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Portraits and Self Portraits Intro

Portraits and Self Portraits

Some really good tips for taking good portraits are like holding your camera on a angle, framing your subject and using a wide angle.

 This Would be an example of playing with the background, the reason that the environment is a key element in this photo is because the girl is on the subway and everything thing else that is going on behind her is irrelevant because she is the main focus or subject.

This would be an example of a casual portrait, because the man is in his natural state almost like he doesn't know that his picture is being taken, he's swiftly walking through the streets.

This photo would be used as a self portrait, because there is no background to look at it's the man and the camera, i actually really like this picture because it's taken really well and it's in focus and it's just a really good photo all in general.

I thought this picture would go really well with environmental portrait because its the skater and the stair case and building thats all there is to it's a very simple photo that is really well taken.

 I also thought this picture really suits environmental portrait theme because you have the skater and the bowl and a couple of people in the background other than that who ever took this picture really knows what their doing.

This picture is really cool and interesting because the photographer used his natural resources and things around him to show himself and the camera in the picture.

 I guess when taking a self portrait black and white film or filters are a very popular or a must, but i really like this one because its very simple but taken really well.

I decided to use this kids senior picture for casual portrait because its very simple he's not to dresses up and it looks like its taken in his backyard so not a whole lot of thought went into this picture and thats what i think makes it really good.

 If you notice something about all of these casual portraits is that they are very simple but taken very well and whoever took these two casual portraits are both photographers that are very skilled and know what their doing.

For my portrait shoot ill try to shoot a little bit of inside the building and outside, ill shoot pictures of whoever wants their picture taken the only time i might take on without them knowing is when i take casual photo, thats really all i can think of for what ill do with my shoot.

Aperture, shutter speed- how do they work

Aperture, Shutter Speed + ISO

This Photo is taken in f/2.8

This picture was taken in f/16

1:  You would want to relate aperture to the face, you should every time you do so whether it's a self portrait or just a normal picture always make sure you do so.

2:  The smaller the aperture the greater depth of field, the higher the aperture the more light you get.

3:  If you have a small/narrow aperture the deeper and greater your depth of field will be.

This photo was taken with a really high shutter speed

This photo was taken with an extremely low shutter speed.

a). A booth in the middle of the yard near the tree/ Fast 

b). A food booth outside under one of the big red awnings/ Fast

c). The stars performance inside the gym/ Fast

d). Students dancing near the center of the courtyard/ Fast

e). People streaming in from the front of the doors/ Slow

f). The basketball booth where students are shooting hoops/ Fast

a). A booth in the middle of the yard near the tree/ Slow

b). A food booth outside under one of the big red awnings/ Slow

c). The stars performance inside the gym/ Fast

d). Students dancing near the center of the courtyard/ Slow

e). People streaming in from the front of the doors/ Slow

f). The basketball booth where students are shooting hoops/ Fast

Program, aperture priority and manual

Program: The camera automatically chooses the Aperture and the Shutter Speed for you, based on the amount of light that passes through the lens. This is the mode you want to use for "point and shoot" moments, when you just need to quickly snap a picture.

Aperture Priority: You manually set the lens aperture, while the camera automatically picks the right shutter speed to properly expose the image.  You have full control over subject isolation and you can play with the depth of field, because you can increase or decrease the lens aperture and let the camera do the math on measuring the right shutter speed.

Manual Mode:  Manual mode stands for a full manual control of aperture and shutter speed. In this mode, you can manually set both the aperture and the shutter speed to any value you want - the camera lets you fully take over the exposure controls.

1.  An advantage of using high ISO is that you'll actually be able to capture whats happening in the game, High ISO = Sports events.
2. The Author suggested to use low ISO only when the picture doesn't have any action and it still.
3. The author said that when using a high ISO you should be taking pictures of action such as sports, Cars, and planes.

The aperture settings are from 2.8 to 22

Available shutter speed options are from 1 sec to 1/4000 sec

ISO setting are anywhere from 100 to 25600

Funny Captions

Funny Captions

My grandma is cooler than you

Nancy in Ohio, Columbus celebrated her 100th on 12/3/16 by lighting up a cigarette off her birthday cake candle.  Nancy is just so cool she lights one up while everyone is singing happy birthday.  Nancy obviously didn't let smoking get to her over the years.

When ever you land your first kickflip.

Joji landed her first kickflip in sandal on 11/16/12 and i think the reaction on her face say's it all.  Her husband/instructor Walter is a skater god and was able to pass on his skills to Joji.  I guess it really is possible to land a kickflip in a robe and sandals while holding and umbrella.

What you rear view camera see's

Linda, 69 and John, 69 were out for a nice morning ride on their Honda mini bike while someone rear ended them the two were pissed and this was the guy who hit the two, view for the rest of the ride home.  I guess you could really say that this couple really doesn't give a F@#$.

 

Composition II

Composition II 

My theme for this composition will be different rappers. This photo of Travis Scott i used for RULE OF THIRDS, because he positioned on the left side where everything lines up.

