VOTE Poster

For my vote poster, I really focused on targeting youth. I wanted to send a message to the students of Ontario about how important it is for them to vote. Since the vote involves students in Ontario, everythiug on my poster was thought out and put on my poster to appeal to high school students. The main focus on my poster is the IPhone. The majoirty of teenagers in Ontario have an IPhone. Consideirng teengers love to text and read text messages, I created a text conversation to the students of Ontario who haven't heard about the vote and I gave them some information. To read the text messages on my poster you would need to be looking directly at it. I then decided I needed something that would attract youth from a distance, so I inserted a young looking group of people. I decided to use a bright blue background because it's happy. Lastly, I wanted a intersting way to write "vote", I got the idea from the examples shown in class to put a check mark instead of a "v" and I loved it. 

Macro Photo's

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 Odd Flower Out - Shape/ Balance

  I was drawn to take this photograph becaause even before it was photoshopped the red flower beside the two white flowers, stood out to me. The flowers were very appealing to me because it popped. Once I took this photo I knew exactly how I wanted to photoshop it. I wanted my focal point to be the red flower, to portray that I made a new layer for the flower and changed everything to black and white except for the red flower on a seperate layer. My focal point is a rule of thirds composition. I came to the conclusion that my photo is representing shape and balance. I think the two black and white flowers balance the red smaller flower. The photo is also representing shape because there's two different shapes in my photo. While photoshopping I decided to crop the photo tighter.

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Rocky Way - Texture

I wanted my second photo's concept to be texture. There was one rock that really stood out to me. To make thet rock the focal point of my photo, I cropped the original photo tighter surrounding my focal point. Next I made a seperate layer fothe rock that I wanted as my focal point. Once I did that I darkned the brightness so the rock would stand out more. Lastly, I sharpened the rocks in my photo so you could see more detial in the texture.

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Vibrant Pair - Shape / Balance

I took a photograph of this photo because I saw a lot of potential. Firstly the flowers have such a beautiful shape. The photograph is also balanced since there is another matching flower behind the more focused flower. Once I started to photoshop this photo I wanted to crop out everything that wasn't necessary. Once I cropped the photo how I wanted it, I adjusted the sharpness on the more focused flower because I wanted a viewer looking at my photo to be drawn to that flower right away. Next, I adjusted the hue and saturation on my photo to have more of a vibrant feel. Lastly, I played around with some effects and loved how the effect accented edges looked on my photo so I applied it. 

Photo Restoration

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   In the orginal photo of the these two sisters there was a lot of wrinkles that needed to be repaired. The first thing I did to start the restoration process was I duplicated the layer and changed the photo to black and white. Next I cropped the photo closer around the two girls. Once I did that I started restoring the photo by using the clone stamp tool and reparing all the wrinkles and uneven skin. I'm satisfied with my work because I tried it twice and the first time wasn't a success because I had a problem with the nose. The second time around I was able to make the older girls nose look normal and I also spent a lot of effort fixing the rash on her arm in the orginal photo. 

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  In the orginal photo of this young toddler there was a lot of wrinkles that needed to be repaired. The first thing I did to restore this photo was I duplicated the layer and changed to black and white (when I uploaded the photo it changed back to sepia). Next I used the clone stamp tool to repair the wrinkles. Another thing I did was I cropped the photo a bit down to the toddlers head. I am satisfied with my results restoring this photo because it was the hardest photo to restore, the photo was very damaged with wrinkles. Also, the toddlers face took a long patient time to restore so I'm very pleased it turned out well.

Composite Photo

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The sky I used

The bird I used

The ship wreck I used

Title: Storm Watcher

The composite photo is made out of a few photos. Firstly, I used a photo I took in Couzmel, Mexico on a beautiful beach. I love this photo because it's so bright and the beach landscape is very attractive looking. Once I decided to use this photo I isntantly knew I wanted to put in a crazy looking sky. I thought a stormy sky would best suit the photo. Once I inserted the sky I liked I had a few problems I had to overcome. My first problem was that my horizon line was off centre so I fixed that first. The second problem I had while inserting the sky was that it didn't quite look appealing, to make it look like it belonged to the photo I had to change the hue and saturation. I wanted to change the saturation to look purple because it represents imaginative and creative and I wanted my landscape photo to portray that vibe. Then I changed the water in the orginal photo to match the sky because that would make it more realistic looking because the colour of the ocean is a reflection of the colour of the sky. Another thing I did to my landscape was I inserted a huge huntch backed bird into my photo, I decided to do that because I thought it was a strange looking bird and I wanted it to have some kind of creature obserbving the storm in my landscape. I thought the bird sitting on the palm tree watching the storm was effective. I love how the bird has a huntch back because anaimals tend to huntch their backs when they are frightened. I wanted the storm to be intimdating so having the bird with a huntched back makes you look at the landscape as if it's scarier. Lastly, I inserted a photo I also took of a ship wreck. To make the ship look more like it's sinking I added a square of my purple water around my ship and used my eraser tool to make waves around the front of the boat. I decided to do this because I thought it would best suit my photo because I wanted to give off a storm, I think the ship wreck ties it all together because it's a stormy day with a scared huntched backed bird watching a ship wreck sink, meanwhile, there's a crazy stormy sky.

