Portraits ans Self-Portraits

Self-Portrait

Professional Portrait

What I feel that makes a photo good is that the main subject(s) are clear to the viewer and as you can see compared to the the self portrait to the professional portrait of Carlos Santana there is a big contrast of brightness. In the self portrait to the viewer it is difficult to notice the man in the photo playing a guitar and that it is his reflection of a mirror. And the photo with Santana, you can right away see the main subject it does not make the viewer guess which I feel that may actually might be a bad thing because the  photo is more interesting when the viewer kinda has to let his/her mind wonder. So this might be a case were a little to much exposer of light and not enough is a main controversy. At the end I feel that the viewer should have a clear understanding of the photo but the photo should still be interesting and tell a story.

Shortlist Warm-up

Action Movement:

This photo was my favorite of the Action movement shortlist because it shows a very detailed shot of action by showing that the bike and rider are moving at a fast pace, the muddy water helps exaggerate the detail.

Landscape:

This picture is my favorite of the landscape shortlist because it really has a great deal of verity of landscape from rugged mountain tops to shorelines, to grassy planes.

Travel:

This photo from the Travel Shortlist is my favorite because it gives me an idea of a place and culture I have never seen in person and would like to one day.

Creative

This photo from the creative was my favorite because it added multiple photos of the same man and used them to make a creative collage.

 Fashion Shortlist

This photo is a great one for a look at fashion. I believe this gives an idea what kind of fashion is in England right now as you can notice the colored hair and the sense of national pride.

 Family and friendship

This photo is my favorite of the Family and friendship shortlist because it shows in great deal the caring of each other as a family member and or friendship it can be used as an example for what "Love" looks like.

Documentary shortlist

This photo from the Documentary shortlist is my favorite because it tells a story right away by looking in to the eyes of the subject and there surroundings

Portrait shortlist

This is my favorite photo from the portrait shortlist because in uses close attention to its subject to make a great photo maybe even telling a story by showing what the dogs character is.

Gardens and plants shortlist 

This photo is a great example of what a Garden and plats/nature should look like concentrating on all the subjects in the outdoors providing and amazing photo, that is why this is my favorite of the Gardens and plants shortlist.

Wildlife shortlist

This is my favorite of the Wildlife shortlist because it provides an animal in his/her environment giving an huge inside on there life

Ethics of Fasion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)Model's fly away hair was removed, face made taller, neck made taller and thin, nose and eyebrows altered
2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?No because it is not the true person it is like publishing a book and writing a different name for the author.
3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation? Yes it could be when someone is trying to incriminate someone such as a political figure,etc.
4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?The types of changes such as removing fly away hairs from someones photo to improve the quality to there photo is acceptable, however when they start to do physical changes. the photo does not even look like that person anymore.
5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.Fashion mainly concentrates  on they "beauty" of someone and does not have much of a wide range as photojournalism does.
6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?  Each type of photography is documenting something which is very hard to be able to tell witch is telling the truth. Fashion trys to promote something, sell shoes, clothes. product, etc. compared to photojournalism which is trying to get news out to the public they are benefiting the public not trying to make you buy something.

National Geographic warm up

This is my favorite photo from the 45, due tho the fact it is very clear and beautiful and the photo has  meaning to the photographer making the viewer of the photo understand the photo clearer.

       I would like to take a photo like this, because it has meaning and I feel that photos with a background or history have more depth.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics 
This article shows the main reason why photo manipulation can be used for bad. On April first in was portrait day for the cabinet of Israel, someone messed with the photo and took out the female members and replaced them with males to fake an all male cabinet. Journalist in Lebanon faked a photo by making a failed missile launch look like a success. This stresses the point that photo alluring can be used for improper uses and can be used to cover up things.
This article explains the negativity of  using photo shop when it is carelessly used or for negative uses. The article also states that in order to be a responsible photographer or professional there is a right time and place to use photo alteration. The article states that miss use of photoalturation can cost a professional there job.

I believe that photo shop is a great tool, however if it is miss used it can be very controversial. This careless editing happens with words also however many people fallow visual proof quicker that written and if they were to see a controversial photo such as the ones shown in the article they may think that is the real photo and that would cause allot of miscommunication.

This photo was the most unethical photo that was alerted do to the fact that the original photo the soldier was not pointing his gun and the crowed ant the soldier was protecting the people and not hurting them. as stated on the photo many people can be seen twice proving that the photo was altered to represent a negative photo.

This photo is the least unethical that I have seen of many famous photos altered in history, because it did not do much wrong it moved the pyramids a bit more closer to fit its magazine. It is not like they are incriminating anyone they are not doing harm to no one. Many people can take this photo as if there were lieing to them however they are not hurting anyone

1. Tell me which amusement park featured in the two articles that you would like to visit and take your camera along and what about that park made you want to go there. Write at least a paragraph.  The amusement park that I would like to go photograph is Okpo Land, in South Korea. The reason I would chose this park is because the park has a gloomy story to the reason of its closing making the park more interesting.

2. Post one photo from that park. You may use the photos from the link, or you can google an entirely new photo. I would prefer to see a photo of the park in disrepair and not a photo of it when it was still operating.    

3. Think of at least FIVE other unusual places you think would be of interest to photographers. List them.  An other place that would be good to photograph is abandoned citys that could have been left due to disasters or war. two others could be deserts and dried lakes were photographers can find history of past life. An other can be caves. And one could be the Aztec temples. All these that I have listed could be interesting because it can document past cultures and life that we are not used to seeing everyday.

4. Use google or another search engine to research ONE of your five places and see if anyone has already started documenting that place. If you find that someone has already started - post at least one photo of their work.
5. Write a paragraph about why you think that it would be fun to document that location. Tell me what interests you about that place and what kind of photos you could expect to take there. It would be fun to document this location at Okpo Land, South Korea, because the photos I have seen seem to be speaking some how giving a history of its existence and its sad downfall that was followed by a series of tragedies. The type of photos I would expect to take there would be very vast and interesting and unique. The photos can tell a story.

6. Tell me what it would take for you to go and take photos at your location. What would you need as far as equipment goes, travel plans, expenses you might encounter and what laws you would have to take into consideration to take photos at your spot.  The types of expenses that someone traveling there would have to get airfare to Korea and take a faerie to the island. The equipment a person will need is camera tripod and climbing ropes and ladders. The same laws that apply in the U.S are not the same in Korea, they are absolutely stricter, especially if you are a foreigner. The laws are of course trespassing laws, many feel that failed amusement owners or countries are strict on these laws because they feel that outsiders are making a joke of there failed attempts.