For this photo, I used Camera Raw to decrease the saturation of the blue and purple. I also increased the clarity of the photo by 10.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Multimedia Festival Poster Take 2
Why is this poster good or great? This poster is really good because it is well composed and has a professional vibe to it. It is also more eye-pleasing and user-friendly, because the only photo on the poster is utilized as the background and the colors are more neutral. The neutral colors of this poster keep it from looking too cluttered. If she were wearing brighter colors, then it may have drawn too much attention away from the information.
Why is this poster better than the original? The two posters we created for the multimedia festival are incomparable, and I am proud of both. However, this poster has a more professional and clean look, which is advantageous to our goal of trying to spread the word. Also, our second poster is more artistically pleasing, because we were introduced to different features on Photoshop that we hadn't known about the first time around. Also, there was only one large, eye-catching photo on this poster, which draws your attention to it. It is a much better way to convey our message. Also, the address used in this poster is updated, as the address on our original poster wasn't as accurate.
What did you do to create this poster? We started with a white background, sized at 11 by 17 inches. Then I used my iPhone 5s to take a photo of Tulika Mohanti and her camera to emphasize the photography category of the festival. We made that the background, decreasing its opacity to 50%. After that, we added in all the text and information and placed them accordingly. After some tweaking here and there, we were able to come up with this.
Friday, February 13, 2015
Movie Monday - The Photo League
The Photo League Assignment
1. What was the Photo League's credo? The Photo League's credo was based on documentary photography, paying respect for the efforts of human workers. The camera was meant to capture reality, and it had the potential to change our world.
2. What organization did the Photo League separate from? They separated from the Film and Photo League.
3. What was the workshop? The workshop was basically a set of classes or a course, where the teachers worked to teach and inspire their students about documentary photography. Anyone with a functional camera was welcome to come learn for a fee of five dollars.
4. Who taught the workshop? Sid Grossman taught the workshop.
5. If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy? I would hope to devote a year of my life to photographing the lifestyle of a professional dancer, because I love to dance. I only dance about five hours a week, but professional dancers spend night and day at the studio. It would be an amazing opportunity to attempt to explain an entire lifestyle in one year.
6. What was the Harlem Document? It was a multi-year collaboration between five photographers, portraying Black urban America. The Harlem Document showed the people, culture, and lifestyles of the Harlem in the 1930s.
7. Who started the Harlem Document? Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document.
8. A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a Caravaggio painting.
9. Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? Caravaggio is known for his use of realism and chiaroscuro, which was clearly noticed in the photograph of the children.
10. Who was Lewis Hine (name two significant contributions)? He influenced a change in child labor laws in the United States and led to the development of documentary photography.
11. Who was Weegee? Weegee, or Arthur Fellick, was a member of the Photo League. His photographs were based on the hardships of people's lives, like of those who were drunk or lived in tenements. Weegee was very unhygienic, and he smoked a lot. He taught classes on freelance photojournalism and flash photography.
12. How did the League change when the Nazis took power? A majority of the talented and skilled European photographers fled to the United States and joined the Photo League. However, finding jobs was a major difficulty because of their country of origin.
13. How did the League change during WWI? The League captured Patriotism and provided support. The female members kept the League running, while the males left to participate in the war or photograph it. After WWI, the Photo League became very popular.
14. How did Didkind change after WWII? Aaron Siskind brought concepts of abstract expressionism to photography. Before WWII, Siskind had taken photos that reflected sociological realism.
15. What was the Saturday Evening post? The Saturday Evening post was a part of the photojournalism field that featured the Photo League's work. It was a post from 1947.
16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? Barbara Morgan was a photographer, best known for her photography of modern dancers.
17. What eventually undermined the Photo League? The League was under a government list of allegedly totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive groups. The members were blacklisted and engaged in a fight for survival.
18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? It was the totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive groups that the government was trying to eliminate.
19. Who agreed to serve as President when the League was under investigation? When the League was taken under investigation, Life Magazine journalist W. Eugene Smith agreed to serve as president of the Photo League.
20. What happened to the Leage? It ended up falling apart and was officially shut down in the summer of 1951, due to a label it received, claiming it was radical and a communist organization. People stopped showing up to work, and the public became confused because the League had always showed that photography was an art and never mentioned politics.
10. Who was Lewis Hine (name two significant contributions)? He influenced a change in child labor laws in the United States and led to the development of documentary photography.
11. Who was Weegee? Weegee, or Arthur Fellick, was a member of the Photo League. His photographs were based on the hardships of people's lives, like of those who were drunk or lived in tenements. Weegee was very unhygienic, and he smoked a lot. He taught classes on freelance photojournalism and flash photography.
12. How did the League change when the Nazis took power? A majority of the talented and skilled European photographers fled to the United States and joined the Photo League. However, finding jobs was a major difficulty because of their country of origin.
13. How did the League change during WWI? The League captured Patriotism and provided support. The female members kept the League running, while the males left to participate in the war or photograph it. After WWI, the Photo League became very popular.
14. How did Didkind change after WWII? Aaron Siskind brought concepts of abstract expressionism to photography. Before WWII, Siskind had taken photos that reflected sociological realism.
15. What was the Saturday Evening post? The Saturday Evening post was a part of the photojournalism field that featured the Photo League's work. It was a post from 1947.
16. Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? Barbara Morgan was a photographer, best known for her photography of modern dancers.
17. What eventually undermined the Photo League? The League was under a government list of allegedly totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive groups. The members were blacklisted and engaged in a fight for survival.
18. What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? It was the totalitarian, fascist, communist, and subversive groups that the government was trying to eliminate.
19. Who agreed to serve as President when the League was under investigation? When the League was taken under investigation, Life Magazine journalist W. Eugene Smith agreed to serve as president of the Photo League.
20. What happened to the Leage? It ended up falling apart and was officially shut down in the summer of 1951, due to a label it received, claiming it was radical and a communist organization. People stopped showing up to work, and the public became confused because the League had always showed that photography was an art and never mentioned politics.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Poster Assignment
My group and I attempted to recreate the Bob Dylan at the Q.E. Theater, Vancouver, 1965 concert poster. My model was Khushbu Patel, and I used Photoshop CS6 to edit the photos and create my poster.
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| Khushbu Patel at the MSJ Amphitheater, Fremont, 2015 |
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