Portraits and Self Portraits

Favorite photo

Favorite Pro, Photo

Explanation: What i think makes a good photo, is the types of rules it might include, example leading lines, crop, mergers, etc. And also, what the picture is taken of, and how exactly it's taking and what the aperture/cropping/focus, looks like. 

The next 12 frames i would like to do in my next 12 photo's would be, Rule of thirds, My view point, set the aperture settings right this time!

 

Evolution

1. Changes that were made in the Evolution video to the girls face is, Her lips get lifted, her chin gets lifted as well, her neck gets higher, her eye's get lower, hair gets darker, hair gets longer, eyes get wider, Face gets skinnier, skin tone gets darker on the cheeks.

2. It could be ethically to make her look like that, but in reality it's not, human beings buy the product thinking they will look like in the Ad picture, but when really the add is based on lies, and editing. 

3. The circumstances to doing this manipulation to this woman is very wrong i think, because she is probably happy , yay, she's going to do a photo shoot, but when really it's not her, herself in the photo, it's a manipulation that the people came up with to look like what they want her to fit.

4. Types of changes that are ok, is the fact that she is in a photo shoot, when they put her make up on a little bit, curled her hair. The part that's not okay is when they edit her pictures, that's not okay at all it's not really her, and people in general might think that, that picture had no editing on it.

5. The difference in fashion photography and photojournalism, is fashion photography has so much photo shop editing, making people look how they really don't look, and in photojournalism, your taking pictures of action, and your not really editing the photo when you take it, maybe like the color, but that's mainly it.

6. What each photography has in common to reality is, that they re originally pictures from outside, meaning like the world/ people/ animal/ plant's and what not, it effect's the ethical practice of each by creating it into something it's not for instance evolution, is really ethical and a high fact of manipulation.

Negative Evaluation

1. From looking at my photos about 8 turned out alright.

2. I think about 4 photo's look like they are not going to turn out, i think well most likely it's because i did not set the aperture right.

3. I think the photo that will turn out well is the girl with the big gigantic tube flute player thing, it looks like everything good looks like the aperture is set right.

4. The qualities that i think will come out in my negative is maybe a little bit of good aperture and the focus is pretty good, looks a little bit like it's cropped. The focus on the photo, is good. in the negative.

5. A tad bit of leading lines are represented in my photo, as well as the view point, the framing, and avoiding mergers!

Print 19

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. The main points of the story is that manipulations is somewhat the same as like April fools. April fools day your basically lying to people, But what happened here someone manipulated a photo that worked for the news paper, And eventually got fired for scaring probably a lot of people.

B. This type of photo editing is unethical because if your working a professional job, State the obvious, you OBVIOUSLY have to be professional about your work. It's unacceptable because your trying to state facts, and your not stating facts at all your stating the opposite. My opinion..
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A. I strongly believe this image unethical only because the person who decided to edit this woman's teeth and make it terrible looking on world wide magazine, and they have a professional job, there not being so professional according to this image.

B. The least manipulation was the lady who is screaming at the top of her lungs, and they edited it to make the lighting darker, It wasn't really much of a "fooling" picture i mean it couldn't have gotten me. It is not as bad as others because like i said, It's not that bad of a picture, The editing could have been something maybe more crucial like, the lady sitting on top of him. hahaha, but nah. It's not that bad of a photo.

Drug Cartels in Mexico

Jeff Antebi, experienced a harsh crucial exprerience, I dont think many people can handel seeing random killings, death for no reason. I dont believe that the cartels should be legalized to shoot anyone that is involved with "drugs" for no reason, when most time they have the wrong person! And dont get caught at all for it. Jeff Antebi said "theyre life is in danger everday", I can only imagine being worried everyday that you will get shot at any time if you dont watch your back, You cant live a normal life in Juarez. Just like he said "It's a ghost town at night, The cartels own the night" What time of day do kids like to play? The night. It's not a normal life out there.

