Questions

1. My pillow represents the fact that I really value sleep right now. Harry Potter is my favorite book series and is something a treasure. My Disneyland bag shows how much I love Disney and its parks. My basketball shoes demonstrate that basketball is a key part of my life at the moment. My headphones represent my love for music and my iPad represents my love for technology. My Disneyland room key shows that I love traveling (especially to Disneyland). My SAT book shows how important school is to me right now. 

2. I like how I was able to encompass everything I love into my image. 

3. I used color, shape, and emphasis in the composition of this image. 

4. I could improve on the background of my image. 

5. I think that some of my objects will remain the same, such as my Disney objects and Harry Potter, but I think some of the other objects my be replaced by new things that I love. The iPad will probably be way out of use and hopefully studying for school and the SAT will no longer be an emphasis in my  life. 

Advertising Project

Questions 

1. I used Nathan's Fossil watch because it was a nice piece technology that I had easy access to. 

2. My "big idea" was to promote the watch in an appealing way. 

3. I used direct lighting and went with a black and white color scheme. 

Forced Perspective

Created by: Haley Howard, Nicole Napper, Nathan Petrov, Walker Tippet

Questions

1. The first shot is the most believable because the spacing is best in this shot. 

2. The first shot is the most interesting because it's the most exciting: Walker is hanging off of a cliff. 

3. Coming up with creative ideas and maintaining good spacing was the hardest part about taking this shot. 

Combine Text and Images

Practice Still Life

Questions

1. My still life represents childhood and innocence. 

2. I used direct lighting. 

3. I could improve my composition by adding more perspective to my image. 

Bringing Action to Life

1. My favorite part of the image is how it flows together to make one picture depicting movement. 

2. The most difficult part of this process was getting detailed with the brush tool. 

3. The easiest part of this process was using the auto align tool. 

Photographing Water

Station 1

1. It was easy to get a good shot at the right f-stop because if you continuously took photos you were bound to get at least one good shot. 

2. I didn't like the reflection of the water when the flash was on. 

Station 2

1. It was not easy to get a good shot because it was hard to differentiate from the water in the beaker and the water droplets. 

2. I liked that the flash brightened up our shots more because the area was fairly dark naturally. 

Station 3

1. It was easy to get a good shot because the burst mode on the iPhone was able to take several shots to capture the water's movement. 

2. I liked that the burst mode was able to continuously take pictures. 

Station 4

1. It was not easy to get a good a good shot because of the lighting and it was hard to see the water and have a focused shot. 

2. Our team changed the paper in the background to try and lighten up the frame. 

1. My image looks real because it seems as if the train was passing by when the picture was taken. 

The Michelin Woman

This tells the story of Nicole Napper as she crawls through a tire in an obstacle course. 

Green Screen Project

Original Green Screen Shot

My Composition  

Questions

1. It was difficult to get the lighting of the picture I took to match the picture I found on the internet. This is because you it's hard to figure out what position that lights should be in in order to attain lighting that matches that of the shot already taken. 

2. I like the creativity of my composition. 

3. I could improve the clarity of my composition. 

Warhol Portrait

Surreal Photography

My Landscape Image 

Image I Found Online 

My Final Combined Image 

Questions

1. I used the crop, quick selection, and brush tools the most. The brush tool was probably the one I used most frequently. 

2. The best part of my composition is the blending between the my two images. 

3. It was not very difficult to combine two images because I was able to just use the tools we frequently work with in photoshop. 

4. I could have used perspective better to deal with the size of Harry Potter compared to the surroundings of my landscape. 

Surreal Landscape: "City in a Bottle"

1. During this exercise, I learned how to warp an image, blend multiple images together, and add shadows for depth.
2. My final file had 29 layers.
3. I liked this assignment because it challenged me and it turned out to be very cool. I did not like this assignment, however, because it challenged me.

Speed Challenge Quiz

Three Things I Admired from the Ted Talk:

1. I admired his use of variety and colors. 

2. I admired his use of emphasis and focus. 

3. I admired his different uses of perspective.

1. I like the emphasis and focus best in our shot. 

2. I think our shot is amazing because we were able to get up close to a a beautiful flower and we got a unique perspective in our photo. 

3.  I used the accented edges filter in photoshop. 

4. This was a challenge because we had to find a good subject and perspective for the shot in a very short amount of time. 

5. One element of art in our photo was form because of the amount of space the flowers take up in the middle of our image. One element of design we used was emphasis on the flower. 

Abstract

Questions 

1. The original image of the flower (first image) is my favorite because of its detail and ability to lend itself to filters. 

2. The image of the leaf (last two images) shows the best use of elements of art. It uses lines, shape, etc. 

3. My favorite image uses pattern and emphasis. 

4. My favorite image and filter combination is the brown leaf (third pair of images) because I think that the filter really shows off the details in the leaf's lines and makes the image extremely abstract. 

Landscape Assignment

Questions

1. Yes I used the rule of thirds. I emphasized the sky and the sunlight streaming down with it. 

2. I used shape, color, and emphasis. I used these elements of art to draw people's eyes towards the sky. I also used the rule of thirds to attract people's eyes upward and towards the sun.

3. My image was taken during the afternoon. In some aspects this was a good time of day to shoot, I could show the sunlight and blue skies. But, I was unable to get a deep contrast in hues and value that I might have gotten at an earlier or later time of day. 

4. I used the foreground background relationship to show the distance between the field goal and the hills. 

Edge Burning Techique

Channel Mixer

Lab Color Method

Gradient Map

Desaturation 

Questions

1. I think that the channel mixer method produced the best result for me. 

2. I achieved a fairly large value mode for each image. However, the gradient map and channel mixer methods worked the best.

Macro Lens Assignment

Questions

1. Using the macro lens was interesting and made me make some adjustments. At first it was a little difficult to get used to the distortion it created, but in the end it created some really cool pictures. 

2. My favorite shot is the one of the leaf because you can really see the details and differences of color on it.

3. The picture of the three leaf clover has the best use of rule of thirds because the water droplet is placed right on one of the cross-sections. 

Name Assignment

Layer Mask Project

Snow Globe GIF