Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3


Content:

1.  What is your essential question?

Currently, what are some advancements in photography?

2.  What is your third answer to your essential question (write your third answer in a complete sentence)?

Some advancements in photography include medical photography.

3.  What are three details to support or justify your third answer (details are examples or facts)?

This includes:
-Bacteria and viruses
-Before and after photos of surgery procedures
-Pre-surgery photoshop outcomes
-Surgery photos to document procedure

4.  What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/18/zachary-copfer-blends-bac_n_1889677.html
There are a couple of different sites where I found actual jobs where people photograph before, during, and after photos of surgery.

5.  What do you plan to study next and why? 

I hope to find more research of actual photographers who take pictures of bacteria and viruses for documenting purposes. I hope to find anything along those lines because you see pictures in books and they have to get there somehow.

  • Introduction:  Hello, my name is....Austin
  • my senior project topic is.. Photography
    and my essential question is..Currently, what are some advancements in photography?
  • Say what your first (Underwater photography) and second answer (Scientific photography) (don't explain them) and then say your third(Medical photography)
  • Provide details to support or justify your third answer
  • -Bacteria and viruses
  • -Before and after photos of surgery procedures
  • -Pre-surgery photoshop outcomes
    -Surgery photos to document procedure
  • Conclude by explaining what you plan to study next (go deeper into my topic by relating it to current technology and possible jobs that come from it.)

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Blog 17: Fourth Interview Questions

1. Currently, what are some advancements in photography?
2. How has photography advanced the world of science exploration?
3. How has photography advanced the world of medical exploration?
4. How has photography advanced the world of underwater exploration?
5. What other areas has photography allowed for advancements?
6. How has photography allowed us to see more?
7. What is signifigant in the advancement of photography?
8. How has photography advanced the average cell phone carrier? (camera phone technology)
9. How have photo sharing sites (Flickr, Instagram) changed the picture norm?
10. Is having picture documentation important? Why or why not?
11. How has photo editng sofware changed the way pictures are seen?
12. Can all photographs be trusted visually? Why or why not?
13. How has photography affected history?
14. Explain and give examples on how photography has affected other occupations.
15. What would be near impossible without photography?
16. Do you know of any other interesting occupations involving photography? Care to share?
17. What do you know about space photography?
18. What do you know about medical photography?
19. What do you know about underwater photography?
20. What do you consider to be an advancement in photography?

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is your essential question?
Currently, what is the most important development in photography?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question?
Space photography is a current development in photography.

3. Satlites have taken amazing photos to further advance our knowledge of space as well as telescopes. Parts of the satalites are even specialized to take 3D images of space and can be used to determine distances of stars in the galaxy like a video that we watched in Pittman's showed.

4. What source helped you prove this answer and why?
An article by NASA helped with my answer. It went into detail about the different attatchments on the Hubble Satalite and how each is used to photograph specifics.

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?
I plan to continue my study of my answer 2 by doing more research of different technology that has helped us advance space photography.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my second independent component, I plan on displaying my photographs at iFest. This is my last year here at ipoly and I want to remember the people I went to school with, so I would like to take alot of pictures of my class mates. At least, that's the idea I have now.

2. I plan on meeting the requirement of 30 hours of work by going to my mentorship. I will also be spending time taking my own pictures and editing. I would like to make prints but I will see once I get there if I'll have the money to do so.

3. Well my EQ is " Currently, what is the most important development in photography?". My second independent component would meet my requirement of displaying my work at ifest.