My Merger Photo

OH YEAH!!

Architecture shoot

 angle

 light

 pattern

 surrounding

detail

Graffiti

FUN FUN FUN FEST 2011

 

Action shoot final

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Architecture Preview

1) Tom Wright
2) Construction began 1994
3) Dubai
4) hotel
5) no
6) the emirates wanted to the create one of the most luxurious hotel in the planet
7) I choose this building because is the only 7 stars hotel in the world, and i think the architecture is revolutionary because it has the shape of a ship.

1. Nicholas Grimshaw
2. 2001
3. Cornwall, England
4. is an eden garden
5. no
6. it was built as an environmental structure in order to grow different species of plants
7. It reminds me of the moon and i admire the reason for which this structure was built and i would love to visit that building

1.  Santiago Calatrava
2. 2001
3. Malmo, Sweden
4. private
5. no
6. to re-establish a recognizable skyline for Malmö since the removal of the Kockums Crane in 2002
7. it is impressive that the building is turning on itself and it is perfectly balanced

1.  Hung Kuo
2. 1978
3. Sanzhi, Taiwan
4. public
5. intended as vacation resort and marketed to US Military officers in East Asia
6. no
7. the architecture reminds me of an extraterrestrial ship

1.  Moshe Safdie
2. 1985
3. Montreal, Canada
4. public
5. NA
6. temporary residence of dignitaries during Expo 67
7. first of all is on a river and it is really cool because it reminds me of the video game Tetris where you build randomly your structure

Who: Michael and Robert Rosenborg
What: Found out their father was a spy
When: July 1950
Where: Lower East Side
Why: Cooperation with Soviet propaganda campaigns
How: F.B.I. agents arrested them
Lead: They were the most famous orphans of the cold war, only 6 and 10 years old in 1953 when their parents were executed at Sing Sing for delivering atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Then they were whisked from an unwanted limelight to urban anonymity and eventually to suburban obscurity.
My Lead: two of the most famous American kids during the 1950's, Michael and Robert, were persecuted all their life because their parents delivered secrets about the atomic-bomb to the Soviet-Union







Who: Action Comics No. 1
What: Is being sold after being hidden since 1966
When: February 2009
Where: An online auction site
Why: The comic is one of only 100 made and only one out of 20 that is not restored and untouched
How: The man found his copy of the comic in his garage and held onto it without telling anyone waiting for the value to increase
Lead: After being hidden away for years, a copy of the original "Action Comics No. 1" comic book, featuring Superman and friends, will make a comeback -- to the tune of about $400,000, a comic expert told CNN Thursday.
My lead: CNN expert revealed that a comic book remained hidden for many years, will comeback on production and they expect a profit of hundreds-thousands of dollars

Inverted Pyramid

Caption warm-up

Trying to get in touch with nature, sophomore Ian Loyde is running to get the attention of the goat @ the goat festival in Dallas last Friday.
The animal followed him and did many others choreographic actions that conquered the hearts of the people in the stands.
 Leading lines: the gate leads to the center of the picture.
Create depth: everything is on focus.
Avoiding Mergers: he didn't avoid mergers(4 wheel and foot)
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CAPTION WRITING

1)Courtney Jackson is attending an Akins high school football match and she is sitting on the stands smiling at the camera.Her boyfriend took the picture.

2)Brandon Watsin is shooting a 3 points basket. By making it Sophomore led Akins varsity to victory.
Rules of photography: he didn't avoid the mergers such as the arm behind him.
                                  leading lines (arms)
                                  is not a simple background

3)David Maldonado creates a poster for the cheerleaders team,using a lot of colors. Thanks to his creativity he got a date with the hottest chick at Akins
Rules of photography: Leading lines(arm, beard)
                                 

IDK the title

Open:

Spring:

Blue:

Angle:

Africa Magnifica

1. The picture in the power point are really cool because he caught the animals in some specials occasion making the pics awesome! He dedicated a lot of time!!
2. The one with the egg in the desert: he used composition rules such as rule of thirds and viewpoint! the subject is rare and makes me appreciate the pic even more!
3. Pentex 67 lens,Animals that are dying due to global warming,get people to know what's happening in Africa------------

even though you think of Africa as huge.  Unfortunately the best concentration of wild-life is also where an awful lot of the population is"

     4.  

