Period 1 - Semester Final

1. My favorite photo from this slideshow is #9. This picture is my favorite because it shows a perfect silhouette of the deer and bird. To me, this seems like something that you would only see in a movie, something so perfectly set up and so beautiful. I find it amazing that the photographer was able to capture such an intimate moment with nature so perfectly.

2. I think that #9 would be the best picture as well. The reason for this is because it's amazing how the photographer captured such a perfect scene of nature at the perfect angle and with the perfect setting. Another reason that this is the best picture is, because the photographer was remarkably able to capture this silhouette through all the mist and fog that day in Richmond Park. The photographer was also able to capture the different layers of shrubs starting on level with the deer as well as the shrubs behind the deer, and another faint layer beyond that.

3. My best work of the semester was the "Masters of Photography" project. I was able to capture multiple different rules and properties of photography through this project. I probably learned more from this project than I did the entire year, as I got to use my camera, I learned how to use photoshop, and I built a closer connection with my family through just the few pictures that I took. This project gave me the opportunity to explore my abilities and get to know myself as a photographer.

http://komalgillphotography.blogspot.com/2014/12/masters-of-photography-bill-brandt.html 

4. My three rules of composition were leaving space, backgrounds, and rule of thirds.

5.  Rules: leaving space and backgrounds

6. Depth of Field

7. Benefits of working with a group:

• opportunity for social interaction
• ability to help each other 
• using communication to build skills as a photographer
• building a connection beyond pictures
• making tough decisions as a whole 

8. Difficulties of working with a group:

•  no independent decisions
•  different capabilities 
•  conflict between team members 
•  ideas not thoroughly discussed as a team
• different opinions and arguments 

9. I loved Aileen's work for the Masters of Photography project.

http://aileenhhsu.blogspot.com/2014/12/inspired-by-master-irving-penn.html

10. The photographer that my group and I reproduced the work of was Bill Brandt. He was a very well-known and great photographer during the 1900s. Bill Brandt contributed a new perspective to the field of photography. He was was not the first photographer to take nude photos of their subjects, but he did bring attention and acceptance to this unique style of photography. Another way he contributed was how he so genuinely portrayed the sadness and despair that the people were going through during the depression in England at the time.

11. Dorothea Lange's most popular photo was called Migrant Mother. The photo was taken at Nipomo, California in Feb-March of 1936. Dorothea was employed at Farm Security Administration (FSA).

12. Life magazine began publishing in 1936.

13. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935.

14. Robert Capa co-founded Magnum Photos in Paris, which started in 1947