Great Black and White Photographers Part 3

 I chose Sebastiao Salgado because I felt that he took real photos of hard truths that some people can't even imagine. For example the photo to the left is a picture Salgado took of a mine in Brazil, this photo describes the awful conditions and labor that the workers go through in days work.  In this photo I see the bags of rocks being passed up the lines of the hardest workers. I smell the terrible odor from the hundreds of sweaty bodies in the mine. I hear the grunts of the workers as they haul bags of dirt and rocks up the mine. I taste the kicked up dirt in my mouth as if I was a worker in the mine. I feel the bag of rocks on my back as I use all my energy to walk up the mine.  In this photo I see the endless miles of dirt ahead of me. I hear the wind bring dirt and sand up off the ground hitting my blanket. I smell the dirtiness of my blanket. I taste the sand in my mouth and the sweat that rolls into my mouth from my forehead. I feel the hot air and wind brush against my face.

I would like to show the world my great photographer by creating a slideshow or website that only shows his photos and where they were taken, I don't want to ever distract the viewers focus away from his photos. I simply want them to just see the photo and interpret how they would like.

Africa and Abandoned Theme Parks

1. I found it very interesting that Nick Brandt only shoots in Africa. I also found it interesting that he used to shoot music videos for Micheal Jackson, Moby, and Jewel. Nick Brandt doesn't use telephoto lens, he would rather get dangerously close to these wild beasts, which I find extremely courageous.

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3. I chose this photo as my favorite because lions are my favorite animal, and he does a great job of showing the pride in the kings of the Savannah.
4. I want to say that the rule of thirds applies to this photo because the lion in on the left third of the photo, but I'm not. sure if that's correct.
5. Brandt uses Pentax 67II with two lenses on medium-format black and white film without telephoto or zoom lenses.
6. Nick takes theses pictures to make the pictures look like artifacts so the viewers can feel like the animals are already long gone.
7. He hopes people will help preserve the animals homes.
8. "I'm 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. What I am interested in is showing the animals simply in the state of Being. In the state of Being before they are no longer are. Before, in the wild at least, they cease to exist. This world is under terrible threat, all of it caused by us. To me, every creature, human or nonhuman, has an equal right to live, and this feeling, this belief that every animal and I are equal, affects me every time I frame an animal in my camera. The photos are my elegy to these beautiful creatures, to this wrenchingly beautiful world that is steadily, tragically vanishing before our eyes."

Theme Parks

Gulliver's Kingdom, Japan:

I would enjoy visiting this Amusement park and shooting photos here because of the scary/ screen scenery that takes place here. Reading the backstory of the stage things that have happened at the park also interests me to visit this park. I would not enjoy the Suicide Forrest because it is rumor that people feel insane visiting it and end up ending their lives.

Other Creepy Amusement Parks:

1. Abandoned Soviet Submarine Base - Pacific Submarine Fleet Nuclear Shelter, Pavlovsk, Russia

2. Germany Military Hospital - Beelitz, Germany

3. Kiev Subway Tunnel - Kiev, Ukraine

4. Sorrento Abandoned Mill - Sorrento, Italy

5. 107 year old Floating Forrest - SS Ayrfield in Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia 

I would enjoy taking photos at the Sorrento Abandoned Mill in Sorrento, Italy because of the vegetation that has grown over the building's structure. I would take pictures of the arched windows. I also would use the arched windows as a framing element in my photos.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

1.  The website states how manipulating photographs has advanced with newer technology, and how you can change a photo in a matter of minutes. The website also states how photojournalism ethics is a rising issue in the photography industry.

2.  Newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today enforce strict guidlines on photographers to shoot and edit their photos a certain way.

3.  I believe it is appropiate to crop, change contrast, brightness, and red eye when editing photographs. 

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I believe this is the most unethical photo manipulation because they simply cropped Oprah's face off of her body and put it onto the body of Ann-Margret. I also think it is unethical because it shames Oprah that she wasn't good enough to be on the cover of the TV-Guide.

Great Black and White photographers part 2

Sebastião Salgado

Sebastiao was born on February 8, 1944 in Amiores, Brazil. He originally went to school to become an economist, and eared his master's degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo. His career started at the International Coffee Organization as a economist, but he later on, in 1973, abandoned his career as an economist and started to become a photographer. Salgado worked on these long term self assigned projects that often got published into books, including, The Other Americans, Sahel, Workers, Migrations, and Genesis.

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Academic Shoot Preview

2018 Winners

The story

I think that this photo describes the best story because I can feel the excitement in the picture. I can also imagine the end of the football play like it was shot a video.

Action/Emotion

I think that photo describes the most action and emotion because you can see all the boys effort being put into his huddle over the bar.

Interesting

I think this is the most interesting picture because I'm just wondering why he is so mad. I also wonder if its not anger making him scream but rather accomplishment.

2012 Winners

I picked this as one of my favorite pictures because I love long-boarding so much, and I relate to this picture so much. I understand the absolute grind of gnar when you just long home with your homies from school. This photo also describes the completion element, balance, because the two figures are holding similar size objects on different sides of the picture.

I also picked this picture as one of my favorites because I love the saying "you mad bro", it is just a normal question but people get so mad at it. This photo also describes the composition element, avoiding mergers, because the frame of the photo cats the person on the left in half vertically. 

Peer Reflection

https://kyleblogo.blogspot.com/  I really enjoyed Kyle's photo of the metal prompt because it was very simple. I also enjoyed Kyle's photo of the happy prompt because Dorian is extremely happy.

Post Shoot Refelction

During the photo shoot, I encounter some but not very many challenges trying to capture the assigned prompts. One of the challenges was trying to shoot the square prompt, it was some what difficult to find places that represented squares. Another challenge II encountered was shooting the metal prompt, because it was hard to find simple subjects of metal.

I found my self focusing a lot on the framing and focus of the photos, specifically when I was shooting the picture of the squares, I focused on seeing all the individual squares.

If I could do the assignment differently I wouldn't do anything differently because there no regrets, bruv.

I would do everything the same if I could do the assignment again.

I wouldn't be apposed to shoot those prompts again because I could try to get more pictures that represents the same prompts.

Prompt Shoot

Metal 

This photo represents the prompt "metal" because the gate is made of metal. This photo also represent the composition element, lines, because the gate creates lines leading to Kyle's face.

Happy

This photo represents the prompt "happy" because Weston is smiling in the picture and smiling typically relates to happieness. This photo also  represents avoiding merges because we cut his body off in the picture. 

Bowie

This photo represents the prompt "Bowie" because it is a picture of the construction at Bowie high school. This photo also represents framing because the sides of the building make a frame around the construction. 

Square

This photo represents the prompt "square" because the gate on the roof is made of tiny squares made into a big square. This photo also represent the composition element, lines, because the posts of the roof meet in the middle of the picture where the squares are.

Simplicity

I think that this picture represents simplicity because there is not much background and if there is any it is not in focus, and all focus is on the subject, the man.

Framing

This photo represents framing because the sky scrapers on the edge of the picture provide a frame for the explosion.

Avoiding Mergers

This photo represents avoiding mergers because the person on the left of the picture had his arm cut off in the frame.

Balance

In this photo, I think that the two firemen sitting and facing away from one another creates a balance to the photo.

Rule of Thirds

This photo represents the rule of thirds because the man covered in dust is standing in the one third of the picture.

Lines

In this photo the window panels make lines leading your eye to the falling man. The photo has a very vertical feel because of the vertical lines.