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Contents

Your Photography

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A photographer’s guide: How to take pictures like a pro.

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The Rules of Red: Learn the rules of infared photography

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Inside the mind of Ciara McDaniel: Cinematographer of the week

Professionals

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Amature photgrapher Q&A

Candice Chace: A life’s Development

Fun Quizzes

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Which camera are you?

Photo By: Ciara McDanial

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Author Bios

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Letter From the Editors

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Bios

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Hoyt Taylor

My favorite things are in the world are sleep, guitar, photography... and more sleep.” Hoyt can be found sleeping or playing guitar in the LASA band hall. His passion for photography has driven to create the very magazine you are reading now. His experience in photography ranges from ultraviolet to infrared to simple still life. He is an intermediate photographer with six years of Photo By: Odalis Cartagena

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John Walters

I find it so interesting to expand my knowledge of photography and see that in my images.”

John is a student at LASA high school in Austin, Texas. Here, he takes a class called Audio Video Production. He has learned many interesting things about shot composition leading to his interest in photography. As an amature photographer, John enjoys taking pictures in his free time.

Photo By: Hoyt Taylor

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Odalis Cartagena

You can say that my life has a lot of twists and turns but that doesn’t stop who I am. My interest for photography, art, handmade crafts, traveling, and music creates who I am and what I love.”

Odalis loves photography because she loves to capture things at random moments. She especially loves taking pictures of all of her traveling destinations as well as painting them for fun. Her experiences with photography allow her to be able to express her feelings to her friends.

Photo By: John Walters

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Letter From the Editors

Dear readers,

We often come home from school and we usually

get into conversations with our parents. We would ramble always tell them what we learned from our class, called Electronic Magazine.

Talking to our parents about InDesign and Illustrator showed our parents that we were learning great things in our class.

Writing a photography magazine has opened so many doors for us to learn from. Through the process of interviewing different professional photographers as well as practicing our own pictures we have learned so much about the process of taking pictures. We are all very grateful for all our learning opportunities that this magazine has provided from a photography standpoint as well as a design standpoint.

As a photography based magazine, our job is to expose teenagers to the power of pictures. Were glad to have our magazine fill the hands of so many teenagers.

Thanks.

From your Editors, John Walters Odalis Cartagena Hoyt Taylor

Photo By: Emily H.

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QUIZ

Which camera are you?

1.) What type of clothes do you wear?

a.) Something comfortable

b.) Classy c.) Casual

d.) Vintage

2.) What do you like to do in your free time?

a.) What’s free time?

b.) Video Games c.) Hang out with my friends d.) Take pictures of course!

3.) What pictures do you take?

a.) Yourself b.) Pull Focus c.) Moving Pictures

d.) Still photography

4.) How seriously do you take photography?

a.) I’m pretty laxed

b.) Pretty into it, but not primary interest

c.) I’m on the fence

d.) Hardcore photographer

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5.) Which of the following fields do you prefer?

a.) Teaching

b.) Acting/Film Crew c.) Graphic Design

d.) Photography, of course!

b.) 11-15 c.) 16-21

d.) older than 21

b.) Summer c.) Spring

d.) Fall

b.) Anything in the Top 50 c.) I don’t really care

d.) All kinds

6.) How old are you?

a.) 10 or younger

7.) What season were you born in?

a.) Winter

8.) What is your favorite music?

a.) Classical

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ow do you turn an amateur image into a photograph that a professional photographer took? What photographic skills can you improve or try to use? There are many different ways to create impact to your images so they are not called amateur images.

As an amateur photographer, you might want to use your camera to your advantage.

“A camera is a passport to the world and a master key to unlock the doors,” Mark Thomas, a professional photographer in Dallas, says.

Your camera is a passport that leads you into a world of unknown possibilities. Using your camera to your advantage allows you to enter a new world where you are able to capture any image of your choice, but before you begin taking pictures, you want to focus on creating the shot.

Before you begin to create your shot, you want to take your focus to your subject.

When you focus on your subject, this allows you the liberty of only putting your focus towards the entire image to a single subject or person.

So focusing on your subject can play a role on what the message of your photograph is.

After you have decided on

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your subject, think about the background that best suits your subject.

Whenever you’re photographing certain subjects, you might want to think about whether the background exCaption: A dog driving a car. tends the subject or if there is some mismatch Art Credit: Mark Thomas between the subject and the background. This means that is even more powerful to you want a background that everyone that sees it. As a provides more information general rule light should be about what the subject is. On behind you and not behind the other hand, you do not the subject. Meaning that if want to put a background there are shadows behind that will steal the main attenyour subject, then there will tion from the subject that you be competition. are trying to portray.

With these things in mind, Now that you have a subject you can start to begin to creand a background to work ate impact to your images. with, you might want to con- If you want to create even sider the lighting. Light is your more impact to the image, friend! Light creates your there are certain types of images, so you want to use it camera angles that can be wisely. used.

