Final Exam

4. Throughout the year I took a couple hundred photos for this class. My transformative photo would have to be one of my pictures from the Inspired by a Master project we did in the beginning of the school year. This image was taken at a time when I knew very little about photography or had any substantial experience. It is my transformative photo because I learned the basics of photography and after I was able to capture this image I began taking much better photos.















5. The difference between shape and form is that they're dimensions are different. Shapes are in 2D while form is a shape in 3D. Shapes have width and length and usually have clear and defined borders such as a poster or painting. Form on the other hand, has width, length, and also height. Examples of form are sculptures and metal works.
My shape photo
My form photo

6. Pattern is a combination of elements or shapes repeated in a recurring arrangement. Repetition is the repeated use of a shape, color, or other element of art or design in a work that unifies different parts as a whole.

7. My Weebly about page
My about page inspiration

8.My best work to date
This is my best work so far because I have never taken higher quality photos than the ones included in this project. The main thing that I learned from this project was the importance of good lighting. I was given the opportunity to use a soft box and a small photography box that acted as a studio and backdrop. The results were amazing and better than anything I've taken before. This project changed me because before I would focus on the subject I wanted to take a picture of and paid little attention to other variables such as lighting. This project taught me that there are very technical variables in photography that affects the resulting photograph significantly.

Final Project

Shots: 

1. Setter setting a ball to hitter. 

2. Team huddle during timeout. 

3. Player in ready position. 

4. Player about to hit the ball. 

5. Hitter hitting the ball.

My Weebly

Final Project Proposal

Proposed Shots:

1. A setter setting the ball 

2. A hitter hitting the ball

3. Team positioning before the start of a rally

4. Random Action shot

5. Picture of the entire team

Indoor Sports Tips

My three rules of composition

1. Take close-up photos

2. Use the most of natural light

3. Move the subject away from the center

Student Website Reviews

Juliette's photos

I like Juliette's fourth photos because I'm a fan of close up photos that show a lot of detail.

Priyanka's photos

I like Priyanka's first photo because its colorful and cleverly positioned. 

Andrew's photos 

I like Andrew's third photo because it is nicely photoshopped

Alvina's photos

I like Alvina's second photo because its simple and well framed. 

Food: Spring Expo Project

1. Candy 

2. Cheese 

3. Crabs 

4. Vegetable and fruits 

5. Pistachios

Examples of Food Photography:
Francesco Tonelli

Food Photography Tips:
Kathyrne

My Weebly

Presentation Project

For my photography project, I intend to take pictures of food. 

My photos will include the following:

1. Candy 

2. Vegetable and fruits  

3. pistachios  

4. Crabs

5. cheese 

Examples of Food Photography:
Francesco Tonelli

Food Photography Tips:
Kathyrne

First Commercial Post

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 PC: Junior Wei

 PC: Judith Silverberg-Rajna

 PC: Junior Wei

  PC: Junior Wei

 PC: Anita Yen 

Best Photo and About Me links

China Town in San Francisco 

Joel Reed- http://www.joelreed.co.uk/

Gummi Sag- http://www.gummisig.com/about

Toby Powell- http://www.toby-powell.co.uk/

Jordan- http://www.gummisig.com/about

Clair- http://www.vanityclaire.com/#home"

Photo Story MCW

 The hip-pop dance crew, one of my favorite performances. 

 Bollywood performance.

Another picture of the Bollywood performance. 

 Shriva Petal's post performance picture.

 My friend Matt after his spectacular performance. 

Story with a Photo- Fluffy

I enjoy taking long strolls next to the creek by my house. It not only helps relieve the stresses of life but also gives me a chance to exercise. During these strolls I am often accompanied by my girlfriends Siberian husky, Fluffy, who also enjoys long walks. Two days ago while we were on our daily route, we came across a heard of goats grazing in the grass. When the goats saw Fluffy they immediately ran away. Fluffy, however was very interested. I decided to snap a picture to capture the interesting moment. 

MSJMCW Story

Mission San Jose's Multicultural Week is one of the most interesting events of the entire school year. A great deal of planning was put in by clubs, officers, and administrators so that every student has an opportunity to experience the excitement and joy. As the most romantic boyfriend on campus, I felt obligated to provide my bae with a positive multicultural week experience. It was her very first and i would hate to disappoint her. We rendezvoused at the front office we immediately went on a glorious adventure. As the best boyfriend in existence, I put a marvelous smile on her face at the end of the day.

Principles of Design: Emphasis in Structure

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Principles of Design: Repitition

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Tuesday with Farley's Kids

Junior Wei and Derek Che

1. The shutter speed is fast because in order to freeze the moving trucks on the right of the photo the shutter speed had to be fast otherwise it would come out blurry. 

