Final Artist Statement

I think that I was a little successful in Photoshop. That is because I like how my personal words is looking like that’s because that was just the first time we did something like this. Though it came out looking okay for my personal words it didn’t come out perfect, although it was nice for me. I also like how some of my quilts came up that’s because the quilts that I thought about a lot didn’t come out looking nice and the ones I just didn’t think about them. I also like my surrealism but it was a little hard trying to put everything together and making the under water and making it look realistic. I did struggle a little with making them on Photoshop and them coming out the way that I wanted them to.

Like it took me a long time in order to do my surrealism because of the water and I took most of my time making the water look perfect. I would improve on making sure some of the things come out perfect and that I turn them in on time and try to manage my time more wisely then before and to stop procrastinating. My most favorite thing would be the rules and the camera setting that we can change so that our pictures don’t come out as they used to be. I would most definitely use this knowledge in the future so that when I go on trips the pictures will come out better than before.

My life experiences have changed so much on the way that I look at life now. My life experiences do change my art work because that is where I get most of my ideas. That is also from where I get my inspiration from and the pictures. I see the world so much differently because even the smallest animal or creature makes a difference in our whole world or universe. Even we don’t see it though we know it is true. I have seen growth and improvement in the way that I take my pictures and I have to think about it before I take a picture. The most meaningful project to me would be one of my quilt squares and that is the Past quilt square. That’s because it basically sums up all the things I have had to go through these three years. The thing is that you look back and know that you were able to handle that problem.

Blow Out and Panning

For the Panning the ISO was 125 and the appeture is F2.8 and the shutter speed is 1/13. Now for the blow out the ISO was 50 and the appeture F8 and the shutter speed is 1/6. You create the blow out effect by changing the ISO and the shutter speed and the appeture. I think that it is the best way to let more light in when its dark. You should change the appeture and the shutter speed. It should keep the dark colors and blur the lighter colors in the sunlight. I changed the ISO and the appeture and the shutter speed. Panning was very difficult because it would make the person blurry and not the background or sometimes the person would look like a ghost runing and it was hard in making our partner look as clear as possible.

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed what it does is that you can use this in the dark and you using a flash light or some sort of light that you can use to make yourselves seem inside a bright place. The shutter speed is that it is how long it lets the light in so the you can make figures or something surreal. It also allows you to show movement and lets in more light. We had to put our camera in the shutter speed and the ISO because the camera takes care of the appeture. It was hard in the beginning although it was very fun to do and easy and weird at the same time. The setting in the room was that it was as dark as possible. I would choose changing the ISO because that is what lets more light into the camera and with more light you are able to see the movement. My favorite picture was with us having two heads and Brisa's head in the middle of everyone like a ghost.

Aperture

Apeture is the pupil of the camera. The pupil of the camera is how deep it can take a picture and how big the pupil is. Like in the first picture that is a very large depth that is because it took a picture of a lot of flowers. Like in the second picture it has had a small depth that is why it only took a picture of only one flower. Although when you have a large pupil then you have a small depth and when you have a small pupil then you have a large depth of feel. The hole in the first picture is big and the second picture the hole is small. In the first one the f-stop is small so the small f-stop is like a f-22 and the second one would be big so the biggest f-stop is f-2

ISO

Flash

ISO 50

ISO 400

ISO 800

ISO 5000

What ISO really does is that it refers to the film speed and it also captures the background light. It captures the background light and lets more light in so that you can see your background good and the flash actually makes your picture a lot more blurry. Whe I used the flash it made my background very blurry and you couldn't make out the lights and with the ISO you can see your background. Over the course of the pictures I can see that it makes this weird texture to all of my pictures and makes them more visible. I would actually rather use the ISO so that it makes my pictures a lot more brighter and lets more light in. You have to be very careful that your not letting in to much light or else it will make your pictures very bright and not able to see anything or make them blurry sometimes

Flash

The pros of using flash are that you add light to dim lit situations. Another pro wouold be that you freeze time, and it elimantes blur. The cons of using flash are that you distrub the subject. It creates ugly lightning sit spots and red eyes and it also darkens the background. Flash is good to use when you want to capture the light of the city. Flash is not a good idea when it is dark outside because it makes your background dark. This picture looks better without the flash on becasue you can capture the vivid colors in the background and the colors that the city has at night.

Surrealism "Under water City"

In my surrealism it was about a crazy dream that I had. It was as if I was floating in the water. As if I was looking at the world from the top as if I was trying to find out something. Like if I was trying to find out who I am and what is going wrong in my life. Trying to find a way out of my problems although I was stuck in this light bulb with no way out. As I was trying to find a solution to my problem and that is what I think its about. The city and me being under water was that I was drowning with how huge my problem was getting and trying to find out what to do. Me looking down at the city is that I am trying to find myself and a solution so that I can finally have some sort of peace

Surreal Practice Tutorials

We did so many different kinds of things becuase they were a little easy although the steps were long. We tried to blend everything together so that I can seem as if it was real. We put down a drop shadow and we just changed the color of the eye and the desert and we tried to make it seem real like blend two different colors together. We put clouds together and blended some stars and made them a little lighter to make it seem as if that is how the sky was. This will help me out on my surreal artwork because we have pretty crazy things in our dreams and the things are the same as like the desert and just something random in them.

