Picture of the Week

Photo by Robert Doisneau

One of favorite photos, that I even have in my room. This is one of Doisneau's most famous photos, that he did not plan, it happened on spot, only a great photographer could capture this moment so beautifully. 

Room Creativity

1) How do you plan on addressing the room creativity expectation?
 My idea for the room is to get pictures from magazines like National Geographic and newspaper, then I would put the pictures all over the room. Since I know this would be really difficult to do, I was thinking of just making a strip of photos and have the strip go around the walls. My other idea and the one I think I will most likely do is get photos from famous photographers and my own pictures, then frame them and put them around the room. I want it to have a gallery feel to the room.

2) What activities ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
What I was thinking for my answer 2 activity, my second answer is having strong emotion in your photo, that I would borrow the cameras from ROP and have the students take photos with emotion. I would put them into groups and give each group an emotion, have them to try and capture the emotion the best they could. The last part of the activity would to upload the pictures, so everyone could see them, then ask people to guess the emotion in the shot.

Picture of the week and Photojournalist of the week: Robert Capa

By: Robert Capa D-day

Robert Capa is a famous war photographer, know for his impact by showing his audience war and the effects of it. I really love this shot because it shows that he has no special protection he is out with the soldiers in the middle of  war. To me he was one of the bravest and greatest photojournalist, he had a great eye and captured what others were afraid to do.

Answer 2

1. EQ: What is most important to being an accomplished photojournalist?
2. Answer 2: Having strong emotion in your photo.

Examples:

• Emotion s something that everyone can connect with, which makes people understand the story and relate to it.
• Having a certain emotion from one person separates your photo from every other photographer, because nothing like it has been done. It makes your photo and your story unique.
• Since emotion is something everyone can relate to, you can have photos of people that people would normally not relate to but if the photo has an emotion you can relate to them. The photo above would be this example. Normally you wouldn't find yourself relating to one of the most popular bands of all time, but you can relate to being happy just hanging out with your best friends.
• The in between moments are the moments that you catch the most emotion and that matter.

Sources:

Knight, Cameron. "Understanding and Appreciating the Basics of Photojournalism." Photography and Post-processing Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Phototuts. Photodune, 9 Nov. 2011. Web. 10 Jan. 2012. <http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-and-appreciating-the-basics-of-photojournalism/>.

Jitesh, A. "Tips on How to Photograph Emotions." Bright Hub. Ed. Rhonda Callow. Bright Hub Inc., 24 May 2011. Web. 08 Mar. 2012. <http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/39570.aspx>.

Schulz, Constance B. "Documentary Photography: Information from Answers.com." Answers.com: Wiki Q&A Combined with Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedias. Oxford University Press, 2000. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. <http://www.answers.com/topic/documentary-photography-1

The Product

My product would be a portfolio, I picked this as my product because it will show what this whole year has done for me and it will be something I can use in my future. I would use my portfolio to show the skills that I have learned this year, from ROP ( my log will show how often I go). You can also see this in my independent component blog, which show some of the work I have done. Also it shows what I have learned from my research which is shown on my WB.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is most important to being an accomplished photojournalist?
2. How important is lighting? Why?
3. What is your favorite lighting technique?
4. How do you get your subject to trust you?
5. What is your favorite thing to photograph?
6. Who is your favorite photojournalist?
7. What inspires you?
8. How important is the equipment you use? Does it matter?
9. What is the most important thing in a photo?
10. What is the best quality for a photojournalist to have?
11. What is you favorite thing to photograph?
12. What is your favorite part about being a photojournalist?
13. Do you have a favorite camera?
14. What is hardest about being a photojournalist?
15. How well do you know your equipment? 
16. Do you have any recommendations for me?
17. How important is the composition of the photo?
18. Do you believe in fully editing your photo?
19. How important are photo lenses?
20. Do you have a favorite lens?
21. Do you think the story of the photo is important?
22. How important is emotion of a photo?

Science Fair Proposal 2

1. If you have a small focal length, then the lens will have a wider angle and images in the back will appear farther.

     2. Dependent: Wider angle and background

         Independent: Focal length
         Control: Camera lens
   
     3. The connection would be am accomplished photojournalist you have to know what image needs a small focal length and what needs a long focal length. Knowing this will help the image and the image quality of the photo, to make the best photo possible.

     4. I will first use the equation to find focal length and the equation to find the angle the lens captures. Then take photos to show how the background bottle will be farther away with a small focal length compared to a long focal length.
     
      5. physics