Photo Composition and 9-11：Avoiding Mergers

AVOIDING MERGERS

This picture is avoided merger, the buildings and clouds are nicely separated.

Photo Composition and 9-11：Framing

FRAMING

The small tree add considerable foreground interest to this scene. The overhanging big trees complete the frame and add depth to the subject.

Photo Composition and 9-11：Balance

BALANCE

This is a balanced photograph, but the subjects can be separated into two vertical pictures-which tends to divide the viewer's attention.

Photo Composition and 9-11： Lines

LINES

The picture of US flag is really dynamic because of the strong horizontal lines.

Photo Composition and 9-11： rule of thirds

RULE OF THIRDS

In this photo, the officer seems well placed in the lower left just because the rest of the scene fits nicely into the format.

Photo Composition and 9-11： Simplicity

SIMPLICITY

In this photo, the gray smokes and gray building blended with the blue background. Since the background is not so complicated, the smokes and building gives a visual attention.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Summarize: people get fired if they make up fake photos. Such as us PS.


I think this type of photo editing is unethical because you did not have the permission to edit the photo, It is other people's property.

 This photo is most unethical because the photographer is putting someone's face on to other people's body.

This is least unethical because the photographer just made the background closer.

National Geographic Warm-up

This is my favorite photo because it is all white. It is all snow, my favorite weather is snow. Last I like the tree, it is significant in the picture.

This is a solitary tree surviving another harsh winter in Yellowstone National Park. I think this photo illustrate my world that the strongest survivor is always lonely.

Post-shoot reflection

http://chrisbrownloverr.blogspot.com/2013/09/40-greatest-photos-ever.html

positive: I like the photo he picked, it is very meaningful. Second I like his coloring of words and the background.

Improvement: He should turn in the work earlier.

40 Greatest Photos Ever

I picked this photo for his young brave heart and his brave father who had died in a war.
Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.
I think this made to the 40 greatest photo because he is really brave and accepted his father's death.

I choose this photo because it is old veteran still remember his loss.
A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.
I think this made to the 40 greatest photo because it is about old man and he still remember old wars.

I choose this photo because the advancement of technology in the old time.
Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.
I think this made to the 40 greatest photo because the photo had taken long time ago and shows the advancement of technology in that time.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

Minor White July 9, 1908 – June 24, 1976

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

He earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the University of Minnesota in 1933. His first creative efforts were in poetry, as he took five years thereafter to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while working as a waiter and bartender at the University Club. In 1938, White moved to Portland, Oregon. There he began his career in photography, first joining the Oregon Camera Club, then taking on assignments from the Works Progress Administration and exhibiting at the Portland Art Museum.

Red, Metal, Happy

RED

METAL

HAPPY 

 

Camera Parts

aperture: A device that controls amount of light admitted.

shutter:  A mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure.

exposure: The amount of light collected by the sensor in your camera during a single picture.

depth of field: It is the amount of distance between the nearest and farthest objects that appear in acceptably sharp focus in a photograph.

F-stop: It is a value that indicates the size of the lens aperture used during the taking of a photograph.

focal length: The distance from a lens to its focus.

Flash button: A button makes a flash when you press it.

Shutter button: A button makes press when you take a picture.

Lens release button: A button that allows the user to detach the lens.

Aperture button: A button that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

Exposure compensation button: For exposure adjustment.

Erase button: A button to erase things.

Live view shooting button: A button to shoot live view.

Movie shooting button: A button to shoot movie.

Quick control button: A button to make you do a quick control.

Direct print button: A button to make you direct print the picture.

Menu button: A button makes you go to menu.

Setting button: A button makes you go to setting.

ISO speed setting button: Makes you go to ISO speed setting

White balance selection button:

Drive mode selection button: Makes you go to drive mode selection.

AF mode selection button: AF mode.

AE lock button: AE lock.

FE lock button: FE lock.

Index button: index.

Reduce button: Reduce.

AF point selection button: AF point select

Magnify button: Zoom in or zoom out the picture

Playback button: review the pictures.

Camera History and Camera Parts

 The Camera

1. Explain the “camera obscura” effect. How is it achieved?

   Inside a completely dark room, a tiny hole is created in one wall. Through the hole light is focused, and the outside scene is projected (upside down) on the opposite wall.

2. What invention during the 17th Century helped man get a step closer to creating the modern camera?

   When Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens perfected the understanding of optics and the process of making high quality glass lenses.

3. What were the parts of the first modern camera invented by Niepce?

   In 1827 Joseph Nicéphore Niépce added the final touch. He added *film* to create the first successful photograph.

4.What do modern digital cameras have in common with Niepce’s camera?

  A glass lens, a dark box, and film.

5. What do digital cameras use to capture an image?

  Light passes through the lens, into the camera, and exposes the film.

Camera Modes

6. What is the difference between the Auto Mode and the Program mode?

   Auto is the camera will completely control flash and exposure.

   Program is the automatic-assist, just point and shoot.

7. What is the Portrait mode used for? How does it work?

   Portrait mode is to attempt to blur out the background, camera will try to use the fastest available lens setting (aperture).

8. What is the Sports mode used for? (not just sports) How does it work?

   Sports mode is to freeze motion, camera will use the highest shutter speed possible. 

The Half Press

9. Why should you do a half press on the trigger button?

• faster camera response time
• more control over focus
• encourages better composition

Controlling Flash

10. What does this symbol mean?

   Disabled Flash

When would you use this?

  There are many cases where you may not want flash at all. 

11.What does this symbol mean?

   Auto-Flash

When would you use this?

  In most camera modes, Auto-flash is enabled by default and will automatically fire if the camera thinks it needs more light.

Introduction to Exposure

12. What happens to your photo if there is too much light?

   Too much light and the picture will be washed out.

13. What happens to your photo if there is not enough light?

  Not enough light and the picture will be too dark.

Stops and Exposure

14. What is a “stop.”
  The aperture is like a pupil. You can control the aperture by setting the "Aperture Opening", also known as an F-Stop.

15. How many stops brighter is the new planet if there are two sons instead of one?
  1

16. How many stops brighter is the new planet if there are four sons instead of two?
  2

Shutter and Aperture 

17. What affect does a longer shutter speed of have?

   More light

18. What affect does a shorter shutter speed have?

   Less light

19. What does the aperture control?

   You can control the aperture by setting the "Aperture Opening", also known as an F-Stop.

20. When adjusting the aperture, how can you increase the amount of light?

   Larger openings

Masters of Black and White Photography.

 Lewis Hine

W. Eugene Smith

Minor White

 

Best and worst photo

This one is the worst, because everyone is looking away from the camera, but one person.

This one is best, because it has beautiful reflect.