Documentary Photography Proposal

• I am planning to document Halloween, my family, friends, and anyone else I find to really represent it well.
• I chose this idea because Halloween is coming up and is a major holiday.
• I will take pictures at my house, at school, and possibly on the street Halloween night.
• I will try to capture creativity in people's costumes, focusing on the ones that are well done. I'll try to show what makes Halloween fun and scary at the same time.
• I will take pictures this weekend and Monday of next week.

American Photography (Part 2)

One event shown in the movie was World War II. Photographers were specially commissioned to go along to the war and take pictures for newspapers and such back in the states, to let people know how the war was going and to glorify American troops. I think that the pictures from here are really dramatic and give you a small sense of how horrible war could be.
Another event that they talked about was when the Hindenburg exploded. One person happened to get a few chance shots of it, and that picture made the event real, otherwise no one would've believed it and it wouldn't be "news". I think that the pictures taken of this event are cool because there's only three of them and they're very good quality, considering how fast the photographer had to load and reload the camera in the short amount of time.

If I could document one event in history through pictures, it would probably be the Revolutionary War, because it's my favorite period in history and it had a lot of action going on then. Plus, it would show how our nation came to be, what our founding fathers and american heroes really looked like.

Portraiture Project

Leaning on the Fence

Bored

Over Her Shoulder

Lights Up Her Smile

Laughter

Beauty Retouch

I photographed to people at a party that I went to last weekend. I was originally going to photograph my brother, but he was being uncooperative, and the little girl who is in the photographs volunteered to let me take pictures of her. She was playing ping-pong and other games with the older lady, so i ended up taking pictures of both of them.

My favorite photograph is the one I titled Lights Up Her Smile, because the lighting in that shot was just so perfect for a picture that was completely by chance and the colors really pop.