Final Exam

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4. This picture is my transformative picture because it taught me a whole new way of taking pictures. After taking this picture, I realized that focusing on different sites like in this picture taught me a new style of photography. Overall, taking pictures of nature has a special place in my heart because it gets me thinking of life and how I can improve my own life. I love this picture.

 

5. Shape is a 2D element basic to picture composition and is usually the first means by which a viewer identifies an object within the picture while form refers to when shape takes on three dimensions. Form is created by shadows and highlights on an object in the photograph. 6. Pattern in photography utilizes elements that are repeated. Repetition of lines, shapes, tones or color can create interesting images. 7. Movement Explanation 8. The shoes on the tree is my best photo among the last three projects we had. I like this photo because you can see the detail of the shoes from the heel all the way to the top of the shoes. You can see all the left over grass on there and overall it's a nice, clean, and clear picture. This changed me by giving me a sense of how I can achieve taking great pictures related to this one. I can see differently now by looking at a picture and determining if its good or not. For example, I can tell if its clear and if the picture needs more detail.

Student Website Review

Period 2: Jason Chang - I like his photo gallery of all the sports players, especially me.
Period 3: Anita Yen - I really like her candy picture because I love candy.
Period 4: Jacob Walter - I love looking at pictures of the baseball game.

Nature Photoshoot

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First Commercial Shoot - Adidas

Taken by Fatima

Taken by Rudy

Taken by Rudy

Taken by Fatima

Taken by Salik

Best Picture

Seattle Panorama

5 Pictures Of My Life

My everyday routine consists of many things. I like to play with my parrot. I also like to drive my beautiful car. I also like to work out and play football. Finally, I like to cut my hair in many different styles.

Photoshoot

Multicultural Week

Multicultural week for me has been really fun so far. I love the long lunches and eating the great food. Unfortunately they added this ticket system that takes too much time. The music during lunch is also fun and exciting. I wish multicultural week was every week.

Multicultural Week

Multicultural week is probably the most busy weeks in mission. It is really fun and enjoyable for every student. The food is great and the longer lunch is amazing. I personally love to get the pizza and Chinese food. Also, my teachers take it easy on us for the week which is awesome. It's amazing to see all the different cultural themes and foods they have as well. Multicultural week is a really good experience.

Shutter Speed and Everything After

1. The shutter speed is fast because on the highway cars will be moving at a high speed.
2. Depth because it has objects shown in the foreground and the background.
3. Forms because the trucks are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth.
4. Movement because the trucks are driving on the road and your eye makes its way up the road expressing movement.

Mason Doing a Headstand

Shutter Speed: 1/125

Favorite Photo

From the gallery "Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta," the first photo is my favorite. I enjoy how music was a really big thing back then. I think it's really interesting the older generation is teaching the younger generation how to play guitar. It makes me happy seeing them enjoying themselves. Overall, this picture has a lot of powerful meaning.

Principles of Design - Rhythm

Movie Monday Questions - Gordon Parks Part 3&4

1. Feel accomplished and happy.
2. I gave up happiness.
3. He gave up the stability of his personal life. 
4. Chinese diplomat. 
5. $5,000
6. $5 million
7. If he took the money, Elijah Muhammad would control him.
8. It was the first Hollywood film produced and directed by an African American.
9. He was African American.
10. He used film, photography, and writing.
11. It felt like she was in a "washing machine." She never knew what was going to happen next, and it also set back her career. 
12. 12 Years A Slave
13. He was Gordon Parks' son.
14. Didn't have one.
15. He was equal.

Principles of Design - Proportion

Principles of Design - Repetition

Principles of Design - Pattern

Principles of Design - Movement

Movement 

Movement is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and color within the work of art.

Principles of Design - Emphasis

Emphasis

Emphasis is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas. The area could be different in size, color, texture, shape, etc.

Principles of Design - Balance

Balance

Balance is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space. If the design was a scale, these elements should be balanced to make a design feel stable. In symmetrical balance, the elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side; in asymmetrical balance, the sides are different but still look balanced. In radial balance, the elements are arranged around a central point and may be similar.

Elements of Art - Texture

Texture

Texture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.

Elements of Art - Color

Color

Color is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is). 

• White is pure light; black is the absence of light. 

• Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors. 

• Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet). 

• Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet. 

• Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel (an arrangement of colors along a circular diagram to show how they are related to one another). Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. For example, red and green are complements, because green is made of blue and yellow. When complementary colors are mixed together, they neutralize each other to make brown.

Elements of Art - Space

Space

Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.

Elements of Art - Forms

Forms

Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.

Elements of Art - Line

Line

Line is a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin.

Elements of Art - Shape

Shape 

Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width. 

Movie Monday Questions - Gordon Parks Part 1&2

1. Gordon was supposed to die soon after death, but the doctor managed to save him.
2. Fort Scott, Kansas.
3. There are only a few black student that go to college.
4. 15.
5. The streets.
6. When he became older.
7. Taking photo of models.
8. Double exposure is a fatal error in photos caused by light exposure
9. Heavyweight boxing champion.
10. Piano.
11. To chronicle the dark side of Chicago's South Side.
12. To take pictures like the American Gothic.
13. Photographer from the FSA.
14. Gordon's imagination.
15. A lot of things.

5 Photos

1. Photo 1
2. Photo 2
3. Photo 3
4. Photo 4
5. Photo 5

Movie Monday - The Photo League

1. The photo leagues 's credo is the "Struggle against and expose reactionary film."
2. They separated from Frontier Films.
3. The workshop was a gathering of photographers and a photo exhibit.
4. The Kanaga taught the workshop.
5. I don't think I'll devote my time like that for any project.
6. The Harlem Document was an important photo collection of Harlem during the Great Depression.
7. Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document.
8. Picasso.
9. Because it had am amazing appearance.
10. Lewis Hine was a child labor photographer.
11. Weegee was a street photographer of crime scenes
12. The league began to focus on the details of war life.
13. The league's focus changed due to the aftermath of the war.
14. Siskind began looking for the positive aspects of life.
15. The Saturday Evening Post was a magazine that chronicles American history.
16. Barbara Morgan was a photographer of modern dancers
17. The photo league was accused to be a communist organization.
18. The "Growing Menance" was accusations of communism.
19. Louis Steffrer agreed to serve as president.
20. It stopped recruiting and slowly died out.

My Three Rules of Composition

Background

Lines

 Cropping

Favorite Photo

After looking at the photos "From Smartphones to Museum Walls," I really like the second photo. Firstly, I like the second photo because the setting looks really nice. Secondly, I like the photo because I think it's creative how they all have their hammocks tied to a tree. Finally, the trees and the lighting really brightens up the photo and makes it look really nice.