Magazine

#1-Magazine Tips

• Color is important.
• Stylish and Elegant.
• Attractive Main Subject.
• Familiar Recognition
• Arousing Curiosity

#2- Best Magazine Covers of 2014

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4. Environmental
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10. Environmental
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#3- My Favorite Cover

FamilyFun, August 2014, Road Trip

"For our August 2014 issue, FamilyFun commissioned photographer Sabrina Helas to shoot our cover story on family road trips. The minute we saw this image in the film, we knew we had our cover. Shot at The Corner Store in San Pedro, CA, the photo is filled with the kind of joyful, authentic details we love — the vintage blue bottle, the candy bracelet, the world's best burger, and a side-glancing smile of delight from 6-year-old Isaac. Intriguing and spontaneous-feeling, it sums up what our brand is all about: making happy memories with your kids.

Critique: Personally I think it is a really good picture.  The lighting makes the image pop out more the colors appear so much more brighter.  The child shows a lot of emotion which rubs off as happy or excited.  The background is extremely appealing as well, it doesn't take away from the main subject but it adds nice balance to what is in the front of the image. The portrait is actually really appealing of the child, nothing is off setting and the child is extremely happy.  This is an environmental photo because not only do you have the boy in the photo you have a visual background. 

#4- Magazine Part 2

Prompt Shoot

Cold

Electric

Purple

Rules of Photography Part 2

Background

Cropping

Balance

Depth

Merger

Rule of Thirds

Leading Lines

Pattern and Symmetry

Viewpoint 

Framing

Africa and Abandon Amusement Parks

1.I thought that what Nick Brandt is really an amazing thing. His pictures are beautiful and each tells a great story and they really do make me want to help the animals in the photographs.
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3. I really like it because it just shows the affection that the lions have for one another.  A lot of people would say other animals down have feelings, but I truly believe they do, so this photo expresses it.

4. Its simplicity I think because it just has one subject in the photo, it shows the love between the two animals.

5. He uses a Pentax 67II with only two fixed lenses.

6.Brandt take his photos to show the world these amazing animals before they go extinction and to show that animals are deserve to live just as much as humans do.

"My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing."- Nick Brandt 

Funny Captions

Old Man Jenkins rides his motorcycle naked down S HWY 183 today.  It was after a few drinks with his wife, Margret, did she triple dog dared him to preform the act. Jenkins was involved in a high speed chase with officers until caught at 2:46 this afternoon.  

Pepsi and Coca-Colas new sponsors, Bertha and Herbert Robinson, race around the Circuit of the America's track October 14th, 2015, to prove which brand is the winning brand of soft drinks! This has always been a feud in their home and now they were able to put the brands to the test with caffeine fluid four wheeled scooters. 

Ethel Blatt turns 100 today, and she's not just lighting it up with a birthday cake and candles, she's celebrating a way most people wouldn't expect a 100-year old would celebrate; smoking a cigarette. Her family wanted her to have the best 100th birthday a gal can have, and lets face it 100 is the new 20, so they took time out of their busy lives to buy her favorite cigarette brand off the black market.  

Academic Shoot reflection and critique (Absent)

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 
Trying not to disturb people while they were doing work.  I felt the more I tried to follow the rules the harder it was not to disturb them.
2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.
I was more focused on the focusing of the camera I was worried the photos would come out blurry.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
I would sort of want to take a photo of better subjects. I would also like to be invisible to sort of focus on the rules.

4. What things would you do the same?
I really like to use rule of thirds I tend to be better in that rule.

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?
Rule of thirds, I always use rule of thirds, its imprinted in my mind.

6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?
Avoiding mergers, it sort of slips your mind when you are shooting.

7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?
Balance, I really forget about that one too, I guess I can sort of try to find things that balance each other out.

Hi Olivia. I really love your Trophy Legacy photo, its truly pleasing to the eye I adore the zig zag. I also really love the painting photo, the perspective is great. On your Thinking Shady photo I think you could have avoiding coping the subjects head off. GREAT JOB!
http://olivphotos.blogspot.com/2015/10/academic-shoot.html?showComment=1445546522733

Academic Shoot (Absent)

1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?

The rule was rule of thirds and lines.

2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?

The subject is the student sketching the hall, the subject is art.

3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

You can sort of tell it is art, it is sort of hard to tell that she is sketching the hall.

4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently? 

I could have attempted to get a better view of the image she is drawing.

1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?

Rule of thirds, avoiding mergers.

2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?

The subject is theater. They were doing a lesson involving getting in character.

3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

I'm sure if its simple to tell, I asked a few people and a lot of people said theater other people didn't know.

4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently?

I guess it was in the theater room it would be easier to tell.

1. What composition rule did you follow the rule?

Simplicity

2. What is the subject (be very very specific)?

The subject is history, they were doing a presentation in US history. 

3. Is it clear to people looking at your photos what the subject is?

Yes because there is hints around the room.

4. If you can't very clearly see what the subject is, what could you have done differently?

I could have gotten closer to the poster.