Photo Journalism

My Photo Journalism photo was one of the pictures that made me feel as if I where a reporter caught up in the heat of the moment. It was a Saturday afternoon and my sister and me were at a Starbucks. Fortunately my sister had her Canon Rebel on her because she had just come back from a photo shoot and we had decided to stop for some coffee. All of a sudden we see tons of people outside marching down the street. We realized it’s a no on prop 8 peaceful protests. I knew that this would be the perfect opportunity for my Photo Journalism picture. My sister gave me a camera and we both started running fro the crowd, we began shooting as many pictures as we could.  When we got back home we realized we took over a hundred pictures, all where very powerful images. I decided to use the one I chose because it shows how today’s youth stands up for what they believe in. This picture I believe shows how much we have changed as a society. 

Obama Photoshop Project

I wanted to do something different with my Obama Photoshop Project. I knew that everyone would be making him look like a hero and glorify him through there Photoshop projects. I personally have nothing against our soon to be new president, I actually preferred him over John McCain. I had overheard people talking on how they where going to make Obama look “awesome” and do him a justice on there Photoshop projects. I didn’t want to do what everyone else was doing so I decided to take my project in a whole different direction. In my project I made him into an outlaw as if he were in the old west. I decided to make him an outlaw because outlaws are looked down upon in a society and are anything but praised. This is made my project go off into a whole other direction because it gives it a new perspective, which was what I was trying to accomplish through out my project.