For my class Journalism we have been learning about photography and how it shapes people opinions of a certain view or opinion of something. For example we were told to choose a photo that we found meaningful through ever decade up to year two thousand. I found it interesting how a lot of people had different photos so that meant that these different things stood out more in time to specially them. For this Action Project we were told to take a photo of a subject then interview them about what they thought the meaning of life is.
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“I believe the meaning of life is to find something you enjoy and try to pursue it as much as possible while maintaining a realistic lifestyle based around it. For example, I really like to fish so when I purchased another property in Indiana I want to make sure that there is some body of water on it. There is a great property but there is no water on it so I put a lot of time into making a new one. I went so far as to hire contractors of the heavy machinery to dig out these large sections of land that I thought would be good and it ended up being perfect.”
OL 2019 “Old Man Fishing”
This person believes that this is the meaning of life. I know that he really enjoys fishing, and I know it’s a real achievable thing for him to do every couple weekends. I’m not trying to say that fishing is his meaning of life ; I’m just saying if he truly believes that is to find a goal and pursue it. I think he’s done a good job of it because I know all the work that he’s done to have this place so that he could go and fish and kayak and other nature related things. I kind of agree with his meaning of life statement because I think it’s a good idea to find a goal and set your course to that goal, and I just can’t be blindly wondering and without drive. I always think it’s important to have anymore even if you don’t know what yet says smaller ones and build up to one big one.
I think this image released the five senses. Sight: you see a man fishing, and you can see what looks to be a storm coming in the background. It gives you a sense of being in rain or shine this person will pursue his activity. Auditorily, you might be hearing or things such as water hitting on the brake wall. You can see in the image that some of the water in the lake is already kind of spinning and crashing already, so you have a good audio sense of that without even hearing it.
At this time of the year there’s not many people out there it’s a real spot in the summer forever and bring the boat out but at this time of year everyone put their boat away so it’s almost dead silent on the lake. Somethings you can smell are most likely someone burning their chop down wood because when it starts getting cold a lot of folks do that around there and always hits you. Again this changes depending on the season, for example in summertime you smell barbecues and boats exhaust which isn’t a bad thing I’m just saying it alternates depending on time. No obvious and if you can't feel anything through this image because it’s an image but you can get a real sense of wind hitting you . it’s starting to get colder out maybe some water and splash up and hit your leg or something, it's not hard to imagine these things but again you just can’t physically feel something through an image. I really don’t know what it would taste I couldn’t picture any taste happening during this task.
This is an image of my father fishing. This was taken in Walkerton, Indiana next to a lake. This was. taken on Friday October 18th. I tried to capture this image using a slow shutter speed, and I tried to focus on the subject and not so much the background. It was a pretty dark day, so I had to make sure that the subject wasn’t too dark in the photo, but I didn’t have to use flash or anything it turned out fine. If I were to change one thing about this photograph I would probably change the camera I was using. I always use an iPhone camera, but I wish I had one of those actual good cameras, but iPhones are pretty good. It would just be a lot more easy to affect the shutter speed and aperture through a more high end camera. Another thing I wish I kind of thought about more was the rule of thirds. I could’ve lined it up better, but I was more focused on the focus and the Aperture. I spent some time messing around with some of the adjustment settings in the photo app on iPhone, and I achieved kind of what I was trying to. I was trying to make the background seem darker and keep the subject kind of brightly lit, but I don’t know if it’s that easy to see or not. I also wanted the background trees to be more colorful while trying to make the lake in the clouds match. I wanted the main attraction of the photo to be the clouds then see the subject then the water and then It all kind of blends together. I think instantly most I will get drawn to the clouds because it’s an interesting color that not many see every day.
