Self Portrait and Professional Portrait

 Self Portrait:

A good photo is when a photo contains a deeper meaning than photography and successfully use the rules of photography to express and exaggerate that idea. Mostly people use scenery lightning to help the balance, lines to create movements, while framing is use to fill the emptiness and support the balance.  Avoiding mergers, simplicity, rule of third commonly give hints of the true meaning of the photograph. Good photography use most of these rules to support one's portrait message.


If i have a camera I would use style that use shadow, or light, and lines to take a portrait. So either a sparkly moment or a dark moment, and perhaps an object to capture subject's reflection, environment.

Shortlist Warm Up

Landscape:

   Bagansunset by Dvlazar

  

Travel:

 Wishing Incense Coils by RP Vale

 Fashion:

 Leap by Carolyn Mendelsohn

Family and Friendship:

On the Traditional Kitchen by Aiyoshi

 Portraits:

 Phillipos by Cristina Carracaso

 Documentary:

 Lesson Amman by Maciej Dakowicz

Gardens and Plants:

 Poppy on the Wind by Magda Wasiczek

Wildlife:

Magic of Light by Magda Wasiczek

Creative License:

Gravity Is Alie by himitsuhana

Action and Movement:

Flight by WWWest

Ethics in Fashion Photography

1. List the changes that were made to the model's face in the computer. (Look carefully)

They made the model's lip larger, neck longer, bigger eyes, slender neck, change her head shape to have more "beauty" on it, change the shading of the facial color to make it more warm and perfect to the audience.



2. Is it ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like this in a photo? Why or why not?

Whats ethical become questions when we change our own appearance with make up. It certainly doesn't look right to change someone's appearance using "Adobe Photoshop" but why is it ethical to change our own appearance with make up and plastic surgery? The answer can be yes or no to me, and perhaps other people. Unless we change our view of hypocrisy, whats ethical and unethical can always be questioned or thrown back at our faces.



3. Are there circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation?

I believe that it is very wrong to make and shape what is beauty or not. What goes beyond the line is changing facial shape, maybe it is something that we really never did in our history. We had face painting for festival, tribal use, and other things but to cross beyond the line of bone shaping is painful. That's whats unethical about it, because we think of pain when a form of changing bone is present.



4. What types of changes are OK, and what aren't?

I'm not really sure what's okay or not because our personality and ethics shaped with the environment itself and in our current situation, people have change us see the world in their eyes. Perhaps jealousy towards beauty of warm shape, color or size drives us into writing in our fact of whats ethical and what is not. That's why I don't think any of these is ethical because it drives my emotion. I don't like to be manipulated with my desires of what is see, but we eventually do it ourselves--change ourselves.



5. Explain what you think the differences are between fashion photography and photojournalism.

Fashion photography is where we apply changes to people; to make a fashion or a beauty, but I don't think we have any limits to change. I saw a TV program of how they manipulated picture of models to drive jealousy out as a form of advertisement. Photojournalism have limits, i can tell by the stories I read, from previous blog I had to do. There is consequences to changes, its the idea of journalism; that we cannot lie about the event or story. Even though journalism can be a form of opinion, the form of it have to at least stay near the line of fact.



6. What relationship does each type of photography have to reality, and how does
this affect the ethical practice of each?

As what I said previously, that fashion photography doesn't have limit because its supposed to show us the form of perfection that we desire and strive for. Fashion photography is a form of advertisement and so it has bigger range of what opinion can be said than journalism. Photojournalism is what we have to stick to fact and truth, the photos is a view of the "that one present moment", and we shape our opinion in a form of journalism around the photos, the backup or the fact, to guess and state one of the possible event that may be occurring. Therefore, photojournalism is more into the reality side of the coin, while fashion photography is our fantasies and so our ethical practice is questioned more in photojournalism than fashion photography.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Digital manipulation is an offense but in some case such as April fools and in Middle East doesn't have consequences. Manipulation commonly used such as cloning, color alternation or enhancement, copy and paste, and combining two pictures of same subject for a better composition is an offense and there's consequences to bear such as job loss and mainly your credibility as a photographer or photojournalist. Digital manipulation of an event for the government's success isn't an offense in Middle East such as; a cover up of a failed rocket missile in a launch of three missiles. The usage of the same subject in different photos during different times because of the subject's emotion is a strange thing but isn't an offense because of the time stamp, even though there is no name stated in the caption.

This photo seem to be the most unethical to me. The photo was manipulated to look as if the US guards was about to shoot an Arabian and his child if they do not sit right now. It was manipulated with two different photos at different time to make it looked as if the Arabian dad and child is closer to the guard.





In this magazine cover photo of national geographic, the pyramids are closer to each other than the real pyramids. The manipulation of cover of the photo was done to establish lines for more better dynamic touch to it. It doesn't seem to be unethical but the photo is a lie itself about the fact of the pyramids.

National Geographic Warm-up and Photo Manipulation and Ethics

 Upper Antelope Canyon

This is my favorite photo because the picture looks as if the sun ray is bending into spiral, even though its a photo of sand being thrown and sun ray give a glowing effect on the thrown sand, very creative. The Canyon itself is beauty, the curve lines shown in a vertical repetition manner give a movement power into the photo. Nice landscape balance, creativity and lines, i like it.

I would submit a photo of a body of water with a huge sakura tree in the middle of a surrounding filled with green trees, flowers, or bushes, a garden looking surrounding. Then use the wind to blow petals of sakura trees, as an effect, with clear blue sky as a background.

Abandoned Theme Parks

I'd take my camera to take pictures of Okpo Land, South Korea and Six Flags, New Orleans abandoned theme park. They have mostly whats left of their theme park, even though most of it is destroyed, i can take a photo and tell the story about it. The abandoned Okpo Land in South Korea interest me too, I wonder and want to see for myself the ride that killed a young girl, I want to know more about why the owner disappeared suddenly, and mostly I want to visit South Korea someday whenever I grow up and have my own money. The Six Flag of New Orleans is the closest abandoned theme park listed on the linked website. They have whats left of all their things, except for the destroyed 70%-80% park, and i want to take a picture of Katrina disaster and tell something very lively to those who see my pictures.

 Okpo Land, South Korea

 Six Flags, New Orleans

I want to photograph:

1. A scary house
2. A unique house
3. Old church
4. strange architecture
5. A unique haunted hotel

It would be interesting to photograph the architecture outside, and inside. The location of this vacation house is very pretty, its a good landscape. I would need a good camera, a tripod, an airplane ticket to go to Japan, I will need permission from the architect to take a photo of this house, and perhaps the owner themselves.              Shell house by kotaro ide, built in the woods 

of karuizawa, is meant to be a vacation house