Magazine Cover Final

Captions Review

1. Making yet another fashion statement, Lady Gaga rides into the AMA's on a mechanical horse last Saturday night. Moments later, the horse had multiple malfunctions and Gaga was immediately removed from it.

2. Last night at the Johnsonville Golfing Tournament, pro golfer John Brown anxiously waits to see where his ball from the most important shot of the night, will go. Soon after, Brown celebrated as the ball made its way straight into the hole.

Magazines Part 2

1. Early covers were usually modeled after books and did not have a full on, true cover, like modern magazines. They had no descriptive words and every once in a while had a picture. Sometimes the opening page was plainly just a title and table of contents. Other types just had an image that described the magazine and told a story in of itself.
2. The poster cover used mainly just a picture that took up most of the cover. The covers were to be made to look like they could be normally hung on your wall like any other picture. It contained a cover line and title with small amounts of information around the main aspect, the picture.
3. This relied heavily on cover lines to draw in people passing by. They started putting carrying dialogue over the picture. They're is a relationship between both the picture and the text and they coincide with each other to form a bond. The text tends to overlap the picture.
4. These have really taken over making words larger than the pictures at times. The cover lines were new, loud, and almost shocking to readers. At times the cover lines were even larger then the actual title of the magazine.

My Favorite Cover

W Magazine, March 2012: "Kate Moss"

I really enjoyed the way she was posed. She's also in her element, modeling. I loved the lighting and they way the lighting was placed to contour her face. The look and how it was arranged is so simple, yet so powerful. I think that the background goes well with the portrait and her outfit and makes her stand out from the rest. If I were to walk by this magazine in a stack of many, it would definitely stand out to me. The writing and the color helps to frame her face and also help make it stand out. The way that the cover is laid out helps it pop. Kate is obviously the main aspect with all other small aspects surrounding her. It draws in my curiosity to have the smaller stories titles and subjects in white, contrasting with the description in red. Although you can't read the red writing too well, the white helps make you wonder to what they'd be about and want to buy the copy, and read it. 

Best Magazine Covers 2013

1. Informal
2. Informal
3. Formal
4. Formal
5. Formal
6. Informal
7. Formal
8. Formal
9. Informal/ Environmental
10. Informal/ Environmental
11. Informal
12. Informal
13. Formal
14. Formal
15. Formal

Magazine Tips

1. How well does your magazine stand out when placed with others?
2. Is your image appealing to others?
3. Is your story interesting enough to pull curiosity of bystanders?
4. How accessible is your magazine to buyers?
5. Don't rely on the electronic copy, wait till you see your final product to make judgements. It won't be the exact same.

Manual Shoot

Electric 

Purple 

Cold

Building

Self Portraits

• Looking within the frame – alternatively you could have your subject looking at something (or someone) within the frame. A child looking at a ball, a woman looking at her new baby, a man looking hungrily at a big plate of pasta…. When you give your subject something to look at that is inside the frame you create a second point of interest and a relationship between it and your primary subject. It also helps create ‘story’ within the image.
• Photograph your subject at work, with family or doing something that they love. This will put them more at ease and you can end up getting some special shots with them reacting naturally to the situation that they are in. You might even want to grab a longer zoom lens to take you out of their immediate zone and get really paparazzi with them.

Environmental 

I enjoyed the element the boy was put in. His element. I also like how they played with the lighting. 

I liked the way the picture was laid out. I think its awesome that this was candid since you can't really pose birds like this. 

Photography Self Portrait

I liked how the photo was candid, but also posed. I also enjoyed how the lighting looked. 

I really liked how the picture looks and am very curious to how they captured it. You have to be very talented to capture such a shot. 

Casual Portrait 

I like how candid yet posed  

Fashion Photography

1. There was light added to the models face. They then put a lot of makeup on her and did her hair. They extended her neck and thinned it. They raised her eyebrows and made her eyes larger. Her face was also thinned. 

2. The models eyes were enlarged and her nose was adjusted. They raised her shoulders, slimmed her stomach, and elongated her legs. They also made her feet smaller in width and elongated them while they also slimmed her thighs. 

3. The models legs, arms, and stomach were signinficantly slimmed. Her skin tone was played with and little marks and blemishes all over her body were covered. She was also given much more hair then she originally had. 

