Rough Draft: 5 Rules

1) Must be daytime

2) Can only take one photo a day

3) Content must relate to 4 elements of Hip Hop

4) Make sure no one is interacting with the camera (or looking at camera)

5) Only one person can be in photo

6) Black and White?

Jordan Matter "Dancers Among Us"

I really appreciate these series of photos. In every photo, each person of focus is in a normal 'everyday' setting. Also, each person is a dancer of a different style. The main thing that makes these photos amazing is that the dancer is captured in motion.

Lev Manovich

-"Satellites that can photograph the license plate on your car and read the time on your watch."

-Interesting how much photography evolved away from its traditional methods.

-Terms from filmed based media, like 'director', are being used as names for digital programs. Is this going to replace the traditional 'director' entirely, over time?

-Classic Cinema will never lose its value.

-Digital imaging, although is believed to replace film, still brings new value to the cinematic apparatus.

-Computer graphic software breaking the limits of pixel based images, able to have images of unlimited size.

-Photography still read as representations.

-Ability to fake visual reality. Meaning computer graphics can only create photorealism, still unable to trick our other senses. Although, places like Disneyland have experiences which attempt to create a full representation of 'reality'

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Susan Sontag

It is interesting how much power a photograph can have. It can be used to visually show proof, to reveal the truth. It can become a link to one's past and like the reading states "to collect the world". After the industrialization of photography it became not only an art form, but a normal process of life, to record an experience or important event. Even though the event may be over, the photograph will still exist, its like a method for proof. As amazing as it is to be able to collect moments in your life in photographs, I do agree with the reading about how photography can become an addiction. It can sort of replace the feeling of personal experience or "fill in the blanks in our mental pictures",  although you can never truly understand anything from a photo.

Lightroom to Photoshop 5 images

Lightroom vs. Bridge

One advantage of Lightroom over Bridge is that it performs non-destructive editing, so in process of editing, you won't lose original image.

One advantage of Bridge over Lightroom is that it allows one to easily and quickly move their work from one workspace to another(ex.Photoshop to Illustrator).