big day

a bride is anxiously waiting to get married and keeps looking out the window. A man is driving down a country road and is very rushed, swerves around slow car and gets stopped at a train. when he arrives at the church the bride is telling her vows to another man.

Who: a bride, her bridesmaids, man driving, bride's father, priest, other man
what: running late to get married
where: church
when: rainy day
why: keeps getting slowed and stopped
how: by the rain, the train, the slow car


car drives down a long windy country road. It's window wipers are going. the man driving wipes his forehead. The water sprays up from the wet road.

A bride is surrounded by four brides maids who are helping her get ready. A priest is in the background talking to a well dressed man. The bride smiles.

the car drives through the trees. the man looks stressed. more water sprays up from under the wheel.

the bride's father watches the bride get ready form a chair.

the car drives past some trees blowing in the wind.

the bride feels her ring and twists it around her finger. she glances out into the distance.

 the man in the car glances at his watch.

the bride's father glances at his watch.

the  man in the car looks worried. he slowed by a car pulling a trailer. the pedometer reads 19 miles per hour. the time is 1:15. he looks around the trailer.

the bride holds her dad's hands

the car  drives into the other lane to pass the van pulling the trailer.

the father looks at his watch again as the bridesmaids put on the bride's necklace. the father looks out the window.

the car drives past a pasture and a rocky lake shore. he drives over a long bridge and down a curvy road.

portfolio analysis- how judges pick winning portfolios and sports photos

portfolios

1. alyssa schukar
2. stories
3. same distance, not up close, needed to be mixed up more
4. background, cool angle 
5. depressing, most pictures are sad

1. josh birnbaum
2. stories
3. don't like looking up the nose, boring, cropping, content, no emotion, no moment
4. silly, humor, good up close
5. nothing happened in any of the photos

1. Carlos delgado
2. photojournalism
3. cluttered backgrounds, whats going on, hard to see whats what, showing nothing
4. angles, some good content
5. same thing over and over again

1. angles, emotion, right where the action was, colors, every body in the image was involved
2. some with weird angles, original,  good portfolio 

1. they looked for good photos, interesting content, and a good flow of photos in the portfolio 

individual images

 

I like the tennis photo that they voted first for the part 2. I like how simple it is and how it shows so much emotion and the colors

I didn't like the rugby photo in part 1 where the guy was poking his eye out.

nut graf

a Nut graf is the hear of a journalism story. It summarize the essence of a story. The nut graf is the why and how of the who what where when why how style. It tells the reader why they're reading the story.

student of the month story

who- Nat Miller
what- got student of the month
where- at our school
when -last week
why -for saving his friend
how- by taming a lion

This month's student of the month is… drum roll please… Nat Miller!

Last week Miller showed great courage by saving his 3 year old friend from a lion.

"I ran into the ring and I saw little Timmy running around while they were letting out of his cage. All I could think was that cute little Timmy was in danger. I jumped in front of the lion like I do in the shows and screamed in its face," Miller explained.

Timmy Tedder is the son of trapeze director of the circus, Frank Tedder, who was watching the whole episode from the trapeze ladder. 
"I am so grateful to Nat for his quick thinking. I can't thank him enough," Tedder said.

The school's award council decided to award this amazing act of courage with the student of the month medal.
"This isn't something that happens everyday. Its quite incredible," said Lilly Bud, president of the student council.

Timmy has been with the circus for all 3 years of his life and has been fascinated with the show animals. 
When asked about the events of the day Timmy giggled, “Li-li is a big kitten. He is very funny.”

Miller, like Timmy, has been with the circus all his life and has been acting in it since he was 7. 
“My favorite part of the circus is the animals, I’ve always felt connected to them. I usually work with our elephant, Susan, or the camels but lately I’ve been working with the cats. My first show where I worked with Li, the lion, was last summer.”

Miller explained that it’s a challenging to work with the carnivores. “If you wish to be a successful lion tamer you have to act dominate over the lion so that they respect you. Lions have a weird mindset. If they’re not hungry then they're very chill and lazy. But they still like to be the boss and so it’s tough and takes time to get a lion to respect you. Its scary at first especially for a kid like me who weighs a third of their weight. ”

Miller’s parents own the circus, which is one of the only certified animal friendly circuses. 
Miller’s father, Ron Miller, explains. “ We make it our priority to do what’s best for the animals and the safety of our actors. We want our audience to be enjoying the show, our actors to have fun, and our animals to be happy while we’re performing. When that all happens the show is a good one. We strive to have an it happen every performance. It helps to have a good kid like Nat who keeps even our youngest members safe.”

inverted pyramid

phone photo

architecture shoot preview 2

details

this photo shows the details of  run down building. It is a close up of the broken windows and weathered walls and shows all the little details of this window.

light

In this photo the light is sort of backlighting the buildings emphasizing the buildings' weird shape. the light is captured and gives the buildings a creepy but peaceful mood.

patterns

The repetition of the windows and the ceiling support boards create a cool pattern. these repeating lines give the building a rhythm that is pleasant to look at.

angles and shapes

the angles and shapes of this building are interestingly captured in this photo. the repetition of the rectangles and the cylinders are strangely juxtaposed and create a weird asymmetrical balance within the building.

surroundings

in this photo the ufo houses are shown with the surrounding sky and plane. this makes the buildings stick out from their natural background and makes them seem sort of isolated since there is nothing around them in the photo.

