Letters Of Nature

1. Camera Stability. You will be taking long exposures, and any camera motion could impact the quality of the image. Try to utilize a monopod or stabilize the camera on the back of a seat. Do not hold the camera in front of you without support.

2. Flash Off. Most indoor settings that allow photography specifically state “no flash photography.” In many cases, you’ll just ruin the existing lighting, distract the other viewers, and get yourself ejected from the event. Also, from seating distance and angle, many on-camera flashes will be largely ineffective.

3. Lenses Always clean your lenses before taking these pictures

4. Shutter Speed. Integral to the exposure parameters above, you’ll need to set a preferred shutter speed for the activity being photographed. Indoor sports events are often well lit, but you’ll still want to stop motion at 1/120 of a second or faster speed. Indoor dance performances may be much darker, but also require at least 1/60 to 1/100 to stop motion.

5. Exposure parameters. You will generally need to set your camera for high ISO or sensitivity (800 to 1600, some cameras will go to 3200 or more), low shutter speed (depends on your subject), and wide open F-stop (f/2.8 to 4.0). 

Aperture Focal Points

How we accomplished these is we stood 10 feet away from each other and we changed the apertures depending on how far the picture was being taken from. 

Ghost Pictures

These photos shutter speeds are 1/10. So to take these we had to count down from 10 and move fast to the side then wait another 10 seconds

Photo Of The Week

I like this photo because it focuses on the ground and on the background with the trees 

Photo Of The Week

I really like this picture because not only did I capture the trees, but I captured the mood the gloomy weather behind it. I also liked the way I captured the trees, it almost looks like I took this photo in the middle of the forest.

Holiday/Season Photo

For this photo I used landscape mode to capture the sun behind the trees. This conveys the season by the loss of leaves and the gloomy weather.

Patterns In Nature

I think this is a good capture because you can see the roots of the leaf making some sort of pattern. The decisions I made while taking this is I was trying to capture the roots and I put the flash on so you can really see it.

Framing

The frame in this captures everything in the middle and is focused on everything captured within the frame. I chose this frame because it was simple yet unique.

Self Timing Pictures

One tip to always consider when taking self timing photo is to know what you're going to do before the picture is taken. This will prevent you from making mistakes such as looking away, mouth open, etc.

VERTICAL

HORIZANTAL

Action Photographs 

The multiple shot mode definitely made some of the pictures blurry. The hardest thing about taking these photos was catching the right moment.

CONTRAST

This you can see the colors contrast between the watch and the color of her shirt. This picture is staged
and it was dialed in portrait mode.

Rule Of Thirds

I chose this photo because the background was nice and was mostly focused on me. The rule of thirds really show in the photo because i'm not in the middle of the picture, there is still room for the background.

Portrait Vs Landscape mode

This was taken in portrait mode. This photo is focused on the plants and not on the building in the background

This photo is on landscape mode. The difference from this and portrait mode above is that this photo is focused on everything like the plant and the buildings behind it.

                                  Use OF Landscape Mode

This picture was took using landscape mode. As you can the whole picture is in great focus throughout the whole field and the sky.

NIGHT PORTRAIT

This  photo is a taken behind a radiator with a tripod. As you can see the picture is very focused, you can literally see every little detail possible. This picture was in a dark room in the most darkest corner in the room and you can see every detail in the darkest corner.

This picture is the same exact radiator but this time the picture was took without a tripod. This photo you cant see the amount of details as you could have with the tripod.  As you can see in this photo there is a dark shadow going towards the back. But the picture with the tripod you can see all the way through

I think that this picture is great. It captured his body shot perfectly and it focused on him and him only. The things around him aren't as focused as the person himself. It is mostly focused on his hand because thats what he is putting in front of the camera so thats what it instantly focuses on.  

A couple of things I have learned this Marking period in journalism is..

The CPJ (Committee to protect Journalists).
We have learned about some sad stories about some journalists that have died for doing their jobs.
Some important people are Daniel Pearl, Daniel Pearl was in Pakistan doing a story, but he got kidnapped. His wife along with a lot of people were trying to find him. But it was too late, the kidnappers decapitated him.

What do you think about the hat policy in Curtis High School?

I think that you can where your hat when you are walking in the hallways, when your are in your class you have to take it off because you want to respect your teacher.