Unusual and Interesting Photos

       I think that Christian Rhum's work is very visually interesting and simple. I really like the simple background of the work. The pairing of the dizzy, multiple pictures along with the simple background gives the picture a calm, yet dazed feel. I think that to capture these photos, Christian had to take multiple pictures of the same subject and then overlay them on the same photo frame. A nice subject for this type of photography would be the Empire State Building. This building is very tall and it has a very detailed structure. The Empire State building is in New York and I would not have easy access to it since I live in Austin, Texas.

Part 2

Part 3

1.Being able to capture a story telling expression is an awesome skill to have as a photographer.

2. What this can teach photographers is to never stop looking for the right angle to take a photo.

3.There are almost a dozen different stories going on here and none of them are distracting each other.

Great Black and White Photographers Part 2

Ansel Adams was born on Febuary 20, 1902, in San Francisco, California. In 1906, he was hurt in the San Francisco earthquake. He behaved badly and was introverted as a child. He began to show an interest for photography at the age of 16. His wife and him then ran their own family studio called the Ansel Adams Gallery. Ansel then got very famous and popular among the companies and got lots of assignments. He even wrote a few books of his own. He died due to a heart attack on April 22, 1984.

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Turnage, W. (n.d.). ANSEL ADAMS BIOGRAPHY. Retrieved September 22, 2015.

My Fave Photo

My favorite photo from the Jostens photo contest was the picture of the girl in the science experiment      wearing glasses while pouring some kind of red dye into a splashing mass of pink liquid. The photo is titled "Drop the Bass."

I picked this photo because I really liked the colors and the way that the drops of pink liquid seemed to be frozen in mid air. The rules of photography in this photo are simplicity because the background is blurred out and not much is going on in the picture.

Filling the Frame

I really like this image because of all the things going on in it and the way that the buckets are lined up in a diagonal line. This picture fills the frame well because the people are also both in diagonal lines along with the buckets. The picture just seems to be composed very well.

Action and Emotion

In this picture, the two girls seem to be performing a science experiment. I thought this photo represented action and emotion the best because the two subjects seem to have very naturally surprised, excited expressions. I love how the photographer managed to capture the image in a way to where it seems like time is frozen and there are drops of water in the air.

The Story

This picture has a very good story behind it. In the picture, the girl is planting flowers probably on her own time for her school. The story behind this picture, is that this girl is generously helping out her school and doing community service by planting flowers as well as the girl behind her.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Ethics in the Age of Digital Manipulation describes occurrences where photographers working for newspapers have been fired in the past due to manipulating and photo shopping photos. Many of the pictures were taken of very serious events that had occurred and photographed.

Personally, I think this type of photo editing is unethical because the newspapers are basically lying to people. Newspapers are generally known for broadcasting the truth. People deserve to know the truth about import events like in the category of politics. This is unacceptable and the people that got fired for photoshopping should have gotten fired. This is basically a form of lying and the newspapers should just be giving the information to the public untouched and raw.

Most Unethical

This photo shopped picture of Oprah is the most unethical example of photoshopping because TV Guide photo shopped her head onto Ann Margaret's body. This is very unacceptable and disgusting. The company had no right to do this to Oprah unless she gave the company her permission. They are falsely advertising a real human being by distorting their body parts and pasting two  totally different people together. This is basically stating that Oprah's body is not good enough for the cover of their magazine when really, if they want to post a picture of her, should feel comfortable using a photo of the REAL Oprah and ALL of her body parts!

Least Unethical

This picture is the least unethical because it is quite obvious that the tear coming out of the subject's eye is false. The makers of the magazine also credited the illustrator of the tear and explained in the magazine that it was false. A reader can easily tell that this picture was edited and revised.