This photo of Post Malone is a perfect representation of BALANCING ELEMENTS because his white jacket matches with the back ground but there's still a little color like his chain, grill, and glasses, thats why i thought this picture would be good for the rule.

This picture of Tyler The Creator is a decent example of leading lines, the leading lines in this photo are within the stage curtains and they really catch your eye if they don't then its his suit.

 Patterns was a really hard rule to find pictures for, but i decided to use this photo of Kanye West. The object or thing that catches my eye the most are the spotlights that create a pattern, thats why i used this for pattern.

This photo of Lil Uzi Vert was taken at ground level close up and those are both two things that contribute to a viewpoint picture so i think this fits the rule really well.

This picture of the Migos represents background really well, because their jackets are blue and green but the background is bright vibrant pink. and that fits the rule of background.

This photo of J Cole fits depth of field and it's all within the rainy background thats blurred and i think this was a very hard rule to find but i managed to find a photo that work with this rule.

This picture i used of ASAP Rocky captures and frames everything that is happening on stage you have the smoke and him running back to place so that is why i used this for framing.

This photo of Young Thug is really representing background and cropping because the light and the way the photo was taken makes the back blurry and really focus's on him on stage.

This picture of XXXTENTACION is really experimenting with the background light and color changes and i think it fits the rule really well. 

Prompt Shoot and Composition Part 2

Prompt Shoot Composition 2

I decided to use this photo for the COLD prompt because it's a cooler and it just makes sense. I cropped this photo but i think i could have taken the picture a lot better, I tried to crop it to where the handles made the rule of thirds aspect of it, other than that i think this picture is good but not my best.

This picture was used for ELECTRIC because he's holding a camera and its right next to a vending machine, I used rule of thirds for this photo but it's really dark and kind of hard to see, other than that i really like this picture.

My main idea when i took this photo was to try to get anything thats purple, the thing that bothers me the most is the big glare on the glass but it makes it a dark and light picture and i think thats really cool. The picture could have been taken from a different angle so the doesn't appear, other than that this is one of my best photos out of the three. 

Mural Project Review

Mural Project Review

1. My groups theme for the mural project is going to be photo's of Downtown Austin. Omar is doing interior so he'll need to probably use flash if the interior is dark. Cailyn is doing nature so she'll be going to Zilker Park and Lady Bird Lake and taking pictures of the wild side of Downtown Austin. Cyrus will be doing Restaurants and good food in Austin so that could be going to the food trailers or taking pictures of restaurants within Republic Square where all the really nice restaurants are. Jackson is doing main and major construction that is happening, like what goes on behind the fences and cranes and buildings in progress. I am doing buildings of Austin so like the Frost tower and other well known Buildings, I might include some photos at night with moon or just broad day pictures which aren't as interesting so probably night photo's.

2.  We are using Mr Reeves cameras so we will need to put them in manual mode and maybe have to use the flash.

3. So for the poster we are going to draw the Austin skyline behind the pictures and just put the photo's on top of the skyline so it really catches the critiques eye and gives them something else to look at.

Academic Photos

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

Ryan Zukauskas                                                                                                                           Period 3

Photo Manipulation & Ethics

Some of the main points i read about in the article talked about how the media produces and gives information to the public, It's all about how the media feels and the facts that they say there sharing are actually just there own opinions and how they feel about the situation. With issues like this to weigh along with the countless others, including but not nearly limited to, upper management pressure, rating's pressure, employee pressure how is a manager to deal when it comes to performance. With increasing ease editors, photographers, and just about any joe shmo can open up photoshop and wreak havoc on the ethics of hardworking journalist. Where in the distant past that honor was left up to the highly skilled, extremely patient hands of manipulative, trained photo developers. The Washington Post and New York Times usually only manipulate photo's when there is something that the subject in the picture or who owns the place wants the photo to look not more appealing but just better, and that can be making the subjects teeth whiter or adding in someone to the background or crowd of the picture, but it's only really to make it look appealing or just more suitable for when the photo gets released to the public. I think some things that you could manipulate to a photo that aren't unethical are maybe changing the color of something in the background or, but somethings you should never do are drone photography, trespassing, photos of people of without their permission, copy other photographers, and take pictures and print photo's of money. 




Personally i think that this is the most unethical photo out all of the of the ones on that website, because the University of Wisconsin realized that the majority of their students are white and it just so happens that the photo was taken with all white students in the frame so i guess the editor decided that it would be okay to photoshop a picture of an African American's head in the frame, The main reason this happened is because the University of Wisconsin asked the editor to do this so their ethnicity percentages would look better because 69.9% of UN is white and about 2.25% is black or African American, This isn't illegal but it's very wrong and once everybody found out that this was a fake it made UN look really bad and i think they deserved that.




I think this one is the least unethical because all they did is just make her look better and I don't really see how that's a bad thing, The main things that they changed were make her waste look skinnier and her face and cheeks a little bit slimmer, So thats why i think that this photo is the least unethical.

