Abandoned Theme Parks

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph.

I would want to visit Six Flags in New Orleans, and take pictures there. It seems risky & I prefer challenges.
It also looks really interesting and it would be really cool to take pictures of this amusement park.

2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.

Isla de las Munecas, Teshuilo Lake, Mexico

Plum Island

Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California

Dragon's Blood Trees, Socotra

Salt Plains, Salta, Argentina

 4. Use Google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.

5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there.

Rare species are found there,  and the trees have a really interesting shape. The weather also looks really relaxing, and the trees create a lot of shade. I would also love to study how the trees survive.

6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.

 I would take summer clothes (shorts, shot sleeve shirts, etc). I would also take a camera, a tent, and something to keep me cool.

Portraits and self-portraits

Self-portrait

Professional portrait

I think in order for you to have a good picture you have to have the right amount of light and a good camera. You should have a subject in the picture so it doesn't look like a random photo, and things around the subject that don't take attention away from it.


In my next frames I want to do self-portraits. I want to show more of my face than anything else.

Evolution

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)
Her lips, eyes, neck, eyebrows, hair, nose, skin tone, and shoulders. 


2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
I don't think it is. It  changes them to the point where they don't look like the same person and nobody really looks like that. It makes people believe that they can really look like that.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
It was more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation.

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
Brightening the picture up, and adding a little more style to the hair is okay. Changing the entire face, and adding length isn't okay.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
Fashion photography involves nothing but photoshop that changes the picture completely and  makes people look fake. Photojournalism shows more realistic things.

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
Photojournalism shows more real things while fashion photography shows more fake than anything.

Photo Manipulation and ethics

A. Summarize the main points of the story in 1-4 sentences.It's mainly about faking pictures, and making them look like there was something else in the picture than what there really was. It's also about duplicating things in the pictures.

B. Explain why you think this type of photo editing is unethical or acceptable.
I think it's unethical because it makes it look like the one who edited the picture is trying to hide something or that they're too afraid to put it out in public. I think the government does this kind of editing.  


This photo was the most unethical b/c it's fake and it never really happened. It shows that the people who run the stories are really desperate for a story and will fake a story just so people will look at it.

 

This photo isn't as bad as the others b/c not a lot was changed or faked. 

Negatives Evaluation

1. From looking at your negatives, how many of your photos do you think turned out well?

 I think four of them came out okay.

2. How many of your photos appear like they will not turn out well? Why do you think these photos did not turn out (Ex: Over/under exposed, not focused, bad composition)?

I don't think three of them will come out good, they are all over exposed.

3. Select the negative image that you think will turn out the best when it is printed. Why do you think this photo will turn out well?
Photo-9

I think it will come out the best printed because the angle I took the picture from got everything that I was trying to get in the picture and it looked really nice.

4. What technical aspects of photography (focus, exposure, composition) do you think are present in your best negative? What evidence can you provide from the appearance of the negative to support your answer?

Focus and exposure, some were blurry and the others didn't have enough exposure. The pictures look brighter than they should be.

5. What advanced composition techniques (Ex: rule of thirds, leading lines) that you have learned in class are present in your favorite negative?
 Rule of thirds and balance.

Printing a black and white photo.

Equipment:
plastic film tank
The dark canisters to hold chemistry
A can opener
Graduates
light proof room
developer
fixer
Glacial acetic acid
hypo emliminatior

Chemicals Used:

Stop Bath, Acetic Acid, Citric Acid, Water, Fixer, and Silver Halide. You can but the chemicals here in the USA at WYNIT Inc

5801 East Taft Road, North Syracuse, NY 13212, USA

 

Steps: 

Go in the darkroom and remove the film from the cassette, unwind the film an remove the end of the film from the spool. Next load the film into a plastic or metal film reel then place the loaded reel in the film tank ad cover it as directed. Then its time to process the film so you lay the chemicals out in front of you. You need to make sure that the temperature of the chemicals are good, or controlled. This because if you get it to high or to high it will mess up the picture then pour our developer into the open part of the sealed film tank, known as the pour spout, and cover it. Still keeping the lid closed. Next turn the container upside down and hit the side to get any air that's not wanted out of there. Pour running water into the pour spout for one minute to stop development.The its time to fix the image so make sure you put the hardness on it so the picture wont get scratched.Remove the tank cover completely and let the film sit in cold running water for five minutes. Next remove all aces of fixer to avoid white stains on a picture. Pour in a tankful of Hypo Eliminator and agitate for two minutes.Wash for 5 minutes! Remove film from the tank and don't touch it at all. In 1 or 2 hours the film will be dry and you will cut the film into 6 negative films( be sure to cut space between them). For the end you store the negatives in clear envelopes.

