Shutter speed

High Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth- High
b.) the food eating contest- High
c.) the rock climbing wall- Slow
d.) someone working at a booth-Slow
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle-Slow
f.) the Diamonds performance.-High


Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other.
a.) the dunking booth- Slow
b.) the food eating contest- High
c.) the rock climbing wall- Slow
d.) someone working at a booth- High
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle- High
f.) the Diamonds performance.-Slow

• Aperature Priority
• Shutter Priority
• Manual

3.) Shutter Speeds: 30", 25", 20",15", 13", 10", 8", 6",5", 4", 3"2, 2"5, 2", 1"6, 1"3, 1", 0"8, 0"5, 0"4. 0"3, 1/4, 1/5,1/6, 1/8,1/10, 1/13, 1/15, 1/20, 1/25, 1/30, 1/40, 1/50, 1/60, 1/80, 1/100, 1/125, 1/160, 1/200, 1/250, 1/320, 1/400, 1/500, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000, 1/1250, 1/1600, 1/2000, 1/2500, 1/3200, 1/4000.

Aperature

[F2.8]

[F16]

1. Our eyes

2. The smaller the Aperature, the larger f-stops. The larger the Aperature, the smaller f-stops.

3. The section of the picture that comes out clear or "sharp".

4. F3.5, F4.0, F4.5, 5.0, F5.6, F6.3, F7.1, F8.0, F9.0, F10, F11, F13, F14, F16, F18, F20, F22

Reactions to power point

I personally was amazed by the power point and the pictures. I think one of the reasons they came out really good is the effect of Black and White. The subject in all his pictures and his framing was really percise...

My favorite picture is the one with the two Zebras. First of all Zebras are my favorite animal.
second the picture was really simple. there was nothing in the background or taking your attention from the pictures. third the stripes on the Zebras look really cool in the black and white effect of the background.

He photographs on medium-format black and white film without telephoto or zoom lenses.

 To memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. And he said he not interested in creating work that is simply documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the photography of animals in the wild.

to record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man.

"What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being."

                                                         (Zebras turning Heads)

Academic Shoot Reflection

• The people who kept starring at the camera or the people being distracted from their work. (Especially fresman and sophmores... -_- )
• Making sure that the rules were obvious and visible, took different types of each rule.
• Different angles in the pictures. Make sure that subject in my pictures are noticable.
• The same Simplicity picture. Same group.
• Simplicity and Merger,
• Lines.
• I understand them.

Lines

Okay.

Student walking down the stairs.

Yes.

Zoom in a bit more.

Merger

Pretty well.

Students in the classroom.

Yes.

Different angle.

Simplicity

I personally think it follows the rule pretty good.

The student working on her classwork.

Yes.

.....

Balance

pretty well, but could be better.

The two students on either side of the middle wall...

not really.

the other drawings in the background stand out too much.

Rule of Thirds

Pretty well.

The student walking in the hallway to class.

Yes.

The drawings in the background take away the main focal point (the student) from the picture. 

Framing

5 out of 10.

The person in between the triangular border.

Yes.

Taken it from a diffrent angle and turned the camera sideways so the triangular border is more clear.

Filling the Frame

This photo fills the frame from side to side with all the people that are holding hands in the circle.

Action and Emotion

I chose this photo for action and emotion because the students are taking action helping the homeless and just to see this picture of them stepping up gives you that emotional feel or warmth inside.

The Story

It visually tells a story because of the emotions that are shown from the two that we assume to be students that look almost to be the age of seniors and the teacher.

It looks to be as if the two students are messing with the teacher because of a mistake in grading, becuase the girl in the picture is holding up papers and the boy is teasing the teacher.

post shoot refection

1. Having to trade off the camera to the other people in the group and then switching back. Too much complication. And having to look for something grumpy without copying someone in my group.
2. Framing and which angle the picture would be better in. I walked around the subject and turned the camera in diffrent angles...
3. I would have taken a diffrent grumpy picture, maybe used one of the rules... for example getting one of the small dead trees outside and making the background the lines from the bottom of the portable.
4. I liked the way the angle of the "red" photo came out in the red hall with the lockers and some red tiles and parts of red on the ceiling.
5. The only one i had found was the "Metal" picture and i used "Lines".
6. I would like to go back and take another shoot but now knowing the rules and taking that into consideration this time.

Merger

The reason that this is Merger is because of the person being cut off or out of the picture.

Framing

The buildings are framing the smoke in the air from the twin towers.

Balance

The lady in the green jacket and the smoke from the background both balance eachother out in the picture.

Lines

In this picture it the background shows the lines of the building going vertical along with the falling man.

The Rule of Thirds

In this picture it shows the fire fighter in the middle to bottom right corner but yet it still gives the fire fighter room to walk within the picture.

Simplicity

In this picture the twin towers are the main focal point. The background is plain and simple which makes the twin towers and the smoke stand out at you when you look at it.

Red. Metal. Grumpy.

Red.- Couldn't find a rule.

Metal.- The LINES from the portable stairs.

Grumpy.

In this picture i wish i would've made the lines from the portable the background and included the shadow from the tree for the rule of thirds...

Great black & white photographers, PART 2

Margaret Bourke-White

Margaret Bourke was born on June 14, 1904 and died on August 27, 1971. Margaret Bourke was an American Photogropher and Documentary photographer. 

         She was born in Bronx, New York from her parents Joseph White and Minnie Bourke. The photography intrest began when she was a young girl because of her father's enthuism of photography and cameras. But once her father died she began to study herpetology at Colombia Michigan. After transferring universities and finally graduated from Cornell University, she moved to Cleveland Ohio and started a commerical photography studio and did  architectural and industrial photography.
          She earned her national attention when she took pictures at the Otis Steel Company. Problems first arose like the fact that the black and white film  that era was sensitive to blue light, not the reds and oranges of hot steel—she could see the beauty, but the pictures were coming out all black. She solved this problem by bringing along a new style of magnesium flare.

When i see this picture I feel depressed and upset for all the families that are evacuating Bastrop.  it shows how big the fire actually is and then you notice the little details in this picture like, the cars leaving the area and the fire trucks in the back but they actually are the ones being effected by the fire.

The Camera (Canon Rebel T3)

• Parallax- occurs when the viewfinder or viewing lens is seperated from the taking lens.
• Pentaprism- is a five-sided reflecting prisim used to deviate a beam of light by 90°.
• Pellicle Mirror- is an ultra-thin, ultra-lightweight semi-transparent mirror employed in the light path of an optical instrument, splitting the light beam into two separate beams, both of reduced light intensity.
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  Digital SLR- digital cameras that use a mechanical mirror system and pentaprism to direct light from the lens to an optical viewfinder on the back of the camera.

•  Aperture- is a hole or an opening through which light travels.
Shutter- a photographic device that administers the exposure by limiting the time over which light is admitted.
Exposure- the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph.
Depth of field- is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.
F-Number (or focal ratio, f-ratio, f-stop, or relative aperture) of an optical system expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens; in simpler terms, the f-number is the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.
Focal length- of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.