Fashion

Video #1
Changes made:

• Plumped lips
• Longer neck
• Eyes/eyebrows moved down
• Thinner neck
• Larger eyes
• Contoured edges of face

Video #2
Changes made:

• Lighting
• Makeup/Hair
• Eyes Bigger
• Shoulders moved up
• Stomach made flatter
• Legs thinned and lengthened
• Elongated neck
• Brighter, highlighted hair
• Lightened skin

Video #3

Changes made:

• Shrunk legs and butt
• Thinned out calves
• Breasts larger
• Erased fat layers under arm
• Changed tone of skin
• Smoothed out cellulite
• Smaller hands
• Thinner waist
• Smaller head size
• Plumped butt
• Fuller hair and extensions
• Thinned face
• Skinnier arms

1. It is not ethically okay to change a person's appearance like this because it is basically telling them that their body should look like something else, so their body is messed up or imperfect.

2. In the circumstances of showing girls pictures like these to show them how to get the "best body" is more ethically wrong in some cases. You can't tell someone how to look if the picture you're showing them is false. 

3. Small changes like erasing blemishes or highlights in the hair are okay, but full-on body replacement isn't. The changes you make should be small and insignificant, not as drastic as like in video #3. 

4. I think the difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that fashion focuses on making any changes necessary in order to get the flawless body that everyone wants to have, while photojournalism focuses on getting the most genuine pictures possible and sharing them with people.

5. Fashion photography creates a false sense of reality and leads people in the wrong direction while photojournalism shows people that there can still be genuinely beautiful things in the world without using Photoshop. 

6. I think you showed us these three videos because you want us to know how we can't always trust what we see in pictures. It is very likely that it could have been heavily photo shopped. Photojournalism is about authentic photos, so we shouldn't rely too much on changing our photos.

7. I think none of these videos are about guys because it is not expected by them as much to have the perfect body. In the past, men were considered superior to women, so the women were the ones that always had to be what the men wanted them to be. This has probably carried over into the photography world where men still expect women to meet their vision of a perfect woman.

Top 100 photos

Albino Boy, Biafra

I chose this image because I could not stop imagining theses tiny humans being perfectly healthy and smiling. I think that what mostly caught my eyes was not his legs, but the look on his face. He looks so tired and worn out, yet he is not giving up.

I read about a boy that is an albino and an orphan. He is starving, yet everyone excludes him because of the way that he looks. That one picture made everyone start talking and very soon many people started sending donations, and things that people like him need.

In addition, Don McCullin could not handle looking at his own photo because of all of the death that he saw all around him.

In addition to this picture, Don McCullin said he couldn't handle his own picture because he saw 800 children dying on the spot when he was there. He saw fflies around the kids and saw kids crawling around.

October 9, 1935 (81)

Finsbury Park, London  

Won a scholarship to Hammersmith School for Arts and Crafts, but then went to the air force.

Kent State Shootings

I chose this image because I thought that it was interesting to see the reactions on everyone's face. It seemed as if only one person actually knew what was happening because all but one person looked calm, and normal.

I read about a shooting at Kent State University in Ohio that lasted 13 seconds, yet changed the lives of everyone there. Four ended up dead, nine wounded, and many scared for life. This photo became the nations national symbol of lost youth. 

John Pauul Filo

August 21, 1948 (68)

Natrona Heights, PA

He attended Kent State University.

Alan Kurdi

I chose this image because it shocked me to see a little boy, face down in the sand. The first thing that caught my eye was how little he was. 

This is a photo of one of 2 boys that died with their mother by drowning, just trying to get to safety. They had attempted to go to the Greek island of Kos. They only had to go 3 miles, but very soon into their attempt to go to the island, a giant wave crashed their boat and killed the family. 

The additional text with this photo tells about the war going on in Syria and how many Syrians would want to escape to Europe. Since Kurdi was lying on the European shores, this gave them the hope and possibility of coming.

Nilufer Demir

1986

Izmir Province, Turkey

Lunch atop a Skyscraper
I chose this photo because when I first saw it, chills ran down my back just looking at everyone sit on so high up.
I read that this photo was taken when young men were taking a lunch break while trying to build Rockefeller stadium. They had no ropes or any gear tied onto them and this photo is used in New York today to symbolize how New York is unfrais to take risk and tackle hard projects like this one. No one knows who took this photo, nor do they know who is in the photo because it is the most reproduced in New York.
The building of Rockefeller stadium allowed for half a million people to get jobs during the impression and made a difference with the economy.
No one knows who the photographer is.