 

 fixer

 

 film canister

 

timer

 

Can opener

1) Contact Sheet- A contact print, usually of all frames of a developed roll of negative print film, used as a proof print.

2) Agitation- The act or process of agitating; state of being agitated.

3) Enlarger- An apparatus used for making projection prints, having a head for holding, illuminating, and projecting a film negative and a bed for holding a sheet of sensitized printing paper.

4) Developer-  a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.

5)  Stop Bath- An acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.

6) Fixer-a chemical substance, as sodium sulfate, used to promote fixation.

 

 

Drug Cartels

"And then another body. And by the end of the day, it was 10. The next day, 10. The next day, 10."

It's interesting because a lot of people are being killed everyday. It sounds like a never ending thing.

Many people are being killed everyday in  Juarez, Mexico. A lot of the people that live there are afraid of what their families are doing because it might result in them dead. The people in Juarez live in fear. Even journalists have been killed in that town.


There's a picture of a few people who are crying.


 It shows how serious things are and how bad it is in Juarez. It also shows
that a lot of people are being affected by it.

This was my favorite picture because it showed emotion and how the killing are making people feel.

Funny Captions

 

Cotton ball just came from the groomers. Now he might actually get confused as a cotton ball.

 

Little Johnny decided to give horseback riding a try. Looks like he's going to be regretting that in the morning.

                                  The wicked witch from the east thought her only fear would be of houses. Bars should've been another one.

Marlboro Marine

A. What skills besides photography did Luis Sinco utilize to produce this slideshow? (Think about the overall presentation: audio, editing, text)
He had Blake do audio for his part of the story and it made the story go together better than it would if someone else told it. He also had little notes during the slideshow to tell what was coming next or what was going on, it helped explain things.





B. What was the effect (added power or meaning) of the multimedia effects of the slideshow?
The multimedia was to tell the what Blake had to go through after he came back from Iraq.

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshow? Why?

The picture where hes in uniform is the most powerful to me. I thought t was the most powerful because you could see how he was depressed and he looked like he didn't want to be there.

B. What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
The parts where they show all the photos from Iraq. It shows everything he saw and why he was feeling the way he did.

C. How does the audio enhance the photographs?
The audio helps put the story together. 

D. How do the images work together to tell a story?

They all go step by step with everything he says, they help make the story more clear.

Picture/Video(:

 I foubnd this photo interesting because of the flag and the man waving it up high. It symbols gay pride and shows that more people should stand up for who they are and what they love.

http://www.statesman.com/video/statesman-video-player-228709.html?bcpid=79588761001&bcpid=374632113001&bctid=342882210001

I found this video interesting because of the way they make their ice cream. Some of their ideas come out of dares and I think that's what makes them very original.

This picture inspires me to create music. I love the way the picture is positioned and how the pictures are put together.

Great Black and White Photographers part 3

The thing that first caught my eye was the folds in the blanket and the random pieces of string on the bed. I chose this picture because of how the blankets are folded and how the bed being ruffled up makes the picture.

I see a bad that's not made.
I smell the scent of the person that was in the bed.
I hear somebody getting dressed in the bathroom.
I taste the toast I made.
I feel the warm coffee going down my throat.

             The first thing that caught my eye in this picture was how the pieces of furniture were all scattered around. I chose this picture because of the old woman's reflection, it gives the picture a spooky feel. 

I see an old woman's reflection.
I smell the fresh air.
I hear the pieces of furniture hit each other.
I taste the dust that's coming off of the furniture.
I feel the warmth of the light that's coming into the store..