week 6

Assignment: To continue with the project using things that you are passionate about.

Craft: I combined five photos using photo shop. I took photos using different light sources and angles in the lab. Two of the photos were taken outdoors using sunlight as the only light source. I took one thing from each photo and layered them unto my background. I re sized and scaled each aspect of the photo. I skewed the boot in the photo, changed the photo to black and white, and made the eyes blend in.

Composition: I chose these photo to show domestic violence and the first time I experienced with my grandmother as a child. This is something she and my mother had to deal with, so I decided to depict there struggle. 

Concept: I wanted the image to depict my grandmothers struggle from a personal aspect and the struggle that many women are still going through to date. It seems like the cycle never ends so I used my grandmothers eye and a friends eye to show the history and the modern aspects of the abuse. 

week 5

Assignment: Take a photo that will relay your intended message.

Craft: I chosea topic that upset me and took a photo that could alter to relay the message. I want to combine 3 images but this image will be the background.

Composition: the photo symbolizes the happier side of love.

Concept: I want to show the love/hate aspects of love.

week 4

Assignment: To resize and play with the coloring in the images we created using photoshop.
Craft: when importing my saved picture into photoshop I played with the coloring using color saturation, temperture, brightness & contrast, and the black levels. I used image size to resize my photo to 11x17 and changed the resolution to 300. When printing my image I changed the resolution, image size, and the paper size. I printed the image on regular and glossy paper.
Composition: I used this photo because it was the most interesting image. The image is intended to look like an old photo.
Concept: Merging lincoln and a young African American male, showing humor and history.

week3

Assignment: Combine a linclon era photo and a photo that I have recently taken.
Craft: I uploaded my recent photos and saved them to a new folder. I moved the lincoln era photos from the flash drive and saved them in a folder labeled old photos. I went into photoshop and imported the photos into the program. I used the new photo as a background and two shots of lincoln. I copied lincolns face from both photos. I placed each face on top of my friends in the photo using the scale tool. I changed the photo to black and white, lightened up lincolns face, and lined the eyes up with the people in the background picture. I used the brightness/contrast tool to make the skin colors match the burn key to lightened up the eyes.
Composition: I chose these photos because I wanted to merge the ideas and roles of the young African American male with the importance of lincoln to our culture and history.
Concept: I am trying to display the African American urban culture of todays youth and add a little of the history to it, which added a little humor to the photo.

week 2

Assignment: Find 25 lincoln era photos and 25 new photos. Include 15 recent photos.

Craft: I found 25 lincoln era photos using different web sources and I took 15 new photos to add to the photos saved on my memory card. I saved the photos to my flash drive then I used lightroom to organize the photos and print them out.

Composition: I chose this lincoln era photo because I like the intensity of the head on view.

I chose this new photo because its a picture of me and my best friend.

Concept: I`m going to use a head on shot and a photo from a party. I want to show a serious side and a fun side.

week one

Assignment: Set up gmail and blog account.

Craft: Got a photo off the web, started a gmail account, started a blog account, and set up a blog.

Composition: This picture symbolizes a very happy time in my life. I took it my senior year while visiting southern universities. I chose this template because it highlights my personality which is soft and feminine.

Concept: I am determined and not easily persuaded . I never let my environment or the people in it sidetrack me . I remained focused and I put all my energy into obtaining my goals.