Retouched Self Portrait

Week #5 Assignment

1. How do you apply masks in LR and how can you use those masks to adjust your image?

you could apply masks in LR with the brush and you could use those masks to adjust your images by adjusting clarity, brightness, contrast, vibrancy and so on. 

 

2. Describe the difference between the adjustment brush and the gradient filter and how you might use each one.

 The adjustment brush let's you or allows you to adjust which ever special part of your image you want to adjust like for example if you didn't want to change the exposure on the whole image, you could select the certain part that you do want adjusted and adjust only that.  The gradient filter edits your whole picture naturally and you could adjust tint and stuff like that.  Gradient filter could be used for landscapes and adjustment for self portraits. 

 

3. What is Pascal Dangin’s job? In what ways is it creative?

Pascal Dangin's job is pretty awesome. It's retouching digital images.  It is creative because he retouches images that makes them appear almost perfect and they seem so nice. 

 

4. What is his attitude about the ethics of the job he does?

 I think he's honest because he knows that the images he retouches are obviously not real life.  He doesn't try to hide the fact that they are retouched.

Week 4 Reading

1. What does the phrase “The man who said ‘I saw it! I saw it!’ and passed it by” mean in terms of photography?

The phrase "The man who said 'I saw it! I saw it!' and passed it by"  in terms of photography means that photographers do not miss what passes by them and are seeing things differently or the same way either at the same instant on later on.  The way they see is different than a person who is just literally passing by something.

 

2. Drawing on the Daido Moriyama essay and our class discussions explain in your own words how photographs can “contain the living pulse of the human being behind the camera”.

 

Photographs can "contain the living pulse of the human being behind the camera" because it is just the way they see. Their way of seeing the world is 

 

different. Photographers like to capture emotions or feelings or instants that fit to what they view the world as.  Morivama says that he viewed his world or 

 

people as cold and thats why he only saw that on his or for his photography.

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AFTER

Week 3

-Reading Quiz

1. Describe IN YOUR OWN WORDS what is meant by the idea that “the link (with the human eye and its usual optical radius) is not really needed” in terms of photography and film. (Ossip Brik reading)............ 

-----I think it means that we need to start seeing the things around us in a different way, in a way that not everyone sees it so that our pictures come out better than what reality is set to be but what reality is, is more than just what the eye sees everyday, which is the norm.  

2. What is a DNG file? Why would you convert your files to DNG when you are importing them to LR? 

----A DNG file is a digital negative and it was created by adobe so that anyone could use this format. You would convert your files into a digital negative when importing to LR because is a smaller type of file size and it will be quicker to upload or import to light room 

3. How do you enter Lights Out mode in LR? How can you use this mode?  

-----You enter lights out mode in light room by double clicking the letter L and you could use this mode when wanting to display pictures with nothing else showing on the screen but the picture and black around the pictures.

-Looking at Photographs

---The picture that most captured my attention was the first one of the broken window.  Before reading what it was i couldn't really tell what it exactly was but then i started to see it as a shadow and then saw the broken glass type thing.  I found it interesting because it seems as that space in the middle could take you into a different time zone like a time machine sort of thing.  It seems as if you step into it you wouldn't know what to exactly expect to find yourself with because its dark there and the broken texture gives it a mysterious way to it since it makes you wonder why is it broken and such. I like how the middle of that picture is pitch black and how you cannot tell everything that went on at that moment but it does give you like a mysterious feel to it.

Week 2

-Reading Quiz
1. On pages 1-3 Szarkowski describes many ways that photography offered a new kind of picture making process with a very different group of practitioners. Describe one of the ways that photography was a very different art form.

On page 2 it says that photography had become easier.  It says photographs were like never before.  that the new pictures were something to remember  which meant that they would survive to multiple and get even better. 

2. What does John Szarkowski mean by the characteristic “The Thing Itself”?
 Szarkowski means that the picture itself should be given more credit than to the naked eye itself because that is what we are capturing and remembering for a while, not what your eye sees.

3. Szarkowski writes that the time that photographs describe is always the present. What does he mean?
 Well, what he means is that a picture will only tell a story that happens right at that instance.  For example, if it was taken on July 21st 2008 then it will only describe that day in present not the next or the day before that day.  


 Camera 


1. What is the maximum image size your camera is capable of shooting in terms of pixel width and height?
 5184x3456

2. What options do you have for controlling exposure with your camera? 
aperture, ISO, shutter, white balance, 
 
3. Describe some hypothetical situations in which you would want to use different exposure modes/settings.  
 One situation would be when i want to shoot pictures at night, if i want to shoot at night i have to change the iso to higher and if the aperture is at f/22, the shutter has to be the opposite which would be at 1/50 of a second..  Another situation will be when you want to shoot water you could shoot soft moving water or water in action which looks different. 
 
4. What ASA/ISO range is your camera capable of? Why would you choose one over the other?
  its capable of 3200 and you would choose one over the other in lighting situations for example if its too bright you put it its lowest and if its dark on its highest.

5. What is white balance and what options do you have for adjusting it on your camera?
white balance is for us to get the best accurate colors in our images.  my camera since its a canon t3i has really good options to play around with it.  
 
6. What is the histogram and how do you use it? 
 Histogram lets us know in a graph all of the brightness levels from the brightest to the darkest.