PART I
1.What is your reaction to his work?
-I like it! It interesting and creative. It is very fun to look at because it plays with your head. It got me a    little dizzy!

2.How do you think he made this photos?
-I am actually not sure at all. From looking at them, I think he took a photograph of the main building, and then he overlapped the picture with the same picture but in another angle, and at the same time, he kept the building(s) connected at a point so it(they) looked like a single one.

3.Think about some buildings you have seen, which ones would be good to take a picture like this? Tell me about those buildings. Where are they? could you get easy access to them?
-The first one that comes to mind is the State Capital. This one I do have easy access because it is found here, in Austin, Tx. Another one might be the Eiffel Tower, and that one I sadly can't get to.

My Favorite from his collection:

PART II

1.I chose this picture because It haunts me. It is very beautiful.

2.This picture was in the Sports Photojournalist of The year category.

3.This photograph won 1st place.

4.The fact that he took an "underneath" angle is what caught my attention. It gives the picture another feel. 

5.The subject? I think they did consider the subject, but I believe the angle is what really got this picture to win that first place. 

6.The photographer had to go underwater under all those swimmers to be able to get this unique picture. I think that is very unique. 

1.I chose this picture because by simply looking at it, I get excited about the race being held.

2.This picture was in the sports action section.

3.This photograph won 1st place as well.

4.Again, the angles is what caught my attention. The chosen angel makes the picture come to life.

5.I think that they really considered the subject in this one. It is very clear that it is a horse raise, and the picture really gives the feel of one.

6.Like in the previous one, the way to get the angle of the picture is the uniqueness that the photographer hat to go trough. I still can't figure out how he/she got this one!

1.I chose this picture because It is really fun to look at. It is simply stunning. 

2.This picture was found in the category named Photojournalists oif the Year (large Markets)

3.This photograph won 1st Place

4.The color is what caught my attention in this one. It is so bright! I just can't get enough of it.

5.Yes. I do think they considered the subject when giving it its place. It is a very significant subject, and I believe they considered the picture a good representation of it. If they hadn't, I don't believe it would have been chosen.

6.I think the photographer didn't have to go trough a very unique situation for this one besides going to the beach.

PART III

1.I feel that out of all the Tips given to photographers in that 25-picture review, this are the most important:

• "Never stop looking for the wrong angle to take a photo"
• "Connection with your subject"
• "Creating a memory in our heads"

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4. I think that even though the picture is much more simple the painting, the photographer followed all the rules, and if not, he followed most of them.

5. I think that the style in the Nightawks painting by Edward Hopper is the style that would influence me the most.

National Geographic Pictures and Photo Manipulation Ethics

Warm Up

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2. This is my favorite photo because It is very interesting to look at. The color is very interesting as feel. I think that what makes this picture so good is the combination of curves, depth, and contrasting colors such as black and white. It makes the photograph very intense, and it creates a sort of optical illusion.

3. I would take an unusual picture, a very interesting one. I would probably go with something like traffic lights/city lights (just because I love them) and make the picture look better than it should. I would take a picture that created a mood or a feeling so that people could easily identify themselves with it.


Photo Manipulation and Ethics
A.The article mainly talks about different occasions in which photoshop and/or similar devices where used to manipulate photographs without permission. It also explains the consequences of such acts. The point of the article is to bold out the fact that photographers should never do this type of manipulations. It explains the severity of such acts and the importance of journalistic ethic.

B.In my opinion this type of photo editing is very unethical. I believe so because it shows disrespect to people, property, and to the situation. It takes credibility away from the newspaper/news source and it lies to the viewers/readers.

The Least Unethical:

I think this is the least unethical photographic manipulation because even though they are lying to the readers of the magazine, the lie is not that serious. They simply fixed her teeth so they would look right. This manipulation won't affect the story (or at least I don't believe it will), and It does not affect other people or disrespect anybody.

The Most Unethical:

In my opinion this is one of the most unethical photographs in the list. I think it is very unethical because they are not only lying to the readers of the magazine. They are also disrespecting Oprah and Ann Margaret. I find it very unprofessional for this magazine to combine two people as if they where one. I mean, it is not necessary and It takes credibility from journalists. Also, this might of offended both Margaret and Oprah. 

