Academic Shoot Reflection and Critique

1. The challenges I encountered while taking the photos trying to follow the rules was probably trying really hard to take good photos and trying to follow the rules.
2. I was thinking mostly of focusing the camera and making the photos not super bright. I had a problem with that.
3. Yes I would do the photo shoot over again because it was a hard assignment for me.
4. The things I would do the same is picking the right classes to shoot at.
5. The rule I will achieve easily will probably be Framing.
6. The hardest rule to achieve was lines.
7. The rule that is mostly not clear to me is probably the rule of thirds. I will probable have to do research on that rule.

Great Black & White Photographers Part 2

Irving Penn

*Irving Penn was born in New Jersey in 1917.
*He was an american photographer who worked for Vogue.
*He was mostly known for fashion photography.
*He attended The University of Arts in 1938.
*He wrote many books about the arts and fashion and his drawings.
*He once won the Hasselblad Award
*He worked for many A list Celebrities

*He died in 2009 from old age. He was 92 years old.

Photo Manipulation Ethics

A. Some of the main points I read is that in most magazines the photos may be photoshopped.
B. They know people will believe what they see.

This photo was manipulated to make OJ Simpson appear darker than he actually is. But even though it is bad I think it is less ethnical because either way, people still knew he was guilty for what he did, which was murder.

C. I think these companies find it okay to manipulate photos because they know that the people reading them will believe what they see. And also they can get a lot of sells if they have a photo controversial.

Most ethnical because the man with the gun is holding the people hostage.

Academic Shoot

Avoiding Merges
1. The composition rule is Avoiding Merges
2.  In this photo avoiding merges is shown by not having anything in the way of the main subject.
3.  Nothing is messing with the photo.
4. If people do not know what subject this is maybe i could have did something more dramatic.

Simplicity
1. The composition rule is simplicity.
2. In this photo simplicity is being shown by nothing being in the way of the main subject.
3. The main subject is the only thing in the frame.
4. I could had the main subject focused more.

Balance
1. The composition rule is balance
2. In this photo the rule of balance is being shown by having the main subject balanced.
3. The main subject is being balanced in the frame.
4. Maybe I could have changed the photo because it is a lot like the simplicity rule photo.

Rule of Thirds
1. Rule of thirds is being shown.
2. The main subject is the
3. This photo applies to the rule of thirds because the photo fits in the frame.
4. I could have taken it from a different angle.

Lines
1. The composition rule being shown is Lines.
2. In this photo the main subject is the students working on a class lab.
3. Lines are being shown in this photo.
4. Maybe I could have taken the photo from a different angle.

Framing
1. The rule I was trying to show was framing.
2. Main subject is the people working.
3. It is in the frame.
4. I could have taken this photo from a different angle.

Filling the Frame.

This photo looks like it would be in this category because the students are doing a cool science experiment and they are surprised because of the cool explosion.

Action and Emotion.

In this photo it looks like the students are praying because of the hand holding and head bowing. It feels like these people maybe have lost a friend or teacher.

The Story.

This photo looks like the students are giving back to the community which makes it a good story.

The photo I picked from the category 'Academics & Community Services' shown in birds eye view, looking down out a boy climbing a rock wall and his peers are looking at him from behind.
1. I picked this photo because the boy looked very determined and motivated.
2. The Rules of Photography shown in this photo is rule of thirds.

1. I can take photos like the ones I saw today in classrooms with a lot of action in them.
2. I'm not very sure on whose class I want to visit yet. It might be my science teacher Ms.Harding.
3. I'll try to get a lot of action and emotions in my photo when I go out to shoot.

Post Shoot reflection

1. I tried to make my photos original, but I did not follow the good picture taking guidelines.
2. I wanted to make the photos as focused as possible so it took me a while to capture each picture, and also trying to make the frame equal.
3. Yes I would definitely do this project over again so I could do it correctly. I want to follow the rules and guidelines to photography.
4. The same things I would do is to make sure the picture framing and focusing is good.
5. I think I achieved the angles.
6. No, I am not very interested in shooting the same prompts again because I want something new to shoot.

This photo looks well framed because it looks very equal.

Balance is shown because the placement follows the guidelines.

In this photo Simplicity is shown. The photographer pointed the camera up looking at the buildings.

 Lines is shown in this photo by showing the parallel lines in the background.
Rule of Thirds is shown in this photo by showing that the group of people are in the 'rule of thirds' frame.Avoiding Merges is shown in this photo because a lot of things in this photo is being cut of compared to the original photo.