Changing focal point

These pictures look the same but they have different focal points what makes a big difference when you compare them.

Website Portfolio

Here´s the link for my website portfolio showing some of the work done in my digital photography class Fall 17

https://carvalhophotos.weebly.com/

Community Service Project

Here´s my community service project, where we were supposed to help promoting a business in Elkins by taking pictures.

https://sway.com/AujPb8KWBeBvILUh?ref=Link&loc=mysways

The Foot Soldier of Birmingham

Birmingham, 1963. The image of a police dog viciously attacking a young black protester shocks the nation. The picture, taken in the midst of one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous marches, might be the most iconic photograph of the civil rights movement.

What stood out to me was how statues were described as something that we chose to take seriously, that is something eternal and our voice telling the next generations that this is what we want them to remember. It´s a great way to remember the mistakes we made in the past, look at them, learn from those mistakes and make sure we won´t make them again.

For me this was one of the pictures that most caused social change in the past years.

The pictures is as sad as all the situation of the thousands of refugees that have to leave their home, their cities, their countries, not because they want, they don´t, but they can´t stay for any longer if they want to survive, and still the conditions to go somewhere else are very risky. This picture shows a dead kid on the beach after the attempt of fleeing sailing with his family and other refugees.

 This causes social change because it shows the other countries who refuse to let refugees in that everyone is suffering, that these people don´t want all this to happen, but since it´s happening, all the countries have to come together and help each other.

Voice Thread

This is my voice thread reporting a little bit of the trip of D&E men´s soccer team to Charleston, WV to play the NCAA National Tournament.

https://voicethread.com/share/9932254/

Subtract, subtract, subtract.

The goal of this assignment is photographing the same situation/objetc/action subtracting from the frame with vertical and horizontal pictures.

Exploring your environment with shapes

For this assignment we were supposed to take pictures of things we see in our daily lives that present different shapes.

Circle/sphere/cylinder:

Square/cube:

The computer screen and the buttons on the keyboard

Triangle:

Rectangle:

Oval:

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Here´s my example of a picture that presents contrast.

Ethics and False Light

Ethics in Photojournalism

This picture is considered to be controversial when it comes to ethics in photojournalism because it raises the questioning from people asking why or how someone instead of helping the person or whatever/whoever is in the picture, the photographer decides to take a picture?

    The thing is if the photographer wasn't there, the situation would be the same, but the situation/the suffering would never be seen by other people that don't know that that's the reality somewhere.

False light

   Publication of false and/or highly offensive information about a person

Sensationalism: Present bias, manipulation of the truth. A picture or article in which the photographer or writer doesn't do back up research on what they're reporting to understand what is really happening. 

Rule of thirds
The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts. 
The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally.

Composition:
    Compose to draw the viewer's eye.
Candid
    Photograph was taken without the person knowing, it doesn't create a posed appearance.

    

Photojournalism

After serious shoulder injury and 3 months without running, the senator athlete Jakeya Perrin is back to her normal activities.

5 Yes and 5 No´s

This was the sequence of responses I had when I asked people if I could take pictures of them:

Yes, Yes, No, No, No, Yes, No, Yes, No, No, Yes.

The first 3 No´s happened because people said they were late for classes. I was in front of the cafe after lunch waiting for people to come out.

The next 2 No´s came because people said it was weird and the last one simply because this girls doesn´t like to get her picture taken.

The ones who agreed with the pictures were suspecting a little bit but they were fine with it.

Here are the 5 people who allowed me to take their pictures:

Five categories: Forest Festival

5 different categories

Nature:

Animals:

Places: Halliehurst

People:

Black and White:

Youth: 

Low key and High key assignment

Low key: Light pole

High Key: top part of a nut

Imotion Project

https://youtu.be/Vhmg-JruDZ4

This shoes are definitely the ones that describe me the best: my soccer cleats. I've played soccer my whole life and this is what brought me to D&E. It has my mom's name on it, someone that I always thinks of before every match, someone who inspires me, the reason why I always want to get better and better and win every single time.

Composition technique

For my digital photography class, I had the task of taking five pictures using composition techniques of photography. I used the point of view for this one.

Another category was symmetry and patterns:

Framing:

Experimentation:

Balancing elements: