american soldier

redemption. this photograph is the most powerful because after the tough stuff they went through he gifts his friend with a homemade wrestling belt, being positive.

you can see the change of emotion throughout in fishers face.

the captions explain and give a backstory.

fisher attends bootcamp, he bulks up and becomes more disciplined. he ends up going to Iraq and suffers the war and a small drug addiction, when he comes home he marries his girlfriend.

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basic information, date, place, and people
back story, unknown information
conversations, quotes, etc.
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photos and captions are a story of their own, they have a storyline and they illustrate it better sometimes.

stories are more connected and flow differently

composition rules part 2 = war

1. Rule of thirds
2. Balancing Elements3. Leading Lines4. Symmetry and Patterns5. Viewpoint6. Background7. Create depth8. Framing9. Cropping10. Mergers and avoiding them

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funny captions

Meredith Foster went to her local grocery on thursday, unwillingly wearing a yellow shirt displaying "I HATE EVERYONE" gifted by her beloved grandson, Noah Foster. Noah Foster switched out his grandmothers favorite shirt, taking advantage of her crappy vision.







Corrine Welter and Genevieve Smit tried their best to blend in with  the new era's snapchat filters,  they wanted to spice up their photograph by adding cigars. Both Corrine and Genevieve were very happy with their capturement of two era's combining.




Paul Robinson was accompanied on his trip to Costa Rico by two show girls,  Ally Timarro and Beatrice Byers, boarding the Solstice. Paul enjoyed his cruise, his friendship grew with Ally and Beatrice enormously.

prompt shoot 2

electricalpurple

abandoned theme parks

 i would like to visit Okpo Land, South Korea. it seems like it has a lot of creepy fixture. i personally like creepy photos with ironically graceful meanings. i like that this theme park has a "murderous" history. i would photograph faces on theme rides and abandoned fixtures, such as an ice cream pusher. 

 

-there's this abandoned farm in colorado that i visited once, it had butchered, rotten animal corpses around the property. in the farms off property house where the previous owners lived, there was a butchered cow in the middle of the living room floor, and a goat hanged on a ceiling fan in a nursery. 

-near my childhood home, there is a cave that nobody was allowed in, one of my older friends broke in and saw some skeletons.

-again, next to my childhood home there was a hidden park, that had a duck pond and a treehouse. once it was covered in brush and over growth, it was closed off.

-in maine, i was going to stay the night in an old shack, but when we entered we saw decomposing children's skeletons. we obviously left. but it was cool to see.

-behind my house are a section of tree houses that were made in the 1930's, trees have mostly grown through the floors but homeless men and women have slept there from time to time.

 i would like to capture the gore and stress i these places. I'm very interested in creepy things such as mutalated bodies. its so intriguing how things are left behind and not rebuilt.

i would need to travel by car for most places, plane for farm in colorado. i would need a camera and tripod. i would probably also need a permit for most places.

A husband took these photos of his wife and captured love and loss beautifully.

1. at first it was happy, joyful. then the cancer destroyed the joyful moods and went to a pitiful end.
2. the photos can't capture everything they went through.
3. i have been in this situation, with as weak i am to control my feelings, i probably wouldn't be able                     to pick up a camera.
4."you're allowed to scream, you're allowed to cry, but do not give up."

africa

when i read this, i was able to experience, second hand, how a photographer set up and created his photographs. the photos were graceful and informative. the photographer did spend most of his time informing us about animal endangerment and charities.
the photo is of a skull laying in the desert with cloudy sky behind it. i chose this photo because of  the skulls odd shape, and the interesting floor.

the rule is simplicity, this is because the object is in the middle while the background and ground are plain.

Pentax 67II 

this is important for brandt so his style can be unique and to his specification

he found africa interesting, he wanted to capture the animals souls.

to inform people off the endangered animals, and their gracefulness, their souls are more important that product/money

I want to get a real sense of intimate connection with each of the animals - with that particular lion or elephant in front of me. I believe that being that close to the animal makes a huge difference in the photographers ability to reveal its personality. You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.

-nick brandt