Ethics in fashion photography:)

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

     They made her lips bigger, made her neck longer, smoothed the flyaways of her hair, made her neck skinner, moved her lips down, made her eyes farther apart and bigger, fixed her cheek bones and made her lips bigger.

2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?
    It is most certainly not. They changed so much in photoshop, it was like making a whole other person. People base their definition of beauty on ads like that and they are pretty much basing these views on people who don't exist. No one is perfect like the girl in the picture.

3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
   It think its always wrong, there's no "more wrong" You should just never do it. Everyone is beautiful in their own way

4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
    none of them are okay.

5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

   Fashion photography is an advertisement tool, "Hey look what clothes i made!" "Hey, look at this new makeup!" "You could look like this if you wear this" While photojournalism is like a story, without words. A visual story:)

6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?

   Photojournalism is reality. It shows whats going on in the world rather than telling about it. It always should be true, untouched by editing.
Fashion Photography is more of a false reality, where everything and everyone is "beautiful"  Rarely true, and edited to make things perfect.

Negatives Evaluation:)

1. From looking at your negatives, how many of your photos do you think turned out well?
 
     At first glance, 6 of them look pretty good, and one of them looks really good. After the contact sheet though, i think the one that i made a print out of was definitely the best.

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 think that two of them look kinda bad, one because it was not focused, and the other (which was the one of me taken by my partner) was definitely not focused and had too little light.

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?

    Picture #8 is the one i'm going to make a print out of, it was my favorite when i took it, and it's focused really well and i like the angle:)

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, definitely. I really like how the main girl's (Mallory) face, hair and bag is all in really crisp focus, and the girl behind her is not in focus because Mallory is the subject of the picture.

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

Photo Manipulation and Ethics:)

 A. Summarize the main points of the story in 1-4 sentences.


Pretty much the story is talking about reasons why it is unethical for photojournalists to manipulate a photo. A photojournalist is just like a regular journalist, they go out into the world and document whats going on- but instead of using words to describe whats happening- they use pictures The main points of the story are to tell the reader how manipulating and altering a photo can have consequences, all because you were just trying to make the picture something it isn't. The article gives an example of many instances where this has happened. The article also explains to the reader how it is a major risk in altering these images because they always must present true pictures. With programs like photoshop, it is hard for readers to distinguish between a real picture and a fabricated picture.






B. Explain why you think this type of photo editing is unethical or acceptable.

  I think that photo editing is always unacceptable, for example in a magazine, this would be wrong and unethical because they can take a picture of an celebrity enjoying a day at the beach with her family, and turn it into the headline "______ ______ Gains 70lbs! Look at that cellulite!" Manipulating an image is like having a news anchor lie about the day's headlines.

Most Unethical: :(


This picture is very unethical because they are exploiting the colored student to make their campus seem more diverse. 

  Least Unethical: :\

This picture is still not acceptable because, it's a inanimate object, not a person, but still, it is lying to the public to make the picture "look better"

b l a c k a n d w h i t e p r i n t s : )

Things You'll Need:

• Film negative
• Darkroom
• Safelight
• Apron
• Gloves
• Safety glasses
• Enlarger
• Easel
• Photo paper
• Chemical trays
• Tongs
• Developer
• Stop bath
• Fixer
• Print washer
• Water
• Clothesline and clothespins

Chemicals:

You'll need a developer, stop bath, and a fixer

 Developers: Polymax T (for paper)

Stop bath:  Orbit Bath
Fixer: Kodafix or Photo-Flo

Step by Step:

Prepare the developer, stop bath and fixer, Pour them into separate chemical trays and put them on a table in the darkroom in the order above. Position the negative in the enlarger, turn on the enlarger lamp and focus it onto the easel. The light from the enlarger should shine through the negative.Expose the negative onto the photo paper by briefly turning on the enlarger lamp. Slide the exposed sheet of paper into the developer tray, making sure it is immediately completely ocvered in the chemical. Gently move the photo paper around the tray for usually one or two minutes. You will see the image appear on the paper during development.

Remove the photo paper from the developer tray by the corner with the tongs. Hold the sheet over the tray for several seconds until most of the developer drips back into the tray. Repeat  for the stop bath and fixer trays. (After the fixer bath you can then examine the print under regular lights) Run clean water over them to fully wash the chemicals off, If you area using fiber-based paper, rinse it for at least 25 to 30 minutes. If you are using resin-coated paper, you will only have to rinse it for about five minutes. Let your prints dry!:)


Equipment Pictures:
Film negative


 
 
Safelight

                 
Apron

Enlarger

 

Photo paper

Chemical trays

Tongs

 

Developer

Stop bath

Fixer

Print washer

Water

Definitions:

Emulsion: A light-sensitive composition consisting of one or more of the silver halides suspended in gelatin for coating a surface of a film, photographic paper and the like. The image is formed in the emulsion.

