Personal Metaphor

I'm a Foul Ball waiting to be a Home Run

The reason why i chose to be a baseball sitting next to a foul line is because baseball is all what i did my whole life. The reason why i chose that metaphor is because i really do feel like that. I feel like I'm nothing right now just like a foul ball, I'm not a known person like a foul ball people don't care about a foul ball. The metaphor says "waiting to be a home run", that's what I'm doing is waiting to be big/known. A lot of people like home runs and know home runs and that's what I'm waiting to be, like a home run and being known by everybody.

The things i did well on this project is i think i did myself very well. i kind of do look like a baseball sitting next to a foul line. Other things i think i did well were putting the people in the background and making it look like it was a real game. Some of the things i think i could of done better is make my self look more round like a baseball. In this project nothing was really difficult because i knew how to do a lot of things already but, the hard part was knowing how to make myself into a baseball. I looked at a lot of tutorials and couldn't find one. When i was done with the project i think i did very well. Everything looks clean and all the edges look good they don't look like i cut them out.

Shutter Speed

The setting on the camera for the picture perfect is that we had the ISO on 5000 and we had the shutter speed on 15 sec. It was pretty cool working with shutter speed, the reason why is because if you move it makes it look like you were a ghost or something. Also because when we did the light graffiti, i really liked it how you could draw something and it will record it.

ISO: Film Speed

ISO is very easy to use, what it does is it enhances your picture alot and makes it look like a picture with the flash. when i used the flash it really put alot of light into my photo, as i used the ISO the higher the ISO was the more enhanced the picture was. I would rather use the ISO then flash because when they use flash in your face u might skint or make a funny face because of the flash. But, when you use the ISO you wont skint you will look the normal. When you use a fast ISO it wont let a lot of light come into the picture.

Fill in Flash Experiment

Fill in flash is basically a cool way to get rid of shadows in a picture. When you could use fill in flash in pretty much any where, it will get rid of some shadows you have in picture and reveal your skin color instead of a shadow. The third picture is a very good example of fill in flash, look at the last one and see the difference.

Metering

A light meter measures the light in the room. It will enhance your photo's more and see the emphasis. The top picture is a good way of metering it measured more of the computer's light then anything else in the room. The bottom picture it measured my partners skin tone and made her stand out.

Surrealism "Trapped in a Bottle"

In this surrealism picture the thing i did is put me trapped in a bottle under water. I also put the tarantula right next to bottle because he is trying to get me. That spider will do anything to get me even if i was under water. But the main reason why I'm in the bottle is because I'm trapped and i cant get out, and then the spider is trying to get me but he cant because of the bottle, he cant get in.
In the picture the spider seems like it has lungs like a fish because spider really cant go under water. Also it seems like the person is losing air in the bottle because bubbles are coming out. Another thing in the background there are mountains of dirt making it look like its a field or something.
What there trying to state in this picture is that spider's really cant go under water and walk around, they would just die. Also what the artist is trying to do is it looks like the person in the bottle is either scared of the spider or is sad because he is trapped in the bottle and no way to get out.
my opinion on this picture is they tried to make it look very surreal. They did a good job making it look surreal and realistic, a very creative scene. They could of added a little more to it because it looks a bit plain. But overall the whole idea was good and they put things together very good.

Graduation Program

I think i did very well on the wording and making everything visible and easy to read. I also did well on the text placement and size of the words. What i think i didn't do well on this program is the color, i think is should of used more color then just black. Graphic design isn't really hard, the hard part about it is figuring out how to do it and putting it all together. I think the most important part about graphic design is the wording and the background. You need to emphasis what your selling or what your customer wants. Some advice i think you should give your students for next year is use more color nit just one color, also not to use the same fonts to every word.

Alternate Program: Academic Excellence

After looking at all the other program covers and there designs i think i did pretty well with putting all the information i needed on the cover. Also i think i did well on making everything visible and easy to read. But, when i was done and i seen all the other covers and how they designed it i think i should of used different fonts and not the same font for everything. Another thing i think i could of done better is not using so much purple, i should of used different colors that went together. I didn't really struggle with this cover because it was really simple, but i did struggle on how to put it all together. The program cover i think i did better on is the graduation cover, the reason why is because it doesn't really have a lot of purple in it but it does have one simple color. But, overall i think i did pretty good on both of them.

Effects

The effect that i like the best is the emphasis. The reason why is because it makes me stand out alot. Also because there are alot of things you can do when you do a picture like that. The glow picture is cool as well because it looks like a picture from a wedding. Then the cross process picture gives a cool look. You will know what i mean if you are in Ms. Cooks class.

Frames

The picture that i like better is the second one at the bottom. The reason why is because it makes the people looking at the picture think why the model is hiding behind the frame. It gives it a more artistic feeling, like you can actually feel wat he is feeling. What i think i can make the first picture look more artistic is not have all those cars in the bckground. The background is the most important part of the picture. So next time i would make sure to look whats in the back of me to make the picture look more better. I really liked this project we did, if we could do it agian i would try my best to make my other pictures look more artistic.

Balance: Asymmetrical vs Symmetrical

These photo's we took were symmetrical and asymmetrical, we were trying to figure out which way would look better. A symmetrical photo is having mainly everything in a similarity in shape and size. An asymmetrical is characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangements of parts. I think by doing this makes the pictures look more balanced and in order. It helps the lookers see the picture more better.

Group Collaboration

I think the most difficult thing doing this group photo is figuring out how we should take the picture with everybody in it. But it was easy for use to figure it out because we decided to use a leading line to make sure everybody is in the picture and that anybody that looks at it will see everybody. If we had to do the group picture again i think we shouldnt really change anything because these came out pretty good, i really liked them and the ideas that are members of the group had.