Portrait Plan

Nelly Tapia will be my partner and we will shoot in the courtyard.
I want the background to be simple so i will most likely use the sky as a background and i want the mood to be casual.

Caption Introduction

Subject (Who):
Verb: MarchingDate: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014
Place: Ferguson, Mo

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

Why: a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year old.

Subject (Who): Dr. Rick Sacra
Verb: describes
Date: Friday Sept. 26, 2014
Place: Worcester, Mass. 

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

Why: contracted the Ebola virus in Africa

Subject (Who): People
Verb: dig out
Date: Friday, Feb. 14, 2014
Place: Albany, N.Y.

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

How: snow dumped by the latest winter storm. 

Subject (Who): Workers
Verb: Walk
Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Place: Westwood section of Los Angeles

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

Why: 93-year-old pipe that broke

Subject (Who): Leroy Petry
Verb: stands
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Place: Olympia, Wash.

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

How: an enemy grenade he was throwing away from fellow soldiers detonated

Subject (Who): Two young girls 
Verb: watch
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Place: Nogales, Ariz

Identify the following information the following elements from the SECOND SENTENCE of the caption:

Why: more than 47,000 unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally

2014 review

This photo interests me because of how symmetrical it is and the cool scheme. The photo quality is very shape. This photo kind of reminds me of the way the austin capital looks as well.

i like this photo mainly because of the depth of it. it is symmetrical and has a lot of nice colors. the quality of the photo is very good also.

this photo interests me because the perspective of it. it uses view point in a very good way. and also seeing this volcano from a different angle is real cool. this photo is pretty shape and has very good quality.

my favorite artist from this year is a kid named Bishop Nehru. he went on tour with has in 2014 and thats a legend in hip hop so i really feel that thats a big accomplishment and something big that was in 2014.

i really liked this movie called Night Crawler. the actor just played a great character and i really just feel his acting was just so good and he's defiantly what made the movie as good as it was. i think is was the best just cause all the obstacles he over came in the movie, the directing and actings was great and it was just a really good movie overall.

i think the most important news in 2014 was Ferguson, just cause i really feel like thats a serious issue. the abuse of power some officers are using is just bad and it is not leading in the right direction and thats why i think this is the most important new of 2014.

i wouldn't consider this the most important person of 2014 but i think this is the most important sports story of 2014 defiantly. i think the domestic abuse with ray rice was really big. and the reaso why i think its the most important story last year is cause it could prevent a lot more incidents like these from happening again.

during the winter break my cousin from Cali came of and stayed so we took him to all the nice places in Austin and thats what i really loved. i ate so much good food that i usually wouldn't eat just out of no where and now my dad says we might go to Cali for spring break to see some of my family over there and i think thats what I'm looking forward to about this year.

Portrait Photography Preview

1. Why is the environment where a portrait is taken an important consideration in portrait photography?
Yes it is because the background could help the person viewing the portrait know to setting of the person in the portrait 

2. Why should portrait photographers use a "Aperture Priority" mode or full manual mode? (From the "Depth of Field" heading.
I would prefer full manual mode to get the best quality pictures i can get

3. How can portraits reveal a subject's character? (From the "Revealing Character Heading."
Portraits can be revealed by objects in the portraits

4. How can the photographer help the subject while taking portraits? (From the "Directing the subject" and "Expression and posture" headings.
By telling the subject how to pose and what they expect from them 

Rules of Composition Part 2

Simplicity

Symmetry 

Depth 

Rule of Thirds

Patterns 

Framing 

Cropping

 View Point 

Depth

Balancing elements 

Aperture and Shutter speed practice

F4  – looks the best at 1/125 of a second shutter speed.

- The background for F4 at 1/125 of a second for the shutter speed causes a blurred background
F5.6 – looks the best at 1/60 of a second shutter speed.

- The background for f5.6 is blurred out with a 1/60 of a second shutter 
F8  – looks the best at 1/60 of a second shutter speed.
- The background is blurred with a shutter speed of 1/60

F11  – looks the best at 1/30 of a second shutter speed.
-the background is blurred but is still visible 

F16  – looks the best at 1/30 of a second shutter speed.
- background is blurred but is still visible 

F22  – looks the best at 1/8 of a second shutter speed.

- background isn't really blurred, it is very visible 

The images get blurrier as the shutter speed slows down 

making the shutter faster to balance out what you're trying to shoot 

i believe the F5.6 aperture and a 1/60 of a second make the best photograph

The Three Pillars of Photography

PART 1

1) The pupil is essentially what we refer to as aperture in photography
2) The size of the circle represents the size of the lens aperture – the larger the f-number, the smaller the aperture.
3) The size of the aperture has a direct impact on the depth of field, which is the area of the image that appears sharp
4) F22, F20, F18, F16, F14, F13, F11, F10, F9.0, F8.0, F7.1, F6.3, F5.6, F5.0, F4.5, F4.0, F3.5
5) The highest is F3.5 and the smallest is F22

F2.8

F16

PART 2

High Shutter Speed

 Slow Shutter Speed

A) Fast

B) Medium 

C) Medium

D) Medium

E) Slow

F) Fast

A) Medium 

B) Medium

C) Medium

D) Medium

E) Slow

F) Medium

1) Setting the camera to Shutter Priority mode, where you set the shutter speed and the camera automatically selects the aperture. Pretty much the opposite of Aperture Priority.
2) Setting the camera to Manual mode, where you set both shutter speed and aperture on your own.
3) Aperture Priority lets you set the lens aperture, while the camera automatically sets the shutter speed for you.

200

 3200

 6400

1) because the background would not be as clear as your main focus

2)  Always use the lowest ISO she  possible to get the highest image quality

3) increase the ISO when there is not enough light

4) 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400