Teen Retreat 2012

My video made at Big Lake Youth Camp Teen Retreat 2012

Google Glasses

Cool thing that could be released 2013

Reflections About Elections

"Everyone of you has unique strengths and all of you have areas that aren't as strong as others. Now its good to identify you weaknesses, but sometimes its not good to focus on other peoples' weaknesses and instead look at their strengths." - Joseph Long

Today was an interesting day. Today is a day to remember as a day that a campus was almost polarized over two candidates. One a soon to be senior with a running-mate, the other a sophomore. Over the graduation weekend approaching people will be considering which candidate to choose for Student Association President.

Comments for each candidate:

Sydney Tonack And Martin "Mak" Karge:

• Way to take the initiative and get people involved in the selection process over issues instead of popularity.
• Although the library at lunch got a little hectic at times. I think that it was good for people to be informed about the issues they would be voting for.

Lanessa Long:

• Have you considered finding and declaring a running-mate? Because right now people see it as Sydney and Mak versus Lanessa and Johnny Fuentes.  I think that it would help you in the long run to find someone to run with you as Executive Vice President.
• Your emphasis is about communication about student suggestions. Maybe it would help if you told people what you would like to change once you're in office instead of only asking for suggestions.

Currently my vote is going to Sydney Tonack for SA President

Portrait Assignment Final

Portrait People

Family
Josh (My Brother)
Jason (My Cousin)
Karen (My Cousin)
Kris (My Cousin)

Adult
Jason
Karen
Kris

Classmates
Josh
Griffin
Random People

Portrait Exercise

What is working?

The cameras and the processes that we learned in class.

What's not working?

Downloading the .zip file using Safari (have to use Google Chrome)

KONY 2012

1.) Summarize the documentary KONY 2012 in one paragraph. What is it about? (one paragraph):

This video is about stopping a man named Joseph Kony that makes children into child soldiers and sex slaves. The purpose of this video is to raise awareness and to make a difference. He should be stopped, and if we don't who will?

2.) Why did the filmmaker choose to make this film? What does he hope to achieve? What is his specific goal and what is his strategy for making it happen? (1-2 paragraphs):

This filmmaker chose this way because it has an emotional effect. He hopes to achieve the goal to arrest Joseph Kony. His strategy is to fill the news about using this short documentary and the april event.

3.) What is your personal opinion on the strategy he is using to raise awareness? Is it effective? At some point, people get tired of seeing "the same old posts" about an issue. Some of you have already asked the question "what's the point of this video?" What is the point? Even if you're personally tired of seeing links and posts about it, do you think there is value in saturating the media like the film proposes? What would you do different? (1-2 paragraphs):

My personal opinion is that it is a good strategy using social networking to reach remote places of the globe.  However, this could also be a way to make money selling thousands of posters around the world. Also, how about the picture on them, what about his rights as an individual? If it were me I would have the cause on the posters more than his face on them.

4.) What do you think about about the idea of making a "bad person a celebrity?" Are there any negatives to this approach? (one paragraph) :

This approach could cause foreign countries to mant to aid him in his attacks against the people of Africa. However, this approach could be highly effective in informing people of what he is doing to others and he would call people to action.

5.) What is the difference between raising awareness and between a call to action?

Raising awareness means that people know that something is happening. A call to action is calling people out to make an active change in the world as we know it.

6.) What is an issue you feel strongly about - strongly enough that you would want to not only raise awareness, but call people to action? Be specific - in other words, don't just choose a topic like 'eliminate world hunger.' It doesn't have to be a global issue, but it should be a specific, definable one where you are proposing a specific solution. What is a specific way to focus on that topic? Ask yourself the following questions:
What is the issue? Hunger
Where is it? Worldwide
Who are the people affected? A wide range of people
Why should people care about this issue? Because people are starving.
What can people like you do to solve the problem; to help? What specifically can people do? Donate to charities like food banks.
How could you use the media to call attention to the issue? How can you get people's attention? People hear about it almost too much. I would make a documentary.
What is your specific proposal; your call to action? What do you want people to actually do? I want them to go door to door to collect canned food to stop hunger in their neighborhood. From there move outwards until country by country we end hunger.
What is your proposed timeline? Next ten years.

7.) If you were to write and shoot a photojournalism assignment focusing on this issue (the one you've written above), describe what it would be like. Describe the kind of images you'd shoot, the kind of questions you would ask, the people you'd talk to, and the point-of-view you would take on the issue.

I would start with different kinds of people and I would talk to workers at a food bank about how they're running out of food. I would shoot a child that is starving because her parents are out of work. I would take the point of view of an activist like in this documentary.

2 Portraits

These are 2 of the photos shot by the guys during the last two class periods. I titled them by emotion.

Cunning.

Affliction.

Review Of A Portrait Photographer - Antonin Kratochvil

He is a photojournalist best known for his photography of Eastern Europe.  This photographer likes to shoot in black and white.  His pictures are often shot at an angle.  He shoots unique textures and patterns that you have to focus on in order to really see the picture.  Some of his portraits are not of people at all but of everyday things in other people's lives.

The smoke from the firefight makes a juxtaposition with the color of the sky.  

The range of textures from the rough of the rocks to the smooth of the water makes this picture interesting to me.  I also enjoyed the way he framed this picture, at a slant with the water running down with the picture.

The amount of movement and action in this shoot is breathtaking. 

I think this shoot captures the moment of captivity perfectly with the rough bars standing between us and them.

He went through a phase of shooting celebrities. I think this picture is interesting because you are looking in through the window at George Clooney.  I think that this is a often missed time in a celebrity's life.  You rarely see them in the calmness of their own home reading a book.

Architectural Project

NAME: Exterior 1

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Portland International Airport (PDX)

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 9.0

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Exterior 2

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Portland International Airport (PDX)

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Exterior 3

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Portland International Airport (PDX)

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 

ISO: 400

NAME: Interior 1

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Thai Fresh (Restaurant) SE Division St.

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 4.5

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125

ISO: 100

NAME: Interior 2

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Thai Fresh (Restaurant) SE Division St

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 4.5

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/25

ISO: 400

NAME: Interior 3

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Thai Fresh (Restaurant) SE Division St

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 4.0

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/60

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous 1

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: 182nd and Division

TIME OF DAY: Golden Hours Evening

F/STOP: 9.0

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Near Cascade Station

TIME OF DAY: Evening

F/STOP: 4.0

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/50

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous 3

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: On Marine Drive Past PDX

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous 4

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Marine Drive Near I-205

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous 5

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: 122nd and Burnside

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/60

ISO: 100

NAME: Miscellaneous 6

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Thai Fresh (Restaurant)

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 4.5

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/6

ISO: 400

NAME: Miscellaneous 7

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: SE Division

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 7.1

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/160

ISO: 100

NAME: Miscellaneous 8

DATE: 1/6/12
LOCATION: Foster Exit I-250 Offramp

TIME OF DAY: Evening

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/5

ISO: 400

NAME: Water 1

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Marine Drive (Bridge is I-205)

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 6.3

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Water 2

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Marine Drive (Bridge is I-205)

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 7.1

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: Water 3

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Marine Drive Near I-205

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 7.1

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: People 1

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: 

TIME OF DAY: Evening Golden Hours

F/STOP: 4.5

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320

ISO: 400

NAME: People 2

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: Thai Fresh (Restaurant)

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 4.0

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/100

ISO: 200

NAME: People 3

DATE: 1/7/12
LOCATION: SE Division And 92nd

TIME OF DAY: Afternoon

F/STOP: 5.6

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/160

ISO: 100

Intro To Light

Today I learned from the wonderful Johnny Long about light. To move into portraits, we learned about basic lightning and posing.  We learned about how to reduce "sharp" light by moving the light closer to the subject and how you can reduce shadows by moving your subject away from the background. But above all, we learned to experiment with the light and to just shoot a lot of pictures.

Technical Stuff:

• Think about where your subject is placed and how they will be perceived.
• Should they be sitting down?
• Look at the angles and see how different angles look together.
• "Feathering" bouncing the light off of something instead of shining it directly on the subject.
• Bulb setting allows you to hold the shutter open for as long as you want *but you have to shut it again.*

Photography Terms

1. What do you like to photograph?


I like to shoot landscapes and cityscapes. Especially Long Shots.






2. What is the aperture? What does it affect (hint: it affects two things: Light and ______)


Light and Focus






3. What is ISO?


It refers to the sensitivity of the picture to light (higher the ISO the grainier the picture)






4. What is shutter speed? What does it affect?


The amount of time the shutter is open on the camera. It works together with aperture to affect light and focus.






5. What is the exposure triad and how do they work together to control exposure?


The exposure triad is Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO. By controlling them you can have a shallow depth of field or a deep depth of field.






6. How do you control Depth of Field (DOF)?


By using the exposure triad by changing one or more of them. (Having a lower aperture or a faster shutter speed will make a shallower depth of field.)






7. What is the difference between Shutter-Priority mode, Aperture-Priority mode, and Manual exposure mode?


When using a certain mode you control one or more of the exposure triad. There are four modes on our DSLR cameras: Auto, Shutter-Priority, Aperture-Priority, and Manual. Auto you don't control any settings, Shutter you control the Shutter Speed, Aperture you control the Aperture Settings, and Manual you control all of the above.






8. What are tonal values? What are different ways to adjust them in Photoshop?


A tonal value is how vibrant a certain color is. You can adjust them in Photoshop by using an adjustment layer.



9. What is a histogram? (we'll be talking more about this soon)


A graph that can tell you how much of certain tones you have in a particular picture.



10. What are different kinds of light to use when shooting? Describe each (diffused, direct, existing, artificial, natural, fill, key, flash).


Diffused . Direct . Existing . Artificial . Natural . Fill . Key . Flash .



11. What is the basic image editing process (in Photoshop)?


Cropping, adjusting the tonal values, and masking are all essential parts to the basic imaging process.



12. What are different ways to make a selection in Photoshop?


There are a variety of ways to make a selection in Photoshop, such as the Marquee tool and the magic selection tool or the selection tool.




13. Why is it important to use adjustment layers in Photoshop?

So you can make your picture the exact way you want it and control your tonal values.






14. What is an example of an ethical issue in Photography? For example, if photography is meant to be an accurate representation of reality, is it ethical to remove or edit out part of an image for a news story? Find a recent news story that shows is representative of an ethical issue in Photography. What is your opinion about it?

This article was interesting about whether paparazzi were legal and how maybe all photographers were like them. I think that people shouldn't be stalked but I don't think that all photographers are stalkers.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16282985






15. Why do you think Photography is important today? Be specific and thoughtful in your response.


I think that we would absolutely suffer without it. Many people use cameras and photography to commemorate and reminisce about past events. Photos and Mental pictures are as much a part of us as music. For hundreds of years we have remembered and recorded history that we considered significant. And losing the history that photography offers us is horrible in my opinion.

Architectural Location

Where? Cascade Station
Why? Because I have always wanted to shoot there.
What? Stores, Flags, Industrial Objects.
When? Late Afternoon
How will I capture it in a unique way? By using the Photography Trifecta (Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed)  I will blur certain parts to come up with the best solution and I also I will remember that I have photoshop to finish my pictures to perfection.
What particular challenges do I envision? Transportation is a big one since I don't drive so I will have to do with mass transit and navigate my way. Also the shading of the individual objects.