Part 2 of 3rd Session

This lesson also included our role as a photographer, some images we were shown were of people being tortured or being starved, if you are the photographer what is your role? are you only there to document what is happening or can you help the people you photograph. Thinking about this situation, some photographers are only their to exploit people and don't care what distress these people are witnessing. We the audience will never know if our favored photographers helped the victims they photographed. We were shown different ways of photography and different techniques, such as shutter speeds, exposures, layout of the photograph and Photoshop.

We saw images that had a long shutter speed, hence the image being blurry like so many we were shown, this is a method that can be used in both film and digital and greatly effective in photography.

There are 2 different way of laying out your photos, one is by how you lay your scene out, the image we were shown was entirely made out of paper. It was a layout of an office and down to the last detail was made out of paper, so this layout never existed. 

The second way of layout is how you lay your images once taken or developed, Like Dwaine Michael s his images were lay out as though it was telling a story, I have read his book and he shows his images with a small amount of quotation which gives you a better understanding of what the pictures mean.

Photoshop plays a huge role in photography, you never know if the image you are looking at is the original or if it has been altered, we were shown an image that was taken on film, there were two images one was the original and the other was edited. The original showed two men stood by a lake and the edited one showed only one man, they had taken one of the men out, this shows editing photos has been around for a long time and shows what you can alter and how easy it is. Most images we see today that are advertising something have been altered in some way to make what ever they are selling more appealing, whether it be a film, magazine or clothing.