Number project (Easter)

Final Group Project (Diana, Ashley, Jessica, Dan, Tony)

Our project is based on the point of view of a college student. The process of this project was taking photos that represented the typical college life, editing them, and choosing an order to put them in so the project has a nice flow to it. Our first photo is multi framed. It is a sequence of a college student starting to study. The photo also consists of framing of the image, point of view, shape, movement and line. The second photo represents Life and Death . To a student getting a good grade on an exam is everything and getting a bad grade is like death. This also has framing of the image and emphasis,. The third photo moves on to what a college student do in their free time. On nice days a lot of students like to throw a football around. It is a symbol for an American lifestyle because football is a great representative of what American like to do. It also  has shape, color, and space. The next photo is a metaphor for "Party Animal". To represent this metaphor we used stuffed animal surrounded by alcohol. It also has texture, color, shape, and variety. Our final picture is of a girl "coming out of the closet". It is a double entendre. College is a time when a lot of people realize who they are and aren't afraid to hide it so that is why we decided to use it for our double entendre.

 

Group Evaluation:

Jessica: Jessica did a lot of work for our project. As you can see, she was our model on many pictures. She also was giving many ideas, which we used too.

Dan: Dan was very kind to bring the dog for our first idea, and even though it didn't work out, he was helping us out with ideas and he did a good job.

Tony: Tony was our model for photos as well as Jessica. He was making our project easy to work with by making everybody laugh. He also helping with ideas after our original didn't work out.

Ashley: Ashley had many ideas about the project. Also, we were taking pictures in her dorm, and she was modeling for pictures too. Overall, our group was working together very well, and I enjoyed it. 

Point of View, Perspective, Landscape (Diana Shcherbakova & Sophie Moskowitz)

Our piece is from the perspective of a social media (specifically, Facebook) addict.  This person goes through their everyday activities without noticing, responding to, or appreciating their surroundings.  We utilized panoramic shots to emphasize the great deal of beauty and action of the environment around the person looking at the social media.  We also put the technology that is feeding the Facebook addiction in the center of every picture, correlating to the place which this technology stands in the person's life.  Three different images are important to this piece because it exemplifies how mobile social media has become, and that it can be used practically anywhere...including, unfortunately, places that would otherwise provide invaluable learning and social experiences.


Ranking other groups:

1.  Ashley & Honda - easily understood, creative, powerful message

2.  Taylor & Kyle - visually appealing, creative idea, good use of patterns & textures

3.  Ricky & Scott - paid attention to detail, easily understood, detailed thought process

4.  Olivia & Pasama - creative (imagine audience in their underwear), interesting to look at, had a few elements that could have been left out

5.  Dan & Anthony - creative/different idea, humorous, interesting use of the continuous layout

6.  Maddy & Jessica - unique idea, could have been executed a little better

7.  Ziona & Hazel - easily understood, very precise perspective, but not extremely creative

8.  Damian & Arielle - visually appealing image, slightly confusing on EXACTLY whose point of view it is from

9.  Stephanie & Kat - strong image, but slightly unclear whose perspective it is from

10.  Mike & Hannah - texting & driving message is clearly understood, but sometimes overused, not extremely creative

11.  Ryan & Nick - clear whose perspective it is from, but layout and execution of image could have been much stronger

World Records (The Fastest Man)

Pictures for editing were taken from:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120802-cheetah-sarah-cincinnati-zoo-fastest-record-science-usain-bolt-olympics/
http://www.emirates247.com/sports/other/hands-off-200m-bolt-tells-the-beast-2012-08-06-1.470442

UPC Project

Here are my works for the UPC problem project for Visual Literacy class. 

Pictures for editing were taken from:

http://animalspicwallpaper.com/cute-yellow-bird-desktop-wallpaper-large-size/

http://ndep.nv.gov/photo/tahoe_sunset.htm

http://www.aokainc.com/inside-the-body-organs/

http://pngimg.com/download/947

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photos-bullet-hole-glass-isolated-black-image18905403

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/who-made-that-universal-product-code.html?_r=0

Life & Death Project

3 Frames Project

Triangle, Circle, Square

Here is a photo of my cousins' dog that I took about a year and a half ago.

 

And here is an isolated black and white picture with squares, triangles and circles for the project.

Black Square problem (Final)

Black Square Problem

Here are my pictures for the Black Square Problem.

I chose congested, increase, complicated and productive styles from the lists.

My list: 1) Shades (shadows), 2) Minimalism, 3) Anatomy (body parts), 4) Robotic, 5) Yin-Yan, 6)Realism. From which I chose minimalism and robotic styles.

 

Elements Of Art (Diana, Janelle, Olivia (OJ), Ryan)

Harmony

This is a water reflection of a building and trees, and the harmony is in calm water of a lake. The image of a house and trees is very clear and you can see almost every leaf on branches in the reflection.



Movement

As you can see it's a photo of a small fountain near the swimming pool. I like the small splash of water which you can see in the middle of a photo, it's very dynamic and charming at the same time. This photo has a good contrast of movement and stability which you can see in walls of fountain and water. 

Variety

This photo represents variety of different textures, colors and shapes. The colorful and soft carpet, classic neutral color and texture of a wall, and a sharp dark plinth.

Proportion 

Here you can see a change of proportion between the flagpole and my (Janelle's) arm. Both of these elements take up a good portion of the photo and plays with the idea that the flagpole is smaller than it really is.

Rhythm 

The rhythm in this picture can be seen with the repetition of the windows going down is size as they get further away. This makes our eyes travel down the hallway.

 

Unity

This image represents unity between various elements including color, line, shape, proportion, and rhythm.

The straight lines of the Tampa Art Museum carry your eye across the photo, the colors of the museum make the building pop out in the photo and even takes part in the proportion of the photo. The museum takes up a large part of the photo and we can tell it is apart of the foreground due to the clarity of the museum as opposed to the foggy background. There is repetition of circles among the building adding different shapes to the image and making the appearance of the museum more visually interesting on a whole.

 Space: There is a lot of empty space within this image that really catches the eye. All the arches and empty spaces between the designs really contrast with the light coming in from behind it.

Texture: It is illistrated in this photo through the bark of the palm tree. There is much roughness and sporatic growths that constants the sharp green leaves behind it, or the smooth white pillar in the background.

Balance: Balance is demonstrated through the seemingly similar sides of the hallway that causes one to look down to the end. At the end there is a curve which catches the audiences attention and keeps the image from being flat.

 

Color: pink is the main focus of the image. The pink flower blends in with the hair and makes it the focal point. I see mostly secondary colors and cool colors . There are a few line patterns in the image as well.

Emphasis: As you can see the point of focus in the image is the tree, because it is in the middle and in front of the image. The pattern of the building in the background stands out as well. The shadows from the tree reflect off from the building.

Line: The lines in the picture are horizontal and vertical as well. The bricks have a specific pattern followed throughout the whole image. The movement is distributed equally in and is not going in a distinct direction.

Shape: You can see a combination of rectangles and squares throughout the  whole image. There are  few oval shapes and diamond like figures. The image has a lot of depth and your eyes follow it all the way to the back of the image.