Favorite photo would have to be the last one at the end of the video, When Jeff Antebi showed up to a memorial, and took a picture of a girl, With only one tear drop, And he was absolutley amazed because that one tear drop had a million thoughts in her head. I think the photo has leading lines (the tear drop), Cropping, View point.
This was my favorite photo, because you can see in her face expression that her face is just a solid stare with one tear, But deep down, She is hurt, crushed, scared. A million thoughts that day was going threw her head.

Making a Black and White Print

Materials
Thermometer
Clock
Bucket of water
Developer
Stop bath
Fixer
Washer
Wash aid
Rinse aid
Dryer

Chemical's
Agfa Rodinal
Diafine
Ilford Ilfosol 3
Ilford Ilfostop
Ilford rapid fixer

Start to Finish
When you expose film to light, by opening the shutter, the light reacts with the light-sensitive silver-halide particles in the film emulsion. At this point, the reaction is invisible. The film must be developed in order for the reaction to be visible. The film is developed using a chemical developer, which turns the exposed silver-halide particles into a black metal . The film stays in the developer for the correct time to turn the right amount of halides into silver. The dark areas in the original image will have the least amount of silver on the film, and appear transparent. The lighter areas, conversely, will have the most silver. This effect is why the developed film is called a negative. In order to stop the development process, a stop bath is used. It neutralizes the effects of the developer. At this point the film is developed, however the image is not permanent, there are still unexposed silver-halides in the emulsion. If these particles are exposed to light, they will turn into silver quickly. The film has to be made permanent, this is done with a chemical fixer. The fixer attaches itself to the unexposed silver-halides, preventing them from reacting to the light. The final stop is to remove all traces of the chemicals in a wash step. If fixer is left on the film, it will eventually stain the image. There are additives, like Kodak Hypo Clearing Agent, which can speed up the wash process. After washing, the film must dry.

Photos

Definitions

Emulsion; a light-sensitive coating on paper or film

Aperture; a device that controls amount of light admitted

Masking easel; an upright tripod for displaying something

Exposure; the act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience

Safe light; Safelight is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom

Dodging; nonperformance of something distasteful

Burning; burn: pain that feels hot as if it were on fire

 

Developing Black and White Film

Matierals

3 Plastic trays, one for the developer, one for stop bath, one for fixer.
3 Rubber tongs.
Graduated cylinders for measuring your chemicals.
Three plastic measuring cups to use to pour developer, stop, and fixer into your tank.
One developing tank and reel.
Funnels.
Thermometer.
Stirrer.
Small trays
Gloves, for when your dealing with chemicals.
One glass plate.
Cloth, to dry your hands during the procedure.
Filter's for enlarger.
Grain magnifier.
Loupe and light box to inspect film.
Air in a can, to clean photo/film
Wall clock with a moving hand to keep up with your time.
Red safe light.
Enlarger.
Enlarfer timer.
Print easle.
Cloths lines, to hang the prints of your pictures to dry.
Scissors.
Washing agent.
Paper
Masking tape.

Chemicals

-Developer
-Stop bath
-Water
-Fixer
-Considerations
You can get your chemicals from the stores with photography related, like any type of photography stores and the litte things you can probably get from like wal mart or something.

Start to Finish

1. Pre-soak (1 minute for 35mm, 5 minutes for 120)
2. Developer (time varies, usually 7-12 minutes)
3. Stop bath (1 minute)
4. Fixer (5-10 minutes)
5. Wash (20-30 minutes)
6. Wetting agent (1 minute)
7. Dry (4-8 hours)

Needed to process Film

Chemicals

Equiptment

Defining Words

Contact Sheet: A contact print is a photographic image produced from a film, usually a negative, occasionally from a film positive.

Agitation: a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance.

Enlarger: photographic equipment consisting of an optical projector used to enlarge a photograph.

Developer: photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film.

Stop bath: an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer.

Fixer: fixing agent: a chemical compound that sets or fixes something.