Touching People

What do you think about this project and photo essay?
What do I think about it? I think this is a wonderful Idea. It kind of surprised me because I wouldn't have imagined a photographer would try to be so creative! I think it was a really neat and thoughtful idea. Also, the background and intention behind this  photo shoot is amazing. I agree with Renaldi because I also think that people here in America are growing more distant with every passing minute. In my opinion this was a very nice project.

What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then ask you to touch a stranger? 
I would maybe be shy at first (I know I would), but I would participate without a doubt. I would like to take part in fun photo shoot Ideas, and I would like to help the photographer with his creative project.

Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot out.
Wow.. I am not that creative! but I think it would be nice and fun to ask people to hug a stranger. Yes, very similar to this one, but more specific. I think it would be even more hard to find people willing to do this, but it would be a terrific love-for-people symbol.

Finally tell me what you thought of the photography, are the photos good? Do you like looking at the?
This type of photography isn't my favorite, but without a doubt, I can say I loved looking at the pictures. They may not be that complex, but their background make them amazing photographs.

40 Greatest Touching Photos

I chose this photograph mainly because I love football (soccer). I think the position is really nice because you can clearly see what the main focus of the photograph is. This photograph probably made it to the top 40 most touching pictures because it captured the moment in which a worldwide symbolic sport united races. 

I honestly chose this picture because it broke my heart. I like the space in the photograph a lot because you can see more than just the dog. You can see what is actually going. I believe this photograph made it to the top 40 touching images because of the emotion that it captured. It did not only captured the disastrous land slide, it also captured the sadness of the situation and the loss that accompanied it. 

Out of the whole 40 pictures, this is honestly my favorite. I chose it because I loved the feeling it gave me immediately right after I saw it. The space in the picture is neat because it allows viewers to see more than just the two main characters, but without decreasing their importance. I imagine this picture made it to this particular top 40 because it captured a wonderful moment and a wonderful act that can't be seen everyday. It revealed the love some people have towards humanity, and that is very touching.

Great Black and White Photographers Part II

          Dorothea Langue was born on May 16, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey, but was a second generation German. She was important to the humanization of the results from the Great depression, and was a great influence to documentary photography. When Langue was only seven, she was diagnosed with Polio, and she never entirely overcame it. When she turned 12, her father abandoned her along with her mother and sisters. The two tragedies marked her greatly. 

          Langue studied photography at the Columbia University in New York City. She opened a successful portrait studio in 1919. She married a painter in 1920 (Maynard Dixon) and they had two sons. Her interest and study of the homeless captured attention from many people, and she was soon employed by the FSA. 

          She divorced Dixon in 1935 and married Paul Schuster Taylor, an economics professor who would later become her teacher. Langue's brought attention to the poor and forgotten. Her best known photograph is known as "Migrant Mother". In 1941, she was awarded for her excellence in photography with a Guggenheim Fellowship, but she later gave it up due to Pearl Harbor. 

          Langue's photographies where so critical that the Army decided to use them. In 1945 she was offered a position as faculty in the first fine arts department. In 1952 she co founded the Aperture magazine, she shoot a photographic documentary for the Life magazine, but it was never published. she eventually published it in Aperture.
          She lived the last years of her life in poor health, and died of esophageal Cancer on October 11, 1965 when she was 70.
          The Whitney Museum later used many of her photographs. One of her sons accepted the honor of her name being forever mesmerized in the California Hall of Fame. A school was later built in her honor, just around the place where she photographed "Migrant Mother".

Happy

I am having a really hard time locating any of the new techniques in this picture.

Metal

In this one, I achieved simplicity. I did this by including a simple background rather than a complex one.

Red

I achieved nice lines on this picture. 

The Camera II

1.Explain The Camera Obscura Effect. How is it achieved? 
-The Camera obscura effect is created when a whole is made in the wall of a dark room. Light flows in trough the whole, and reflects the light on the opposite dark wall (the one w/o a whole). The reflection upside-down.