I'll do the rest later, class is over :(

 

Post Shoot Reflection:)

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get close, capture real moments, and capture action or emotion? Explain how you dealt with these challenges.
       Everyone was like, "aye yo girl, take my picture!" trying to pose for it and everything, SO that was probably the most difficult part about it. If someone said that, i'd just walk away from them... because they're being stupid, and i was kinda on a time limit:) Others just asked for their pictures not to be taken, so i just left the classroom and went to another one. We went to a ton of classes because so many of them had the lights off! It was also kinda awkward because up until the last class, i didn't know anyone, and it's kinda awkward to get all up in someone you don't know's face.
 
2. What technical aspects of photography (focus, exposure, composition) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
       The exposure for sure, the little bar thing was all up in the corner of the viewfinder and it was kinda smudgy and hard to see, i was afraid my pictures were going to look all bad if it wasn't lined up perfectly. Composition and focus were second of course, but i kind of automatically look for things that would look interesting so that comes easy for me:)
3. Explain how you attempted to use at least one of the advanced composition techniques you learned in class while shooting.
        I tried to keep the subject directly out of the middle of the frame, so i guess the rule of thirds.
4. What would you do differently the next time you shoot to improve your photographs?
        Spend more time!:)

Processing Black and White photos

Things You'll Need:

• Negative Storage Files
• Stirring Rods
• Thermometers
• Scissors
• Storage Bottles
• Scissors
• Darkroom Timers
• Developing Tank And Reels
• Film-hanging Clips
• Fixer
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• Plastic Graduates
• Stop Bath
• Thermometers

Chemicals:

• Paper Developer: Dektol 

• Stop Bath: Kodak Indicator Stop
• Fixer: Heico NH-5
• Hypo Wash: Heico Perma Wash

Step by step:

First,remove the film from the cassette. Pull the flat end off the canister with a can opener. Unwind the film and remove the end of the film from the spool by peeling off the tape that connects it. Now load the film on a film reel and place the loaded reel in the film tank and cover it, now it's light proof so turn on the light!!:) Lay out the chemicals in front of you: a film developer, stop bath, and a fixer with hardener, and a hypo eliminator bath.  

Pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank, and shake it to agitate the chemicals and keep the fresh chemical on top! repeat this for each chemical. Let sit in water for 5 minutes. Next, take the negatives out and hang them up in a dust free area (don't touch!) then in 1-2 hours, you;ll have yourself some film negatives:) Cut them into strips with 6 negatives on each strip and store in negative pages!:)

Equipment:

 Chemicals:

 Paper Developer: Dektol:

 Stop Bath: Kodak Indicator Stop

Fixer: Heico NH-5

 Hypo Wash: Heico Perma Wash

 Definitions:

Contact Sheet: a photo print of your film negatives

Agitation: Keeping a chemical moving: Helps to speed-up and achieve an even development while processing film or paper. It also prevents spotting or staining by keeping the developer, stop bath, or fixer in motion.

Enlarger: a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin-silver process, or transparencies.

Developer: Transforms the latent image to a visible image by chemically reducing light struck silver halides to black metallic silver.

Stop Bath: An acidic bath that is used after the developer to stop development and reduce fixer contamination.

Fixer: Chemical used after developing and before washing to remove remaining light-sensitive halides by converting them into soluble salts. An image becomes stable to light once it's fixed.

Repetition:)

This picture shows repetition with the goal posts and with the different people walking around. It's also a perfect picture for framing.

The repetition in this picture is first, obviously the eyes on the screen, but also, the lines of the seats, the lights on the ceiling, and the windows

The repetition in this picture is the pattern of the tiles on the ground. All of the white tiles are in the shape of a square, the dark gray in a rhombus and the lighter gray in an opposite rhombus

Funny Captions

 A Dorset Sheep, Sally, shows off her talents of manipulating various buttons when she jumps onto the water fountain and starts drinking water as pedestrians look on. Sally's owner Marissa Johnson, has been training Sally to  manipulate various buttons, including 7 different types of sinks and fountains.

A big horn sheep got his horns stuck in a telephone wire last weekend in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The sheep, named Charlie got tangled in the wires after he was being trained to jump on a trampoline after a storm lowered some telephone wires.

A panda from the New York City Zoo plays on a slide in the snow last February. The  16 year old Pandas' name is Sully and has been participating in the Zoo's Winter Show for 7 years.

Show & Tell :')

I really like this photo because, first of all, i LOVE UT:)
But that's not really the reason i choose this picture. I love the way the photographer definitely captured the emotion the boys are radiating. You can tell, without knowing anything about them, that they just won their game, and are ecstatic about it.






Did i mention that i love UT?:)

Contest Preview :')

ATPI Fall Contest:
To me, this picture represents a lot of hard work, and dedication. Her ballet shoes are obviously well worn and have been though tons and tons of rehearsals and practices. This picture hits a soft spot with me because i know from experience how difficult ballet is and the warm spot you get when you finally break your shoes in. The way the only thing that shows up in the picture is the girls hands, arms and feet is very interesting looking because there is nothing in the background to distract your eye.


Here's the other ones i liked:)

 

Marlboro Marine

1.What skills besides photography did Luis Sinco utilize to produce this slideshow? 

