Project: Color, Line, and Texture

For my two color photo's I took a picture of part of my mom's garden in our back yard and a Victoria's Secret bad that I had laying around in my room.  In the photo of flower I made the red pop out more and brightened the picture.  Over all in my photo of the bad I really brightened it and made all the colors pop plus I really tried to get rid of the flash.  For my texture photo's I took a picture of rocks in my yard and a axe on my stairs from when we were taking out my front stairs.  The changes I made to the texture photo's I made the red in the axe less dull then what it was and for the rocks I made the yellow and color brighter.  And last I took a picture of a bunch of movie's I have in my house and the American flag for my line photo's.  For the last line photo's I cropped my flag photo so you could see it better in the picture and made the red pop more, then with movie's I got rid of most of the flash and darkened it so you could see them better.

I feel that the photo I took of the axe on the stairs was my best because it was not planned and it was positioned on my stairs in a cool way that would look good in a photo.  What I learned about myself in doing this project was that I need to practice.  What I did was fun and it was just my first project but I know that as the year goes on I will get better in knowing how and what o take a picture of and how to make it look good with hardly having to do anything with editing it.  If I could redo this project I would take more time in knowing what I want to take a picture of and knowing how to make it look good.  I would have really liked to go to better places then what I did, but I have much more time to take pictures that I like a lot and really appreciate.     

Color

Changes: I brightned it and made the red stand out more

Color

Changes: took away most of the shine from flash and made the color pop more.



Texture

Changes: made the colored rocks more bright

Texture

Changes: I made the red stand out more in the axe and darkened stairs 

Line

Changes: Made the flash go away as much as I could and brightened the movies

Line

Changes: I cropped the photo so you could see the flag better and then  I brightened the red to make it stand out more. 

Line, Texture, And Color

http://www.flickr.com/photos/natcarson/4946682481/

This photo was taken at a low angle and I am using this for my color photo because the paint spattered on the girl pops and the grass is highlighted in certain stops from the sun.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monstershaq2000/2162386152/

I say that this is for my line photo because the shot glasses are all put in a straight lone and you can see the one in front really clear and then when you look at the ones in the back they get more and more blurry.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/akashb/2426330375/

This is for texture because you can tell the hand on the person doing the pottery is slimmy and wet and then in other places probably a little dry and bumpy.

Editing photos

Long Shot

Changes...

Red- +42

Green- +18

Blue- +18

Extreme close up

Sharpened it to what I could.

Close Up

Changes...

Red- +8

Magenta- -9 

Low Angle

Changes...

I faded the edges of the photo.

High Angle

Changes...

Cyan- -11

Magenta- -9

Yellow- -19

Eye Level

Changes...

Darkened it.

Symmetry 

Changes...

Lightened it.

Establishing Shot

Changes...

Changed it to black and white.

Learning Shots and Angles

Extreme Close Up Shot

This photo shows extrerme close up shot because it's only part of the baby's face and you can really see all the colors in his/ her eyes and how he/ she is starting to cry. 

Long Shot

I picked this for long shot because it's as though someone was standing on anpther bridge or road and took the picture from far away.

Eye level Agnle

                          

This is eye level because it looks like someone just bent down so they would just get the little girl eating her apple and so that she would smile in the camera.  Plus you can't see the top of her head or the bottom of her chin.

Low Angle

This is low angle photography because it makes it look like you are looking up at it, as if the traintracks were going up and down instead of right to left.  It makes it looks really far away and evenually makes it look like it disapears.

Symmetry

I picked this photo for symmetry because the person that look the photo stood at the end underneath this board walk and took a picture directly in the middle not to the side.

Rule of Thirds

                     

I thought this was a really good picture to show rule of third one because it shows you the picture and then changes and it gets cut into the three parts like you would do with your eyes on your own.  The top line is right at the top of the tree and the second line is at the horizon. Then when you go side to side the first line on the right is in the very middle of the tree.

American Photography (part 1)

The movie we watch called American Photography was about photography when it first started and it showed how the camera was invented, how time moved forward from people just drawing pictures of what they thought they saw. One the first camera's that was invented was called a "Brownie" and that was a camera that everyone could buy it was only $1.00 instead of the more expensive camera that was the Kodak. Photo's mean more to people then almost anything. Pictures capture memory's of childhood and family, friends, love, romance, and more of the sad stuff like war and death. They say that a photo can save a life. If you went to the doctor and they didn't have an xray to see if you broke something, or if you had a tumor what would you be able to do? Nothing.  A part in the movie talked about how people would make and send post cards to show friends and family what they have been up to or how is new in the family like a baby.  Just like we do now but now we will send stuff like emials or post a picture on facebook. 
One thing that suprised me that they talked about in the video was photographers for a while weren't aloud to take pictures of war and show the real life of it and how it's not a glory thing to be in.  Things that infueced America were that when poeple took pictures it showed how people lived, poor, rich, or just living life and when people were able to take pictures of war it really showed Americans that wow it's not the great and what I imaginged was so wrong.  A quetion I have about photography would have to be what makes a person say to themselves hey I'm going to take a picture of that?  I know that with me it's because I think it looks cool or its just something with my friends I want to be able to look back on and remember.  It would be interesting to know what other people would say, as in really photographers and one's that take pictures of nature and animals.  What makes them want to record that in a photo?

What is Art?

What is Art?  Art is something that people show to let people know what they are about.  As in singers, they sing and write songs to express how they feel or what has happened to them in song.  Sad songs depending on what the song is talking about may be about breaking up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, losing something like someone dying. Or happy songs like talk about getting a girlfriend or boyfriend, falling in love, or just being a happy person.  Art to me is something that can be expressed in many ways, any way you can think of.  Singing, drawing, writing, dancing, etc.  They way I like to show  art is in singing, listening to music, reading quotes, typing, or dancing with friends.
You can see art everywhere.  You walk outside your house and see art right away because they house right next to you is art.  The trees, what you put on in the morning.  As in your make up and clothes. I have put a  lot of examples but more would be such as TV, billboards, posters, whatever you think of or look at can be considered art.  What I know about art is that many people take if very serious or they can just play around with it and create something they think of right away.  Just like the saying "one man's trash is another man's treasure."  I want to know a lot more about art then I already do.  Whatever you can teat me about art would amazing.  I think that people that can draw and be so good at it is great, I wish i could draw really well but I can't so I stick to typing and singing.  Art is everything and anything.  Whatever way you can express yourself is art and thats what I love about it, you can never have someone tell you what you think is art isn't.  There's no wrong answer to what you think art is.