captions

caption 1: akins high school photojournalism teacher, mr. reeves, attends blue & gold night. many students showed up to the school-organized event, as well, just for fun.

caption 2: a skyscraper in south park, colorado collapses to the ground. authorities are unsure of what caused the building to fall, left thirty-two injured.

caption 3: olympic gymnast, jill smith, shows her skills for a stadium of two-thousand. she has won two gold medals in the last olympics, which were held in beijing.

print evaluation

1.) Is anything in sharp focus?
yes.

a.) Describe what is in focus and what is not.
the arm and hand is in sharp focus in the shot. overall, the objects in the front of the photo are the ones in focus.

b.) If not in focus, state the cause.

2.) Is there good contrast? (Look for the blacks and whites in the photo)
there is good contrast because of the girl's sweater, in which the polkadots are white and the solid background is dark gray. also, the there is good contrast with the writing and the paper.

a.) If no, state the probable cause?

3.) Are all the rules followed? (Is the photo candid? Does the subject fill the frame? Does the photo contain action? Does it follow composition rules?)
the photo is not exactly candid, though she was not posing. i asked her to position her hand a certain way, but since her face is not in the picture and you cannot see her expression, there isn't really a way to tell if it's candid. the photo does contain action, with the hand writing. it follows composition rules slightly, with some simplicity. i chose it because it was the photo in all twelve that followed the rules the most.

a.) If yes, explain what techniques were used and how you followed them in your photo.
i used some simplicity, with the stark white of the paper, and the fact that there is not much of a background. there is repetition with the dots on her sweater, as well.

b.) If no, how will you correct this next time?

4.) Is there yellowing or are there spots on the print?
no.
a.) If yes, what caused it/them?
5.) Are there print rings or spots?
no.
a.) If yes, state the probable cause.

6.) Are your negatives, contact sheet, test strip and print stored in your folder?
yes.
a.) If no, explain why.

editing photos for publications

1. newspaper

2. yearbook

3. online

photo manipulation and ethics

1) a. the main point of this article is that editing and retouching photos has come a long way, and sometimes, it can be a good thing, but others, it can be a bad thing.

b. i think it's unethical because a photo is supposed to be about truth and raw feeling, not about manipulation. it's not about tricking the viewer into pathologically appealing to the photo, it's about making the viewer pathologically appeal to the photo with your own talent.

2) a. i think that this photo of these pyramids being moved closer together is the least ethical of the ones i was shown. the photographer claimed they were edited to be closer to make the picture more vertical, which i think is fine, as long as the intent is not trying to manipulate the viewer into thinking something that wouldn't normally be there.

b. the edited cover of oj simpson on time magazine is, by far, the most unethical manipulation i saw. they darkened the picture, it seemed, intentionally. it's subtle, but in my eyes, completely unacceptable and racist, no matter what oj did or didn't do.

american soldier videos

1) the videos and other features enhance the photographs because it gives people who are more interested in the story something else to look at when they're done with the images.

2) the videos are, in some ways, better than the photographs, because there is audio and movement, giving the viewer more of an idea of how real it was for fisher.

3) the photos are, in some ways, better than the videos, because it can catch raw emotion in a split second before it goes away. it's a still shot of feeling, and sometimes that can be more powerful than just a video.

american soldier

photos:

1) the most powerful photo for me was when fisher was laying on the cot with a gun in one hand and a phone in the other, talking to family, most-likely. i think it perfectly describes army life.

2) the sequence the was most powerful in my opinion was the last one, 'coming home'. it was full of happiness and joy.

3) the images are put in chronological order to tell the story.

captions:

1) past-tense.

2) they help you get to know the characters of the story and the overall situation that fisher is in.

re-written captions:
(all in 'coming home' sequence')

1) ian reunites with an old friend after returning from iraq in 2009.

2) friends celebrate ian's returning with a party at a local bar.

3) family and friends gather to welcome the soldiers, and ian's father stands with a banner, waiting for his son at the airport.

marlboro marine

sinco used audio and text to get his point across, other than photography. the effect of the slideshow was heightened by the text for me. the most powerful photograph in the slideshow was one, when sinco was following soldiers at war, of a man lying on the ground as people rush by him. the most powerful sequence was the whole set of pictures of him at war. the voice of miller enhances the slideshow by making the photographs more real. the photographs work to tell a story by showing miller at war, and then the aftermath of when he got home.