SUPER 5

For 5 potential experts who can serve as role models/ endorse my work they are:

1.) Jeremy Wirth- Photographer/Camera Expert /Local Photographer

2.) Mark Velasquez- Professional Photographer/ Local Photographer

3.) Ruby Villalobos- Photographer/ Photography Student (AHC)

4.) Arthur Tress- Photographer/ Professional Photographer/ Notable Photographer

5.) Thomas Rousset- Magazine Photographer/ Professional Photographer

WELCOME TO MY NETWORK

What I do is i'm a photographer have been practicing photography for 4 years now. Dr. Preston is giving us the ability to incorporate what we want to do with your life into this class which I think is pretty rad if you ask me. So, my idea is to build my website/portfolio with all the individual minds in the class who are willing to discuss their ideas with me so we can figure out away to turn your idea into an image! 

People who I would like to collaborate with

1. +Roman Davis 

2. MacKenzie DeLauer

3. Xavier Navarro 

4. Bobby Rucubo

5. Aliana Ramirez

6. Daniel Alvarez

7. Alexandria Hunter

( I choose these people because there ideas have the possibility to involve my photography skills within them.)

 

MASTERPIECE ESSAY

                             Is a photograph worth 1,000 words? As a photographer withholding an artistic eye, I defintly believe a photograph is worth 1,000 words or even more. When I look at my own photography or even someone else's I can see more than one emotion and more than one subject within. Each photograph ever taken holds a story and we all can makeup that story. For example the photograph, "Migrant Mother", taken by Dorothea Lang in 1936, if you didn't know the history behind the photograph there would be many ideas imagned within that enticing photograph. One individual may question why is the mother looking out into the distance, confused and worried. Holding her head tightly showing every worried wrinkle. Another indivdual may just see the two children; one on the left standing in back off the mother looking down only showing the topside of his head with a bowl cut hairstle. And the other child on the right side of the concerned mother  right side inward of the mother, resting on the mother's shoulder and the other hand resting as it looks like on his face. But all within the question it shows the fact they're dressed in rags. One of the child's hand painted as if in dirt and their shaggy and dirty hair holds the knowing of what we can see within. It's not just this photograph where we can see each detail and question but with every photograph as individuals we wonder, why? Why did such person/artist believe there was potential in the photos we see masked around everything. Photographs catch people's eye. Wheather it being an historic photography, provacative photography, or even just a family portrait taken by a stranger at Disneyland. A photograph holds within it a story. The words to express the emotions towards it can be everlasting.

TOPICS/PROMPTS FOR MASTERPIECE ESSAY

I wasn't sure if we were supposed to comment  or post with the five topics/prompts for my masterpiece essay so here I posted them.... Topic 1.) Fashion Photography 2.) Photography as a career 3.) Photography History 4.) My future 5.)Turning my idea into a reality.

My Vocabulary #2

1.) enticing- attractive or tempting; alluring

2.) tenacity- the quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip.

3.) bevy- a large group of people or things of a particular kind.

4.) paramount- more important than anything else; supreme.

5.) prominent- important; famous

6.) caliber- the quality of someone's character or the level of someones ability.

7.) variable contrast- system of paper and filters allowing changes in contrast.

8.) halftone- a printed image in which shades of gray are represented with a regularly spaced array of different sizes of black dots.

9.) SLR- single lens reflex; a camera w/ one lens.

10.) sunny 16 rule- A guideline that states that you can expose a normal scene, lit by bright sunlight, at an aperture of f16 and a shutter speed equivalent to the film speed (iso or ASA) being used.

11.) TTL- through the lens; commonly used when referring to metering through the lens as opposed to via a separate meter, effective for fill flash and other tricky lighting situations.

12.) focal light- the distance from the optical center of a lens to the image plane when the lens is focused to infinity.

13.) incandescent-  light that results when a substance is heated w/ electricity, such as tungsten bulb: gives a yellowish cast to a photo.

14.) existing light- amount of light in a scene without the addition of light from artificial sources such as a flash; also known as available light.

15.)  dedicated flash- fully automatic flash that illuminates the subject w/the required light.

16.) fill flash- technique using both available lights and artificial light, The light from the flash is used to "fill in" the shadows made by existing light.

17.) hot shoe- part of a camera which allows an electronic flash to be fired at the same time as the shutter is released based on electronical contact with the camera.

18.) digital photography workflow- a consistent set of steps to organize and adjust photos.

19.) center of interest- the subject of a photo.

20.) chimping- when two or more photographers gather around a digital camera or monitor to look at images.

LAUNCH: photography website

What I want to be able to show by the end of the year is my photography website/portfolio I want to be able to contribute the useful tools and advice preston has given use into my website/portfolio its been a goal of my mine for 2 years now to have a website/portfolio I can be able to share with others and have all my recent and the best of my work and include a well typed out encouraging biography.

MY VOCABULARY LIST #1

Ephemera- things that exist or are used or enjoyed for only a short time.

Frivolous- not having any serious purpose or value.

Depiction- the action or result of depicting something; esp. in art.

Epitomized- be a perfect example of.

Demoralization- destroying the moral for a doctrine or policy

Exploitive-  tending to exploit or make use of.

YOUR TITLE HERE (DRAFT)

What are you passionate about?  What do you want to do? I am very passionate for photography. I want to become a fashion photographer, a photographer for say like; Rolling Stone Magazine, or like Vogue, etc.

How can you use the tools from last semester (and the Internet in general)? I can and do already use the internet to show my work and put it out there I don't use blogger for my photography but I do use Tumblr, and Behance, and Facebook to show my work. 

What will I need to do in order to "feel the awesomeness with no regrets" by June? What I will need to do is, figure out what classes I want to take and I will need to take at Hancock and also advertise my photography business more and gain more publicity. 

What will impress/convince others (both in your life and in your field)? The ways I will impress others in my life and out is firstly follow my goals and dreams everyone knew I had make photography into something more for myself and continue my education.

How will I move beyond 'What If' and take this from idea --> reality? I will move this "what if" idea into a reality by actually doing all i said I would do, move out of my house by the time I graduate continue my job or receive a better one, and also gain more knowledge in photography.

Who will be the peers, public, and experts in your personal learning network? The peers that will go along with me in this journey will be my boyfriend, family, and very close friends that have been there through every step. The public will be fellow photographer friends and artist in the community. And for the experts in my personal learning network for right now it is my classmates in Dr. Preston's class and Dr.Preston but for once I leave High School i'm not sure at the moment.