Blog Entry 2

“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.”~Duane Michals. Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Why?

I agree with this because using a camera you are able to change effects like make it lighter or darker in order to change what the scene really looks like.  You can change the amount of exposure, the shutter speed, and the aperture, just to name a few.  Changing these settings changes what the photograph looks like.  One is able to change the mood of a photograph, for example by setting less exposure, the photograph will look darker and possibly more mysterious than what it looked like to the naked eye.  It is also a photographer's choice as to what they want to leave in or out of a picture which can entirely change the story behind the picture.  Blurring the background makes the foreground look more detailed, but the naked eye could probably see everything.  

“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.” ~Lewis Hine

Do you agree or disagree with this quote? Why? Describe situations when photographic images reveal “the story” (as compared to words). Describe situations when words reveal “the story” (as compared to images).

I agree and disagree with this quote.  At times it is difficult to express in words what you saw, and a photograph is able to set the mood of a story.  Yet, the right words can make a person feel the same as if they were to see a photograph.  It would be too difficult to tell a book in photographs because you can't fit all of the information of an entire story into one photograph.  Photos are good at bring out moods of a certain situation though, and each person feels something different when looking at the same picture, and something similar can be said when people read stories.  Really it just depends on the situation in knowing whether words or a picture would be more useful to tell the story better.  News reports than contain just pictures sometimes need more to place background of what is happening in order to get a good feel for the situation, whereas news reports where there are just words may be tough to visualize.