Unit 3: Blog Entry 1

Question: The challenge is to compose by controlling how the subject is seen and what emotions are felt by the viewer. This is done through composition—the relationship of the elements in an image with each other and with the frame. You know that good feeling you get when you snap a great shot? Well, just follow these guidelines, and you’ll start to see things differently through the viewfinder—and take great shots more often. Take a little time to compose each picture into the masterpiece it could be. Remember that you are trying to develop mastery in concept composition as well as in technique. [C2]



Visit the following sites and make notes in your blog about each topic. Include an image to illustrate what you are talking about. If one of your assignments from last year photos fits—then use that as your image. Cut and paste links to your browser or right-click to open: 
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Example of plain background
Photo found on untamedscience.com

1. Get down on their level
2. Use plain background
3. Use Flash Outdoors
4. Move in closer
5. Take some vertical pictures
6. Lock the focus
7. Move it From the middle
8. Know your flash range
9. Watch the light
10. Be a picture director

Example of using Flash Indoors
Photo found on www.popphoto.com

Example of getting down on their level
Photo founded www.animal-zone.com

Example of "Flash Range"
Photo founded on www.exposurebyjtalley.com

Example of "watching the light"
Found on www.miscellaneoushi.com

Example of "be a picture director"
Photo by Glow Imagery

Example of lock the focus
Photo found on flickr.com

Example of "move to from the middle" or "Rule of thirds"
Photo by: Theresa Husarik

Unit 2: Blog Entry 1

In your blog,

• Write the criteria from your presentation, along with the elements and principles of design
• Explain your criteria
• Define the elements & principles of Art and explain how they tie into your criteria
• Use examples that were used in the presentation as well as any new one's you can find to add to the discussion

The Principles of Design:                        

• balance                                                  
• Pattern
• Rhythm
• Contrast
• Unity
• Emphasis
• Movement

The Elements of Design:

• line
• shape
• form
• color
• space
• texture
• value

Answer: 

The criteria on why photography is art are: 

• self expression
• process of thought
• fine art
• modern art
• telling a story
• craftsmanship
• different aspects
• composition
• understanding of art

These are some of the main ideas of why photography is art because taking a picture is more than just clicking the button there is thoughts, angles, techniques, etc to a simple photograph. 

The Principles of Design:

Example of Balance
Photo found on www.johnchiappone.com

1.) Balance is an equal amount of distribution, stability.
2.) Pattern is a repeating design.
3.) Rhythm is a repeating pattern that has to do with movement.
4.) Contrast is the difference from something else.

Example of Emphasis
Photo found on blogs.egusd.net

5.) Unity is joining or coming together as a whole.
6.) Emphasis is importance or value given to something.
7.) Movement is physically changing position. 

Elements of Design:

1.) Line is mark or a band
2.) Shape is an outline of a figure

Example of texture
Photo found on www.digital-photo-secrets.com

3.) Form is a visible shape of something
4.) Color is the result of the way an object reflects
5.) Space is the free area or availability 

Example of Shape
www.digital-photo-secrets.com

6.) Texture is the consistency of a surface 
7.) Value is the importance or worth something has

Goals for Photo 5-6

• In your first blog entry, write about what you want to accomplish in Photo 5-6. Include at least one of your best works from Photo 3-4. Also write about the camera you are using and anything new you learned about it.

One of my best photos taken in Sedona, Az

• My goals for photo 5-6 are to improve as a photographer.  I would like to get out of my comfort zone and be a risk taker with my photos this year. I want to explore different areas of photography and just get the most out of this class. The camera I am using the Cannon rebel 3T. For the most part I know how to use it and its functions, but I learned more info about the histogram. 

Montage: Activity 4

Activity 4

• Find two examples of photomontages that are either from a commercial source or from a fine art background. Discuss in what context they have been produced and what techniques they share with political photomontages. 



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• What messages, if any, are communicated through these photomontages and how effective do you think they are? Consider different ways that each image could have been tackled by the artist and come up with an idea for ‘another in the series’. 

 Answers: Both of these examples are from a commercial source. They are trying to say come visit Paris or the end of the tunnel. It's persuading, you to do something. Techniques they share with political photomontages would be photo manipulation to make you think a certain way. As, far as messages go, with these photos, they show that they want you to do something. 

Montage: Activity 3

• Questons:
• As editors exercise their ever-increasing power over information control, what limits would you impose on them as to the extent to which they can manipulate the photographic image? 
• Devise a series of guidelines that will control the release of images that have been constructed for media use so that the public is aware as to the extent of the manipulation.

• Answer:
• Guidelines that will control the release of images would be:
• A policy that no photo manipulation will be allowed towards images that will be released.
• If possible contact sheets available for proof.
• No images focusing on opinion, if there are any, they will not be released. 
• Only true and factual images will be published and edited.

Montage: Activity 2

• Questions:
• Find two examples of political photomontages that are either from a historical or contemporary source. 
• Discuss in what context they have been produced and how effective you think they communicate their intended message. 
• Discuss the techniques that have been used to assemble the examples you have chosen and offer alternative ways that the artist could have put over the same message. 

Answers:

For both of these images, the intended message was loud and clear! Bush seems evil, which is an opinion because people love/hate this American  politician. This image might be effective just because it totally depends on what you politically believe. Bush is obviously not the Devil, but he also didn't really change or help the US. The techniques used for this image are masking, color changing, etc.
For the Hitler image, well the picture's intended message was that he was heartless, but there is no need for intended message because even without this image, he was still known for being heartless. The techniques used for the Hitler image would be fades, dissolves, split screens, double and triple exposures.  

Montage: Activity 1

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• Briefly discuss why you think painters of the Victorian period might have criticized these early photomontages and why the pictures were popular with the general public. (This technique of piecing together separate images to create one picture is again very popular with both artists and the media). 
• What two reasons can you think of for this revival of an old technique? 

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• Painters of the Victorian period might have critiqued early photomontages because during the Victorian era they were realist and used a lot of logic and photomontages were unrealistic or seemed fantasy. They became popular because they were creative and just fun to look at, as in different perspectives.
• Two reasons that I think that an old technique started to trend or it become revival was because of ads, TV, and social medias use these types of methods to get people to buy and consuming. Another reason would because of celebrities, presidential campaigns, and musicians use them to attract more people into joining their cause or become their fans, its about about gaining some type of publicity.