Portfolio Analysis

1. Alyssa Schukar’s 2006 Portfolio:

a) Alyssa Schukar

b) Stories about sadness

c) Pictures were of a certain distance, not up close and personal. Can’t feel love or pain n any of the pictures. Not enough strong signals.

d) They like the picture of the guy sweeping. The position of the photos

e) I didn’t really like these photos, I feel like anyone could have taken them. I thought they could have tried to capture more of the pain in some of the photos.

Josh Birnbaum’s 2006 Student Portfolio:

a) Josh Birnbaum

b) Funny and happy pictures

c) Wish the guys eyes were open. Got closer to people. Take different angle for photos. Bad transition between two photos. Secondary photos.

d) They thought all the photos were funny. Took pictures at good moments.

e) I like these photos I think that the photographer took these photos at a good time. I also thought that these photos were really funny.

Melissa Golden’s 2006 Student Portfolio:

a) Melissa Golden

b) A lot of different things, not just one main topic

c) Bad pictures, doesn’t have a story behind it. Didn’t get photo at most important part of action. Power lines were in the way of picture, she should have moved somewhere to get a better shot.

d) Had a good portrait of old man. Had good portraits towards the end of the photo shoot.

e) I liked the photos at the end with the old people. Not towards the beginning, because it was just a bunch of jumbled photos.

2. Dustin Snipes 2006 Student portfolio:

a) good color, composition, shot at good angles, everyone is doing something in the photos, good set up portrait, creative

b) I think that he took all the pictures from a really cool angle. Also, the one portrait that he took, he put a lot of thought into it, and it looked really cool. I think that he could have made some of his pictures less blurry than they really were.

3. Contest Recap:

a) They all talked about how they felt about each photo. They listen to each other’s ideas. If the photographer put together a really good portfolio.

Part 2- Individual Photos:

1) I agree with one of the photographers on the very first photo, I thought it was beautiful how the light was coming into the photo. The photo of the girl throwing her tennis racket in the air is a beautifully taken photo, with a lot of emotion in it.

2) I don’t agree with the pictures in Part 4. I think that the pictures could have been better. They weren’t as amazing as the judges said.

Architecture Preview

La Pedrera, Spain
1) Antoni Gaudi
2) 1910
3) Spain
4) vist
5) not any i could find
6) a rich man wanted Gaudi to build a house for him
7) I picked this building because i thought it was so cool. I love the shape of it so much! It doesn't look like any other building, it looks so cool. I also have been in a hotel that is like that, hollow on the inside with tons of rooms around it. I thought the way Gaudi built this was so cool!

Habitat 67, Canada
1) Moshe Safdie
2) 1967
3) Canada
4) yes
5) it is worth $10 million
6) was and attempt to balance cold geometry against living, breathing nature
7) I picked this building because i have been to Canada before. I went to Alaska and Canada on a cruise. It was so beautiful in Victoria, Canada. There was flowers everywhere, so i like learning about all the different things there.

Eden Project, United Kingdom 
1) Nicholas Grimshaw
2) 2000
3) United Kingdom
4) yes
5) it brought 805 million pounds to the economy, doesn't say the exact worth
6) it is an educational charity
7) I picked this building because i think that the shape is so cool. I go to England every three years, and i am fascinated by it. If i could i would move to England, and live with my Aunt and Uncle. So anything in England is so col to learn about.

Turning Torso, Sweden
1) Santiago Calatrava
2) February 14, 2001
3) Sweden
4) yes
5) doesn't say
6) someone asked Calatrava to build
7) I picked this building i thought the name was cool. I really wanted to see what it looked like, it wasn't what i thought it was, it was super tall. I think its so cool that someone can build a tower that tall and it not fall over.

Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
1) Sir Peter Cook and Collin Fournier
2) April 2009
3) Austria
4) yes
5) doesn't say
6) it is and art museum
7) i picked this building because i would never have painted a building that dark black with spikes. I've never seen a building like this before and it was cool to read about it. I also like looking inside art museums, because they each have their different theme inside of it.

Action Photography Photos

Running directly at me

                                                         Creative Blur

                                                          Panning Photo

                                                          Moving across the plane

Sensory Overload Warm-Up

1) I think that it is saying that we surround ourselves with objects and stuff like that, not just buildings, but with stuff that comforts us. I agree with this statement. I fell like we should take pictures of people around the things that they love, and not just random buildings.
2) When i looked through the photos, it hurt my eyes to look at for so long. I would go and take photos there, but not for that long.
3) I wouldn't like to be a child of someone who worked at one of these places because some of the dolls, and mannequins creeped me out a lot.
4) My favorite photo is the one of the lady with black hair and a blouse on, and she is sitting at her desk. It has a a lot of walls, covered in different types of beads. And page lining at the top and bottom of the walls.

Action Photography preview

Warm-Up:

1. Because whenever a football team wins a game, they dump the water or gatorade on the coach.
2. The shutter speed is probably 1/2500
3. This is a key moment because if the team wins, they jump the water, so you know that they won the game. This could have been planned by the players because they were happy to win the game, so they planned for two people to dump the water on the coach.
4. They made the picture slow dow so that you could see the water pouring on the coach, and the slow motion of it.

Outside Prompt Shoot Photo

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