Drug Cartels in Mexico

I think this story is very sad. It talks about how people get killed each and everyday. More than 2,000 people have been murdered this past year and the killings continue. To me, theyre not doing anything to stop it and i think they should. Also two students from the University of Texas at El Paso were shot and killed there.  This right here, is shocking! Why in the world would they kill two innocent people that didn't do anything, just like that? It is unbealivable and They have to fic this problem in Mexico RIGHT NOW!

Making a black and white print

• Timers
• Drying Cabinets
• Tongs Or Spatula
• Enlargers
• Focusing Aids
• Safelights

• Stop Bath
• Film Developer
• Fixer
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• Wetting Agent
• Chemical "life span"
• Chemical Disposal

• Secure the lens in the enlarger head.
  Switch off the enlarger light. Place a sheet of print paper on the baseboard, emulsion, or shiny side, up. Then to develop the print place the exposed print paper in the developer tray. Drain all the liquid and then place in the stopbath for 15 seconds and fiber-based paper for 30 seconds. Move to fixer for 2 minnutes and place in wash for 2-5 minutes. Take it out and place it on the dry cabinet. To make the print,
  Switch on the enlarger light. Place a masking easel - a flat metal plate with sliding arms on all four sides for cropping the image manually - on the baseboard. Place it side up on the easel.
  Switch off the enlarger light and place a sheet of unused print paper emulsion-side-up on the easel. Select a filter if using variable contrast paper. Lastly, set the aperture and timer using the test-strip as a guide.



•  emulsion- is a mixture of two or more immiscible liquids.
• aperture- is a hole or an opening through which light travels.
• masking easel-
• Exposure-  is the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium or during the process of taking a photograph.
• safe light- is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom.
•  dodging- decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter.
• burning- increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.
  

Post Shoot Reflection

1. I had a hard time trying to really zoom in to the moment or pose without making it blurry or out of focus. I just kinda got real close so i could capture the moment.

    2.   I was thinking about focusing the most, because so i could get the real image and not just something in the background. First i got real close to the person or objects and i moved the circle in the front to get the blur out.

     3.  Me and my partner tried to get in the best spot like in the corners to get the best shots and action going on in the classrooms.

     4.  What i would do different next time i try to take pictures is really know how to zoom in to the image or moment.

Processing Black and White photos

• A metal or plastic film tank
• Three dark plastic containers to hold chemistry
• Graduates (used to measure chemicals)
• A darkroom timer
• A can opener
• A room that is totally light proof (not even the slightest sliver of light should be visible).
• Developer (see other sidebar)
• Glacial Acetic Acid (optional, for Stop Bath)
• Fixer (Kodak Rapid Fixer with Hardener is highly recommended)
• Hypo Eliminator

 The chemicals that are gonna be used in the dark room are like water, small amounts of glacial Acetic acid with water, stop bath, Hypo Eliminator (also called Hypo clearing agent).



2.

• Contact sheet- A contact sheet is an 81/2 x 11 sheet of photo paper with 6 to 8 color images, generally referred to as proofs
• Agitation- Serves to remove the very thin layer of solution that is working on the emulsion of the film or paper.
• Enlarger-  is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin-silver process, or transparencies.
• developer-a chemical, often a mixture of metol and hydroquinone, which converts the latent silver halide image in the exposed photograph material into reduced, opaque, black silver metal.
• Stop bath- is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photographic films, plates, and paper used after the material has finished developing.
• Fixer-a chemical that removes unexposed silver salts from photographic media and renders them insensitive to light.

Repetition!

This picture is repetition, because you can see all the chairs lined up all exactly the same. 

Friday, October 26, 2007
Doe-Eyed
Lisa Simpson appears on television screens on a new Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 after its inaugural passenger flight from Singapore to Sydney, Australia.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1678828_1478123,00.html#ixzz13gUt5OW6

 This picture is repetition, because all you see are wine bottles lined up together exactly the same size. 


Volumes of Vino
Wine bottles await tasting during the 27th International Wine Challenge in London, England.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1983979_2129014,00.html#ixzz13gVNlNQV

This picture is repetition, because of all the white dots all over the picture.



13 Billion Year-Old Baby
An image made by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows a young black hole about 13 billion light-years away from Earth.


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1973306_2089413,00.html#ixzz13gVst5bw

American Soldier slideshow and captions

2. A:  To me the most powerful photo was the 7th photo in chapter 6: In country, because it focuses just on the rosary with god right in the middle. You can feel how emotional that time must have been for the person holding it.

B: The sequence of the life in iraq is the most powerful, because it shows more how it is to be in a war.

C: The pictures work together to tell a story, because the kinda go in order.


3.
A: The verbs are written in present tense.

B: The captions give the photos more live. You can really understand the picture better when you read the captions.


4.
Ian is holding a rosary in a room by himself praying for his loved ones.

Ian comes back home to his girlfriend and reunite.

Ian's mom is crying when her son leaves for Iraq. They hugged and off he went.

Funny Picture Captions

 In the picture to the left is a guy about to go crazy, if he already isn't. Obviously, this was at a soccer game when he lost badly.

 The picture to the left shows a kid that is getting a shot at school. Apparently the little asian kid is scared of needles. when he was getting the shot it hurt and he screamed like a little girl and all of his classmates laughed at him.

In the picture to the left is a picture of a mad cat stuck in the washer machine. It is one of those evil cats that when it gets mad his eyes shine. You can tell the cat was very mad when he got trapped in the washer machine.