Self Portraits & Portraits

CREATING A THEME: Two items make a photo, the subject and the backdrop, and i think that they equally important. This is where your lens choice comes into play. A long lens allows you to send the back ground out of focus and narrow down the amount of background in the photo. A wide lens keep the background in focus and allows it to be a key part of the image. Either way the background is playing a big factor by being a key element or by not distracting from the subject.

CAPTURE YOU: My last tip is to use the images below only loosely as inspiration. A self-portrait should be a very personal expression, not simply a mirror of something you've seen elsewhere. Think about who you want to be and how you want to say that. Use props, scenery, pose, and lighting conditions to convey your personality. And most of all, have fun!

Casual Portraits:

 I picked these pictures because I really liked how the people fit in the background. The background doesn't take any focus off of them so they're still the main focus.

Environmental Portraits:

 

I picked these pictures because it kind of shows who these people are, in a way. Their self portraits aren't boring and you can really tell they are the main focus.

Formal Portraits:

I picked these pictures because they have good quality and the main subjects are clear.

 Self portraits:

I picked these photos from one of the websites because you get a sense of who they are. Like the one below, you get a sense of his personality. Each of them are examples of personal expressions.

Rules of Phography part 2

Theme: Nature

Background:

Balancing Elements:

Cropping:

Depth:

Framing:

Leading Lines:

Mergers:

Rule of Thirds:

Symmetry and Patterns:

Viewpoint:

Three Pillars Of Photography

APERTURE

Aperture at F2.8

Aperture setting at F16 or higher

1. We closely relate it to our eyes.
2. The smaller the aperture the higher the f-number. The larger the aperture the lower the f-number.
3. The size of the aperture has an effect on the depth field.

At the beginning:
a) high shutter speed
b) long shutter speed
c) slow shutter speed
d) high shutter speed
e) slow shutter speed
f) slow shutter speed

SHUTTER SPEED

high shutter speed 

slow shutter speed

ISO

ISO 200

ISO 6400

 1. it adds grain or "noise" to the pictures

2. when there's plenty of light use the lowest ISO to have the highest image quality. if you want to use a low ISO try to always stick to the lowest one.

3. you should increase the ISO when there's not enough light for the camera or when you need to get ultra fast shots.  

• F4: the best one is at 1/125 of a sec. shutter speed. 

• F5.6: 1/60 of a sec. shutter speed. 

• F8: 1/60 of a sec. shutter speed. 

• F11:  of a sec. shutter speed. 

• F16:  of a sec. shutter speed. 

• F22:  of a sec. shutter speed. 

Caption Writing: 5 Ws & H

1. Joey Gray kisses Beth Gonzalez on Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Times Square in New York City. Gray excitedly grabbed Gonzalez when the news was announced that the allies had defeated the Nazis, ending World War II.

2. Selma Anderson screams as her friend Greg Martinez is shot at 3:45 p.m. in the courtyard Kent State University. Anderson sadly fell to her knees as Martinez fell to the ground after the guardsmen shot him in the chest. 

3. Juan Gutierrez slides the closet door open to find Matt Corona holding Elian Juarez hiding in the closet at 6 p.m. in Miami, Florida. Gutierrez sternly told Corona to hand Juarez, the stolen child, over to him and Corona resisted.

4. Marilyn Monroe poses over an air vent in a subway in New York City at 7 p.m. Monroe carefully pushes the front of her dress down as she gets ready for her picture to be taken by the paparazzi.

5. Firefighter Armando Murillo cries as he holds a dead baby at 2:50 p.m. in Oklahoma City. Murillo sadly grabbed the infant out of the fire as he was heading away from the burning building.

Mural Project Photos

Great Black and White Photographers, PART 3.

1. What first caught my eye about the photographer's photos is that they both had to do with nature. i like how the rocks looked like they just went on forever. and i just liked everything about the waterfall picture.

2.

I see all the trees in front of me. I see the reflection of the trees in the water, and the rocks popping out of it.

I hear the birds from the other side. And leaves falling as the squirrels jump from tree to tree. 

I smell the water that's in front of me. and all of the nature that is around

I feel peaceful. Looking and seeing nothing but nature around me makes me feel joyful. As if the worries of my life simply disappeared.