Composite Photo Critique

   The artist of this composite photo is named Jim Kazanjian. Jim currently lives in Portland, Oregon. In 1990 he recieved his BFA at the Kansas City Art Insitute, then in 1992 he got a MFA from the Art Centre College of Design. Jim is currently working at the Logic Factory. I think this work was done by photo shopping with a lot of different layers. I think the black and white affect was necessary because there's so many different layers and colours added in to the photo, having that affect makes it look more even. I think the original photo is the old abandond house. I think the scenry around the house was added into the photo for example the sky and tree's. I especially think the snow was added into the photo considering there is no snow on the house but there is a lot on the ground. I think the results is very pleasing, it's very interesting to look at, the building is neat looking. It's very gloomy and cool looking.

Digital Painting

Title: Doll Face

Title: Rainbow

Title: Bubbles

The first photo is of Taylor. One reason i think he looks like a doll is because his skin looks smooth and polished all around his face. His skin looks almost like plastic. Another reason is because his facial expression is very plain. The shadow behind him also gives him a three dimensional effect. 

The second photo is called "Rainbow" because of the variety of colours spread throughout the image. The colours are mix more as they go towards the centre. This gives the image a very cool affect, almost as if the colours are being sucked in. 

The last photo is called "Bubbles" because the only things other than the background are bubble shaped. I think the vibrant neon colours are very effective, especially with the black background. I think the simplicity in this image makes it interesting to look at. The only shapes used are bubble shapes but there is still a lot going on. 

Poetry Book Cover

  For my poetry book cover, I wanted a calm relaxing look. I thought a sunset on a beach was very calm and relaxing so I found a beautiful photo of a sunset. I think this photo is suits a poetry cover, it's a very beautiful simple cover and I think it has a nice look. My favourite thing about this photo is the person sitting on the bench, I think it's a nice effect to the photo. I think the contrast is appealing and eye catching. This cover is suited for a poetry book because poetry is relaxing and when people read poetry they are in a relaxing atmosphere, like the beach.

Multicultural Festival Poster

  For my Guelph Multicultural Festival poster I wanted to show all of these different countries and cultures holding hands and celebrating. All of the little flag people are the same size because I wanted to show equality between each country. I wanted the little flag people holding hands because during the Multicultural Festival we will be sharing our cultures with each other. Holding hands symbolizes respect and interest in eachother. I love the yellow gradient because it's a bright happy colour. I put flags on the people to show ethnic diversity that will be at the festival. This poster should be chosen over other's because it shows everything the festival is about.

Mobile Art Installation

For the mobile art installation group project my partners were Taylor and Kyleigh. We used pop cans on our mobile, we cut the cans up and so we could have a more rustic look. We noticed our cans fell into two different types of colours, we had our warm colours which were the reds and browns and our cold colours which were blues and greens. We seperated our warm and cold colours on our mobile, and in between the colours we had our focal point which was a styrofoam ball that had glued peices of cans sticking out. We had a hard time balacning out the cans on each side so it would be even but after playing with it for awhile we managed to balance it. Our theme is a rustic reclying, we loved how the cans were shiny and caught your eye really fast, it was the main reason why we choose cans.

Digital Portrait

In this photo, I used a black and white affect. I also cropped the left side of the photo that wasn't necessary. Another thing I did was I used the clone stamp tool, on the door there was a part that stuck out that looked unattractive. I used the clone stamp and put the sky over the door. I saw a great opportunity to take this photo, the sky was bright and the ocean was a beautiful colour. The photo is of my brother and sister, the emotion is a sibling bond fascinated by the ocean. 



In this photo, I saw a great opportunity to take a photo because of the beautiful sunset. I purposely took the photo so it was a rule of thirds angle, I love taking photos that way it's appealing to me. The photo is of my dad, he was enjoying the sunset and I feel like the emotion is very relaxed. When I photo shopped this I put on the film grain affect. I used that affect because it didn't dull the colour of the sunset which was the main reason I took the photo, also it made the photo sharper.



In this last photo, I took a picture of a lizard in Mexico. It was very common to see lizards anywhere in Mexico. I had an opportunity to get up close to one so I took a photo of the lizard on  a really interesting angle. The emotion in this photo is a typical lizard lying on the grass I  daylight. The photo is very vibrant, I love that about the photo. When I photo shopped it I used the dry brush affect on the photo, I also cropped it because there was a lot of unnecessary grass area.

Overlay Technique

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In my photo, I started off  by cropping it, I no longer wanted a rule of thirds type of photo. I wanted my focus to be the tiger I put over my face, and the bright blue eye's. In the original photo I have white stripes on my shirt that were really taking away the focus of my photo, so I coloured it over with black. I also changed my photo to black and white so the tiger face could blend with the rest of my skin tone and look more natural. What I really wanted to accomplish is my eyes standing out, so I kept them as the original colour and turned everything else into black and white. I also played around with the tiger face so it would fit my face naturally and I also erased near my eyes. A problem I had while editing this photo was figuring out how to keep my eyes from turning in to black and white along with the rest of me. I ended up using the lasso tool to make a new layer for each eye and I was able to accomplish only my eyes not in black and white.

