Rules of Photography Part 2

The Three Pillars of Exposure: Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed

Aperture

f2.8 

f16

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture?

We should closely relate to the face.

2. Finish the sentence- The smaller the aperture the larger the f number, the higher the aperture the smaller the f number.

Shutter Speed

High Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

1. If you were assigned to shoot at Blue and Gold night, which was earlier this month, what shutter speeds (slow, medium, fast)  do you think you would have to shoot at the following events that night I would like you to answer the question for the following two situations:

At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light

• At the dunking booth: Fast shutter speed
• The food eating contest: Medium shutter speed
• The rock climbing wall: Slow shutter speed
• Someone working at a booth: Medium shutter speed
• The DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle: Medium shutter speed
• The Diamonds performance: Fast shutter speed

Towards the end when there is no sun and it is dark so there is not enough light to see from one end of the courtyard to the other.

• At the dunking booth: Slow shutter speed
• The food eating contest: Medium shutter speed
• The rocking climbing wall: Medium shutter speed
• Someone working at a booth: Medium shutter speed
• The DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle: Medium shutter speed
• The Diamonds performance: Slow shutter speed

2. List the THREE settings your camera has regarding setting shutter speed (these are found at #5 on the Shutter Speed website. Explain how each works.

Aperture Priority- The camera set the shutter speed automatically.

Shutter Priority- The camera sets the aperture and the manually select the shutter speed

Manual- Set shutter speed and aperture

ISO

                                               Low ISO                                     High ISO

1. What are the advantages of shooting with a high ISO setting at a sporting event like at a night football game?

Caption Writing

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.   Emily Vasquez screams when she sees Adam Martinez body lying on the ground in the middle of the street near the local park in Ohio, on Tuesday at 1:20 p.m. Kneeling to the ground Vasquez was devastated when she saw Martinez got shot from a drive by.

3. Aaron Williams, James Smith, and Michael Anderson, stand on a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place podium after the winners of the 1989 Olympics are announce at 12:30 p.m. Williams and Smith raise their phis in the air as a symbol of black power during the time of racism. 

4. Fire fighter Andrew Dominiquez rescues baby girl Jackie Fisher, from a bomb explosion in Buffalo, New York at 3:40 p.m. Baby Fisher was trapped crying inside the explosive building when Dominiquez heard her and got her out of there.

5. Marathon runner Jack Brown, almost reaches the finishes line when he trips and falls to the ground in England on Thursday at 10:35 a.m. Brown is so close to the finishes line when his ankle gave out and falls to the ground, as police officers and audience members run to help him up.

Mural Photos

Great Black and White Photography Part 3

1.) What first caught your eye while looking at your photographers photos? Is there something in particular that made you want to choose them?

What first caught my eye about Max Waldman's photos is that they were all mostly about dancing and how dedicated these dancers looked and showed off their amazing talent.

2.) I see that the dancer, Natalie getting into the music.  She dances with great passion and dedication. As she hits a pose, I snap the picture and capture a great photo of Natalie dancing.
     I smell the hairspray that all the dancers are wearing. All the perfume in the air of the audience and performances.
     I hear the stomps when the dancers land from doing a type of jump. The sound of the audience being amazed of what the performance are doing.
     I taste the perfume of the audience.
     I feel the excitement of the audience and the nervousness of the performers.

3.) I would like to create posters and signs of both of the really great talents, Waldman's photographs and the dancers/performers. It would really get other peoples attention by seeing something so original and different. It also shows off their passion towards what they love to do.

Mural Project Perview

1. A theme I would use for the mural is passion, as in someone being passionate for music, dancing, singing, art, sports, and etc.

2. This theme is worth devoting for because it has to do with what people are passionate about and what they love to do, and to show their talent.

3. The advantages of using a phone camera is being able to take a photo wherever you are at as long as you have the phone, but the disadvantages is that you might not be able to get as good as picture as a professional camera would.

4. Some of the advantages of using and SLR is getting better pictures then phone cameras would take and being able to make adjustments to it.

5. I think we should use SLR because it would be better quality and more options of doing other things with it.

Africa

I really like this photo because of the way the two lions are acting and the close up of it, there was many good pictures but this one caught my eye.

I would say avoiding merges and simplicity, because nothing is being cut out, and the background is clear.

a. Nick Brandt used a Pentax 6711with only two fixed lenses.
b. He took this pictures because a trilogy of books to memorialize the vanishing natural of East Africa.
c. His photography bears little relation to the colour documentary-style wildlife photography that is the norm.
d. "You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close."

Academic Shoot Reflection

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you?

One of the challenges that I faced was trying to get a photo that follows clearly all the rules.

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.

Some of technical aspect  I focused on was like blur background and good focus on the main subject.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?

I would probably take better photos that follows the rule better.

4. What things would you do the same?

I would still do the same of asking people the do a certain thing so I can get a photo that would follow the rule.

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?

The easiest will probably be rule of thirds

6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?

