Matthew's Photojournalism Blog

The first thing that caught my eye about Ansel Adams is his amazing nature photo's. I particularly picked his photos because of the amazing pictures of nature he go and the environment he captured through his pictures. I see beautiful mountains in the distance. I smell fresh pine trees around me. I hear a flowing river near by. I taste the cold air of the mountains. I feel surrounded by nature.

Brandt's new focus with his photography is to represent what was once there and what we did that effected the animals land. He selected unpublished photo's from the period, printed them in California, shipped them to Kenya, constructed their steel and plywood frames on location, and positioned them so they seemed part of the physical surroundings. I think his work will inspire people to realize what is happening in Africa and help. These images made me feel disappointed in man kind for doing this to there homes and destroying them.

Nick Brandt's photo's are amazing they look really good and each one gives me a sense of sadness coming from Africa's suffering ecosystem. When I first saw his photos they all gave this very sad tone and made me feel bad for them. The elephant photos make me feel the most sad because they just look miserable in the pictures, like there home has been destroyed. This is one of my favorite photo's from Nick Brandt because the black and white just make it look very sad and like the elephants home was destroyed. A rule of photography in this photo is simplicity because this photo doesn't have a lot going on in it. This is another one of my favorite photo's from Nick Brandt because the skeleton of the bird is representing that we have killed there environment. A rule of photography in this photo is simplicity because there isn't much going on in it. Brandt uses a Pentax 67 and three different lenses, a 55mm, a 105mm, and a 200mm this is important beca...

A. Some main points I learned are don't mess with news photos because you could be altering the situation and what the viewer should be focusing on. B. You are not allowed to alter the original scene photographed. C. I think some ethical things you can change is if something is blurry or dark give it some light or make it a little brighter D. I think this is the most unethical because it portrays a British soldier pointing his rifle at a Iraqi civilian. But the original photo is that of a British soldier urging the Iraqi civilian to get to cover for his and his child's safety. This is one of the most unethical edits i've ever seen,  it puts the soldiers life in danger by portraying him pointing his rifle at a civilian and people at home see this and think that soldiers there are just harassing civilians for no reason. E. I think this photo is the least unethical because its just the editor trying to make Kim Kardashian look a little better in the photo. Its not ...

Ansel Adams Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco and died on April 22, 1984 For his education he was tutored by tutors and family members at a young age he taught himself the piano and for as a result of going to panama-pacific exposition he fell in love with photography and put his pictures into "photo-diaries". His family came to California from new England having migrated from Ireland in the early 1700s. Ansle Adams was a photographer, conservationist and visual artist. Ansle Adams published the basic photo-book series of manuals. http://anseladams.com/about-ansel-adams/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams

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1. I like this photo because of the closeup shot of a student righting equations 2. I see simplicity 3. I can take a photo like this in engineering 4. I don't know Because I don't have engineering this year 5. Look around and see if theres anything interesting like designs or building

1. I picked this photo because of framing and the mixing chemicals. 2. Is simplicity because of the blurred background. 3. I can take a picture like this in science class 4. I would like to visit Mr. Damman 5. Try and get good opportunities like this

I wish I could do this at school but fortunately these people can. It fills the frame by having the student holding a ball of fire rising being caught at the perfect moment, with the dark lighting  and the fire ball producing all the light make this a great photo. I still wish I could do this.

The action of this photo is the girl being lift into the air by her peers. The emotion of this photo is that there having a great time fly in the air. These two things make it have action and emotion.

It tells me a story of a class that got to go to a butterfly enclosure for a field trip. They have an amazing and magical time there and see many things. They are glad the got to experience a butterfly enclosure.

https://aidensphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/ 1. He takes good clear photos of what he is shooting at. 2. good at positioning and framing. He could improve on descriptions of photos https://nicksphotokournlismblog3.blogspot.com/ 1. Has a good sense of framing 2. Has good positioning could work on lighting

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to het the photos of your first 4 prompts. I had a challenge of the picture being lopsided and finding ideas. 2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general did you find yourself thinking about the most? I was almost always thinking about framing things like my bowie post and my square post and just thinking how they could fit. 3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography? I would try harder to get different rules like rule of thirds or framing. 4. what things would you do the same? I would keep the happy picture. 5. Are you interested in shooting those same prompts again, why? No, not really because i'm satisfied with my pictures and I don't want to do it a second time.

I chose happy for this picture of clouds because it makes me happy to look at clouds. It is simplicity because of the blue sky and a straight forward picture.

I chose this picture of a metal telephone tower for metal, obviously. It is rule of thirds because its in the bottom right corner.

I chose balance for this picture because it's symmetrical on all sides from one side of the square to the other. It is also clearly a square so I chose this for it. It was hard to get a good picture do to it being up high so its a little crooked.

I think this picture is simplicity because it clearly shows the Bowie bulldog without much in the way. I also chose the bowie bulldog in the cement because bowie is a solid school.

I chose this photo of three American flags at half mast with the wind blowing the flags with the congress building in the background for balance.

I chose this picture for avoid mergers because his head and hand have been cut off by the frame, not only has the man on the left been cut by the frame but the man on the right has also been cut by the frame.

I chose this photo for the rule of thirds because of the falling man that is in the top right of the photo that is falling from one of the world trade buildings during the 9/11 attacks.

I chose this picture for framing because of the fireman that you can see through the broken window. Another reason is that it shows a lot of destruction from the attacks on 9/11.

I have chosen this picture of one of the world trade center towers that is burning during the attacks of 9/11 for simplicity because of the main building and a clear background.

I chose this photo of the 9/11 attacks for lines that show the side of the burning building and people trying to rescue them from the fire.