MTV Generation

1. Your age group has been referred to as the "MTV Generation," which carries a negative connotation of teen-agers that have little to no interest in anything, and even if you did, your attention span is grossly limited. Is this true? Yes, I believe every individual in our generation has no particular interest in anything, having such a great gap in the voting trend and other situations we are in comes to realization of the selfness we are in. The real problem of our generation is that we have no devotion.
2. Where do you get your news? I get my news from my phone or any other source; however, as well as the other teenagers I have no particular interest in anything I do. I at times see the television.
3. If a news article is accompanied by a photograph, do you read the article or rely totally on the visual?I feel that I rely on news articles and do not feel I need to see a visual in order to believe although it would make it better to add the news in the room.
4. Is it impossible for a "complicated message to be relayed in a 10-second sound bite" that the news media uses to get the message across? Is this possible? What are the advantages of using photographs? What are the disadvantages? No. Yes, I think it is possible because it only takes a second to realize a whole perception; however, the advantages of the photographs can give true connotations and at times false with the different photo altering tools.

When is it Photojournalism art?

1. Would you use the Hipstamatic app on your photos for fun?
Yes, I would love using the app to make the pictures more appealing and fun for individuals.

2. What is your feeling on using software to depict the feeling of a photo? When is it okay to do so, and when is it not okay?
I think its a great way of expressing a picture and making it stand out for the situation; however, there are times in which the picture is better without the app and can make the manner in a different.

3. How do you know when a photo is journalism or art?
It is journalism when there are certain factors of a situation that depict a tragic moment, and art to conduct a mood certainty to the individuals' section.

4. What if you are using an old Polaroid camera that produces photos that look like this naturally?
Well it would also be acceptable because both conduct similar feeling or mood to the photograph and other preferences.

Environmental Photo Essay

Selena Garcia riding in the spaceship in Mario Leal Park in Elsa, Texas

Mario Garcia (Father) staring at the camera.

January Current Events

Cairo, Egypt — Riot police face protesters on the Kasr Al Nile Bridge in downtown Cairo.

Peter Macdiarmid/ Getty Images

Top Powerful Images

Real or Hoax? Consequences.

Only in fixing a photo is in correct to alter the photo in a different manner; moreover, altering a particular image can create certain details that will make the photo incorrect and the consequences of this altering can perhaps cause several conflicts. For example, the photo with the helicopter and the shark, the photo can easily be misinterpreted and create much anger between the photographer and individual making the alternative photo. The main idea of photoshoping a photo is to ehance the photo not to make it a different photo.

Critical Lenses Photos

1. The feeling I get when viewing this picture is the dangers that present themselves in Middle East Asia and the life changing situations.
2. It tells the viewer the potential danger surronding in our world today and the extragavegent safety issues that arise. Yes.
3. The subject of this photo is the photojournalist that is escaping the shootout in gaza and the dangers.
4. The lighting of the photo is natural and should most probably be during noon.
5. The color is black that standout because of the day.
6. The focus is on the photojournalist because of the situation.
7. About 5 ft. away. Intensity of the situation.
8. The subject is centered and the picture composed.
9. It is impersonal and creates an element of salvation among a harsh situation.
10. The man running away from the insurgents of the Gaza territory.
11. The background again is mentioned with men manuerving along side.
12. To show the intensity of the situation and the establishment of fear.
13. Yes it qualifies as photojournalism because the man is holding a camera.
14. No because life is surrounded with situations that are undetermined in what will occur.
15. Many dangers in life.

1. It creates a feeling of understanding that the people have toward the particular country and environment.
2. The society in North Korea gives the apparent praise that you have toward authorities.
3. The subject of the photograph was the people surrounding the statue in a circle.
4. The lighting is natural and around the evening.
5. The color of bronze stands out during the photo, and gives the statue some meaning.
6. The back of the photo which is the building behind the people and environment.
7. The distance is about of 10 ft. aprox.
8. It is composed of many people and it is centered.
9. It is personal according to the situations that are in hand of the photojournalist.
10. The people surrounding the photo gives me an idea on what are the practices of the country and its characteristics.
11. The background would include the statue and government building.
12. To give an idea on how the North Korean life portrays itself.
13. Yes it qualifies as photojournalism because of the situation and tenseness in North Korea.
14. No it has a timeless quality. It is ironic because they are surrounding another human.
15. The people looking at the statue oddly.

1. It creates a sense of terrifying and among all the worst of all situations.
2. Its tells the viewer the danger that lurks in all the world in many places. Yes, the scarce unity that mankind does not have.
3. The anit-armory gun and bullets seem to be the fear in the picture.
4. It is natural. Around the day.
5. The effect is the kind of black and white fear that revolves the picture.
6. The man is in the center and and the gun out of focus, and it gives the effect of death and other intensities.
7. About 5 ft. and it creates the visual contacting effect of the photograph. 
8. The subject is not centered, the gun is the rule of thirds. It is composed of overlapping bullets.
9. It is personal because of the warfare going in around the time.
10. The gun and the man lying down at the ground, and the situations humans get involved in war.
11. The background seems to be a mountain and the sun.
12. The show the dangers of war and probably the Middle East.
13. Yes, it qualifies as journalism because of the sequence of the picture.
14. Yes. No it is not ironic
15. The bullets stacked up.