I see the water flowing in front of me really fast. 

I feel the wind and the mist of the raging water splashing off the rocks, hitting my arms and my face. 

I smell all of the water that is going by. 

I feel happy just being here with nothing else to think about except for everything in front of me.

Great Black and White Photographers, PART 2.

Ansel Adams

He was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California, and died April 22, 1984 in Monterey, California.

He was dismissed from several schools because of his bad behavior so he was taught by private tutors and family members from the age of 12.

Photography has always been his main career.

A famous picture published by him was "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome".

*im barely posting this now because i was absent the say everyone else did it and i barely found out there was a part 2.

Mural Project Preview

• A theme I could use here at school is fashion. Like the clothes they'er wearing, the jewelry they have on, and their shoes. 

• I think it's worth devoting time and effort to capture because sometimes it's neat to see how other people dress. Other students might care about it because it shows peoples individuality. 

• The advantages would be to get pictures of the theme when you don't have a camera on you. The disadvantages would be that unless you have a really good phone, the pictures won't come out as well.

• The advantages would be that the pictures, depending on how you take them, will come out better than using a phone camera. The disadvantages would be that you have to carry it around everywhere. 

• We should use SLR cameras so the pictures can come out better. And there's more things we can use like the zooming and flash and the different modes, because some phones don't have that. 

Africa

These pictures are so cool. I really like them. I think it's really cool how he gets so close to the animals. My favorite photo is the one of the giraffes.

This picture is my favorite mostly because I love giraffes. I like how they're just there in their natural habitat. The simplicity rule is definitely in this picture. The background is just the sky so it's really easy to see what the main focus of the picture is. There's no merger. I think there might be rule of thirds.

Photographer: Nick Brandt.

He uses a Pentax 6711 with only two fixed lenses.

He wants to show the animals in their state of being before they are no longer here. Or in the wild.

I think his hope is that maybe with his photos people will realize that humans and animals are equal and have an equal right to live.

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. i think the only challenges was getting a picture with lines. and rule of thirds.
2. i thought about focusing the most. i didn't want the pictures to be too far away or too close.
3. i would go to classes that are more active and make sure to really focus on following all six rules of photography.
4. i actually don't like ay of my pictures. 
5. the easiest one i think i'll achieve is the simplicity one.
6. i think the hardest to capture would be the lines photo.
7. i'm still not totally clear on the rule of thirds.

Academic Shoot

Balance

the subject is the girls and i think its clear to people. i could've taken a different picture for it because this one is just bad and boring.

Frame

the subject is Mr. Fischer and i think it would be pretty clear to people. i think its an okay picture but i could've taken it way better. not so far away.

Lines 

the subject is the lines on the wall and i think it's pretty clear too. i could've taken a better less boring picture of something that consists of lines.

Merger

the picture sucks like it's supposed to. i cut off the people at the front and it looks like her body is cut off where he is sitting down.

Simplicity

the walls are a simple background and the subject is Mrs. Bagnall. i like this picture and i think it's a good example of simplicity. but it is a little blurry.

Academics Photo Shoot Review

I chose this photo because it shows how the kids are interacting in the group they're in. The rules of photography they're using are lines, balance, the rule of thirds,  and they're avoiding mergers.

I think I could take photos like the ones today in a science or english room or the library.

Mabe Mrs. Bagnall's room, Sells, or any other science or english teacher.

To try and get photos like i saw today i'll really have to get them of kids interacting with each other and showing they're learning. Or blowing things up in science class.

best story

The kids are interacting with their teacher in a funny way. The girl is messing with his papers at his desk, the guy is playing with his head, and the teacher has his hands up not knowing what to do but laugh about it. 

fills the frame

The frame is filled with all of the students and whatever science experiment they're all participating in, in the middle.

Best Action/Emotion

The girls are really surprised about what's taking place in their science lab/experiment. There's water in the air and all over the counter! 

Elements of Art & Principles of Design

ELEMENTS OF ART

• Lines are marks made by a pointed tool: brush, pencil, pen, etc. Lines can vary in width, direction, curvature, length, or color.

I chose this painting because of the black line that stands out that's used to draw the bull.

