Monday, October 24, 2011

American Soldier slide show and captions

1) The most powerful image was the one where the solider was laying down in the field with the future-istic rifle kinda gun  . Well because his risking his life for his country.
2) Chapter 4. because thats when all the hard core stuff starts to happen hense the term " first assignment".
3) They work together by like how it starts off to how it ends.

1) It is usually written in present verbs.
2)They enhance it by telling exactly the story like at first i didnt realixze the guy was sleeping and at first i was like why is he sleeping then I read that hes only had 3 hours of sleep and they were broken up into pieces, not even a full 3 hours.

IT DOESNT LET YOU COPY AND PASTE THE PHOTO SO I CANT GET PHOTOS ON THIS BLOG.

1) It enhances it by adding thier own words into the photos, actual feelings behind the photo.
2) Its better then photos by it allows you to hear and see things really happening , instead of just a photo.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Sports Photography Tips and Techniques

  1. have it, you can still go a long way on the other seven elements.
  2. Skill - This is something you can learn, like hitting a baseball. Or photography.
  3. Knowledge - You need knowledge both of your craft and of the game you are photographing. You must know how your camera works inside and out. You must be able to control it to get it to do what you want it to do without thinking about it or having to refer to the manual. You must also know the sport you are going to shoot. Study the game. For instance, in baseball, if there is a
  4. Introduction Sports photography is one of the few remaining pure forms of documentary photography. The moment happens and it is gone. You either capture it in an image or you don't. Unlike sports writers and television, still photographers don't have the luxury of instant replay.
  5. Learning Sports Photography The best way to learn a subject is to completely immerse yourself in excellent examples of it, and to get out there and practice it by doing it. There are no substitutes for practice and experience.
    Look at sports magazines such as Sports Illustrated and ESPN The Magazine every week. Check sports photography web sites such as
    Yahoo's Daily Sports Photos. Go to the bookstore and look at the many books in the sports section, some are by remarkable sports photographers like Walter Iooss. Subscribe to Robert Hanashiro's Sports Shooter. Look at what wins the sports categories in the Pictures of the Year contest. Look at your newspapers sport's section every day. My paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, also has sports photo galleries from most games. Other papers are starting to do the same. Read Rod Mar's sports photography blog "The Best Seat in the House".
  6. Getting Started You simply have to start at the beginning, learn your craft, pay your dues, find your own level of talent, and work your way up.
    Go to little league games and practice with what equipment you have. Go to high school games and shoot. At some high schools you can find football, soccer, field hockey, baseball and softball all going on at the same time in the afternoon in the fall. Look for action and feature shots. See how good your knowledge of the game is, and how good your anticipation and reflexes are. Build up a portfolio that shows what you can do.
  7. Eight Elements Necessary for Success
  8. Talent - Natural talent is something you are born with. You either have it or you don't. If you don't runner on first base and the ball is hit in the gap, where will the play be? Hint - not at second base!
  9. Practice - Photography is a physical as well as a mental skill. Practice will make you better at both. Skills improve dramatically with practice and atrophy with disuse.
  10. Desire - Your philosophy and attitude will affect your work. When I go out to shoot a game, I want the great peak action moments, the ones with great content, and the ones with great emotion. I expect to get them. I get really mad when I don't. I'm greedy. I want it all and I expect to get it all. My goal is to combine a great moment, with great content and great emotion in a single picture in every game I cover.
  11. Work - Make a commitment to excellence. Don't stand around picking your nose just because baseball is mostly boring. Shoot it like you would if you were playing the game. Concentrate on every pitch. Figure out the situation beforehand. If you are in left field and there is a runner on second, and the ball is hit to you, where are you supposed to throw it? Be in a "zone of your own" of concentration. Know the game situation and what's going to happen.
  12. Opportunity - You can't always control what opportunities you have, but you have to seize them when then come along. I was in my last semester in college with only 11 credits left to graduate when I quit school to take a job as a photographer at a small suburban newspaper just outside of New Orleans. It was not even a job shooting sports full time, but it was a job that would not have been there when I graduated, and it was in a city where I wanted to live and work. It allowed me to get a start in the newspaper business, and opened up further opportunities for me once I had more experience. I finally went back to college about a decade later and finished up my degree.
  13. Luck - Some say you can't control it, but it favors the prepared. On the other hand, sometimes being in the right place to get the best picture is strictly a matter of chance, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.


