Low Key, High Key

 The low key photo here was taken in the Kissel Stop cafe here in town in Elkins. The lighting was very low and made a great low key photo. I did darken the photo slightly with the Lightroom app.

The high key photo is of Liberal Arts Hall. Again I had to use the Lightroom app slightly to, in this case, brighten the photo to make it more of a high key photo.

Peer Reflection

Lindsay:
Had some really nice shadow editing and some beautiful choices of subjects.

Jenna:
Great focus on the statue by the library that goes unnoticed most of the time.

Zayd:
Great lighting of the landscape photos and some great action shots of our conference swim meet.

Asa:
Pretty nice photos of the Atlanta skyline. Could have edited them a little more to bring out the buildings, too much light.

Matt:
Really beautiful photo of the different colors in a sunset. Did a great job bringing out detail and vibrancy of colors. Nice use of temperature. Some interesting people at Kmart.

Trey:
Photos of subtract assignment are really dark, hard to see what is going on. Slow shutter speed photo looks really nice, great capture of the street lights.

Courtney:
Photos are a little dark, can't tell what it is of until they are zoomed in. Nice editing in the lightroom app, really made some parts of the school look great.

Subtract, Subtract, Subtract

 Saw some teammates playing pool so I thought I'd try the subtract method on their game. Each photo I go closer and closer to the real focus of the game, the cue ball.

Lightroom App

 All three photos were edited using the Lightroom app on the iPhone 6. This first photo is a macro photo of a glass pebble. I used the crop feature along with the clarity feature of the app to enhance the image.

This image is a landscape photo from a trip I took to Wyoming with a few friends over Thanksgiving. In this photo I allowed the app to automatically fix the brightness, highlights and shadows for me but I then added a slightly blue tint to give it that cozy winter feel.

This last photo is from that same trip but this one is more of a rule of thirds photo. Again I allowed the app to automatically edit the brightness, highlights and shadows, but for this photo I softened the temperature of the photo instead of adding a tint to give it the same feel. I also used the clarity option to make the water in the foreground look clearer.

Inspiring Social Change

This photo is of some of the protestors of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest. The photo is especially inspiring because it shows how the protestors are symbolically lower than the cops as well as the protestors are in bad shape. The photo is trying to move people to fight against the pipeline cutting through Native American lands.

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Photography Book Reflection

What it's about, describe the photographer's style and purpose, would you recommend to a friend why or why not.

A Vanished World Roman Vishniac:

This book contains images taken of the nazi occupation of Jews in the ghettos of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. A unique aspect to this book is that the photographer was Jewish. He documented everyday life things, people starving, the streets, the beggars, and just the capture of a culture that was almost lost. His style captures emotional hardship photos. I would recommend this book to someone on a part because it is one of the hardships from WWII. Everyone, for the most part, knows of the genocide that was committed with the Jewish people. Looking at the dates from 1936-38 most of the people captured in these images were from the Warsaw ghetto district, and were most likely killed within the upcoming years.


Humans of NY:

The book has images of everyday New Yorkers. Lots of the images contain a lot of colors. Most interestingly is that it's all just everyday average people within NY living their lives out. The majority of the images appear to be posed and are very bright. I believe the most interesting thing about this book is the vast majority of minorities within NY, it really shows how diverse the city is. Also, the side quotes of the photos are pretty hysterical because these are people being human. The style of the photographer is interesting because they go out and seek these different people searching for odd individuals that truly represent humanity. I would strongly recommend this book as it shows so many different types of people that live in one city.


Let us Now Praise Famous Men:

Focusing on Tenet families in the deep south in 1936. Tenants farm rented land. The types of people that are captured are not very prosperous people nor are their houses. They tend to be just near the poverty line. Photo wise these people that are captured are hard working men. The homes in which they occupied are not in the greatest of shape. I believe the style the photographer has chosen to show what the poor living conditions with poverty stricken people in the south. Everyone has a large family so that they can work the land. Its something someone would expect from a movie stereotyping southern stupidity. I would probably not recommend this book as though I feel that there are not enough photos to show off the lifestyle in which they truly live.

Photo file types

JPEG: is used in a number of image file formats. JPEG is the most common image format used by digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices; along with JPEG/JFIF, it is the most common format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the World Wide Web.
RAW: contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed.

TIFF: a common format for exchanging raster graphics (bitmap) images between application programs, including those used for scanner images.

GIF: Graphic Interchange Format, is a file extension for an often animated raster graphics file and is the second most common image format used on the World Wide Web after JPEG.

Resources
http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/GIF-Bitmap-CompuServe
https://techterms.com/definition/jpeg

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BMC Swimming Conference 2017

 These are just a few of the photos that I took while swimming in the Bluegrass Mountain Conference.

Slow Shutter

This is a photo of the 800 freestyle relay using a one second shutter speed on the app LongExpo. The slower shutter speed makes the photo a little blurry from the motion of the swimmers and the water. The app was also unable to zoom in so this is the closest that I was able to get to the action.

Focus Points

 The two photos exhibit different focus points. The one above is focused on the coffee cup causing the hat to be blurred while the photo to the right has the hat as the focus point causing the coffee cup to be blurred.

Rule of Thirds

Before

"Take Your Mark"- Chris Swank

After

The viewing deck and the lane ropes were used as the horizon and lined up with the grid lines of the capture screen.This photo was edited using the Snapseed app on the iPhone which I found to be very user friendly and quite nice for editing. Three of the editing tools I used were lens blur, brightness/contrast change, and spot healing tool.

Photoshop Editing

Before

After

Here is the before and after photo from a photoshop tutorial. Five edits included in this are sharpening, brightness, blur, spot tool, and hue enhancement.

Favorite Photographer

"Light through prism" Berenice Abbott

My favorite photographer is Berenice Abbott who is famously known for her black and white scientific photography and New York City architecture. Though her scientific photographs were focused more in the field of physics, like her picture of light traveling through a prism here, I as a chemist still find her photography very interesting and beautiful.

"Synthesis of Nylon" Chris Swank

Pictured here is the synthesization of Nylon from its two liquid components. This photo of mine was inspired by the scientific photography of Berenice Abbott along with my chemistry background. The "thread" being pulled from the beaker is the synthesized nylon while the two layers at the bottom continue to mix and synthesize nylon to create the constant "thread."