Show And Tell.

I really love this picture because its for breast cancer awareness. I think its beautiful when people get together and do stuff like this to show that they care. I get very emotional when it comes to cancer. I have alot of family suffering from it and I know they appreciate it when people show them love like this.

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I like broadway. I really want to go to New York one day. In this video, the Broadway Across America Austin and the Bass Concert Hall are showing all the inside things, like backstage, makeup stuff like that. I thought it was pretty cool.

Sports.

Shot with: Canon EOS-1D, EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM zoom, shot at 1/640 f/2.8

Yearbook Pictures.

Filling the Frame;

I think this picture is filled nicely. The main focus is on the chick but you can still see the scenery. It shows the way high school might look to us-very busy. Kids are moving from class to lockers to their next class. I think this picture is sending the message that not many of us sit back and relax for a second because of the rush we feel at school.

Action or Emotion;
This picture reminds me of myself. That is the exact same look I have on my face when I have to get a shot. This girl is deffinately in pain. You can feel the hurt just screaming off her face. I love it! Well I dont love the fact that she's in so much pain, I love the fact that this is real. This is probably what most people feel like when they have to go through something like this.

Telling a Story;
This picture makes me laugh. I think the story its telling is that this girl is having a really good time in class and she might actually be learning something. Her expression is so shocked, like she really wasnt expecting her hair to do that thing its doing. I can just imagine the classes reaction. Its one of those very rare memorable moments you have at school that you remember one day and you tell your friends "hey you remember that one time in that one class when you did that one thing?? yeah. good times" haha

Contest Winner!

This picture is very powerful to me. The creativity of it deffinately is what caught my attention. The lighting reminds me of a eclipse the way its dark on one side and light on the other. Its a pretty simple picture because it has a flat background, but the way the space is used by this girl is really cool. I dont think I would have liked this photo if it wasnt done in black and white. It has a very metalic look. I like it. (:

Great Black And White Photographers - Part 3

1.) I guess the first thing i noticed about these pictures are that they have a very rustic, ancient look. I like the fact that they're not taken in color because if they were in color they wouldnt have the same affect on how I look at them.

2.)

I see an old man with a load that looks way too big for him.

I smell this old guys sweat and potatoes...I think thats whats in the sacks. Potatoes.

I hear cars passing by and children playing.

I taste potatoes!!!

I feel the exhuastion rolling off this man. He has got to be tired!

I see stairs and Im expecting some beautiful servant girl to come down any second now.

I smell perfume and expensive foods made by the servant girl to serve to some stuck up princess.

I hear the princess rushing the servants and their annoyed sighs.

I taste the food and how good it is. Its rich people food so of course its good.

I feel the need to hurry. The rush of the servants trying to get things done for this stupid princess.

3.) I would like to do a poster for the great photographer thing. Its the best and easiest way for me to get creative.

Photo Composition

Framing.

Avoiding Mergers.

Background.

Balancing Elements.

Leading Lines.

Cropping.

Rule Of Thirds.

Patterns.

Viewpoint.

Creating Depth.

Hurricane Ike

I like this picture because the photographer didnt really focus on the hurricane itself, but he focused on the message the people had. This picture is also a good representation of the rule of thirds if it was split horozontally.

This picture really caught my eye because it was taken from a distance and it catches pretty much a whole neighborhood. You can see the rows of houses and it kind of reminds me of a pattern. The fire also catches my attention. I think that might have been the photographer's intention, to catch the fire because its basically a flame on water.

This is a really good discussion picture. Its focus is the girl in the room but the message is bigger. The way her face looks is probably a feeling all of the people had. Its also a very simplistic picture. Its not alot of commotion or more then one thing thing to focus on.

Great Black And White Photographers-Part 2

Eugene Atget was born in Bordeaux in 1856. He was an orphan raised my his uncle. At an early age he shipped to sea as cabin boy. As a young man, he tried to be an actor. He started in France where he was usually given unattractive roles, such as a villian. As he got older, acting started to bore him. He then turned to business in the art world. Finally he decided to be a photographer. Atget assigned himself an alluring and provoking subject, the city of Paris, the dream city of thousands of struggling, aspiring, gifted and would-be poets, painters, composers. Paris, the city of art and bridges over the Seine, of boulevards and cafes, of narrow, crooked streets and gray plane trees in the beautiful Luxembourg gardens. Atget was so devoted to his photography. He would rise early in the morning for shots and even changed his diet- I'm not sure what that has to do with photography, but he did it. Atget died in 1922, but because of a close friend, Berenice Abbott, his work was promoted in America, elevating it to recognition as art, beyond its original reputation as documentation.