TOUCHING PEOPLE

1) I think this is a great concept and idea. It catches your eye and you can sense the awkwardness.
2) I would most definitely say yes! id be very excited :)
3) I would have midgets look angry at the camera and stand next to tall men smiling.
4) I think the photos are just fine, I mean there not great because this project is more about the idea and concept but the photos are fine there kinda just simplistic.

POWERFUL PICTURES

 I chose this picture because I think its just perfect. I love how the quality of the picture is all gritty because it mirrors the mood of the picture. In the picture a man has just been shot and the Navy chaplain is giving the wounded solider his last rights. You can see the turmoil and chaos present in the picture.  The quality of the picture goes right along with the mood of this image and thats why I love it so much. I think this picture made the cut of the 40 most powerful pictures because everything just works in this picture. There is no error in this photograph, even the mistakes look great. A mans last moments on earth and the chaos of it all, its a very powerful picture.
Photograph by: Hector Rondon Lovera

 I chose this picture because its so powerful. The death of an elderly man waiting for a train in China is a terrible event, but in the darkness and sorrow comes magic and love as a monk prays for the recently passed man. The photographer set up the picture just perfect I wouldn't change anything, its very intriguing and powerful. I believe this picture made the top 40 cut because its just an all around good picture. It makes you feel something! Its a beautiful picture expressing a fascinating subject.
Photograph by: Asian news-Reuters

I chose this picture because I love the opposite characters exposed in this image. A couple making out and a police officer yielding a riot shield during rioting in Vancouver, British Columbia. It looks unreal almost and it really grabs your eye. I also like how the photographer set up the shot by focusing on the couple because their farther away then the police officer allowing us to see both characters in the photograph equally. I think this photograph made the top 40 cut because its so hectic and powerful and it portrays such poler opposites as well as the strength of love.
Photograph by: Rich Lam

Great Black and White Photographers Part ll

                                               ROBERT DOISNEAU BIOGRAPHY




Robert Doisneau is one of the pioneering leaders of photojournalism. His most famous work is his picture A kiss by the town hall, in which a couple is kissing in the busy streets of paris. Doisneau is known for his playful, ironic, mix up of social classes and eccentricity in contemporary Paris streets and cafes.  Robert Doisneau was born in Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne, France.  He studied engraving in college but found it useless once graduated. He first learned photography in the advertising department of a pharmaceutical firm.  In 1932 he sold his first photo-story to the Excelsior newspaper. He was a camera assistant to the sculptor Andrei Vigneaux and did military service before he took up the job of an industrial and advertising photographer for the Renault auto factory at Billancourt in 1934. He was then fired in 1939, and so he took up freelance advertising and postcard photography to make a living. He also worked for the Rapho photo agency for several months until he was drafted to war in 1939. He was a member of the resistance. After the war he returned home and became a freelance photographer for Life and other big international magazines. Robert Doisneau won the Prix Kodak in 1947 as well as the Prix Niepce in 1956. He died in 1994 in Paris the place he lived throughout his life,and is buried in the cemetery Raizeux by his wife, Pierrette.

4 PROMPTS-FREE SHOOT

                                                                         BOWIE
                                                                  Lines, Simplicity

                                                                         METAL
                                                                          Lines?

                                                                        SQUARE
                                                                  Avoiding Mergers

                                                                           HAPPY
                                                                             Lines

The Camera Questions

1) You create a tiny hole in a very dark room, light is focused in the hole and you see the outside scene upside down.

2) When Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens understood optics and glass lenses and how to make them.

3) He added Film! :) His camera was made up of a glass lens, a dark box, and film.

4)  Light still passes through the lens coming into the camera and exposing the film inside.

5) They use an electronic sensor called CCD.

6) On Auto the camera completely does all the work for you, it even controls flash and exposure. On Program mode Camera controls most of the settings like in auto but in program you can control flash and other camera settings.

7) Camera uses fastest available lens setting (aperture) which blurs out the background, allowing you to really focus on the details of your subject.

8) Its used to freeze things that are moving really fast. Its not just for sports, if an angry cheetah was chasing you down you would switch to sports mode to really make the best shot for such an amazing event. Your camera uses the highest shutter speed in sports mode.

9) It allows the camera operator to freeze the focus point and really examine the scene before actually taking the final picture.

10) It means no flash. The flash is disabled. You would use this if you just wanted natural light.

11) Auto flash. Its used if the camera doesn't think there is enough light in the picture.

12) The picture will be washed out, Blindingly annoying.

13) The picture is too dark and you cant really make out anything to pretty.

14) Change in the brightness of light.

15) It would be one stop brighter!!!! laaaalaaaaalaaa

16) It would be two stops brighter.

17) The longer shutter speed the more light.

18) The lesser shutter speed the darker it becomes because less light is allowed in.

19) The amount of light that is allowed in.

YAY! Only one more question!!!!!!!!!

20) Small opening less light in. Large opening more light in! Making it brighter.

:)

Great Black and White Photographers

 ROBERT DOISNEAU- just an extra picture

 ROBERT ADAMS- Favorite picture

 ROBERT DOISNEAU- Favorite picture

IMOGENE CUNNINGHAM- Favorite picture

Best and Worst Pictures

 This is my good picture, although its not that good I like it because its a clean crisp picture. I held the camera straight and still to give it its clean and smooth picture.

This is my bad picture. I tried to be clever and shoot it with a dutch angle but it didn't work. I had to work quickly and my pictures lost there creativity. This picture is awful it looks like a monkey was operating the camera.