Photo Journalism

Question: Are the paparazzi professional journalist? Why or why not?

I do think they are journalists, however I do not think they are professional. Most of what the paparazzi comes up with is false or rumored, and the purpose is to get a rise out of people or keep them interested in their gossip triangles. I believe they have great photography skill, just not professionalism.

False light is when a persons privacy is breached by a photo or work, which is published without the knowledge of whether it is true or false. An example would be if someone were to take a picture of a celebrity looking like they were smoking, they would distort the photo by showing cigarette butts on the ground next to them.

Graphic photo journalism is using images that are distracting from texts to get a reader's attention to tell the story. An example would be someone using a picture of a battered rape victim to talk about rape, or give news about rape.

Journalistic standards are basically just standards that have to be kept in mind when doing it. Examples include privacy, respect for human rights, and accepting responsibility for your stories.

Everything is Better in Spirals (iMotion Movie)

https://youtu.be/_tBoJeoUFPI

5 compositions/ fibanocci spiral

For this picture I used the framing composition. The bottom of the pillars creates a frame around the picture.

This picture uses the point of view composition. Instead of a straight on point of view, I used an areal point of view.

This one could either be considered symmetry and patterns because each bottle has the same pattern, and are all in line, but the one in front changes the symmetry of the bottles.

This is a crop photo. At first it was just a bowl of these white things, however, I cropped it to zoom on the top few that could be focused on.

This photo uses rule of thirds. The cart covering a pipe is in the bottom left corner of the photo grid.

This is the photo  that I originally chose for my fibanocci spiral. However, I couldn't download the program to put the spiral on the photo itself. The spiral would start at the tree, go down to the bench, then to the white pole, and back around.

High Key/ Low Key

This photo is my high key photo. There is a lot of light in the face over all, but even with the light the beauty in the eyes shines through.

This is my low key photo. This is a sunset at the fire tower in Elkins. This photo has been edited for clarity, but there are a lot of low tones in the picture that make it beautiful.

Class Critique

Jenna is a great photographer to me. She is so advanced in her skill it amazes me. I like how she also does a lot of black and white photos.

Zade's photos are really good I think for being almost basic pictures. The swimming pictures he takes are amazing and have so much detail.

Chris has a really great picture with a pebble. The edits he used are similar to the ones I like to use. The pebble photo is breathtaking. His nature photos are brilliant.

Asa has a great social change photo. I like the idea of the post. His Atlanta photos are very good looking. They look very nicely done even though you can tell they are taken from a car haha.

Matt's description of his viral photo is very great. I absolutely love his first lightroom photo. It is breathtakingly beautiful. I like that he went to Kmart for his yes and no project. Its very creative to me.

Even though Trey's subtract assignment was last minute, I like the idea he used. His shutter speed picture is amazing. I also like his stained class pictures.

Courtney's subtraction photos were beautiful. Th texture change in front of Hallie is my favorite of her pictures. Also, the salt and pepper shakers in the cafeteria are cool. I like her creativeness and ability to capture things that not everyone would think if capturing at first.

Subtract, Subtract, Subtract

As I sat in the lobby of Gribble, waiting for the nurses office to clear so I could get some medicine, I noticed a couple girls playing pool. At first I took the first two shots without her noticing. However, when it came to the closer ones I of course had to explain what I was doing. I wanted to focus on the roughness of the pool ball and stick compared to her elegant, well done nails.

Lightroom Mobile App

For this photo I picked something that I love. I absolutely am in love with pianos and music. I used rule of thirds to put the brand name Baldwin in the corner, giving the keys a sort of stretched out look. I used the Sepia Tone filter, increased the contrast, highlight, and shadows. I also added a very slight hint of the vignette amount.

In this photo I also used rule of thirds and tried to use a creative nature background as well. I didn't apply a filter to this picture however the edits I made look like a filter. I increased the exposure, saturation, and dehaze in the photo. I heightened the contrast all the way as well as the clarity. I decreased highlights as well.

I used this picture to sort of demonstrate a clean background and emphasize shadows. I added the Cross Process 2 filter t the photo as well as heightened the highlight, whites, blacks, and clarity. In this photo I decreased the exposure.