Academics & Community Service

The photo I picked was of a girl who was about to kick a soccer ball across the field. I picked this photo because the girl looked so focused and you could see the muscles contracting in her legs to kick the ball across the field. In the photo you can see that the photographer used lines to help the subject look as though it had some where to go.


1. Classrooms

2. I think I could go around to like the theatre room or the art room to get pictures of creativeness and focussed students at work.

3. Get the right angle, the right lighting, and the good timing.

Academic Shoot Preview

Filling the Frame 

In this photo the frame is filled with many things. The two subjects take up most of the photo but the white smoke fills up a part of the photo that would just be wasted space without it. 

Best Action/Emotion 

In this picture you see the water flying up into the air and the girls emotion from what has just happened  causing them to look surprised. 

Best Story 

I believe that this photo tells a story because in the picture there is a fine line between the homeless and the non homeless and you can see the non homeless reaching out to the others to help them. I think that this group of teenagers are feeding the homeless for community service hours and to give back to their own community and help others along the way.

Unusual and Interesting Photos- Part 3

1. Light, Angles, and connection with your subject.

Painting: 

Reenactment:

The photographer who reenacted "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" used the correct lighting to match up with the paintings lighting. The photographer also got an angle where the subject in the photograph and painting look the same. In the photograph and painting the subject looks like they have a connection with who ever was painting or photograph. 

I think that light influences me a lot. When I was on vacation in Cozumel, Mexico I got the opportunity to shoot some pictures of some parrots that were at one of our activities and I had to adjust myself to get the right lighting to make the colors and details of the birds really stand out. 

Unusual and Interesting Photos- Part 2

Domestic News Picture Story 

1. I picked this photo because the emotion on the woman's face is so heart breaking and it makes the photo have so much more to say and it makes you wonder. 

2. Domestic News Picture Story 

3. Third Place 

4. The photographer got the woman in an angle where you see cars behind her looking like they are in a line and then you see her standing out side of the cars with no other humans visible. 

5. I think the reason this photo got 3rd was because of how much emotion the woman is presenting, it really shows how devastating this event was to certain victims. 

6. I think that the photographer was most likely in a position where chaos was surrounding them and they had to take the time to compose themselves to take this picture. 

Pictoral Singles 

1.  I picked this photo because when you first see it, you think that the roller coaster is just on a pier in the water and then as you spend more time looking at the photo you realize that the roller coaster is a little beat up and is in the middle of the water not standing on anything. 

2. Pictoral Singles 

3. Second 

4. I like how the photographer captured the sun rising in the morning because then all you could see was the outline of the roller coaster. 

5. I think that the judges picked this photo because of how this picture is so appealing to the eye but it also tells a part of the story of Hurricane Sandy. 

6. Considering the description of this photo says that this was taken in the early morning, I find it to be unique that the photographer had either gotten up or already was up that early to capture this photo. 

Sports Photojournalist of the Year 

1. I picked this photo because there is so much going on, it really caught my eye. 

2. Sports Photojournalist of the Year

3.  First 

4. The photographer made the race car in the top right corner with the finish line in front of it making it obvious that the car was moving 

5. I think that the judges picked this photo because the photo includes many different types of things going on with the smoke, tire marks, finish line being so close, and the american flag on the car really draws attention to this photo and keeps your eyes moving. 

6. I think the photographer did something unique by taking the picture from birds eye view and capturing the car in the spot it is in to make it seem like it is moving. 

Unusual and Interesting Photos- Part 1

1. My first reaction to Christian's work was that the picture was taken by mistake and thats why the buildings seemed to be moving in the pictures.

2. Im assuming Christian made these photos by using a reflection app and then overlaying the buildings through different transparencies and angles.

3. I think that the frost building in downtown Austin would be a good building to use for this type of photography because of all of the windows and the way that the building is shaped. The frost building is very easy access because it is along lady bird lake so there is not any buildings in front of it blocking your view.

Alyssa Mota's Blog- Refection

http://alyssamotasphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/

Alyssa did a great job with her Lines photograph and her Balance photograph that she chose.

In the Balance picture, the twin towers really complement your eyes and make you look not just at one but two buildings which keep your eyes moving.

In the Lines photograph, the picture includes the aftermath of the towers. The buildings near by resemble how a line would be formed vertically and horizontally and then you look at the leftover structure of the twin towers and you see that the lines are no longer straight but bent and cut and transformed into unequal lines.


In Alyssa's Rule of Thirds photo, I would have picked a different one that included maybe a more distinct path that an object in motion would be following.

   When I saw the picture at the beginning of the article, I thought of it as a symbol of courage and my feelings towards the man were in the utmost highest respect for him. I couldn't imagine how you could bring yourself to end your life by jumping from a building 100+ stories tall. In the last moments of his life and many others who  had jumped I wonder what brought him self to just jump and take the plunge and accept what was going to be the end. Other articles and newspapers wouldn't except this because they feel as though they were being disrespectful towards the man who jumped, and I can see how they would feel that way but I look at this picture as more of a symbol for the courage it must have taken to jump from that high of a building to the plunge of your death.