Most Influential Teacher

            Yousuf Karsh was born December 23, 1908 in what is now Turkey. He was sent to live with his uncle George Naska a photographer who would start to teach Karsh how to start talking photographer even though he wasn't interested in being a photographer at first. Karsh planned to become a doctor when he first moved in with his uncle , but soon discovered he had an interest in photography. Secretly one of his friends enter one of his photographs in a contest which won first place. Karsh was then sent to work in Boston with the famous photographer John H. Garo.  Thats what started Karsh off and his photography was portraits that he said were based on "My chief joy is to photograph the great in heart, in mind, and in spirt, whether they be famous or humble." Karsh was mostly well know for photographing famous people who left a mark in this world as well which included people like Albert Einstein, Winston Chruchill, and people who served in war. Yousuf was one of the master of photography in the 20th century.
           Karsh influenced me to in some ways follow his method of taking photographs of people who have inspired me. The only difference from Karsh is my photography is on my teacher who has inspired me to do better in my education. My teacher Jessica Parfitt is a history teacher at Pittsburg Senior High School she has taught me to find U.S history very interesting. Karsh photographed portraits in black and white of people and I created the similar effect with the images I took. He either took photographs of people in a certain position or in the action of which they are known for. He influenced me to do so because I found it , it can be a way to honor Yousuf Karsh and My teacher. I captured Ms. Parfitt while teaching to represent way she is influential, just like Karsh would to people who made a change in this world through his portraits. Ms. Parfitt way of interacting with her students makes creates a comfortable zone in the classroom in which students like myself feel we can ask for help without being embarrassed. Her personality is one of the best from teacher I've seen so far she makes history interesting and understandable for students. Most teachers will just give a lesson straight from a textbook and except us to read ,but Ms. Parfitt takes the time to full make us understand why events given are historically important. Another thing that makes her an inspiring teacher is she is not afraid to challenge her students in the work she gives us it rather helps us prepare us for colleges who won't except late work as well. For those and many other reasons is why Ms. Parfitt is an influential teacher to me. 

Photography Tips

10 Links to Photography tips Websites.

1.Portrait Photography Tips
2.How to Take Portraits
3.14 Portrait Tips
4.Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
5.Essential Photography Tips
6.100 Tips from Professional Photographer
7.Better Photo Tips
8.20 Useful Photography Techniques
9.Basic Photography Tips
10.The Photography Tips

3 or More things I Learned to Better Portraits

Some of the things I learned while researching the links to a better portraits is that getting closer to the subject that it fills most of the frame, a viewer can appreciate a photo better. Capturing details behind the subjects makes the photography more interesting as well. A photograph is respond by everyone is a positive way when it has all the elements balanced and being able to work with your lighting to have the subject stand out instead of hiding in the shadows. The best way to do so is brightening up the subject using the exposure compensation. Another great tip is in focusing your camera using a wide aperture can decrease the depth of field so the best thing is focusing right on the subject.

Cropping for Better Composition Part 2

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Cropping this photograph taken by my group illustrates the texture rule of composition. The cropping part added in the after photograph gives the imagine a better composition. It allows the imagine to become three dimensional because the elements in the photograph up close create texture and they become alive. The light hitting the person in the images plays an important role in creating texture and since it was on the person face texture created the photograph to become alive and have better composition.

Cropping for Better Composition- Advanced Photo

Original photography by Bryan Farley

After cropping for better Composition 

                                                         New Rules of Composition
                                                                    in Cropping

The cropped photo illustrates the depth of field rule of composition , because in the cropped photo I have drastically impact the bottom of the photography originally take by Bryan Farley. I impacted the image by focusing on the shoes of the people and the movement position they were capture doing with there feet. Instead of isolating the front and blurring out the background, I created the inverse version of depth of field. Blurring the foreground and making the back the main focus subject and revealing the motions capture and the bottom that weren't focus in the original photograph making it a larger depth of field.

Composition photo assignments

My group and I decided to chose the compositions of simplify the scene. We picked this composition because it was different from what everyone was choosing and it was what grabbed our attention. Simplify the scene is when your eye and mind right away focuses on a subject of interests but the camera still captures it. One must try and blurry out the extra background we don't find interesting since we can't take it out piece by piece unless we use some sort of edith but thats not the task in simplifying the scene. Blurring the background excludes it from the focus ,however its still part of the story. This simply picture my group and I took of columns make the first one the main focus in the picture and the rest still there as part of the beauty of great construction but its not as important as the main one focusing on the design. When we go out to shoot other ways we can create simplify the scene photographs is using people and focusing on one main human while still capturing other people in the background "off guard" capturing simplify the scene.

