Great Black and White Photographers part 3

1.) What first caught your eye while looking at your photographers photos? Is there something in particular about their photos that made you want to choose them? Post the images with your writing.I just think Harry is so unique and he takes a lot of pictures of people and his photos of the city are cool and interesting. I like how he takes two photos and makes them overlap each other. 

2.) Look at those 2 photos you posted last time in the assignment Great Black and White Photographers Part 2. Use your five senses to tell me more about those photos. Answer them on your blog.
I see
I smell
I hear
I taste
I feel 

 

I see the confusion in the ladies face as she's walking through the city. I smell the street food people are selling on the side of the road. I hear the faint voices of people talking as they pass through the street. I taste the fresh air on a new day. I feel the anxiety of the crowd of people walking different directions.

I see the dead branches lingering onto the trunk of the tree in the cold weather. I smell food about to be served. I hear the church bells ringing on christmas day. I taste the bitterness of the snow. I feel the nervousness as I wait to open my gifts. 

3.) Finally, what would you like to create to show the world your great photographer. Ideas include, posters, power points, a blog, etc. You tell me what you would like to create so we can come up with a plan to share your thoughts and ideas about your photographer with your classmates and with the rest of the school.

 I think we should use a blog because it will be fast and your stuff will get saved. We could also use a poster because that is also quick and easy for everyone. 

Mural Project Preview

1. What theme, that we could take here at school and think of one for OFF campus too, could we do a series of these panels to place around the school?
One theme that we could shoot at school would be electives because there are so many and they each do something different, or another one could be clothing.
One theme for off campus would be extra circular activities because people do so much different sports or activities , another could be families because each family is different and it would be cool to shoot someones family.

2. Should we use phones only, or should we open it up to our regular cameras for those people that don't have camera phones?
I think using both would be fine. 

3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?
In the hallways. 

Photo Shop academic pictures

Avoiding Mergers

Balance

Framing

Rule of thirds

Simplicity

 Lines 

Academic Shoot reflection and critique

Part 1

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 
I struggled trying to find some of the rules in photos that I could take. 

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
I thought about focus and making sure the composition I was trying to follow was correct in that photo. 

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
I would watch my angles I'm taking the photos from and focus on the subject more. 

4. What things would you do the same?
I would5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
Simplicity or Lines6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
Framing7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
Avoiding mergers and framing. I can go look at some peoples from the other classes to help me out. 


Part 2 


http://marilynphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com

1. I like her ideas of the photos and I think she followed the rules well.
2. One thing that could be improved would be too watch the angles the photo was taken from.

Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

Aperture

F 2.8

F 16

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture?
Your eyes
2. Finish this sentence - the smaller the Aperture the larger the f-stop, the higher the Aperture the smaller the f-stop.
3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field?
If you have smaller f numbers then the background will be more blurry leaving the subject clearly focused while having bigger f numbers makes the background more focussed as well as the subject.  

Shutter Speed

High Shutter Speed

Low Shutter Speed

At the beginning while the sun was still up and the courtyard had reasonable good light

a.) a booth in the middle of the yard near the Tree Normal 
b.) a food booth outside under one of the big red awnings Normal
c.) the Stars performance inside the gym Fast
d.) students dancing near the center of the courtyard Fast

e.) people streaming in from the front doors Slow
f.) the basketball booth where students are shooting basketballs at a hoop Fast

Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.

a.) a booth in the middle of the yard near the Tree Slow 

b.) a food booth outside under one of the big red awnings Slow

c.) the Stars performance inside the gym Fast

d.) students dancing near the center of the courtyard Slow

e.) people streaming in from the front doors Slow 

f.) the basketball booth where students are shooting basketballs at a hoop Slow

2. List the three settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website. Explain how each works - DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, use your own words.

Auto mode: The shutter speed and aperture are already set by the camera.

Aperture mode: you set the aperture while the camera sets the shutter speed

Manual mode: you set the shutter speed and aperture 

ISO

ISO of 200

ISO of 6400

1. What are the advantages of shoot at a higher ISO at a sporting event like basketball or a night football game?

The image will be at a higher quality.

2. What suggestions did the author make about using a low ISO?

If there is a lot of light you want to keep the ISO low to get the most detail and a better quality picture.

3. What suggestions did the author make about using a high ISO?

When there is not enough light change the camera to high ISO 

Manual

List the aperture settings available on this camera.

 F 2.8 to F 22
List the shutter speed settings available on this camera.

1 second to 1/4000 seconds
List the ISO settings available on this camera.

100 to 25600 

Great Black and White photographers part 2

Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan was born on October 22, 1912 in Detroit, Michigan and died on March 15, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. He went to Michigan State University before he worked the Chrysler Motor Part Corporation in 1936. He joined the Chryslers camera club and shortly after he became member of Detroit's Photo Guild. He attended a speech give by Ansel Adams and after that is when he knew he wanted to do photography. He taught at a summer camp at Black Mountain College in 1951, he left in 1961 to go to the Rhode Island School of Design until 1973. He then retired from teaching four years later. He photographed his with and daughter, nature, light studies, pedestrians, telephone lines, architecture, landscapes in Cape Cod, and pictures from his travels. He shot pictures in color and black and white. He wrote Harry Callahan photographs in 1967, Visions and Images, American Photographers on Photography in 1981, and Callahan in New England in 1994.

Sources:

http://www.pacemacgill.com/biography.php?artist=Harry%20Callahan

http://www.artnet.com/artists/harry-callahan/biography

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. What are some of the main points you read about in the website above regarding manipulating images?
You can't manipulate a photo too much where your guessing if it's ethics or aesthetics, art or journalism.

B. What is the philosophy of newspapers like the Washington Post and the New York times regarding image manipulation?
They have strict editing rules and they have to keep the same colors.

C. What do you think are acceptable things you could do to an image and not cross the line unto an unethical manipulation?
Some things you could do would be to change the color, but not too much as too where you could really tell but just enough to get the correct lighting you want. Another thing you could do would be to move a strand of hair or something small that you don't like in the photo. 

On your blog

D. Post the manipulation (this means get that image and post it on your blog) that you think was the most unethical, and explain why you think it was unethical. If you do not know what the word ethic or unethical means, look them up on the internet. It is very important you know what those two words mean. Please write at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you think it is so bad.


This photo is unethical because they took Ann Richards body from a picture previously taken and they took Oprahs head and put it on her body. This is unethical because you can tell this isn't Oprahs real body. 


E. Post the manipulation that you consider the least unethical, and explain why you think it is not as bad as others. Please write at least 2-3 sentences explaining why you think this one is not so bad.

I think this photo is the least unethical because they just changed the color of the photo. I don't think it is as big of a deal as the Oprah photo.