HDR blog post
High Dynamic Range. 

• dynamic range is the difference between the lightest light and darkest dark you can capture in a photo. 
• Once your subject exceeds the camera’s dynamic range, the highlights tend to wash out to white, or the darks simply become big black blobs. 
• It’s notoriously difficult to snap a photo that captures both ends of this spectrum, but with modern shooting techniques and advanced post-processing software, photographers have devised ways to make it happen. 
• This is basically what HDR is: a specific style of photo with an unusually high dynamic range that couldn’t otherwise be achieved in a single photograph.
• http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/what-is-hdr-beginners-guide-to-high-dynamic-range-photography/
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NOT my image 

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• These images where taken with a canon rebel T1i
• I used photomatix to edit the images together, then used Photoshop for some simple touch ups.
• I manually focused the images and used the auto bracket tool to take images from a -2 exposure to a +2 exposure. 

Photo Essay 

 http://time.com/11254/afghanistan-msf-health-care/

          

          

          

          

Andrea Bruce and Mikhail Galustov

In this photo essay found online, from TIME magazine, is about the hard to reach healthcare in all parts of Afghanistan. This essay is from earlier in the year in the time that foreign troops were leaving Afghanistan, after being located there for over 10 years, and documents the quality of healthcare that Afghans are receiving and will receive once foreign aid is no longer available. "access to emergency or basic medical care remains hard to reach" quotes the author of the title. In this article i learned that even though billions of dollars have been spent in humanitarian work in Afghanistan, There is still work to be done. Many people the authors interviewed stated that they had family members and friends die from lack of proper care. Many hospitals don't have the right equipment, staff, or even electricity to run a health facility. The only good note about the article is that the number of healthcare facilities has considerably risen, with having a health facility at least an hour walking distance. 

1. A photo essay is a series of photographs, normally documentary, which is meant to impact people and tell a meaning or story of current events in the world.

2. This article and the photos relate because they are evidence of what the article is talking about. We see in the pictures poverty all over Afghanistan, People receiving poor healthcare, and no help being delivered. 

W.Eugene Smith

W.Eugene Smith uses over exposure in the first image to darken out the surrounding areas of the image and focuses on bringing light to the face of the boy in the tub of water. Using this form of exposure you can see very good detail in the boys face and his body. He uses this to show his viewers the pain that he and his mother are in but also the darkness shows that emptiness and the helplessness they feel. By brightening whites and darkening blacks, He not only tells a story, but creates awareness to his viewers as a cry of help. In the second image most of it is underexposed, to show detail in both the girls face and the doctors face. He was able to capture sorrow, pain, and peace all in one image. The exposure allows for the wrinkles in the man forehead to be brought out and it allows for a softness in the girls face, which shows pureness and helplessness.

Alpha threat quarantine area 177c

On Friday October 31st 2014, we visited a top quarantined area located in an old shack a couple yards from a local high school. What we found there is something never seen, or photographed before. Walking in through the doors, following a CDC official, we were automatically surrounded by panels of barbed wire 9 ft tall. At that point most our crew wanted to return, but the doors were soon to be closed. Once inside we made our way around what seemed to be an abounded area, locating unnatural items all around the contaminated floor. We walked through a door to the left side, passed the wire, and through a room with contaminating trash all around. We had to be careful. Once inside we were left by our CDC guide as he check the last room in the area. We were in the dark for approximately 300 seconds, when suddenly we heard a noise coming from one of the doors. Scared, we opened the door, looked trough the small opening, and saw nothing. Nothing was there, but we knew something once had been there and it was waiting to return. We found our guide and made our way back to the front doors. As we reached to close the doors once our crew had exited the building, we heard a loud scream coming closer and closer, our guide hurried to close and lock quarantine area 177c before anything that didn't come in with us, escape. One must see these pictures, to believe what had happened that day.