Explain what happened to the man that was killed by the subway and how the photographer was able to take the photo.
The man in the subway was hit by a train after being pushed down on to the tracks. He struggled for a few moments to get out before the train hit him. The photographer tried to help the man out but couldn't pull him out so instead tried to warn the train driver with the flash of his camera, also capturing the images we see.
Why did the photographer say he took the photo?
The photographer said he took the photo's to try and warn the train driver that there was someone there with the flash of his camera.
Do you think the photographer should have taken the photo?
I think that he should have perhaps gotten the people around him to help the man out and taken photos or just tried to help the man more.
Do you think the photographer did the best thing he could have done in this situation? Why or why not?
I think he probably could have tried harder to help the man but when you get in a situation like this you fall back on what you are used to doing and for him it was taking photos, I think he could have helped nmore but I understand why he didn't.
Do you agree or disagree with the decision to run the photo on the front page of the New York Post? Explain why or why not.
No, I think it was an excellent photo that told an impressive and interesting story, I don't think there was any thing wrong with them running the photo on the front page.
What is more important to a photojournalist, capturing images of life as it happens or stopping bad things from happening? Why or why not?
I think it is important that we capture the stories around us but also important that we still realize that we need to help if we can, I guess I'm on the border with this one.
Do you think it is ever ethically acceptable for a photographer to involve himself/herself in a situation that he or she photographs? Explain why or why not.
I think it is ok, especially in a situation like this where someone might die. If it is a lesser situation then I thin the photographer should leave it alone and just take photos but in a life-or-death situation we need to reevaluate the ethics of it.
Should photojournalists always avoid influencing events as they happen? Explain your answer.
Not always, no in dire situations I think our humanity calls us to act.
After reading the responses from the professional photographers, what stands out as the most appropriate response for a photographer to this situation.
I think the photographer should not be blamed for what happened, he did his job and captured a story I probably would have done the same.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Finals -12/10/14-
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| 1,000 feet over Buffalo N.Y. photographer James Madd captures the incoming storm, last week. As wind rushed in the city prepared for the snow, locking doors and closing roads. The storm covered the city and stayed for several days, keeping everyone on lockdown, yesterday afternoon the snow stopped and people emerged to a winter wonderland. |
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| Leaping for cheering crowds Fancy, the star of the Ethel Bros Circus's horse show, finishes his performance with a curtsy, at least, as close as a horse can come to one. Fancy came into the circuses possession when he was a foal and has been well-rained since then. He has been the star of the horse show for three years, taking over when his former, Griffin, got to old to do the show. |
1. Rule of thirds
Make a tic-tac-toe board over the photo, place the subject on one of the crosses
2. Balancing Elements
Either side of the photo should have something to balance out the other side
3. Leading Lines
Lines in the photo that lead your eyes to the subject
4. Symmetry and Patterns (repetition)
If you were to fold the photo in half it would be almost the exact same on either side. A repetition of color or shape that leads your eyes across the photo.
5. Viewpoint
The position the photographer thames the photo from, below, above, eye level, etc.
6. Background
A simple background helps the viewer to figure out what the subject is and to keep their attention on it.
7. Create depth
Having layers in your photo going back, getting blurrier as they go, helping give the illusion of depth.
8. Framing
A border surrounding your subject and highlighting what the viewer should be focusing on.
9. Cropping
Cropping in closer to get only the subject and nothing else around it to distract from the subject.
10. Mergers and avoiding them
Mergers can make objects less defined, cut people out of a photo, or make you want to warn someone that it looks like that seagull is about to run into them. To avoid them review your surroundings for possible mergers and check for them before taking the photo.
Aperture, controls the about of light in your photo, the smaller the aperture diaphragm the larger the f-stop. The larger the diaphragm the more light come in, and visa versa.
Shutter Speed, the amount of time your shutter is open, shutter speed can freeze movement and is measured in fractions of seconds.
ISO, determines the sensitivity of the light in the photo and if misused can make the photo grainy.
Formal - The subject is looking at you and might be dressed up or have makeup
Environmental - The subject is interacting with their environment
Self - The subject is your self
Casual - The subject is in a casual pose
Exposure - The amount of light per unit reaching the image sensor as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
Depth of Field - the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
Focal Length - The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
Formal - The subject is looking at you and might be dressed up or have makeup
Environmental - The subject is interacting with their environment
Self - The subject is your self
Casual - The subject is in a casual pose
Exposure - The amount of light per unit reaching the image sensor as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.
Depth of Field - the distance between the nearest and furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.