Elements of the News

Who
Who is involved: Obama
Who does/did the situation affect: Everyone in the U.S.
What
What is happening: Launched his bid for re-election
When 
When did or will this happen: April 4
Where
Where did or will this happen: BarackObama.com 

Why
Why did this happen or will it happen: He wants to continue his change
How 
How did it or will it happen: By posting a video on the internet 

 

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Proximity: http://www.kxan.com/dpps/money/business_news/southwest-to-cancel-70-flights-for-inspections-nt11-jgr_3764281

Prominence: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/sports/baseball/05bonds.html?src=twrhp

Timeliness: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html?ref=world

Oddity: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/business/media/04radio.html?ref=world

Consequence: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/world/asia/05japan.html?ref=world

Conflict: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/world/africa/05libya.html?ref=world

Human Interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/05/world/europe/05brazil.html?ref=world

Basic News Writing

First story:

1. parents and employees are involved
2. Teachers and the school system in general
3. school district's administrators
4. cut off school's budgets
5. may people lost their jobs
6. unemployment, bad education
7. cut off the funds
8. 2011-2012 school year
9. last week
10. Austin
11. there is no money to sustain the current expense account
12. cut jobs and take 38 billion out of the budget
13. all teachers and students too
14. I think it is necessary to spend money on education so I disagree with this 

Second story:

1. Barry Bonds,Anderson other MLB baseball player
2. Barry Bonds and Anderson
3. attorney
4. Barry Bond's drug case, they are trying to get MLB players to testify against Anderson
5. Bonds took steroids from Anderson
6. they are in jail
7. get people to testify agains Anderson
8. The case started two years ago
9. in the next days
10. San Francisco
11. Because Barry Bonds took steroids
12. Authorities caught Bonds on steroids
13. 50 MLB players attorneys and Anderson
14. I think they should be arrested especially Anderson

Third Story:

1. Japanese citizens especially scientists
2. Japanese citizens and many other countries
3. experts
4. Nuclear reactors are not working, radiation could be expelled
5. A tsunami hit Japan
6. Radiation would spread throughout the country
7. try to fix the reactors
8. Can be imminent
9. After the tsunami hit Japan
10. Japan
11. tsunami devastated the country and hit the nuclear station too
12. reactors are not working well
13. there is no approximate estimation
14. an entire population
15. they better fix it!

interview with classmate

1. Do you deserve to be student of the month?
2. what are your grades?
3. Have you ever failed a class?
4. How much do you study at home?
5. Are your parents proud of you?
6. Do they encourage you?
7. What grade are you in?
8. Are you already thinking about college?
9. How did your friends react?
10. Do you participate in any after school program?
11. How Do you feel about being student of the month?
12. What are your interests other than school?
13. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?
14. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?
15. How do you prepare for a test?
16. What is your favorite class?
17. Why?
18. Do you like Akins school system?
19. What people expect from student of the month?
20. do you want to add anything?

Answers:

1. yes
2. A's-B's
3. once or twice
4. not that much, I stay after school for tutoring
5. they are very proud of myself
6. Yes, they always want me to do be the best
7. I'm a junior
8. Yes, my dream would be attending Texas State University
9. They didn't think it was important
10. No
11. It is a privilege
12. Everything related with arts
13. no
14. It's better to give other people this opportunity
15. I stay up late until I am really prepared
16. Algebra because I understand everything
17. -
18. Yes, but some aspects need to be fixed
19. they expect me to be an example for every student and be a responsible person.
20. I don't want to add anything to this interview

FIXING...

1.Why do you deserve to be student of the month

10.Would you like to participate in any after school program? Which one?

13.Do you think having a girlfriend/boyfriend would help you being student of the month?

Student of the Month Review

1. Do you deserve to be student of the month?
2. what are your grades?
3. Have you ever failed a class?
4. How much do you study at home?
5. Are your parents proud of you?
6. Do they encourage you?
7. What grade are you in?
8. Are you already thinking about college?
9. How did your friends react?
10. Do you participate in any after school program?
11. How Do you feel about being student of the month?
12. What are your interests other than school?
13. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend?
14. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?
15. How do you prepare for a test?
16. What is your favorite class?
17. Why?
18. Do you like Akins school system?
19. What people expectfrom student of the month?
20. do you want to add anything?

