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.