Sports/Action

1. Watch any four of the Runner-up videos, and answer the following on your blog:
Name of photographer -Alyssa Schukar
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- stories
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - using same lens at same distance create similarities of pedantic emotions, pessimistic dark pictures, no strong symbols
List two things the judges like-basketball celebration, the falling girl.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
I agree with the judges except whenever he said he liked one of the picture of a girl. I disagree because there was nothing much in it. It looked very unprofessional.

Name of photographer - Travis Haughton
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- photoj
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -too tight, cropping, head covering/head not showing.
List two things the judges like-the sport pictures, gymnastics's picture with different leveling.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
Judges are very giggly and mostly like the sports or action pictures. I don't like how they like to make fun of the pictures.

Name of photographer -Nick Adams
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)-photoj and story
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - tight pictures, too common subjects; kids, boring pictures.
List two things the judges like- silhouettes and the effort of new things.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
Judges are rude to say "thank god" at the end. I like how the person take different light angles of the pictures and try to get creative at some points.

Name of photographer - Josh Birnbaum
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)-story and photoj
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio - not right moment, secondary photos on the story section, unrelated photos in the story section.
List two things the judges like- the humor of the photos
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
Judges seems to be immature but very picky. I do not like the theme of photos, it was off.



2. Watch the winning portfolio critique (Dustin Snipes), and post the following:

What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it? nice color confrontation, good angle, good subject emotion good moment.

What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses? He has good ideas for set up photos, good angle, and nice Photoshop skill. Sometimes he overdo the Photoshop.



3. Watch the contest recap video.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.
They shortly describe of strength or weakness critique while voice overlapping each other and deciding which one is the best.

Action Photo Shot

Action Photo1-moving towards

David Rodriguez slowly picks up his pace to pass the football to Kitty Moreno. Although David didn't want to sprint fast enough towards the basketball field, I got a clear shot of his smile.

 Action Photo2-side view

 David dashes across the grasses as he pass New Tech building. His object was just for a show.

Action Photo3-Panning

As his arm swing, David threw the football towards Kitty Moreno by Akins' cafeteria. The football was hard to throw because it was somehow flat.

Action Photo4-creative blurr

 Kitty Moreno spins around crazily near the basketball court. I moved around Kitty in this shot to get the background with a speed blur effect.

Caption and Evaluation Practice

 Caption Practice

Who: An unknown riot protestor
What: holding bottle of flammable liquid lit on fire
Where: Puerto Rico
When: Monday
Why: Outraged by the court's decision against a child molester
How: Starting a riot during protest

Flame didn't fire the crowd away

This Monday in Puerto Rico, an unknown masked protestor is attempting to start a riot during a protest by throwing a lit bottle of flammable liquid. Crowds were outraged by court's decision to put a child molester under minimum sentence.

Evaluation

This photo has the photography rules of pattern, balancing elements, viewpoint and background. The event of firing floating lanterns in Thailand creates balancing elements of main theme color similar to sunset orange. The pattern of floating lanterns create a background of beautiful illuminating color, while the photographer took this point at an angled point. This viewpoint gives effect of freedom as if from one of the floating lantern itself, being fired.

This photo contains photography's rule of third, balancing elements, cropping, mergers, and background. The photographer took the center of the gold miner's head on top right, one third distance of the whole photo. The color of gold covers his face, background, and shirt, creating a balancing theme color. Not only the photographer crops the subject's face away from the background by only focusing his face, he avoided mergers and blurred background in order to exaggerate the gold color theme.

Touching Strangers

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?I think that this project and photo essay is very funny, awkward, interesting, creepy, and creative.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger?
I would most likely be excited to participate in a photo shoot until i got asked to touch strangers, I would gladly decline the offer after hearing the project.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.
Ask strangers to fight each other... and take a photo of them.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, did the photographer think about the rules of photography that you know about? What types of photos did he take?
The photographer took environmental or casual type of photography, mostly use simplicity, avoiding mergers, cropping, and lines.

Yearbook Spread

Japanese Earthquake

 Whenever I see this picture, I thought she was crying because of grief. In actual, she was crying after they rescued her mother from the aftermath of tsunami, even tears of joy can look devastating in any picture. The photographer uses photography composition of avoiding mergers, simplicity, lines, and background.

 This photo looks very sad and gloomy to me because of the balance between the background of burned down house and the crying woman. Photographer uses composition of cropping, lines, and balancing elements.

The black colored tsunami that's as tall as the road signs and lights makes me feel scared. This photo is an eye catcher not only because of how scary it looks but the composition of photography. The photographer successfully implemented the composition of leading lines, balance, and depth.

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