2.What creation during the 17th century helped men get one set closer to creating a modern camera? 
-Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens perfected the understanding of optics, and worked on getting high quality glass lenses to better focus and project light on the "dark room"

3.What where the parts of the first modern cameras invented by Niepce?
-Glass lens and film.

4.What do modern digital cameras have in common with Niepce's?
-Light still passes trough the lens to expose the film, and as a result, a photograph. Just like with Niepce's.

5.What do digital cameras use to capture an image?
-They use an electronic sensor which is called CCD. The photographs are then stored on reusable computerized memories.

6.What is the difference between auto mode and program mode?
-In auto mode, the camera completely controls the flash and the exposure. The program mode, on the other hand, you point and shoot, but can still control the flash and other camera settings.

7.What is the portrait mode used for? how does it work?
-The portrait mode is used to blend the background. It does this by using the fastest available lens setting.

8.What is the sports mode used for? how does it work? 
-This mode is used to freeze motion. It does this by using the highest speed shutter possible.

9.Why would you do a high press on a trigger button?
-Faster camera response
-more control over focus
-better composition

10-11.Symbol Meanings:
This symbol means disabled flash:

you would use this if you would like a more dramatic image.

This symbol means Auto flash:

you would use this whenever you need more light.

12.What happens to your photo if there is too much light?
your picture will be "washed out"

13.What happens to your photo if there is not enough light?
The picture will be too dark.

14.What is a stop?
a stop is a relative measurement of light. It represents a relative change in the brightness of light.

15.How many stops brighter is a new planet if there are two sons instead of one?
1 stop.

16.How many stops brighter is a new planet if there are 4 sons instead of two?
two stops.

17.What effect does longer shutter speed of have?
more light.

18.What effect does a shorter shutter speed have?
less light.

19.what does the aperture control?
It controls the size of the opening, therefore, in controls the size of the image.

20.When adjusting the aperture, how can you increase the amount of light?
by opening the aperture more.

The Camera

Single Lens Reflex Camera 

Optical Path- The path that light takes in traversing an optical system is often called the optical path. The physical length of an optical device can be reduced to less than the length of the optical path by using folded optics

Reflex Mirror- A mirror that, when the shutter is closed, directs light from the lens into the viewfinder instead of onto the image sensor; when the shutter opens, this mirror is raised out of the optical path, allowing light from the lens to fall on the image sensor

Pentaprism- 5 sided reflective prism that is used to separate a beam of light by a constant 90 degrees, even when the entry beam is not at 90 degrees to the prism.

Interchangeable Lenses- Lenses designed to be easily attached to and detached from a camera.

Aperture- The size of the opening in a lens when the picture is taken.

Shutter- A device that allows light to pass for a period of time to expose a photographic film, or to a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light, to capture a permanent image in a scene. 

Exposure- The total amount go f light that is able to fall into a photographic medium when a picture is being taken.

Depth of field- The amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects on focus.

F-stop- The ratio of the focal length of the lens, to the diameter of the aperture. When a lens is set on the smallest f-stop, it is said that is is "wide open".

Focal length- the measure of how strongly a system focuses or defocuses light. 

Canon Rebel T3

• Mode dial
• Power switch 
• Flash button
• Main dial
• Shutter button

  

Great Black and White Photographers

Emmet Gowin

(Edith Danville, Virginia)

Berenice Abbott

(Court of the First Model Tenements in New York City)

Dorothea Lange

(Crossroads Store, Person County, North Carolina)

First Photos- Best and Worst

This Is the Picture I least liked. Why? Well, I find it boring and expression less. James' position isn't the best, and the angle is just as bad (in my opinion). The fact that James is not looking at the camera is something I don't like. I also don't like the space in the picture. I captured objects that weren't really important. James doesn't look like the focal point, and that is what I most dislike in the image. 

I had a little trouble starting with the camera, so I didn't have so many pictures to chose from. Out of the few I took, I liked this one the most. I think James' posture is interesting, and that makes the picture fun to look at. The image is clear, and you can easily understand what was going on. Apart from being simple, this picture captured the moment, and shows James as the center of attention. 

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