Photography Case Studies Samples For Students

Ahmed Qassim is a Saudi Arabian citizen who is nearing completion of his four-year engineering course at one of the major universities in the United States of America. Since he is on the verge of completing his course, Ahmed has begun to think about his future after university. He is considering going back to his home country to pursue a career in engineering. However, he is also considering a career in photography. He has a real interest and talent for photography. Ahmed has issues in choosing between a career in photography and, a career in traditional engineering.

Analysis and Evaluation

Ahmed currently resides in the United States. He ...

Immediately after the September 11th attacks on the United States Soil, the U. S government responded by going to Iraq and taking the war to the terrorists. The U. S troops set foot in Iraq in the year 2012. The Abu Ghraib prison camp was established in the year 2003 in the province of Abu Ghraib. This detention camp was used to hold Iraqi civilians who were captured during the war hence, sort of a prison. The detention camp was situated 28miles west of Baghdad which was the capital city of Iraq. It was located on a 280 acres piece of ...

Introduction

- This presentation will outline the brief aspects of photography and painting.
- It will talk about how the histories of photography and painting are intertwined since centuries.
- It will also provide a broader perspective on the modern methodologies of both arts – the way painting influences art and vice versa.
- According to Bazin (Bazin & Gray, 1960), the modern painter is freed from the resemblance complex.
- It is up to the viewers and the public who will decide the resemblance between photography and a painting that is related to photography.
- In his writings ( ...

This chapter explores various techniques to approximate ``Yosemite moonrises “photograph dates as drawn by Anselm.Yosemite national park forms a background for the formation of moonbows and moonrises. A moonbow is formed as a result of absence of a clear sensitivity at night by the eyes (Olson, 114, 2013).
Moon and half dome are some of the most important photography of Anselm. However, the photograph ``moon and half dome, Yosemite national park” is dated 1960.Howevere, 1960 could not be the precise date an aspect that is linked to Anselm’s claim that his dates are guesses. The “Half dome refers to when ...

Compare and Contrast the Wartime Experiences of Three of the Eight Women “Who Came To the Front” In This Library of Congress Exhibition on Women in World War II.
Out of these eight women, the three women that have been selected to compare and contrast have all used the medium of photographs for telling their stories in order to make others aware of what was going on during the War. In this way, Toni Frissell, Therese Bonney and Esther Bubbley succeeded in touching the lives of millions of viewers with the images that were taken by them during ...

PART 1

Summary
The copyright laws and right of ownership are controversial as different players or parties debate on the issue. One of the widely and globally controversial is a wildlife photographer whose camera was snatched by the monkey taking form of self portrait ‘selfie’ photographs. The photographer decision to sell the images to some of the leading search engines companies went viral with Wikipedia being the last resort. The implications on the Australian laws as the wrangles between the photographer request for the removal of the photos from Wikipedia unfolded. The respective entities entailed refusal of Wikipedia to remove the ...

The Cameron Balloons' business process is accessible from the biz/ed website which takes you through all the procedures in the factory. The processes entail workflows which offer interactive resources at each stage of the production course. The site map on the website gives one the ultimate experience involved in the virtual factory giving an overview of the reception, the production, design, the marketing, accounting and purchasing departments. The photographic tour of the virtual factory gives a general idea of the production and customized engineering in the factory.
All the functional areas of the company processes that are involved in ...

Cultural imperialism comes about when superior nations and in this case the western nations promoting their more superior cultures over other cultures which are least known. For very many years now there are nations of the world that have imposed their practices on other nations and the result has been that these inferior cultures are almost disappearing in favor of the superior cultures. In as much as this is the case, there have been efforts to challenge this phenomenon. There are various people and groups of persons who have stood firm to challenge this trend lest people from other ...

