Portrait Assignment Final

Date: 10/16/2011

Location: Spaghetti Factory

Time: 18:50

f/stop: 47.1

Shutter Speed: 1/8

ISO: 3200

Date: 3/21/2012

Location: McDonald in Seattle

Time: 13:31

f/stop: 4.0

Shutter Speed: 1/160

ISO: 10000

Date: 10/7/2011

Location: Friend's house

Time: 21:28

f/stop: 4.5

Shutter Speed: 1/130

ISO: 1600

Date: 4/1/2012

Location: Korean BBQ

Time: 17:47

f/stop: 4.0

Shutter Speed: 1/50

ISO: 3200

Date: 3/22/2012

Location: Space Needle in Seattle

Time: 15:28

f/stop: 8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/640

ISO: 800

Survival Guide

Photography-Landscape

Photoshop-FileFormats

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Portrait Project

Family member - host family
Friend - Double Dong
Stranger - ?

Portrait Exercise

KONY 2012

1. Kony 2012 is a film created by Invisible Children, Inc. which became a viral video. The film's purpose is to promote the charity's 'Stop Kony' movement to make indicted Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony internationally known in order to arrest him in 2012. The film has spread virally. Kony stands accused of overseeing the systematic kidnapping of countless African children, brainwashing the boys into fighting for him, turning the girls into sex slaves and killing those who don't comply.
His forces are believed to have slaughtered tens of thousands of people and are known for hacking the lips off their victims. Kony has been wanted by the international criminal court since 2005 on charges that include crimes against humanity. He has been living in the bush outside Uganda since that time.
The US designated the LRA a terrorist group after September 11, and in 2008 began actively supporting the Ugandan military. In October, the president deployed 100 combat-equipped troops – mostly special operations forces – to Uganda to advise regional military units in capturing or killing Kony.
2. I think drector wants stop "Kony 2012",but it has also attracted criticism: there are questions about the charity's funding, its targeting of US leaders instead of African leaders to instigate change, and accusations that it is failing to criticise the Ugandan government, with its poor human rights record.
3. I think this film is good idea. For me, that is not bad thing, perhaps I will feel tired about that, but it is very significant. To me, I like this film, but I cannot do it like that, but I will do my best.
4. I think if even a person who wants to be famous, do not use this way to do it. If like that, The world would only cast aside him.
5. I think raising awareness and a call to action can not be separated each one. We cammot only have the one of that.
6. I think this problem can happen at anywhere where has people live. We need some people who is famous or has some Prestige in the society.
7. I perhaps go to the area where is very poor and block. Ask the poeple who lives at there, about their live, education and income. And appeal people to help them.

In Class Portrait Assignment

Portrait Photographers

Philippe Halsman (2 May 1906 Riga, Russian Empire - 25 June 1979 New York City) was an American portrait photographer. He was born to a Jewish family of Morduch Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Riga, Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden. Halsman had his first success in America when the cosmetics firm Elizabeth Arden used his image of model Constance Ford against the American flag in an advertising campaign for "Victory Red" lipstick. A year later in 1942 he found work with Life, photographing hat designs, one of which, a portrait of a model in a Lilly Daché hat, was his first of the many covers he would do for Life. In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. In 1951 Halsman was commissioned by NBC to photograph various popular comedians of the time including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope. While photographing the comedians doing their acts, he captured many of the comedians in mid air, which went on to inspire many later jump pictures of celebrities including the Ford family, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe, María Félix and Richard Nixon.His 1961 book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas, discussed ways for photographers to produce unusual pieces of work by following six rules: "the rule of the direct approach," "the rule of the unusual technique," "the rule of the added unusual feature," "the rule of the missing feature," "the rule of compounded features," and "the rule of the literal or ideographic method." In his first rule, Halsman explains that being straightforward and plain creates a strong photograph. To make an ordinary and uninteresting subject interesting and unusual, his second rule lists a variety of photographic techniques, including unusual lighting, unusual angle, unusual composition, etc. The rule of the added unusual feature is an effort by the photographer to capture the audiences attention by drawing their eye to something unexpected by introducing an unusual feature or prop into the photograph. For example, the photograph of a little boy holding a hand grenade by Diane Arbus contains what Halsman would call an added unusual feature. Halsman's fourth rule of "the missing feature" stimulates the viewer by going against his or her expectations. The fifth rule enlists the photographer to combine the other rules to add originality to his or her photo. Finally, Halsman's literal or ideographic method is to illustrate a message in a photograph by depicting the subject as clearly as possible.In 1958 Halsman was listed in Popular Photography's "World's Ten Greatest Photographers", and in 1975 he received the Life Achievement in Photography Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He also held numerous large exhibitions worldwide.

