Love and Loss

At the beginning I felt joy in looking at how happy they were together and as i worked my way down I began have sad emotions bubble up inside of me. I saw how hard things got for them and it made me feel pity for them. I got to see how she fought and how she would get upset and miserable.  I think what he meant when he said this was the photos show what hard times they went through and how sad things got sometimes.  they show her having cancer and being sick. But the thing is, they went through this and lived with it. It doesn't mean that's who they are, just because she had cancer doesn't mean she is cancer.
 I think I could shoot photos like this but it would be very hard for me to document suffering. I would tell Angelo that I respect him for not leaving her side and deciding to stay with her and fight with her and love her. it must have been hard for him to take pictures and stay positive but he did it or him and for her. He loved her for everything she was worth and he doesn't regret a thing. That's a man to respect and he deserves to live the rest of his life happy.

abandoned theme parks

I would like to visit Lincoln Park in Dartmouth, Massachusetts because its has a very creepy vibe to it. I feel like I could take some really cool pictures from angles if i went there. I also like how the roller coasters there are broken. The way they are broken is very distinct. Also I like how the landscape around it has grown. There are trees and bushes that are slowly taking over the park just pouring into it. It really gives the viewer the sense that the park is abandoned.

5 Unusual Photos Places

1. Abandoned water parks

2. Abandoned Malls

3. Abandoned Gas Stations

4. Abandoned Football Stadium 

5. Abandoned Churches 

I really like this photo because this really creepy feel to it and it just makes you feel very uncomfortable and empty inside. I would want to shoot in a empty mall because I could make the photos feel very creepy and a mall is so big that there are so many places to go to take photos. there are also so many creative ideas and angle to shoot. Having something be very spacious ad empty can make a person feel emotion for it and I want to make people feel emotion for my photos. also the lighting in a mall is great to take photos.

For me to be able to go and take photos at an abandoned mall I would need a car ride to an abandoned mall and a camera but I own my own camera. I think that its legal to take photos at abandoned malls but I would look into it and ask permission just in case I needed to. I would also need back up because abandoned malls are scary.

Reaction to Africa

I really like what his passion is to take photos. He doesn't care so much about them being documented as great dramatic photos but rather the actual subject and state of being in the photo. He really takes in all is surroundings and focuses on what is there and not the camera. He likes to live in the moment and really cares about the beings he captures on camera.

This photo is of an adult elephant and a baby elephant. The baby elephant is on the ground. the adult elephant looks sad. This is my favorite photo because i really like elephants and the emotion in this Picture is so overwhelming. I like the body language of the elephants in the photo and the natural look on their faces. Simplicity is evident in this photo because there is nothing in the background other than the empty grey sky. The rule of lines is also evident in this photo because there are lines all over the elephants and lines horizons in the background. 

Nick Brandt

 Nick uses pentax 67II with two fixed lens. He uses these lenses and not the telephoto because he wants to get close to them and understand their personality. He takes these pictures because he wants to capture the beauty of an animal before they are acting in the wild. His hope is that we humans will stop putting them in danger because he believes everybody has an equal right to live.

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

Funny Captions

Fickle Fin is smiling with sunglasses on that have a hooters girl in them. He was somewhere outside in the photo and stared at something that made him happy.

Carl, Robert, Sandy, and Lenard are sunning their selves on a bench on a Sunday afternoon. They were upset in the picture and tried to make the photographer mad.

Grandma Pappy is lighting a cigaret on her 100th birthday. She was in her house celebrating her birthday but no one showed up.

Academic Shoot Reflection and Critique

I didn't experience many problems. Everything was pretty easy to shoot. The only thing that I found difficult to shoot was Simplicity. Because we were in a school, I couldn't seem to ever find a subject that was alone or find  a background without people or posters in. I really kept in mind The Rule Of Thirds because I wanted to make sure I did it right. I made sure to do this right by really shifting my body over and putting the subject in the corner of one of the photos. If i could do the assignment again, I would shoot in the library. or I would shoot in the court yard because it would be easy to get simplicity. I would still go into class rooms and shoot from different angles. I think the rule easiest to achieve will be framing. I understand that rule very well. I still think simplicity will be the hardest to capture because there are not many simple places in life. I am totally clear about all rules but if I were to be confused I would just look it up and read more about it.
http://mathiassphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/academic-shoot.html

I really like the simplicity of the photos and i really like how well he followed the rules for the photos. One thing I think he could have done better is the framing.  The framing around his photo isn't very clear.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

 What caught my eye in this photo was the emotion that goes into the photo. there is so much action, suspense, and feeling in the photos. I see in this photo dead people, and smoke. I see trees and guns. I smell smoke and gun powder. I hear shot beg fired from and guns and the constant yelling. I taste blood and salt that runs down my face. I feel respect for the men in the photo.

This photo caught my eye because this is abnormal. not many peoples fingers look that way which meant something was wrong with this person. I also really like how they shot the angle from the bottom. Most of the photo is blurred but the part that is left open defines the photo. I see a sick person in this photo. I see skinniness and doctors. i smell what an hospital would smell like. i hear people screaming in the emergency room and utter chaos. I taste medicine and I feel sorry for the person in this photo and scared for them.


I would like to create a panel of some sort to display somewhere in the school that everyone can see. It would be in a place that everybody passes and on a hard board panel. I want to put photos on the board.  The photos would show people my art.

photography street art

We could do an academic theme. take pictures of our hard work and plaster it up on walls to show people our hard work. i think we should open it up to regular cameras too because it simply wouldn't be fair if somebody had a phone with no camera or just didn't have a phone at all. I think I would want to put the mural on the academic building because the building is kind of boring already and it would fit with the theme.

academic shoot

lines

I think I followed really well on this photo because there are a lot of lines in the picture and they all lead to the same subject. The subject is the kid wearing a black tank top sitting in a chair and drawing. i think its basically clear what the subject is because he is up front and clear. The guy in the background of the photo is blurred. 

rule of thirds
I think I followed the rule very well on this photo because I put the main subject in the top left of the photo. The Subject is the girl wearing the dark blue dress sitting in the chair drawing. I think its very clear what the subject is. There is a lady walking down the middle but she is blurred and far away. The girl in the chair on the other hand is up front and clear. 

simplicity
I don't think I did the best I could have for this rule because there are stuff in the background but he is the only subject in the photo. I don't like that there is stuff on the board in the background. The subject is the guy in the grey shirt and black shorts looking upward. I think its very clear who the subject is but the only thing is that the background is just too noisy.

framing
I think I followed this rule very well because its clear the side and bottom framing. it really looks like he is enclosed by this poles and it makes a perfect square. The subject of the photo is the kid in the blue shirt with black pants sitting at a desk working. It is incredibly clear who the subject is because he is upfront and clear.

Balance
The rule for this photo is displayed very well in this photo because there are 2 students on each side and the desk make a square. Also there body shape on each side is the same so the body shapes are in balance. The subject in the photo is 4 boys. there is the kid in the white shirt, the grey shirt, the dark grey shirt, and the back shirt. its very clear who the subjects are in the photo and they balance out nicely.