Business Model of Instagram

Introduction
In the modern business world, the success of a business is greatly influenced by the Business Model adopted. A business model can be simply described as a program that details on the ways and means through which a business intends to generate profits from innovations (Slideshare 1). Instagram is an example of a business which has a well defined program through which it is supposed to make business gain (Griffin and Media para 2). Instagram as a brand is a universal online website and mobile application which allows users to communicate and store information by uploading and sharing photos and videos. The application also ...

Human Communication and the Internet

This case study addresses popular way of finding soul mates with the help of Internet.
Margaret and Antonio have been corresponding for more than one year and finally decided to get married. They did not see each other in real life. They only exchanged a couple of photos via Internet since they lived in different countries. Once they have met they felt disappointment because the photos they exchanged were of ten-year remoteness. In the meantime he managed to grow bold and she grew plump. After their actual meeting was over they stopped corresponding. Thus, they planned their joint vacation ...

World War II altered the face of American society with the men off to war, women assumed the role of bread-earners for the family. Due to war, the role of women got extended with them playing the role of men also in society set-up with women started to earn and work in offices and factories. The extended role of women also touched lives of female photographers, journalists and broadcasters. These women willing to widen their horizons started covering the happenings around them through their lens and pens. Out of hundreds of such women, few women really marked their work ...

Esther Bubley, Therese Bonney and Toni Frissel are three incredible women who worked as photojournalists during World War II. When so many men became soldiers, women stepped into their jobs including photojournalism work. These three women were all motivated to demonstrate their ability to cover “hard news” as well as or even better than men.

Bubley was not put on overseas assignment as were both Bonney and Frissel. Instead her subjects were in D.C. and throughout the country. She photographed the country during the transition from the Great Depression’s difficult years into the good economy when the US ...

Introduction:

Anne Collier puts across still photography with such precision and thought that it makes viewers interpret the intention in several layers. Her techniques are not just unique but also employ such intelligence that it can connect with every observer at a different level. Her black and white photography creatively portray her strong sense of feminism and her keen interest in the mass media. She has photographed everyday objects, nude women against a white or black backdrop or arranged on a black floor with a white wall making every shot arise curiosity in the viewer.
Born in Los Angeles in ...

Based on the three customer personas, which customer segment should Ontela target?

The company should concentrate its energy on the promotion of application to persona 1 (Sarah, the Parent). First of all, the segment of parents after 40 years is quite wide. Also, due to constant workload with home staff, this category of customers doesn’t have time for understanding every know-how. However, parents always want to see children’s development, and memories are very important for them. Unfortunately, there is no never-ending memory on devices, so to store photos, which size is quite volume, makes it problematic to take new ones before transfer them to bigger space. The category of ...

Introduction:

Michael Kenna is a renowned photographer who captures the delicate and fine features of the light, nature in black and white shots. Born in 1953 in England, he attended London College of Printing in 1976 and St Joseph's College (Lancashire) in 1972. He currently lives in Seattle and travels around in pursuit of photography perfection.
The photographs depict his strong association with nature and light generally shot at dawns or nights and the films exposed to a good 10 hours. The interesting fact that distinguishes Kenna’s work is how he captures the landscapes with such a unique approach ...

Abstract

The case study adopted in this paper relates to Apple’s iPhone series concentrating more on the latest Apple’s product the iPhone 5. The advertising campaign for the iPhone 5 operates under different banners and slogans taking different advertising forms and media channels. Each of the campaign section gets evaluated with regard to its content in terms of persuasiveness of advertising messages. (Allsopp 2013) A critique is done on several persuasive methods employed by apple in its advertising campaign. Some of the examined methods include a comparison of the iPhone with other competing rival products in the market, bringing ...

Introduction

The traditional system of the United States federal government consists of the Congress, the Executive, and the Courts. Congress passes the laws, the Executive enforces the laws, and the Courts interpret the laws. But this is a dramatic over-simplication of the way in which the government carries out its functions and duties. Congress and the President will often delegate their authority to agencies that are tasked with performing specific government functions and objectives. Because the number of government agencies is so voluminous and vast, a large body of agency law has emerged.
Agencies have authority to act pursuant to ...