Architectural & Urban Photography Assignment

EXT 1

1/21/2012

Downtown Portland

19:28

f/stop: 3.5

Shutter Speed: 1/80

ISO: 5000

EXT 2

1/21/2012

Downtown Portland

19:34

f/stop: 3.5

Shutter Speed: 1/50

ISO: 8000

EXT 3

1/21/2012

Downtown Portland

19:43

f/stop: 3.5

Shutter Speed: 1/60

ISO: 10000

INT 1

12/04/2011

Pioneer Square

19:47

f/stop: 8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/80

ISO: 6400

INT 2

12/04/2011

Pioneer Square

17:53

f/stop: 8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/400

ISO: 10000

INT 3

12/04/2011

Pioneer Square

17:58

f/stop: 8.0

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO: 10000

WATER 1

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

12:37

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/800

ISO: 200

WATER 2

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

12:41

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/1250

ISO: 200

WATER 3

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

12:45

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

ISO: 200

PEOPLE 1

1/24/2012

Pioneer Square

15:47

f/stop: 7.1

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO: 1600

PEOPLE 2

1/31/2012

Gateway Max Station

16:37

f/stop: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/100

ISO: 1600

PEOPLE 3

1/21/2012

Gateway Max Station

10:37

f/stop: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

ISO: 200

MISC 1

1/21/2012

Nearly by my house

9:57

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/1600

ISO: 200

MISC 2

1/21/2012

Nearly by my house

9:48

f/stop: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

ISO: 200

MISC 3

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

11:13

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/800

ISO: 200

MISC 4

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

11:21

f/stop: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/250

ISO: 200

MISC 5

1/21/2012

Rose Garden

11:25

f/stop: 5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/1000

ISO: 200

MISC 6

1/31/2012

Gateway Max Station

15:40

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/60

ISO: 800

MISC 7

1/31/2012

Fred Meyer

15:55

f/stop: 5.0

Shutter Speed: 1/60

ISO: 800

1/19/2012

During this class, I learned the basic about shoot portrait, the point is light. Different the way of light can get different effect. 
If the light from higher way for face, that make the bottom of face has shadow. 

Photography Terms

1. I like photography because I keep every great moment in the picture, I cannot forget them forever.
2. The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or image sensor. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film's or image sensor's degree of exposure to light. The aperture affects not only the amount of time required to take a photo, but also the depth of field within it. 
3. ISO is short for International Organizational Standard.  In the photographic world, ISO is most commonly referred to as a film rating system.  Think film photography, not the movies.  In terms of film, ISO is used as a rating system to tell you how sensitive the film is to light, or how fast the film is.  The lower the ISO number the more time the film needs to be exposed.  The faster the ISO film speed, less light is required to take a picture.
4. The shutter speed is simply the length of time that the light hits the film or sensor allowing the image to be recorded. Each variation in speed is known as a stop.Shutter speed affects image quality in two principal ways. Firstly the longer the shutter is open the more light you get. There is a point however when a long exposure can make an image noisier as it allows heat to build up on the sensor, which affects the recorded image. Secondly shutter speed controls the impression of motion in an image. A long exposure/shutter speed blurs motion, giving the impression of greater motion of the camera or subject. 

5.Exposure is controlled by the proper selections of ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture. Mastering the art of exposure is something that takes a lot of practice. In many ways it’s a juggling act and even the most experienced photographers experiment and tweak their settings as they go. Keep in mind that changing each element not only impacts the exposure of the image but each one also has an impact upon other aspects of it.

