My First Print

• Everything is quite in focus because I can read the letters on the t-shirt and on the glasses.
• There a great contrast between the t-shirt of the guy on the left,( the letters and the rest of the t- shirt) the sheet of paper and the the other guy, and the lockers with the white wall.
• The only aspect that I did wrong is the center of the picture: I should had put the center a little bit more to the right because the dude's arm on the left is cut and I should had included it in the pic.
• There are no yellowing or spots on the picture.
• Everything is in my folder.

CAPTION:

• Marcos Rivera and Hector Chavez.
• Reading a sheet of paper.
• They are down the hall.
• During 3rd period.
• because thay had to meet somewhere and they didn't know how to get there.

1ST SENTENCE: Marcos Rivera and Hector Chavez are reading a sheet of paper in front of Mr. Reeves's class in 3rd period, because they have to meet somewhere but they don't know how to get there.
2ND SENTENCE: In the background there were only the students lockers

Making a Black and White Print

1)Material needed:

Timers

Drying Cabinets

Tongs Or Spatula

Enlargers

Focusing Aids

Safelights

2)Chemicals needed:Developer, Stop Bath, Fixer

Developing the Print

1

Place the exposed print paper in the developer tray. (Time varies by paper type. Resin-coated paper stays in the developer 1 minute, while fiber-based paper stays in for 2 or more minutes.)

2

Take the paper out of the developer with tongs. Let all excess liquid drain off of the paper before placing it in the stop bath tray.

3

Place in stop bath tray, leaving resin-coated paper in the stop bath for 15 seconds and fiber-based paper for 30 seconds.

4

Take paper out of the stop bath and place in fixer for 1 to 2 minutes for resin-coated paper and 2 to 10 minutes for fiber-based paper.

5

Remove from fixer and place in wash for 2 to 5 minutes when using resin-coated paper and 30 to 60 minutes when using fiber-based paper.

6

Take out of wash and place on drying cabinet.

DEFINITIONS:

• EMULSION:A suspension of small globules of one liquid in a second liquid with which the first will not mix

• APERTURE:defines the size of the opening in the lens, which in advanced cameras can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or digital sensor (CCD or CMOS).

• MASKING EASEL:a stand or frame for supporting or displaying at an angle

• EXPOSURE:the total amount of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium (photographic film or image sensor)

• SAFE LIGHT:a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom. It provides illumination without the wavelengths of the light spectrum

• DODGING: decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter

• BURNING increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.

Ethics in fashion photography

1. Her Acne disappeared, her eyes are brighter and bigger, her nose is thinner, the hair changed completely and they lifted her neck a lot.
2. I think it is not acceptable, at least as crazy as they are doing it.Everybody should appear like they really are.
3. Not really, because this manipulation is unacceptable for me.
4. (see number 2)
5. Fashino photography distorts the reality( talkin about fashion) . Also photojournalism documents real facts that happened, like a newspaper, instead fashion photography is just about beauty.
6. Starting from what I said in number 5, fashion photography has to represent the real beauty, that you can't found in nature, so they use photo shop or whatever to adapt it. However, photojournalism is about real stories, events, tragedies and atrocities so they represent the reality as it is.

Negatives Evaluation

1. I think most of my pictures turned out well.
2. One of the picture will not turn out well because is too bright:that happened because it had been over exposed to the light.
3. There is one picture(10) that is going to turn out well because the picture is well taken and the colors in the Negative don't seem to be neither too dark nor too bright. The focus is also good because there aren't round shapes.
4. (see number 3)
5. I used the rule "Point of View": instead of shooting the subject from a 180 degrees angle, i was on my knees taking the picture from a lower point.

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A)This story talks about what happened to many photographers that after taking pictures they modified the content in order to obtain something back(powerful images,..): as a result most of the photographers were fired!
B)I think this is unacceptable because  they make up reality to obtain success and money.
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B)I think this is least unethical photo manipulation because they adapted a landscape to fit it in the picture, is not like manipulate pictures in war time like the one below.














A)this picture is really unethical because they changed the motion of the soldier making him trying to stop the father with his baby; by doing that the soldier seems to be an hostile to them.However, in the real pictures that had been taken the soldier is just looking if there are some hostilities around the people, so basically is trying to defend them.
What they did is unacceptable because they turned "good" into "evil", and those manipulations must be punished

Drug Cartels in Mexico

What Mexico's government is trying to do is brave but I think it is not the solution to the problem:

• "The cartels kill indiscriminately," 

• "The violence that has gripped what many call the most deadly city in the Western Hemisphere".

Ciudad Juarez is described as one of the most dangerous cities in the world, so Mexico is not the only country that can face these criminals because, as everybody knows, many mexican deputies or senators are involved in criminal facts. As a matter of fact CNN showed an article saying that the 28% of mexican represenatives are corrupted.
I must say that The United States have to fight along mexicans against cartels, not just because what drug dealers are doing is unacceptable, but also because many drugs that you can buy in The States come from Mexico and also because they are killing Americans( two students of the University of Texas at El Paso)
United States will not only terminate the drug cartel criminality but also they will contribute to the security of american citizens.


