Portrait Vs Professional

I think what makes a good photo is what the subject is and what you incorporate in it to bring out the subject, such as emotion or backgrounds. In both the self portrait and the professional portrait by Mark Seliger, there is things that pop out in the picture that make it interesting to look at. In the portrait above it is a self portrait of the girl in which she expressed her emotions by adding words and other pictures, using herself as the background in which it catches attention by all the emotion it brings. In the professional photo of Carlos Santana the background and flowers added to the portrait help portray a peaceful mood describing what Santana's music purposely gives off. It helps to show what kind of artist he is yet the background and flowers is a subtle touch and doesn't take away attention to who the subject is.

Ethics in Fashion Photography

In the dove Evolution video the model in the video drastically changed when they photo shopped her. They elongated her neck, brought down her shoulders which made her face look narrower, raised her eyebrows, made her eyes bigger, and added color to her cheek bones on top of all the makeup that was put on her. 

I think personally it's not that unethical to change the way the person looks on pictures to display a product to be sold because they have a right to perfect the photo how they want it to look to look more appealing to the audience but it can be unethical because it looks nothing like the original. It can be sending the wrong message to other girls and how they should look if women in real life don't really look like that, like if it was all a lie. 

I think obvious changes that should be okay to change in order to better enhance the picture would be the lighting, being able to crop what only needs to be seen, and to fix red eyes and blemishes and maybe even some body imperfections that shouldn't be seen, for example cottage cheese thighs. What shouldnt be changed is the features of the face and body in order to make them a certain way or the complete appearance such as changing eye color or make the body of the girl slimmer than what they really are.

The difference between photography and photojournalism is that the purposes of both can either draw attention to different audiences and are used for different issues. Photography is usually for personal interest or for artistic purposes such as modeling and advertising or just to capture your own meaningful moments. In photojournalism it can also used to express artistic ways but also for newspapers and worldly news that we need to be aware of. In photojournalism you have to write along with the picture to say what's going on.

 

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

During the Lebanese war this photographer took pictures of the missles launched by the planes in Israel and made it look more intense by photo shopping it adding darker smoke and increasing the number of flares dropped by the planes. They found out about his photo manipulation and fired him as photo editor and stopped associating with him. There has been many cases like this in which important news is being messed with. I think this type of photo editing is unethical because the people are being lied to about what is really happening and we can't help to go by what the media says. I could start necessary conflict that can lead to bigger issues.

I think this picture is the most unethical one because they made it seem as if the soldier is doing a bad job of protecting the people, as if he's telling the man with the child that he has to sit down. What was really happening was he was actually waving and when the man was getting up the soldier was actually looking the other way. Maybe it affects the way people assume that soldiers aren't all good.

I think this picture is the least unethical for it doesn't really affect anyone and it may help make Oprah look better to the public. This kind of publicity isn't as negative and not a lot of people would react to it and definitely not in a negative way.

 

National Geographic Warm-up

I really like this picture of the buildings in Dubai with all the fog highlighted by the sun because it looks surreal. It seems as if there's something happening to the world like the end of the world type stuff. It would also seem really cool if you were up in those buildings when this is happening. I would submit a photo of the downtown city of Austin with all the building and commotion of 6th St because that's part of  my world.

Abandoned Theme Parks

The abandoned theme park I would go visit and take pictures at is Takanonuma Greenland in Hobara, Japan. It has so much greenery and tall tress with ponds that would make a great fairytale- looking theme for girly photo shoots.

Five other unusual places suitable for photography are alley ways, abandoned buildings, subway stations, graveyards, and churches.

By Gary Heller "Room 2-091"

I think in this room in an abandoned building would be a good place to shoot because it gives pictures a mysterious, scary mood. Its ugly because it's old and abandoned yet it's still artistic and pretty. An ugly background would make the subject of the picture look beautiful and stand out from the setting. In this setting I would put a model with a really pretty gown sitting in a dainty chair to focus on her amongst all the ugliness. It can also tell a story as if the woman was a ghost and portray that the building was once beautiful many years ago. Setting like these will help tell stories in your photography and help express your creativity as a photographer.

In order to have a photo shoot at a rural place like this would have to be in the city such as California or New York and go to the places of more poverty in which there's old buildings like this one. I don't think you would have to consult an authority because the building has nothing in it to disturb. We would also need a lot of lights to keep the photography bright as in old abandoned buildings are always dark.