Baffle

My word is baffled. The definition of this word means to to confuse, bewilder, or perplex. The original concept for my still image was the back of a confused person, overlooking a confusing scenario. The original scenario was supposed to be a labyrinth. The original concept for the video was to have a sequence of images, which resembled or showed events that puzzled the human brain, and ‘baffled’ you. I chose to put still images of pacman, flash mobs, and labyrinth. As time went on, I realized some of these clips became harder to find, so I decided on taking and shooting clips of people walking, mazes, and traffic jams, because those were much easier to find. The image I used for my still, is Alison, with her arms out in distraught, overlooking a sea of cars. This picture describes baffle because to me, a confusing scenario many people find themselves in, are traffic jams. With this, I took a picture of one of the busiest, most crowded highways in the world, and added the back of a confused looking Alison. My video consists of a sequence of clips. It starts off with people walking, and over the course of the video the people walking keep turning, as if they’re walking a labyrinth. The 30 second video also consists of traffic, a rush of people, more traffic, birds in flight, and other confusing events. The video ends with the people from the same people, walking, and stopping. I added a ‘heartbeat’ sound to the video which builds suspend and makes you wonder what’s going to happen, and when nothing happens, you end up confused. I think my video and still image relate, because throughout the video there are many many clips of traffic jams, and because the still image itself is a traffic jam, they tie together. The technical process for this project was a long and tiring one. But it did teach me a lot. It taught me how to properly use a D3100 and how to upload the pictures onto iPhoto. I’m very happy with the way my project turned out. I think my video and still image show the definition of my word properly. If I had more time, I would have maybe added a better soundtrack to my video, or gathered my clips, and spend a little more time on my still image, but I really am happy with the way my project turned out.

Enjoy J

Original

Photoshopped

If you take a look at the first image, it's relatively similar to the second image, except that the second image has a slightly visible rainbow. I made the rainbow with help from this site
It shows you a step by step procedure, with pictures, on how to add a rainbow to your image. It can also show you how to add a double rainbow, which is something I haven't yet done, but would love to learn, and this website will show me how!

Peep Egg Viewer

This is an optical toy called the Peep Eye Viewer. They are old souvenir-like toys. Basically you look through the hole at the top, and it magnifies whatever is on the opposite hand, to such a point, where if you put your hand on the hole, it would appear as pure darkness.

Playing with photoshop. :)

Chess Peice

 

This is the chess piece I drew. Our assignment was to make a chess piece which looks realistic, with a background which shows pattern, movement, and rhythm. I think my chess piece is realistic, because I shaded it exactly how I saw it in real life, and can be recognized as a chess piece.  The proportions are exact, as well, because though the chess piece looks bigger than the books in comparison, I don't think it's too hard to tell that the chess piece was drawn closer to the human eye, therfore making it seem bigger than it really is. 

I think my background shows pattern, in the books. The books show repetion but differ in size and thickness, which also cause rhythm. I think my background shows movement because your eye is drawn from one book on the page, to the others.

This chess piece was drawn from a eye level, and to do so, I had stacked many books atop each other creating a ledge/shelf that reached high enough for me to look straight ahead. I placed my chess piece right above that.

 As you can see from the shading on the chess piece and in the books on the background, it was darker on one side, and that was where the light from the lamp, wasn't hitting, and is mostly on the right side. On the left side, there's very little shading, and the parts that do have shading, are very light, and nearly impossible to see. They emphasize the other parts of the chess piece, and stand out against the white in the background, and the white in the chess piece. I made the dark shadows black, not only so they would stand out, but because it looks interesting compared with the light of the background, or so I thought.

In conclusion, I'm really happy with the outcome of my chess piece, but theres always room for improvement. I would love to do something like this again, now that I have some practice with it.

I hope you all enjoyed my art. :)

I think this photograph shows selective focus, because it focuses on the football players fighting on the ground and everything else is a little blurred out and out of focus. Your eye automatically goes to the fighting football players, making them the main point, or center attraction of this photograph. The rest of the background is blurred, slightly but noticeably creating an interesting and different feel and illusion displayed by this photograph.

I think this picture shows depth of field and linear perspective. It shows depth of field because there is a good amount of distance from the objects closest to you, and the object farthest away from you, It shows linear perspective because of the tile lines on the floor, and once again, the amount of distance in the picture. The lines and the objects converge in the distance, adding on to the effect of depth of field in this photograph.

I think this picture also shows depth of field and the diagonal line. Depth of field because of the space between the '#10' football player, and the cheering crowd at the other end of the field/picture. This shows the diagonal line, because if you follow the heads of the football players, you'll see that they move your eye in a diagonal line across the field. The white line drawn on the football field helps too, because it gives you the essence of an actual visible diagonal line.

Photo Composition

Rules of photo Composition are very important. :)))
This first website differentiates the different photo composition rules, and gives us individual pictures and media examples to help us better understand what makes a good photograph, and what to avoid when taking a picture.


This next website helps us understand Photo Composition by displaying grid lines and diagonal lines so we can enhance on our knowledge of rules such as The Rule Of Thirds and The Golden Section Rule, both really important rules to know and take note of.

Check out some of these sites!