Academics Shoot Preview

The Story

This tells the story of kids being charitable and giving to others. Doing some community service.

Action and Emotion

The action and emotion in this photograph is that something exciting happened and the girls are showing emotions of surprise and amazement.

Filling the frame

 This photograph fills the frame with kids around something that's flooded with some type of smoke, like a lab, looking at it in amusement.

1. I picked this photograph because I like how it shows the kid surrounded by books studying in a library.
2. Framing because he is being framed by the book shelves of the library, and simplicity are evident in this photograph.

1. I could go to the library to take pictures of the students studying, the courtyard, some science classrooms, math classrooms.
2. I would go to my chemistry teacher's classroom.
3. I would make sure to get some of the rules in my shoots.

Quick Write: Scariest Sounds 31 Oct. 2013

Like a tapping or knocking sound on the walls and ground without anyone physicaly making those noises. Terrified screams of poor souls.

Quick Write: 29 Oct. 2013

The walls of my room are a slightly darkish beige colour, with one wall covered in posters, a bookshelf on the other wall, and another shelf on another wall. The bookshelf is filled with manga books, regular books, movies and video games, and the other shelf is filled with CDs and other useless things. There's like a yellowish/brownish hardwood floor. My bed mattress is on the floor, next to it is a little radio stereo, and on the foot side of the bed there's some drawers with a lamp and a basket on top of it. On the other side of the room there's another shelf on the floor that holds my TV, printer, laptop, game consoles, and an old dvd player. Oh and there's also a body mirror that kinda really freaks me out.

20 Squares

Composition Photos

Simplicity



Rule of Thirds

Leading Lines

Contrasting

Balance

Repetition

Purpose to Photography: Africa

As I was looking through the powerpoint I thought that most of the photographs were very neat and good. There was like one or two that didn't quite convinced me but overall it was great.

It looks like there is an elephant just standing there in the middle of like a forest. The trees look so beautiful as does the elephant. It's my favorite one because it kinda reminds me of some sort of fairy-tale like setting or like some fantasy world. It was the only one that stood out for me and caught my attention.

Frame because the trees frame the elephant.

Simplicity because the elephant is the main focus of the picture.

Lines, the lines of the trees make the eye focus on the elephant.

• He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses.
• His reason for taking the photos is that he wants to show the animals in their state of Being, before they no longer are, before they cease to exist; before "they are destroyed by the hands of man."
• His hope is "that the photos might have some emotional impact on people - that in a minor way, they come away more aware that there is a sentience to those creatures, that those animals are not so different from us"
• "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in closer"

Elements of Art & Principles of Design in Photography

Elements of Art

1. Line - marks made by a tool and can vary in width, direction, curvature, length, or color.
   
2. Shape - are formed wherever the ends of a continuous line meet. Geometric shapes uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature. Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world.
   
3. Color  - color wheels show the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary colors. They also who the relationships between complementary colors across from each other, and analogous colors next to each other.
   
4. Value (Tone) - refers to dark and light. It helps us to see and understand a two-dimensional work of art
   
5. Form - describes objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, and height.
   
6. Texture - refers to the surface quality, both simulated and actual, of artwork.
   
7. Space - refers to distances or areas around, between, or within components of a piece. It can be positive or negative, open or closed, shallow or deep, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional.

Principles of Design

1. Balance - is the comfortable or pleasing arrangement of things in art. There are 3 different types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radia.
   
2. Contrast - created by using elements that conflict with one another, and it is often created using complementary colors or extremely light & dark values.
   
3. Emphasis - The focal area of an artwork that gives it importance
   
4. Movement - means the artist is taking viewers on a trip through the work by means of edges, shapes, and colors that often lead to the focal areas. It is a visual flow through the composition.
   
5. Pattern - is when the same shapes or elements are repeated again and again.
   
6. Rhythm - is the repetition of shapes, lines and forms, it is a movement in which some elements recurs regularly
   
7. Unity - means that all the elements in artwork are in harmony.

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Line, shape, color, value, form, texture, space, balance, contrast, emphasis, movement, pattern, rhythm, and unity. 

I chose this photo because it shows most of the elements of art and principles of design. The clear lines, the different shapes, most of the colors of the color wheel, it kinda shows objects that are three-dimensional, the spaces are positive throughout the painting. Also the arrangement of its balance is pleasing.

Quick Write: Fire 10 Oct. 2013

Everything started to light up, smoke seeping through, people panicking as they looked around for some way to get away from the fire as they coughed. Screams of pain could be heard through the cracking of the fire.

No one knew what caused it and no one was able to actually think of a reason for their lives were slipping away. Screams fading away along with their souls.

A silhouette of a man with, what seemed like, a long piece of cloth draped around his head, was seen jumping out of the chaos happening behind him. He looked like he was the only one able to escape the burning claws of this fire.

"Run" he screamed to himself and anyone else who was still alive, as he was running away, running far away, never stopping, from the terrible tragedy. 

Warm Up

What I want out of this 6 weeks is to stop being lazy and do my homework so that I can keep my grades up. Specially for my English class.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Journalists use photo manipulation to either improve their photos so that they would be recognized more or as a prank towards others. They got fired because of that, their pictures were just lies. Changing the photo created a lie between the journalist and the readers/viewers. By revising the Ethics code that was created back in the 1940s they were able to prevent such things.

I think this type of photo editing is ethical in some situations. But it's very unethical if you use it to create huge lies that will, later on, be discovered. It's unethical because if the person whom you take the photo of and then manipulate it, and they see it, you will be hurting them.

 To me this photo is the most unethical because Saddam and W. are not even debating. It just looks that way because of the way they are standing and the whole "Saddam wants to debate" thing is just a lie.

This photograph was the least unethical to me because the photo was altered so that her teeth wouldn't look so messed up, and so that they looked nice.

Selfie Quickwrite

The photograph is of a little girl that looks like she's taking a selfie in the middle of, what looks like, a praying or something. But the type of phone she is holding doesn't look like it has a front camera to be taking selfies. The girl could probably be taking a picture of all the other people who are bowing and praying.

I feel neutral about this photo. It's kinda disrespectful from one point of view because all these other people are bowing down and praying and she's not but on the other side I don't really think so.