Sunday, December 14, 2014


Final Exam Review

1. Captions:

A circus monkey crouches away from his trainer,Tommy , outside of a building. Jones was about to take the little guy's bike away as punishment after he swatted at him during valuable training hours. 



Gloria Munoz, one of many protestors, marches through the streets of Mexico City with a large red cloth draping over her and the others. The protesters were walking in memory of 43 students who went missing under the police's watch two years ago.


2. Rules of Photography

  1. Rule of thirds- positioning and shooting the subject of your photo so they fall in one of the imaginary intersections made by three invisible lines falling over the picture horizontally and vertically. 
  2. Balancing Elements- when your picture is balanced through the subject, colors, or shapes on both halves of your picture.
  3. Leading Lines- lines in your photo that lead the onlookers attention toward the subject.
  4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)- a series of the objects of the subject that appear the same and seem to be repeating. ex: shooting a picture forwards from the end of a line/row of people.
  5. Viewpoint- the angle in which you shoot your photograph from.
  6. Background- don't just focus on the subject when shooting your pictures, make sure to pay attention to the background as not to draw attention away from the subject. Using a simple background will help the focus draw towards the subject.
  7. Create depth- by adjusting aperture you can change the depth of field, or how much of your photo is in focus.
  8. Framing- Using objects to create a frame around the subject of your photo, subsequently drawing more attention towards it. 
  9. Cropping- most commonly done in photoshop, cropping is a way to make the image smaller or able to fit in a certain provided space. 
  10. Mergers and avoiding them- busy backgrounds or objects in the background of a photo that unintentionally interact with the subject of the photo.

3. Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO

  • aperture- the amount of light let into the photo. It controls the depth of field.
  • shutter speed- determines how long the shutter stays open to allow light in
  • ISO- how sensitive the photo is to light

4. Manipulating photos in photoshop

  • acceptable- changing the lighting/levels, and making small, minuscule changes that are approved by the subject
  • not acceptable- making large changes to a persons appearance, changing an image to make it technically/informationally/politically incorrect, adding objects into the image that weren't in the original photo

5. Portrait Types

  • environmental- a portrait executed in the subjects usual environment.
  • self portrait- a self taken photo of or representing the photographer
  • casual portrait- a common type of portrait used to focus on the subject without anything around them to distract/take away our attention from them
6. Photographic terms-
  • Exposure- lighting; how much light is exposed to the picture
  • Depth of field- having to do with aperture: how much of the photo is focused.
  • focal length- the calculation of an optical distance from the point where light rays converge to form a sharp image of an object to the digital center at the focal plane in the camera.
7. types of magazine covers- 
  • Early- consisted of a title and  the publication date with maybe an illustration
  • poster- one picture or illustration that often didn't go with the main story. headline and words don't cover the photo.
  • married to type- pictures with added cover lines
  • forest of words- intense photography with a large amount of cover lines

Friday, November 21, 2014

Fashion Photography

1) they made her lips bigger, her neck longer and thinner and they made her eyes bigger
2) They made her body, legs and arms thinner, they made her neck longer, and they changed her skin tone.
3) they made everything smaller. they slowly shaved they sides of her body, they also made her hair longer.
4) no because it is not okay to give a perception of someone that isn't true.
5) i think them cutting down the plus size model to be that thin is very insulting and the only other thing worse might be someone putting those things up for people to see and pretending that person looks like that.
6) i think on a picture it is okay to cover a pimple or two that might be showing but i think changing someone's body that dramatically is wrong.
7) photojournalism takes a picture and adds light or dark or high amount of a certain color to either give a more vibrant look or a softer fader look. fashion photography gives a fake perception of girls or boys that women think they have to be like even though those pictures are fake.
8) photojournalism takes a picture of an event and puts it out there to let people know what is going on, Fashion Photography takes a picture, manipulates it , and then puts it out there for whatever there product is to be sold faster.
9) to show that photoshop can be uses for good and for bad. even tough these models look more "attractive" the pictures give off a bad message that all women must look like this or they are considered "ugly" or "fat"
10) i think that non of these videos are about guys because 1. this normally happens with women          2. men are a lot more demanding for a women to have a perfect body 3. and also i think women are more accepting if a guy doesn't have a perfect body but if a women doesn't they are not as accepting

Thursday, November 6, 2014

ISO

ISO 3200

ISO 200


1. using a higher iso at a baseball or football game will let more light to be in the photo, making the picture brighter.
2. you should try to use low iso because it will let the photo have the most detail.
3. you should use a high iso when you need to make the photo brighter



apature setting available: 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16,22
shutter speed setting available: 1 second, 1/60 seconds, 1/4000 seconds
iso setting available: 100 to 25600

shutter speed

low shutter speed

high shutter speed


this is difficult because it needs a lot of light during a specific time.

a) shutter speed of 1/500
b) shutter speed of 1/300
c) shutter speed of 1/125
d) shutter speed of 1/1000
e) shutter speed of 1/250
f) shutter speed of 1/420

if it is very dark you will most likely need to make the shutter speed very low. the lowest possible shutter speed that you wouldn't need a tripod for would be 1/60.

a) shutter speed of 1/60
b) shutter speed of 1/60
c) shutter speed of 1/125
d) shutter speed of 1/60
e) shutter speed of 1/125
f) shutter speed of 1/100

three of the settings that have to deal with shutter speed are "auto" mode, "aperture priority", " shutter priority" and you could also use "manual" mode.