Line, Color and Texture

Line, Color and Texture.

Color. Increased exposure, vibrance, and brightness.

Color. Increased exposure, vibrance, contrast, color balance, and brightness.

Line. Increased vibrance, brightness and contrast.

Line. Increased vibrance, brightness and curves.

Texture. Increased hue, saturation, contrast, vibrance and exposure.

Texture. Increased vibrance, contrast, exposure, curves and darker hue.

The subject matter in my pictures is flowers, a calculator, books on a bookshelf, my cat, and the sidewalk. Almost all of my pictures I increased the vibrance and the contrast to help bring out all of the colors and details in each picture. Each of these pictures were taken around my house or on my way to school. The picture of the orange cat is my favorite picture because my cat Scooter means a lot to me and the colors in this picture I think are really bright and beautiful. During this project I realized that I really enjoy making every day objects look more abstract or making them look like something different. If I could do this project over again I would try and go to more places to get a better variety of pictures, I would also try and take more pictures at different angles to make each picture more unique.

Flickr- Line, Color, and Texture

1. Purple and yellow flower
2. Extreme Close-Up
3. Rule of Thirds.
4. The brightness of the yellow center of the flower makes the photograph really "pop" and stand out. The angle really shows how brilliant the colors are.

1. Chair, shadow, window and wall
2. Medium Shot
3. Asymmetry and rule of thirds
4. All of the lines in the picture really make it unique and fun to look at. The entire picture has a lot of detail even though it's a picture of just a simple chair.

Line; shadow chair

1. Grass blowing in the wind, and blue sky
2. Establishing Shot
3. Rule of thirds
4. The green of the grass really stands out and the mute blue makes the grass really bright. Each individual blade of grass is shown and you can see how each piece is bent in the wind.

Shots and Angles Edited

Contrast: +17
Vibrance: +100
Saturation: -3
Eye Level

Vibrance: +100

Lightness: +4
Low Angle

Vibrance: +19

Saturation: +99

Hue: +8

High Angle

Brightness: -42

Contrast: +20

Color Balance (cyan): +48

Extreme Close-Up

Contrast: +11

Vibrance: +91

Medium Shot

Vibrance: +100
Saturation: +27
Midtones: +21
Long Shot

Vibrance: +100

Saturation: +27

Lightness: -12

Close-Up

Vibrance: +85

Saturation: +26

Red: +100

Green: -22

Blue: +47

Establishing Shot

Learning Shots and Angles

Extreme Close-Up

If this shot was taken from farther away it would completely change the photograph. The idea of this picture is to magnify the eye so that it is seen as the most important thing in the photograph. If the camera was zoomed out, the picture would no longer focus on the eye and it would focus rather on either the entire animal or on something larger.

Close-Up

Low Angle

In order to show how high the plane is and to show how the people look in relation to the plane is what makes the low angle so important. If the picture was taken rather from inside the plane it would prove the plane to be much less important to the photograph.

Bird's Eye View

Symmetry

Rule Of Thirds

The rule of thirds works well for this picture because it draws all of the attention to the hawk rather than to the background of the picture. It also splits the picture up well.

American Photography (part 1)

The movie was based on what American Photography really was. From this video I learned all about where photography originated, all about the 20th century photography, what types of cameras were used, why they were used, ways photographs were used, and who did the majority of the photographs of that time. 

Photography in America during the 20th century played a great role in helping everyone around the world and around the United States to better understand what was going on around them in the places that they couldn't visit or see. Edward Curtis was a great well-known photographer of Native Americans. He spent most of his life helping people to understand the Native American lifestyle. He created a perfect picture and would dress the people up to look better for photographs. Many people argued that his pictures were in fact beautiful, but they did not portray many of the Natives as they would have looked in their true everyday attire or in their realistic world. Photography also helped people prove points. For example, the child labor laws that many people were fighting to have made illegal. Many people fighting for these reasons would go to child labor centers and take pictures of the children working and how hard their lives were. This influenced people to also fight to change these laws. Photography also brought forth many great other forms and ideas in the art industry. Photography helped people advertise, express ideas and opinions, see what their relatives were up to, and learn about the world they didn't know much about.

In watching the video, a few questions came to mind but the main one that I thought of was: How are photographs produced in a "dark room"?

What Is Art?

"What is Art?"


Art- 1. The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. 2. Works produced by such skill and imagination.

Art is a way of expression, a way people can show who they truly are and how they feel. To me, art is a way of being able to escape from the conformities of the every day world. Society may take certain things as right or wrong, there is no wrong way to make art or to create art. Art helps people escape because you can create whatever you want when you make it. You could make something look realistic or futuristic, or even imaginary. Many people enjoy making abstract art pieces because it's a way to use their imagination and a way to create something new and unique.

Anything can be art, art can be anything. I truly think that if you want to look at something as being art, then it is! Art is everywhere, there isn't a place in this world that contains no art. Art can be so simple, or so complex there's no true way to define it. I would love to know more about art including who came up with the definition, what earlier people used to create art with, and what I could do to help support the art community.