Portraits and Self-Portraits

1) Self-Portraits

 2) Portraits (Professional)

3) What I think makes a good photo is the subject. if the subject of the photo is boring most likely the photo will be boring to. But if you get a good subject that causes a lot of attention (in a good way) then the photo will be fun where ever the place of the photo is.

4) Everything looks better in black and white(:

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

1. A)copying over people in a portrait is a terminal offense in most U.S. newspapers, image manipulation has recent legal decisions in the Middle East. People can and have been fired from newspaper because of editing photos.
B)I think its unethical because most of the photos are edited poorly.

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A) This is the most unethical picture because if people watched oprah they would know that she is not that slim, they would know that she is more thick then in the picture.

B) This picture isnt that bad because in newsweek they fixed her busted up teeth making her smile seem a little better then her real smile.

Ethics in Fashion Photography

1. They made her neck more longer and more narrow, lowered her eye's down a bit, they made her lips bigger, made her hair look like it has more volume,  made her eye's bigger, made her head smaller, and maybe changed her skin tone.
2. sometimes it depends on what the person is advertising. Make up for example they would like to show her cheek bones so they would make her face smaller to exaggerate her facial structure a little bit also if they were advertising contacts they would make a persons eye's bigger. If a person is advertising a soda (that is being drank by a person) then there is no reason to change the photo of the person because its advertising the soda and not the person.
3. Subjects in a photo should be shown without messing with the whole photo
4.Changing a persons ENTIRE face is not okay, but if some one has a ENORMOUS pimple on the tip of there nose then that's okay to fix.
5. fashion photography changes everything about the picture but photo journalism doesn't change anything.

National Geographic Warm-up

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2. I like this photo because it seems like a winter wonderland but there's just a little tree thats still alive. also because its seems that everything has died but that little tree is still standing. also because its a stunning photo because the sky looks the same color as the snow and there's a random little green spot.
3. I would take a photo of an cliff right near the ocean and at the end of that cliff is a light house and the light house is shining towards the camera (It would be night time).

Abandon Theme Parks

1. I would like to visit Okpo Land in South Korea because it said that a person died and I would like to take a picture of where the people died at. It also looks very haunted and creepy and who doesn't like a good chill down their spine? I would take pictures of every creepy looking ride in that amusement park. It would most likely be all of the amusement rides in the park since they are so old and rusty.
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3. An unusual place I think the photographers would like to visit is an abandon mental hospitals, abandon oorphanages, abandon school buildings, abandon towns and just plain old abandon building.

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5. It would be cool to go photograph an abandon mental hospital because taking pictures in really creepy places could be kinda fun because who knows what picture you could get (maybe a ghost in the picture). another reason I would like to go to take pictures there because it a freaking mental hospital! Who knows what you could find in there! Finding some creepy writing on the wall from a creepy patient who lived there would be so....Freaky....But AWESOME!

6. Well I would probably need somebody to come with me to take pictures because I'm to much of a chicken to go by my self. I would also need a camera to take pictures (duh). I would probably face the fact that I could get arrested for trespassing but hopefully I wouldn't get caught. I'm sure it would be expensive to go there, especially that I'm unemployed!