Funny Pictures

This is a bad dog.. found his way into the pot of spaghetti(although probably staged). His owners thought it would be funny to cover the poor dog in noodles.




At home, on a cold winter day, jennifer, my precious neice decided she did not appritiate the dog kissing her hand. She is screaming and yelling and extremely angry at our puppy. We were taking care of her for the weekend.. not knowing that would be her reaction to our beloved dog.

Assembly line workers prepare our rare square watermelons. As watermelon by watermelon go by they are being carefully inspected and sent on their way. The only difference is that these are square and are much easier to handle. These were created when a box was grown around them and as they grew they fit to their surroundings.

(sorry not very creative..)

Repetition

An estimated 250,000 blue plastic ducks float down the River Thames during the Great British Duck Race, which raises money for charities.

*This is obviously repetition because the blue ducks just keep going.. there is no end.. there are more and more and more. It makes the picture seem like there are billions of ducks or trillions even. And i think its funny!

A laborer plants flowers for the Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It is estimated that more than 40 million plants will be placed around the city during the games.

*its repetition because the trees keep repeating till the eyes go to the man/subject in the middle. i also like it cause you can see pink flowers in the background.


Lisa Simpson appears on television screens on a new Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 after its inaugural passenger flight from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.

*its repetition because not only do the seats repeat but so does the image on the screens of every seat, and it just keeps going for what seems like forever!

Sugar Hill

1. Melanie Burford in addition to the photography used music and dialog to complement the pictures to give them more of a story.

2. They helped tell the story. They gave a saddness and lack of hope that most of them are feeling. it made her pictures more breath taking cause they gave a sense of background or knowledge, and more emotion.

3. I think the most effective thing is the music behind the video.

Post Shoot Reflection

1. Some problems i encountered were that people were not comfortable with me getting close to them to take the picture. I had to search for people who were comfortable with me getting close and typically these were people who knew me and were friends with me.

2. The thing i was thinking about the most while shooting was lines. I wanted to get good lines. Because when i evaluate other peoples photos i look for lines, and the ones that have lines happen to be my favorite pictures. So when i am taking pictures i want to take something that i would want to look at. If that makes sense! lol

3. like i said i used lines...but i also tried using rule of thirds to make the photo appealing. i wasn't as succesful as i had hoped! : )

B&W Photographer-Senses

My photographer is Dorothea Lange.

1. While looking at her photos i noticed that she uses lines to an extent(which is my forte), but mainly she liked using things that were either up front in your face with simplicity or using the rule of thirds and balance to place something upfront but also put a subject in the background.

2. the first photo:(putting my self in the photographer's place)
i see:two men walking down a long dirt path, tired, exaughsted, poor. and all they see is a luxury billboard, and how they are imagining how they wish their lives were.
i smell:dirt, dry air, heat and sweat. there is miles and miles of dirt and thats all you seem to smell, no flowers or greenery, just dirt and dry.
i hear: the rustling of feet on a dirt gravel road. the sounds of a train and a tractor in the far far distance. just the sounds of these 2 men walking.
i taste: nothing, the dry dirt, no water or food for miles, just the shear essence of my surroundings of dirt and nothing else.
i feel: sad. i feel like they are alone in the world and no one cares. i feel like no one has cared for these men so they are off to find somewhere new, and new start.

the second photo:(putting myself in the photographer's place)
i see: children all in rows, hands on heart, and reciting the pledge to our flag. i see a japanese american girl with a perplexed face, like either not remembering or not seeing the importance of the pledge. she looks uneasy about her surroundings.
i smell: the sweetness of a classroom, maybe a perfume smell of the teacher. i smell innocence and kindness.
i hear:childrens voices in unison reciting the pledge of alligence. almost to a point where it is loud yelling, like they want to make sure that their voice gets heard above everyone elses, i hear incorrect verses, and a bunch of jumbled mess of sound.
i taste: nothing imparticular, nothing really at all.
i feel: sad for this child. being forced against her beliefs to recite this, i feel sad that this is what it has come to that children are forced to say the pledge, forced against their right.

third photo:(putting myself in the photographer's place)
i see: a sad young girl, tired, and poor, i see her mother in the background, also tired and sad. seeming like they are doing whatever they can to get by but its not enough. i see them surrounded by dirt, they own little, and are left sad from the outcome of the economy and their lives.
i smell: dirt, dry air, just dirt. no smells of flowers or greenery or cooking or perfume, just dirt. it is a dry smell, and unappritiated smell. a poor smell.
i hear: the sound of wind along the flat plains. the rustling of their dresses in the wind, nothing else, silence. dead silence.
i taste:dry dirt, nothing of any importance. there is no water or food just dirt, and sadness. only dirt.
i feel: like there is something i can do to help these people. something i can do to make their lives a bit easier. but there is nothing. nothing i can do. i feel the need to reach out to them even though i cant. i feel sadness.


3. If given the opportunity to publicize my photographer to the class and school i would like to make a poster. i think i could make a good demonstration of her photos through a poster.

Developing Film in The Darkroom

1.Turn off all lights in the darkroom(must be pitch black, no light leaks)

2.pry off top of film canaster(flat side) and take out the film

3.tear the little plastic roll off of the end of the roll of film

4. put your roll of film on the reel and place in the tank(light sealed canaster)

5. make sure the lid is on tight

6. then you may turn the lights back on.

7. take your tank with the film in it to the trough with the chemicals

8. first you pour in a developer(has to be at exactly 68 degrees). You leave it in the tank for about a minute to a minute and a half, you must adjatate it for the first 10 seconds and after every minute for 10 seconds after.

9. tap the tank and then pour out the developer into the drain

10. then you pour in the stop bath, which stops the development for 30 seconds

11. then pour that back into the container to save it.

12. then we pour in the fixer for about 5-10 minutes.

13. now you can remove the lid because the film is fully developed. you may now look at your film if you wish to.

14. put your reel into a cold water wash for about 5 minutes.

15. then pour in a Perma wash which washes the film off and removes any traces of fixer and agitate that for 2 minutes

16. then put in another water wash for 5 minutes

17. then hang to dry in a dust free room or area for about 1-2 hours

18. then it is dry and you have completed negatives, and you can cut your negatives into 5's and put them in negative sleeves.

AND THEN YOUR DONE!!!!!! YAY!!!

Great B&W Photographers Revisited

Dorothea Lange:Biography

Born: May 26, 1895

Birth place: Hoboken, New Jersey

Died: October 11, 1965

When Dorothea was 7 she was diagnosed with polio which left her an obvious limp which her own mother was ashamed of. Dorothea's dad walked out on her family when she was young, and dorothea's family moved in with their grandmother and aunt, which is when she discovered that she enjoyed photography and wanted a job doing that instead of her mothers ambitions of her being in education. Dorothea lived a full life with many friends and family, she created a name for herself as a famous photographer mainly in the 1930's during the great depression where her work is more noticed.

What the Pros are doing-Sports

focal length of lens-there isn't a far focal length, it is relatively close to the action, but to the background there is a very far focal length.

shutter speed-5.6

what is the effect of this shutter speed?-to let in the correct amount of light and to catch the action.

aperture-1/250

what is the effect of this aperture setting?- it is meant to capture fast moving items.. and because they are playing sports it makes complete sense.

position-he had the camera positioned on the ground up to get the structural view of the building but also to catch the action of the people.