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Prompt Shoot #3

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Edge

Local Austin Photographer

Lyndsay Stradtner is a Austin based photographer that takes a wide variety of pictures but mostly likes taking pictures on people. When looking through her pictures she had a lot of baby pictures. Her pictures are very simple but beautiful. The lighting in all her pictures are really good and they are all focused very well. Also, when looking at her pictures of like babies most of her pictures were pretty unique. One of them the baby's position was very different. She lives in Austin and mostly does pictures there but she does do cities around her, like round Rock, Leander, and etc. Her photography is called, "Life in Motion." She lives in Austin with her husband, Jason, and their four kids: Ty, Taryn, Jonah and Jude. Along with her business of taking pictures of babies, she also teaches people on taking pictures. She goes world-wide and explains key things to look for and to do when taking a picture. She does this through a program called, "The Birth Experience." Lyndsay has a lot of credit for her work, and is awarded for a lot of it. She has been featured in a lot of articles and talk shows, consisting of The Today Show, ABC and more.



All of these pictures are very simply and focused, but are so unique. Most of her pictures the subject takes up the whole frame. I really like these photos because they are very different even though they are every simple.

Mural Project

My groups theme is colors. I took pictures of black and white things.

Funny Captions

Martha Ruby plays her accordion and smiles while she still has teeth, on Sunday afternoon, October 14th,on her property in Virginia to raise money for her neighboring Elementary schools.Martha has been playing the accordion since the stone age, and is always finding ways to raise money for the kids,giving her an excuse to pinch their cheeks.

On October 27, Nancy Jane pulls up to the Wendys drive through for the third time that day. Nancy was diagnosed with altzeimers  earlier that year and went back several times that day to order the same thing.

Grandpa Alfred is watching his cake burn up in flames at his 96 years old party that his children put together.  He never likes having birthday parties because they always turn out really bad for him.

Great Black and White Photographers II

The photographer that took this photo was Ansel Adams, when I was looking through his photos I really liked all of them. Adams was born February 20, 1902 in Western Addition, San Francisco. Than he went to Yale University. Most of his pictures were at Yosemite National Park to try and preserve the park with his beautiful pictures. Ansel grew up being and only child and his parents went through some hard times, and they were older so it changed a lot of things on how Ansel look at things and went about at life. At a very young age Ansel found a strong love to nature. He would most of his days out hiking and walking around in the dunes and mountains and etc. Around 1927 was when he really started to pick up a camera. As soon as he did he instantly fell in love. As his photography career went on he won many awards and was recognized for his photos. Ansel Adams died in Monterey, California on April 22, 1984.

Blog #3- My Favorite Cover

I choose this cover because I thought it looked cool. All of them were different but like similar in some ways, and I thought this one was the most different out of all of them. I thought it was the most different because it was a man but half of I'm had makeup on, it is very bright, bold makeup too. I also really liked the little factors that they put into it. For example the light grey background goes with his hair. Also, it seemed like it was going to be a natural, raw picture like he has no shirt on and stuff like that but then it has this bright makeup done. Also, I like how the font is white and big. It looks cool on top of his hair. Also, I like how all the words and writing is only on one side of cover. 

Blog Post #2- Best Magazine Covers of 2013

1) Formal
2) Informal
3) Environmental
4) Not portrait
5) Not portrait
6) Informal
7) Environmental
8) Informal
9) Formal
10) Formal
11) Formal
12) Formal
13) Formal
14) Formal
15) Formal
16) Formal
17) Informal

Blog Post #1 Magazine Tips

1) Make the image irresistible, so the reader will want to pick the magazine up.

2) When designing the cover make it easy to read, scan.

3) Make the magazine worth the time and money, don't put stuff on there no one wants to read or look at.

4) When editing the cover don't make things look too small/big, make sure you edit things wisely. 

5)Before creating your own magazine look up other successful magazines and see what they did. 

American Solider

A) One of the most powerful photos from the article would be the one saying, "Enlisting in the Army. Redefining His Life." I thought this photo was moving and powerful because you can see on his face, how he is really thinking hard about joining the army, doing something that is life changing.

B) All these photos show the life of being a solider. It shoes like them laying on cheap beds to on the dirt. All the photos have the soldiers and their individual faces.

C) The captions add a lot to the photo. Like for the picture I choose it really explains the photo better, like if you were to look at the picture you could just think that he got a call saying someone he knew maybe died.

D) Ian Fisher seems to be kid who had it hard and really wanted to be a soldier because of some reason, but when he graduated and figured out he could it was super happy and excited.

E) For the passage it was written mostly in past tense.

F)
1. The captions are usually 1-2 sentences.
2. The first sentence is usually like the main information like; who, what, when, where
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5. Yes, most of the captions have quotations.
6. Yes, there was like one caption that had four sentences.

G) I think it is possible to tell a complete story with pictures and captions, because you can tell al the information in the captions. The only thing that you would be missing is like the going into detail, every detail in the story.

H) You should write a story because than you can go into detail. With just captions and photos you might not get all the quotes either, if there are more than just one. Also, if there are other people in the story might not be talked about.