 1940: A line of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother’s hand to reach out for his father.

• I picked his photo because I think it's sad how the little boy is running after his dad and trying to grab his hand, not wanting him to leave.
• I liked how the author captured the picture of the little boy desperately reaching out to grab his fathers hand and the father is also reaching back, but the mother is chasing after him knowing that the father must leave. Also how they show all the other troops walking in a line in the distance and all their loved ones walking beside them too.
• This photo made the top 40 cut because it shows how duty to your country required tough sacrifices, and what you are leaving behind knowing you may not return.

Great Black and White Photographers, PART 2

Ansel Adams was born February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California, and died April 22, 1984 in Monterey, California. As a beginner in photography, Ansel Adams sold his early photo's at Best's Studio in Yosemite Valley. Adam's professional breakthrough was due to his first portfolio publication, Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras.  As his career expanded, hi spent time in New Mexico with artists including Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe and Paul Strand, and he also began to publish essays and instructional books on photography. Soon Adams joined photographers Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans with their commitment to affecting social and political change through art. Adams' photographies became very popular, and began being shown in large galleries and museums. Some of Adams' famous works published were "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome", Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico", "Clearing Winter Storm", and "White House Ruin."

"Oak Tree Snowstorm" By: Ansel Adams

 "Winter Sunrise" By: Ansel Adams

Post Shoot Reflection

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Two Positive:

1. The photo's reflected the topic really well, and it was easy to tell which picture went with each subject.
2. The pictures had good angles.

One Thing To Work On:

1. Have better focus when you're taking the pictures. 

National Geographic Warm-Up

I chose this picture as my favorite photo because I like how it captures the whole scene. The photo captures the chaotic eruption of the Cordon de Caulle, but it also captures the calmness of the night sky filled with stars above. By both of these features being captured in this photo it reveals how nature can be both disastrous and beautiful at the same time.

Red, Metal, Happy

 Red

Metal

Happy

Camera Parts

-Aperture: the opening, hole, or gap in a camera the controls light
-Shutter: the hinged cover or screen of a camera that controls the duration of a photo's exposure by opening and closing to allow light coming through the lens to expose to film
-Exposure: the measuring and balancing of light
-Depth of Field: the distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph
-F-Stop: a camera lens aperture setting that corresponds to an f-number
-Focal Length: the distance in millimeters from the optical centre of the lens to the imaging sensor when the lens is focused at infinity

Camera Buttons: 
-Shutter button: the button used to take a picture

-Exposure compensation button: used to manually set the exposure for a photo

-Magnify button: lets you zoom in and zoom out on both your photo, and when taking a photo

-Playback button: allows you to view your stored photos

-Aperture button: use it to manually set the aperture

-Menu button: gives you access to the camera's various menus

Camera History

1. The "camera obscure" effect is when in a completely dark room, a tiny hole is created in one wall. Through the hole light is focused, and the outside scene is projected (upside down) on the opposite wall. This effect is achieved because the hole acts like a lens, focusing and projecting light onto the wall of the dark room.

2. Optics and high quality glass lenses.

3. A glass lens, a dark box, and film were the parts of the first modern camera.

4. Modern digital cameras are similar to Niepce's camera in the way that they both contain glass lenses, film, and they were both capable of taking pictures by a light passing through a lens, into the camera, and exposed to film.

5. Electronic sensors (CCD)

6. The Auto Mode in a camera completely controls the flash and exposure, and with the Program Mode you can just point and shoot and control the flash and a few other camera settings on your own.

7. Portrait Mode is used as an attempt to blur out the background, which works by the camera trying to use the fastest available lens setting (aperture).

8. Sports Mode is used to freeze motion, and is capable by the camera using the highest shutter speed possible.

9. You should do a half-press on the trigger button to have the camera focus on the scene you want to shoot.

10. There is no flash.

11. The flash is set to automatically go off when taking a picture.

12. If there is too much light in a photo then the picture will be washed out.

13. If there is not enough light for the photo then the picture will be too dark.

14. A "stop" is the relative change in the brightness of light. 

15. 1 stop

16. 2 stop

17. A longer shutter speed allows less light to the film.

18. A shorter shutter speed allows more light to enter into the film.

19. The aperture on a camera controls light.

20. To increase the amount of light you need to decrease the number of F-Stop, or make it smaller.

Masters of Black and White Photography

 The Tetons and the Snake River

By: Ansel Adams

 The Walk to Paradise Garden

By: W. Eugene Smith

Japanese Suicide Charge

By: W. Eugene Smith

My First Photos - Best and Worst

I think this is the worst photo that I took. The angle is not right and I don't like how the picture came out blurry. It also doesn't capture Jason's personality for who he actually is because this photo makes him look like a lazy and boring person.

I think that this is the best photo I took as one of my first photos. I like this photo because he is actually smiling, and although it's not much it still captures him as his true self. It also shows how he is a happy, bright eyed and excited person.