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Macro Photography. I wanted to start my research with an understanding of macro photography. I thought macro photography was just a close-up shot. However, in DSLR (digital single-lens reflex camera) photography,it seemed to be used for a photograph with a 1:1 or higher magnification. From what i found out a Macro lens is marked with the magnification, like 1:1 or 1:5. I found a page online ( see sources) that said  "A 1:1 ratio means that the image would be the same size on film (negative) as in real life. A 1:5 ratio would mean that the subject would be 1/5 the size on film as it is in real life. Due to the small size of 35mm negatives and digital sensors, a 1:5 ratio is nearly life-size when printed onto 4"x6" paper." So photographers usually use macro photography to capture small details of objects. Like bugs, drops of water or more texture on objects or plants. So the actual Macro Lens on a DSLR camera are expensive! But i did read that there ...

Self-Portrait (Back with Arms Above) 1984   John Coplans    John Rivers Coplans was a British artist, art writer, curator and museum director, veteran of World War II and a photographer.  At the age of 60 he started photographing his body. I noticed none of them had his face in them, focusing on his nude form. He took images of himself, or his assistant, in sections focusing on a certain part of the body some were kept as a single image but others he combined in separate frames to make up a body a whole body. Why i found his work so interesting is because it's so different to anything i have looked at before.  ''If I accept the cultural situation, I'm a dead man, So I'm using my body and saying, even though it's a 70-year-old body I can make it extremely interesting.'' First of all he is male, second of all he is an older male. The aging male body is something I have never taken time to really think about.  The ageing ...

Eddie  Adams.  Eddie Adams was born in 1933 in America. He was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his portraits of celebrities and his photographs he produced in 13 wars beginning in Korea in the early 1950s and ending in Kuwait in 1991. He did three tours of Vietnam with the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize. In class we looked his very famous image 'Saigon Execution' made in 1968. This image's wide spread publication brought attention to the brutality of war in American and people started to question what they thought they knew. It became a symbol for the anti war movement of south Vietnamese corruption and brutality.  We were asked in class to question this and to do some research behind the story of this image and find out what we could about who these people were and what was happening.  The man holding the gun is General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The man who is about to be executed is Nguyen Van Lem, the captain of a terro...