american soldier

1. The most powerful image to me I think is the one of Ian and his army buddies sitting on a bed hugging. I think that's the most powerful because I forget that they make friends in the army and that when they go into war, they are risking their lives and you might lose your friend. You never know if that'll be your last goodbye.

2.
set 1-at home- image 1 to image 3
set 2-basic training- image 4 to image 13
set3-Iraq- image 14 to image 27
image 28- back home

3. The set of image that I find the most powerful is the one in basic training because you can see him transform. You can see him go from the way he was back home in Denver to him transforming into a soldier, in a completely different environment and turning into a completely different person. You can se him preparing for what is coming.

4. The images work to tell a story by showing where he starts in the beginning, back at home getting ready to go to the army, to him going to the training. In the training you get to watch him transform and get ready to go to Iraq. The next part of the story is seeing him Iraq and you get to see that his training is put to the test and you see him do what he was trained for, then after all that you get to see him go home.

5. The verbs are in past tense

self portrait and portraits pt.1

tips:

Candids: Being Unobtrusive

You may want to make photographs of people going about their business—vendors in a market, a crowd at a sports event, the line at a theater. You don't want them to appear aware of the camera. Many times people will see you, then ignore you because they have to concentrate on what they are doing. You want the viewers of the image to feel that they are getting an unguarded, fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the scene.

Alert your perspective

Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. While this is good common sense – completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portrait a real WOW factor.

I like this photo because it has your subject off to the side and you can see that theres nature behind him. You can see that the ground is red and it goes on into the forest. You can see that there is a lot behind him. 

I like this photo because there is a lot of green. I also like this because it's a picture of a photographer and he's taking a picture of something but you can't see it in the photo, because of that this picture seems mysterious. 

I like this photo because the man is part of the background. His shirt shows the division of the ocean and the sky. He also blends in with the ocean and the sky. I chose this picture because it was very eye catching to me, I don't see a lot of pictures like this. 

I like this photo because you can see in the photographers face that there is something not in the photo catching her eye. I can think that she wants to take a picture of it because she looks interested. I chose this photo because it too was mysterious because something not in the photo is catching her eye. 

I like this photo because it's a picture of Marilyn Monroe. She has a prop and that is a piece of paper that she's reading and I chose this photo because something caught her eye so it's mysterious. 

I like this photo because it's a picture of Katy Perry and I chose this picture because something caught her eye so its a mysterious photo. 

Rules of Photography pt.2

view point 

framing

depth 

background 

Symmetry

Balance 

Leading Lines

Rule of Thirds 

cropping