Christmas photo

Me and my wife enjoy watching the Christmas light at the Alamo area.

New Year gathering!

Guys,

Wanna come to my place to have a New Year afternoon tea gathering?

Come to my house on Jan. 2 (Wed.) at 3 p.m.
My wife is going to make some dessert, tea and coffee for all of you.

Hopefully, the sun will come up to greet us.

I will invite some former News Photo students to join us.

The address is: 8218 Greenbrier Drive, SA, TX 78209
Time: Jan. 2, Wed., 3 p.m.
Phone: 210-320-2893

Let me know whether you can come or not.

Hello Everyone!! how was Christmas?? I think our new topic should be about Christmas Day!! The emotion on someone's face, peoples reaction toward something. It should be due by Wednesday Jan 1!! Have a Happy New Year Everyone!!!

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I took this pictures like a month ago and i just had to share them. I also wanted to point the cameras that the guys were using, they were huge!!! one day i hope to be inside with a lense like that.

 

 

'What's this?'

I might be a bit strange when it comes to Christmas. All the light is provided by the lights on the tree. The doll on the tree is my tree topper. As you can tell, I'm very much influenced by Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Christmas light in my backyard

I started turning on the Christmas light in my backyard tonight.
Here is a photo of it.
I used the HDR feature of Photoshop to keep the light bulb not overexposed.
There is still a hot ethical debate on using HDR in photojournalism because it is created by a combination of several photos taken at different time.

Merry Christmas!

Who is going to propose the next topic?

It is Christmas time!

Oh my God! I thought you guys will wait until the last moment to post, just like what most of you did for the class. I have to catch up. I will try to find something tonight in my neighborhood.

By the way, check out the Ranger frontpage, Riley got an interesting wild art.

http://www.theranger.org/

In my apartments they change the lights every year

My ornaments

I just love Christmas lights!!

Our next photo assignment should be Christmas lights!!!

The last 5 survivors of News Photo 1

The last 5 survivors of our class

After the seeds were sowed three months ago, some manged to grow as seedlings. These five survived the bugs, diseases, drought, brazing sun and the freezing cold. By now, we all should know that photojournalism is a unique genre in photography, and photojournalists is one very special species of mankind.

Do we help changing the world? Some said no, some said yes. What do you think? What is the meaning of our work? 

The saying from James Nachtwey keeps echoing in my head, "If we don't, who will?"

Have a lovely holiday.

More on NY subway shooting ethics

I've just got this. I have not finished reading it yet. But it sounds like he is providing a different perspective to look at the case.Whether you agree with him or not, you will be the judge.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/visual-voice/197484/why-do-we-blame-the-visual-messenger-for-tragedies/

About Final Exam

Due to the heavy workload of grading final projects, I really don’t have time to give you more

specific tips on the Final Exam. The best I can do is as follows:

Total questions: 20 (multiple choice)

• 5 questions on the last 2 videos we watched recently
• 3 questions on law
• 6 questions on ethics and conduct
• The rest of the questions include DOF, shooting mode, flash, manual exposure, portrait, focus system and metering.

Enjoy your study.
It is now 9:30 a.m. I hope this post would not get delayed this time.

More discussion about NY subway photograph

This one from NPR worth reading:

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666261/documenting-tragedy-the-ethics-of-photojournalism

Ethical decision happens yesterday

Save life first? Or take the photo first? Under what situation? And are you going to run it? How do you make these decision?

This is a real life example happened just yesterday in New York.

Check it out:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/12/04/new-york-posts-subway-death-photo-was-it-ethical/

And an even more in-depth discussion from NPPA, Mr. John Long and the members of ethics committe:

http://blogs.nppa.org/ethics/2012/12/05/subway-photo/

WarPhotographer video on Youtube

I did a little search on Youtube and found the whole movie of WarPhotographer. However, the movie was cut into 7 sections.

You can watch them one by one. After all, you might need a little fresh air after every 15 mins. while watching this type of movie.

The links are as follows:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vXfW94Xkc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulhm4K9132Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcAoKFEjiqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16JtKfiDjE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN8_C_ADeCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhS90pHr7A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hChbScBeQ4

In case we cannot finish watching this movie on Wed., you will have to finish it on your own time. The whole movie is around 1 hr. 37 mins. We've watched about 35 mins. on Monday already.

A few questions in final exam. will be coming out from this movie.

