Dorothea Lange Story

                                                    

                                                 (photo taken by: Dorothea Lange)

I started smoking when I was young, about 8 years old. My uncle gave me my first cigarette ever, and it was the Marlboro brand. I didnt really enjoy it because I kept choking really bad. But afterwards I started to like it and I did it more often.
I loved getting high. It let me escape the world. I forgot every problem that I had. For instance, my father, always drunk, hitting me all the time till I bled. My mother, she sells herself, gone all the time, sleeping with strangers instead of coming home. My father, he's used to it, doesnt do anything about it anymore since my mother gets the money and he doesnt. So she's basically maintaining him, providing for him, so he keeps his mouth closed. So he takes his anger off of me.
Whenever my mother's gone and my father is passed out, I leave the house. I go to my uncle's house and stay there for days and my parents dont even find out. He smokes a lot, and he says that they help him relax and stay chill.
My parents dont  like me going there, they think he's to stuck up and he always tells them that they need to be more responsible of me. But they dont care anyways.

He's like a father, and a mother to me. I tell him my problems and how I feel. I told him that I couldnt do it anymore. 

One day I went to his house and started crying when I got there. I had blood all over me and I just couldnt stay with my parents anymore. He was telling me to calm down and rest. I couldnt, I hated my life so much I wanted to kill myself. But I didnt. 

Gordon Parks

                                            

                                                  (photo taken by: Gordon Parks)

I like this picture because I like how Marilyn looks. I like Marilyn personally so thats why I cose this picture. But I also like how the background is just one thing, its a big pile of leaves and that focuses more on the main thing, which is Marilyn. But it looks cool because hers spaghetti shirt is black and her skin looks super white so the colors kinda bounces off. Like the thing that catches your eye is her arm because its so white. And the spaghetti shirt also bounces off because of how black it is. 

William Klein

                                    

                                                (photo taken by: William Klein)

I like this picture because the girls look very sassy. They look like they're 4 or 5, so its kinda funny looking at them posing all sassy. And their faces are all serious like if they're professional models or something. 

And the doll that the girl with glasses has, I used to have one. I dont know i thought it was funny for some reason. 

Mary Ellen Mark

 

(photo taken by: Mary Ellen Mark)

I was feeling a bit down in this particular day when I woke up in the morning. I didnt want to feel this way, so I decided to go for a walk. I first ate and got dressed. It was cold outside so I had to wear a jacket and a knitted hat. 

I made my way to the street here in New York. There was a lot of people, like always, but I kept walking. I was on my way to get a coffee in a cheap cafe, because I was still cold. I was still feeling a bit blue, but then I saw something that made me really happy.

I saw this great, magical, beautiful thing. I was by the door of the cafe, and I saw a poster that was on the door. That changed my mood completely, the poster said that there was free coffee! FREE COFFEE! AHHHHH!

Diane Arbus

                                       
                                                       (photo taken by: Diane Arbus)
I feel like this photo is goofy and weird. The guy is naked and he is wearing a hat which is weird to put on a hat it your naked. And his smile is creepy so he kinda looks like a perv. But the funny thing is that he is a midget and he thinks he looks cute. And his nipple is showing so its funny, at least I think its funny.

Understanding Exposure

One thing I learned about the article Cambridge in Colour is that you don't want to overexposed, or underexposed.
And there's this thing called Exposure Triangle. It has aperture, ISO, and shutter speed.
Aperture controls the area over which light can enter you camera. The shutter speed controls the duration of the exposure. And ISO controls the sensitivity of the camera's sensor to a given amount of light.  Those three things can affect something. Like aperture affects depth of filed, shutter speed affects motion blur, and ISO speed affects image noise.

Anna-Lou Leibovitz

(photos taken by: Anna-Lou Leibovitz)

Anna is a portrait photographer whose style is marked by a close collaboration between the photographer and the subject.

I like these two pictures because they look pretty and the picture looks so clean. They both look so mysterious and concentrated on their poses. I like how their jaw lines look, and their both really pretty. 

Robert Frank

(photo taken by: Robert Frank)

I like this picture because it looks dark and foggy. I like how it says the word "LOOK", and the person that is walking and looks all dark. It looks kind of scary, but I just like how its black and dark and stuff.

Warm-Up

(photo taken by: Katie Barnes)

I like how it focused on the leave and the water drops. It looks pretty cool because the background is all blurred out, and it just looks gray. The hand is blurred out, but you can still distinguish it. Like you can see that is a hand.

Another reason why I chose this picture is because it is black and white. If it was in color, I think it wouldn't look as cool, but it would still look nice with some color.

Weegee

Hid photos make me feel kind of scared. Well not really scared but creeped out sort of. Like some pictures are weird and others are kind of funny. For example, the murder pictures are kind of scary. I wouldn't want to take a picture of those people.

(photo taken by: Weegee)

But some other pictures are kind of funny. Like whenever he took a picture of Marilyn Monroe in a distorded way. I thought it was funny because her face was all wired. 

(photo taken by:Weegee)

Harry Callahan

(picture taken by: Harry Callahan)

I feel like Harry took a picture of the trees because it look very calm and pretty. It looks very nice because it is reflecting and its a long path. I think its a beautiful picture with the trees ad the water. The picture is simple but at the same time is not because it has a lot of things to focus on. But when I first see it, it makes me want to look at the little pond first because thats the only thing that pops out of the rest of the picture.

Keith Carter Short Story

The Eiffel Tower

(photo taken by: Keith Carter)

Eiffel Tower, camera eye full.

Eiffel Tower, shines at night.

Eiffel Tower, with its lights so bright.

Eiffel Tower, so high up.

Eiffel Tower, so far down.

Eiffel Tower, making me love.

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed is responsible for creating dramatic effects by freezing action or blurring motion. Whenever the shutter opens, it collects the light, and the shutter closes immediately stopping the light from hitting the sensor. When the shutter speed is fast, it freezes the action completely. If the shutter is slow, it creates an effect called "motion blur", whenever motion objects appear blurred along the direction of the motion.

ISO

ISO is the sensitivity of your camera available to light. Whenever you put the ISO number on low, its less sensitive to the light. But whenever you put the ISO number on high, the more sensitive it is to the light. You can change the sensitivity with the sensor. The sensor gathers light and transforms it to a image. When its really sensitive, you can capture images when its dark without having to use flash. But when its higher, the image looks ""noisy".

Picture

I choose this picture because I thought it was interesting and I liked it. It looks interesting and it looks so relaxing just thinking about being there. Another reason it that I love the season fall. Its the time whenever the leaves fall and it starts getting colder, and I love it. Thats why I liked this picture, it just makes me feel calm.

F-Stop

F-stop is basically the control of your photo. When you are taking a picture, and you focus on something,you could control if you want blur in the background, or if you want it to be not so blurry. The f-stop number is determined by the focal length of the lens divided by the diameter of the aperture. Field of view is the width and the height of the area that the lens can capture. So if you go lower it decreases the aperture, and if you go higher it increases the aperture.

                             

Depth Of Field

In this picture, the only thing focused is the leaf. And the background is all blurred out. The photographer wanted the people to just focus on the leaf whenever they first saw it. Your eye will only concentrate on the colorful, focused leaf. Since the background is all green and blurred. The only thing that pops out is the leaf.