Focal Length - The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.
Early Magazine Covers
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
Fashion Photography -12/10/14-
In the first video the photo-editors enlarged her eyes, made her lips plumper, made her neck thinner and longer, and defined her cheekbones more.
In the second video they changed her skin and lip tone, enlarged her eyes, made her legs longer, thinned her calves, thinned her face, lengthened her neck, and made waist line smaller.
In the third video they slimmed her entire body, defined muscle, made her head smaller, gave her longer hair, straightened her posture, and thinned her waistline.
It is not ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like these. It gives viewer a false sense of what they are looking at and is false advertising, in my opinion.
I think that the amount of editing you do can change how ethical it is but it is all pretty bad. Telling viewers that change was made and only changing a small amount you are being more ethical than a full out non-recognizable new person.
I don't think that any of it is ok but some changes that aren't as bad might include eye color change or hair change. Some worse ones are waist line slimming and lengthening necks and legs.
Fashion photography's focus is to sell a product while photo journalism is trying to capture the world around us and tell a story.
Photo journalism is going out and telling a story, spreading a true message about something. Fashion photography is a means to sell a product and is editing so much that the photo no longer holds and truth.
I think you are showing us these so that we realize how far some people go and we see the difference in fashion photography and photo journalism. We see why we can't edit a whole lot, it makes the message of the photos untrue.
I think you are showing us these so that we realize how far some people go and we see the difference in fashion photography and photo journalism. We see why we can't edit a whole lot, it makes the message of the photos untrue.
I think that there are not men in these because men's bodies aren't as objectified as women's.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
Magazine Covers -12/1/14-
When designing a magazine cover be sure to keep in mind these five things.
1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue (that’s the brand)
2. Emotionally irresistible (that’s the image’s appeal)
3. Arousing curiosity (that’s to pull the casual glancer in)
4. Intellectually stimulating, interesting (that’s to promise benefits)
5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan (that’s showing off the service)
Early Magazine Covers
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue (that’s the brand)
2. Emotionally irresistible (that’s the image’s appeal)
3. Arousing curiosity (that’s to pull the casual glancer in)
4. Intellectually stimulating, interesting (that’s to promise benefits)
5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan (that’s showing off the service)
http://www.magazine.org/asme/magazine-cover-contest/past-winners-finalists/2014-winners-finalists
- Formal
- Environmental
- Informal
- Informal
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Formal
- Informal
- Formal
- Formal
- Informal
- Formal
- Formal
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| "For W’s December/January Art Issue, the magazine collaborated with artist Yayoi Kusama to create this iconic cover image depicting George Clooney. The visually arresting image is the highlight of the cover story, for which five leading female artists were invited to create interpretive portraits of the actor. Clooney wears a suit painted by Kusama with her signature polka dots and stands against a polka-dotted backdrop. Planned to coincide with the opening of an exhibition of new work by Kusama at David Zwirner Gallery, the cover makes a powerful reference to the artist’s iconic self-portraits." |
In this portrait the photographer uses the busy back ground and the matching outfit to make the only non effected area, his face, stand out. It definitely catches your attention as you are looking through the magazines. I also like that the side that has more light is also the side of the suit with more and bigger white dots, adding to the brightness of that side. On thing I could pick on is the text being a little hard to read, perhaps having the color be just a bit darker or a the lettering a bit less opaque would make it easier to read.
Early Magazine Covers
Earlier Magazine covers had basic covers with a title, a small illustration centered underneath it, and the author's name under that. The illustration did not relate to the subject of the article but was instead mainly for decoration. Keeping up with the times, magazine covers became more Victorian during the era. Artistic lettering and leafy, viney, and flowery designs began to show up on covers but as the times moved on so did the magazines.
Postor Covers
As magazines moved on they morphed into the poster cover. A poster cover magazine consists of one large image that usually doesn't inform about the article inside, a logo that doesn't cover the photo, and an absence of cover lines. Although most poster cover images did not relate to the story inside the magazine they did generally convey a season, feeling or mood.
Posters Married to Type
Soon enough magazine covers started to include cover lines later followed by pictures that were related to the story inside. Soon the subjects of the articles started taking to modeling for the pictures that would go on the covers of the magazines. Sometimes a magazine would underline the most important subjects or the main article's cover lines, drawing attention to them.
In The Forest of Words
Soon words and cover lines become an important part of magazine covers. Some cover lines become bigger than the titles of the magazines and competed with the title for your attention. The images are no longer foreground, put behind cover lines, titles, and sneak preview photos of what's inside.
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