My realistic photo illustration

These are just ideas as of now... I may not stick with them.

Photo essay:

Narrated documentary

-Learning to bake bread

Photo illistration:

Staged Illustration

"Cultural Remix"- I'll take pictures of people and their cultures displaying traditional values and how they mix with everyday life.

Realistic alteration

The photo is of the moon and a silhouette of a man looking through a telescope.

This photo was made by taking an image of the moon thorough the man's telescope and then placing a picture of the man and his telescope in front of that image.

Staged illistration

In this photo, there is a shadow of a smoker on the ash tray. The photo was taken, I think, to represent smokers.

Composite image

This image is of a "ghost"- a legend from a town.

Photo made into art

This photo is of a man raking the beach. And I believe this photo was taken to capture the steriotypical image of beach life.

My favorite illustration is the one of the musician playing his guitar under a raincloud. It's suppose to advertise an upcoming blues festival. The cloud has rain that's actually names of the lineup of bands and musicians. I'm guessing this photo was made through software, just making the cloud, typing up names and adding it to the musician's photo.

1. The introspective photographer - Houston Homeless
2. The first person documentary - Daycare
3. The narrated documentary - Marley Fest

Zone Focus- Chose a spot where you know action is going to take place and wait for it to come to you

Shutter Speed- High shutter speed for freezing action; low shutter speed for panning

Panning- Uses low shutter speed; pick a subject and line up the subject in a specific area, follow that subject and take the picture; creates a blurred background, but an in-focus subject

Waiting for the Pause- A sudden pause in the game while it's still going

1. I plan on photographing my niece's karate class
2. Dunno a time I would like to shoot, yet.
3. A safe shot in karate would be of a pose
4. If someone got hurt; if they loose their balance

RUNNER-UPS
1. Travis Haughton- story/sports
Negative feedback:
- Some pictures had faces that were covered
- There were a couple of pictures that were kind of pointless; they didn't really go with the story
- "Tight" frames that didn't show enough of what was going on at the time.
Positive feedback:
- The wierdness of the photos (cotton candy man)
- How well he showed levels in the photos
- Haloed bodies
My commentary:
I liked the body language he cuaght, but a lot of the pictures confused me more than anything.

2. Jordan Murph- sports
Negative feedback:
- The posed action not so good.
- The wave picture had no subject- no surfer.
- Had uninteresting pictures; they held nothing in them.
Positive feedback:
- He caught unique moments in predited situations.
- The lighting is constantly good.
- He worked with shadows well.
My commentary:
Most of the sports photos were real good and I liked how the photographer caught both action and emotion completely. I did not like both photo stories because I didn't really get it the whole time through.

3.Carlos Delgado- story/ sports
Negative feedback:
- Some of the subjects' faces were hidden
- Contained cluttered backgrounds
- Color choice sucked (too much color or the black and white didn't help the pictures)
Positive feedback:
- When he showed the lady's foot writing
- The irony of a sick mother with a son who smokes
- The baseball picture
My commentary:
Personally, I liked the vibrant colors and cluttered backgrounds in the first photo story, it showed the lifestyle of the woman and her family. I didn't much like the sports photos or the seconds photo essay because I couldn't really tell what was going on.

4. Anthony Soufflé- photoj/ story
Negative feedback:
- Familiar, ununique photos
- A lot of kid pictures- too safe
- Doesn't show extreme detail like the hook in the birds
Positive feedback:
- The proffessional techniques in the football and surgical photos
- The photographer's sense of humor
My commentary:
I really liked how each photo showed the story behind it. Like the woman crying or the surgeon. I alos liked the photo story because it showed the entire process in helping the birds.

WINNING PORTFOLIO
Dustin Snipes
What the judges saw as strengths:
- He's in the action
- "griddy" feel (repitition technique)
- everybody is doing something in each picture- there's no idle subjects
- creativity
What I saw as strengths:
- His uniqueness
- How it looks like he's right in the middle of everything
- The way he caught emotion
- And how well he used his surroundings (like the peoples' hands in the volleyball picture, or the batter's arm in the baseball picture)
What I saw as a weakness:
I only thought the swimming picture was a bit confusing, but I still liked the concept.


RECAP
The process the judges went through:
- Were the stories good or bad
- Did they have diversity or repitition in their portfolios
- Were there any completely ridiculous or weak pictures

10 minutes
Daybreak in Alabama

Best Covers

1. environmental
2. formal
3. informal
5. environmental
9. formal
10. formal
11. environmental/formal
15. formal
19. formal
21. environmental
22. formal
26. informal
27. formal
28. environmental
29.(tie) environmental
29.(tie) environmental
31. environmental?! informal?! SATIRE.

32. formal <- FAVORITE
"Vogue (May 2004)
Photographer Irving Penn captures Nicole Kidman’s back profile dressed in a Christian Lacroix oyster satin backless dress for this cover of the May 2004 issue of Vogue. This was the first cover shoot for Vogue by Penn since 1989. The issue contains more photographs of Kidman dressed as a Grecian goddess, an Italian diva and as legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt."
my critique -> Simpler photos tend to stick out more than any other photos as it takes more skill to capture a lesser amount of subjects and say something about that subject. Seeing that Nicole Kidman is the subject in this photo, you think automatically "classy" as you see the elegant evening dress and pricey accessories that adorn her. Nicole's profile and poise compliment the classy look to the photo as well.

