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My favorite photo from Lens Blog " Look From Behind,With Feeling"

My favorite photo from Lens Blog " Look From Behind,With Feeling" is the photo on page #9. The women was on crow patrol and was shooting the tree to scare the crows away  in order to save the valuable crop the farmers planted . This is my favorite photo in this album because the lighting of the photo and how the woman's clothes was more sharp than the things around her,making her obvious to notice. Second reason is because of composition of soft focus, how the trees, car door and houses was more out of focused than the spark and the woman. Third reason is because i really like explosions.   

Top 5 Photos Ranking by Group

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Multimedia Festival 2015 Final Draft

Movie Monday - The Photo League: Questions and Answers

1. What was The Photo League's credo?

The photo leagues credo held that the camera was more than a means of recording reality. It was a device with a potential to change the world.

2. What organization did The Photo League separate from?

The Photo League separated Workers International Relief. They were originally known as the Worker's Camera League.

3. What was the workshop?

It was a basic documentary photography workshop where Sid Grossman taught advanced technique classes.

4. Who taught "the workshop?"

Sid Grossman.

5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy?

It would be a project that I have interest in, and wouldn't mind spending a year on since if I did not like doing a project, why waste a year of my life on something I dislike?

6. What was The Harlem Document?

The Harlem Document was a collection of portraits of Black urban American and the people, culture and lifestyles of Harlem during the 1930's.

7. Who started The Harlem Document?

Aaron Siskind started The Harlem Document.

8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a __________ painting. Who was the painter?

Caravaggio

9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter?

The sun was coming down and one kid was illuminated by the sun.

10. Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions)

He was an american photographer who inspired the Photo League’s collective portraits of urban life. He was a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and he also worked for the Red Cross during the Depression to photograph the drought relief in the American South.

11. Who was Weegee?

Wee gee was the pseudonym for Arthur Felling. He was known for his black and white street photography and his quirky personality.

12. How did The League change when The Nazis took power?

The immigrating refugees from Nazi Germany and surrounding territories supplied an influx of new talent and faces to the photo league. Photographers like Laudi Jacobi, Erica Cocfer and Lizet Model were a few of the new photographers.

13. How did The League change during WWII?

Photo League members used their cameras in support of the war. Feature groups documented war production, parades and parties. Female members assumed a much larger role in keeping the League running. Trained photographers served in every branch of the armed forces.

14. How did Siskind change after WWII?

Siskind switched from documentary and realism photography, the type of photography he had championed before the war, to more abstract expressionism.

15. What was the Saturday Evening post?

It was a bimonthly American magazine that started in 1897.

16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph?

She was a photographer from Kansas best known for her photos of modern dancers. She also cofounded the photography magazine Aperture.

17. What eventually undermined the Photo League?

The Photo League was listed on a government publication of subversive, communist, fascist and totalitarian organizations.

18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film?

Communism

19. Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation?

W. Eugene Smith.

20. What happened to the league?

Photo League Member and FBI Informant, Angela Calomiris testified that the League was a front for the Communist Party. Afterward, the membership dropped and members left and the Photo League disbanded in 1951.

Final Exam - First Semester

1. What is your favorite photo from this Lens slideshow? Provide three reasons that it is your favorite. 

My favorite is the one on page 9. It's my favorite because the background and the dear fits perfectly together, when i'm looking at this picture i feel very peaceful and quiet. Almost seems  like i am in the picture as the dear. The mist made contrast with the dear so it made the dear more standout which is one of my reason to like this picture also. i also like how the photo showed rule of composition, the rule of third. 

2.Which photo is the best from the slideshow? Provide three reasons

page 7 was the best photo in this slideshow, because it showed life and movement inside this photo, it also showed the rule of third,the contrast of light between the man and the glowing balloons.which i think is the best.

3.What is your best work this semester? Include the blog link. Give three reasons why this is your best work. If you had more time, how would you do to improve the project.

graphy-margaret-bourke.

The best work i had created possibly could be the boy in the after picture in the dark washing his face. Its my best work because it showed what i wanted to show, the calm and peaceful feeling of the photo but yet depressing in the same time. The contrast of light really stand out in this specific picture, and also there are more than one way to look at this photo like the reflection inside the mirror, "how would you know which is the real boy in the mirror". 

4.You chose three rules of composition. What are your three rules?

my three rule was Rule of 3rd,Rule of background,shallow Depth and field.

5.Select one of your own photos that illustrates your ability to apply at least two of the three rules. Insert the photo into the post and label the picture. Clearly include the two rules of composition that you are using.

Rule of third and shallow depth and field

I use composition of shallow depth and field, also the rule of third in this picture. Even though I did not showed the shallow depth and field in the photo well but is really obvious if you seen the before picture. It is the rule of third picture simply because the main focus(tree) of the picture is not in the center of the photo.  

6.I have three rules of composition. I have explained one already. What is my first rule?

My first rule of composition was the shallow depth and field. It shows A portrait or close-up that isolate the subject from a distracting background to emphasize one part of an image.

7.What are the benefits of working in groups? Provide a list with five benefits.

Working in a group has a lot of befits  not only for yourself  but also for your group members also. Working with a group can be a lot of fun, you will not lose interest on the thing you are working on when you tend to when you are working alone. You have backup ans support,when you did something wrong you can always count on your members to remind you and help you. You would have more people to share the stress, for example in a presentation you would be less stressed and nervous if you are with someone instead of going up alone in front of a crowd. It's more productive, simply because there would bee more than one person working on the same thing.Less time consuming when you are working with a group, you can divide the work instead on doing it all on your own. 

8.What are the difficulties of working in groups? List five difficulties.

1.lazy members that doesn't help

2.not fit to work with the people in your group

3.communication  

4.everyone has their own style of working, sometimes they would stand for their style instead of accommodate.

5. argue between member's own perspectives with another

 

9.What is your favorite work product produced by another person in this class? Provide the link to their work.

masters-of-photography

The first picture was my favorite.

A little history

10. You studied a master photographer and reproduced his or her work. Who was the photographer? What did the photographer contribute to the field of photographer? List one significant contribution.

My photography was Margaret Bourke-White and she was American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.

11. What is Dorothea Lange's most popular photo? (Does the photo have a name?) Where was the photo taken? When? What agency employed Dorothea when she took the photo?

Her most famous photo was called Migrant Mother took during the great depression under the agency of life.

12. Who was the creator/founder of Life Magazine? When did the (photojournalism) magazine begin publishing?Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936, solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name, and shifted it to a role as a weekly news magazine with a strong emphasis on photojournalism. LIFE was published weekly until 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 to 2002.

13. Robert Capa was a founding member of what organization? What year did the organization start?In 1947, Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris with David "Chim" Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert. 

14. Robert Capa took the photo known as "Falling Soldier." When and where did he take the photo?

Falling Soldier taken September 5, 1936 at Cerro Muriano.