Lytro Warm-Up

1) When I clicked on it it would take all of its focus to what I clicked on and blured everything around it.
2) It works by good focusing and has a soft blur to attract to more attention to what you want focused.
3) He would have to know that the shutter speed should be at a good speed maybe like 1/600 or less depends on what he wants.
4) Yes, it is worth the $$$ moneyyyy.

Self Portrait 2

1. Rule of thirds

2. Balancing Elements

3. Leading Lines

4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)

5. Viewpoint

6. Background

7. Create depth

8. Framing

9. Cropping

10. Mergers and avoiding them

Self Portrait part 1

                                                        Some Self Portrait tips 1) Think about your motivation and emotions: Blankly staring at the camera rarely gets good results. Be silly, don’t be afraid to over-act. The worst that can happen is that you fill up your memory card with useless photos; but you might also find yourself with a proper gold-nugget of a self portrait.

2) If you're using a long lens and are some distance from your subject, it will probably be a while before the people in the scene notice you. You should be able to compose your image and get your shot before this happens. When they do notice you, smile and wave. There's a difference between being unobtrusive and unfriendly. Another way to be unobtrusive is to be there long enough so that people stop paying attention to you.

3) You can also capture a self-portrait by supporting your camera, then frame your picture and focus with a stand-in. Place a mirror just behind the camera, and do your final posing in the mirror. This method also requires a self-timer, or a remote triggering device if your camera has one. Once again, if you use a self-timer, you'll need to get into position before it goes off.

                                                         Enviromental portraits

• I chose this photo because it reminds me of the poor little kids/adults in the other countries working for pennies a WEEK and its just sad because they did'nt have a choice to work for life they were born into it. And I also like this photo because not of what shes doing but the fact that shes looks just like my great grandmother , her name was zhexing lee.

• I chose this photo because its like a darkness around her and she stands out with a red dress. And to me it symbols the devils darkness but she is not scared because shes covered in the blood of jesus. That is why i chose and LOVE this picture.

                                                           Self-portrait Photography

• I chose this photo because it looks like he's sinking into the wall or like hes disinigrating into peices of paper. And I like this photo because it shows alot of detail like the shadow of the peices coming from him.

• I chose this photo because it looks very vintage. And I also like this photo because the pink flowers all around her is like beauty and it really goes with her eyeshadow and just her entire look.
   

                                                                     Casual Portraits

• I chose this photo because this baby girl it next to a glass door and its like she has a twin. I also chose this photo because I like that the photo is kind of blurred in the back to put more attention on the baby girl.

• I chose this photo because it has alot of love in it and both the baby and mother are smiling. And I really like this photo because This mother has alot Of love and affection for her child and I like that

Who will you shoot: I would like to take the photo of my bestfriend, Elisa Garcia

Where will you shoot: I would like to shoot in maybe a hallway or a place with good lighting. maybe outside in the courtyard.

What will you do to make the shot successful: I will make sure she agrees to the photo and that I avoid any mergers. And I would like to maybe to rule of thirds and get some framing in there too. Especially framing and possibly some simplicity also. I am also going to do  maybe a 600-800 range of ISO and i want a 1/600 shutter speed to catch pretty much everything.

Self portraits

• This is my favorite un-professional photo because its very dark and spooky like. And I also like this picture the most because it has, Man, Woman, Daughter, Son all in order from height too. It also looks like all they have is eachother , family matters when bad times come.... family is always there "blood is thicker then water".

• This is my favorite professional photo because it makes her look so majestic. Plus its like shes getting ready for the ball like cinderella and her dress perfectly around her and it lay on the floor. And all the lighting behind her makes this photo have the best amount of light its like shes a goddess!

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A) The main thing is that sometimes manipulating photos goes to far, example: taking TWO woman out of a photo just so it can be a full male cabnate. Or like making all four rockets look like a succes when really only three were succesful. Or cloning people and putting them in two different poeople on dates close to eachother, and in an area very far from eachother.

B) I think it is unethical because a photo is taken, you cant take it back wheather you change it or not under all that FAKE that person was ment to be there even if you get a extra person in the photo no need to "clone" over them or remove them, just simply ask them to move and re-take the photo. And if a BIG situation like rocket launching does'nt go exactly planned, just tell the truth and tell the public, DONT LIE. Becasue sooner or later they will find out.

2) I think that this one is the most unethical becasue this cover is trying to make there school look better by adding a black boy who wasnt even there. they think it would look better for them," oh look see its not all white people they have a black boy there ooo I wanna go there they have black kids there also!", but no they had to digitaly add the black boy.

3) I think this is least unethical because theres no "adding,taking,cloning,pasting." there just fixing her teeth a little so the picture can look better, other then that, that really is her maybe not her teeth, buts its just teeth, NOT a fake rocket launch. 

National Geographic Warm-up and Photo Manipulation and Ethics

1) My favorite photo.







2) This is my favorite photo because I love the fact that the entire picture is green then you see and tiny green lizard that blends in. Also because of the way the lines are rowed and diagonal. Lastly I like this photo the most is because the lizard faces the opposite direction the way the lines are rowed.

3) I would take a picture of my little brother Nathaniel and my baby nephew Kanon together my brother is just in love with Kanon. Kanon is learing how to give baby kisses so i would get a full colored photo of Kanon giving Nathaniel a baby kiss. The reason for taking a full colored picture because Kanon has the orange-est hair ever, (hes a ginger). and Nathaniel has brown hair with a NATURAL blonde streak in his hair,( its cause were part french/italian) .

Abandoned Theme Parks

1) Shidaka’s Utopia- I would want to go there because it just looks so torn down, old, deserted.

Those broken baby dolls look so worn down and rusted. And has all these rollerskates there, like perfectly on the shelf as it was before, even though some may be on the counter it still looks kinda creepy.    

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3) 1- Hell's Door Turkmenistan( the giant crater of darvaz). 2- Sanquingshan-China(garden of the gods)3- Eye of Africa Mauritania. 4- A cemetary  at night. 5- Island house. 6- The coral castle.

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5) I think it would be fun to go there because some people say its the door to "hell" and i think it would be cool to see some flames. It interests me because its just a big hole in the ground with molten lava and its roughly 60 meters in diameter and 20 meters deep . geologists were digging in the area for gas deposits and stumbled upon a huge underground cavern. The geologists apparently concluded the cavern was filled with poisonous gas, and decided  that they should light the cavern on fire to burn off the excess. The hole has been burning for more than 35 years since. I think pictures I would get would be bright because of the insane heat rising out of it so you'd probably see the gas above the cavern.

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