PhotoJ - Final Exam - Extra Credit

1. The killed man wanted to calm down an angry passenger waiting on his train but he pushed him onto the tracks. After tries of getting off the track, he failed because he wasn't strong enough to lift himself. R. Umar Abbasi, the photographer who was there is a freelance photographer so he works for his own.

2. The photographer said he just took a photo to warn the incoming subway with the flash.

3. I'm actually not sure if it was ethically not so good that he took a photo instead of helping the man off the track. But I bet that I would've probably done the same thing because what if the man was so much heavier and I couldn't have lifted him. For sure everyone says they would have helped the man but I doubt that. I mean the flash was probably more help than bringing his self in danger or simply doing nothing.

4. It is hard to say if it was the best because we don't know the circumstances of the man on the track and how far or close the subway was. So I would say it was the best because he really tried to stop the subway as he tells and like I said it was more help than nothing.

5. I would agree with printing the photo on a front cover because it is a shocking picture and it stops people by and lead them to read the paper and of course it shows people more to be safe around subways and avoid to get in fights, etc. but I totally disagree with the head line ''doomed''. It is provocating and usually I like provocating headlines but I think this one is not appropriate because the man is dead and he probably had family and it is a real picture and not posed or something like that.

6. I think that is really difficult to answer because I think it depends on which situation you're talking about and what circumstances are given. But in general I would more likely say it you have to help the people in first line, if there's a chance to help them. If there's none than I probably would choose to take a picture. But I can't say it enough it always depends on the circumstances!!

7. Yes it is in my opinion. For example in the Subway case, he tried to help with taking a picture. And I think if there's a chance of helping the people WITH taking a picture, it is definitely ethically acceptable. BUT if the photographer just takes pictures to make money because a person is in life danger, then it is totally not acceptable.

8. No they shouldn't because it is their job to take pictures to capture events. But like I said if the people are in danger, they shouldn't choose their job, they should choose to help the people.

9. I would say ''How tasteless of the NY Post to publish such a grusome picture for this mans family to see. No one helped this man there were numerous videos and pictures being snapped, yet not one person tried to help save him. Disgusting. '' would be the most appropriate and understandable response because it is inappropriate of the NY Post. Also this photographer doesn't offend his ''fellow''.

PhotoJ - Review - unfinished

Captions

The Lipizzan horse Jonny panics during the show of ''The Spirit of America'' on December 3rd in Harrisburg, PA. He's part of the show since years so he slowly became anxious and crazy, that Eric Thompson and Micheal Smith, his trainers, had big problems to control him.

After a long journey from the Kongo to South Africa, Mala tries to sleep for a few hours in her new home. She just got brought to South Africa to get better medical treatment because she got infected with HIV by her mother.

Rules of Photography

1. Rule of Thirds: Your picture is divided into 9 equal sections, by 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines, and your main element should be placed on these lines
2. Balancing Elements: If you just have one main object in your picture and it's more on the border of the picture, you should include another object so that the picture is ''balanced'' with the objects
3. Leading Lines: Lines in you picture make it more attractive and it's nicer to look at. You can use diagonal, zigzag, curvy, straight, etc.
4. Symmetry & Patterns: Symmetry and Patterns are eye-catching, if they occur in you picture, but also breaking those symmetries with a little thing, can be very attractive
5. Viewpoint: A different viewpoint or a unusual viewpoint can be change the composition of your photo and has a massive affect on the message of your photo
6. Background: For a great picture, you should look for a plain, not distracting background, so the main focus is on the object you'll take a photo of
7. Create Depth: For creating a more 3-dimensional picture you should include a background, middle ground and foreground, so the picture has depth in it
8. Framing: For isolating your main subject you can ''frame'' it with natural things, like trees, archways and holes. You should place them around the edge of your main object
9. Cropping: Sometimes the main subject in your photo is to small to have enough impact, then you should crop it so that you clearly see, what you main subject is
10. Mergers and avoiding them: You should avoid having a big object in your background, that could interfere with you main subject

Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO

• Aperture - a hole in your camera, through which the light travels (the larger the hole, the more light passes through, the smaller the hole, the less light passes through). It also controls the depths of field, which makes the picture more or less sharp (if the aperture is large, the depth of field is small, if the aperture is small, the depth of field is large). These are the f-numbers on the camera.
• Shutter Speed - the length of time, the camera shutter is opened (slow shutter speed lets more light into the camera, fast shutter speed lets less light into the camera). It is measured in fractions of seconds (shutter speed=1/15 -> one fifteenth of a second)
• ISO - the level of sensitivity of your camera to light (higher ISO, higher sensitivity, lower ISO, less sensitivity). It is measured in numbers (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600,…). But a higher ISO also increases the chance of getting grain/noise in you image

Photoshop

PhotoJ - Magazine Cover #2

PhotoJ - Magazine Cover #1

PhotoJ - Portrait and Self Portrait

PhotoJ - Fashion Photography

1. At first they put a lot of make-up on the model, then they stretched her neck, so that she looks taller. The next steps were, that they made the neck and shoulders smaller and put the eyes a little bit down. After that they enlarged the eyes and added a little bit of structure to the face.

2. First they enlarged the eyes of the model and made the nose look thinner. Then they thinned the arms and her stomach. After that, they stretched the legs and thinned the legs and feet and also stretched her neck and arms to make her look taller. At last they brightened her skin and hair. 

3. First of all, they thinned all of her body: her legs, her arms, her butt,… Then they formed her body to look thinner and smoothed all of wrinkles and uncleannesses of the body. The next steps were still forming and thinning the body. Then they painted her long hair and are still improving her stomach and arms. After that they thinned her face a little bit and added more volume to her hair. At last they brightened up the whole picture and improved her skin color.

4. Questions:

1. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these in a photo? Why or why not?
• I think it is not acceptable because first of all it gives the person whose picture is getting improved, the feeling of being ''ugly'' and not acceptable the way they are and also it shows other people, especially teenager and people who still need to find themselves, that you are not beautiful the way you are and that you have to improve yourself to be accepted.
2. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?
• Yes there are. I would say it is ''more'' wrong when especially young people can see the manipulation, because they are more suggestible and like I said in the first question, it is not really ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like that.
3. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?
• I think little changes like getting rid of some wrinkles or some scares or something like that is OK, but it is not OK to change the whole appearance of a person.
4. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.
• I think the differences are that in photojournalism it is not about how the persons looks, it is more about, that the picture is good. In fashion photography I think it is all about that the person looks good and looks the best they can do.
5. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does this affect the ethical practice of each?
• I would say that photojournalism is closer to reality because I think it is all about to shoot a special moment of reality and fashion photography is more about how to improve reality and make something look perfect but sometimes, that has nothing more to do with ''reality''.
6. Why do you think I am showing you these three videos?
• I think you are showing us these videos, first of all to make us understand how many things you can do with photoshop and of course to show us the difference between photojournalism and fashion photography and that we understand, how diplomatic the fashion world is.
7. Why are none of these videos about guys???
• Because everyone just wants the women to look sexy and does not really care about if men look good or not. And that is really unfair, because that gives us the feeling that we have to improve ourselves and that we are not beautiful and sexy the way we are.

PhotoJ - Magazines Part II

http://longleaf.net/coverlines/

1. Early Magazine Covers:
1. This kind of covers were not the kind of cover we would think of. Because many had on their opening page just a title and table of contents. But they also had book-like layouts with a small illustration as a decorative purpose. After the 18th century a third kind of magazine became more common. It uses a generic illustration in a symbolic manner to evoke the spirit of the publication, without revealing any of this issue's specific contents. 
2. The Poster Cover:
1. It was the most common cover between the 1890s and the 1960s. On this kind of cover you'll find a main, big picture, the name of the magazine and a short description of the magazine. The main pictures were most of the time from big and famous photographers and outstanding, so that no words are needed.
3. Picture Married to Type:
1. In the 20th century many magazines had artful poster covers, other relied heavily on cover lines to draw readers inside in a more clear way. It is not clear when cover lines first appeared, but they've been very common in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Cover lines had a continuing dialogue. Also they started to use a more symbiotic, mutually supportive relationship between the art and type of the cover and especially the started using more words on the cover.
4. In the Forest of Words:
1. There has been a movement around the turn of the 21st century away from artistic covers towards covers with intense photography with a large number of vivid cover lines. They became as important as the cover art were sometimes bigger than the name of the magazine itself. Also the pictures became less important.