I think avoiding merges might be the hardest to do because you're trying not to cut anybody out.

7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?

Probably avoiding merges, and I can probably start taking better pictures on try to figure out what it is.

Academic Shoot

Lines

1. I followed the rule pretty well, but I know i could of gotten a better photo.

2. The subject is lines and the rails defined the lines.

3. The photo is pretty clear that the subject is lines.

4. I could of taken a better photo to follow the subject.

Simplicity

1. I think I followed the rule pretty well, because of the clear background

2. The subject is the girl in the middle, and the clear background.

3. I think is pretty clear what the subject is.

4. I could of done a better focus on just the girl and nothing popping out on the sides.

Rule of Thirds 

1. I followed the rule pretty good.

2. The subject is the girl reading that is to the left on the photo and not centered.

3. Its pretty clear what the subject is.

4. I think this photo was good and followed the rule.

Balance

1. I followed this rule well.

2. The subject is the girls being on different levels, and the girl on the left being slightly tilted

3. The subject is clear on what it is.

4. This photo was good and followed the rule well.

Framing

1. I followed this rule well

2. The subject is the girl and sitting in front of the window type frame.

3. Its pretty what the subject is.

4. This photo was good and followed the rule well.

Avoiding Mergers

1. I think I could of followed this rule better

2. The subject is the guy in the middle and the people around him.

3. I think is not so clear what the subject is, I could of gotten a better photo.

4.The photo was good, but i could of gotten a better photo.

Academics Shoot Preview

The Story

I think this photo is the story because in the picture it seems that the teenagers are providing food for the homeless. Giving them a good decent meal.

Action and Emotion

I think this photo is a good action and emotion because of the group of teens in a circle holding hands and bowing their head.

Filling the Frame

I think this photo is a good photo for filling the frame because of the group of students crowding the steamy sink area and all putting their hands in it.

1. I picked this photo because of the focus is on the kid and the lab his working on and the background is blur out which makes him stick out more.

2. One of the rules of photography is balance because of the beaker in the center and the two beakers on the sides the kid is pouring in the center breaker.

1. I think I can take photo like the ones above in chemistry classes and student leadership.

2. I would like to visit the dance room, chemistry rooms, student leadership, 

3. I would be more creative in getting a better photos.

Rule of Thirds

In this photo the plan on the far right is the main object and isn't in the center

Frame

I like this photo because of the paper surrounding the people looking at all the mens on the window.

Balance

Simplicity

Elements of Art and Principles of Design

Elements of Art

Line- 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 the status are shaped in lines.

I chose this photo because the walk way represents the lines and also the rails along the side.

Shape- 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 the Campbell's soup show the sizes and the shapes they are in which is a cylinder and each of them are in a rectangle shape frame.

I chose this photo because the rails on the benches represent the shapes which are circles.

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 it has a lot of different colors.

I chose this photo because its a natural color effect, and the colors are bright.

Value(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 painting because the man is in black and white and the flowers that he has in his right hand that seems like his about to throw are in colored.

I chose this photo because it captures the person running and its not blurry. I also like that the dust is blowing as the person is running.

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

I chose this painting because ball that the hand is holding makes this painting look like 3 demential and in the ball is the reflection of the things around.

I chose this photo because of the way the glass cups are arranged and you can see the class cup getting smaller and smaller.

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 of the way the ground is breaking apart making the painting look so realistic. 

I chose this photo because of the specific shapes of the flower and what's around it, making the flower pop out.

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 painting because of all the people doing different things some are talking, many are hugging, and the spaces between everybody is all different.

I chose this photo because I thought it was pretty cool how the straws look like and shows the spacing between them especially because its bright different colors.

Principles of Design

Balance- 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 painting because even though the figure on the right looks like a human head its shaped like             the tree on the far left, and the hair on the head match the branches and leaves on the tree.

I chose this photo because even though its all rocks they levels look uneven which makes the balance of the figure being uneven pop out pretty well.

Contrast-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 man is in black and white and the flowers that look like his about to throw are colored which makes the flowers pop out even more.

I chose this photo because all the fishes are gray going the same direction except the orange fish going to opposite direction, making itself unique.

Emphasis- 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 artist's focus is center to the bull in the center and then goes off looking at the other animals around it.

I chose this photo because the first thing someone will notice first is the big bright red door then go and looking at the rest of the photo.

Movement- 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 the focus is towards the man and the moves to what he is doing with the two lines.

I chose this photo because the image captures the figure in a position a person wouldn't normally be in.

Pattern-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 shapes that are on the mans and lady's clothing. The man's clothing has a bunch of rectangles and the lady's has a bunch of circles.

I chose this photo because of the building shapes it creates and the pattern is all going down the same way.

Rhythm-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 ripples on the lake and how peaceful it looks.

I chose this photo because of the rhythm of the flow of the water.

Unity- 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 of how simple but beautiful this painting is.

I chose this picture because of the position they captured this photo and the way the boats are formed