school uniforms

dress code enforcer, teacher, student, principal, parent

1. how do you feel about the new uniforms?
2. Why do you feel this way?
3. what are some advantages in a school uniform?
4. what are some disadvantages in a school uniform?
5. How would a school uniform limit personal expression?
6. how would school uniforms help one's learning ability?
7. Are you going to be able to adapt to this change?
8. How do you feel about change?
9. why do you feel this way?
10. Why do we now have uniforms?
11. What makes you think this?
12. Who made this change?
13. how do you think it will effect your everyday life?
14. Are clothes important to you?
15. Do you have a certain style?
16. what is you style?
17. How do the clothes you wear reflect who you are?
18. Who is going to be most effected by this change?
19. why is that?
20. Over all, are school uniforms going to benefit or hurt the school?

my first interview- student of the month interview

1. How come you were nominated student of the month?  Because I tamed a lion
2. What makes you different form other students? A lot of people idolize me and think I'm a god
3. Why do you deserve this award? because of everything i do for other people like taming a lion to save my best friend
4. How does it feel to earn this award? it feels really great and I'm really proud of myself
5. why do you feel this way? because i won an award that a lot of people tried to win but i won
6. What is your schedule like?its not very full except when sometimes i get too lazy to do any of my homework
7. What is your favorite class? probably theater because its a lot of fun and every one goes craxy
8. Why is this your favorite class?I have a lot of friends in that class and we do a lot of fun things like the warmups and its just a lot of screwing around this helps my lion taming because it helps me stay fit
9. How are you doing in that class? Pretty well since I can memorize and act. acting helps lion taming because if you wish to be a successful lion tamer you have to act dominate over the lion so that they respect you
10. How have you contributed to the school? my parents donate a lot of money since they own the circus and that is the school mascot.
•  I was trapped in the ring with the lion when I was three and I had to either die or tame it. 
• The lions respect me and do what i want them to do
11. Are you in any extra circular activities? I do culinary 
12. If so which ones?culinary
13. Why do you participate? Its like art but you get to eat it. and its food!
14. What makes it enjoyable? eating!
15. How do you manage your time? 
16. What is your favorite thing to do in your free time?
17. why is this your favorite?
18. What would you change in the world if you could?
19. Why would you change that?
20. How would that impact your life and those around you?

architecture photos

details

angles

patterns

surroundings

lighting 

iPhone photo

1.

Shot by Austin M.

in Storidalur, Iceland

Panoramas aren’t always captured horizontally. Towering subjects like waterfalls and cliffs can be shot vertically for a stunning, surprising composition.

2. No these photos seem too good to be taken by just an iPhone camera 

3. The other apps were probably just used for filters 

4. A. Include sky. If there a photo of a landscape or portrait then including some sky makes the image  more visually appealing.
B. Get close to focus on details 

architecture preview

guggenheim museum spain

1. architect: Frank Gehry
2. founded in 1997
3. Bilbao Basque Country Spain
4. Its a public museum and you can visit it
5.  at least $1000000
6. to design something daring and innovative
7. I like this building since the weird curves and angles appear to be random but they all flow together and work. this building is fun to look at and there is another weird shape that pops out at you every time you look at it. I also like how the water reflects it and plays with the light .



the ufo house taiwan

1. Matti Suuronen
2. 1978
3.Taiwan
4. they were abandoned and demolished and transformed into a resort
5. they ran out of money before completed and were abandoned
6. The buildings were created as holiday homes for US officers. Roomer is that its haunted and built on a burial ground for dutch soldiers. also a lot of suicides and accidents resulting in deaths occurred during construction
7. I like the creepiness of these buildings. When I was first looking at the buildings I thought they were just weird looking pod things. but as I read more the creepy and eeriness of the buildings made them more interesting.




stone house

1. unknown

2. 1974

3. Fafe Mountians Portugal

4. private building

5. no cost info

6. the building was built to be a home 

7. I like how this house totally blends in with the surroundings. The house was made of the boulders and apparently has a swimming pool carved into one of the rocks. I think its cool how they just put a roof on some rocks and made it into a cozy little home.

cubic houses

1. Piet Blom

2. 1984
3. rotterdam
4. all are private except one of them.
5. unknown
6. the houses represent trees and the group of them represent a forest.
7. I like how these weird shaped houses mess with your head like an illusion. I also think its cool how theres just this community of weird shaped houses in the middle of a city



The longaberger company

1.  Dave longaberger
2. ohio
3. Its the headquarters for the basket company
4. public
5. no cost info
6. they wanted to build the biggest basket
7. I like how surreal it looks. how the basket which is supposed to be small is huge compared to the surroundings.

sensory overload

"I believe that more and more, we are defining our environments not as the spaces themselves, in terms of the buildings or architecture, but rather by the objects and devices that we buy and surround ourselves with. ... I would like that message to carry through universally," Seymour said.

I think this is true and that we are now defining ourselves and our spaces with the objects rather than the the the place itself. these photos were really hard to look at in terms of too much color and too much repetition. every thing clashed and there was to much stuff.
I would not want to visit this place since just by looking at the pictures i felt claustrophobic and cluttered.
I feel like you would have to be forced to get used to all the visual noise that is everywhere
I liked the one with all the buttons since it was the simplest 

action shot

1. Action coming directly at the camera

 2. Action moving across the plane of the camera at a 90 degree angle

3. Panning - post your best effort, even if it isn't perfect

4. Creative blur