4. I do not believe it is exceptable to change someones appereance at all. If you have such low self asteem that you need to make sure every last detail looks perfect, you have a problem. If you have a blemish covered or something as small altered, its not as big of a deal but when you slim down your stomach, or legs, thats unreasonable. Every should be able to feel comfortable in their own skin and ads and companies like this aren't helping. 

5. I beleive its ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation in any circumstance. People should be able to feel comfortable in every position they are put in without others thinking its not "perfect". 

6. I think that small blemish changes are ok but when you go as far as sliming down arms, stomachs, legs, you've crossed the line. 

7. I think fashion photography aims to make everything perfect no matter how much they hurt others. Photojournalism is set to capture whats really going on. The true aspects of the situation. 

8. Each type of photography is set to show how real something is like I said in my above answer. Each type is put in a circumstance where things in this instance are either moraly rong, or right. In places where people think everything must be perfect, such as fashion photography, this type of manipulation takes place. 

9. I think these videos were meant to show the power of photo manipulation. To also show how industries are so hungry for absolute perfection. 

10. Guys don't usually care as much as girls do about how tall they are or how skinny. It shows that girls are the targets of perfection in industries like this. Girls tend to have a lower self asteem when it comes to things like apperance and what society might think of them. 

American Soldier

  -I think the most powerful image was number 6, when Ian is telling his friends goodbye and it says they finally realized what was actually happening.
   Set #1- 1-15
   Set#2- 16-30
   Set#3- 50-70
   Set#4- 71-82
  -I think set 1 was most powerful because you can see that they all realize like I said before that he was really leaving and they are all so emotional and not ready for him to go.
  -The images layout a story without words that shows his journey and all the struggles he's faced along the way. They show his journey in chronological order and each step he took throughout his long, hard task.
  -The photos are usually written in present tense.
  -The captions help the picture tell a story and explain exactly what's going on.

#8- Ian stands in line waiting with his fellow army goers. He later admits to how nervous he was.
#12- Ian gets his head shaved by the local man who has done so to many others before. Ian says the man wasn't very gentle.
#18- Ian struggles to pick up his bag. The bag was very heavy and contained almost everything Ian needed for his time at the base.

Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO

f/2.8

f/16

We relate aperture with the human eye. 

The smaller the aperture, the larger the f-stop. The higher the aperture, the smaller the f-stop. 

The smaller the aperture, the more focused the background will be and vice versa. 

slow shutter speed 

fast shutter speed

1. a)1/25th

b)1/25th

c)1/1000th

d)1/250th

e)1/250th

f)1/1000th

2. Aperture Priority Mode- when you set the lens aperture and the camera automatically sets the shutter, Shutter Priority Mode- when you set the shutter and the camera automatically sets the aperture , and Manual Mode- when you set both aperture and shutter

iso 200

iso 3200

 

Using a higher quality ISO in certain circumstances like these gives you the highest quality image.

The author recomends you use a low ISO whenever possible.

The author recomends to use a higher ISO when there is not enough light for the camera to be able to quickly capture an image.

f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22

1 second, 1/60 second, 1/4000 second

100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800, 25600

Funny Captions

Kitty is stuck in the jar and can't move and is becoming very confused and someone needs to help kitty!

Kitty forgot what jars were really used for. 

Dave has short term memory loss and often forgets what he's doing and also has ADD and 

Dave saw a car drive by. 

Jenny just wanted a nap. 

Jenny realized she wasn't going to stay up till 4 anymore. 

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

While looking at this photographers photos, I really enjoyed the nature aspect he took. He also made me feel like I was sitting in front of the scene pictured.


Photo 2-

I see two boys who are curious. They might be lost. It also looks like they've had something terrible happen to them recently. Maybe they lost a loved one. Maybe they were the ones who passed.
I smell the crisp autumn air. I can sense the leaves being somewhat bitter of an aroma.
I can hear the crunching of the dried leaves. Something rustling in the woods behind the boys. I can hear the silence of the heavy atmosphere. A car drives by and you can faintly hear the sound in the background.
I can taste the bitter of the leaves. Also, the cold air. The faint, but sweet flavor of the nearby meadow full of the dying flowers.
I feel the cool wind blowing over my fingertips. I also feel sad for the boys. Confused, too.