Biography:

Creating a visual language with simple yet stunning white and black pictures seems to flow easy in the works of Hiroshi Sugimoto. Born in 1948 (Tokyo, Japan) he has proved to be a multi-faceted artist who is equally good in painting, installation and architecture apart from photography. His photography tries to capture the time and preserve it for the viewer. He has also explored several other themes such as empiricism, and metaphysics. In his works he tries to bridge the gap between what exists to a layman and how it can be transformed with a picture when laid in ...

Abstract

The case study adopted in this paper relates to Apple’s iPhone series concentrating more on the latest Apple’s product the I phone 5. The advertising campaign on the I phone 5 operates under different banners and slogans taking different advertising forms and media channels. Each of the campaign section gets evaluated with regard to its content in terms of persuasiveness of advertising messages. (Allsopp 2013) A critique is done on several persuasive methods employed by apple in its advertising campaign. Some of the examined methods include comparison on the I phone with other competing rival products in ...

Question 1

Sale of Woolen Wall Rug
Sale by Sample
Step 1
The first implied term that emerges from these set of facts regards sale by sample.
Step 2
The premise of this transaction is a clear manifestation of sale by sample as well as description. Section 15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1895 (WA) stipulates that if a contract is entered into on the basis of the sample, first, the bulk or a great number of the goods must correspond with the features of the original sample. Secondly, the buyer must be given an ample opportunity to carry out ...

Introduction

One of the outstanding collections of contemporary art is the Rubell Family Collection (RFC) which was founded in 1964 in New York City immediately after its founders Donald and Mera Rubell tied knot. Being one of the largest privately owned contemporary art collections, the RFC showcases its collections in a 45,000 square foot warehouse owned by former Drug Enforcement Agency. The museum of RFC comprises 27 galleries, a film and lecture theatre, a research library with more than 40,000 volumes, a media room, a gift shop, a book store and a sculpture garden. The collection which is open for public view since 1996 features ...

During the Second World War, women played very important roles in their capacity in different spheres of life. Their role was important on account of writing the history of the war as their work helped educating the audience about the horrors of war and war related menaces. This case study will compare and contrast the work of three women who performed gallantly during the Second World War and had their share of writing the transparent history of the biggest war in the history of mankind. The three women are from different fields of journalism and performed bravely during the ...

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Introduction

A seldom noted observation device geared to monitor the movements of every passing motorist is rapidly spreading on America’s thoroughfares. “Automatic license plate readers” that are placed on police cruisers or on stationary locations such as bridges-utilize small high speed cameras to take pictures of thousands of license plates every minute. The data taken by the readers-inclusive of the plate of the vehicle, the date, time and area of the scanning-is then gathered and at times lumped together into regional data pools. As a result of these activities, innocent motorists have their private information taken and pooled into ...

Marketing for Kids: A New Perspective

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With the help of new, kid- friendly technologies, are savvy marketers gaining a sort of advantage over parents? Are toy marketers like Ganz , food marketers like McDonald’s and kid-apparel retailers such as 77kids by American Eagle too desperate to target kids? Some of the kids like Isabella Sweet spend almost an hour a day on Webkinz website. The site posts ads that reward kids with virtual currency that they can use to create sophisticated rooms for digital version of their Webkinz pets.
The world of kids-marketing has become extremely complex and tech-friendly. Marketers have become innovative ...

Web 2.0 dropbox describes websites that uses technology beyond the original pages of the earlier websites. In fact web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web and never refers to an update of any technical specification, but often cumulate changes in ways the web is used by the software developers and end users. It therefore allow users to interact and work together in one another in other social media dialogues to create content that are user friendly different from other sites where people are limited to the content viewing. This paper with therefore focus on how to ...

Media Advocacy Presentation – The 7 A’s

The goal of my media advocacy presentation is to inform audience of the costs to society that is caused by violence against women. It is meant to raise awareness and provide a call to action and facilitate real change. The photo essay is meant to create a visceral impact on the viewer and shock them into knowing just how much domestic violence can cost to both the individual and to society as a whole.

