Self Portrait and Portraits Part 1

    I think the top 3 best tips were to:

• Shoot Candidly
• Play with eye contact
• Play with background

Environmental Portraits

I liked this photograph because it shows the subject at a different angle tun most of the others, which is up front. I picked this photo because of that change in position.

I liked this photo because the guitar strings make you follow them to the subject. Not many other photos had lines like this, and this photo really shows ht this person likes to do. 

Photography Self Portraits

I like this photo because of its creativity of being both black and white and color. It makes me feel as he is describing himself as a photographer and a painter, as he paints color on his face. I chose this photo in the end just for its creativity

I liked this photo because of the joke it makes. You shoot photos, you shoot self-portraits. The portrait is of him, so he "shoots" himself, making a pose as if he is putting a gun to his head. The black and white color puts a fake sad and solemn mood.

Casual Portraits

I liked and chose this photo because this is exactly what I think of when I hear casual. People or a person in their everyday lives, but friendly and aware of the photographer and camera.

I liked this photo because it is casual, and the background laughing makes for a homey, cozy, welcome feel. You can tell the subject does know the photographer personally, unlike a stranger.

    

    

    I will probably shoot my friend in his house, doing whatever he likes to do, probably playing tennis. I could have him standing with a racket and looking at the camera with the chain fence in the background. I could also have him looking like he is playing while I'm on the side getting him  naturally reacting with the environment. Both of those places could be at the Grey Rock Gold Club, or at the tennis court at Bowie. It would be up to him. Either way, I would try to make sure it was still bright, not darker in the evening. If he is playing, I would try not to let him notice me so he can react naturally. I can try to get a picture when a tennis ball is on the right side of the screen and he is on the other. The lines on the tennis court could be used by leading the viewer of the photo up to him. 

Love and Loss

    I felt like in the beginning I was an intruder to their privacy, and then I felt sadness during the story and and shock at when she died at the end.

    I think that comment shows that those pictures were not like them, those pictures didn't capture their personality, the pictures were their personality, for each moment. Those pictures didn't just showed their personality, but all of their personality and being.

    I definitely do not think I could take photos like these in that situation, for I couldn't take such good photos and capture them so well. I wouldn't be able to take out the camera, I would be lost in the moment.

    If I wrote Angelo a letter, I would compliment him for his photos and skills and say sorry for his loss. I would write and ask "What is the difference between the definition of a person and who they are? The details?"

American Soldier: Ian Fisher

    I think the most powerful image in the slideshow is the one when he is holding a gun and staring off to the distance. I think that because it gives a feeling of loss, reflection, and peace. It shows how much he had changed over the time spent in the army.

Set 1 - at home - Image #1 to Image #3
Set 2 - basic training - Image #4 to Image #12
Set 3 - in Iraq - Image #13 to Image #27
In Image #28 he is back at home in Denver

    I think Set 3 was the most powerful because first it was the longest and had the most amount of story, or pictures. I also think that because in the other two sets there was more happiness, but now there is a lot more deeper feelings.



    The images show you through each stage he experienced in the army. They progress you slowly and carefully through time to show you the story as it happened well. The only abrupt images was the one at the end and the one before it, because it showed no intermission stage. You cam see Fisher slowly change, with almost no sets of images that disrupt the flow and speed the story goes at.

    In the images in which Ian Fisher is in, the captions are usually written in present tense. The captions enhance the photographs by explaining what is happening in them and what Fisher is feeling at that moment in time. The captions tell you background information about the photos and explain the photos if you couldn't understand it by looking at it. 

    Ian Fisher needed something to do in his young life, so he joined the army. The separation from family and friends hurt him while he got ready and left for basic training. Fisher learns discipline and what to look out for. Meanwhile, he proposes to a girlfriend, but later they break up. He then gets many injuries and starts taking multiple drugs, such as pain relievers. Finally, he gets pulled into action, and must always have tense attention. He later does patrols and examines the life going on around him. He finally at the end goes back home, changed from his experiences.