2. The photo shows the composition of depth. You can clearly see as the objects in the photo, such as the road, the trucks, and middle dived, get smaller and fade off into the distance. 

3. The photo presents the element of art of space as you can differentiate between the depths of the objects in the photo.  

4. The principle of design of emphasis is shown in this photo. When one views this photo their attention is drawn and automatically looks at the crashed truck on the left side of the road. 

Shutter speed: 1/425 

Lens post- Variety

Link to photo

Reasons for being the photo with most variety:

1. There is a multiple number of subjects to guide the viewer though the photo. 
2. The words on the graffitied trailer wagon captures the viewers attention. 
3. The circular and rectangular wheels, doors ,and windows add additional variety to the photo.   

Principles of Design: Emphasis in Structure

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Elements of Art: Lines in Nature

I thought this photo didn't require editing as the lighting is already decent. 

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks pt 1 and 2

1. Th doctor saved his life by putting him in cold water and rubbing him against ice.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas with his parents.
3. She told him that most Negroes don't go to college because they can only be maids or laborers and it would be a waste of his parents' money.
4. Gordon was 16 years old when his mom died.
5. After his mother died he went to live with his sister and brother in law in Minnesota.
6. Gordon did not graduate from college when he was young but he eventually did.
7. He went to a clothes store for rich white women, and asked the owner if he could shoot fashions.
8. Double exposure is when two photographs are exposed on the same frame of film.
9. Joe Louis was a boxer who was an African American professional boxer and heavyweight champion.
10. Gordon played the piano all thought his life.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to educate the American public about poverty and combat it.
12. Stryker's first assignment for Gordon in Washington DC was to go shop at a specific store, eat at a restaurant, and watch a motion picture. None of the tasks could be accomplished because of the racism against Gordon.
13. Ella Watson was in janitor in the farm administration building that Gordon photographed.
14. The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was he architecture of a lone farm building and the culture of rural america.
15. Gordon learned from Stryker about photo that the people in front of the camera are the most important people, not the one taking the picture.
16. The FSA shut down in 1943.
17. After Gordon moved to New York, he shot for Vouge.
18. The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks when Gordon walked into the Life Magazine office.
19.  The first major story Parks covered for Life Magazine was on crime, following Red Jackson.
20.  After he moved to the Paris Life Magazine bureau, he mentioned the artists  Picasso, Vango, Brenard,and Brugol.
21.  He shot fashion by letting his models move, and moving with them.
22. Parks' concerto was performed in Venice.
23. Parks' second wife was Elizabeth Campbell Rollins and she was a model and her father was
24. He met Flavio when Flavio was 12.
25. Parks met Flavio in the early 1960's.
26. Flavio lived in rio de janeiro in a favela when Parks first met Flavio and his family
27. Gloria Vanderbilt was an author actress and heiress. Her son is Anderson Cooper, and news anchor for CNN. Her ancestors are the Vanderbilt family who made a fortune in the railroad industry then expanded.
28. She said they were friends, but she also didn't care about the social boundaries, but Parks new that they mattered and would stop them from being anything more.

Principles of Design: Movement in Structure

I unsaturated the original photo in camera raw.   

Elements of Art: Texture in nature

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Elements of Art: Color in Nature

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Elements of Art: Space

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Elements of Art: Shape in Nature

I increased contrast and lowered whites. 

Elements of Art: Form in nature

I clicked auto adjust and reduced the brightness and darkened the image. 

Soldier #6

I selected this photo as my favorite for the following reasons:
1. The picture captures the feeling and emotion of the soldiers at the moment.
2. The picture fills the frame well.
3. The positioning of the soldiers in a uniformed formation makes the photo special.  

2, 22, 9, 15, 16

1. Women with water vase, #2
2. Boats in sunset, #9
3. Trash and Paper #16
4. Eyes on TV #28
5. Blue Water #3

Updated Multimedia Poster

1) Why is this poster good?

    This poster is good because not only is it creative and interesting, but it is informative and clearing explains the event.

2) Why is it better than the last one?

     This poster is better than the last one because it is more organized, creative, colorful, and interesting.

3) What did you do to create the poster?

    I helped with the creative idea behind our poster of using a camera.

Poster Assignment

The Photo League Questions

1. What was The Photo League's credo?

The camera was more than a means of recording reality; it was a device with the potential to change the world.

2. What organization did The Photo League separate from?

The Film and Photo League

3. What was the workshop?

The Photo League’s school, offering photography classes to anyone with a camera and $5 tuition. Director Sid Grossman insisted the goal of the photographer was to achieve an emotional connection with the subjects.

