The Camera

1. Camera obscura is when light focuses in a dark area. It happens when a tiny hole is created in a wall of a room and the light through the hole focuses on an object of a dark room.
2. In the 17th century, the modern camera became one step closer when Isaac Newton and Christina Huygens created high quality glass lenses.
3. The part of the first modern digital camera that Joseph Nicéphore Niépce invented was film.
4. Modern digital cameras and Niepce's camera both have in common is film.
5. Digital cameras use an electronic sensor called a CCD to capture images.

6. The differences between Auto Mode and Program Mode is auto mode uses flash, program mode is when you just point and shoot.
7. Portrait mode is used for blurring out the background in a photo. You use it to blur out the background.
8. The Sports mode is used for freeze motion. You would use it to freeze someone in a sport event.

9. You should use the half-press on the trigger button because it's easier to aim at the subject of the photo.

10. This picture means disabled flash, or no flash. You would use it when you want natural light.
11. This means auto flash, it happens when the camera thinks the photo needs more lightning.

12. When your photo has too much light, it will be washed out.
13. If your photo doesn't have enough light, the photo will be too dark.

14. A stop is a relative measure of light.
15. 1 stop is brighter if the planet if had two sons instead of one
16. 2 stops is brighter if the planet had four sons instead of two.
17. The affect of a long shutter speed  is more light .
18. The affect of a short shutter speed is less light.
19. The apeture controls the amount of light passing through.
20. When adjusting the apeture, you increase the amount of light by

Finding a Feature

Girl Scout USA to honor Austin girl for role in saving friend's life

Characters: Lilly, Chris, and Joe Valentino

"When the three came to a fork in the trail, Valentino and Lilly decided to explore one path down the mountain, while Chris tried out another route."  Why didn't they just test out the other paths together as a group, then none of them would have gotten hurt?

1. The focus of this story is on a seventh grade girl named Lilly.
2. This story is different than others beause it gives a perspective from each character and not just one person in the story.
3. I would need to interview the girl, the boy and the dad from the story to get a full feature story.
4. What made you so brave to help your friend?
    Were you scared to see what happened to your friend?
    Were you surprised by how well Lilly handled this?

Human interest value of the story: the good details of how everything happened

Three adjectives of the characters would be:
Brave
Secure
Caring

Feature Leads and Descriptive Writing

Fatal Distraction
Gene Weingarten

"The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn't want any sedation, that he didn't deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die." "The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July." A Wicked Wind Takes Aim Julia Keller "Ten seconds. Count it: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Ten seconds was roughly how long it lasted. Nobody had a stopwatch, nothing can be proven definitively, but that's the consensus. The tornado that swooped through Utica at 6:09 p.m. April 20 took some 10 seconds to do what it did. Ten seconds is barely a flicker. It's a long, deep breath. It's no time at all. It's an eternity." "If the sky could hold a grudge, it would look the way the sky looked over northern Illinois that day. Low, gray clouds stretched to the edges in a thin veneer of menace. Rain came and went, came and went, came and went." Pearls Before Breakfast Gene Weingarten "HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. " "It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job."

My 2011 Top 10 List

1. Went to my first concert where I was right at the stage-

2.Traveled out of the state-

3. Got my own debit card-

4. Graduated middle school-

5. Was on an Austin reality TV show-

6. Learned to cook-

7.Lettered in marching band- 

8. Learned how to knit-

9. Learned how to play the mellophone-

10. Tried spaghetti squash-

11. Got a facebook acount-

2011- Year in Review

World Events- Yahoo! 2011 Year in Review

• This list of events from 2011 gives you the top moments that mostly everyone will look at and say "oh ya I remember that!"
• The most enteresting item on the list to me is the Royal Wedding, because I remember being up at 4 in the morning watching it with my mom.

Celebrity News- The most talked about celebrity news of 2011

• This list shows news from the most popular celebrities in the media, and most people will read it and recongize alot of the people.
• The most interesting thing to me is the rumor that Justin Bieber got this crazy fan girl pregnant.

Famous Deaths- 2011 Notable Deaths

• This list shows every celebrity that died in 2011 even the ones not everyone may know.
• The most interesting thing to me is that 2 people from the movie "Grease" died.

Entertainment- 2011 Year in Review- Entertainment

• This list shows just about all the important magazine stories and puts it all together to show over the past year.
• The most interesting thing to me was that Lindsay Lohan was suppose to be in jail for a month but only stayed for a couple of hours because of overcrowding in the jail.

Extreme Weather- Extreme Weather of 2011

• This list shows all the weather incodents that happened all over the world in 2011.
• The most interesting thing to me was that to repair everything that happened it would take over a billion dollars to fix it all.

Photos- 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011

• This list shows images of people reacting to some events in 2011.
• The most interesting thing to me was all the pepper spraying with the protestors.

Music- The most memorable music moments of 2011

• This list remaneses some of the important music moments of 2011.
• The most interesting thing in this list to me was how alot of people who had no talent still made music  moments and became important to us even though no one liked their music.