Funny Captions

I met my life long hero today. I wanted to be exactly like him so I became him.

I don't know how i got in this cup. All I wanted was some milk.

We want out of this compartment. We wanted to take over the farm but got locked in here instead. 

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

Something that caught my eye while looking at Helen Levitts photos was all the emotion she captured. You could tell how that subject felt at the exact moment she took the photo and it causes you to feel like you were there. 

Photo 1:

In this photo I can see the young boys playing over the doorway. It seems as if they are fighting and one of them is about to fall off. I could also see a little girl that seems as if she wishes she was up with them, but is to scared to climb up there. I can smell the exhaust from the cars as they pass me, getting into my nose and making me cough. There is trash on the street and rotten food causing there to be flea ridden rats and cockroaches to be all over the street and in gutters causing a very unpleasant odor as it mixes with the smell of the exhaust. I could hear the children yelling and talking and the footsteps of people walking on the side walk behind me. There is also the loud rumble of cars as they pass showering me with dirt. I could taste the dirt that I was breathing in from the cars and the exhaust that they were letting out. I felt scared that the children were going to fall off of the door frame. They were running and pushing each other on it so it was rather terrifying seeing up there.

Photo 2:

In this photo I could see some girls playing. When I was about to capture the photo a little boy came running down the street and pulled one of the girls dresses up and ran off. I felt quite amused because the girl didn't even have time to react it happened so quickly. The boy also seemed so pleased that he was able to pull off such a feat that i couldn't help but let out a small laugh. I could smell the dust as it got caught in my throat, making my voice sound scratchy and strained. The trash in the street was putting off a foul odor as well as the car exhaust from the cars in the street. I could hear the cars pass me and people talking in the street. The girls playing and talking was my main focus though since i was trying to capture them in a photo that really showed what their lives were like. I could taste the air, smoggy from the smoke coming from the factories and the exhaust coming from the cars as it got in my mouth making me feel sick.

Something i would like to create to show off my photography would be a blog, specifically a tumblr since so many people have one and would be able to find it easily. I would also like to create prints or posters of some of what i consider to be my better photos to hang up around places so people could see them that way.

Mural Project

1. What theme that we could take here at school could we do a series of these panels to place around the school?
We could do themes about fine arts, the nature around Bowie, regular classes, or just the different types of people here at Bowie.

2. Should we use phones only, or should we open it up to our regular cameras for those people that don't have camera phones?
We should use the regular cameras because people, like me, who don't have camera phones wouldn't be able to take any photos for this project.

3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?
I would want to put the mural in the lunch room or on a wall in the academic or fine arts buildings that don't have anything on them.

Abandoned Theme Park Reflection

          I would want to visit Nara Dreamland in Nara, Japan because i think some of the rides there look really beautiful. I think abandoned roller coasters tell such great stories and knowing how many people used to enjoy that coaster makes me happy just thinking about it. I would love to go there and take photos because abandoned places are interesting and beautiful and i would like to take some of those photos.

Chris Luckhardt

1. Corkscrew Falls in Ohio
2. Bamboo forest in Japan
3. White Sand Dunes in New Mexico
4. Crooked Forest in Poland
5. Antelope Canyon in Arizona

4. Crooked Forest in Poland, Keren Su

          I think it would be fun to photograph this place because the trees are so interesting. It is a natural phenominum because scientist can't figure what made the trees grow like they did and i find that really interesting. You could really get some great landscape photos from different angles and times of day and could be really beautiful. I probably will never get to visit the Crooked Forest because it would be really expensive to get a flight to Poland from Texas. I could use any type of camera but i would like a wide lens so i could get a lot of the trees in the photo. 

Africa Reflection

This is my favorite photo by Nick Brandt because it looks like the tree is about to fall on the lion but you know that is won't. It is contradicting the law of gravity.A rule that is really prominent in this photo is framing because the tree is to the side and above the lion creating the frame. There could also be lines but I am not quite sure.

Nick Brandt uses a Pentax67 II with 120 film and a portrait or wide angle lens, this is important because it allows him to get close to the animals or far away to capture his pictures. He takes these photos because he wants to show animals in their state of being, not just action shots so that everything can be preserved about the animal once it goes extinct. 

"There is also something deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa—those vast, green rolling plains punctuated by graphically perfect acacia trees under the huge skies." -Nick Brandt

Peer Refection

http://sarahhphotojournalism.blogspot.com/

I think the person followed the rule of framing best. The chair actually creates a frame around the girl. The rule she followed the least was lines because there are no actual lines, just the line from the seats. I really like how she portrays the subject effectively and she took interesting and appealing photos. I think that she could have tried to find a photo for simplicity that was close so you didn't see as much of the background.  

Academic Shoot Reflection

A challenge that I had while getting these photos was having the students not look at me. People would look right at the camera and i would have to tell them to get back to their work. Something that I thought about a lot was trying to get a shot with good balance. Not a lot of the classes had good setups to get a balance shot so you had to be creative, but I still was not quite successful. If I could do this project again I would like to try different angles and i would like to take more photos so i could have had a better section to choose from. I would still keep my framing picture because I think that one was the most successful and I would  probably go to the same classes because they had a lot of students and activities going on that I could choose to shoot. For my next prompt I think the easiest rule to achieve will be simplicity and rule of thirds because there is many different thing you could achieve with those rules to get interesting pictures. I think the hardest rule to capture is balance because you need a certain amount of people or objects to make the picture look balanced and it is sometimes hard to find that. One rule that I am still not entirely clear on is lines and how to capture a good picture that has lines leading to the subject. It is not entirely that I am unsure about lines, but how to get a good picture using lines.    

Academic Shoot

Rule of Thirds

I believe that I followed the rule correctly. My subject, the two guys in the right hand side, is easy to see because they are the only people doing work so your eyes are drawn to them.

Balance

I believe that I could have followed the rule a little bit more. My subjects are the people around the table doing notes, but it could have been more balanced if I had gotten the fourth person in the photo.

Simplicity

I think that i followed the rule pretty well. The boy is the main subject and he takes up most of the photo. I think I could have gotten closer to him so he would take up more of the photo, but it is obvious that he is the main subject. 

Lines

 I believe that i followed the rule because you can see the lines that the blinds make, and also the lines that the chairs make with students. My subjects are the students doing their work because the lines define all the students.

Framing 

I think that i followed this rule really well because you can see the students framing the girl in the red hoodie really clearly. You can clearly see that girl in the red hoodie is the subject because the two students close up create a border around he and draw your eyes to the girl.

Merger

This is a merger because the boy and girl at the front of the class are both wearing red and have dark hair so they seem to merge together.