Photojournalism

A majority of my visual journal is told through the captions. To sum it up though, I recently went to the Women Of Excellence awards.

The Women Aware Awards dinner is an annual event that is truly remarkable. With March being Women’s History Month, the Women of Excellence awards is held during the month of March. 

Every year women within the Siouxland community are welcomed and encouraged to show their support of women who have helped them grow as individuals or who have helped their communities. This year 17 individuals were nominated and 7 of those women received awards.

This event costs $75 a ticket with the option to buy a full table for $500. Women Aware’s Board President Clara Macfarlane was in charge of setting up how everyone got nominated. Usually the individuals who get nominated are from people in the community nominating someone they know. Semehar, former Diversity Liaison in Sioux City, nominated Camrie Miranda for the Rising Woman of Excellence. 

Anyone who attends, or has attended, will always remember the womanly love that is shown at this event.

Human Interest

Animal

Sports / Competition

On The Job

Food

Interior

Night

Laboratory

Weather

The chapter about Portraits discusses a few specific parts of a portrait that makes a good portrait. It states that there are clues that point to the inner person of someone. Those clues include face, eyes, and body language. The chapter also discusses the difference between going into a photoshoot with nothing planned versus going into a photoshoot with a solid idea of what you want to shoot. I think this portrait of me is a well taken photo and I do love it. I think it gets my, then, theater kid vibes as well as I think they positioned me well enough to get a posed shot without my body language looking too stiff. My photographer also took a few photos that I was genuinely laughing in, and I also really liked those, but they all have water marks on them and I feel it would be a little unnecessary for this assignment. I think that this photo captured the face and body language well. Through the way I am lit up and posed my face is well lit and my pose looks fairly comfortable (even if it wasn’t at the time). 

I think the main issue this image “gets wrong” is my eyes. I am struggling even now to see the way my eyes look. In a majority of the other edited photos I got back, you can see my eyes as they are a little better lit. Sadly, this image doesn’t have the same clarity as my other images do. It is because of this that I feel like you can’t really get the full picture here. Yes it was a staged photo in a studio, but I feel like it just doesn’t hit as home as — for example — my senior photo. I think this could probably be fixed by taking it into a program like Photoshop and lightening my eyes (and the spots around them) just a little bit. 

Emotion –

Architecture –

Weather –

What would the normal / boring version of this picture look like?

The boring version of this picture would be a picture of a plane being on the ground that was not destroyed nor on flames. It would also likely be daytime and just be a picture of a plane on a runway.

Then describe what the photographer did to make the image interesting, creative, and/or unique.

I’m assuming this photographer took the flames and brightened them and turned up the black point making the darker parts of the image appear even darker. This picture was also taken at an angle not too steep nor too flat.

What would the normal / boring version of this picture look like?

The boring version of this picture would be a photo taken from the seats. If the photographer was in the stadium, they probably would have had spectators in the way of getting a good shot. The normal version of this picture is not likely taken from a drone.

Then describe what the photographer did to make the image interesting, creative, and/or unique.

The main thing this photographer did to make this image interesting was taking it through the lens of a drone. They also framed it very well, showing the circling of the stadium. They also used shades and hues to their advantage; the way you can tell who is rooting for what based on the teal colors within the crowd.

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