Images With Text

Image and Text Proposal

Idea #1: take a picture of a veteran amputee with a prosthetic arm that is lifting weights.  Write the word STRENGTH in bold as a caption.

Idea #2: A petri dish with two stem cells then the third "stem cell" is a baby the caption would read STEM CELL RESEARCH: Saving Lives

Idea #3: Two men holding hands Caption reads: Love is Love or Everyone deserves love

Idea #4: A mixed family of races holding hands, child on dad's shoulder while walking in a park Caption reads: Love is more than skin deep.

Idea #5: A girl, dressed up fancy in a dress and heals sitting daintily at a table with "perfect" written on one forearm in dark black ink

Idea #6p: A closed frame of a woman holding a old fashioned box suitcase that has travel stickers on it and is worn Caption Reads: Life is a journey

Idea #7: A young sickly girl in a hospital bed hooked up to wires and machines caption reads: Still wish you had a different life or be blessed for the life your given or there are worse things in life...?

Abstract

Sarah: Sequence in Motion

In the first set of images, sarah focuses on a brown cow that has stopped in a field.  The cow then turns to run having been spooked.  I like the motion of the dirt flying up from under the cows hooves. This change in direction clearly shows the motion of the picture. I particularly like Sarah's second set of images of a parrot sitting on a metal cage.  The detail of the feathers adds great texture to the image.  I also like her shallow depth of field to show the parrot, but then have the people in the background more blurred. The movement in this set is shown when the parrot shakes and fluffs his feathers.  It is neat how the head of the parrot is more still motion and then as you move down the body of the bird, it becomes more blurred motion like on the end of the tail.  This picture also does a great job of color.  In Sarah's final set of images, she shows the flow of water from the spout of a pot (picture one) to the point of impact in the pond (image two)  I really like how the second image flows easily from top to bottom and how the bubbles are clearly seen on the top from where the water just came from.

Sarah: Playing With Light

Sarah does an excellent joy capturing the warmth of her images. She highlights figures with both darkness and with brighter lights. Her first image of tree branches does a wonderful job demonstrating this. The darkness is shown as a shadow on the underneath layer of the leaves, while the tops of them are almost illuminescent.  The converging lines of the branches both big and small draws your eye through the entire picture. In her second photo, she highlights a church resembling Notra dame in the evening.  The way the lights from underneath the doors and windows gives the picture a mystical feel.  The third image is shot out of a window inside mi tierra.  The lights from inside the window look as if they are colorful confetti falling to the ground outside. I like Sarah's fourth image a lot because of the wonderful texture that cane be seen as the sunlight shines through the tarp.  At first you hold your gaze on the bring sun spot, but then your eye moves to a dark spot to the left that is a shadow of a butterfly.  Her final image show both light and dark through shadows in the waves.  It almost seams symbolic having the light waves represent life and the darker waves to represent where the dead fish lays, having just crossed over from the light side.

Light

Motion and Sequence

Here Comes the Pitch...

Galloping

Color!

Writing Assignment #1

This picture immediately grabs my attention because of the bold shape of the elephants and the bright color of the setting sun. The image, to me, also emits a sense of freedom because of the wide open area around the subjects. For the past five years, I have wanted to travel to Africa.  I have a dream of helping out the children at an orphanage, taking a hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti Plains and going on a safari through Ngorongoro Crater. For me, traveling to Africa would be an adventure to discover a new world and simultaneously bring about serenity of everything being in its natural place. 

Composition

1. Shape, converging lines, curvilinear lines: shutter speed 1/15, aperture 5.6   2. Rule of thirds, shape, symmetrical balance: Shutter speed 1/1250, aperture 5.6   3. Curvilinear lines, closed frame: Shutter speed 1/6, aperture 5.6   4. Shape, closed frame: shutter speed 1/5, aperture 5.6,   5. Shape, Vertical format, alternate point of view: Shutter speed 1/2500, Aperture 5.6   6. Rule of thirds, Asymmetrical balance, shape: Shutter speed 1/1600, aperture 5.6   7. Converging lines, curvilinear lines, shape: Shutter speed 1/1600, Aperture 5.6   8. Closed frame, vertical format: Shutter speed 1/800, Aperture 5.6       9.Asymmetrical Balance, Shape: Shutter speed 1/2500, aperture 5.6   10. Stopped motion, atmospheric perspective: Shutter Speed 1/1250, Aperture 5.6

In Class Assignment

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