Art Show "Stand Strong"

My artwork is about me and the struggles that some people that I know are going through. How they should keep themselves from falling down and to help you to stand strong and not fall. That is what will make us strong all of the struggles that we go though on in life. Our struggles make us stronger so that we become a better person on in life. It tells me that I should look at all of my struggles and know that they are the things that made me the type of person who I am right now. I picked this picture because everyone goes through all kinds of struggles although they make it seem as it’s the end of the world although we must keep our heads held high. I like this picture because it makes you think about the struggles that you have had and the way that you handled them.It makes you a stronger person and to let you know that you can handle anything that comes in your path.

Graduation Program

The strength for my design I think would probably be the way that I made it simple and it's not so crazy like other peoples it is. You can tell that it is a graduation program becuase it has a graduation hat and a diploma. You can also tell that it is from Cesar Chavez High School becuase of the pegasus in the back of the program. I could have put a picture to not make it look so plan and ugly like that and so that it is a little more interesting. It was a lot harder than what I thought because its hard to find something that the person would like and especially not being able to really know what they would like to see. The most important parts would be the pictures and the letters because they are supposed to catch your attention the most. Graphic design plays a huge role in society because they use it for mostly anything even for colleges, movies, television shows, soup operas, television ad and for selling all kinds of things.

Si Se Puede and Academic Letters

The strength in my design for my Academic Letters was the angle that I took the picture from and the way that I gave other people the prspective of how the students look at the school and the way that the words are put together in a different style. I could have been more creative with the picture in my Si Se Puede program because its simple and its a little crazy. I struggled the most with the pictures for both of the programs and how to put them together in order for them to look nice although creative and amazing. I think I did better on Academic Letters because its a lot nice and you can tell that I took a longer time on that then on the Si Se Puede program.

Personal Quilt

My Quilt

Future

Outside

Inside

Past

In the beginning I was struggling so much because I was thinking of it too much. Once I startes to just relax it was so much easier for me. I just asked Ms. Cook for some ideas on what I could do to make them look a little more similar and vivid looking. I then started to look at all of them the same and I just started to do all sorts of things, although my quilt squares are a little simple but that's how I feel and the person that I am. The hardest one for me was my future because I was having trouble on knowing what I was going to do. My least favorite quilt would be my inside. It was my hardest and least favorite because I wasn't being creative and I should have taken more time on doing it.

My favorite square actually turned out being my future square because it has everything I wanted and everything that I wanted to do. Like I would like to become a chef and graduate from high school and college. I would like to go to college and go to Hawaii and the beautiful background of the river makes it look so peaceful. In my outside and inside it is a little bit and totally different kind of person although in a way still the same person everyone can see on the outside or who actually knows me. I have pictures ofmy loved ones in my outside and inside because if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have been who I am right nor and they helped me out when I needed someone to talk to.

I think that it was hard for me to express myself visually because it's hard for me to express my self to someone else unless I know them from a long time. I was a little surprised to what some of my friends and family thought of me. They saw things that I would have seen unless they showed me. I am not happy with some of my quilt squares because they look so plain and boring to me like they really don't have any meaning to it. I would do different from some of these quilts would be to take my time on them and think about it a lot more. I would keep my future and also my outsde square beause they look nice and it's how I was really feeling about all of the quilt squares.

Artistic Statement

For my portfolio you will find and see that some of my pictures are not very nice and they look a little weird. Though this is the first time that I get into a class for art and this is the first time that I get graded for my pictures. You will see that some of my pictures are creative and crazy although some aren’t. I feel that my portfolio is a little weak and I could have been a little more creative to have better pictures and I should have put some more effort for some of these pictures. That in a way it is hard for me because this is the first time that I start to use a professional camera and that I get into Photoshop.

I have learned so many things over the past semester and they are being very useful now that we do these other projects. I have learned things off of Photoshop and the digital camera. Like the different kinds of compositional tricks with these tricks it makes your pictures a little more unique and different from the other pictures. I have learned in Photoshop that you can cut something out and you can change the way that you look to make yourself look a little better and make your picture even better than what it looks like.

I think that I was most successful with the project of personal words. I think that was the only project that came out how it was supposed to. It was even easier because I already had an idea of what it was going to look like although I didn’t think that it was going to look so nice. I thought that the personal words project was easy and exciting. I really struggled with the compositional trick simplicity. I thought that it had to be just a boring picture. It was hard for me to find a simple background and I just was a little confused and didn’t know what to do.

I need a little improvement on having ideas and knowing what I am going to do because without that I will be confused and the projects won’t come out right. I could also have a little of improvements on Photoshop because I still get a little bite of struggles on that. I have seen improvements in me taking pictures. Some of my pictures look a little weird although actually they end up looking nice or a little better than how I had started. Like if I take all the pictures that were when I had started then the pictures would look better and you could see the difference. I love this class because it has given a better idea on what is beauty and what is art and the way that I see the world.

