Week 14

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Week 11

Assignment: The assignment for this week was to choose 2 colors to use to help get our story across.

Craft: First me and my partner Oleksandr agreed on the colors red and purple. After choosing the colors we would desaturate our photo to make it black and white. If our photo was a mutli-layered picture then we was to flatten the picture to make it a complete one photo. After desaturating our picture, we could add a filter which I chose chalk and charcole. Next we added a blank layer and dumped a color, one out the two we chose, onto the black layer. We then ordered the layers so that the photo layer is on top and the colored layer is on the bottom. Next was the change the photo layer to multipy so that the background color can come through. Next was to add some more brighter colors. Before adding a different color to the picture we were to add a blank layer for each color or each section we colored differently. Our completed work would have a much more darker background and brighter accents.



Composition: After adding the color, we would end up with a darker background with brighter accents. The reason for the dark background was to distract the viewer's eye away from the background distractions and direct their attention to what was more important. The way we direct the viewer's eye was to color significant details with the brighter color.


Concept: It was definately hard for me to grab the concept on my first time around, but after working with my partner and my teacher I believe that I got the hang of it. These colors were to help our pictures tell the story, and we also chose colors that were totally opposite on the color wheel.

Week 8

Assignment: The assignment for this week was to bring in the photos that would fully enhance the critical points of our story. These photos were to come together, using Photoshop, to develop 9 to 12 slides of from our storyboard that we developed last week. Using Lighthouse we were expected to create a contact sheet with all of our photos titled in correspondence to their placement in the storyboard. In class we learned how to use different filters, preferably ones that gave our photo a black and white effect, and add color on top of that filter to give our photo a comic book look. We learned to place more darker color on the background and brighter colors to accent anything that needed to stand out.

Craft: Before shooting photos over the weekend my father, who was to be used as a character, left town on a business trip so I had to substitute my mom and dad for my sister and friends. After shooting over the weekend, me and my partner brought in our pictures into class and ordered and titled them so that they would be in order going by which slide that were to be used in. Using Lighthouse, we imported our photos and printed out our contact sheet. After turning in our contact sheet we then learned different effects to use on our photos. The one technique we learned was to give our photo a comic book look. To achieve this look we first added a filter, using Photoshop, that would automatically change our photo to black and white. For my photo I chose the chalk and charcoal effect. After doing this we had to unlock our background layer and title it "photo". Next we added a blank layer, and chose a dark color that we wanted to use and filled the new layer with that color, afterwards we titled that layer after that color. Next was to add another blank layer and choose a brighter color and color whatever it was that was to direct the viewer's attention. Afterwards we was to also title this layer with that specific color. To add more color we just followed the previous steps.

Composition: The picture that I like the most was the photo that I created on my own with the comic book look. I like this photo the best because I find the comic book look to be really cool, colorful and fun. I added four different colors to this picture to express what was most important in my picture. Two different colors were used on my character's skin to express and direct the attention of the viewer's to the importance of the conversation between the two. My background color was one color and I added another color to the wall to offset the color of my background and to give my picture more of a background look so that the walls can be seen more better.

Concept: The concept of this picture, as well as the rest of our pictures, is to show the viewer what is most important in each frame so that he or she can follow the story. The concept that we want others to follow is that a husband has left town for a few days and his wife is home alone waiting for him. Instead of coming home with a beautiful romantic gift, he instead comes home with another woman revealing that he no longer wants to be in the marriage any longer.

Week 7

Assignment: This week our assignment consisted of creating a story line that includes a person traveling, a person waiting, and a gift for the person waiting.

Craft: In class we chose our group member of which my group member was Oleksandr Grechko. Together we agreed upon a concept, developed and story line and continued to alter and change our story line. After creating the story line we developed a story board consisting of 12 slides of which we have to create through photography. These photographs are to portray our story to the best of it's ability. We also both took photos, one of our slides from the story board, to use in class to experiment with different filters that would help and enhance the delivery of our story.

Composition: The composition of our story consists of a husband who is traveling away on business and will be returning to his waiting wife with a romantic and loving gift in mind. Instead, the only gift he have for his wife is the surprise that he doesn't want to be with her anymore but instead a woman he met while away on business.

Concept: The concept of this story was to be different and to hopefully have a fall, being the breakup, to the raise, being the marriage and family life of one year. I wanted to incorporate an ending that hopefully no one would expect.

Week 4

Assignment: The assignment for this week was to take the criticism from our critique class and improve on our mash up projects. These improvements were to be the final touches on our projects.

Craft: To improve on my picture I simply made Lincoln more darker and tried to bring out the blacks in Lincoln's hair to match the color of my sisters hair. I also added a shadow to Lincoln to give it a more realistic look to the picture as a whole.

Composition: The main elements in my projects is the photo of Lincoln and the photo of my sister. I wanted to make sure both elements were of big size and placed in the middle of the page to direct the attention of the viewer to no other place on the page. By mashing these two pictures together it gave the impression that my sister and Lincoln were taking a picture together.

Concept: The message of my picture was that my sister met former President Abraham Lincoln and wanted to take a picture with him. My sister's expression showed that she was very excited to take the picture with Lincoln.

Week 2

Assignment: My assignment for week 2 was to collect 25 pictures from the Lincoln era and 25 pictures from my era.

Craft: To complete this assignment I first started to look for 25 pictures from the Lincoln era. I researched Lincoln's history to also find pictures of people connected to Lincoln. I then went to sites such as Google.com, Flickr.com and Ask.com and searched for Abraham Lincoln under the images tab. Once I got the results I narrowed my search to both large pictures and extra large pictures to ensure that my choices were high resolution. After finding pictures of Abraham Lincoln, I also did the same for his wife, kids and his cabinet members. For the second part of my assignment I collected 10 pictures from my era that I personally shot myself in the past and 15 pictures that I also personally shot myself in the past week. These pictures were to be clear and crisp in quality. I then saved all 50 pictures to my flash drive.

Composition: I chose the first picture as my favorite because of the clarity of the picture and the crispness that the picture has because of the natural light that it receives. I also chose this picture as my favorite because actress Lisa Raye McCoy is looking directly into my camers. I chose the second picture as my favorite because it is such a classy and beautiful picture of Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln.

Concept: I would mix these two pictures together because I would like to see Lincoln's face photoshopped into a funny background on a child's body. By doing this I would be trying to bring a sense of comedy to such a serious picture of Abraham Lincoln.

Week 1

Assignment: Create my blog by this Wednesday

Craft: To create my blog first I had to establish a Gmail account which would allow me to log in on Blogger. Secondly I created my Blogger account, and after that I started my blog. In my blog I listed all of the elements which are: 1. assignment, 2. craft, 3. composition, 4. concept and 5. insert a picture. I then elaborated on the first four elements and lastly inserted a picture of myself.

Composition: I chose this picture because it is a picture of me and my best friends, my sister and cousin, and because it was Thanksgiving Day. I chose this template because it was a warm color and it was a very simple layout.

Concept: What makes me so good is that I try my hardest at anything I do and I approach my task with a positive and mature state of mind.