  1. Good News and Bad News First, the bad news. Your dream may be to be make your living shooting sports. The reality may be that you are just not good enough. This may be either as a photographer or as a business person. Because its not enough to just be a great photographer, you also have to be a good great business person. And even then, you still may not be able to make a living doing sports photography, or any other kind of photography. Things are changing profoundly in the business of photography. 
 

  • Photography Basics Light is a form of radiant energy that we can see with our eyes, and record with a camera. It is our primary method of obtaining information about the world. Light, in terms of its quantity, quality, and color, is also the most important thing that affects the technical quality of our sports pictures. Unfortunately, in most cases for sports action photography, there is not much we can do about any of these factors. We usually just have to work with what is there. In some cases we may be able to set up strobes to provide our own main sources of light, or use a strobe as a fill to supplement existing light.

  Equipment- Snap shot digital cameras. DSLR cameras, Lenses

Shooting Techniques
1. Master your craft and your e


quipment. 2. Use your vision, see whats hapening no really see whats exactyly happening



    
  Special Techniques Sometimes (nearly always) when we shoot high school basketball, we are shooting in gyms that are not very well lit. This can be a challenge. Available light exposures are problematic because they are usually relatively long and don't stop the action very well, and the quality of the light coming straight down in these gyms is extremely ugly. This leads to awful shadow detail on African-American players, and lots of noise in the image.
Image Processing

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

FUNNY CAPTIONS

1.) Jack is holing up Rose even though they are skeletons. 2.) Jack and Rose died on that boat a long time ago on the deck they would come out at night and pretend like thier flying on a ship... 

1.) Some accidentaly ran over this possum and the workers who are re-painting the road just went over it because it blends in with the road.2.) As cars pass by they dont even notcie the possum that got killed and hes been laying there for awhile.

1.) Be sure you dont throw anything now the crocodiles look pretty hungry now and there're coming towrds the bridg now.2.) If you were to throw something  down there I would really hope that you swim well the crocodiles havent eaten in awhile.

Cool video

1) He could've got more of the dancing to show school spirit better. And he could try and not move the camera so much, it makes me dizzy.
2) I will try and see if iw ould be able to go because I can use that extra credit.

Instagram

1) We could do a BIG and BOLD, BLUE and GOLD photo with an eagle majesticaly flying.
2) The people with phones with the instagram should use them, but the people who dont should be allowed to use the cameras so they can have a chance to shoot.
3) I would want to put it near the newtech hall way you know because I gotta represent the newtech! .

Fixed photo shoot post-reflection

1) I learned how to change the aperture settings and the ISO.
2) I noticed that it started out BRIGHT and then got darker and darker but then got back to bright so back in fourth in dim and bright photos.
3) Yes i do some of them have less grainy look to it.
4) It tells me thatif your going to have a high ISO then you would need to get the shutter speed and all the other setting set to that exact ISO.
5) there all really out of focus, the only ones in focus are some of the darker ones because the shutter speed is higher.
 6) the ISO: 1600, shutter speed: 1/1000 sec. F-stop: 8,
 
7) I would need to focus on the lighting and shutterspeed more next time we go shoot in maual format.


Wednesday, October 12, 2011

HDR photography assignment

1) You have to change the ISO and the shutterspeed and the F-stop to how the lighting, distance is.
2) Yes it has the ablitity to shoot bracketed photos.
3) Yes, outside.
4) I choose this one because it catches the car speeding while the dust swarms around the car. i can tell the photographer used a high shutter speed and a medium ISO.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Great Black and White Photographers part 3

1) I choose Eugene Atget because his photography is very, deep to my eye view when i see his photos i see natural life things that we dont usually notice now a-days with all this technology his photos spoke to me looking at this photo made me like of deep and bruting silence, inner peace.

2) If I were in the photo I would smell old pond water and fish poo, and the smell of asfault. I see a remarkable buliding with a pond underneth it to make a reflection of it. I hear the wind blowing through the tress and trickling  water moving. I taste gum , grape flavored and metal, because my braces, (im pretending im the photographer).I feel the air and the ambiance of just standing in front of the houses's precense  and being able to show the world a beautiful house that no one probably new about.
3) If i were in the photo I would smell wood and dust. I see and wooden wheelbarel on the side of an old blackish bridge with a road beside it. I hear wagons going by and the horses muffling and their hoofs hitting the ground repetedly getting further, and further away as is slowly gets slient. I taste dust and a dry mouth. I feel the wind from the wagons passing me by one after another, i also feel the camera in my hand trying to set is ISO and the shutter speed and aperture just at the right numbers.


3) I would like to do a poster of Eugene Atget.