Portrait Photo

Original

Highlights +30

Clarity +40

Grain

Edited

My Best Picture

Five Photographers:

• Brian Baer
• Fred Adams
• Bernd Arnold
• Peter Alexander
• Julio Aracil

Photo Story Multicultural Week - Onigiri

Step 1: Advertising, attract any potential customers

Step 2: Marketing, make them want to buy it

Step 3: Sales, complete the pitch

Step 4: Satisfaction, a happy customer is its own form of advertisement

Step 5: Enjoyment, if people enjoy it, they will buy it

Story With A Photo - Recycling

Beneath one of the many beverage vendors is this box with the enthusiastic command to return the empty bottles to the vendor. One would think that this is an effort to promote recycling, preventing bottles from regrettably ending up in the trash. However, that course of action seems to not have been thought out to well as this photo shows. Despite the advice on the box and its implied intentions, the bottles ultimately end up in the trash, defeating the purpose of ever having a box in the first place.

MSJMCW Story

We walk around the vendors, unexchanged money lying in our pockets. 

The lines are long, so we wait, walking and observing. I take pictures of everything I see. 

Friends, strangers, food, beverages, buyers, and sellers; I take photos of each one. 

It has been nearly half an hour before we exchange our money for a line of tickets. 

Even then we wait for a little longer. 

Food stocks are depleting; some stalls have already closed; some stalls are desperate. 

That is what we are waiting for. 

The price of a burger drops one ticket. 

It is late, but we have found it: the bargain, the deal. 

We refund the unspent tickets into money, one less dollar that could have been spent.

Principles of Design - Unity

Original

Edited

Exposure -0.30

Clarity +22

Vibrance +18

Saturation +8

First, the recycle symbol, a triangle of arrows by itself is a symbol of unity. Then, with the star located in its center, a sense of value is placed on that symbol. The unity comes from the arrows revolving around this one star.

Principles of Design - Variety

Original

Edited

Temperature +10

Clarity -26

Protruding from this pile of man-made trash is one branch, a part of the natural environment. Behind this dumpster is a rusted and unused vent that once collected sawdust. These elements represent the principle of variety, multiple objects that are all part of the same photo.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

Partner: Jason
1. This photo has a very fast shutter speed. The trucks on the right are likely moving down the highway and the image of them is perfectly clear. Only a quick shutter speed could make the trucks appear frozen.
2. My rule of composition is a unique viewpoint. This photo is taken from the center of a highway, looking towards the horizon. It highlights the feeling of being one of the few observers of an accident on an otherwise bland road.
    It also uses the rule of looking into space. The highway moves away from the photographer and fades into the distance.
3. The use of space is very apparent in this photo. The trucks on the right provide a sense of depth as they move away from the photographer.
4. This photo emphasizes movement. The eye is drawn to the fallen truck first, because it is fairly rare to see a truck on its side. Then, the eye moves to the next source of color: the blue and green of the trucks on the right.

Shutter Speed 1/4000 s