“I look at the light, the compo- There are five different types sition or the framing and the of camera angles that you focus,” Thomas says. can use in order to create Before taking any pictures, more emotions in your picThomas looks at these factures. The different types of camera angles that you can tors that will cause impact to his images, so use light to use are: Bird’s-Eye View, your advantage. Light has High Angle, Eye Level, Low two general purposes in Angle, and Oblique/Canted creating images: to reveal Angle. These different camera angles can be used to and to create shadows. The purposes of light can help create the emotional side of you create an image that the character or subject in

the shot. Between the five different types of camera angles, these angles have their disadvantages and their advantages.

For the Bird’s-Eye View, this is a strange and unusual angle.

This is an unusual angle because it shows a scene directly overhead. When the audience see this image, it will take them time to be able to recognize what the image is. The good thing about this angle is that the audience feels omniscient because they are able to see everything that is located inside the shot.

Hopefully you are not afraid of heights because the next angle is the High Angle.The High Angle makes the subject appear to be smaller and less significant. Sometimes, when the angle is used, the subject often gets “swallowed up” by its setting. This angle is used to bring attention to the setting instead of the subject. So far, the two mentioned camera angles can help with creating impact to your images.

“Start out with a camera that you can control the cameras settings manually, like the shutter speed, aperture, ISO rating, and focus. The more you have to think about these settings and what they will do to your pictures, the more you will learn about making a photograph,” Thomas says.

Caption:

Art Credit: Odalis Cartagena

Now you have the Eye Level angle. The camera is positioned as though a human is actually observing the scene. This is a fairly neutral shot, but it can be used to provide a sense of what the subject looks from a “human” perspective. Usually the camera is placed approximately five to six feet from the ground. The Eye Level angle is good to use whenever you want to provide the “human feel.”

Time to introduce the Oblique/Canted Angle. With this angle, the camera is sometimes tilted, but it is not placed horizontal to the floor level. This technique is used to suggest the point-of-view shots, which suggest imbalance, transition and instability.

Last but not least is the Low Angle. The Low Angle increases the height and

QUICK Tips The most interesting times of the day to capture an image are early morning and late afternoon. The angle of sunglish creates some very interesting shadows and the light has a soft quality.

By carefully considering the relationship between background and subject you can make your images much more powerful.

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Caption: Los Alamos Fire Art Credit: Mark Thomas

it gives a sense of movement. The Low Angle helps to give a sense of confusion to the viewer of the powerfulness within the action of the scene. Whenever you use this angle, the background of the shot tends to be just a sky or a ceiling. The lack of detail about the background or the setting adds to the disorientation of the subject that you are trying to portray in your photograph. The added height of the object may make it inspire fear and insecurity in the viewer, who is psychologically dominated by the object.

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are trying to show and tell the world,” Thomas says.

Using the different camera angles, they help you develop your images. This helps develop your images because it creates images with powerful meanings.

Experimenting with the different camera angles helps you see which angles provide a powerful meaning.

“Know your history of photography. Study other photographers. Make mistakes and learn from them. Photograph what you know and love,” Thomas says.

Making mistakes helps you realize what you did wrong.

Whenever you make a mis-

take, you have to learn from it because this is what makes you a better photographer.

When you study other works of other photographers, you can see what they do in order to create powerful images. As you develop in your photography skills, you should start off by taking pictures of what you know and love. This will create a motivation in you in order to create powerful images.

With a camera, there are endless possibilities that you can achieve and there will always be a new beginning to that camera roll. With a new camera roll, everything becomes new again.

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Above: Skyline of Austin along Zilker Park

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Below: The bridge under Barton Springs Road

Sunset along the highway in North Austin

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Get the Canon EOS Rebel T4i

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“Practice�

Candice Chace

Quick Tips When taking a picture, it is smart to abide by the rule of thirds. Divide the picture or screen into 3 rows and 3 collums. Put the most important parts of the photo where the lines intersect.

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Inside Amatures

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hotographers across the world pour there heart and soal into there work. Photographer Ansel Adams once said “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”

Sam Macdonald and John Segren have a passion for photography and potray this perfectly. Macdonald is an amature photographer and student at LASA and Segren is a teacher at the same school and taught a photography course for a short period of time. Both have intresting views that open the doors to photography. Reading about these to photgraphers will help you develop your own photography.

Compare the answers to these questions and learn how photographers develop

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Sam

Macdonald

What have you learned through out your years of photography?

That Everything has it’s own message What is the favorite picture that You’ve taken?

Parkour: It’s a picture I took for my own magazine

How Has Photography Shaped Your Life?

It has been my lifeboat in the flood of problems in this world.

What do you recommend to young photographers?

The Rule of Thirds

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John

Stormberg

What have you learned through out your years of photography?

How much I love art What is the favorite picture that You’ve taken?

I have to many to choose

How Has Photography Shaped Your Life?

It Gave me a greater apretiation of art.

What do you recommend to young photographers?

Do a variety of photo types to find out what you like

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