Touching People

1. I think it's an interesting concept for a semi-candid portrait.
2. I would most likely partake, depending on the person I had to touch..
3. Find two people who don't know each other and make them stare each other in the eyes.
4. I liked most of the photos. He did pretty plain portraits.

Sports Preview Assignment

Warm up questions:
1. Classic shot of coach having water poured on them after game.
2. The amount of time the shutter is open.
3. Yes to both.
4. Timing of the shot, shutter speed, angle. 

Cool advertising idea

I don't really like any of them, but I guess this will do.
It does not influence me to buy a phone from them. The ads creep me out.

Happy, Akins, Building

Yearbook Elements And Notes

1. First few pages are in color, then all the rest are black and white.
2. All class portraits are cropped at same ratio.
3. All class portraits are similar, in that everyone is wearing formal clothing and tilted the same direction.
4. Lots of pictures of clubs doing their thing.
5. Tons of out of focus pictures.
6. Sponsors in the back pages.
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Things that should be in every good yearbook:
1. Cover
    -Piscataway, The Name Says It All, 2009, theme, volume number
2. The Name Says It All
3. End sheet; table of contents, designs, pictures, theme elements
    -holds the pages to cover
4. Staff, theme elements
5. Title page: Book title, school name, tagline, school address, volume number, picture of student
6. Spread.
7. Divider pages: people, class of 2009, academics, sports, activities.
8. Staff, index, ads, parents congratulating students, choir, band, foreign culture, religious tolerance, academia,  academic leagues, mentoring, students rule, cultural awareness, the power of students, diverse but unified, languages, etc.
9. Colophon.
10. Ads pages: 18.
11. Average yearbook cost: $70
      sell 1500 - 2000 books
      ads cost $200 - $500 a page
      100 ads = $30,000
       = $140,000 cost

Best Covers

1. informal
2. informal
3. environmental
9. environmental
10. informal
11. environmental
13. environmental
15. informal
18. environmental
19. formal
20. environmental
21. environmental
22. formal
23. informal
24. informal
26. formal
27. informal
28. environmental
29. informal/environmental
29. informal
31. formal/environmental
32. formal
35. formal
36. formal
37. formal/environmental
37. formal
37. formal

#3 Esquire (April 1968)
The controversial April 1968 magazine cover depicting Muhammad Ali impaled by six arrows appeared on the heels of his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army because of his religious beliefs. (Ali, convicted violating the Selective Service Act, was barred from the ring and stripped of his title.) The cover, the second of three Esquire covers defending Ali, shows the boxer martyred as St. Sebastian, a patron saint of athletes and one who was shot with arrows for his steadfast religious beliefs. This was one of the covers designed by George Lois, Esquires Art Director during the 1960s.

I like the use of multiple lamps around the room to minimize shadows, as well as using a all white background, shorts, and shoes on a black guy.
Brings out a lot of contrast.

Magazine cover and catch up

Five things to think about while creating a magazine.
1. Make the cover photo stand out.
2. Use a exciting font & color.
3. Arousing curiosity.
4. Don't judge the cover on screen.
5. Emotionally irresistible.

Portrait and self-portrait tips and ideas

"6 - Focussing is easier if you use a smaller aperture; My favourite lens at the moment is the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4, (hence the abundance of photos taken with it on Flickr, I suppose) but I’d probably not use it wide-open when taking self portraits; It’s tricky enough to get the focus right when you’re behind the camera – when you’re on the wrong side of the lens, having a slightly deeper DOF is a lot easier!

 9 - Use props! Are you a dad and a rocker? Bring your kid and your guitar. Are you a photographer? Add camera gear. Painter? Paint. Poet? Words. Make-up artist? Guess… You get the idea." - http://www.pixiq.com/article/self-portraits

I like cranberries.

Guitars are sexy.

The lighting and contrast is cool.

I like the disturbing-ness of this.

Smoking makes you cool.

So does Drake.

Welcome Back

 I really like the contrast and intensity.

 I like how to photographer used the window as a filter, to exaggerate the lights in the city.

The use of a long exposure at night is neat.

1. What was the best song of 2010?
2nd Sucks - ADTR

2. What was the best movie of 2010?
 Inception.

3. What was the most important news story of the year?
BP oil spill.

4. Who was the most important person of 2010?
Drew Breesus.

5. What was the biggest sports OR entertainment, story OR sports/entertainment person of 2010?
Also Drew Breesus.


















1. Tell me what is the one thing that happened on your holiday that you will remember? It can be a trip, a family visit, a present, something fun.
Absolutely nothing.

2. What are your resolutions for the 2011 year?
 Keep up my hatred of humanity.

3. What are you looking forward to in 2011?
...Nothing.