I chose this photo because of the lines that create the bridge.

•   Shapes are formed wherever the ends of a continuous line meet. Geometric shapes such as circles, triangles or squares have perfect, uniform measurements and don't often appear in nature. Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals.

I chose this painting because of all of the different shapes that were used to create it.

I chose this photo because of the obvious shapes created by the fence.

• Color wheels show the primary colors, secondary colors, and the tertiary (intermediate) colors. They also show the relationships between complementary colors across from each other, such as blue and orange; and analogous (similar or related) colors next to each other such as yellow, green, and blue. Black and white may be thought of as colors but, in fact, they are not. White light is the presence of all color; black is the absence of reflected light and therefore the absence of color.

I chose this painting because of it's colorful.

• Value, or tone, refers to dark and light; the value scale refers to black and white with all gradations of gray in between.  Value contrasts help us to see and understand a two-dimensional work of art.

I chose this photo because the different colors of the light stand out.

I chose this picture because of the black and gray.

I chose this photo because it shows a lot of black and gray.

•  Form describes objects that are three-dimensional, having length, width, and height.

I chose this painting because the objects have a lot of form.

I chose this photo because these objects are three-dimensional.

• Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly--the list is endless.  Texture refers to the surface quality, both simulated and actual, of artwork.

I chose this painting because it has a lot of texture to it.

I chose this photo because it looks really smooth.

• Space refers to distances or areas around, between, or within components of a piece. Space can be positive (white or light) or  negative (black or dark), open or closed,shallow or deep, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional. 

I chose this picture because of the space between the people.

I chose this photo because of the space between the shoes.

PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN

• Balance is the comfortable or pleasing arrangement of things in art.  There are three different types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical, and radial. The human figure is symmetrically balanced; the same on the left and right side. The tree is asymmetrically balanced; its branches are not distributed equally on each side, but their total weight is balanced left and right. The sun is an example of radial balance; all its rays are equal in length from the center.

I chose this photo because the sun is an example of radial balance.

I chose this photo because on the butterfly, everything that is on the left is the same on the right.

• Contrast is created by using elements that conflict with one another. Often, contrast is created using complementary colors or extremely light and dark values. Contrast creates interest in a piece and often draws the eye to certain areas. It is used to make a painting look interesting.

I chose this painting because the contrast of the orange makes the flower stand out.

I chose this photo because the contrast in the colors of the rainbow makes it stick out really well and it looks really cool.

• Emphasis in the focal area of an artwork gives it importance.  An artist may stress some elements of the design over others. The eye of the viewer will focus on the area of emphasis or center of interest first, then take in the rest of the composition. 

I chose this painting because the flowers are the center of first interest because they're in color instead of black and white.

I chose this photo because the eye of the viewer focus on the purple flower instead of anything else.

•  Movement in an artwork means the artist is taking viewers on a trip through the work by means of lines, edges, shapes, and colors often leading to the focal area.  Movement is a visual flow through the composition. It can be the suggestion of motion in a design as you move from object to object by way of placement and position.  Directional movement can be created with a value pattern. It is with the placement of dark and light areas that you can move your attention through the format.

I chose this painting because of the movement of the waves.

I chose this photo because the photographer caught the women while they were in motion.

• Patterns are made in art when the same shapes or elements are repeated again and again.  Pattern uses the elements of art in planned or random repetitions to enhance surfaces of paintings or sculptures.

I chose this painting because of the patterns around the whole painting.

I chose this photo because its just one big picture full of patterns.

• Rhythm is the repetition of shapes, lines, and forms.  Rhythm is a movement in which some elements recurs regularly.  Like a dance, it will have a flow of objects that will seem to be like the beat of music.

I chose this painting because of the repetition of the faces of the people in the picture.

I chose this photo because of the repetitions of the signs along the road.

• Unity means that all elements in an artwork are in harmony.  Unity brings together a composition with similar units.  For example, if your composition was using wavy lines and organic shapes you would stay with those types of lines and not put in even one geometric shape.

I chose this painting because all elements in the painting are in harmony. They stayed using the people and just moved them in different directions.

I chose this photo because all of the boats were brought together and united.