Photo 3-

I see trees. Dead or dying. I assume they have fallen over maybe due to an ice storm, explaining the hills of snow I also see. The surroundings look quiet.
I can smell the cold feeling of the snow. There is also a taste hanging in the air of the dying bark.
I hear the noise of the small animals running through the forest. There is also the sound of the the crunching of the ice under my feet.
I can taste the cold air of the snow. The smell of the trees, I can taste.
I feel cold. I also feel confused. What happened here? I feel afraid of what might be lurking.

I think it would be cool to do a bog about this photographer and everyday, put up a new picture of his and update viewers with the information i provided above and describe the physical and emotional aspects of it. Also I think it would be cool to set up a mini art show to tell people more about this artist and get the word out about his amazing work.

Mural Project Preview

I think we could photograph all the different types of people here at Bowie. Show all the different types of groups and crowds the school has.
I think using both cameras and phones would be okay. I know I feel like I work better with my phone, having more control. i think we could put it right when we walk into the academic hall. I think it would be cool to somehow mount it to the ground, in front of the library.

Abandoned Theme Parks

I would visit Chippewa Lake Park, Medina County, Ohio. Everything is overgrown and I think it would be a very interesting place to go. All of the plants and half of the rides have taken over. It seems very old and creepy and like it would make a neat place to photograph. It also seems very dangerous and unstable. 

• -Lake Natron in Tanzania
• -Underwater Water Fall in Mauritius Island 
• -Tasmania's Totem Pole
• -Setenil de las Bogedas 
• -Kummakivi

This photograph is unbelievable. The fact that this is real, amazes me. I think it would be cool to go here and figure out what all is there. Seeing all the different animals and plants, really the entire environment embalmed almost, blows my mind. I would love to take photos of the environment and show and tell others about this wonderful place. 

I would most likely need permission from someone to get here. I would have to take a long plane ride and bring along a lot of equipment with me. I would have to have many different cameras for different purposes along with different lenses. Im sure this spot is not open to just anyone so I would have to go through a lot, as the photographer of this photo probably did. 

Africa

I am overly amazed by just the few photographs given. This man loves what he does and has no problem waiting a while to get an awesome photo just to please others. I hope someday I can have half the talent of photography that he does.

This is a photograph of an elephant drinking from the nearby watering source. I am amazed and curious of how the photographer captured such a picture. The photo is so simple yet so powerful at the same time. It caught my eye tremendously as I flipped through the photos.  

Simplicity is present . It is just the elephant with a simple background. It also could represent balance with the light and dark contrast. 

He uses a Pentax67 II with a portrait and wide angle lens. This is important because it lets him control the distance and the tone of the picture. 

he takes these pictures because these animals are his passion. He is fascinated with them. They also give the viewer along side himself, something amazingly beautiful to look at. 

He hopes that he will cause people to be aware of what is happening to these animals and to donate to protect them. 

"There is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and southern Africa."- Nick Brandt

Peer Reflection

http://sarahhphotojournalism.blogspot.com/

I felt this person followed the rule of framing the best. The chair actually makes a frame effect around the girls face.
I think this person followed lines the least. Yes, there are many aspects of lines in the photo, but your eye doesn't immediately draw to them, or at least mine didn't.
I really enjoyed looking at this persons pictures because I feel she captured the subject alongside the rule very clearly. I also really enjoyed her eye to capturing the photos.
I feel she could make her lines photo more clear to understand to others.

Academic Shoot Reflection

Some challenges I ran into were having the students try not to look at you. Also, when it was my turn to shoot, it seemed like all academic classes and the classes I specifically wanted to go to, didn't have a class. I focused on focus mainly along side finding a good subject for each photo. One photo I took, it was focused in on the girl writing while the rest was blurred. I would focus mainly on the rules of framing and line which I feel were my worst representations of the rule. I would keep the same ideas, just try to execute them better. Simplicity and rule of thirds are the easiest to accomplish I believe. The hardest to capture I believe was framing. I feel I need to still better understand framing. i can go back and re-read the article about framing we previously looked at.

Academic Shoot

Rule of Thirds

I believe I followed the rule correctly. The subject is the girl who is placed in the right hand side of the photo, working on her homework. I think the subject is clear since the picture is mainly about her. 

Simplicity

I believe I followed the rule correctly. The subject is very easy to follow, the girl being the only thing that your eyes draw to making it very simple. I believe the subject is clear and easy for the eye to see because the girl is the only subject, therefore making the photo simple.  

