Ethics Intro-Photo Manipulation

UW:
1. The University of Wisconsin-Madison digitally inserted a photo of a black student on the cover of their admissions packet. They cut out his head and mirrored it to make it look as though he was at a football game, when he wasn't even present. The people that made the decision said they did it to show racial diversity, when they barely have that. The 110,000 brochures are going to be re-made. Officials who made the decision said they lacked when making it.
2. I think that is wrong because the university should be honest about the racial diversity (or non-diversity) they have there. The purpose of a brochure is to give an example of the real life there and that is not a correct interpretation of it.

Famous Examples:
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I feel as though war and violence are very important subjects, and to manipulate a photo that will go out to many people and impact them because of a fake image and gruesome being displayed is horrible.

2.

I think is edited photo is completely ridiculous and could not even pass as even a bit true.

So called "funny" pictures

Fred Imadoofuss feels the need to use old CDs to create a knight costume in hope of winning a Halloween Costume prize. Unfortunately, he did not place at all in this competition.

On Ignorant Lane the unveiling of the new warning sign for the upcoming speed bump is misspelled. The street workers realized their mistake and ran off in fear of residents coming after them.

Stupid and Stupider have some serious fighting Braveheart action going on outside of their apartment after they both realized they bought dryers and no washing machine. Stupid and Stupider both ironically worked in a laundry mat.

Repetition

The top bar, verticle supporting bars, and red seats all repeat many times in the same direction.

Is This Seat Taken?
A deputy waits before French President Nicolas Sarkozy's speech to members of the ruling party UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) at the Elysée Palace.

The repeating horizontal logs(ladder) show repetition.

Toil in the Fields
A farmer works at a laver (edible seaweed) farm at Gutong Village in Fujian Province, China.

The repeating squares show repetition.

The Blues
Performers rehearse for the opening ceremony of the 6th National City Games in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province. The sporting meet will begin on Oct. 25 in Wuhan.

Sugar Hill

1.
A. Melanie Burford used the voices, song, and pace of the pictures being shown to utilize the slide show.
B. These all worked together to make the pictures powerful and have a lot of depth and meaning. They added a story behind the pictures and made it real because those actual people talked about it.
2. The video of the police man being attacked in the Sugar Hill community disturbed me and made me think of how bad the crime must be there that a man would go to the extent of fighting a police officer.

Photoshop Basics

Online Edit

First PhotoJ assignment

1. I didn't encounter any problems getting close because I had my zoom lens with me. I was hard though shooting real moments because when band is marching, they are constantly stopping and repeating things. I think I captured emotion, because I mostly shot when they were playing but, action was a bit difficult since I was trying to experiment with aperture and shutter speed.
2. I was focusing on exposure the most because it was a bit difficult for me to get it on the "o", and not under or over exposed. I was also thinking about focus because I didn't want my pictures to come out blurry, especially since they were close-ups.
3. I tried to use lines mostly because the lines on the ground would sometimes lead your eye to a person, and when the people were marching, they form lines that I could shoot at different angles. I also remember framing a few pictures with bushes and such.

Sports Shot

Focal Length of Lens- EF 70-200 mm f/ 2.8 IS USM zoom

Shutter Speed- 640

Because of this fast speed you could get the main guy, #81 clear and focused in the picture.

Aperture- 2.8

This aperture allows the men under him to be in focus. But, anything past him and the two guys is out of focus.

I think the photographer was standing on the corner near the touchdown of the field because, his body is at an angle and not straight on.