The Camera

Optical lens: A lens that focuses the image in a camera.

Charge-coupled device (CCD) - a light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays the data for an image in such a way that each pixel (picture element) in the image is converted into an electical charge the intensity of which is related to a color in the color spectrum.

Shutter Release - The button that releases or "trips" the shutter mechanism.

Self-Timer - This mechanism trips the shutter after a short delay - usually 7 to 10 seconds - allowing everyone to be in the photograph. 

Aperture - It dilates and contracts to control the diameter of the hole that the light passes though, to let in more or less light. It is controlled by the f-stop ring.

Shutter - It opens and closes to control the length of time light strikes the film.

Exposure - Process of allowing light to reach light.

Depth of field - The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.

F-stop - the ratio of focal length to the effective diameter of a lens; also called f-number, it represents how much light is able to pass through the lens. 

Focal length -  The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.

At the top right you can see the AE/FE lock button that seconds as the index key when in Playback mode, and next to that is the AF point selection button that seconds as the magnify button when in Playback. To the left (right of the LCD) we can see the AV/Exposure composition button, which allows you to switch between shutter speed and aperture values in manual mode, or exposure compensation button, which compensation in Program mode.

Continuing on down, we have the 4-way controller. which has several jobs. These include navigating the menu system, scrolling inside an enlarged image in playback mode, and a quick recall of specific camera functions.

Unusual and interesting photos

Part 1:

1) What is your reaction to his work?
My reaction to his work is that I get confused since I could see two or more buildings at the same time in each picture.

2) How do you think he made these photos?
I think he made these photos using some kind of special technic with the camera.

3) Think about some buildings you have seen, which ones would be good to take a photo like this? Tell me about those buildings, where are they, could you get easy access to them?
Some buildings I have seen were in Florida, they would be good to take a photo like this. I think would be easy to access to them since the buildings are located inside a University.

Part 2:

1) Why did you pick this picture?

I chose this picture because was weird for me see a frog during a soccer game.

2) What category did you find this photo?

Sports Feature.

3) What award did it win ?

1st place.

4) What did the photographer do that attracted your eye? 

The photographer took the picture in a way you can see the frog and the legs of a soccer player trying to avoid the frog.

5) How much do you think the subject of the photo weighed in judges minds when they picked this photo as one of the best of 2012?

I think the subject of the photo weighted a lot in judges minds and also the view of it could impact them.

6) What do you think the photographer had to do that was unique to getting this photo?

The frog in the soccer field that has to be the key in the photo to make it unique.

Part 3: 

1) List 3 suggestions you think are the most important for photographers to remember when they are shooting.

The meaning that the picture represent to people, phothographers should always be on the lookout for projects and the photographers need to look at things from different angles to get the best shot.

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4) Did the photographer follow the suggestions fully? 

Yes, he followed the suggestions fully.

5) Which style of painting do you think might influence you?

The colors and the style how he painted the sky is confused but really interesting.

                                                                         

Photo Manipulation and Ethnics

A) The main point of this read was about people and their purpose to be able to edit photos. The people got into some issues because changed it to much to make it mess up. They did some things bad such as added and cropped out people out and they added them into other photos, so in photography exist some rules that cannot be broken or ignore.

B) This type of photo editing is totally unnethical for me because that is like a violation against the privacy of each person.

I think this photo is the most unethical since the newspaper changed the way her teeth are and that can be a violation since that is not the truth.

This photo is the least unethical for me since they only changed the color of the picture to darker. Therefore, that would not be like a really violation or something illegal. 

National Geographic

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2) It is my favorite picture firstly because the kid is having fun.
    Secondly, the picture was set up in a great way.
    Thirdly, I had some feelings about the picture. Even though he looks poor, he is still happy and    
    having fun.

3) I would choose the picture I picked because there are so many feelings I could felt in the picture.

Touching People

1) I think this is a great project and photo essay. 

2) I would not do anything, I would do it without complaining about it. 

3) One photo shoot similar to this one would be 2 little kids hugging each other.

4) The photo is pretty nice since they look like they are from different countries and yes I like looking at them.  

40 greatest photos taken

Source: telegraph.co.uk


I chose this picture because I could watched   how the guy inside the bob wire looked at the military to his eyes without any fear. Even though, he was arrested there for them.

The photographer set the photo in a great position since I could noticed and see the division between the military and the people inside the fence.

This photo made the cut of the top 40 photos ever because of the stare of the guy to the military showing them he was not feeling any fear.

Source: projects.ajc.com  /  via: polichicksonline.com

I decided to chose this picture because the picture reflects so much love between two people, also I could see how much the mother missed her daughter while she was in Iran.

The photographer set the photo in a perfect way since I could perfectly watch the love between the mother and daughter through the hug.

This photo made the cut of the top 40 photos ever because of the affection between two people can have. 

  

Via: reddit.com

I chose this picture because this reflects how there are not divisions between the human races, also I could watch the happiness between two rivals even though one of them had to lose.

The photographer set the photo in a good way since I could watch the expression of happiness in the faces of the two players.

This photo made the cut of the top 40 photos ever because showed the sign of mutual respect between two different people, even though they were from different countries.

Great black and white photographers, PART 2.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Manuel Alvarez Bravo was born in Mexico on February, 4 1892 and died on October, 19 2002 (aged 100.) His career as a photographer started from the 1920s to the 1990s. He became a freelance photographer full time in 1930. Then, Bravo started to photograph the work of Mexican muralists and other painters during the rest of the 1930s. He met photographer Paul Strand and and French surrealist artist Andre Breton, this last mentioned helped to promote Alvarez Bravo's work in France, exhibiting it there.

Alvarez Bravo trained the majority of the new generation of photographers. From 1938 to 1939, he taught at the Escuela Central de Artes Plasticas, now the National School of Arts (UNAM) and then in the 1960s he taught at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos.

He began to work from 1943 to 1959 in the Mexican fill industry doing still shots. In 1957 he worked making stills for the film Nazarin.

His first publication was in 1945, writing the book “El arte negro.” In 1959 he founded the Fondo editorial de la Plastica Mexicana. Which produces books on Mexican art.

Great Black and White photographers

Manuel Alvarez Bravo


Walker Evans


W. Eugene Smith