Lines

I believe I somewhat followed the rule. I used this for lines in that you can clearly see all the different lines the desks make when pushed together. The main subject is meant to the desks. I believe if you look at the photo for a second, you can tell that the lines in the desks make the photo acceptable to be used for the lines rule. I believe that I could captured a photo of the desks in a line to better fit the line rule. 

Balance

I believe that this photo follows the rule of balance. The subject is the group of people at the table that has two people on each side, therefore making it balanced. I believe the subject is made pretty obvious to the eye. I could have made the picture a little more straight and centered to make it more balanced.  

Framing 

I believe that this wasn't my best photo and I didn't follow the rule completely. The subject is the desks that are lined up to make a corner, making a frame like aspect. I do not believe the subject was very clear. I think the if I were to get and above photo, that I could've actually made a better frame aspect out of the desks. 

Academic Shoot Preview

The Story

This picture shows how the kids are volunteering and doing good. It shows the good that is in everybody. It tells the story how a group of people with the good in their hearts decided to get together and do something amazing for people in need.

Action and Emotion

In this picture, a group of students are seen praying together. The emotion that is in this picture is more spiritual than anything. The atmosphere seems very calming, too. 

Filling the Frame 

The frame is filled with excitement and amazement between the two girls doing this experiment. The have just made a reaction between something and I can only imagine the amazement and laughs coming out of their mouths. 

My favorite photo was an experiment where the girl was dropping liquid onto a speaker while the speaker was playing something. I picked this picture because I thought it was very exciting feeling and that it immediately drew my eyes in. This photo represents balance and lines. 

I think I could go to classes in the science department. I would like to go to my chemistry class and my agriculture class. We are always doing fun projects in both of those classes. I will always keep the rules in mind and find awesome angles and good subjects to fill the photos.    

Unusual and Interesting Photos

Part 1

I really enjoyed his works. Reading the comments though, I was shocked to see how many people are bad mouthing the photographer. I found the pictures really cool and interesting.

I think he made these photos with some effect in photoshop having to do with overlays and enhancement.

I think a cool building to use for this scheme of ideas would be Notre Dame in Paris, France. Its a really neat building in general so I think it would fit in nicely with the others. Getting to this building would be not so easy and very expensive.
Another building that I think would be cool to use is a huge windmill with a water tower that is in a small park in Buda. I've had pictures taken there before and again, it is a really neat place.

 Part 2

I chose this photo because it was very calming. I found this in the Photojournalist of the Year section. It won first place. The serene setting and feeling the photographer set is what drew me to this picture. I think the judges chose this because how unique the idea of the picture was and how the photographer makes your eyes draw straight to the umbrella. The photographer had to be in the right place at the right time to get this shot.  

I chose this photograph because I have a personal connection to it. When I was little, and now still, my favorite thing to do was go to the rodeo and watch the mutton bustin' event along with bull riding. I found this in the sports action section. It was an additional entry. The exact time and position is what attracted me. I think that the perfect timing also drew in the judges. This photographer had to watch very carefully and have the right camera to capture this intense of a shot. 

When I saw this photo, it immediately gave me chills. I found this in the general news section. It was an additional entry. The emotion the photographer portrayed is what drew me to this picture. I feel the emotion set is what also drew in the judges. The photographer must have had a hard time asking to get a photo like this from a grieving loved one. He would also have to be in a very heavy set place full of grieving people. 

Part 3

-Photographers should always be on the lookout for projects. A subject, any subject, that we can explore with many different photos.
-Looking at his art from a different angle completely changes the illusion of depth here. What this can teach photographers is to never stop looking for the right angle to take a photo.
-Norman Rockwell was very good at creating a memory in our heads the instant we see one of his paintings. There are some books that have less story than this image. Do that with a photograph and you will have succeeded.

This photograph somewhat follow O'Keeffe's rules. O'Keeffe never really had a specific book of rules but really just painted beautiful flowers that had interesting perspectives like this photograph.  

I think the style of O'Keeffe influences me most. I love the aspects of nature and the multiple things you can do with it. 

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Photographers and everyday people are constantly manipulating their pictures. From adding things in to make the picture more exciting, to taking items away. This is also causing these photographers to loose their jobs while making the company they work for look bad along side them.

Manipulated pictures are unethical because it is giving the viewer a false reality. The pictures also give a false hope to people. The pictures may give hope for certain things to come for these events and then when the photograph is not 100% true and correct, it takes that hope away from people.

