Wednesday, November 28, 2012


A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
This is the most powerful picture to me because it has the sign of family. The army, The soldiers unite as one big family. Without family is no power. Family is everything.
 
B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #9
Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #11 to image #29
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #49 to image #70 
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#71 to image #83
Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?
c. How do the images work together to tell a story? Face expressions, The emotion, Body language.

3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post
A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written? When he goes to the army base.
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For those of you who have forgotten your verb tenses see the example below.
Present Tense: John jumps down the stairs.
Past Tense: John jumped down the stairs.
B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. 
Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.
First sentence:
"Chapter 50: Time to head to iraq, Time to get serious. Ima miss home."
Second sentence:

Example:
Under the "Chapter 1: Signing Up" group of photos, look at the third photo in which Ian is wearing his cap and gown for graduation.
The caption reads: Ian studies his transcript and diploma as he departs the Bear Creek High School commencement at Red Rocks amphitheatre.
 

Thursday, November 15, 2012

1. If you were assigned to shoot at Blue and Gold night, which was earlier this month, what shutter speeds do you think you would have to shoot at the following events that night I would like you to answer the question for the following two situations:
At the beginning while the sun is still partially up and the courtyard has reasonable light
a.) the dunking booth - high shutter speed
b.) the food eating contest - high shutter speed
c.) the rock climbing wall - high shutter speed
d.) someone working at a booth - high shutter speed
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle - high shutter speed
f.) the Diamonds performance. - high shutter speed
Towards the end when there is no sun and has gotten dark enough that you can't see from one end of the courtyard to the other. - slow shutter speed
a.) the dunking booth - slow shutter speed
b.) the food eating contest - slow shutter speed
c.) the rock climbing wall - slow shutter speed
d.) someone working at a booth - slow shutter speed
e.) the DJ/MC working at the middle of the circle - slow shutter speed
f.) the Diamonds performance. - slow shutter speed
High shutter speed
 Slow shutter speed

1. What part of the body should we closely relate aperture? Our eyes are the one that most closely relate too.
2. Finish this sentence - the smaller the Aperture __the bigger the opening_, the higher the Aperture __the smaller the opening_.
3. In your own words tell me how aperture impacts Depth of Field?
the low f stop settings the opening of the aperture will open bigger letting more light go it and the bigger the f stop the smaller the aperture letting less light go in.
F2.8
F16