The Latest
In these four pictures, I played with the RGB levels and also the brightness of the picture.
1) In the first picture, I used the brightness tool to lighten our faces a bit, and I also used the exposure, vibrance and levels to create a sort of “blurry fog” to create the sense of wonder in the picture, where it looks like we are peering into the camera.
2) In this picture, I used the vibrance and exposure tools to create a blanket of darkness covering Lea and I.
3) For this picture, I used two versions, one in full colour, and one in black and white, and I sequenced them together to create a contrast.
4) In this picture, I played with the RGB levels and created the illusion that I took the picture under the light of a different colour sun (red).
Interview Questions
For the interview, I decided that i’d like to talk about sleep. Since it takes up half of our lives, and is still generally ambiguous to science, I wanted to know what others thought about this state of altered consciousness in which our imagination is allowed to run wild.
Interview questions:
How much do you sleep every night?
Why do you think you dream?
How often do you have dreams?
How often are these dreams nightmares?
Do you recognize anything in your dreams?
Do you think dreams are our own way of subconsciously telling ourselves things we’d otherwise not like to admit?
Media Arts Advertisement
How did I make this ad:
To make this advertisement, I first took a picture of a shadow reaching out, which I made the background. Next, I used the quick selection tool to take this woman out of a picture, and then used the quick selection tool once more for the bruise around her eye. Finally, I made three new layers, each with one of the quoted words.
What does this advertisement represent?
I created this ad to bring forth both the physical and the emotional pains of abuse simultaneously. In this ad, you can see both parts of abuse, the emotional which is usually suppressed and often goes unnoticed, and the physical, which may be just as symbolic as it is real. More often than not, domestic abuse is ignored because it is perceived as only being real when someone has physical wounds. However, the emotional wounds are harder to cope with and are usually more problematic than their physical counterparts.
First, I took a picture of a piece of art, portraying the continents (more specifically the Afro-Eurasian penninsula, that displays the land as a giant maze. I then cropped a picture of the dial of an old time phone, and pasted it on top, illustrating an idea: “Time is confusing.”
Picture 1: The rule of thirds is demonstrated in this picture as the lightning is, for the most part, following the left line of force. This is the primary focus of the picture. Furthermore, the secondary focus, the setting sun is resting on the intersection of two lines of force. Overall, the primary and secondary focuses are diagonally opposite of each other.
Photo 2: In this image, the rule of thirds is evident. The man sitting on top of the suitcase rests on the left line of force. This is an effective use of space, and ultimately creates emphasis, as the human eye is naturally drawn toward this imaginary line, and also because it is the primary focus of the image.
Photo 3: Although a wonderful picture, the rule of thirds is rather hard to identify in this image because of the distracting line (the opening of the tent) in the middle of the image. However, the children on the right side of the image do create negative space, and are the primary focus of the image.
Photo 4: This picture illustrates the rule of thirds, albeit, not very well. The house is the main focus of this image, but it crosses over the left line of force into the middle of the image. The soothing blue/greens and the earth tones of the house create contrast, and ultimately lead to an absolutely beautiful image.
Picture 1:
Rhythm - lights
Line - the green cords
Picture 2:
Movement - floral patterns
Pattern - the repetitive leaf pattern on the frame
Picture 3:
Pattern - the holes
Balance - the pattern (holes) as an ensemble
Picture 4:
Line - the lines of light on the shelf
Contrast- between light and dark elements in the photo
Picture 5:
Space - the empty space around the flame
Emphasis - the flame itself
To make this valentines card, I coloured the background pink, and then took the elements out of two pictures with the magnetic cropping tool and inserted them into the picture.