Principles of Design: Unity

This photo shows the harmony between all of the lines and bolts on the car wheel. The spokes all join in the center of the wheel, where the bolts are all placed.
On Camera Raw, I converted the photo to grayscale. 

Principles of Design: Variety

For this photo, I used several principles of design to show variety.There is balance between the two sides of the photo, there is pattern and repetition on the roof, and emphasis created by the bird structure on the roof.
In Camera Raw, I increased the contrast by 30 and decreased the shadows by 100. I also decreased the saturation of green and aqua by 60 each.

Principles of Design: Rhythm

I took this photo to show the principle of rhythm. This photo gives off a feel of organized movement and consists of a variety of stones embedded in the ground. A variety of principles of design can be noted, as the texture of the rocks repeats itself in an organized cluster and pattern.
In Camera Raw, I increased the contrast by 75 and completely decreased the saturation of yellow and orange. 

Best Use of Variety

In NYT's album, Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta, my group and I found Photo #7 to show the most variety. The babies in the photo show the principles of balance and repetition, since one child is in either arm of the mother. When you look at the mother, you can also see the principle of pattern on her dress and the principle of proportion (the babies' size in comparison to their mother). 

Principles of Design: Proportion

I took this photo to execute the principle of proportion. In this, the girl's size is being compared the that of the car wheels. The viewer can also compare the size of the wheel with the car.
In Camera Raw, I cropped the photo and decreased the saturation of blue by 50.

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks Parts 3 and 4

1. My definition of successful is having achieved all your goals in life and being able to support yourself at the same time.
2. In order to be successful, I have given up my free time.
3. Parks gave up his hometown to be successful. He left his home when he was just fifteen years old and ever since worked to become a photographer in order to provide for himself.
4. Genevieve Young's father was Ambassador V.K. Wellington Koo.
5. When Gordon parks wrote Choice of Weapons, he received $10,000 for the first seven pages.
6. Elijah Muhammad offered Gordon Parks $50,000 to do the story.
7. Parks refused the money because he wanted his film to say something and leave an impression on the viewers. He didn't care about the money.
8. Gordon Parks's movie, The Learning Tree, was important to the Hollywood film industry because it was the first movie written and directed by a black man.
9. Shaft was a young black superhero, and one of the first.
10. Gordon Parks's Choice of Weapons was an autobiography published in 1966. It was about how he resisted the use of weapons like guns and knives. Instead he used his pens, cameras, and paint brushes.
11. The couple divorced because the slightest thing would become a problem. Genevieve couldn't live in the spontaneous world that Gordon was a part of. The turmoil in his life and her trying to keep it controlled wore her out.
12. 12 Years by Steve McQueen and released in 2013 told the same story.
13. Gordon Jr. was Parks's first son, who ran out of money in attempt to make his film. He was the director of the movie. He was very much like Gordon Parks, always out. He died in a plane crash.
14. My favorite Gordon Parks photo is from his Segregation Story of a white woman and her black maid holding a white baby on a train.
15. In ten years, I will remember Gordon Parks' success, his movies in specific. 

Principles of Design: Repetition

I felt like my photo properly executed the principle of repetition because of the fourteen windows on the building. Within each window, there is a pattern that is repeated in the rest. Also, on either side of the staircase, there are two large poles. There are also two lights, one on the left and one on the right. In addition, there is the repeating yellow line on each of the three stairs.
In Camera Raw, I increased the contrast and highlights by 100, and I decreased the shadows and blacks by 100. 

Principles of Design: Pattern

Several patterns are visible in this photo. An obvious one would be the red, white, and blue flags hanging above the pool. There are also the lane separators, which have alternating colors (green and white) running down the lines. The border around the pool show a different pattern: squares side by side. There are also less obvious patterns that may be noted by my viewers, like the texture of the wood and the lines of the drain running down the side of the pool.
Using Camera Raw, I increased the contrast of colors by 25, highlights by 45, vibrance by 25, and luminance of red and green by 100. I decreased the saturation of orange, yellow, and green by 100 and the clarity by 50. 

