Photography

Smartphones create a “snap map” using our phones and any pictures we post online. These pictures once online can be accessed by anyone with internet access and a device. NBC Action News did a story on how these “snap maps” work and how they can be easily accessed. The story revolved around a little girl whose mother posted pictures of her doing everyday activities such as going to school, the park, and even her favorite restaurant. These pictures were easily seen by the reporter who was…

Snapchat is the most popular app out right now. I use Snapchat because it’s fast acting. What I mean by fast acting is, you can capture whatever is in the moment. The app allows the sender to draw or insert text on the snap and determines how many seconds (1 to 10). Snapchat is actually fun to me because you can doo the face filters. Face filters are things that change your look to something funny or effects to make you pretty. After you take a snap, swipe right or left on the…

How Social Media Has Been Hurting Women Instead of Helping Them I went on a trip to Folly Beach in South Carolina with my church youth group CRUSH in the summer of 2016. The sun was shining on my face while I could hear the water clamp up on the sand. I wanted to commemorate this moment with my good friend Rebecca, so I decided that we should take a picture to post on Instagram. After taking the photo, Rebecca smiled at it for a few moments and said, “Aww we look so cute. I love this picture”…

The idea that I want to explore is capturing people emotions regarding a certain subject even if they are far physically away and how can they relate to it. I will be taking pictures of people who will be at the candle night that is happening for the victims of the terrorist attack that happened on july 3, 2016 in Baghdad. I want to see how people will gather and pray for people that they may know or may not know. I’m sure that I will meet people who lost a family member or a friend in this last…

Photoshop. A programme capable of altering the images in our world, and our perceptions of them. Though inanimate, it has the ability to shape our values; causes us to conform to a society that desires to be genetically flawless. You may not realise it, or maybe you do, but the probability of Photoshop affecting the way you look at yourself is more than likely. You’re reading a magazine, and suddenly, you flip to a page of a model who is seemingly perfect. You sit there, and you stare at that…

Have you ever seen a commercial and you see a pretty girl and how she looks so perfect. Well she doesn’t really look like that people edit the video and how the female looks in it. People think a lot of pictures they see are real. If some one see’s a photo on a bill board and catches their attention it makes the want to get what ever it is they see. An example, when you see a poster of Lebron James with his latest shoes on dunking your going to want to get them because it looks cool. A lot of…

The quote is clearly important, as the subject is pointing at it, and it takes up most of the frame. In the tenth photograph, the girl in the back of the photograph draws focus because she is doing the action. She is clearly engaged in what she is talking about, made evident by her hand gestures. Alex’s blue hair is also culturally significant. In the eleventh photograph, Dakota once again draws focus because of his bright colors against more neutral colors, and his entire person is facing the…

Words and images have been used in multiple ways throughout history. They’ve been used to convey ideas, express emotions and produce opinions. Words can be used to get the point straight across whilst images can be interpreted in different ways. Though some images-- when used in certain contexts-- have a large effect on people, words have even more of an impact due to things such as tone, diction and literary devices. In the beginning of Lincoln movie trailer, the images showed war, people…

Magazine Manipulation In 2007, Photographer Allan Detrich resigned from his job due to claims that he heavily photoshopped his images. “Should images in Magazines that have been manipulated be required to have a label?” Yes, altered images published in any sort of media in any way or form should be required to have a label. Many people, especially girls, can be discouraged in seeing false body standards, and people can get anorexia, causing exceedingly low body weight, which is life threatening…

“Where is Waldo” is a children's puzzle book where the reader tries to find a specific guy in the pictures. This may just seem like a plain, fun book with no other purpose than to entertain kids. However, in my opinion it has deeper meanings than that. So the question is, “Where is Waldo, really?” I think that Waldo can represent anything and is truly everywhere. He has no specific location just as how he is never in the exact spot on each page. As we get older, we start facing more and more…