Final Exam Study Guide

1. to get to server drives:  just double-click "server drive" on the desktop; to get to my folder:  go to student ID drive and click the "photoj" folder
2. blogger.com is used to publish posts that the teacher assigned us
3. you need an oatmeal can: you fill it with black paper in order to be able not to let light inside the cylinder, you do a little tiny hole in the outside and you cover it with cardboard
4. You need to put a picture paper(?) inside and then you let the light in by lifting the cardboard for few seconds( depend on the brightness of the place where you are taking the picture)
5. a)Divide the picture in 9 squares:  the subject must not be in the center square

          b)At least two subjects must be in the picture:  they are similar but they are in two different parts of the           picture in order to balance it.
          c)Lines are part of the picture and they lead our eyes to the subject of the picture
          d)The same image is repeated, but backwards
          e)The photographer takes a picture from a different point of view ( either below the subject or above)
          f)There's a background that doesn't interfere with the subject
          g)You need to use elements in the background "walk out the picture"
          h)Using borders or objects to include the subject in a specific frame
          i)Zoom almost 100% on the subject
          j)Avoiding non influential staff in your picture
      6. All pictures can tell a story because most of the time they represent situations, actions that you can easily describe in words
      7.  Multimedia is the big group of instruments that help us know what is going on in the world and that do many other things( some time they broadcast ridiculous programs):  I'm talking about TVs, Radio, Internet..
      8.  You should write two sentences: the first one must be in the present tense and must tell what is happening in the picture; the second sentence should describe the background( use a past tense)
      9.  They make us understand the picture easily
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Choice Sheets

Yearbooks around the country:

Westlake High School, Austin, TX








Newspapers around the country:
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Abandoned Theme Park

1. I would like to go to Shidaka's Utopia,Japan because I'm fascinated by the Japanese architecture and I will be able to take pictures of parts of the abandoned park including the unique houses in the background.Since there's a House of Horror, I would take pics of the monsters sitting in a decay. I should go in a day that is kind of foggy to give better an idea of terror and decay.

2.That's the House of Terror

    3.  Unusual places:

• fish market
• The TUBE in london
• a pub
• in top of a building so that you have an interesting point of view
• inside a wreck

    4.  Pub:

5.  I would go to Ireland, the "home" of pubs, to document how people after they get off work go to the nearest pub to drink a beer with work mates and reflect on what they have to do the next day.
Is a really interesting place because people expressing their-selves in a real life situation: People chatting, laughing, drinking... I think it would be a great unusual place to take pictures.
6.  Flying from Italy, it would be cheap to go Ireland especially with companies like RYAN AIR: you can get 2 tickets for less than 200 euro.
I would bring with me my camera and all the stuff that I need to take pictures.
I'll probably stay in a Hotel downtown, to be able to move without riding a bus or a taxi.
I'm not really sure if I can take pictures in a Pub without permission, but I would definitely ask to the owner of the Pub If I would be able to that.

Portraits and Self-Portraits

Self-portrait:

I think this is one of the most powerful self-portrait, if not THE ONE, because all the repetition of his face in different squares gives him the opportunity to pose and taking many pictures in just one.
I really like the idea of "copying" the Beatles's album cover and I think he did a great job.

Portrait:

This is one of my favorite portraits because is very efficient and simple.
It gives perfectly the IDEA of a portrait because only their upper body is in the picture.
The crossed arms are very artistic.
I like the picture because the black on the background mixes with the black of the dude's t-shirts and so their face and their crossed arms look like a skull and crossbones.





I really like the Portrait style because I will be more free to capture more persons in one picture and it is helpful because I can come up with more ideas.
I would like to emulate Seliger's feature to put in contrast the subject with the background as in the picture above.