This Photo to me is a Great Portrait Image because if I didn't know any better, I'd think this was a painting the way the shadows are definite and the Highlights and clouds are almost the same shade of Various amounts of color, That sure is a techneque that Photographers find rediculous, but I as an artist think it's briliant.

Absolute Absolutest

As a photojournalist, your ethics should always be absolute. Say if you have a picture that you really love, it has great emotion, great energy, but there's a tree that merges with the top of the main subject's head you should either post and print it the way it is, or don't print it at all.

A photo can capture truth, but to a very limited group, the people who know the whole, true, story of and about the photo. If someone takes a picture of a Zebra, but didn't really care to count the stripes while they're actually seeing all sides, how in the world will he know the right number if he only sees one side? Then, if that photo is published, the readers will be lied to in hearing that this Zebra has only the seen amount of stripes times two for the other side. What if that Zebra had one more hidden stripe? That is not the truth.

It's wrong to lie, including "keeping the whole truth to yourself." If a image is altured then that's just the same. If news papers intend to let people "know the true" they better speak the truth.

-Jasmine E. Oliveira

Funny captions

Local male dog, Buddy-Ray, meraculously gave birth to 15 yellow ducklings. The baby ducks and Buddy-Ray now live together in a 16 roomed dog house complete with 3 kitchens and 9 bathrooms. No news yet on how snow white and the seven dawfs are taking being kick out of the dog house mansion.

Russian Olimpic swimmer, John Wayne Jr., trained for the Olimpics over the period of four years while his dog had to stay on shore or at home. Thanks to his new invention of the "Man's Best Sea-Friend", he and his feet sniffing friend can swim together in harmony.

28-year-old, Thomas Knights, went on an emotional rampage last Tuesday after realizing that both of his bike wheels were flat. Thomas was late to work because he got no where.

Repatition.

The blue squares are all lined up and in rows, therefore it has repitiion.

Online Photo

Action shot.

in this photo the depth of field is a about as far as the middle of the field. the peopleway in the back are blurry and the Basket ball players up front are in focus. the shutter speed looks like it's somewhere between 1/500 and 1/2000 because people can not really pose in mid air, therefore it must be fast.

(plus the line techneque is used at that adds to the depth.)

Merge

i chose this picture for murging because there's nothing in this photo that blends in, no one's "head" is cut off. so i think it;s a good example.