There are many different audiences for this project: policymakers are able to have incredible influence over the creation of initiatives and programs meant to help those who are ...

Introduction

Nairobi City during the colonial error.
Retrieved from http://www.theeagora.com/birth-city-photo-essay-history-nairobi/
The government has been instrumental in seeing the economic development in many ways. To begin with, the government has ensured equal distribution of resources in almost all parts of the regions boosting both industrial works as well as business production. This has seen the labor force increase in the region increasing the rate of employment to some sound levels appropriate for the welfare of the citizens. Proper and equal distribution of resources has seen the many infrastructural developments in the region that come with good roads, rails as well as ...

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Introduction

No one could have anticipated the scope of integration and pervasiveness of the internet in contemporary societies. Since its inception, the internet has undergone unprecedented growth in its reach and applications to become a staple in various sectors of the economy. A key technological revolution that accompanied its development was the emergence of social media as a primary platform for communication. Social media refers to web-based tools and services aimed at fostering community development through information sharing (Tarantino, McDonough, & Hua, 2013). They include blogs, wikis, sharing tools, networking platforms, media (e.g. video, audio, photo, and text), ...

Investigating A Crime Scene

As the lead investigator, I will enter the crime scene with my unit and evaluate the scene from an objective standpoint. If I am the first responding investigator on the scene, I would take careful note of the date and time and I would pay close attention to my surroundings, particularly whether there are any persons or vehicles nearby (U.S. Department of Justice, 2000, p. 11). I would also be on the lookout for potential safety hazards that may be present at the scene and advise others at the scene to proceed with caution (U.S. Department of Justice, 2000, ...

Amy Winehouse and the Media

Amy Winehouse, a tiny jewish woman, undoubtedly, was a great talent, her music was terrific, and her voice – exceptional. She was one of those out of the ordinary popular western performers, who write their own lyrics and music. Since the majority of women “of pop” serve as middling executors of what sound producers cultivate and consider profitable.
Amy Winehouse was a difficult child. Is it excluded from normal, and from drama school. The reason for that was inappropriate behavior, striking appearance, singing in class, academic failure, and drugs. Amy wasn’t worried. She planned to be a singer, but ...

Women in the Second World War

The World War II changed the lives of millions of people. Thousands of men were enlisted to the armies of their countries. They changed their cozy hometowns to the battlefields. However, the women’s life had been changed as well. The Library of Congress reveals the stories of life of American females in the exhibition “Women Come to the Front”. These individuals have followed their own ways during the wartime (“Women Come to the Front”, n.d).
Toni Frissell was famous photographer for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar before the World War II. But she switched to the war ...

The changes in the global economy, the progressing state of the emerging countries that resulted to the increasing middle income consumers, and the development and spread of the internet technology impacted the ticket distribution system of the airline industry. The airline companies developed new and more cost-efficient ways of selling and distributing air tickets to be price competitive and at the same time to survive the intense competition in the industry and the economic struggles especially in North America and Europe.
The global distribution systems (GDS), was the most common and prevalent system of airline ticket distribution in ...

Lady Gaga, a famous American singer and songwriter, was born Stefani Germonatta on March 28, 1986 in New York. Her strong musical inclination was observed even when she was very young. She started playing the piano at the age of four, and has strong fascination over the hits by Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper. She started out her career in music as a songwriter for other artists, while performing for rock and roll bands. It was when she was eighteen that she decided to quit school and pursue a fulltime career in music. With the stiff competition in the music industry, the young Stefani ...

Introduction

The Eastman Kodak Company was founded by George Eastman in 1880, after he invented the formula of dry-plate along with a machine that prepared these plates. In merely four years’ time, Kodak became a household name as the photographic plates were replaced with a film roll that were more user-friendly. Eastman emphasized that this film rolls made the product “as convenient as the pencil”, and the first ever marketing campaign for the company was launched with the slogan, “You press the button, and we do the rest.” The guiding principles for Kodak were identified as: mass production at a low cost, extensive advertising, ...

