Fashion Ethics

The models face was changed in many ways including:
-Her eyes were made larger
-Her neck was lengthened
-Her eye brows were raised
-Reshaped her head and neck
-Made her lips more plump
-Her acne was covered even more then the make-up could do

All of these changes were unethical. That's not what the women looks like at all. By the end, it hardly resembled her at all. By doing this, girls are taught their whole life that that's what your suppose to look like when its unrealistic. It makes girls feel ugly when they really aren't.

I think that all situations are unethical. Sometimes they don't alter the woman's appearance that much and its not as bad but its still wrong.

I think that all changes are wrong and shouldn't be done. I personally have felt bad about myself because of photos like that. You just shouldn't make her into a plastic barbie look.

The difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that its not a fashion photographers job to tell the truth, its their job to take a good photo of a stereotypical pretty woman or man. They are linked though because they both effect people. People see these photos and they change that person and its not right to be lied to. They are two different industries so they aren't going to follow the same rules. One is obviously going to be more ethical then the other.

Photojournalism Ethics

I think that a photojournalists ethics should be absolute. Photojournalists jobs are to give the truth to the people through photos and if you are changing a photo even in the slightest you are lying to the people. Some people rely on photos of Iraq to inform them about the news and if the photojournalist changes the photo then people are going to be lied to and start thinking differently about the world.

I believe that a photo can capture truth because people are often not believed when they are actually telling the truth and a photo can be the one thing that helps them out. But on the other hand, a true photo can easily be interpreted differently then the truth so its not always helpful.

The only editing I have done has been fixing scratches and spots with little editing of the levels. I believe that i haven't edited the reality though by doing that.

Its important that there is a set rule about ethics because if there isn't, people are going to be lying to us left and right and they aren't going to have any consequences for it either. Its their job to report the truth but they aren't.

Ethical and Unethical

The story is about a supposed "diverse" campus that had to photo shop the head of a black man into the pictures for their brochures. I think that they crossed the line with this. If their campus is so diverse then they could have found a picture that had both black and white people in it with school spirit. They didn't do it to make the picture more appealing they did it to make the school look better when it was a lie.

This photo was the least unethical of the group of photos. Yes, they did change reality a little bit but they didn't do it to hurt someone or to make the people who made the magazine look better. They simply did it to accommodate the photo to the cover. I still think its a bit unethical though because they did change how the mountains actually are.

Out of the given photos, I found this the most unethical. The African American man was photo shopped in and that's just not right. They are lying to everyone who looks at the picture. If their campus is so diverse then they can find a picture that shows that.

Captions

Twenty three year old John Smith of San Francisco is fed up with gas prices where the gas prices are an average of $3.25. Gas prices have been reaching highs all over the world and are nearly a dollar more then they were in the US last year this time.

Two year old tabby cat, Simba, finally gets his ice cream before dinner. His owner Pat Knapper said that hes been begging for his ice cream ever since he had it taken away as a kitten as a punishment for pulling the curtains down.

Kittens Adeline and Thomas of Austin Texas finally fall asleep at five in the morning after a long night of partying. Austin is famous for Sixth Street which is known for partying into the wee hours of the morning. Adeline and Thomas were spotted there many times last night.

Repetition

Big Stretch

Children practice splits at the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, China. More than 60 children aged between 3 and 10 from all over China train at the boarding school.

Toil in the Fields

A farmer works at a laver (edible seaweed) farm at Gutong Village in Fujian Province, China.

The Blues

Performers rehearse for the opening ceremony of the 6th National City Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province. The sporting meet will begin on Oct. 25 in Wuhan.

Sugar Hill

A. What skills in addition to photography did Melanie Burford utilize to produce this slideshow?
She used multimedia to make it more emotional. The woman singing in the background and hearing what these people have to say along with the pictures of their homes and life.

B. What was the effect (added power or meaning) of the multimedia effects of the slideshow.
The peoples stories. Hearing the pain and emotion in their voices make it more meaningful.

I think that the interactive map is one of the most interesting features on there because you get a visual of how things are set up and peoples opinions on the complex.

Photoshop edits

Best Sports Photos

Rafael Palmerio, of the Texas Rangers, when he hit his 500th home run.