Collapsing Fire Escape

I picked this image because although it is a very tragic accident it's impressive that the photographer caught this split second, without the picture blurring. 

In the article it says that the photographer, Stanley Forman, goes on rescue missions with the fire department to shoot routine rescues. This wasn't a random occurrence, but the fire escape collapsing was an unusual devastating accident. T

he additional information isn't there, but the article talks about how the victims of this tragedy were two females, a 19 year old, and a 2 year old. Also, this photo won Forman the Pulitzer Prize, and resulted in tougher fire escape safety codes to prevent such a tragedy.

Stanley Forman

July 10, 1945

Winthrop, Massachusetts 

Attended Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology 

  

magazine cover images

My Favorite Cover

The New York Times Magazine, November 24, The Flight Risk- Favorite

"For this cover story on the U.S. women’s ski-jumping team, we featured the Olympic hopeful Sarah Hendrickson as photographed by Martin Schoeller. Schoeller captures the competitive spirit of Hendrickson, who wears her competition gear, in her body posture and intense gaze."

I think that for this cover the thing that really sets it apart from all of the other covers is how simple it is. Also the red and blue with a grey really catches my eye. I do think however that they could have added more of a description on what was in the magazine. If they had done that I don't think that it would have taken away from the simplicity that much. I also think that they should not have covered up the title of the magazine as much as they did. I think that they should have moved her down some and then been able to fit the "Times" of "The New York Times". I think that the lighting is perfect for this. 

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Best Covers

1. Formal- New York, May 20, Michael Douglas is Liberace
2. Formal- Bloomberg Businessweek, December 2-8, J Crew: Teaching the World to Dress American
3. Informal- The New York Times Magazine, May 19, The Secret Lives of Germs
4. Informal- Sports Illustrated, April 22, BOSTON
5. Informal- ESPN The Magazine, September 16, Floyd Mayweather in The Flight Issue
6. Formal- The New York Times Magazine, November 24, The Flight Risk
7. Informal- Runner's World, December, Get Fit Have Fun
8. Formal- O, The Oprah Magazine, September, Hair!
9. Formal- Brides, October/November, Get Inspired!
10. Formal- W, December/January, The Art Issue
11. Formal- Harper's Bazaar, May, Summer Fashion Issue
12. Formal- New York, February 18-25, Spring Fashion
13. Informal- The Fader, February/March, Solange
14. Formal- Vanity Fair, October, 100 Years
15. Informal- ESPN The Magazine, July 22, Kenneth Faried in The Body Issue
16. Formal- GQ, February, Beyonce
17. Formal- Atlanta, November, Nobody's Safe

Magazine Tips

1. Make a brand that people know and think is a great brand.
2. Make the magazine emotionally irresistible (make people need to buy it and know what is inside it).
3. Put something on the cover that makes people curious and want to look into it.
4. Keep it simple so that you can read it easily.
5. Make sure that it is worth the money spent.

American Soldier

I think that one of the most powerful images is the one of Ian praying at his tent. That is one of the most powerful images because you can tell he is during all of his trust and pain into god, and that he has hope that things will get better.

The images all work together to tell a story because you see all of the emotions that he was going through and experiencing. You can see all of the things that he is going through and you can almost feel the emotions he is feeling. 

The captions enhance the story because it tells you what the pictures can't. It kind of tells the background story behind the photos. 

Ian Fisher is a troubled but patriotic person. He would always try to do the right thing but then something would take him over and drag him back down again. In high school he saw a dream and decided to follow it. He enlisted in the army at 18, and sought out the american dream... to serve your country. He went into the army and trained vigorously. Ian prayed that he would make it through, but with many emotional issues he started using drugs and misbehaving. He then awoke and realized the dark hole that he was in and decided to do something about it. He got his life back together, and started to work at making things right. 

The verbs are in present tense.

Captions:

There are typically 2 sentences per caption. 

The first sentence describes what physical action is going on in the photo.

The second sentence gives and future or past information related to the photo. 

The third sentence provides a quote. 

Some captions do include quotes. 

There are very few with 4 sentences. 

I think that it is possible to tell a story with just captions because it is telling you what all is going on, and it is showing you what the person in the photo is feeling. 

I think that a story written with just words and a story written with captions and pictures give off two different feelings. When it is just words then you get to imagine more and make things up, rather when it is just pictures and captions it is telling you strait up what happened.