Review of the Canon Rebel T3i

                                                               The Canon Rebel T3i

         The Canon Rebel T3i shares excellent image quality according to the T3i Overview website. It also offers articulating LCD, remote flash control, and creative filters found as well in 60D. The Cannon is a camera that can slow frame rate while shooting sport events. The T3i unlike its past ancestors the t3i for example offers the swivel screen, new type of lens, more reduced-resolution JPEG options, and an auto picture style mode. This reviews gives extra non important informations that can be interesting to most people such as it looks and feels like the past camera the T2i ,but with better settings on it and new added things too it. Also the canon is ideal to fit peoples with small or medium hands because its the right sizes as well as it has become more lighter. In another review from Canon U.S explains how the canon rebel t3i carries phenomenal compact DSLR with still having the rebel traditions of easy operation while creating masterpiece. The new canon features a new DIGIC 4 image processor also including an 18.0 megapixel CMOS image sensor. Canon Rebel T3i/EOS 6OOD review give an explanation of the advances the T3i has made on the movie features including full HD and new digital zoom function. New setting have an offering 3-10x magnification with sound recording level control built in with a stereo sound meter to adjust your perfect setting.

Aperture Effect on Photography

Before Is Boring

After the filter is added and it is edited it gives
the photograph a more live feeling.

Before is simple its not outstanding.

After putting the black and White filter
the photograph stands out more.

Yosemite and Photography

                            

Yosemite and Photography

     
         When Yosemite National park opened October 1, 1890 Pop Laval a central valley photographer started photographing the park nearly about 100 years ago and is well known for his work doing so.  It is said that the park was breathtaking because it provided a year round mountain-and-valley scenery as well as a half mile seep depression carved by glaciers during the last age with now a 3,000 foot high granite domes and waterfalls this features made it interesting to photograph. When photographs took photos of the park to promote it beautiful significants like Laval begin know as a great photographs of California's Great Central Valley was hired again and again. This images are created with what the American people wanted to capture about Yosemite park. If i was asked to capture picture of such a well known park i would wanna capture its significance of why people find it so interesting and why they wish to continue seeing it alive. Also capture why the mission is to protect American's great outdoors and powering our future. The best person who takes photographs of Yosemite National Park is Michael Frye at the moment.

5 Photos From Photo Booth

This filter is Color Pencil with an up close picture of me that makes my eyes seem bigger then they are normally.

This Filter is Comic Book and the expression I used was surprise because it reminded me of the famous painting "The Scream" in a way. 

This filter I used is the X-Ray and i found it interesting because It' s a creepy picture and I look like a ghost.

This is one of my favorite filter Black and White which i also took with my group. This picture describe us all together were always joking around and laughing.

This filter is the Thermal Camera and i found it special because one of my group members and friend photo bombed and I put a mad face as a joke. The Red as the background goes with the emotion in the picture.

Review Elements of Art

                                                       Elements of Art

              In a photograph it is important to capture in a scenery the elements of art which include:  Lines, shapes, forms, space, color, and texture. Each element is incorporated in photography and they all have a certain role in the scenery that is created. Lines is a mark with greater length than width. Shapes are closed lines and have different forms of natural shapes. Forms are three dimensional expressing length, width, and depth also balls, cylinder, and boxes are some forms as well. Space is the area between and around objects and people. Color is light reflected off the objects. Finally texture is where you can see the quality in the photography and be almost felt , they can either be rough or smooth. These elements are used for photographers to create work of art in their photographs and have the right elements in it. In my next project I will uses these elements by figuring out what i want my scenery to look like using these elements will create a better picture because the elements will come together for a person to see what my idea was to have in my photography. For my group projects is Humans in Nature Catching them in the act around natures how they act with the weather, with the beautiful pants all around them, and with other people as well.

Concert Photography and Composition

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Photo 3. After

Composition of Photography

                                               Assignment 1
We become composers in photography because we must find the composing image in a camera. Organizing the elements and details in the scenery to create our own composition that catch our eye since what we might find interesting other people may not. Composition in photography is what we create with our lens. The most important elements that we must find through the viewfinder are the texture, lines, depth field, symmetry, and pattern.  In photography there is no rules ,but there is a established compositions guidelines to create a more impact scenery.  Each of these guideline include the 5 elements of photography and other extra elements that can be found in a scene because every time you bring your camera to your eye you are making decisions about composition. When you have to decided how to frame your photography to make it eye catching. Simply by being able to work with your camera properly can be easy to find the elements to be a composer of photography.

Three Links to Composition in Photography

5 easy Composition Guidelines


Composition in Photography


The Rules of Composition

First Assignment-Looking at light

When my group and I were sent out to look at light we discovered that light does play a big role in color. We were asked to face each other because the light would be different depending on our skin color and whether we were wearing dark color clothes or light color clothes. When a darker skin person was facing a lighter person , the darker person would only be lighter in her face where the light would hit because her hair was black and her outfit had dark colors. The lighter person was right away lighter when in the light since her clothes were white.When the darker skin person pulled her hair back she was exposed to more light so more places became lighter. Dark colors absorb the light, so the light that can make the person lighter disappears. In Conclusion, Light depends on the persons color and clothe to be able act on the person.