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Module 6

Nowadays everything is so much easier to do than 10,20,30 years ago. If something happens anywhere in the world people will know in at least 10 minutes. Things got faster, and the internet is the main guilty on this. The internet make the whole world more connected. Nobody waits to see the news, people want to know about something at the same time they type on their phones or laptops. Television, radio and newspaper are not required as much like 10 years ago. The internet followed by social medias got their spot.

People do not watch tv anymore because they have platforms as YouTube, Netflix and others. Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube probably made the radio stations an unusual thing, as I said before, nobody likes to wait so they will not wait to listen their favorites musics. The industries of newspaper do not publish not even half of the perceptual they used to like 10 years ago. People can look for online newspaper, is the same thing but you do not need to get out of your comfort zone to see what is happening around the world. I believe online newspaper was the cause which the newspaper still around us. Social medias as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are the most accessed social medias in the entire world. The industries of newspaper have pages on social medias making their users lives easier to access their pages. Snapchat is one social media which has a page with some of television, newspaper, music and other types of industries. They show one little video, you just need to click on it and it send you directly to the webpage.

The difference between old times and today

The use of online journal increased a lot because the internet and the technology that we have nowadays. Also, we have access to everything so easy that we do not need to go to a newsstand in the morning and buy newspaper to know what is happening around the world, we have everything on our cellphones, television, laptop, and other electronic devices. The use of internet increased the competition between the newspaper brands to see who post something first and see who gets the news first. 

According to: www.newworldencyclopedia.org; "the credibility and recognition of a strong brand of well-established newspapers, and the close relationships they have with advertisers, are also seen by many in the newspaper industry as factors that strengthen their chances of survival.  Moving away from the printing process can also help lower costs."

I believe the online newspaper made the photographers and journalists think faster, act faster, I mean people want to see what is happening and they have to publish it as faster they can. Nowadays they have the necessary tools to do it. They have cellphones, digital cameras, so they can take pictures from anywhere and publish in less than one minute.

New and Old Cameras 

It is impossible compare the media today and the media 50,100 years ago. I did a research about photogravure and the process to get it ready was long. It used to take days to get ready, and today a photo takes seconds to be ready and published.

I believe the journalist and photographers have an easier life, but with more pressure. Back in a day they did not need to be fast as they do today, the charge on them for a better picture, for a faster post is a way bigger than 10, 20 years ago. They do not care how they will do it, they just have to be fast. "Using Instagram as the primary outlet for breaking news coverage was an experiment, Pollack says, but one motivated by necessity." 

Photo by: Emerson Gaspari
Image source: http://www.museudapelada.com/resenha/explicando-pele-as-futuras-geracoes
Year created: 1970

Principle: Rule of Thirds. The rule of thirds is evident on this picture showing the main character located centrally, making it in evidence.

Principle: Subject's expression. It looks like the photographer got a perfect angle to take this picture because the main object looks like he is looking to the camera, like he knew the camera was point to him, it is fantastic.

Principle: Exposure time. This is a freeze motion picture, which the main character is in movement jumping on his friend and celebrating his goal. The photographer looks very precise with his camera, kind of impressive for that time.

I choose this image because it represents my country, my culture. Brazil is a country where is very beautiful but the government does not know how to control it. When I look this image I remember the good times, when people were able to play soccer on the streets and be safe at the same time, where people loved soccer more than anything. This is not a normal photo it is the King of soccer bringing a World Cup to Brazil. Memorable moment. 

Photo by: Marcelo Camargo
Image source: https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2019/01/01/em-2-discurso-bolsonaro-fala-em-acabar-com-ideologia-que-defende-bandido.htm
Year created: 2019

Principle: Quality of light: Light is not very good. The photo is kind of dark not helping the main character look good. He looks dark and is not making him in evidence because his wife is calling attention too due the light not focusing on him.

Principle: Depth of field. The image is bringing the focus to both people in front. The background is not on focus, we can barely seem what is behind them. Anyways, the picture is focusing on both people in front but it kind of did not get his whole body.

Principle: What feeling does the image create: Happiness. The image shows both of people smiling and very happy. Even if you do not know them you can tell they won something, and there are people looking at them because he is greeting someone. Also, they are focused to something in front but a little bit down of his eyes. If we check they look down. I predict they were on top of something.

I picked this photo because it shows the change of my country. After 16 years of being involved in corruption. Brazil chose to switch the government. This man is called Jair Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil. A lot of people do not like him, but he is definitely better than the old President. Anyways, it makes me think about change. My country can be good again, and this man has "the power" to do that. 

Photo by: Raymond Loewy

Image source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist%C3%B3ria_do_autom%C3%B3vel

Year Created: 1900

Principle: Obvious main subject. The main subject occupies a big part of the picture. The main object is definitely in evidence, covering the most part of the background.

Principle: Keep it simple. It is a simple picture. Nothing to add at all, it is just a car but it makes me thinks deeper about the car. The main object is straight which is perfect and easy to get a picture of.

Principle: Background compliments. The background is in evidence but does not call attention. The attention still in the main object, which is the car. The background helps the picture to look better in my opinion.

I chose this picture because I always think how people could be so smart to produce cars at that time. The technology they had was poor compared to nowadays and they still doing the car looks perfect. This photo shows a lot of details of the car. If we stop to see this picture we can notify that the car has the basics things that all the cars need today. I also believe this a good picture because it shows the class and the elegance of this car.