Luis Sinco used a lot of different skills in this slideshow, he uses video editing software to put together  his  slideshow and to give effects to the picture and layer the audio and visuals. I also think that the

short, bluntness of  his sentences really sticks out and gets straight to the point, but also makes you remember them.

2. What was the effect (added power or meaning) of the multimedia effects of the slideshow?

The multimedia effects of the slideshow helped me to make sense of what Blake was talking about. It's a lor easier to listen to a lot of speaking when you have a visual to look at. The video parts of the slideshow were really interesting to me because they were placed when he wasn't talking, kind of like a bridge to the next thing he was going to say. 

3.What is the most powerful image from the slideshow? Why?
To me, almost ever picture in the slideshow gave me a reaction. They were all so sad and you could see how much he was hurting, BUT the most powerful, to me, was the image where you see his silhouette in his uniform through the bullet-hole splintered glass. That picture i feel also is the way he feels, his life shattered by bullets.

4.What sequence of photographs is the most powerful? Why?
The most powerful sequence of images to me was in which there were only two. Its where he is standing by the window, as a silhouette, and his wife, Jessica is sitting on the mattress on the floor, then he says that they're better off alone, it's the same picture, just Jessica is gone and he's by himself in t he room. This sequence made my really sad, because it shows them together, and even though she's sad, the room looks fuller, but when she's gone it looks so cold and foreboding
5.How does the audio enhance the photographs?
The audio enhances the photographs because while he's talking, and you're listening to him talk, you  have something to look at and reiterate what he's saying.
6.How do the images work together to tell a story?
The pictures all work together to tell the story because of the words and the emotions behind them, but they still leave a little room for interpretation by the audience.

Great Black and White photographers 3:)

I See a field of white that stretches as far as the eye can see in all directions, only broken up by the black branches of the majestic trees. The mountain looms up in the background white the trees and snow rule the foreground. I see the deep depressions my footsteps make in the snow all around me, but in front, the untouched snow glitters.

I Feel the cold wind of winter whipping around my face, biting into my jacket. I feel the numbness of my feet as the moisture sinks into my shoes and douses my socks in icy wetness.

I Hear the sounds of cardinals hidden in the trees chirping at one another, the sounds of squirrels chattering a warning that a trespasser is present. I hear the crunching of the snow and ice as my feet plunge through it's layers. I hear the swishing of jacket as my arms swing back and forth.

I Taste the coolness of a snowflake in my mouth. The way the hot chocolate slides down my throat and warms my whole body in chocolaty warmth. I taste the woody, earthy scent of the forest.

I Smell the evergreen trees as i walk past them, the scent of the winter, and the

I See a trickling stream of clear spring water slither by me and out of sight. I see thin towering trees swaying in the wind above me. To the left i see a herd of deer hopping through the undergrowth while a flock of yellow birds fly above them.

I Feel the crunch and slipping of the rocks under my feet as i walk along the riverbank. I feel the wary eyes of the buck as he watches over his herd. I feel the wetness of my boots soak through to my socks as i walk through the river.

I Hear the soft tinkling of the stream as it trickles past me, the wet chrunching of the pebbles as i step over them. The chirping of the yellow birds as the fly over head. The munching of the deer as they graze a few feet away.

I Taste the sweet freshness of the cool, pure spring water. The earthy tang of the forest and the cool mountain air.

I Smell the woody scent of the forest and the clean scent of the freshwater. I smell a spring rain riding in on the clouds as i inhale the sweet aroma of freshly bloomed flowers

I think i could make a website that was dedicated to photography!:)

Or a poster, those are fun too:)

Filling the frame

This picture easily fills the frame because there is so much going on on the boys desk but it's obvious what the main focus is

Action and Emotion

In this picture, the emotion is the way the boy is looking at the little girl and how the little girl is smiling at him. It's adorable:)

The Story...

This picture tells the best story because it shows the conductor and it also shows the band in front of her. I like how you can tell that it's raining, not only because of the fog/rain in the background but also the fact that she's wearing rain boots. It really adds her personality to the picture. I think that the story of the picture  is that after a hard day of practice, the band travels to the football game, gets everything set up and starts to play in the stands. As they are just finishing their first song, the rain starts to come down. To protect the instruments they load back up in the busses to wait out the rain. The Drill team, cheerleaders and half of the people in the stands leave because of the rain. During half time, the Drum line and Drum Major go out onto the field and start to play.

Thats what i think of this picture:)

 

Advanced photo composition:)

My Theme is "Pictures taken by pinhole cameras" :)

Leading Lines:

Balance:

View Point:

Depth:

Background:

Patterns and Repition:

Framing:

Rule of Thirds:

Mergers and avoiding them:

Cropping:

Great black and white photographers Part DOS:)

 

Biography:

Ansel Adams was born in 1902 to Olive and Charles Adams, their only child, and died in 1984 from heart failure which was caused by his cancer. He was a photographer and a conservationist who was born in San Fransisco, California. He was a commercial photographer for 30 years and took photographs of western landscapes. His inspiration came from a childhood trip to Yosemite National Park in 1916. He won three Guggenheim grants to photograph the nation's national parks.