The History of the Camera

Ryan Zukauskas                                                                                                                           9/16/19 

The Camera

1.The first permanent photo was taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce in France, 1826

2. A heavily polished sheet of silver plated copper.

3. Ansel is famously known for her landscape geography pictures.

4. You need to know shutter speed, aperture, and ISO.

5. The three metering modes are matrix metering, center weighted metering, and spot metering.

6. You would center weighted metering when you want the camera to prioritize the middle of the frame.

7. It says another great example of using spot metering would be when you want to take photograph's of the moon.

8. The four camera modes are program, shutter priority, aperture priority, and manual.

9. In shutter priority you manually set the camera's shutter speed and the camera automatically picks the right aperture for you while in aperture priority mode you manually set the lens aperture, while the camera automatically picks the right shutter speed to properly expose the image.

10. Manual focus allows to photographer to personally set and focus the camera, while autofocus lets you just press a button before your about to take the photo and focus's and sets the camera very quickly.

11. Personally i think autofocus is better than doing it manually because its a lot faster and with the click of a button your camera is in focus and your ready to take a photo of your object.

12. Some of the best places and times to use flash while indoor is when your shooting at a wedding ballroom, church, and reception areas because they are prone to have less ideal light.

13. The only time when you should use flash outside is when its dark or your trying to fill the flash because the subject is poorly lit.

14. You would use a tripod so your video wont look shaky or unprofessional, and a tripod can be anything as long as its still and stable.

15. Yes, you should use auto focus because when your taking a video and you turn the camera to another object you want the subject to be in focus.

16. A good ratio to shoot is 50% close up's and extreme close up's, 25% medium shots and 25% wide shots.

17. Most modern digital cameras have four histograms, the primary one is luminosity that shows overall brightness of a scene.

18. A low key histogram you can see the "weight" of the histogram on the left side of the graph and it tapers rapidly as you move towards the center.

19. A high key image you can actually see all the data in the graph is off to the right of the histogram.

20. A clipping represents the loss of data from that region of the image. Digital cameras are known for their ability to extract detail from a dark shadow regions of an image.

Peer Reflection

https://nathansphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/



Nathan used the perfect photo for rule of lines and the prompt was square. I really liked the way the photo was taken at an almost sideway's angle and everything in his pictures just fits and goes together really well.

If there was anything that needed improvement it would be the lighting in his happy prompt picture other than that all of the photo's were all really well taken and they look really well done. 

Post shoot reflection

Ryan Zukauskas                                                                                                                   9/11/19

Post Shoot Reflection 

1. Some of the challenges i came across were that the wind was really strong and when I was taking both photo's of the girl the wind kept blowing the other way and she had to keep fixing it, I also had trouble getting the perfect shot for the Bowie Oak picture because i wasn't able to get directly under the tree.

2. The technical aspect i found myself thinking about the most was the rusty chain photo because from the start i knew exactly what i wanted to do for metal.

3. If i could completely retake my pictures i would try to get a better square photo and maybe try a different angle on the Bowie Oak picture.

4. Pictures that i would keep that same are the happy and lines photo and the chain and simplicity picture, especially the chain photo because i really like the way i have it right now.

5. The prompt's were fun and all but i would like to change it up next time, the only prompt i would repeat is the metal picture because you can do do much with metal and there is so much of it around us and if you really get the picture and angle the prompt will always stay fresh.

Prompt shoot #1

Ryan Zukauskas                                                                                                                    9/11/19
                                                             Metal and Simplicity 

I decided to use the metal chain for the metal prompt and it just seemed really fitting for simplicity because the rusty metal and my hand are really focused in and the background where the shadow and light and because it's so focused the lines on my hand and the chain really pop.

                                                                   Happy and Lines       



I used this photo for happy because she's laughing and that's what i really focused on because i wanted to capture the moment of her laughing, this picture also worked out really well for lines because of the stairs in the background, they might be blurry but the staircase leads to the girl.

                                                            Square and Rule of Thirds



The main reason i used this photo for square and rule of thirds is because the rectangle she's walking on toward's the camera are split up and you can actually see the lines that make up the squares in the picture, there is a lot going on in the background but it also seemed like the best picture for rule of thirds because the girl is on the left side of the lines and i think it works out really well.


                                                            Balance and Bowie



All of the tree branches in the picture give it the perfect amount of balance, almost all of the triangles are uneven but that's what i think makes the picture so cool, and also because the photo was taken under the tree instead of being far away. This is also Bowie Oak and its the schools tree and i really think that i represents Bowie really well.

First day photo's

I liked this picture because the trees make the lighting look really cool, but the main reason i really like this photo is because carl is jumping off the bench and it gives it a really cool effect. If there was one reason i disliked the picture its because i was the background could have been nice without the portable in the background and i think the picture could have been a lot more clear and lighter.





This picture is sort of plain but i really like the lighting in it because the sun is shining on the lockers and the hallway back in the corner is really dark. I don't think theres anything that i would change other than the setting of the picture is pretty boring and plain.