A Famous Photojournalist

For homework, I had to look up a famous photographer, and I choose Steve McCurry.

He is well-known for his work for the Magazine National Geographic. His most famous photograph was a picture of a young Afghan girl with vivid green eyes, which he took in the 1980's. He is also known for winning the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad. He won this award by dressing as a native, and crossing the border from Pakistan to Rebel-Controlled Afghanistan. He then snuck the film back across the border by sewing it into the clothing he was wearing. He's know for his war photography, but rather than shooting battles and destruction, he shoots pictures of real people, and the human condition.

What an interesting life, right?

-Babs

My Notes!

For today's class assignment, we learned about the different fields a photographer might go into. These are my notes for Sports Photographers:

Location:
•Get as close as you can to what you are shooting
•Be familiar with the sport→ know where to position yourself for the best action
• Position yourself where the background is most pleasing

The Decisive Moment:
• Sports and action photography is all about timing
• Each sport has predictable and unpredictable moments→ understand this timing to capture the peak moment
• By knowing the predictable moments, you can anticipate the action→ helps with focus and helps you snap the shutter at the right time

Required Equipment:
• Having the wrong equipment means not getting the shots you want/need
• Most sports photographers use 35mm cameras
• For a 35mm camera, each 100mm in lens focal length gets you about 10 yards
• Lens speed is a critical factor
• Auto focus helps
• You may need a flash with a high output
• Remote triggers allow you to mount a camera where you cannot be during a game

Depth of Field- Isolating the Subject:
• Most all dramatic sports photos are shot with the lens wide open or one stop from with open because you need all the shutter speed you can get and it has to do with isolating the subject
• If you use a long lens, the subject will stand out and the background will have a smaller impact on the subject

I'm not sure I care for Sports photography, but I do respect their work, it takes some skill to catch moments when they are as fast as a blink of an eye.
...I just don't think it's to me!

-Babs

Mercy Week!

Here are some photos I took at our spirit week!







-Babs

Photojournalism

This Picture was taken during the 1960's and the civil rights movement for Blacks. It was a very frightening time, and I think that is expressed in this photo. The fact that the fire is truly the focus, but you also see the chaos of the background really moves me.

I wish I knew more about this photo. The framing is amazing, and it really draws me in.

This photo is from the early 1900's of "Newsies" or paper boys. I love the line and value of this picture.
This is a picture of a house fire. The dominance of the couple really shows strong emotion.

This is a picture of some impoverished boys bathing in a river. I love the texture and rule of thirds.

NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE MINE! These are just pictures I like that are photojournalism.
-Babs

Same Place, Different Photographers.

This week, we're focusing on photojournalism. As an introduction, we were put in groups and told to take a picture of a certain place. Here are my photos:






-Babs

My Elements and Principles

These are the pictures I took last week of different principles of photography! I had a lot of fun photoshopping the few I was allowed to! These are my favorite:




-Babs

My Newest Art

Here's some pictures I had to take for a quiz, in which I had 30 minutes to get a picture of Color, Pattern, Symmetrical Balance, The Rule of Thirds, and Texture.
Here there are in the order stated above.







- Babs

My (Edited) Sunprint

I decided to go very simplistic in my design for my sunprint in photoshop. I went for gradients of two complimentry colors, then put a filter over it to make the shapes seem like they had a neon glow. Here's my final Product:


Told you it would look, different, didn't I?

By the way, here's the link to the original:
http://lifeaccordingtobabs.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-sun-print.html

-Babs