Halloween by Photographer Peter Krogh is a slide show it appears of his years spent documenting celebration of the holiday.
I have posted a few of the pictures, but they seem to stand in contrast with each other. There are a few pictures that look like thought, time, composition, and angel selection were well though out. This first picture is one of the best, in my opinion. The colors are so vivid it looks like a painting.
http://www.musarium.com/stories/halloween/main.lasso?-SkipRecords=28
The lighting gives the folds in the blue material depth and you can almost feel the texture with your eyes.
This next picture here is not nearly as good. First of all, I am bothered by the hotspot. The white over exposed area that is nearly in the center is very distracting to me. But is the story captured? Somehow this picture would not bring Halloween to mind if I saw it by itself. What about you?
Rio by Claudio Edinge
http://musariumgalleries.sitebuild21.com/rio/
On this site, I decided to read the introduction by Karp Vasquez before I clicked on “Images.” Much to my disappointment, the site had some error and did not show me any images. The introduction was wonderful to say the least…I though “wow, I can’t wait to see the pictures, they must be increadable.” So I have to quote this, so you understand what I mean. These words themselves really do put images or colors into your head:
So, in Rio we do not find the sharp focusing and aristocratic compositions characteristic of landscapes done with large format cameras of the past. We find dynamic images, vibrating, with large areas without focus, as if seen through the window of a moving car or even through the fogged helmet of a motorcyclist. These are electrifying images, which translate the turbulence of an afflicted city in its course to finding its lost happiness, which still seem possible due to its epithet of “marvelous.” These images are in nothing similar to what we see normally with large-format cameras, usually employed to extol the beauty and certainties born of an equilibrium point that, in this case, Rio has lost long ago.
I do have to say that at least we get the shot on the page that introduces the Books work of photographs. And I must say, the picture is remarkable. It looks like a dream. It is beautifully composed. I AM SORRY to say that for some reason after the inital view of the first page with the introduction I was unable to pull up the site so that I could copy the picture I was talking about.
This next site has pictures that are from the World Trade Center Boming of 1993 by Daniel Sheehan.
http://www.musarium.com/stories/america-attacked/wtc/main.lasso?-SkipRecords=10
I understand that in a situation like this, it primariy is about documentation. So there is not much to say excetp that some of the changes that I would make are the cropping. Even if the photographer can not get close, they may crop the pictures afterward. Yes, it is always best to crop when you shoot, I think, but sometimes you can’t help it. But here are two pictures where I see that he was able to shoot close ups, so I wonder why he shot the second picture so far away, when what seems most important is the womans’s face.
MediaStorm
MediaStorm – Brian Storm’s multimedia photojournalism site
http://mediastorm.org/0006.htm
Never Coming Home was a wonderful multi-media piece. Compared to what I looked at last week, it is so much more user/view friendly. This was not as long and straight forward. I do not think that the average person (although I might be very wrong) want so click around at 20+ links or corresponding parts to the piece. This just flows from one clip to the other.
The photography is beautiful for the most part. A lot of natural framing, but besides that, the photographer was able to capture genuine emotion. That goes to show how people felt around the photographer and interviewer. They were comfortable, and that adds so much to the project.
The pictures were very well coordinated with the digital sound. It is pretty similar to a video except that it forced the viewer to look at a certain view for a while, so I liked it instead of watching them talk. I guess because then maybe the videographer would follow them though the house and that would not be as strong of an impact.
It was also great to look at several families of the killed soldiers instead of one. It helps people understand different views on how people understand or deal with death and killings during the war.
Chernobyl Legacy is on this site as well. I love that they offer the transcript to look at. Paul Fusco did an extraordinary job in his photo essay. The photographs are beautiful. I began to eat as I watched this, and most of the photographs are very disturbing, and so I thought, “Okay, maybe I need to pause this.” But then I realized, well no I shouldn’t, that’s dumb, it’s not like this didn’t happen. I really appreciated the honesty. The difference with this one and the one mentioned above is that the photography is truly artistic. I really appreciate it.
The friends for Life Piece works well with the combination of video and photos. I like stories that are human interest stories. I don’t think you need to have famous people or public figures etc to make a story work.
Sealing our Boarder (review)
http://www.azstarnet.com/securebord3er// Sealing our Boarder Why it Won’t Work
The set up of the page is efficient.
Let’s talk about the use of video…particularly the Sidewinder video. That video was of a snake crawling through underneath a barbwire fence/boarder. It completely seemed out of place, as if it belonged to some wild life piece. So this in a sense detracts from the story and there is used space that should be used more efficiently.
It should be the case that Journalistic pieces show un-bias representations of what they are reporting. I find that most of the videos mention that people come over smuggling drugs and people. The video Border security series: The legacy of Gatekeeper and Hold the Line mentions that people cross the border, well actually they say “the bad guy” tries to get their elicit material over…drugs and people. A few lines after the reporter says they try to cross drugs over, I keep hearing Drugs….drugs…..the drugs….crossing drugs…drug smugglers…
It hit me, just now, after watching the video Walking the bridge in El Paso. They only video tape the Mexican walking back across the border towards Mexico, but I have no idea what in the world they are thinking. It seems that the journalist or reporter has no translator, no understands the language…I feel that this is a problem. I would DEFINATLY interview some of these people, I do not understand why they did not do this. It would totally take the place of the video of the snake that rattles its tail for a couple of minutes.
The panorama pictures that are used on several of the parts are defiantly more interesting than some of the maps they use that are very elementary, and yet, I feel as though there is something missing from the pictures.
The piece Voices from the 2,000 mile Border actually had one statement or quote from a person who crosses over illegally, but surely there could be more. Like I said, more comments from people who come over and tell us what they think about the wall, about what they do, what they want, how they feel ECT. It is good that some of the quotes are from people that are from The United States of America that do not bash Mexico.
With me, you cannot go wrong with a slide show presentation. Never, even if the pictures are not great, there is a reason a person took them, so I try to find it. One of the pictures captions stood out, it went along like this:
18 year old Manuel says it is bothersome to be under constant watch by the border patrol…”I am not doing anything…just fishing.”
It is a great combination of a strong picture and a strong quote. It is under the 4th part. This picture maybe stronger than some of the written parts.
Over all I am intrigued with this whole barrier/wall/whatever it is to shut out people. So I find the use of this media piece good, but I have not looked at many of these packages to be honest to fairly compare. I wonder how long it will be before the wall is meant to keep people in.
