American Soldier slide show and captions

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?

The most powerful image was # 47, Because Lan had a moment to say his last goodbyes to Buddha and Cody before he left back and get ready to go to Iraq.   

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.

Set #1 At home in Denver -  from image #1 to image #9

Set #2 At Basic Training -  from image #16 to image #30
Set #3 In Iraq -  from image #51 to image #70
Set #4 Back in Denver -  from image#71 to image # 83

Which set of images was the most powerful? Why? 

 Set of images was the most powerful were set #2 and set #3 because  is when he went trough some hard and sad moments like on set #3 picture # 56 is when he found out that his girlfriend had cheated on him with another guy while he was in Iraq .

c. How do the images work together to tell a story?

 They start from the beginning where Ian is enlisting into the Army from going off to basic training, back home, flying overseas to Iraq, and back home. The images are all numbered off to how Ian progresses in his life as he joins the Army.

3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?

4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.
First sentence:

Subject -- action verb (present tense) -- object -- how -- why -- when -- where.

Optional second sentence:

Subject -- verb (past tense) -- object (describes background [context] of the situation shown in picture.)

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A. How do these other features enhance the photographs?

B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.

C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
if i could do an 

4. What things would you do the same?
out what that rule is?

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?


6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?


7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?

funny captions

jacob black holds a target in China yesterday.

jacob was shot by a friend of his by accident .   

Carmen Lopez got into a fight with a kangaroo in an African forest while on a field trip.

When she got hit her camera flew off and fell on the grass and broke.

Tyler Lopez fell asleep and his friends played a prank on him by shaving a funny face on his head.

When Tyler woke up he saw what his friends did to him and then he hit him. 

simplicity

framing

rule of thirds

lines

balance

academic shoot preview

best story

this photo is a best story because in some day of a year every school Christians or religion people go in the morning stand in their school flag pole and pray and do some worship songs and in this photo is what they doing in here .

emotion or action

because people are helping to feed the poor people and they taking action by collecting food and give to the homeless people 

most interesting stuff 

because this teens are cleaning the school garden 

great black and white photographers PART 2

Minor  Martin White 

Minor was born on July,9,1908and dies on june,24,1976

Minor earned a degree in botany with a minor in English from the university of minnesota in1933 

his first creative efforts were in poetry as he took five years there after to complete a sequence of 100 sonnets while working as a waiter and abartender in the university club.

in 1938, white move to Portland in oregon.and then he began with his career in photography first he join the oregon camera club then taking on a assignments from the works progress administration and exhibiting at the portland art museum.

after serving in the military intelligence during world war ll minor moved to new york city in 1945 he spend there two years studying aesthetics and art history at columbia university under Meyer schapiro and then developing his own distinctive style

composition 9/11-the first 6 rules of photography

lines ; this photo is in rule of the lines because on the background in this photo u can see the lines are parallel 

rule of thirds;i think this photo is in rule of thirds because there is a person walking in the disaster street and the photographer took the picture were the person had place to walk ford and back 

framing;this picture is in rule of framing because in this picture there are pictures of people who they can't still find them 

introduction;this picture is in the rule of introduction because the photographer took this picture sowing people the depression and you ask your self why are they sad or scared well if u see the background you can see the twin towers burning down  and this is an introduction pic because the back wound tells you the story

balance;this picture is in the rule of balance because it shows you a view of what the fireman's and it you can see all they are trying to take all the fire off