Thanksgiving food photography

Baraka

 Baraka, directed by Ron Fricke, is a film with no dialogue and really no plot and more of just a collection of photographed scenes. These scenes are beautiful and take place all over the world. The film really emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there" as far as location. It takes us all over the world with 152 locations in 24 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States.

Though is has no real plot, it does emphasis an environmental theme. It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint and whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining again with emphasis on the environment. Then images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn.

I, personally, really enjoyed the film because the scenes where breathe taking and it showed me parts of the world I've never seen. This film was unlike any film I've ever seen before not just because of it's lack of dialogue but also because of the different places and cultures it covered. When I first heard that the film had no dialogue I thought it was going to be boring and hard to follow but that wasn't the case and I was pleasantly ssurprised.

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Veronica's Pictures

Dear Veronica,
I had a great time looking through your pictures of your cousin's graduation. The topic of your album shows that family and friends are important to you. The majority of your pictures consisted of portraits which makes sense considering the occasion. The elements present in your photos were unity, emphasis on people and emotions, and framing. The positioning of your camera was properly used to capture different emotions and views which I liked because it made your photographs more interesting and added variety to just straight forward portraits. Something I would like to see from you are more photographs about the scenery and focus on other objects because there was one of a building and it was one of my favorite shots. Nice job.

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sports photography

American Photography Movie

• Brownie- remained in production for 80 yrs, only $1; first year a quarter of a million were sold
• Kodak- too expensive
• postcards cover disasters and important events that newspaper could not until half tone was used
• National Geographic pioneered publication of color photography
• Edward Curtis documented and photographed native Americans beautifully but was a bit of a fantasy
• photographs brought about social reform like outlawing child labor
• straight photographs- took things the way they were, focused on no alterations; in the 20s

WWI

• cameras weapons in war
• images of combat posed or taken from far away
• no newspaper could publish pictures of dead American soldiers
• Daily News- oldest tabloid
• Evening Graphic- most scandalize, staged photos