Abandoned Theme Parks

1. I would like to go to the six flags in New Orleans. I would want to go there because it went through 7ft. water and 70-80% was destroyed by hurricane Katrina so everything is basically destroyed and abandoned. But what makes me want to go there more is that it says in the article to be careful if you go because people have been handcuffed, driven off the promises, and had their camera film destroyed. But a lot of people that went there have been able to enter with no problems and walk out so it makes me eager to go to this amusement park.

Great Black and White Photographers

                                     Minor White:

                                            Devils Slide-

                                                 

                                           Lothar Wolleh:

                                         The patriarch of Constantinople 1966-

               

                                              Ansel Adams:

                                                        Bridal Veil Fall-

Great black and white photographers 3

Funny Captions

 1st Picture:

Crazy CD and DVD suit of armor with shield and sword. Dave models his latest work he is a artist and has been working on this project for sometime but has trouble taking it off.

2nd Picture:

In a zoo in california this unique panda has a slide along with other toys he loves to play with and it just happened to be snowing as the fury panda slides down a slide full of snow. This panda has been doing this sense he was a cub said a zoo keeper and he loves the snow especially when its on his slide.

3rd picture:

This little girl Maria hates the camera every time she sees one she gets furious and makes this strange face and her parents just happened to take a picture of it. She is only 6 months old and her parents said that she just started doing it they think its the flash of the camera that makes her make this strange angry face.

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you?
Some challenges that I thought made taking the pictures harder were that not really any of the classes were doing anything but taking notes and test so it was hard to work with it.

2. What technical aspects of photography of the assignment in general did you find yourself thinking about the most?
Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly?
To not  be visible and not to distract the student it was like I wasn't there and Just took all the pictures i needed to and than I left.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
 I would pick my pictures better instead of shooting kind of wildly but just take pictures that you know I would follow the subject.

4. What things would you do the same?
I would use all the same methods like not being visible and distracting students for example.

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
Simplicity would definitely be the easiest picture for me to take or avoiding mergers.

6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
I think the hardest for me would be framing because their not just one way to take the picture.

7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
I know all the rules there is not one rule that I don't know but the only hard part for me is when we are going out taking the pictures its hard for me to simplicity  or framing and other rules.

Academic Shoot

Lines

I followed the rule its just a little hard to see, Because I saw the lines from the book shelves and with all the students in the background. It really isn't clear for people to see the subject but only because a lot of the classrooms didn't give me a lot to work with. What I could of done differently is zoom in more with the camera focusing on the book shelves instead of all of the students and it might of been a better picture.

Simplicity:

I think I followed the rule really well because the background is just there it doesn't distract the viewer from the main idea. I believe the subject is clear if people would look at it, only because  people will know why I took this picture because the main point is clear.

Rule Of Thirds:

I followed the subject by leaving space in front of the reader and its not all focused on him even though he is in the middle of the picture. So I believe i followed the subject good and made it clear because of those reasons.

Balance:

I do feel like I followed the rule because of how the chairs are pushed into the tables and form rectangles and squares. But the subject isn't really clear what I could of done better is focus more on the table and chairs than the rest of the people in the background.

Framing:

I think I followed the rule because I have the model looking into the background of the picture so that its just not focused on the model and because of that I feel like the subject is clear and he's just in the picture. But I could of done better by zooming in on the model more and put the background in just a lot more clear.

Avoiding Mergers:

I followed the rule probably better than all of the pictures than I took, and this might be my best picture. But I think that it is clear to see if this is a avoiding mergers picture because one of the teachers are cut in half and one of the students are cut out of the picture not entirely though.

Academic Shoot Preview

Best Story:

I think this picture tells me the best story because it has students helping the homeless and you can just look at the picture and tell the whole story. You can also see the students getting the food ready for the homeless while they form a single file line and wait for there food.

Action or Emotion:

This photo has a little bit of each action and emotion. These two students are doing some sort of lab as something explodes and that would be the action. And the emotion is the look on their face as something explodes in their container. The girl in red has a really surprised and amazed face, and the girl in the grey looks like she is just laughing at the look on her lab partners face.

Filling the frame:

The frame is completely filled with people, even though some people in this picture have their bodies and some of the peoples arms are just cut entirely out of the picture. But I think this picture does have the most interesting stuff in it cause it just looks like their putting their hands in something thats producing fog and and its a group of people and it just suck out compared to all of the rest of the pictures.

Academics and Community Service:

Picture that I chose-"Drop the Bass"

1. Why did you pick this photo?

I picked this photo because it looked really cool to me, because the girl dropped some paint or ink I have no idea and it just looked crazy while it splashes and the photographer caught this photo at the right time.

2. What rules of photography are evident in the photo?

The rule of photography is simplicity for this photo.

Shooting Academics: 

1. I would go to some of the science classes on a day were their doing a lab because usually thats where  you can get the most interesting and action filled pictures and also emotions.

2. Someones chemistry class because I know chemistry is about atomic levels, atoms and molecules and stuff like that so they probably do a lot of labs.

3. I would go to the place that I was most interested in and somewhere I would know to take fun and exciting pictures.

Composition 9/11

Simplicity:

The two buildings and the explosion between
 both of them improve the photos visual simplicity.And 

there is no complicated backgrounds and its slightly off centered.

Lines:

You can see the repetitive lines with the building and also the smoke draw the viewers attention with vertical lines.

Rule of thirds:

There is really good subject control in this picture and it gives the model a definite path to go to within the picture.

Balance:

Framing: