Prompt shoot #3

Purple

Cold

Electric

My Favorite Cover

How do you show Vladimir Putin—a deliberate and calculating persecutor of minorities in his own country—as Person of the Year, without having to explain your choice? We approached this several ways, before deciding on the provocative placement of the cover line. It was a statement, and one we felt justified as a reference to the way in which Putin’s transgressions had gone relatively unpunished. The image was not altered in any way (despite some fevered blogs claiming otherwise); we just had the colors match the old propaganda images of the wartime era.

I think this was a really cool cover with an interesting message. One critique I have, although, is the fact that, even though he said the image was not altered at all, it looks like it was. I believe that it wasn't altered and they just tried to change the colors, but maybe make it more obvious next time that the image has not been altered from its original state. One more critique is that I think the portrait is a little under exposed, and it might not be bright enough. That isn't too much of a problem though because I'm pretty sure that the darker face was the designer trying to convey the theme more.

The main reason why I chose this photo as my favorite because of the powerful message. It is obvious that the editors of the magazine don't agree with Vladimir Putin winning Person of The Year, but they still reported it, just using their own dark twist. The background is completely black, and the portrait is of Putin looking serious and kind of sinister. They also brilliantly compared Putin to Adolf Hitler by putting the "person of the year" label on his upper lip, a nod to Hitler's famous mustache.

Best Covers

1. Informal

2. Formal

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5. Formal

6. Formal

7. Informal

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10. Formal

11. Informal

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18. Informal

Magazine tips

1. Have a familiar and consistent logo on each issue

2. Make sure the image is appealing

3. Make the cover noticeable to pull in the casual glancer

4. Make it intellectually stimulating

5. Make it easy to quickly read

Magazine Cover Images

Portrait

Self Portrait

Portraits and Self Portraits

Self Portrait

Portrait

portraits

Aperture photos

f2.8

f22

1. The part of the body that relates the closest to the aperture is the eyes because just like the aperture of a camera, the eyes let light in and get bigger in the dark to capture more light, just like you can do with an aperture.

2. The darker the picture, the lighter the picture

3. If you use a larger aperture, you focus on one thing in the middle of your view, and everything else is very blurry the further out from the focal point.(This is good for portraits) If you use a smaller aperture, everything in the picture is in focus and sharp. (Good for landscape pictures)

Fast shutter speed

Slow shutter speed

1. I think I would shoot at a relatively fast shutter speed in all of those situations because I don't need to increase the brightness because it's already relatively bright during the day, and it would be really cool to get a picture of a silver star frozen in midair during a leap.

2. I think in this situation I would still shoot at a fast shutter speed because I can just use other settings to increase the brightness, but I think doing some slow shutter speed photos of students streaming through the door at night would be cool.

3. In "Auto" mode, the camera automatically selects shutter speed for you, there is "shutter priority" mode, where you choose the shutter speed, and the camera automatically sets everything else. In manual mode, you have to take care of all the settings, meaning aperture and shutter speed.

ISO 200

ISO 6400

1. Shooting at a higher ISO gives you more light and allows you to "freeze" images, this is good for a night football game because there isn't that much light at night, so you can get brighter photographs, and you can get really cool shots of players frozen, or a ball flying through the air without motion blur.

2. The author suggested that you use a low ISO most of the time because it provides higher quality photos.

3. The author suggested that you only use a higher ISO if you are in a low-light area and want to increase the brightness of an image, or if you want to get the "freeze" effect.

Aperture goes from 2.8 to 22

Shutter speed goes from 1 to 1/4000

ISO 100 to 25600

Photo Manipulation and Ethics

A. Some of the main points are at, what point is an image altered so much that it becomes unethical. It goes over how some magazines like people magazine have very few guidelines for how an image should be altered, whereas reputable newspapers like The Washington Post and The New York Times have strict guidelines as to how much photos should be altered.

B. Newspapers like the New York Times and The Washington Post want to be taken more seriously than tabloid newspapers that are sensational and feature heavy photoshop. The Post and The Times don't let their reporters photoshop pictures because they want to be completely honest and don't want to disrespect their subjects.

C. I think that you can manipulate an image as much as you want as long as you clearly disclose the fact that the image has been tampered with so people know that this isn't exactly what actually happened.

I think this image is probably the most unethical because it was so obviously tampered with because the person who photoshopped this image spliced together two completely different images that were in completely different scenarios. Secondly, this image is unethical because it was made to smear a political figure and you shouldn't fake pictures to help win a political position.

I don't think this photo was unethical because, although it spliced together two separate photos very obviously, it wasn't aimed at anyone specifically, I think this was just a misconception by vanity fair and it wasn't anything super controversial. 

Photos

This one is courtyard and the rule of photography is "Create Depth"

This one is nature and the rule of photography is "Rule of Thirds"

This one is "Lines"

This one is "Symmetry" 

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3. Ethereum, Bitcoin
4. Butler Shores Metropolitan Park, Roy Guerrero Metropolitan Park and McKalla Place, near the intersection of Bur-net Road and Braker Lane.
5. A dating app that claims to be able to pair you with people who have similar interests with you.

Long Response:

The article is essentially talking about how child actors have always had to deal with criticisms and have had to grow up way to fast because of fame. It is also pointing out that now, with the rise and popularity of social media, there is no filter for what child actors can see about themselves, and some of the criticism and weird stuff they see online can be hurtful. The problem with being a child actor is that everyone automatically starts treating you like an adult, even though you aren't an adult and are too young to handle the kinds of things adult stars have to go through. One of the shows mentioned in the article that I have watched is Stranger Things, although I've only watched a couple episodes of the second season. I don't really tend to "binge" shows. I'm more of a video game guy if I'm honest. I like to watch movies on Netflix, but usually I get entertainment from Youtube, because it's a very open platform and people can post all kinds of videos. I don't think I would want to be a child actor because I feel like I wouldn't be able to handle the pressure and criticism associated with being a child actor. No I have never really tried to communicate to a child star on social media.