Working on my Photography Skills
How have I grown ?
Since I started becoming more aware of my photography and investing more time into to it including my digital arts class I have learned a lot. The idea of long exposure for stars and light drawing has been wonderful. Being able to take a good portrait has also been a big mile stone. then the aspect of landscape and capturing what I can see in my eyes to a limited view on a camera screen has been hard. All of these skills can be seen in the photos to the left. Everything is a work in progress and I would love to continue to pursue the photography career as a hobby and option.
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Creating a logo Project
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Project ReflectionIn this logo project I learned how to use many different tools including illustrator. It was a great skill to see how to make a logo with a new computer program. When I first did my sketches in my notebook I had a lot of ideas. Trying to make my ideas more focused was hard but I decided to go with a more boxy look. The way I made this logo represent me is with my initials. I used a G as the main and then made a b inside the G. It looked to me like I can almost put it on anything with a background.
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Self portrait Project
To what extent does a work of art depend on the artist’s point of view?
Every artist is a different person and we all have our different point of view. An art piece is completely dependent on how the artists point of view works. If I paint a cloud on a black background And I see it as a sad rain cloud the other person could see it as a sheep. Every piece of work that I have created has been created in my own mind first and then it comes out in a different way. I may see the work as something but the audience can get the wrong message without an explanation. I think the point of some good art is to convey a universal message and thats a hard thing to do. Everyone in this world will see different things different ways.
What problem solving skills are employed in making visual reflections of self?
The problem solving skills for creating a reflection of self is a lot more complicated then just one way to solve it. During this project I learned that creating a piece of art that represents myself is much more then just taking a picture. I have to represent myself in a way that can show my personality and also who I am with just one image. Its a very hard thing to do and to solve. The way that I solved this is by taking a black and white photo of myself and editing it.
Every artist is a different person and we all have our different point of view. An art piece is completely dependent on how the artists point of view works. If I paint a cloud on a black background And I see it as a sad rain cloud the other person could see it as a sheep. Every piece of work that I have created has been created in my own mind first and then it comes out in a different way. I may see the work as something but the audience can get the wrong message without an explanation. I think the point of some good art is to convey a universal message and thats a hard thing to do. Everyone in this world will see different things different ways.
What problem solving skills are employed in making visual reflections of self?
The problem solving skills for creating a reflection of self is a lot more complicated then just one way to solve it. During this project I learned that creating a piece of art that represents myself is much more then just taking a picture. I have to represent myself in a way that can show my personality and also who I am with just one image. Its a very hard thing to do and to solve. The way that I solved this is by taking a black and white photo of myself and editing it.
Teacher Creature/ Model recreation
Our Project Objectives: Envision and Critique to reflect. Recognize, demonstrate, and debate philosophic arguments about the nature of art and beauty (aesthetics).
PROJECT REFLECTION
In this art project I took a Super model and changed her into the figure of Mother Nature using Photoshop. First I begin with just the image of the super model. I then made her skin and tone into a lizard’s skin tone to make it look realistic. After that I made her hair into a waterfall using many steps. The first step that I used was I took a water fall and made a clipping mask. After that I change the hue of her hair to blue and blended the 2 layers together. The final steps I took where just small refinements to make the product better. The Hardest part of this project for me was creating the waterfall hair. At first the waterfall would not blend in wither hair very well because it was still brown. How I got past this was I changed her hair color to blue and then they matched a lot better. What I have learned about my art style is I like to take and image and make it into something that is relatable to the first image but has changed in a way that can be respected. The underlying structures of art will always guide art because it is what can “make or break a piece of art” If you have not made the art piece in the right way or forgot to add something it can look horrible.
Photoshop Tutorials
I used the hue and brightness effects to modify the color. I also used the shape tool to create the geometric shapes. Multiple clipping layers made the outer box image be flipped. Quick selection,stamp clone, and layer style page and tool was used as well.
Creating a Polyscape
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Project ReflectionAt the beginning of this project my Photoshop skills where on the weaker side. I knew how to effect lighting and change hues and such. I really wanted to learn how to create something called a polyscape. This is when you take multiple images and put them together though shapes and lighting. To learn how to do most of what I did I had to research the topic. I look at many images of polyscapes and how the composition of the image worked. Then I went to YouTube and found a video that made the most sense to me. Even though I followed the video closely I did want to add in my own Ideas. By changing the hues and saturation I was able to make images that had completely different color schemes look good to top of each other. One problem that I had with this project is my time management and also using different versions of Photoshop. Even though I didn't get to make as many as I would have like to I did make something I'm proud of. If it is possible I would like to continue making these until I can take the photos and make it out of my own work completely.
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Helpful links
http://jetsetcom.net/useful-resources/photoshop-cc-resources.html
http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/index.htm
http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/index.htm