PSA: Teen Suicide Awareness

 

 

note: adding in ad-copy tomorrow morning

WARHOL

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

Photoshop

“Now you're in New York
These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you”

 

For this assignment, we were given the freedom to take any of our photographs and enhance or transform it with all the techniques that we learned in Photoshop. These techniques include gradients, copy and paste method, blending images, thresholds, playing with the hue and saturation, and working with color filters. After learning all of these techniques, Photoshop has been something that I have turned to in able to fix minor or major details in my photographs.

            The photograph that I started with was of the signs of musicals with part of Broadway Street. To transform this photo I duplicated the layer five times then played with the thresholds. In order to get the best end product, I raised each threshold by twenty between each layer. I then pulled up a movement photograph that I took in New York of two taxis driving by me as I was standing on the side walk. I made sure that the two images were the same size before I blended the movement photograph into my original one. I used a layer blending option called “pin light” with an opacity of eighty percent. I then opened another layer and used the gradient tool to place a red-orange color effect to the top of my photograph. After, I played with the curves of the top layer in order to enhance the colors of my photographs. At this point I felt that I was done editing my photo but after I looked at it for a few minutes I felt that something was missing. I then decided to blend in another image. This time I used the same process as earlier but blended in a photo that I took of Times Square. For this picture I used the “overlay” blending option with an opacity of fifty percent. It was then that I felt that my Photoshop piece was complete.

            This was one of my favorite assignments by far because Photoshop allows you to create your own transformations and each time you can produce a different end product. I really enjoyed playing with this program because I felt that it can truly make a great photographs even better.

Little Toy

THURSDAY: @ 9 AM basketball practice

FRIDAY : @ the WBAL Girl's Basketball Championship.

SATURDAY: my co-worker Ralph volunteered to model my little toy

SUNDAY: also @ work

MONDAY : this was my Photoshopped image. I used the photocopy filter then added a gradient layer on top. As well as played with the opacity and curves. I also changed the foreground color to a light blue and the background color to black.

Fantasy Photoshop

BLENDED IMAGE:

COPY & PASTE IMAGE:

Fish eye!

Landscape Assignment

 

BIG SHOT

 

BIG SHOT (photo-shopped)

 

 DETAIL

 

ABSTRACT

Architecture Assignment

 Location 1 : Cyress Lawn (Big)

Location 2: All Souls Church (Details)

 Location 3: Tanforan (Big)

 

 Location 2: Tanforan (Details)

Location 3: Tanforan (Interior)

Chapter 9: Landscapes

[Landmarks in Landscape Photography]

• inspiration = painting & the land
• Carleton E. Watkins = capture the grandeur of the American West
• Ansel Adams = capture the experience of being in the wilderness

[Thinking Artistically]

• composition & viewpoint
• value is important in black & white photos
• achieve a balance between unity & variety
• individual parts come together to support each other
• variety = diverse art 

[Camera Settings]

• maximum depth of field
• stop down the lens as far as it will go
• small f-stops = longer shutter speeds
• tripod is necessary for sharp, vibration-free images

[Light]

• photograph either after sunrise or before sunset
• angle of the sun is low = shapes & textures are emphasized by side lighting
• direct lighting = 3D

[Film]

• black &white = showcases value, line, shape, texture, & pattern
• color = fall foliage & spring flowers

[Lenses]

• wide-angle lenses = capture more of the scene
• include close & distant objects in the same photo
• greater sense of depth of field
• telephoto lens = capture scenes you cannot get close to
• macro lens = really close-up images = bark & rocks

[Filters]

• yellow filter = bring out clouds
• red filter = deep black skies & stark white clouds
• red filter & polarizer = ultimate black skies & maximum contrast

[Camera Support]

• slow fils & small f-stops = slow shutter speeds = need a tripod
• tripod should be sturdy & light

[The Grand Landscape]

• "big view" = wide-open expanses
• suburban housing tracts = repeating shapes of the houses
• include large expanses of the scenes
• horizon should be placed one-third from the top or bottom
• 19th century = print a sky from one negative onto another negative

[Landscape Details & Close-ups]

• parks are a good source of subject matter
• Japanese gardens = meandering streams, small waterfalls, & expertly placed trees
• fall's vivid foliage & vibrant flowers
• cloudy & overcast conditions = eliminating harsh shadows
• sunrise & sunset = quality of light with a special glow
• light meters = create an exposure that makes medium gray out of the scene

[Abstracted Elements in the Landscape]

• images composed of lines, shapes, values, & textures
• get really close to the subject & only photograph a small part
• need as much depth of field as possible

Chapter 8: Architecture & Urban Landscapes

[Thinking Artistically]

• use line to lead the viewer's eye through an architectural image
• lines help divide the image into sections
• a building's visual relationship to it's surroundings can reveal a great deal about it's "personality"
• pattern - the repetition of any of the elements

[Camera Settings]

• image sharpness and capture the smallest details
• selecting a smaller f-stop = greater depth of field
• the bigger the negative = the more detail it will capture
• slower film = the most detail
• finer grain film captures more detail = sharper prints

[Film]

• color films = emphasize color and setting
• black & white = emphasizes values, shapes, & textures
• commercial photos = magazines/brochures = color
• artistic photos = black

[Lighting]

• incandescent = slightly more orange
• quartz = somewhat yellow
• fluorescent = greener
• daylight = a lot more blue
• our eyes adjust to the different types makings them all seem plain white
• can't use more than one filter at a time to correct color

[Lenses]

• wide-angle = get back far enough to get the entire scene
• wider lens = more distortion
• upward = bottom of the building looks drastically wider than the top

[Camera Support]

• tripods = balance & stability
• monopods = work for walking around and shooting details
• long shutter speeds = need maximum support

[Filters]

• sky & clouds merge into a light gray shape = using orange or yellow filters will separate them
• bring out textures, more tactile or touchable quality
• polarizer = darkens a blue sky to increase the separation
• reduce/eliminate reflections in shiny, nonmetallic surfaces

[The Big View]

• big view = wide-angle view
• shows you the whole building
• perspective distortion = appears as strong converging lines in a building
• farther = less distortion
• far away = the sides of the building look parallel & straight
• shoot straight = flat & 2D
• front is side-lit = reveal more textures, forms, & shadows
• side = 3D = reveals depth, height & width

[Shadows]

• lines, shapes & values

[The Detail Shot]

• individual elements of a buildings interior or exterior
• reinforce the importance the craftspeople gave to the work they created
• more abstract

[Interior Views]

• overall shots of whole rooms or smaller details
• limited on where to place the camera
• look better when everything in the picture is in focus = greater depth of field
• as close as 4 feet & as far as 20 feet
• higher f-stop = more depth of field
• slow shutter speed = use a tripod

Jan. 10 Movie Notes

• Daily News = oldest daily newspaper
• sold itself through it's pictures
• focus on one specific story, and blow it up (capture attention)
• appeal to the emotions
• six to seven issues a day
• 1920s = tabloid wars
• hard not to have a good news day in the 1920s
• composer graph = stage the photograph
• people would pose for the photo then they would change the faces
• truth always loses out to fantasy
• photos replaced drawings = more public response
• photos invested products with emotion
• turn a lowly object into something magnificent
• added a new dimension to fame
• stories of individuals were being brought to the public
• sports stars became celebrities
• invented an actor's image and created stars
• astronomers used to look through telescopes and drew what they saw
• photos neutralize any defect in your acquisition