Week 4 Picture Stories
As last week’s speaker said it, dead link
is worse than no link. The same with pictures showing “no photo available”.
Pictures are little pieces of stories. It
intrigues you to guess what’s the meaning behind it. It is a way of documenting
history. One of the first ways to picture and lasts until now is paintings on cave walls. I
like how two similar photos, one in modern society and one in plato’s cave, are
put together and they are thousands of years apart but how they work are so similar.
Picture stories are everywhere. Newspapers, TV,
movies, computer screens, smart phone, outdoor advertising, graffiti, paper
note....
From what I’ve observed, I found out that newspapers
from the 1860s has bigger pictures. I think that is because people aren’t as
literate as people nowadays, and people are drawn to the pictures first when
they lay eyes on a newspaper. An advantage: if people can’t read they can
still understand part of the pictures at least
Digital manipulation can be good and evil. If the people in the editing crew has prejudice over the objects in the photos, they can easily turn the objects into something horrible, to disgrace them. But most often, to increase revenue, the editing crew would turn the objects into something more eye-catching.
News Photo of the Year (Marissa Calligeros)
What makes a great photo? Framing, focus, angle & point of view, exposure, timing (shutter speed), capturing “the moment”, the rule of thirds (golden mean)
Great movie: plus inclusion of sound dimension
Madrid – Gustavo Cuevas
Black Saturday – Alex Coppel
“if it makes you laugh, if it makes you
cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.” Eddia adams
it was quite surprising when I saw old
recordings of news on tv where news reporter actually reads out the paper of
today and draws out the map to demonstrate the weather change.
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