The picture that I liked the most is the one showing an abandoned car sitting in the Mexican desert outside Juarez, Mexico, with doors and trunk wide open. Under a blanket in the trunk is a body. Hands tied together. A bullet in the head.
The photographer took a Black&White picture using the Rule of Thirds since the car, the subject, is on the upper square of the picture; I would say that he used the Leading Lines Rule too, because there are lines such as the shadows of the car and the interiors.
I chose this picture as my favorite because I think it better describes the violence that the citizens of Juarez are facing: their relatives could be kidnapped and killed at anytime. EVERYBODY IS IN DANGER

Post Shoot Reflection

1)    The most difficult part of taking picture for me is to success in focus only what you want to take the picture of: many times you include objects or part of a body that you didn't mean to include and the result could be a picture with spare objects.I dealt with that just trying to focus my attention on my subject avoiding mergers
2-3) I tried in the majority of my picture to apply the Rule Of Thirds so I had hard times trying to fit my subject in the picture, because I was taking the picture from too close.Once I took a picture of a guy reading a poster; the subject was relativelly big for the position I was taking the picture from( I was too close and I needed to take the pic from another point of view).So I shoot the pic from an higher spot just by elevating the camera in top of the boy.
4)     I will not stand too close from my subject and I'll focus not to insert mergers in the picture.

American Soldier Slideshow

A. I think that the most impressive picture of the slides is the one of the soldier sitting on a bench in Iraq: be there for a year or more fighting for a cause that doesn't belong to you is very hard and those soldier found the time to read newspapers..
B. The most powerful sequence is "Life In Iraq": it shows how tough is Soldier's life at the front helping people and fighting the "terrorists"
C. Those are sequences so the images are related by a fact or a subject (exc), so our attention is always focused on what is going on in Iraq and more
3)
A. The tense used for the captions is the simple present
B. The captions solve all our doubts about what is going on in the picture by describing accurately the subject,the background (ext)

Processing Black and White Photos

Here is what you should have:

• black and white film that has been exposed;
• complete darkness;
• a dry counter top;
• a bottle cap opener to open the 35 mm film cartridge;
• scissors;
• a film developing tank;
• reels that fit into the tank (one per roll of film);
• film processing chemicals - developer and fixer;
• optional chemicals (recommended) - stop bath, hypo clearing agent and wetting agent;
• a container in which chemicals can be mixed;
• a stirring rod to mix chemicals;
• a graduated beaker for measuring amounts of chemicals;
• chemical storage bottles;
• a darkroom thermometer;
• a timer (a stopwatch will do);
• a funnel;
• running water that can be maintained at a constant temperature;
• a washing hose;
• a sponge squeegee to remove water from the film (not essential, but helpful);
• clips for hanging negatives; and
• a dust-free location to hang the film to dry.

PROCESS:
In modern automatic processing machines, this step is replaced by mechanical squeegee or pinching rollers. These treatments remove much of the carried-over alkaline developer, and the acid, when used, neutralizes the alkalinity to reduce the contamination of the fixing bath with the developer.

• The fixer makes the image permanent and light-resistant by dissolving any remaining silver halide salts. Fixer is sometimes called hypo, a misnomer originating from casually shortened form of the alchemist's name hyposulphite. Neither hyposulphite, hyposulfite, nor hypo is used to mean thiosulfate in modern chemistry.^[2]

• Washing in clean water removes any remaining fixer. Residual fixer can corrode the silver image, leading to discolouration, staining and fading. The washing time can be reduced and the fixer more completely removed if a hypo clearing agent is used after the fixer.

• Film may be rinsed in a dilute solution of a non-ionic wetting agent to assist uniform drying, which eliminates drying marks caused by hard water. (In very hard water areas, a pre-rinse in distilled water may be required - otherwise the final rinse wetting agent can cause residual ionic calcium on the film to drop out of solution, causing spotting on the negative.)

• Film is then dried in a dust-free environment, cut and placed into protective sleeves.

• Once the film is processed, it is then referred to as a negative. The next step in photographic processing is to enlarge the negative.

• The negative will be placed in an enlarger and mirrored onto a sheet of photo paper. There are many different techniques that can be used during the enlargement process. Two examples of enlargement techniques are dodging and burning.

Black and white reversal processing

This process has three additional stages:

1. Following the stop bath, the film is bleached to remove the developed negative image. The film then contains a latent positive image formed from unexposed and undeveloped silver halide salts.
2. The film is fogged, either chemically or by exposure to light.
3. The remaining silver halide salts are developed in the second developer, converting them into a positive image.
4. Finally, the film is fixed, washed, dried and cut.

(you need a dark room to develop the B&W film)

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• Agitation: Gentle movement of liquid photo-processing chemicals (developer, stop-bath, fixer) during processing of film or paper in order to achieve uniform results
• Enlarger: a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from film or glass negatives using the gelatin-silver process, or transparencies.
• Developer: a chemical that makes the latent image on the film or print visible.
• Stop Bath: Stop bath is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photographic films, plates, and paper used after the material has finished developing. The purpose of the stop bath is to halt the development of the film, plate, or paper by either washing off the developing chemical or neutralizing it. With the former, a simple water rinse can be used between developer and fixer, but the development process continues (though possibly at a very low level) for an indefinite and uncontrolled period of time during the rinsing.
• Fixer: The fixer stabilises the image, removing the unexposed silver halide remaining on the Photographic film or photographic paper, leaving behind the reduced metallic silver that forms the image, making it insensitive to further action by light