PhotoJ - My favorite Magazine Cover

Photographer: Martin Schoeller
Designer: Arem Duplessis
"For this cover story on the U.S. women’s ski-jumping team, we featured the Olympic hopeful Sarah Hendrickson as photographed by Martin Schoeller. Schoeller captures the competitive spirit of Hendrickson, who wears her competition gear, in her body posture and intense gaze." - 
See more at: http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists#sthash.RKR916Tk.dpuf



I really like that picture because I'm a big fan of winter sports, especially skiing, and ski-jumping. I think the portrait of the olympic jumper is really good, because it has bright colors in it but it is not overloaded with color. Also I appreciate that there is just a plain background, so the focus is on the person. The light and exposure of the picture is also really good, because it is not blurry or pixelated or something like that, so I guess the photographer used a low ISO. I think the cover is kind of interesting because the girl looks a little bit frightened but it also catches your eye with that. 

PhotoJ - Best Magazine Covers 2013

http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists

1. formal

2. informal

3. environmental

4. environmental

5. informal / environmental

6. formal

7. environmental

8. informal

9. informal        /           formal

10. formal

11. formal

12. formal

13. informal / environmental

14. formal /  environmental

15. informal

16. environmental

17. informal

PhotoJ - Magazine Tips

1. I should ask myself for what kind of magazine I want to design my cover.

2. I should try not to judge my cover when it's on the screen.

3. I should buy a random magazine and try out, how the parts of my cover fit on the magazine size and how it works together.

4. The cover should pop out from its background.

5. I also should gather copies of famous and best sold covers, so that I know what the people are interested in.

PhotoJ - Prompt Shoot #2: Cold, Purple, Electric

Cold

Purple

Electric

PhotoJ - American Soldier Slide Show and Captions (Review)

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/09/10/ian-fisher-american-soldier/482/

1. 1. The Pictures:
1. A: For me picture #47 is the most powerful picture, because it shows so much emotions between Ian and his best friends, even it is really simple.
2. B: Locations:
1. 1. At home in Denver: #1 - #7
2. 2. At basic Training: #8 - #48
3. 3. In Iraq: #49 - #70
4. 4. Back in Denver: #71 - #82
3. C: I think the pictures work together as a story first of all because of their captions and because the show little steps which are important and there is not so much time between the pictures so that you miss almost nothing of Ian's story.
2. 2. The Captions:
1. A: In the pictures where Ian is the main subject almost all of the verbs are written in present tense.
2. B: The captions show you exactly what is going on and what Ian is doing at the moment. 
3. 3.

Image #48: Ian and his father are walking along the isle in the grocery store for the last time before he will go to the basic camp the upcoming 3 months. After graduation in May 2007, Ian decided to join the army and serve for his country. 

Image #65: While Ian is waiting for an important call from his mother, he is taking a nap because the basic training and living as an soldier is really exhausting for a young grown-up. This picture was taken in the first 2 weeks after he arrived at the basic camp in November 2007 to start his journey as an army soldier.

Image #77: Ian just arrives from the Iraq and walks to meet all of his friends and family after six months of serving there. After the three months of basic training Ian decided in February 2008 to continue serve his country so that he went to Iraq to fight and luckily arrived safely back home after six months.

PhotoJ - Rules of Photography - Update - Composition Nature

1. Rule of thirds

2. Balancing Elements

3. Leading Lines

4. Symmetry and Patterns (repition)

5. Viewpoint

6. Background

7. Create depth

8. Framing

9. Cropping

10. Mergers and avoiding them

http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules

PhotoJ - Cropping - Buildings

I picked these two pictures for cropping because the pictures only show the main object and nothing else, so the viewer won't get subtracted by something else.

PhotoJ - Create Depth - Buildings

I think these pictures are great examples for creating depths in a picture. In the first picture is something in the foreground, in the middle ground and something in the background. I the second picture depth is created by overlapping two things like the wall as main point and the whole building in the background.

PhotoJ - Viewpoint - Buildings

I really like the two pictures because their viewpoint, so where the photo was taken, is very special. You can see the ''buildings'' in a different way. 

PhotoJ - Symmetry and Patterns (Repetition) - Buildings

I picked these two pictures for symmetry and patterns because the buildings shown on the pictures are symmetrical as you can see and also their surroundings are  symmetrical and very eye-catching.

PhotoJ - Casual Portraits

I really like those pictures because they are just simple and casual. But also very multi faced because of the nice color compositions.