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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. 

 

Pinhole Finale:)

Differences:

   My negative is the exact opposite of my positive. The colors are swapped and also the left side of the positive is on the right side of the negative.

Definition:

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Photography . noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.
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 Photography Definition:

negative,  photographic image that reproduces the bright portions of the photographed subject as dark and the dark parts as light areas. Negatives are usually formed on a transparent material, such as plastic or glass. Exposure of sensitized paper through the negative, done either by placing the negative and paper in close contact or by projecting the negative image onto the paper, reverses these tones and produces a positive photographic print.
Black-and-white negatives consist of grains of metallic silver chemically reduced during the development process from silver salts struck by light during exposure.
Colour negatives consist of three tonally reversed dye images that are formed along with a silver image during development. Chemical removal of the silver images leaves the three insoluble dye images superimposed in register. Some modern black-and-white films also use insoluble dyes to form the negative
 

Great B&W Photographers Preview:)