Aldo Maciel's Photography Class Assignments: November 2014

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

YouTube Review - Written Assignment

In this video we learn some essential functions of the camera and its various uses, such as how to balance shutter speed, which is the exposure time of a camera's shutter to light in a controlled amount of time. This is useful for making photos which feature silhouettes and other photos in which the shadows need to be controlled for the photo to turn out as intended. I also reviewed how one should use the ISO to measure how I should use the shutter speed and the aperture for the camera to have the the right exposure to both light and dark, and for the camera to turn out as focused and clear as possible or intended. The higher the ISO, the more it focuses on certain parts of the picture. With this very simple rule I can vastly improve how to take photos. The aperture is a setting in the camera which controls how much lights I will let into the picture. A larger f/stop number will let more light into the camera, while a smaller f/stop number will let less light in the picture. These three concepts (Aperture, ISO, and shutter speed) are essential to becoming a much better photographer and truly understanding how both use your camera and how to take quality pictures.

Man-Made - Weekly Assignment

inside the fence

walking around san diego at night

another angle of san diego at night

in the empty trolley

by sweetwater marsh at dusk

another angle around sweetwater marsh

a signpost with plenty of graffiti under a highway

"focus" graffitied on a fence

an empty lighter at dusk

a fountain around balboa park

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

NPR Photography - Extra Credit

This NPR project is about two men who committed homicide to a 14 year old named Bobby Franks. The two men confessed to the police that the other had done it, but they did not themselves admit to being part of the crime, thus mutually sentencing each other to a life in prison for both 1) being part of a crime and 2) murder. The narrator spoke about how the two men are both Chicago-born and college educated, and are communicating with each other on a physical level with their distressing eyes and concerned facial expressions because they both knew that they had given the other away, but did not know they had betrayed each other. It's a subtle picture about the emotions that one can express using your facial expression. One of these two men was killed in prison and another man was released with parole for life when he was 54.