Unusual and Interesting Photos Part 1

1. I thought these pictures were weird.
2. Maybe the photographer took lots of pictures and put them together to make them look like that.
3. Some buildings that i would like to take pictures of are not an easy access to me, i would have to travel. I would take pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the London Clock, i would have to go to India, France, pretty much in Europe to take pictures.

Red, Metal & Happy

National Geographic

This was my favorite photo because i found it cute. This bird is really beautiful. And i think the photographer did a good job of capturing that kind of bird.

IF i were a photographer i would like to summit a nature picture something that strucks and WOWs you !!

Touching People

1. I think this project is really fun.

2. If someone would go up to me and ask me to do this, honestly i would feel awkward but i wouldn't mind.
3. I would like to do a photo shoot where stingers take pictures giving each other piggy ride backs.
4. I do enjoy looking at these kind of photos, they are funny, i can picture myself doing that. It puts a smile on my face. 

40 Greatest Photos Taken

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The reason i picked this photo was cause i thought it was cute. 

My eyes gravitated to this photo, honestly because the old lades looked a little scary.

This photo made the top 40 because it makes sense, and some people might connect to that.

The reason i picked this photo was cause i found the little boy really cute. 

My eyes gravitated to this photo because the photographer took the picture looking at not only the long line of soldiers but their wives and kids too.

This photo made the top 40 because it was touching, how the little boy didn't want to let go of his dad.

Photographer: Claud Detloff

I picked this photo because what first caught my eye was the date, and it was really sad.

The way the photographer set this picture was touching because not only did he take a photo of the refugees but he also wrote something about them. 

Photographer: George C. Gross

Great Black & White Photographers PART 2

Eugene Atget:

Birth Date: February 12, 1857

Death Date: August 04, 1927

Place of Birth: Libourne, France

Place of Death: Paris, France

Around age 30, Atget settled in Paris and became a photographer. Known for recording everything he considered picturesque or artistic in and around Paris. After World War I he received a commission to document the brothels of Paris.

Bill Brandt:

Birth Date: May 03, 1904

Death Date: December 20, 1983

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Books: "The English at Home" (1936) and "A Night in London" (1938)

He made a living as a regular contributor to magazines like Harper Bazaar, Picture Post and The Bystander. He had landscapes, and nude pictures which were dynamic, intense and powerful. 

• Robert Doisneau:

Birth Date: 1912

Death Birth: 1949

Place of Birth: Gentilly in the Val-de-Marne near Paris.

Education: Studied engraving at the Ecole Estienne in Chantilly.

He took a lot of pictures during the post-war era. 

Camera History and Information.

1. The camera obscura was the first camera, the hole acted like a lens, focusing and projecting light onto the call of the dark chamber.
2. Isaac Newton and Christian Huygens helped come a step closer to understand optics and the process of making high quality glass lenses.
3. Niepce invented a glass lens, a dark box, and film to create the modern camera.
4. The digital camera is not very different from Niepce's camera because light passes through the lens, into the camera, and exposes the film.
5. Digital cameras use an electronic sensor called a CCD to capture images.
6. With program mode, you can control the flash and other camera settings unlike auto mode, it will completely control flash and exposure.
7. The portrait mode is used to blur out the background, and it will try to use the fastest available lens setting.
8. The sports setting is used to greece motion, it uses the highest shutter speed possible.
9. The half-press is used to have a faster camera response time, helps have more control over focus, and also encourages better composition.
10.Disabled flash, this symbol means no flash. You would use this when its dark or need light.
11. Auto flash, it means the flash is automatic. Its used when it thinks it needs more light.
12. If there is too much light in your picture, the picture will be washed out.
13. If not enough light, the picture will be too dark.
14. A "stop" is a relative change in the brightness of light.
15. There is 1 stop brighter in the new planet.
16. There are 2 stops brighter if there where four suns instead of two.
17. The longer the shutter speed, the more light there is.
18. The shorter the shutter speed, the less light there is.
19. The aperture is like a pupil, it controls the "aperture opening" aka. F-Stop.
20. Smaller F- stops numbers, the larger openings. Larger opening, the more light.

The Camera

Parallax: occurs when the viewfinder or viewing lens is separated from the taking lens. 
Pentaprism: five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by a constant 90 degrees, even if the entry beam is not at 90 degrees to the prism. 
Pellicle mirror: thin plastic membrane which may be used as a beam splitter or protective cover in optical systems.
Periscope: instrument for observation from a concealed position.

Aperture: A space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument, esp. the variable opening by which light enters a camera. 

Shutter: Each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out light.

Exposure: An act or instance of being uncovered or unprotected.

Depth of field: The distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that give an image judged to be in focus in a camera.

F-stop: In optics, the f-number (sometimes called focal ratio, f-ratio, f-stop, or relate aperture) of an optical system expresses the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens.

Focal length: The distance between the center of a lens or curved mirror and its focus.

Great White and Black Photographers

Eugene Atget. Palais Royale

Bill Brandt: Evening in Kenwood

Robert Doisneau: Kiss by the hotel de Ville 1950

My first REAL post on my blog (:

The reason i liked this photo is because it was the one i liked the best out of all the others i took. It was the one that came out the brightest. This was the only picture i took of Steven smiling, thats also a reason why i chose this picture. My opinion is that i didn't do a good job taking lots of pictures like i should of done.

I chose this picture because it was my least favorite one. I didn't do a good job taking a lot of pictures, thats why i had lots of bad pictures i didn't like. What made it bad was that he wasn't smiling and i caught him off guard. 

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