A peace of mind in Illinois for photojournalist

Hooray! Good news.
U.S. Supreme Court ruled that video recording with sound on police in action in Illinois is not illegal. Check this out:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/illinois-police-recording_n_2191800.html

A victory of protecting journalists' and ordinary citizens' first Amendment right.

Final tally for Posting

Your bonus grade for posting is:

Sergio is the winner.

	wk1	wk2	wk3	wk4	wk5	wk6	wk7	total	Credit 5%
	reflections	give/take	Dog’s eye view	Shadows	Law posting	Flying object	Taking photos
Linda	x	-	x	-	x	-	-	3/7	2.14%
Carolina	-	-	-	x	-	-	x	2/7	1.43%
Gloria	x	-	-	x	-	x	-	3/7	2.14%
Monica	-	-	-	-	-	x	-	1/7	0.71%
Sergio	x	-	x	x	x	x	x	6/7	4.29%
Dr. Lo	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	7/7

James Nachtwey

James Nachtwey holding a baby in a conflict zone.
Photograph taken by Gilles Peress / Used only for educational purpose.

If you need to cite one contemporary documentary photographer every photojournalist student should know. Nachtwey is the one, even though his last name is so difficult to spell.

We will be watching a video about him next week: "War Photographer."
The video material will be appeared as questions in the Final Exam.

Want to know more about him, Google him.

Photo of the christmas tree

I don't think the quiz tips were uploaded on the post. Is anyone able to view them?

Ethics quiz tips

 

Ethics quiz tips

According to the author (Kobre), what are the frameworks for making ethical decision?

What happened to the photo showing the Iceland volcano ash that eventually being recalled by Reuters photo agency in April, 2010?

What is the code of ethics listed by National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)?

What did photographer Boris Yaro said to another photographer who tried to stop him while he was taking photos of Robert Kennedy dying on the ground after being assassinated?

Why shouldn’t we pay subjects for letting us to take their photos?

What should you do or shouldn’t do while taking up photo assignment of a funeral?

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Renowned photographer Eddie Adams took a photo that publicly considered as changing public opinion about the Vietnam War, what was that photo about?

 When Life magazine photographer Flip Schulke was shooting a civil right march led by Martin Luther King in Alabama and saw some black kids was being shoved to the ground by police, he stopped shooting but dragging the kids away. What did Dr. King told him at that moment?

The author mentioned several times about “breakfast test” in describing ethical standards in publishing photos. What is the term means?

In a 1975 photo of woman and a child falling off a collapsing fire escape, despite a strong complaint from the readers on publishing the photo, some effect was achieved by publishing the photo. What was that?

What did the Website of Best of Photojournalism contest do to an award-winning photo showing a half-naked woman being sexually assaulted by a crowd at Mardi Gras in order to protect the identity of the victim?

What did National Geographic magazine do to a 1982 cover photo of the pyramids of Giza?

Charlotte Observer photographer Patrick Schneider’s manipulated photo of two grieving firefighters eventually earned him a 3-day suspension and also being stripped off of an award he had already won with that photo. What did he do to that photo?

What did Time magazine do to the police mug shot of O. J. Simpson on its cover in 1994? What is the public’s reaction to the photo?

One questions from each one of the articles presented in class on Monday.

Shooting outside McAllister

blog tally

	wk1	wk2	wk3	wk4	wk5	wk6	wk7	total	Credit 5%
	reflections	give/take	Dog’s eye view	Shadows	Law posting	Flying object	Taking photos
Linda	x	-	x	-	x	-		3/7	2.14%
Carolina	-	-	-	x	-	-		1/7	0.71%
Gloria	x	-	-	x	-	x		3/7	2.14%
Monica	-	-	-	-	-	x		1/7	0.71%
Sergio	x	-	x	x	x	x		5/7	3.57%
Dr. Lo	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	7/7	5%

 One more chance to earn extra credit before Wed.

Ethics tips ... coming

Ethics tips is coming tomorrow later in the afternoon.

Just to remind you what you need to study for a better grade on Wed.:

You need to study 3 areas:
1. The ethics chapter in Kobre's book.
2. The presentation and discussion of ethics cases in class.
3. The lecture materials we went over last week, and also includes the files in the ethics folder in the ACES.

Make sure you go over the above materials.

holiday photos

 Why don't you have wings to fly with ...

Catch that last glitter of sun on the sea.