Interviewing Skills-Assignement #1-

1.I could interview:

• The principal
• A representative of students
• Parents

2.Questions:

1. Why wearing a uniform is important?
2. What colors should it have?
3. Should students put their name on it?
4. Should they have one or two uniforms?
5. What are the advantages of wearing uniforms?
6. What are the disadvantages?
7. Do you think wearing uniforms would discourage gang activities?
8. Do uniforms make everyone equal?
9. Would uniforms increase the learning?
10. Would buying uniforms be too expensive?
11. Should uniforms be mandatory for all schools?
12. We know some kids come from Paredes middle school, that has a uniform policy, would it help the approval of uniforms?
13. Would this help students from poorer families not to be jealous of others clothing?
14. Can it stifle personal expression and creativity?
15. Do uniforms aid in decreasing the possibility for variance?
16. Would it decrease the need of teachers or school authorities to be "clothing police"(they decide if a skirt is too shorty etc.)?
17. Would it create a sense of society?
18. Would it impede with religious clothing?
19. Should uniforms be more informal?
20. Would it restrict freedom of choice?

Sports/actions more details

1.Alyssa Schukar-stories(eating disorders,poor people,sadness in general)
PROBLEMS:

• pictures are similar distant-wise
• the pictures don't attract the juges's emotions
• not enough strong angles

LIKES:

• the athlete falling picture
• the guy cleaning the street picture

2.
STRENGHTS:

• colors
• composition
• pictures are tight
• there is action in the pictures

MY OPINION:

• composition and action in the pictures

3. Pictures don't have blanks, they follow a storyline, documentary stuff in the pictures,diversity


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1. I agree with the judges one the first picture because the leading lines converge in the center of the picture creating dynamicism.
2. I don't agree with the judges on the picture with the surfer falling into the ocean: the angle is pretty good and I prefr the fact that the surfer is not hitting the water because it creates more action in the picture.

JAPAN'S DEVASTATION

This picture is symbolic, the power of the tsunami brought a cargo boat in the middle of a neighborhood.( the picture as an high viewpoint}

Another represantation of the difficult moments Japan is living, their streets are covered in mud.( the picture as an high viewpoint}

Happy,Akins,Building

this is our mascot so it is a great way to represent Akins

A teddy bear in a class shows how teachers take it easy, and it makes me and other student HAPPY

this is the red hall and it is my picture for Building

TOUCHING PEOPLE

1. This project is really interesting because adds more spirit to the art of portrait-making, it is unpredictable how strangers relate to each other and,specially, how they would pose for these pictures
2. I would participate and I would take a picture with a stranger
3. "fake a laugh", I think this would be a fun project because you can pose as you want, it would be hilarious.
4. I don't think he used a specific rule of photography in every single picture, but the subjects are always on focus ane there is little blur so he probably used a medium speed shutter.

Cool Advertising Idea

I like this advertising poster because reproduces an historical monumentum such as Stonehenge.
It is also effective because my eyes are trapped by this image and it makes me fell like I want to change to AT&T.

YEARBOOK ELEMENTS AND POST

1. emotional stories
2. sport teams
3. pictures of students
4. colors
5. informations
6. interviews
7. pictures of equipment
8. datas
9. cover
10. headlines

a yearbook needs to have:

• cover(shiny colors,"elementi in rilievo",name of the school,mascotte,the year,the name of the yearbook,volume number,theme"imagine")
• first pages(table of contents,authors)
• end pages(red page,it may have dvds,colophon-description of how the books was created,)
• page one:left white,right number address name of high school
• spread:2 page connected to each other to work together(pictures,quotes,introduction,red and black dominant colors
• divider pages:pictures ,different colors,
• SPREAD2!!!!!!
• summer programs, between ads pages and the last opages there are pictures, stories, buildings ,index,closing page,end of the theme,knowledgment to whom helped create
  

Types of Magazine Cover

1)Early Magazines Covers:almost always paintings, ethical or religious

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2)The Poster Cover:

• + features:no borders to the picture, the subject is clear, the text doesn't distract the subject at all, the picture better be really good photo or easily recognazible
• - features:no entry points(don't know what is about),risk,

3)Pictures Married to type:they work together to help each other, the words don't interfere with the picture:

• + features: subject isn't lost, words and pictures go together,
• - features: you don't know what else is inside, very few entry points into the magazine

4)In the Forest of Words: the figure is covered with words( ton of text, colors, different fonts, different sizes, they are everywhere):

• + features: lot of entry points to get into the magazine
• - features: too much to look at(overboard),it covers your picture,

Stuff you find on a Magazine Cover:

photo, name of the magazine, price tag-bar code, date, 

Best Cover

1. #1 informal
2. #2 informal
3. #3 informal
4. #4 informal
5. #9 formal
6. #10 formal
7. #15 informal
8. #19 formal
9. #21  formal
10. #22 informal
11. #26 formal
12. #27 informal
13. #30 formal
14. #31 informal
15. #32 informal
16. #36 formal
17. #37 informal
18. # 37( all three of them) informal

My favorite  cover is #6:

(September 24, 2001)
New Yorker Covers Editor Franoise Mouly repositioned Art Spiegelmans silhouettes, inspired by Ad Reinhardt's black-on-black paintings, so that the north tower's antenna breaks the "W" of the magazine's logo. Spiegelman wanted to see the emptiness, and find the awful/awe-filled image of all that disappeared the on 9/11. The silhouetted Twin Towers were printed in a fifth, black ink, on a field of black made up of the standard four color printing inks. An overprinted clear varnish helps create the ghost images that linger, insisting on their presence through the blackness.

