Africa and abandoned theme parks

1. This article is about a photographer, Nick Brandt, going to Africa to take pictures. He's passionate about animals in their state of being and is doesn't like how all the animals in Africa are dying off. He takes pictures of those animals to try to stop or make an impact on not killing off the East African Wildlife.
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This is a picture of a mother Lion holding her cub in her mouth with the cub just hanging there. This picture does not have any merges and he used the simplicity rule. The simplicity rule is focusing on the subject and making the picture simple. He used this because the background is plain with the sky and the dead trees and rocks in the back so nothing catches your eye away form the mom and cub. 

3. Nick Brandt uses a medium-format black and white film without telephoto or zoom lenses. This is important because those type of lenses zoom in on the subject and makes you feel like you're close to the animal. Other  photographers use those, but not him.
4. He takes these pictures because he's obsessed with animals and he hopes that they'll memorialize the vanishing or killing off East African Wildlife.
"There is something profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East and southern Africa. There is also something deeply, emotionally stirring and affecting about the plains of Africa—those vast, green rolling plains punctuated by graphically perfect acacia trees under the huge skies." -Nick Brandt 

1. Out of all the theme parks, I want to go to the Koka Family Land, Shiga, Japan. I want to go there because nature is staring to take over the theme park because it has been abandoned. Those would be some interesting pictures because there will be a lot of vines on rides and moldy areas of the theme park. 

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3. 5 other unusual places photographers would like taking pictures would be abandoned buildings, alley ways, schools, gardens and skating rinks. 
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It would be fun to shoot in abandoned buildings because there are rooms that are filled with other peoples memories and stuff so you can kind of see what kind of building it was. Its like a big adventure. I would take pictures of old lights and broken windows and if the building is covered by nature I would take pictures of that. 

Funny Captions

Miranda's daily attire when going out to the super market. She wears it because someone tried to hit her in her go cart. 

Larry always loved hunting for pleasure out in the open. He always hunted for the booty back in his day. 

Grannys reaction when she's at home and her grandkids say that they're hungry. She has a history of making some kick butt cookies. 

academic post-shoot reflection and critique

1. The challenges that I faced during this photo shoot was that some of the teachers didn't want me in their class for a long time so I felt rushed and I didn't have time to take a good photo in that classroom. Another challenge was that I couldn't find a classroom that was doing anything because most of them were just sitting and listening to the teacher or writing notes.

2. During the shoot, I kept thinking about focusing the camera because I didn't want a blurry picture. To fix a picture if it was blurry I would do auto focus or if that wasn't working, I would just fix it myself. When I was taking picture of the art kids, I wanted to get their painting in the photo and them making the painting so I had to find an angle to get both of them in there, but I had to focus on the painting happening.

3. What I would do differently was once again take my time taking pictures and I also would definitely take more pictures than I did.

4. The things I would do the same would be to explore the classes that I did explore.

5. I think balance and rule of thirds would be the easiest rules to achieve on the next photo shoot.

6. I think lines would be the hardest rule to follow on the next photo shoot.

7. The rule that I'm still not completely sure on is simplicity, I just need a couple reminders on what simplicity means but I put what simplicity is in my notes on my phone because I always have my phone with me.

academic post-shoot reflection

The composition rule I followed was balance. The subject of this photo is the paintbrush and the hand holding the paintbrush. Its sort of clear what the subject is and to make it more clear I could've taken the picture at another angle of flipped the camera so it wasn't horizontal but vertical.

The composition rule that I followed was lines because the tiles lead up to the people playing their instruments.  The subjects of the photo are the Orchestra people and I think I made it clear that they are the subject. I don't have one specific subject.

The composition rule I think I followed was rule of thirds because I have room on the left side of the picture because she has room to continue to draw. The subject of the photo is the girl, Haley Peck and I made it obvious and clear that she is the subject because no one else is in the photo. 

aperture, shutter speed and ISO

F2.8 aperture picture 

F16 aperture picture

1. we relate aperture to our eyes
2. the smaller the aperture f-stop, the higher the aperture size
3. aperture impacts death field by making the object you are focusing on, sharper. It makes the subject pop out more of the photo.

slow shutter speed 

fast shutter speed

a) booth in the middle of the yard- night; high beginning; slow

b) food booth outside- night; high beginning; slow 

c) stars performing inside the gym- night high beginning- high 

d) students dancing in the center of the courtyard- night high beginning high 

e) people streaming in front of the doors- night- high beginning- slow 

f) basketball booth- night; high beginning; high 

ISO 200 

ISO 6400 

1. the advantage of using a higher ISO in a game is the picture seems louder and you're at a sporting event so loud is always better and your picture will get brighter if you don't have enough light like at a football game.

2. use low ISO when you have bright lightening so you can have a high quality picture or when you want some objects to look like ghosts 

3. use high ISO when theres not enough lighting so you can take a quick picture 

1. the aperture settings they have are 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22 

2. the shutter speed settings are 1 sec, 1/60 sec and 1/4000 sec 

3. the ISO settings are 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400, 12800 and 25600