Prompt Photo Shoot 3 -Hoesay

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Magazine Covers -Hoesay

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It's an amazing shot. It captures African wildlife perfectly, sort of isolated and lost. Not much is left with this 6th mass extinction and it's nice to see how animals no matter what their condition is they strive to continue.

Space and earth meet. The tree is dead center of the universe, or so it looks like that. Nothing distracts from the main point of the picture. The white cloud on the right kind of looks like ghosts just floating in outer space.

 

The man in white hanging off the bike after the collision is paused in time right before he hits the ground. It's impressive how the shutter speed was set up to catch that moment. More importantly the timing of the photographer, I'm sure it happened in about a split second.

 

 

The song of 2015 had to be Jukebox Joints by A$AP Rocky, although it wasn't one of the top 40 it was my personal favorite.

 

I can safely say I didn't go to the movie theatre at all during 2015.

 

The most important story of 2015 is the rising amount of numbers of black male fatalities. All of this started in 2013 with Trayvon Martin and seemingly gets worse each time allowing racist killers off the hook and back out into the streets. Easily they can get away with killing minorities, hispanics, Asians, blacks, etc.

 

None of the options given in the 8 finalists for most important people really matter.

 

 

Recently dropping the single named Facts. Ye goes after multibillion dollar company Nike. Claiming they have their workers in factories as slaves and gave LeBron James 500M to 1B dollars just so he wouldn't leave their company. The feud between Ye and Nike continues.

 

Portraits and Self Portraits -Hoesay

Portraits

Self Portraits 

Prompt Shoot -Hoesay

Purple, Snapple Juice with the background all blurred and the only clear subject to it. Rule of Thirds.

Metal, I personally see a small man with a beard picking up either another person or some text trying to show superiority. Simplicity. 

Electric, I couldn't find the image on my folder so I'm guessing it wasn't downloaded properly. No excuses though, I can explain what I was trying to capture. I was walking towards one of the portables and I noticed these tubes connecting to the air conditioner. I stood right in front and walked a couple steps to the right and filled the frame with the light yellow wall and the main focus being the air conditioner and the pipes running left and right. 

Self Portrait and Portrait Part I -Hoesay

TIPS:

Alter Your Perspective

Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. While this is good common sense – completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portrait a real WOW factor.

Take Unfocused Shots

As photographers we have ‘sharp focus’ drummed into us as an ultimate objective to achieve in our work – but sometimes lack of focus can create shots with real emotion, mood and interest.

There are two main strategies for taking unfocused images that work:

1. Focus upon one element of the image and leave your main subject blurred. To do this use a large aperture which will create a narrow depth of field and focus upon something in front of or behind your subject.

Environmental Portrait 

This footballer is in his environment, which is the soccer field, and the viewer can see nothing but the main subject. Him

This dancer in her studio practicing some stretches to improve her flexibility and her overall performance. 

Self Portrait 

A girl pretending to end it and instead of a bullet coming out the other end, confetti comes out; 

A beautiful girl filling the frame with just her being the main subject.  

Casual Portrait 

To emphasize herself the rest of the background is out of focus and we can only see her, the main point, and in high definition. 

Same concept as the girl above, everything else behind her is slightly out of focus leaving her to be the emphasis point.  

Questions 

I plan on taking pictures of myself and my doggy Lulu. I hope to get a picture of her in Rule of Thirds if she's willing to cooperate with me and not mess around trying to play especially since I plan on taking the picture early in the morning. Another thing I like to do is read books on business, so I plan on getting a few pictures of myself reading. 

Love and Loss -Hoesay

I felt sadness. It showed the deterioration of a human and her partner as well, watching his loved one fight something that can't be touched. Cancer can only be tamed and in some lucky cases it can be beaten.

Photos are a moment in time. It captures us in a period of time that does not always define us. She was never struggling with cancer, nor was she always happy, or sad, or in despair. Her husband caught her in a moment in time that she wasn't stuck in.

As much as I want to say yes I couldn't. It'd be very difficult for me watching a loved one slowly die and be in agony.

"In the despair that you've documented, you've created one of the most beautiful arts I've ever seen."