Happy Akins Building Photos

Tips for portraits and self portraits

1.FRAMING-Shooting with a wide angle lens attached to your camera can help create some memorable shots when you’re doing portrait photography.
At very wide focal lengths you can create some wonderful distortion. It might not be the type of shot you take of your wife or girlfriend (unless she’s in a playful mood) but using these focal lengths will enlarge parts of the face or body that are on the edge of the frame more than what is in the centre.
It can also give a wide open and dramatic impact when your subject is in an impressive setting.

2.THE BACKGROUND-The person in your portrait is the main point of interest - however sometimes when you place them into different contexts with different backgrounds you can dramatically alter the mood in a shot.
Sometimes you want your background to be as minimalistic as possible.

Portraits

I think what makes a good photo is good focus and good compositions. The way everything else should look good and balanced, like the colors and how the thing or person is . If someone is standing on a rock I wouldn't want them to stand only on the left I want them in the middle. That's what a good photo should be. In my photos I'm going to use everything I just stated and evrything else that makes it look good.

Dove evolution of beauty

they changed the lady's hair, eye color, her eye shape, and her facial features. I don't think its ethically OK to change someones appearance because it makes someone somebody they want them to look like. they could make someone feel different about themselves like they don't belong.
the types of changes i think are ok is changing someones hair or haircolor, and changing their weight.
the differences of fashion photography and photo journalism is that they take pictures of people they can change and make different and photo journalism is taking still life pictures or taking pictures of people(without changing them).

Ethics -photo manipulation

This photo I think was the least unethical because I guess nobody reads national gegraphic and i dont think there is nothing wrong with this photo.

Ethics intro-Photo minipulation

I think this photo is ethical because a lot of people dont like saddam and this picture is i guess wrong.

Great B&W photographers 3

I see:the dead bloody body on the floor

I smell:the death comming from the body

I hear:the sirens comming from a distance to find the body

I taste:the nausea forming in my mouth

I feel:the blood running down the side of my cheek