PSA

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Warhol

Andy Warhol

·         Real name is Andrew Warhola (8/6/28-2/22/87) (Became Warhol after a misprint)

o   Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Parents from Czechoslovakia (does not exist anymore)

o   Father worked in a coal mine

·         In High School, kicked out of art club because he was “too good”

·         Graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Fine Arts)

·         Graduated with degree for pictorial design & wanted to become a commercial illustrator

·         Designed advertisements for women’s shoes

·         Used Polaroid camera

·         Fear of hospitals and doctors, hypochondriac

·         Favorite print making technique was silk screening

·         Friends & family described him as a workaholic

·         His sexuality was speculated upon and how this influenced his relationship to art is “a major subject of scholarship on the artist”

·         First solo expedition in 1952

·         Coined the term “15 minutes of fame”

·         1960s: iconic American products (pop art)

·         Created The Factory, his NYC studio from 1962-1968

·         Celebrity portraits developed into one of the most important aspects of his career

·         Made films (first one called Sleep – 6 hours of a man sleeping) (1963)

·         1965 said he was retiring from painting

o   1972 returned to painting

·         Designed cover for the Rolling Stones’ album Sticky Fingers (cover made out of real jean material)

·         Produced Velvet Underground’s first album

·         Started a magazine called Interview, worked for Glamour Magazine, Vogue

·         Shot by Valerie Solanas 3 times for being abusive and “too controlling” (6/3/68)

o   Solanas authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist document

o   "Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television – you don't feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it's all television."

·         Marilyn Monroe = favorite model (not painted until after death)

·         Wore silver wigs until he dyed his hair silver

·         Practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic who described himself as a religious person

·         Died of a heart attack brought on by a gall bladder surgery and water intoxication

·         $100,000,000 for one of his paintings (highest amount paid) (“Eight Elvises”)

·         Referred to as the “Prince of Pop”

PhotoShop Reflection

For my PhotoShop assignment, I first used two photos for my main focus. I used the picture of the beach that I took for my landscape shot and I used the picture of two cows that we took for our animal assignment. After choosing those two photos, I tried blending them together. First I made sure the two pictures were exactly the same size and then I went to Image, Apply Image, and blended the too pictures together. At first, the pictures were coming up too light or too dark. So instead of blending the images together, I copy and pasted the cows onto the beach. I used the magnetic lasso tool to outline the two cows and pasted them onto the beach. After placing the two cows onto the beach, I also copy and pasted a picture of spaghetti and meatballs onto the picture. I thought it would be funny to make it look as if the two cows were sharing food (like in the movie, Lady and The Tramp).

After copying and pasting that image, I made it look fish-eyed. By doing that, I made a circle around the spaghetti, went to image, then adjustments, and then finally sphereized the food. It made the food more distorted than it actually was. I also copy and pasted a picture of someone meditating on the beach. With this picture, I changed the color filter of the person meditating. I made the temperature cooler, made the saturation higher and changed the contrast a little. By doing this, I made the person who was meditating look tinted. I also shrunk the person by going to edit, free transform. By doing free transform, the person may become larger, smaller, thinner or wider.

Finally after putting all the pictures in, I wanted to change my background, I added a couple of gradient layers. I did this by making a gradient tool, picked one of the gradients and chose one to put on the bottom left corner. That was my final piece for the PhotoShop piece.

Extra Credit- Blog posts

For this picture, I copy and pasted the image of the restaurant onto my image of the beach. First i found the magic lasso tool to copy the restaurant. After that I pasted the image onto the beach and made sure it fit properly so it looked somewhat realistic. Then I removed the cars in front of the restaurant to make sure it wasn't blocking the front of the building. Finally, I changed the color filter for the restaurant so it matched the beach. 

For this picture, I blended three images together. First, I found three images and made them all the same size. If you don't, the blending process won't work later on. After that, I selected one of the pictures to be a background copy. Then I went to apply image, selected one of the photos, and it blended the image. I changed the type it was so you could see the picture clearer. After I was satisfied with that, I did the same process for the next picture.

For the picture of flowers, all I did was change the filter of these pictures. First, I cropped the image to make it of just flowers, removing everything in the background. Then I changed the photo filter. I made it warmer and changed the color to violet. I did this a couple of times to make the picture seem darker.

For this image i did a threshold on the dog and a color filter for the background. For the threshold, I made 10 different layers of the dog. Then I deleted all the white from each picture and filled in the black spots with different shades of blue. After finishing with the dog, i went back to the background and changed the photo filter.  I made sure the background went with the blue dog (which is why I picked blue and purple for the back)

This picture was for my photo quiz. I did a threshold again and made sure I picked 10 different colors for the dog. After that, I changed the background of the picture to yellow to make it offset to the dog and made it stand out more. Afterwards I fisheyed the dog. I cropped everything out of the picture to make sure only the dog was being focused on,

Little Toy

Birthday Bear

 

fantasy photoshop

copy/paste

Blended

Padres

FISHEYE

Landscape

Abstract:

Big View

Big View PhotoShop

Detail

Architecture Pictures

Heidi Kirkpatrick

Born: 1959 in Springfield, Ohio.

She lives in the Portland, Oregon and joined the Northwest Academy in 2004 to teach high school students photography. She is well known for portraying the world as a woman would see it. Kirkpatrick develops her own images, including silver gelatin printing, alternative processes, photographs using a Holga toy camera, transparent images on film and 3-D mixed media objects.