I believe this photo was most unethical because it is telling society the idea that if you want to be rich or famous, you must be thin, which according to TV Guide, Oprah wasn't. Even though Oprah was rich and famous before this picture was taken, the magazine obviously believed that they would have more reviews on the article replacing her body with another.  

I believe this photo was the least unethical because even though the picture was doctored with and gives a false image to millions, it did not affect anyones personal life besides the photographer who edited the picture, and the publisher. When an everyday person realizes this picture is false, I don't believe they would be deeply hurt and traumatized by it. 

Photo Shoot Reflection

1. It was somewhat difficult to think of abstract ideas rather then just taking a picture of a square. Also there were students at lunch so we had to move around them not being able to get some of our desired pictures.
2. I tried to think about the rules of photography I knew at the time; rule of thirds, balance, and framing.  I mostly thought about rule of thirds which I'm most familiar with. In the picture I used for bowie, JBHS is placed in the lower right hand corner.
3. I would try not to use mergers in some of my photos which I believe I did.
4. I would use rule of thirds in the pictures I previously used them in again.
6. I would be interested in doing it again having some new ideas from learning about the six rules.

http://grangersphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/4-prompts-free-shoot.html

I like how he didn't take the prompts so literally and used abstract ideas for some of the pictures. I also like how the pictures looked meaning by how the focus looks.

I didn't think his square picture avoided a merger. The picture seems a little blurry too.

Merger

This would be considered a merger because in this picture, the mans body is cut off at an unusual perspective. 

Framing

This photo would be considered to be using the element of framing because the cross has a literal framing aspect around it formed by the two buildings. The buildings also give the cross depth. 

Balance

This picture represents balance because the buildings stand out against the smoke. Also, the buildings form a triangle with the shore line, having each building be shorter than the first. 

Lines

This picture represents balance because the lines are diagonal and parallel with each other, therefore, making them dynamic. The lines lead from the center of the building out. 

Rule of Thirds

This is using the rule of thirds because the building which is the eyes main focus, is off centered. It is placed in the lower left hand corner. 

Simplicity

This photo represents simplicity because the firefighter is the main subject in this picture with a fairly similar background behind it. 

National Geographic

I like this photo because I think it shows the journey of the person whose eye this is and how they finally accomplished their end goal. I also really like how you can see the canyon in the background. It was a very well captured picture. It tells a story in of itself.

I think the interaction of two beings, either being man and man, animal and animal, or man and animal and capture their reaction to the same thing, showing the likeness of the two.

Touching People

I thought this project was an interesting one. It made people think about how separated now even the closest two people are and is still making other people think just by reading the article. If someone approached me and asked me to participate in this project I would be a little surprised. I think I would do what they asked and would have to had direction from them not knowing what to do. I think it would be cool to go around school getting random people from all different groups and asking them to help us with a photo shoot and then give them directions and create different scenes as if you were to walk into the outside world and find these situations. The photos look okay. Some are a little awkward looking, naturally being some people tend to be uncomfortable in these types of situations. I liked looking through the pictures seeing what all the different people came up with.

Top 40 Photos

Vanderlei Almeida 

-This photo was very moving for me. The fact that the dog knew who it was and that it was saddened by its owner no longer being with them was interesting to realize we are similar. The empty graves you can see behind the dog drew my eyes to this picture. I believe this picture made the Top 40 because its very inspirational. Seeing the dog and knowing that they can have the same feelings as we do really makes one think not only about the feelings of these dogs but of the fact that of how selfish we all really are.

 Aaron Thompson 

-I chose this photo because it drew me in emotionally. Being able to see the little boy with the officer and seeing the boys face is what drew me in. Seeing the little boy having to understand that he lost his father for good, and knowing we have things some people don't have and that we take advantage of them, even someone like a father in our lives.  I believe it made the Top 40 because yet again, it makes people think about the luxuries we have that a lot of people don't and cant ever get back. 

Jack Bradley

-I chose this picture because seeing the boys face light up from hearing for the first time made me grin. I have a personal connection to the picture my aunt being deaf, hoping someday this will be her reaction if she will be able to hear. The close up of the boys face displaying his reaction drew me in. I believe this picture made the Top 40 because it can spread hope for everyone not just the deaf. It makes people believe anything is possible.