Photo done back at 19s

Process for obtaining 19th century photographs developed by Karl Klíc which involves the transfer of a photographic image to a copper plate. This process was time consuming and required a lot of patience from the photographer. A photogravure has all the qualities of a photograph, this brings the art of photography into engraving, translating all the most delicate shades of gray, combined with the depth of a metal engraving. Photogravure is a direct printing process, whose name derives from the cylindrical shape and the rotary principle of printers used at that time. It's different from other methods in that all the originals have to go through a "recycling" process. The first design of a printing matrix machine with some features of photogravure was made in 1784 by Thomas Bell. However, the first design of a rotary printing equipment to use the photogravure process was in 1860, and is due to Karl Klic, who is considered "The Father" of photogravure.

Karl Klic 

In according to Trabalhos Feitos;  In Photoengraving, printing applies the amount of ink to different parts of the printout. This is made possible by engraving cells on a copper and chrome plated cylinder. The gradation of the image's shades is determined by the depth of the cells: the deep ones contain more ink, so they print darker tones; Shallow, less ink results in lighter shades. After being engraved on the copper-coated cylinder, the image is coated with chrome for added strength.

The main feature of photogravure is the extremely high print speed. Because the runs are very large it is usual to work with several large photogravure towers, coupled directly to the finishing system. This implies large printing and finishing parks, producing products already collated (with neat sheets), folded, cut and assembled. Surely you may have seen in the movies or on television, some machines accumulating making newspapers at high speed. Photogravure contributed to photography so that people had faster access to the news. The newspapers were ready in a very fast manner in which it was impressive and revolutionary for the time. Also, the first photo frames were used through the idea of photogravure, as the photogravure was always send to a board, the photographers got the idea to make boards and put the pictures in the journal as well.

 Photogravure

For that time the technology was not the best thing in the world. I meant if we compare the tools we have today and what they had back at XIX century, it is kind of disadvantageous. For that time I believe people were very thankful for everything they have had at that moment because they could not expected something better would come. In the other hand, I believe today we have everything in the palms of our hands. To take a photo we do not need even to make some effort, everything is so easy. Back at that time, they had to wait to see what was going on around the world or even in their own countries. Nowadays, with just one click we can see the news in the whole world with pictures in HD that can even show how big is people's nails. I believe that photogravure changed a lot of things for people who was born in that time but it is very unfair we compare with the technology we got nowadays.

Photo taken by me in a soccer trip.

I chose that picture because it reminded me about portrait ways to take pictures, and this picture I took with my cellphone with a portrait effect making the background looks brilliant. 

After research about this technology, I found out a lot of new things that I have never imagined that people back at that time had the idea to do such a nice process to get better pictures. For me, the idea of transfer everything to a plate to get a "better" view or idea of the picture that they just took is such a nice thing to think about it. For me photogravure was a big thing that change the life of the photography and helped a lot of photographers as well.

Sources cited:
http://atelierpiratininga.com/tecnicas/fotogravura/
https://prezi.com/eag85r-bngcg/cianotipo-e-fotogravura/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure

                                                                       

Can Photographs Change the World?

I believe that photographs can change the world for a better world. A lot of people believe in stories that we do not know if it is true or not because we do not have an exactly prove showing us that is real. I know parents always trying to tell little stories to their kids to make them sleep and when the kids grow up they know that was not true it was just a once upon a time story.

Now, imagine if they had something to show them, to prove that was real. In other words people believe in what they see. Words can be altered pictures not. I believe the lies in the world could stop or decrease if people take shots of what is happening. They could prove to all the world what is real or what is not.

When people see photos on the television showing how many people are hungry or how many people are living in the streets it makes people think about what is going on. Photographs can make people see the reality and think about it. If someone says; people are hungry, they do not have anything to eat. You create an image in your head. Now if someone shows you a picture of people hungry you will be surprise because the image can be totally different of that one you made in your head. The TedTalk video really touched me at the point of what we are doing with animals, like what rights do we have to kill them or make them prisoners we do not have to decide for them, we kill them for fun no to survive, it is being crazy.  

That is why I believe photographs can change the world. It can help so many people, and it can help the world to be a better world, if the human being cooperate with it. We can not only save people but we can save animals as well. One photograph and we can arrest a criminal which kill animals "for fun". One photograph and we can help people in the other side of the world. 

 Maria Fernanda Garcia

                                                     Elaine Mafra                            

Book Introduction: Photojournalism

In my opinion photojournalism is when people use pictures to be direct and show what they want to show. They want to that people understand what the picture is showing, they do not want to create more than one meaning in one picture, they want to be simple and direct.

The history of photojournalism and the history of photography go hand in hand. The practice of broadcasting images in the media began early in 1880, through the Daily newspaper in New York.

Photo Source by: Kobre Sidney

The term “photojournalism”, however, was coined only in the early decades of the twentieth century. Its first place of application was the illustrated magazines, which mixed the usual texts with photos. This media peaked in Germany in the 1930's.

Maybe one of the most famous applications of photojournalism is the record of military and civil strife. This action, which I call madness, of covering wars began in 1854, with the registration of the Crimean War (1854 - 1855) by British photographer Roger Fenton.

Photo Source by: Flavio Henrique Lino

At the time, still with much present censorship and influences from other media (such as painting), the photos of wars still used a more artistic language of the realist. The images mostly depicted soldiers in heroic poses or empty battlefields.

The record of post-Crimean War conflicts, however, already bore the characteristics of photojournalism: images recording actions and events as they were.

Photo by: Mirian Scavione

            This is a place called Arraial do Cabo, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A beautiful place to be visited. I chose this photo because it remembers my country, and every time I look at it I feel at home.
            The photographer had a nice angle to take this picture, a nice view from the top of the mountain, praising the beauty of the beach and the sea. Nice picture by Mirian Scavione.