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In this photo, I cropped so it was closer to my face, it didn't seem nessecasry to stay farther away from my face. I wanted to use pink and blue for my gradient tool because the photo that was overlaying my face was pink and blue and I thought it looked neat. For my overlay, I used a flower texture I thought was pretty. I erased the overlay from everywhere but my skin, I made sure it wasn't on my teeth or lips and my eyes as well. A problem I had while playing with this photo is using the gradient tool around my hair, my hair is curled in this photo so I had to get around my curls neatly,it took some time.

I think my final product is succesful. I feel a lot more knowledged after this assignment, I learned a lot and I feel more confident editing photos on Adobe Photoshop. Overlaying photo's is a cool technique to play around with it. I think my first photo is very succesful, it's exactly what I imagined when I thought about what I wanted to do for this assingment. My first photo is defiantly my favourite, I spent a lot more time on it and I like the idea better, but I do like the second one it's happy and fun, the colours are very cheerful.

Andy Warhol

For this photo, I used light blue and orange because they are complementry colours. The shades look really well together I thought. Although, I should've used another shade of blue or orange on my hair or face. I think my face and hair stand out more in this photo.

For this photo, I used different purple analogous colours. I really like these colours together, this photo is really appealing to me.

For this photo, I used different green analogous colours. I had to use the darkest colour on my face and lightest colour in my hair so it would stand out more. I tried using the darker colour on my hair and it wasn't very attractive looking.

National Flag Day

  This is a photo of two hands with a maple leaf painted on them. I took this photo because I thought it really showed our school spirit, tons of students got maple leafs painted on their hands, the painters did a excellent job. When I PhotoShopped this photo I put on the black and white effect but faded it everywhere except for the bright red maple leaf, I wanted the maple leaves to stand out.

  I took this photo when all of our guests who represented our National Flag Day were entering the gym. We were honoured to have all of our guests join us on that day, I think it's very important to have a photo of them. When I PhotoShopped it I put on the black and white effect, the orignal photo had a lot of different colors so I decided to make it black and white so whoever looking at this photo can really take in the different people walking in the gym.

 This is a photo of a Lourdes student who is really showing school spirit. The main focus is his proud facial expression, but I also positioned him so I could capture the Canadian flag in the back of the photo, I faded everything except for the student because I wanted him as the main focus, but I also wanted a visible Canadian flag in the background.

Photojournalism Ethics

   I believe that it is okay to move an object to get a better view on the scene you want to capture, but I do not agree with moving an object that you want to be a main focus of the picture. I do not agree with setting up a photo. Altering a scene becomes unacceptable when you set up the objects you want to capture,  it is not okay to stage a photograph. For example the photograph " It All Began With A Mouse"  is a situation where a photographer took a photo of  a mickey mouse toy on the ground in a war torn country, the photo can give you a lot of different thoughts and opinions,  it is a very sad photo. The problem was after the photo was seen a bunch of photographers set up toys in damaged areas and took similar photos, it was staged and the photo doesn't tell a story.



 I think using software's such as Adobe Photoshop is very useful and it can be a really positive if you use it for the right reasons. When you use Photoshop to edit the color effect I do not believe it is doing any harm, as well as cleaning up photos. Although, if you're removing a main focus to the picture or inserting something else into the photo it is a problem. An example of that is "Sharks invade New Jersey" a numerous amount of people took photos of the storm in New Jersey and inserted sharks into the pictures to make it look like sharks were swimming down the streets of new Jersey, also someone else inserted two sharks into a mall and it created scandal. That is manipulation of Digital Images.



  Although Intrusion into privacy does create some rather entertaining headlines, and broadcasts some sad situations, I think there is a limit to how much you can intrude on someone's private life. I do not think you should be able to take photos of people during one of their private moments without their permission. I think photojournalism's should be able to take pictures of celebrities during big events, but I do not think it is okay for photojournalists to become obsessed with taking photos of celebrities and such during a casual or private time for them. When photojournalists capture families in grief it is very sad and emotional and I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it, but it is very personal to the family and I think the family should give permission before it's posted.

This is a photo of a inserted shark during the flud in New Jersey.

New Kid

   The indivduals I chose to make my new kid is Kara who is the base, Caz's mouth and my eyes. I added our features together to make a new kid because I looked at our skin tones and they seemed like they could blend well. I also looked at Kara's original smile and noticed how Caz's smile was smililar and it looked like Caz's smile would look good on Kara's face. I also made sure Kara and I's eyes were about the same size. I also changed Kara's blonde hair to a dark brown.

   I think I did a good job with working on Kara's blonde hair to a dark brown color, I cleaned up her hair from around her face as well and I think I did a good job doing so. The next time I edit someone's face I will work on blending her skin tone better when I clone it. 

First Post

  I'm excited about this course, I enjoy taking and looking at photos, also playing with the effects and editing photos is something I enjoy doing on my freetime every once in a while.
  I do agree with the studio rules, they are very important rules to follow by and I will uphold them.