Introduction

Toms Shoes Inc is a company that was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie. It is based in Santa Monica, California and has a profit making subsidiary and another non-profit one called Friends of Tom (Binkley, 2010). The company majors in designing shoes and eyewear. The non-profit subsidiary is operated on the basis that for every shoe that the company sells another shoe is given to an impoverished child while a part of the proceeds from the sale of eyewear goes to eyesight treatments for people in third world countries (Lerman, 2011). This paper examines the presence of Toms on social media, ...

Consulting For Entertainment Weekly

According to the contract that was singed by Disney´s agent and by Ms. Peggy as the singer of the film the Lady and the tramp; Ms. Peggy was going to be paid for her work with $3.500 besides residual payments at 12.5% of the sales of the movies; meaning this, that Ms. Peggy was giving her permission to use her voice as a commercial issue of that movie to Disney, giving them also the rights to distribute the film to any other technology yet to be invented (just like we can see now DVD, Blue Ray, and even VCR ...

Operational strategy of Google with Google Glass is exceptionally brilliant as well as unique. As estimated by experts, although Glass will take a while to shape up to emerge as the next generation ‘iPad’, the company is aware that connected eye gear and eye wear hold tremendous potential for ushering in a new age of wearable computing to be able to control household devices. In other words, Google Glass takes home automation to the next level. Google Glass was being chiefly employed for outdoor applications. But now with intelligent integration, many devices in a home can be automated and used on voice ...

What is the Study About?

Most people view police patrol as a main backbone of police work. The study sought to investigate several hypotheses. This included crime being not affected by the type of patrol. Additionally, it sought to find out that citizen perception would not vary based on the type of patrol. Further, it would test the hypothesis that citizen fear and behavior would not vary based on the type of patrol and traffic accidents would increase. This experiment was no surprise as the Kansas police department had become a leader in experimenting new and sophisticated technologies (Kelling, 1974).
In an attempt to propose ...

Summary

Facebook is an internet based social-networking created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg as a sophomore at Harvard. From its humble beginnings, the company has recorded such phenomenal growth to become the second most visited website after Google. Facebook is visited by about 600billion users who spend 700billion minutes a month uploading 3 billion photos, 2 billion videos and 30billion new stories, posts and albums every month (Griffin 289).
The valuation of Facebook has been equally spectacular. The company was valued at 100million in 2005, this valuation increased exponentially to 15billion two years later. By mid 2010, the company was quoted ...

According to Scully (2012), the oral cavity (which includes the lips and the mouth) is one of the most common forms of cancer around the world, with three quarters of diagnosed cases affecting people in developing countries. In those areas, oral cancer ranks as the third most prevalent of all cancers, just after stomach and cervical cancer, and about 378,500 new cases are diagnosed every year. In developed countries, oral cancer is less common, but it still ranks as the eighth most common cancer type, although the frequency varies quite a bit by country.
Most oral cancers start ...

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and is arguably one of the largest social networking sites, beaten only by MySpace in the United States (Laudon and Laudon, 2003). According to (Laudon and Laudon, 2003), the site boasted of 118 million followers in 2008; recent statistics by (Infographic, 2012), estimate that Facebook has 845 million users in the beginning of 2012. Facebook typically allows its users to create a profile, and members can interact with other members (friends) through messaging, sharing videos, photos, and various applications created by users.
Facebook is very popular with advertisers because they can ...

Software support

For effective provision of support, whether off-site or on-site, good software is needed for solving the specific problem. According to scenario one, it is clear that the most likely cause of the problem is a virus. The fact that Steve did not use an antivirus in his system means that the system was left prone to viruses attack. As an off-site means of solving the problem, Steve should be advised to purchase an antivirus and install in the system after which the system can be scanned and the photos retrieved. On-site approach would be practically the same with off-site service ...