Photoshop Practice

Trial #1

Trial #2

 

Trial #3

Trial #4

Trial #5

Trial #6

Composition Rules pt. 2

Rule of Thirds

Balancing Elements

Leading Lines

Symmetry and Patterns

Viewpoint

Background

Create Depth

Framing

Cropping

Mergers

Prompt Shoot #2

Purple

Electric

Cold

Warm-Up

1. What emotions did you feel as you worked your way through these images?

I felt extremely sad, because one of my close friends was diagnosed with cancer a year ago so it brought those feelings bubbling up. These pictures also showed how much she was loved, not just by him, but every one she had encountered.

2. The photographer said this: "These photographs do not define us, but they are us." What do you think about this comment now that you have looked at the photos?
In the beginning of this I believed that he meant that the pictures taken don't say what/who they are, but show how they were/are feeling and what they went through.

3. Do you think you could shoot photos like this if you were in this situation?
I want to say yes, but honestly I have no idea because you want to remember a person the way they were, happy and enjoying life. Not sad and sick, so it shows how much he loves her, and how he just wants to be with her.


4. If you could write Angelo a letter, what would you say to him?
I would tell him I sort of understand what he went through because I'm going through it right now, and how he should enjoy his life and remember his wife and never for get her, and she is watching over him now and forever.

Abandoned Theme parks

Step 1: 

On the first website I would want to go to Takakanonuma Greenland, Hobara, Japan. I'd like to go there with my camera because it's very old which makes it so much cooler, the rides are all rusted and broken down and the paint is all chipped which makes it look creepy, and if you can't go either at sunset or later in the day the way there will be some light in some spots and some darkness in others would make the pictures look very creepy. I like old abandoned buildings so an abandoned amusement park where there are creepy face and rollercoasters that are falling would be so fun. There would be so much I could do to show it back then and now.

On the second website I would want to go to Six Flags, New Orleans. I'd like to go with my camera because there would be so much to take pictures go, because Six Flags is a more or less recent establishment, so seeing it all broken down and abandoned would be so cool especially with the New Orleans sky and how they incorporated the New Orleans theme into it and how its all fallen and how things that were once fun and playful are now scary and now look evil.

Step 2: 

1. The first place that would be an interesting place to take photos would be Jerome Grand Hotel, in Arizona.

2. The Connor Hotel, in Arizona.

3. Belle Island Zoo, in Michigan.

4. Michigan Central Station.

5. Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital.

It doesn't seem like anyone has done "research" on the Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital, also known as Michigan State Asylum, but there are a bunch of pictures of it.

6. It would be so cool to shoot here because of the interesting history behind the building, and how it's old and how it's changed. The way it's changed and what happened here in there past would give a new life to the building and how it possibly could be haunted, and how I could get pictures of patients old rooms and then I could write about what happened here and why certain people were put in this facility.
7. I believe I could use a tripod, to old the camera steady. It would be more or less easy to get there all I need to do is get a plane ticket and fly over to Michigan and get a hotel rom and a rental car. I believe I would have to talk to the police and get permission to go here to take pictures, I would have to money fir food, hotel, and any other expenses I may encounter.

Africa

Step 1:

I think that it is very interesting that Nick Brandt captures animals in their "state of being" I would watch documentaries about African wildlife. The documentaries never just showed the animals being themselves so to speak, they always showed action and drama in the animal kingdom. Nick Brandt wanted to show us what the animals were like just walking or laying around. His pictures are meant to show us the peace in the animals.

Step 2:

This is my favorite image because the lioness herself is beautiful, and the lion cub is also so cute, but the lioness holding her cub in her mouth shows how lions protect their cubs and shows motherly love and instinct. The lioness has her ears pushed slightly back as though she is listening to the space around her, listening so she can protect her cub and herself.

Step 3: 

The rules of photography that are in this picture are simplicity, rule of thirds, and framing. The background is very simple, there's nothing really in the background except for some hills and mountains but it's very clear that the subject is the lioness and her cub. The lioness' face and her cub are in the upper right hand corner, drawing your attention to her face and the cub in her mouth which is rule of thirds. Finally, the darkness in the sky may be a storm or just clouds in the sky but how the darkness in the sky frames the lioness and her cub from above and then how the rocks and the dirt frame the from below, shows framing.

Step 4: 

1. Instead of using lenses that can get a closer picture Nick Brandt uses lenses that can't go in so close so that you can get a feel for that area around the animal.

2. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show us the animals in their state of being before they go extinct, and he's trying to show us what we are destroying so we can stop.

3. Nick Brandt takes these photos to show animals in their natural "state of being" meaning not hunting and not all the drama we see in documentaries but to show us what they are like just being.

4. "the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa." -Nick Brandt

Black and White Photographers pt. 3

My photographer is Lothar Wolleh

What caught my eye for this picture is the way the man is dressed ands the way he is looking at the camera, and it kind of looks like he's in a padded room,  the reason I like this picture is the room the man is standing in. cool air.

I see a weird looking man in a very interesting room. A man that believes that he doesn't belong here.

I smell mold and an old musty scent. A smell that you don't want to smell but you have no choice. The smell of cleaning supplies, and rubber gloves.

I hear guards shouting. The other patients shouting back.The sound of an old insane asylum.

I taste moldy air. The taste of hospital food.

I feel cool air. Fear of what might happen.

What caught my eye was how the man is standing and the angle the picture is taken, and how the rocks close to the front of the picture or blurry but the rocks closer to the man are clear.
I see a desert like area not a lot of civilization. No life for miles, possible city lights flickering in the distance.
I smell a dusty and earthy scent. The smell of dirt from the solid dry ground.
I hear the crutch of rocks under feet. No animals, no birds, the sound of faint crickets and bugs. 
I taste a dry, bitter flavor. Dry air, drying your mouth and throat with very breath you take.
I feel  dry, thick, hot air. A heavy weight of the air pushing down on me.


I think making a powerpoint or a poster would be the best way to capture my photographer because we could show his work and explain what's so interesting about it and why he took that photo the way he did.

Mural Project Q&A

1. What theme, that we could take here at school and think of one for OFF campus too, could we do a series of these panels to place around the school?I think that a good theme ON campus would probably be the students, we could get pictures of them eating lunch with friends walking to their next class, or working on homework. A good theme for OFF campus could be hang outs that Bowie students like to go.

2. Should we use phones only, or should we open it up to our regular cameras for those people that don't have camera phones?I personally believe that we should choose one or the other because if we do use both the quality not them will be very different, and then when they are right next to each other the quality will be very different.

3. Where would you want to put the mural on campus?
A nice place to put the mural would either be right by the front doors of the school or by the library because almost very student has to pass the library so it'll be seen more.