American Photography (part 3)

From this segment from the video the one that popped out to me was the little part they talked about Andy Warhol and how he took one photo, made it look like a painting, and then made a bunch of them like he did to Marilyn Monroe.   

                                   

Photographs are a big part of our world and has changed it a lot.  I think it is a good and a bad thing.  Bad because it shows a fake image as to what something is if it is altered and put in a magazine.  People do so much to changed photos in a magazine to make them look better or worse and in some ways it can be a good thing but most of the time it's not because little girls and even little boys sometimes will look at that and wonder why the don't look like that or wonder if thats how pretty or strong they will be in the future.  Like I said I also think it can be a good thing too because to make a program that is able to do stuff like that is really cool!  Being able to make a girl look flawless is what ever woman wants but we all have to keep in mind that it is only a picture.  Here in the present if this video would have kept going and they made a 4th or 5th section to this movie it would probably cover big things like Obama and the twin towers.  Technology is so advanced now I have no idea what they would have on that.  Im guessing they would put stuff in there like the commercials we have on TV and how they make all the new phones and ipod/ pads are so cool and what they do to make them work.  I love photography and how people are able to make a picture better or worse is so amazing.

Digital Collage

The imagery that appears in my collage are friendship, love, strength,and fun.  The changes I made in my layers would be blending, making some pictures pop more than others do and having everythihng related in some way.  Plus I really wanted to express me.  Show people what I like and what I see.  As I was working on my collage I made changes such as how I felt about what was going to go in it and where everything was going to be placed.  The new ideas I put in my collage would be the  Marilyn Monroe, the quote "the lead singer couldn't take his eye's off me", the baby, and so much more.  I would have to say that the most successful thing in my colaage would either be the hands that are in the background and how the heart just blanded in or in the bottom right coner with the quote and how I have the girl with the tattoo in the back.  I feel like I could have blended everything a little better and I with I had overlapped some stuff a little more.  I guess the one thing that I really wanted to show in this is what and who I am.  Everything in this picture represents me in some way. I really like that. 

Quarter 2... and your ideal world.

My ideal world would be... where I am.  I like where I live and what it looks like.  Anywhere that is like the US is great.  I like to travel, even though I haven't been to many places I have still been to the east and west coast.  I loved NY and Cali.  The colors that I would see would be blue, green, brow, white.  Everything you see now is what you would see in my ideal world.  Because where we live now is what I like.  The objects that would be in this world is everything you see now.  Cars, people, bikes, but I would like it more if everything wasn't so polluted.  The people would just be the same. A little more nice would be more like it. But I live in realistic world so I know that everyone can't be how you would like them to be.  Something unique about my world is everything.  Not just one thing is unique, it's everything and everyone in it.  Every person is unique in their own way.  Even if they act just like another person they are still their own person.

Documentary

Beginning of our day

Smiley Bell :)

Pinking up wood chips and being naughty

Heading to the next one

Looking at a rooster

Big cows, very interested

What I decided to photograph for my project was the weekend my brother and I spent with my aunt up in Rush City Minnesota.  It was the next day when my little cousins came up and we wend to a place called Pineheaven farm.  I chose to document this because it's something we do every year and this year I wanted to tie it into a project and school to show a tradition my family has every year around Halloween.  When I was taking these photos I wanted to show how my family has fun and what we like to do and how we are people that like to be out on a farm and be around animals.  What I learned documenting this was the fun we have and what the little ones are interested in when we go pet animals. My favorite photo I took is probably the one called heading to the next one or looking at a rooster because in the one with my cousin walking to the next goat it just shows the fun she's having and the how smiley she is when she's with us.  And I like the one with the rooster because it shows all three of my little cousins all close together looking at something they think is interesting.