35. formal
36. formal
37. (Glamour magazine) formal
37. (TIME magazine) informal

Cover History

1. Early Magazine Covers- used generic covers with generic illustrations and cover lines.
2. The Poster Cover- many of the magazines tended to be oversized with illustrations and little to no cover lines.
3. Pictures Married to Type- cover lines and pictures matched up on the front. Sometimes, the model in the picture would overlap the title, but the cover lines were always positioned to fit the model and the background. Eventually, titles, cover lines, logos and such began to "sell" the advertisment.
4. In the Forest of Words- words appearing on the fronts of magazines took up all importance and sometimes it seemed as though the models were being swallowed up by them.

What makes the photo so amazing to me is the contradiction of formality. The fact that this is suppose to be a formal picture requires a bit of thinking because of the uniquness and personality added in. It throws off the stiffness and creates an almost paradox of formality in an environment parellel to the individual's personality.

Photojournalism Ehtics

Ethics in photojournalism should be situational because different situations have different requirements as to what's ethical and what's not. A photo can capture the truth of a moment as long as the photographer knows what's going on and what to look for. As a photographer, I've made changes to color levels, contrast, and edited scratches. It's important for news organizations to clearly define ethical standards so that the people know whether or not what they are looking at is real or faked.


Fashion Ethics

Changes that were done to the model's face include:
enlarging the eyes and lips
pulling down the hairline
enlongating the eyebrows and neck (moving up the head)
decreasing the size of the ears
and moving around the hair

I believe it is OK as long as the model agrees to the manipulation and views the final product. Also, as long as the subject of the photo is still emphasized, it should still be ethical. It's worse if a model does not agree to the changes done to the photo or the main point of the original photo was taken out. I believe changes done to the background or a person's face are OK.

The difference between photojournalism and fashion photography is that in photojournalism, you are looking for the truth behind a story whereas in fashion photography, you are looking to bring out a certain aspect of a photo for advertisement. Both deal with reality in the way that they must have some part of it in the photo. For example in photojournalism, reality and truth is the key and in fashion photography, reality is in the subject of the photo (makeup, clothing, etc.)

Two photos taken at UW-Madison were used to make one photo that was suppose to showcase diversity in the school. In one photo, there were nothing but white students at a football game, the other photo was of a black student at a ethnic minority icebreaker activity. They took the face of the black student and pasted it into the football picture. After finding out about the controversy, Barrows changed the photo and appologized for the screw up.


I believe this photo is unethical because it's two different photos, taken at different times under different circumstances, combined to apply another message than that from either original photo.

I don't believe this photo is unethical because all they did was push the pyramids in the background closer. They're still the same pyramids and it is still the same message, therefore there shouldn't be any problem.

Greg the ram entangles himself in a telephone wire in mid jump during a high-jump competition for rams in New Zealand. Greg has been the champion of these high-jump events for the past 3 years. That is, until he jumped a bit too high.

Futbol player Bernardo Silva yells at referee Ricardo Cruz as he steals Gonzales' extra pair of socks after the championship game in Portugal. Gonzales has been known to take his socks seriously and proved this accusation in 2006 when he kicked a fellow futbol player, demanding him to return his socks.

Officer Tony White sits atop Stan, the new addition to the police force in Chicago, Illinois. Trained in Ethiopia, Stan is considered a police-giraffe wonder as he has made it extremely difficult for anyone to miss him or Tony.

Monday, October 15, 2007
Toil in the Fields
A farmer works at a laver (edible seaweed) farm at Gutong Village in Fujian Province, China.

The rows in the water lead your eyes straight through the photo from the front to the back.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Is This Seat Taken?
A deputy waits before French President Nicolas Sarkozy's speech to members of the ruling party UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) at the Elysée Palace.

The rows and on going pattern of the seats lead your eyes from the right of the frame to the left, where the man is sitting.


Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Hats Off
People's Liberation Army soldiers attend a grand rally to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the foundation of the PLA at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

The pattern of people sitting in chairs and their hats in front of them is continuous throughout the entire photo and gradually get smaller as they get further away, leading your eyes through the photo.

2. A. Melanie Burford used multimedia skills to put together her slideshow in addition to photography skills. While watching the slideshow, you listen to a recording of singing and speaking.
B. The multimedia effects in this slideshow gave more meaning to the pictures and actual story. It gave us a sort of 1st person point of view on the story.
3. The police videos are interesting because they show the violence on the streets that is ironically being taken out on officers.

1. The lighting in the coffee shop was a bit low and so I had to shoot at a certain angle in order to get enough lighting and emotion (considering everyone around me was taller than me and we were on a level surface)
2. I mostly thought about focusing on certain aspects of the scene. I tried not move the focusing nob too much and tried getting as close as possible.
3. I tried using framing by focusing on the coffee itself when Andrea (the girl who was learning how to make a new coffee drink) had her arms on a lever, creating a sort of frame around the coffee itself. Also, I tried simplicity by getting a simple action of Andrea dancing (when her friend taught her how to bellydance) and focusing on her emotion in that photo.