Thursday, December 10, 2015

Artist Reflection: Trees on Film

The strongest technical aspect of this work is the different color values. You can clearly see blacks and whites in the pictures. I counted all of the photograms ad test strips I've done and I counted 18. It's been a long proses and I'm finally glad I don't have to go back into the dark room for the same project. I think that could have been improved on is the focusing the enlarger and checking to make sure that it's crisp and clean to make the picture look good.

The easiest part of this activity was taking the pictures but the hardest part was figuring out all the necessary adjustments I needed to make for the pictures to turn out pretty. 
I dement rated the objectives because I have the different light values and have the setting on the right place. If I could do it again I would try and use photo grams and strips to get to the ending point. 

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Artist Reflection: Photo Grams

The strongest technical aspect of my work is that I feel like front he first test strip that I've done to the latest one, I've grown in knowledge and I'm able to help other students achieve good results. One of the points that I could improve on is trying to get a verities of white, grey, and black. In my symmetrical one, I didn't get any grey and I think that in the future if I did it again that would be something I would want to improve on. 
I think the easiest part was putting the lay out of the pictures together, but the hardest part for me was tying to deliver then in the end the way I want them to. A lot of the stuff I did didn't turn out the way I thought it was going to and maybe I should have anticipated the outcome 
I demonstrated everything I as suppose to do or tried to demonstrate. There where moments when the objectives where met (especially in the test strips) but I kept going and tried to improve on what I could. One thing that I would have done differently is thinking about what I'm doing and double checking that all the little things are set probably and at the sport they are suppose to be. 

Friday, November 6, 2015

Artist Refection: Make It Pop!

The strongest part about this pictures is that fact that the polaroid make the player stand out. It's almost as if she is 3D appearing. The only thing that I would want to improve on is making both arms break the fourth plain. 
I think the easiest thing about this project was getting the photo. I've had the worst problems with this project. I've started over three times and I'm pretty sure the background was m least favorite things to do. It took me so long the get everything to line up together and to be even. I guess in the end it all worked out because I think it looks amazing and it's probably my favorite things I've done in this class so far. 
I think the objective of this project was to break the fourth wall and I've done that, I also thing it was to change the background which is done. I worked really hard on erasing and placing each and everything single volleyball, number, and polaroid not this picture and from all my struggles i think the thing I would want to improve on is being more careful with my work and paying attention to what I'm working on. 




Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Artist Reflection: Blemish No More


Before 
The strongest aspect of my work is that it is clearly noticeably that the freckles are gone. I'm not sure how the picture that is 'blemished free' became more scrunched in, but it almost enhances it by making it easier to see where the blemishes where and how they changed. I want to work on using the tools more because they where harder for me to use.
After  
The easiest part was fixing the blemishes because once I learned how to use the history brush all I had to do was click on the freckles. The hardest part was the teeth, because I couldn't remember how to select them.
I demonstrated the objective by creating a before and after because you can clearly see the difference in the two pictures. I think I would try and smooth out the skin more.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Artist Reflection: One Desaturation

The strongest thing about this work is the vocal point, it draws you to the center and makes you wonder why the artist did the vocal point. I think I need to improve the photo that I take and use different ideas. It was easy to draw and find the pictures and figure out where the vocal point should be. Nothing was difficult about this activity, the only thing that annoys me is that sometimes the picture is supper blurry like here.
I demonstrated it by  pictures that was easy to find a center point and use it. What I would do differently would be to find a photo that was different, maybe something with nature, and to create a vocal point with that. 

Sunday, September 27, 2015

Artist Reflection: Painting Australia

        The strongest technical aspect of my work is that I think I have an creative mind and I think I am able to use that to my strength when I am drawing or even taking a picture. I definitely need to improve on using my ideas and combining them to create one thing. Sometimes I get down on my self and I like that the idea that I have is dumb.
        The easiest thing about the activity is the drawing part because I know what I'm doing and how I want to do it. The thing that is difficult is the staying focus on one task in the picture because there's so many thing I want to do to it and put on it I get off task.
        I would demonstrate it by painting different things that other people might thing would be a little weird but also at the same time enhance the painting. Something I would do different is using my different ideas on the page instead of staying in the box.