Principles of Design: Movement

I took this photo in hope of creating a path for the viewers' eyes. I tried to start the path at either one of the wheels. My eyes tend to start at the wheel on the right, but members from my group have informed me that their paths begin at the left wheel. The path created in the photo should then take one's eyes to the blue parts of the structure and then around the whole photo.
Using Camera Raw, I increased the saturation of blue and clarity by 30 and decreased the saturation of red by 15.

Principles of Design: Emphasis

I took this photo to emphasize the the light bulb. It is the brightest part in the frame of my photo, so the viewers' eyes will automatically go there first.
I took this photo to Camera Raw and decreased the exposure by 1.25, shadows by 100, blacks by 50, and vibrance by 100. I also increased the contrast of the colors by 80 and highlights by 100. 

Principles of Design: Balance

I used Camera Raw to decrease the saturation of red, orange, and yellow by 100. 

Elements of Art: Texture

Using Camera Raw, I increased the saturation of green by 20 and blue by 20. I also increased the clarity by 10. 

Elements of Art: Color

I used Camera Raw to increase the contrast by 50. I also increased the luminance of yellow by 100 and decreased its saturation by 100. 

Elements of Art: Space

I took this photo to Camera Raw and decrease the saturation of yellow and orange. I also decreased the luminance of green by 50 and added clarity by 10.

Elements of Art: Forms

For this photo, I reduced the green saturation by 100 and cropped the photo to pull more focus to the form of the flower and leaves. 

Elements of Art: Shapes

For this photo, I used Camera Raw to decrease the saturation of the red, orange, and yellow. I also increased the clarity of the photo by 20. 

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks Parts 1 and 2

1. The doctor saved his life by dunking him into a tub of water and rubbing him against ice.
2. He was born in Ft. Scott, Kansas.
3. His class adviser told him that few negro students attended a college because they were not college material. She also told him not to waste his parents' money going to college and would probably just end up as porters or maids.
4. Gordon was 15 years old when his mother died.
5. Gordon moved to Minnesota, where his sister and brother-in-law lived.
6. Yes, he did graduate college.
7. He began his fashion career, when he offered to photograph three women for a clothing store. He accidentally double exposed his photos, but he was able to fix one. It was so impressive that Gordon was asked to provide the other prints, and when he explained his accident, Gordon was given another chance to take the photos. That was how Gordon began his fashion career.
8. It is the repeated exposure of a photographic plate or film to light, often producing ghost images.
9. Joe Louis was the husband of the woman who invited Gordon to Chicago for a photo shoot after seeing his photos.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to combat American rural poverty during the Great Depression.
12. Stryker's first assignment for Gordon was to leave his camera behind and walk through Washington D.C.
13. Ella Watson was the woman who Gordon saw mopping the floor. He asked to take a photo of her in front of the American flag.
14. Gordon was inspired to take the photo after visiting Eldon, Iowa. He noticed a little wood farmhouse, where he imagined American Gothic people with long, stretched faces.
15. Gordon learned about how the people (models) in front of the camera were more important than the one behind it. He also learned about humanity.
16. The FSA was shut down in 1943.
17. After Gordon moved to New York, he shot for Vogue.
18. The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks.
19. Parks's first major story for Life Magazine covered the Harlem gang story crime across America.
20. One of the artists that Gordon Parks mentioned influenced his work was Van Gogh.
21. Parks shot fashion at a slow speed and by moving with the model to keep his subject in focus.
22. Parks' concerto was performed in Venice, Italy.
23. Parks' second wife was Elizabeth Campbell. She was the founder of  WETA tv, a teacher, a college administrator, and an Arlington Public Schools board member. Elizabeth's father was a Moravian minister.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old when Parks first met him.
25. Parks met Flavio in 1961.
26. Flavio de Silva lived in a shack in Rio de Janeiro with his family.