6. Depth of field is a measure of how much of a photo is in focus. If you use a compact digital camera, and use it in auto mode, you probably have a “long” depth of field. This means that practically everything in your photo will be in focus. The f-number is probably the most widely known and used method of controlling DOF. Another way to control depth of field is to change your distance from the subject in focus. The last factor in your control for DOF is the focal length of the lens you decide to use.

7. In this mode you as the photographer sets the aperture that you wish to use and the camera makes a decision about what shutter speed is appropriate in the conditions that you’re shooting in. In this mode you as the photographer choose the shutter speed that you wish to shoot at and let the camera make a decision about what aperture to select to give a well exposed shot.
8. Tonal values are what make a painting 'talk' not the color - no matter how much color you put in a picture, if the values are not correct, it will make no difference. 
9. In statistics, a histogram is a graphical representation showing a visual impression of the distribution of data. It is an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by Karl Pearson.  

10. Natural: Probably the most flattering form of lighting, perhaps because this is the way we see most things and most people everyday. I always try, when I am able, to make the most of any natural light whether it is outdoors, indoors or just a shaft of light coming in through a window, even if I have to bounce it using a reflector.

Window Light: If shooting portraits of people or wedding portraits or church scenes etc, try using any available daylight, even if it means moving people to another room in their house. Diffused window light, not direct beams of sunlight, can create a real sense of calm and mood to an image.

Outdoors: The worst type of natural light for portraiture is direct sunlight. It can cause heavy lines and shadows as well as squinting and is very unflattering. If you have no choice, spin the subject around with the sunlight behind and fire away whilst exposing for the face. 

Natural Plus Fill: When shooting using available light, you only have so much control and there are times when you need to help out a little. 

Flash: Personally, I only use direct flash if absolutely necessary. If I am indoors and the ceiling is low enough and fairly bright, I will always bounce the flash to diffuse the flashlight. Direct flash indoors is horrible and tends to wash out the colors and leave nasty shadows behind your subject. If you are using direct flash, to lose the shadows try and manoeuvre your subject so that they are a healthy distance away from any walls etc, and open up the aperture to blur the remaining background. 

11. Raster images are stored in a computer in the form of a grid of picture elements, or pixels. These pixels contain the image's color and brightness information. Image editors can change the pixels to enhance the image in many ways. The pixels can be changed as a group, or individually, by the sophisticated algorithms within the image editors. The domain of this article primarily refers to bitmap graphics editors, which are often used to alter photographs and other raster graphics.
12. The Lasso tool, The Polygonal Lasso tool, The Magnetic Lasso tool, The Rectangle and Elliptical Marquee tool, The Extract Function, The Magic Wand tool, The Custom Shape tool, The Pen tool, Color Range, Quick Mask Mode, Alpha Channels.
13. The original image is equivalent to the negative in film photography. I think nobody would taken a negative, scratched it and cut it up in pieces to see if they liked the printed image. Working with layers gives us the opportunity to have an absolute control over the whole adjustment process, and it preserves the original image as a reference. Every single step we take, we should do it in an individual layer, if we need to cover minor imperfections, we can have a layer where we clone or use the healing brushes. We also should have individual layers to apply corrections in color, contrast, saturation, etc. and use the layer masks to have a perfect control.
14. In 1985, Frank Fournier photographed Omayra Sanchez a 13 year old girl who was trapped in debris following a volcano eruption in Colombia. The child could not be rescued, and eventually died of exposure. Fournier won a World Press Photo Award for his image of the girl, taken just hours before she died. Which philosophical principles might Fournier have been applying when he took the decision to photograph the little girl rather than roll up his sleeves and dig her out? He was almost certainly adopting a Utilitarianism approach - that is to say that reporting the loss of this life will be to the benefit of the greater good in the long run. What is less certain is whether Fournier was operating under a Categorical Imperative: if, as could be argued, reporting the news is a universal duty, then his action was justified. If, on the other hand, the right to dignity and privacy at the time of death is considered a categorical imperative, then, unable to help, he should have looked away.
15. I am not sure, I kust know photography is a kind of art, and many people like it.