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.