All of these pictures standout to me because they all have women in them. She is a big influence on me and other women wanting to be a photographer or just to learn about photography. She influences us not to be afraid to take pictures.  She shows us that women can take photos just as good as men.

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco to Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. They were both members of the upperclass. He died on April 22, 1984 in Monterey. He was known for black and white photographs of Yosemite Valley. Thankfully to his photographic memory, Adams received a Doctor of Arts at both Harvard and Yale Universities. His dad gave him his first camera, which was a Kodak Brownie box during his first trip to Yosemite National Park when he was 14. Though his first job was a custodian, it helped him with his photography greatly. His photos were used for environmental purposes and to protect the environment from destructive projects. In 1927, Ansel Adams started work on his first portfolio, "Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras". With generous sponsorship from a Albert Bender, his portfolio was successful.  In 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger conducted Adams in the California Hall of Fame. 

In these few pictures, we realize that Adams uses the sue of line very well. They all stood out to me because you can distinctly see where the lines are. In the first picture, the line is in the middle, making it look like the road goes up to the sky. The second line is in the path of the river going back to the mountains. And lastly, the freeways all make lines themselves. Though they are all very different, line imagery is still there.

Chapter 9: Landscapes!

Camera Settings!!

Depth of Field

• Maximum (f/16, f/22, f/32)
• longer shutter speeds= more detail.
• Tripod= necessary for these types of shots.

Light

• just after sunrise, just before sunset.
• low sun, shapes/ textures emphasized.
• Grand Landscape photos direct lighting is good.

Film

• 100 ISO film.
• Details, slow film needed to capture all of them.

Lenses

• Wide Angle lenses typically used.
• Telephoto lenses used to concentrate on details.
• Macro lenses= for close up images, like detail or abstract shots.

Filters

• yellow filter brings out clouds.
• Red filter= dark black skies, stark white clouds.
• red with a polarizer = max contrast.

Support

• slow film and smaller f-stops for slower shutter speeds.
• tripod is needed to get non-shaky shots.
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The types of Landscape Photography:

The Grand Landscape, Abstract, Detail

Landscape

• "big view" for pictures of outdoors.
• Wide open expanses.
• Large expanse of the scene
• Wide-angle lens: used to capture more of it.
•   Sky is an important part

Abstract

• composed of lines, shapes, values and textures.
• (Tree bark patterns.)
• Get really close to your subject
• Photograph a small part of it.
• When using a macro lens on small subjects you’ll need as much depth
• field as possible.
• Use a slow shutter speed and a tripod for sharper images.

Details

• Rocks,Vibrant Flowers,Simple trees.
• Before sunset, after sunrise.
• Close down the f-stop
• choose a faster shutter speed for a shorter exposure.
• There was a tradition: photographers would look at paintings to gain idea
• for their work.

Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)

• Capture the American West.
• Learned photography in 1854.
• Opened his own gallery in 1858 in San Francisco.
• Began photographing Yosemite Valley in 1861.

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

• inspired by Yosemite.
• Known images in the Valley.
• Changed the way the public views natural world.

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882)

• learned photography in 1860 from Matthew Brady.
• Photographed the Civil War.
• Principle photographer for Gardner's famous book,
• the Photographic Sketchbook of War.
• Lead photographer on the survery on western lands past the Mississippi
• River.
• Died of tuberculosis at 42.
• Inspired other photographers of the 1960s-70s with his documentary style.

Composition= most important aspect of landscape photography.

Viewpoin=t most important aspect of Composition.

Move Camera in all directions to encourage different views.

Achieve balance between unity and variety.

Variety in everything (texture, size, color, value, appearance, subject)

Value- important in black and white shots.

more dramatic = large range of tones.

"contemplative"=less differnt tones.


Visuals/Examples:
Grand Lanscape

Detail





Abstract Landscape

CHapter 8 notes

LOOKING BACK:
Films were slow buildings were stationary
 photographs had a lot of detail, 
varied tones/ value 


Charles Negre- 1840s: used photography to create studies for paintings;  
use photographs as "sketches" for paintings 
photographs= indirect portraits

can be formal or informal

Film

architectural photographs divided into two types, commercial and artistic

commercial- magazines, brochures: most always shot in color

artistic- black and white emphasize values and shapes and texture

Lighting

important interior architectural photography

inside building have dif. lomds pf lighting used

film cant adjus to differnt colors

Lenses

wide-angle lenses are very useful

wider the lens, the more distortion you get

Camera Support

slow, fine-grained film and lots of depth of field

 use tripod when walking around taking snapshots

monopods, single-legged camera supports for walking around, but not for interior photographs

Filters

using yellow or orange filters will separate the clouds form the sky 

the clouds stand out; 

also brings out the texture in the stone and concrete

THE BIG VIEW

shooting with wide-angle lens is convenient

has drawbacks:

perspective distortion- the closer you are the more distortion you'll get

get as far as possible and use the least wide-angle lens possible

shoot straight from the front

 make building look flat and 2D

Detail Shot

features the individual architectural elements building's interior or exterior

telephoto lens: stand at street level and zero in on an intriguing element

Interior Views

need wide-angle lenses to photograph entire rooms for the big view

look better when nearly everything in the picture is in focus, requires great depth of field

closer to the subject= m,ore depth of field so higher f-stop