Ethical Beliefs in Photo-journalism

I believe that if you are a good photojournalist you will have no need to alter your photo, there is a difference between things like cropping which I believe is ok because you are not really altering the picture, more like pin-pointing a specific part of the photo. There are things like erasing things from the photo and adding things to the photo, digitally altering. There is a limit to altering you could say.
I think a photo can capture the truth, but it is the photojournalist's job to get a decent photo that has no need for digital alterations.

Fashion Ethics

Changes Made to the Model with computer:
Clearer Skin
Longer Neck
Bigger Eyes
Fuller Lips
More Hair
Smaller Ears

I think that it was completely unethical for them to change the model as much as they did. I think that it is alright for them to change whatever they want in real life, but I do not think they should be able to physically alter someone's appearance on the computer.
The difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that 99.9 percent of the time fashion pictures are unethically altered in some way, most of the time in photojournalism, alterations of an image are very minuscule .

Ethics: Manipulation

I think that it was least unethical for national geographic to move the pyramids closer together because they are not altering a historical event, they were just altering the image slightly to accommodate the vertical cover.

I think the Daily News was wrong for printing this photo altered as it was, because absolutely nothing about this photo is real except the people, the whole thing is a false story and should not have been aloud to be printed.

Ethics: Photo Manipulation

UW-Madison doctored a picture used for the cover of 110,000 brochures and new student applications. The shot was taken at a 1993 Badgers football game. Paul Burrows, vice chancellor for student affairs came across the original photo which had only white students in it, he, being black, said that it did not represent the campus' diversity, none of the pictures did. Burrows was later presented with an altered image, someone had digitally altered the image to try and represent racial diversity by adding Diallo Shabazz's face, who is black, to the left corner of the image.

Funny Captions

The manager of a solar power plant goes E.T. style on one of his employees shoving the sun down his throat.

The employee was smarting off to his boss after he had specifically said "get out of line again and I will shove the sun down your throat!"...what the employee didn't know, is that his boss was serious.

Young poodles pups decide to play a quick game of twister before springing off too bed.

First photojournalism shoot

n your blog - Answer the following questions about shooting your first real photojournalism assignment:

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get close, capture real moments, and capture action or emotion? How did you deal with these?

2. What technical aspects of photography (focus, exposure, composition) did you find yourself thinking about the most, and how did you make sure you did these correctly?

3. Describe how you attempted to use at least one of the advanced composition techniques when you shot.

TIME: Pictures of the Week Repetition

Caption: Cyclists hold up their bicycles during a 'Critical Mass' demonstration on the European Car Free Day in Budapest, Hungary.

Repetition:

Caption: A deputy waits before French President Nicolas Sarkozy's speech to members of the ruling party UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) at the Elysée Palace.
Repetition: The objects in this image repeat are the chairs and the color of the chairs along with the red carpet.

Caption: Lisa Simpson appears on television screens on a new Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 after its inaugural passenger flight from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.
Repetition: The repetition in this photo is Lisa's eyes, the shape and color of the seats, and the light color.

Photoshop Basics

Online Edit

Sugarhill

Assignment:
1. Go to the following site
Sugar Hill


2. Watch the slideshow, and answer the following on your blog:
A. What skills in addition to photography did Melanie Burford utilize to produce this slideshow?
B. What was the effect (added power or meaning) of the multimedia effects of the slideshow.

3 . Explore the page including the map, videos and the other features. What is the most interesting multimedia effect? Post your answer on your blog.

9/11

What the Pros are Doing - Sport

Focal Length of Lens:
300mm
Shutter Speed:
1/320
What is the affect of shooting at this shutter speed?
It catches quick moments.
Aperture:
13.0
What is the effect (depth of field) shooting at this aperture?
Shooting with this aperture allows deep depth of field.
Position:
The photographer was standing on a small sandbar in the lake so he could get a closer shot.

Great Black and White Photographers

Lee Friedlander

Garry Winogrand

Josef Koudelka

Academics Preview #1

The Story:

I chose this image as the photo that tells the best story. This image, I believe, tells a story of a girl trying very hard to achieve her goal of graduating and is concentrating so hard on her studies she doesn't even realize what's going on around her.

Action and Emotion: I chose this picture as my most action and emotion image because the photographer had to be very precise when taking this shot because the fire only stays lit for a matter of seconds. He captured the guy blowing the chemicals through the fire as well as the emotion of excitement on the guy's face with the lighter, who seems to be very intrigued.

Filling the Frame:

I chose this image as the image that best filled the frame with the most interesting things. This shot is focused on the guy but there are still alot of objects to keep your eyes busy and to make the picture so interesting. There is not so much dead space as in some of the other images.

Negative Critique

1. I can not find any problems with my negatives, I don't see any water spots or excessive light exposure or anything.
2. I think that 12A of my negatives was the worst because it is the back of everyone's heads. I think the best picture I took was 16A because the frame was filled well and it was at an interesting angle.

Pinhole Camera Images

My Favorite:


In this pin-hole image most of what is in focus is the hay. The tulips are a bit out of focus and kind of blurred but you can still make out what they are. This image is a very good pin-hole image because there is very little blur and the image is not warped.

My least favorite:

Photo Critique

The photographer captured the moment in the middle of the speaker's speech, although there is quite a bit of extra space around the speaker, there is enough of his body in the frame for him to still be the main focus of the shot. It is also candid, you can tell because the speaker is not looking directly at the camera and is in the middle of talking.














In this shot there is way too much extra space in the background due to the frame not being filled properly. It is not necessarily a bad photo it just could have been closer to the subject and maybe at a diffrent angle. It is candid because the he is not looking directly into the

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