DB9

DB9
Read the material for this week and elaborate:
- What's the role of photo journalism?
Photojournalism is a visual language. When journalists discuss photographs using visual terms, the conversation goes beyond subjective likes and dislikes to address the actual value of the image.
Sometimes, people trust what they saw more that what they heard.

- Are there rules that photojournalists should follow? Why? Why not?
A journalist, on the other hand, cannot be held to the demands of the photographic subject, but rather he or she must be concerned with producing accurate news for the public.
I think there are not explicit rules to follow. For those good photojournalists, they may consciously obey by those rules and ethics in their mind. 

- Is the ethics of taking journalistic photos different than the ethics of writing a news story?
It's different. Taking journalistic photos and writing a news story which offer the reader different feelings. When photographers are on assignment. They decide the moment to record, what to include, and what to take out. And, of course, if the photos of people, I'll ask for permission before I used. Because of the right of the portrait.

- What's the impact of altering press photographs? Should they be edited (at all) in postproduction?
Some of the altering is less innocuous. But not all of  them should be edited. When photographs are used in news, they become a language to tell people the truth. The real truth, can't be edited at all.

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Assignment 1 - Photo Manipulation Assignment

When we go travels, we usually take camera to keep the beautiful view, and it’s just as important to record the ephemeral good times with friends or family. The photograph reminded me of the days which had been wonderful. But sometimes the photos are not satisfying, because of many reasons such as the weather, the quality of the camera or the smart phone you used, or the blurring caused by minute caused by the user. If these are happened, I will feel so sad.  But with improvements in science, there is ways to fix these things up: we can use the Photoshop or online free editing tools to make some change that you like.

        This photo was taken on August 28^th, 2011, my friends and I travel to the Quebec City, Upper Town. For me, I don’t like to take too heavy things on the traveling, that’s why I use SONY W560. It’s smaller and lighter than those digital SLR cameras. That day was sunny, but there is thunderstorm after the lunch time, so this photo was looked like rainy, the light was dark. What a pity!  

      Let’s make this photo looks better.

     At first, I am going to adjust the light of the dark areas. First click at levels icon in the adjustment palette to add a levels adjustment layer. Then to moving the midtones and the highlights sliders to make the dark zones brighter. At this time, the highlights are moved to 175 and the midtones balanced to 1, 94. Now, it looks lighter than before, but I feel a little bit strange so I need to increase the contrast. At this part, I add a curves adjustment layer; it needs to be made an “S” type curve to increase the contrast. After that, the visual effect is too rigid, aesthetically. So next step, I try to give the photo more color, because in the photo’s original color dark and cold colors were in the majority. I think if I change the photo’s color to the more warm color, it will be more attractive, looks like a sunny afternoon. Now I use a color balance adjustment layer, it start adjusting the shadows to reduce the bluish tone of the shadows and en up fine-tuning the midtones until you are satisfied with the result. Then let’s add a saturation adjustment layer to modify the different zones of the photo. At this time, I can select the yellow channel and raise even more the saturation, modify also the red and the blue channels to make the decorative arts on the street and the building more visible.

   Actually, I am not very well at the Photoshop, just to make a little change. But not bad, see both of these pictures, the original picture and retouched one.

   Usually, after that I will add some decorative pattern or frame on the picture. It will make the picture looks like photo, more real, and when I post on my blog, it will let people feel more light and placid.
                                                           before

                                                            after

                                                  the after and after 

 the resource, I watch : video: How to Use Photoshop CS5 Basic Tools. by Matthew Hendershot.

BD4

1) What was the main Stieglitz's interest? What's Pictorialism and what is Naturalism? Did he stayed devoted to this movements?  What do you see on his photographs?
   -Alfred Stieglitz was always interested in photography as an art form. He was also interested in the technical boundaries of photography.
  - Photographer Alfred Stieglitz subscribed to a theory that the principal subject of a photo should be in sharp focus while secondary elements should be left out of focus. The theory was called “naturalism” because it was thought that these types of photographs most closely resembled the way the human eye naturally sees things, focusing on one area while surrounding details fall away.
  - In his photographs, there is a delicate feeling. It shows the "naturalism". His photograhs we can see the "visual weight", it lets people focus on the main point which is he want people to know. 

2) What was White's impact on photography as a medium? What do you see on his photographs?
 - White's writings emphasized and promoted his ideas as in Mirrors, Messages, and Manifestation. Undoubtedly, Minor White's work in photography altered the medium forever.
 - White's photography are very clourful, and its light and dark line show difference. When I saw his photographs, it not just a simple sense that one might see faces or shapes in them.

3) What do you see on Man Ray's photos? Are they similar or absolutely different than Steiglitz's photos?
  -  They are a little bit different. But  He was disappointed that he was recognized only for his photography in America and not for the film making, painting, sculpture, and other media in which he worked.
 - The similar is their photos both are abstract, but a little bit difference is Steiglitz's photos are used an element of quiet more, and he most like to use the natural things. 

4) What do you see on Moholo-Nagy's photographs?

  - He is an amazing man, and try a lots of things, photographer, filmmaker, typographer, painter, sculptor, writer, graphic designer, stage designer, and teacher. He think that "The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines." So in his photographs, we can see that there are very different than others. He uses his photo to exploring new ideas of creative expression.

5) Are these photographers painters? Do they all paint with their cameras or maybe only some of them? 

 - Yes, of course they are.