Portraits and self-portraits

 Favorite self-portrait

Favorite Professional portrait



















What makes a good picture is if it includes any of the rules of photography. Also the position in which the photo was taken and the shapes patterns and colors. The quality and how well the picture looks gives the finishing touch to a good photo.


For my next 12 photos, the style i would like to do is the self-portrait one.

Ethics in fashion Photography

1. The changes that were made were that the neck was longer and skinnier, made her eyes look bigger, changed the way her hair was and put it in a new position, got the wrinkles off of her face, etc.
2. I don't think it is acceptable, because it isn't her natural beauty and every girl deserves to express her NATURAL beauty, not something made off of the computer.
3. This type of manipulation is wrong, because once the people try it they will not see the same results so it's basically a waste of money, because it isn't true.
4. The types of changes that are ok are maybe the hair, and the wrinkles. The ones that aren't are making her face look skinnier and her eyes bigger.
5. The differences between fashion photography and photojournalism are that in fashion they basically change the way something looks to make it look perfect. In photojournalism they just change the positions to make it a better picture, but it is still all the same.
6. It is still the same person, place, or object and that's how it connects to reality. This makes it even more inappropriate to manipulate people.

Negative Evaluation

1. Only 4 of the pictures i took turned out well.
2. Like 8 of my photos, almost all of them probably won't turn out well, because of the bad composition.
3. The negative image that i think will turn out the best is the first one with the orchestra class playing, because to me it is the one picture that looks clearly and has good quality.
4. The technical aspects that are shown in the best picture is focus. You can tell by the way it looks. ( clear)
5. A composition technique that is present in my favorite picture is the shapes and pattern.

Photo Manipulation and ethics

A. The main points of the story are that Manipulating photos is somewhat like a crime. Basically you, put someone elses face or something into another picture, causing it to be fake. Manipulating images has violations as well. This is cause people get offended due to this kind of act.

B. I think this type of photo editing is unethical, because it is offensive to many people. They are fake pictures which could result in a fine and they just a big violation.

 I think this is the most unethical, because it is basically all a lie, trying to make people believe that it was a miracle.

I think this is the least unethical, because it was used for educational purposes.

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).



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• 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.