4. Who taught "the workshop?"

Sid Grossman

5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy?
   In the aftermath of a lot of the social controversies concerning hate crimes and racial inequality, I would devote at least a year to juxtapose both the vast racial inequality as well as moments in which we cannot deny that people are brought together. I am not a police-hater, nor a majority-hater, but I do want people to notice that yes, there are these racial inequalities, but that the moments of incredible human kindness, compassion, and understanding are just as important. We need to fix the disparities, but we need a reminder every so often that those disparities are not the only relationships that exist.
6. What was The Harlem Document?

The Harlem Document is a portfolio of photographs that reveals Harlem’s poor living conditions and neighborhood in the 1930’s.

7. Who started The Harlem Document?

Aaron Siskind started The Harlem Document.

8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter?

Caravaggio

9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter?

The kids all looked very sweet and innocent, but specifically the one sitting on the right had a perfect ray of light hitting his face, illuminating him.

10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions)

He photographed child labor which showed children as young as eight working long   hours under dangerous conditions. Later in World War 1, Hine served as a photographer with Red Cross. He was also hired to record the construction of the Empire State Building.

11. Who was Weegee?

Weegee was a photojournalist who took images of the aftermath of New York street crimes and disasters.

12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power?

They became focused on supporting the war effort. They showed patriotism in America and gruesome descriptions of the war.

13. How did The League change during WWII?

Photo League members enlisted with armed forces and took part in battles on every theatre of WWII.

14. How did Siskind change after WWII?

Siskind turned away from the social and political world after WWII.

15. What was the Saturday Evening post?

The Saturday Evening Post was a photojournalism magazine similar to LIFE.

16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph?

Barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers.

17. What eventually undermined the Photo League?

The Photo League was put on a list of possible totalitarian, communist, or fascist organizations, created by Tom Clark.

18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film?

Communism

19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?
    W. Eugene Smith
20. What happened to the league?
    FBI agent Angela Calomiris testified that Sid Grossman had recruited her from the Photo League into the Communist Party. Although the League was never officially on trial, people became scared and didn’t come anymore. Due to the loss of members, the Photo League closed down in the summer of 1951.

Multimedia Festival Poster

Period 3 - Semester Final

Favorite Photo

My favorite picture from the slideshow is picture number 7. This is my favorite because the position of the balloons show a depth of field, the subject itself is hidden in the dark which is interesting, and there is a beautiful contrast between bright and dark.

Best Photo 

The best photo from the slide show is picture number 3. It is the best because the photo takes advantage of the light provided and the time of day. It has an odd number of subjects, which is one of my three rules of composition, and makes the photo more visually appealing. Lastly the image captures the moment and its viewers can understand what is happening without reading the caption.

Best Work 

My best work this semester would have to be the Masters of Photography project which can be found here. It is my best work because I spent a lot more time and effort to complete it than any other work so far. I was able to learn my photographers rules of composition and  apply it to the photos I took. I learned a great deal about photography and also got better at photo taking through this project which makes it my best work this semester. If I had more time to complete the project I would've took more photos and also included a few pictures taken at night.

Rules of Composition 

My three rules of composition are the following: 

• Rule of odds 
• Take close up photos 
• Avoid the middle 

Illustration 

This photo I took clearly illustrate two of my rules of composition, rule of odds and avoiding the middle. In the photo there is only one subject and it is not centered in the middle but off the the side.

Farley's First Rule of Composition 

Your first rule of composition is getting closer. 

Working in Groups 

Five benefits of working in groups: 

• Plan and manage time efficiently
• Break complex tasks into parts 
• Share knowledge and skills 
• Receive different feedback 
• Take on more difficult tasks that one would not be able to do alone. 

Five difficulties of working in groups:

• Some members don't participate or contribute as much as others
• Ideas are not clearly discussed as a team 
• Ineffective communication between team members 
• Some members dominate the group  
• Conflict between one member and another 

Favorite Work by Classmate 

My favorite work by someone in this class would be Kevin Mathis's fourth picture in his Masters of Photography Project which can be found here.

A Little History 

1. My master photographer was Henri Cartier-Bresson. He was one of the major artists of the 20th century who pioneered street photojournalism. He captured many American events and because of his contributions he is considered the father of photojournalism. He is also known for The Decisive Moment which is a concept that refers to capturing an events that is ephemeral and spontaneous where the image represent the event itself. 
2. Dorothea Langes most famous photograph is the "Migrant Mother". She was employed by the Farm Security Administration and it was taken at a camp for seasonal agriculture workers in Nipomo, California on In March 1939. 
3. Life Magazines began publishing on November 23, 1936
4. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935.
5. Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in 1947 in Paris