Multimedia Poster 2

1. Our Multimedia Festival poster is good because our background is a unique blend of two colors and two pictures. It's appealing to viewers and its vibrancy makes it stand out. The picture accurately portrays the event details. We made sure that Divine's camera matched the background we chose, therefore, giving it a more professional touch.  Also, we decided to make this poster horizontal so it will stand out from the other posters.
 

2.  Our new poster is much better than our previous one because we took advantage of the new Photoshop techniques to make the poster better.  We worked more cohesively and therefore, the outcome was much more to our liking.  The new poster is also better because the background is a blend of two gradients with an abstract design on the corner, instead of the simple red background on the previous poster. 

3. First, we spent a lot of time making the background of the poster. We decided that our new poster would be horizontal instead of vertical to stand out from the other posters. We then blended a white gradient with a red gradient, giving it a softer view. Then we searched for a nice abstract piece of artwork to put in the top left corner to further diversify our poster. Next , we experimented with various fonts to find which one looked best on our poster.  Finally, we typed up all of the required information on to the poster and left justified most of it to give it a professional feel and look.

An Embedded Photographer Empowers the Poor

Top 5 Pictures:

1. Picture #9: 2 boats at sunset
2. Picture #3: net in water
3. Picture #5: hand holding grains
4. Picture #30: man taking bath
5. Picture #22: girl studying

Movie Notes

1.) What was The Photo League's credo?The Photo League's credo was that social change could be achieved through documentary photography  and an emotional connection with one's subject.

2.) What organization did The Photo League separate from? The Photo league was separated from the Film and Photo League which broke up into the Photo League and Frontier Films.

3.) What was the workshop? The workshop was a class taught by Sid Grossman as a part of the Photo League. These classes were crucial to the Photo League because the classes were affordable and offered to any photographer who had a working CAMERA.

4.) Who taught "the workshop"? Sid Grossman was the one who taught the workshop.
5.)If you were to devote one year of your life to one project, what project is worth your time and energy? If I were to devote one year of my life to one project, I would devote it to a project incorporating my passion for dance.

6.)What was The Harlem Document? A portrait of black urban America and the people, culture, and lifestyles of Harlem that was initiated to try and tell the world about the poor living conditions hoping for improvement.

7.) Who started The Harlem Document? Aaron Siskind started the Harlem Document from March 8, 2014 and carried it out until July 20, 2014.

8.) A photographer discusses a photograph where "the children looked like they came out of a ______ painting. Who was the painter? The painter is Caravaggio.

9.) Why did the photograph mentioned in #8 look like it was by the painter? The photograph looked like it was painted by Caravaggio because the boy in the photograph was illuminated by the sunshine and looked special. Many of Caravaggio's works are dark but have the main focus of the painting very well lit.

10.) Who was Lewis Hine? (name two significant contributions) Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photography. Hine used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States

11.) Who was Weegee? Known as Weegee, Arthur Fellig was a photographer and photojournalist that was known for his stark black and white street photography.

12.) How did The League change when The Nazis took power? When the Nazis took power, the Photo League received many talented refugee photographers who had escaped from Europe.

13.) How did The League change during WWII? Photo league members used their cameras to support the war effort in America. Many female members of the League took over operations of the organization at home while many of the Photo League's men photographers were sent overseas with armed forces.

14.) How did Siskind change after WWII? Aaron Siskind brought the concept of abstract expressionism to photography, a far cry from the sociological realism from the Harlem document. Siskind was criticized for his conversion to abstractness.

15.) What was the Saturday Evening post? The Saturday Evening Post was a bimonthly American magazine that published weekly. Many of the photographs used in these magazine articles were taken by members of the Photo League.

16.) Who was Barbara Morgan? What did she photograph? Barbara Morgan was an American photographer best known for her depictions of modern dancers. She was a co-founder of the photography magazine, Aperture.

17.) What eventually undermined the Photo League? Angela Calomiris an FBI informer testified that the Photo league journalists were supporters of Communism and the League as a whole was accused of being anti- American.

18.) What was the "Growing Menace" mentioned in the film? The growing menace was the suspicion mounting on the League by the nation who questioned their ideas about society.

19.) Who agreed to serve as President when The League was under investigation? Eugene Smith agreed to serve as President when the League was under investigation. 

20.) What happened to the league? The league disbanded in 1951.

Multimedia Poster

Concert Poster

Inspire by Adele's concert poster

Period 2 - Semester Final

1. My favorite photo from this Lens slideshow is 7, the picture with the acrobat performing at the NightFest light show. Reason why this is my favorite:
1. I like how the balls of colorful light stand out from the black background.
2. The outline of the acrobat juggling against the balls of light makes it very unique.
3. The color and playfulness of the picture is something very appealing to me.
2. I think the best photo from this Lens slideshow is 9, the picture with the red dear seen through the mist. Reasons why I think this is the best:
1. The bushes on the bottom and branches on top seem to frame the image of the red deer.
2. The contrast of colors makes the deer and bird stand out from the surrounding mist.
3. Depth in the picture is seen  through the difference in clarity between the closer and farther objects.
3. I believe that my best work of the year was done in the Masters of Photography project. I think that the best picture in this was the second, which captures an image of snow on a Seattle street in black and white. Reasons why this is my best work/things to improve:
1. Depth in the picture is seen in how you can see far beyond the street, and into the sky.
2. The black and white contrast helps extenuate the trees.
3. The trees form a frame around the cul-de-sac and house.
4. If given more time I would experiment by taking the picture from more unique angles.
5. If given more time I would change the depth of the field.
6. If given more time I would change the contrast of the picture to further bring out the branches of the trees in the distance.
4. My three rules of composition are, rule of thirds, color, and depth.
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Composition Rules Example

This picture portrays the rules of color and depth.

    6.  Mr. Farley's first rule of composition is get close.

    7.  Benefits of working in groups:

               1.  Students get exposure to working on a team.

               2.  Students have to. at times, pick up their own slack, or someone else's.

               3.  Students get to work with people of different personalities.

               4.  Students get exposure to what working on a team is like for our future jobs.

               5.  Teachers have less work to grade when each group turns in one assignment.

    8.   Difficulties of working in groups:

               1.  Students can get overly social.

               2.  Students can easily get off-task.

               3.  Students can get into conflicts.

               4.  Certain students will be unhappy with the project.

               5.  Teachers may have a harder time controlling the class.

    9.  My favorite project produced by another student is the Masters of Photography project by

         Marissa Padilla.

  10.  My photographer was Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams used the zone system in order to work with

         the exposure and contrast of certain photos.

  11.  Dorothea Lange's most famous photo was the Migrant Mother, taken in February or March of

         1936 in Nipomo, California. At the time, Lange was taking pictures for the Resettlement

         Administration.

  12. Life Magazine was first published on November 23, 1936.

  13. Elvis was born on January 8, 1935.

  14. Robert Capa was the co-founder of Magnum Photos in 1947.

album cover recreation

This is a recreation of the album cover of Bruce Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town.

original album cover