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Magazine Tips: 1. keep familiar recognition from issue to issue 2. get the image emotionally irresistible 3. Arousing curiosity 4. intellectually stimulating, and appealing top the eye 5. efficient, fast, easy Formal, Informal, Or Enviromental 1.Informal 2.Formal 3.Enviromental 4.Formal 5.Formal 6.Formal 7.Informal 8.Informal 9. Enviromental 10.Formal 11.Formal 12.Enviromental 13.Informal 14.Informal 15.Formal 16.Formal 17. Enviromental Favorite: "Like the proverbial snake eating its own tail, the Spring 2013 cover of Bloomberg Pursuits depicts a live alligator with an alligator wallet clamped slyly in its jaws. The cover line—“Where Luxury Begins (and Ends)”—doesn’t just wittily echo photographer Jamie Chung’s arresting image, it perfectly captures the story inside: a photo portfolio that highlights the raw materials behind our most luxurious goods. For those disquieted by the notion of sacrificing creatures for our consumables, our ...

Framing is a technique where by you draw attention to one element of an image by framing it with another element of the image. Sometimes when you place them into different contexts with different backgrounds you can dramatically alter the mood in a shot. Environmental   Photography self portraits Casual Portrait I will be shooting a picture of myself using a tripod I have at home which will allow me to take the picture of myself without anyone else to help me. I would either want to take a picture of myself with a background of a mat room or The basketball court at Dick Nichols. i will make the sunset in the background very beautiful by taking it while the sun is going down.

A. The most powerful image has to be the one where he is breaking down crying while sitting on a bench. He says he has one foot in the army and one back home and he just wants to fit in in either one of them. B. Each of the images combined show us the story of his life in the military all the way to marriage. C. The captions help me understand what the photos are really saying and the meaning of each of them. D. Ian Fisher went from a scared trembling recruit to a veteran and married withing these years. He was worried and very nervous at the start of all this when he was recruited to go to the military training. The middle of all of these pictures was when he fighting internally within himself because he couldn't figure out where he fit in at home or in the military. By the end of the pictures he had realized himself as a vet and a family man and that is when he got married. E. They use present tense and sometimes show us what is going to happen in the future F: 1.They are o...