I think this is a very strong cover because it shows the emptiness of the world after 9/11; this all-black cover is the symbol of what 9/11 left us, a dark hole in our souls that has the cruelty of certain men inside.
The TWIN TOWERS are in relief and they stand out the cover.
However, the cover has no "photographic" features, is more than an emotional cover  

Magazine Cover

The main point is to sell as many magazine as you can, so the magazine cover is what attracts us to buy a certain magazine.
One of the most important things is to make the buyer curious, so a magazine cover should have:

1. lot of contrast between colors(not necessarily a lot of colors)  to emerge from the book-shield and therefore the competition
2. many little captions in order to let the buyer know what the magazine is about and give him just a little taste of the article so that he needs to buy it if he wants to know the all story
3. a strong picture
4. a good title
5. and the price visible because, especially if the magazine is chip, the buyer already knows whether to buy or not

Portraits and Self-Portrait tips and ideas

1. Think about your motivation and emotions: Blankly staring at the camera rarely gets good results. Be silly, don’t be afraid to over-act. The worst that can happen is that you fill up your memory card with useless photos; but you might also find yourself with a proper gold-nugget of a self portrait.
2. Have fun with it. Be sexy. Be yourself. Be awesome. Be different. Be creative. Whatever you do, have fun with it. That’s part of the point, after all.
3. There are several ways to be unobtrusive. The first thing, of course, is to determine what you want to photograph. Perhaps you see a stall in a market that is particularly colorful, a park bench in a beautiful setting—whatever has attracted you. Find a place to sit or stand that gives you a good view of the scene, take up residence there, and wait for the elements to come together in a way that will make your image.

ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAIT 

This  is the first environmental picture that I chose. I really like it because it took a lot of work to come up with such an idea and it is a really rare subject in circulation.

  In this other picture I like the fact that is a black & white picture of a woman working in China.
It made me suddenly feel how difficult is the life in the rural parts of China.
It is a really powerful picture.

SELF-PORTRAIT

 

 

I like this portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe, because looks like is being himself:he is just smoking a cigarette with a confusing expression.

Now, I like this portrait because the photographer used a mirror which is always effective in taking these kind of pics.
I think she has done a really good job.

CASUAL PORTRAITS

This portrait is awesome. This little kid pose for this picture and it made the portrait so simple and sweet with the innocence of a baby.

I really like this portrait for the background; the photographer did a great job in including 4 guys in an environmental portrait making it look like an elaborate picture.

WHAT I WILL DO

I want to shoot a self -portrait because I can work with the imagination, since I don't have to include random people. I will try to use a mirror effect, including a mirror or even a window.I would take this picture in the hall.

The other option is to make an environmental portrait in the yard. I will use nature to come up with a good print.

WELCOME BACK

 

 Those are my three favorite pictures of 2010:

*the first one of Ki's temple, reflects the breath taking view of the himalayan beltand the calm and peaceful life that ,those people who belong there,have.

*the one on the left is a very emotional picture; I really like it because it shows how even in the hardest time family is always there for you.

*the last one is very scenic, and it impressed me because it tells me how nature is strong

1. "Neutron Star Collision by the Muse". Ireally like this song because it has a good rythm and its lyrics are very emotional.
2. The 2010 movie that I prefer ( and that I actually watched) is the A-Team, because is full of action and the actors starred their characters greatly.
3.  
4. the most important person of 2010 is KIM-YU-NI, because even if she was tortured by her government, she kept believing in her thoughts .It becoame a international case and now she is free and she keeps spreading her word.
5. the biggest sport person of 2010 is Jose Mourinho. He was the 2009/2010 F.C INTER's headcoach and he won all that he could with them : Serie A, Champions League, Coppa Italia ( the famous tripletta)

NOW MY HOLIDAY

1. Having Christmas with another family ( my host family) is a thing that I will always remember.
2. Finish this fantastic year in the U.S then go back to Italy and keep going with my usual life( always thinking about what I will do in the future)
3. In 2011, I would really like to travel the States