EF 70-200mm

shot at 1/2000

By shooting at 1/2000 he is able to stop all of the fans, the umpire and Palmerio as they show their reactions to his home run.

f/4.5

This small aperture lets the fans still be clear and you can still see the looks on their faces.

I think that the photographer is standing off to the side of first base so that Palmerio is running towards him when leaving home plate.

Mergers.

This photo is very simple. It doesn't have a distracting background to take away from the jet. There aren't even any clouds or anything, just the simple blue sky.

This is an example of mergers. None of their heads are cut off or hands. The little girl has her arms spread out across the picture but nothing is taken away from the photo.

This is an example of balance. The frame of the building have fallen opposite of each other making it symmetrical.

This follows the rule of the thirds. the fire fighter is off to the side rather then right in the middle. It makes the photo more interesting then just having him directly in the middle.

This photo uses lines behind the men. It gives a path for the eye to follow from firefighter to fire fighter.

The fire fighters are framed by the building around them with a message in the front.

Enlarging my first photo

Today i enlarged one of my photos. The first thing i did was make sure there were not any water spots on it so i used photo flow to clean it off. Then i loaded the negatives into the enlarger by putting the negative holder all the was back in the machine and then putting down the head it. Then I turned the light all the way up to focus the image and I used one little tool to see the grains of the image to make sure they were clear. After that i turned the light almost all the way down and made a test strip by exposing different parts of the paper with different amounts of time ranging from three seconds to six seconds. I developed the image and then took it out in t he light to see which would work best. I decided on four seconds and went back and made the actual image the same way as the test strip but without covering parts of it. I developed the image and now its on the drying rack.

Masters Of Photography

Calla Lily by Robert Mapplethorpe

Roses by Tina Modotti

Chain Gang by Gordon Parks.

Negative Critique

One of my main problems with my negatives is that there is water spots on it but luckily i can take care of that. Most of mine are in focus but i feel like i didn't fill the fame it all of the pictures when i could have. My favorites are number eleven and number eight. They really aren't the best but i like them. They are focused and i really like them because they are cute. Number eleven has a cool lighting in the background and I'm curious to see what that's going to come out as and how it will look.

Stories, Emotion and Filling the Frame

Action and Emotion

This picture shows both action and emotion. The guitarist is playing while putting lots of emotion into the music. You can tell there is a glory of being onstage in front of a crowd preforming something that he created.

The Story

This pictures shows the everyday live of a high school student. How they rush to class and all the gossip being passed around. Everything is here thats in an actual high school hallway.

Filling the Frame

The repeating guitars fill the frame completely. There are lots of colors and even though its the same thing repeating, there is variaty to it sill.

Inspiring Photo

I love this photo because of the way its glowing. It looks like it took time and you had to actually think about what to set the shutter speed to rather then just having the camera do it for you. It was part of the 2003 winners and I think that it deserved to win. It makes me want to go experiment with lighting and different speeds and apertures.

The Camera

Our pinhole cameras work similar to the SLR camera. Both have a shutter speed. On our pinhole cameras out shutter was the manila folder piece that we put over the pinhole. Also both cameras had an aperture. Ours was the pin whole that determined how much light was let in. Obviously the SLR cameras actually have lenses on them while ours didn't and SLRs have flashes on them. Inside of the pinhole camera there is no reflection on mirrors like there is in the SLR. With the pinhole the light reflects of objects onto the photo paper but with the SLR the light goes through a lens, iris diaphragm, and hits the mirror putting the image onto the film.

The pinhole camera and the SLR camera are very similar but obviously have their differences. They basically work the same way and do the same thing.

Pin hole photos

This picture is one that i really like.

There arent any people in it though.

The wheel of the shopping cart is in focus while all of the fencing and trees in the background are out of focus.

There is a little bit of warping with the edges. The corners have more black then the rest of the image.

This picture is not my favorite.

There isnt anyone or any action in the picture.

There isnt anything really in focus either but you can make out a building.

Its not really warped but it is a bit distorted because of the lines in the center.

Good and bad photos

This picture is not the gratest. There is way too much space behind above and behind him. Lots of the picture is wasted since his face is so low in the frame.

I think that the picture of her is a good one because it captures her in action and she has emotion in her face. Its ver candid and its from a good angle. Its not from straight ahead and its not from the direct side, but slightly in between.

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