Personal Words

The lyrics I chose for this project is Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis.

"I didn't need the pain. Once or twice was enough. And it was all in vain. Time starts to pass. But something happened with you. My heart melts into the ground. Found something true. And everyone's looking round. Thinking I'm going crazy. But I don't care what they say. I'm in love with you. They try to pull me away. But they don't know the truth. My heart's crippled by the vein. That I keep on closing. You cut me open and I. Keep bleeding love. You cut me open. Trying hard not to hear. But they talk so loud. Their piercing sounds fill my ears. Try to fill me with doubt. Yet I know that the goal is to keep me from falling. Than the rush that comes with your embrace. And in this world of loneliness. I see your face. Yet everyone around me. Thinks that I'm going crazy, maybe. But I don't care what they say. I'm in love with you."

I chose these lyrics because I thought of them being so nice and the meaning that they give to you. For example is you just read it just like how it is in a paragraph then you get a better understanding of what she means. This is because we all go through this once in our life and sometimes we are just tired of having all of this pain. That sometimes we just don't want to go through all of this pain again and we are just tired of it. That we shouldn't let ourselves fall down just because of some other persons rumors. I used this song because it has so much meaning to it and for me it has a lot of meaning.

Social Issue: "Don't give up and make the most of what you have to live"

In the very top picture there is this girl that is checking her blood sugar. One the other picture which is the bottom one there is this girl injecting herself. It is pretty dark because of all the colors that I was using. I really like to do this and to inform everyone else about the difficulties of these types of diseases. There are some very different kinds of shades of gray so I was making sure that there would be different shades of gray so that the picture wouldn’t look so dull and simple. There were some dark brown colors and some other ones that were light and that was the only way that I could get the nice shades of grey. In a way it’s a very weird kind of picture though it makes you think so much because of the quote that I put in the picture.

My issue is taking about is that it is hard to live with a condition that you have to be taking care of yourself. My issue talks about taking care of yourself and not letting diabetes or any other diseases take over your life. That in order to make the most out of your life you have to take care of yourself. That it takes a lot of work being able to take care of you. This is because diabetes you cannot eat all kinds of sweets and if you do eat sweets it’s only a little bit. It hurts a lot because you see everyone else not caring about how much they can eat and what they eat. On the contrary when you’re diabetic you have to count your carbohydrates and you have to be careful with anything that you eat. In the beginning it’s hard because you’re so used to eating anything you want to eat and then changing your life in a blink of an eye it’s really hard. Especially when you have to check your blood sugar every day and having to inject yourself because it’s the only way you can be living or the only way you can stay alive. Seeing all these other people not having to worry about all of that and that they don’t have to suffer so much and they don’t have to do all of this in order to just stay alive. It’s better to take care of yourself so that you don’t end up with diabetes because you just didn’t care about yourself. That it's hard to live with diabetes although we should just get on with our life because we have a whole life ahead of us.

Scary Effects

Vampire

Alien

My favorite was the vampire picture. I really liked this picture because it looks so creative and I was able to make an ordinary picture into a vampire with just using Photoshop. The new tools that I learned would be that how i can be able and blend other pictures together. How I can make a picture come out looking like a shaderd glass. My difficulties or the difficulties that I ran into would be painting and making it look like a vampire. I would be able to use photoshop in a place where you can make invitations or for fixing pictures of models.

Critique: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

There is this man in the middle of a lake with a hammer in his hand and some wood on his back. He has a black suit on and he is a little bald. This man is on his knees and it looks like he is about to fall or sink into the water. This man has made ripples around him and the wooden walk way to the lake. There are some very nice and calm colors in the background. The calm grey background makes us be able to see the water and the man in the water.
It looks like he is building some sort of walk way toward the water or lake. It also looks like he wants to get to the middle of the lake. The wooden walkway is the leading line that takes us to this man what also takes us to this man is the ripples that are all around him. That’s what is making us look at this man because there is really nothing around him and he is the center or everything.
This picture portrays that it is empty although at the same time it shows us some calm feeling. It shows us that a place like this would be nice to go.

Photographic Effects

My Favorite was the Adjustment layers this is becuase it was very fun and you can change and make your pictures darker of lighter. I would like to work more on adjustment layers it just has so many cool and interesting things you can find on it. I discovered that it is a little fun and easy to change pictures just to make them nicer and it is also exciting.

Portraits

The portrait that I was most successful with would probably be the Costume/Prop. I think that it is the Costume/Prop because the compositional trick you can really tell and it just looks so nice. For the artisitic portrait I tried to portray hapiness. I also captured some hapiness and that the person is having fun. The prop or costume that we used was his footbal jersey this is because he plays in the football team. Yes i really like the way the picture turned out because it is nice and you can see the compositional trick leading lines and you can see the champions sign. I think that the unigue picture is so unique and different becuase who would see that a person would take a picture of someone upside down from a rail. It was such a frustration for me to get a good picture for simplicity with face becuase sometimes its hard to get a simple background. Although it was fun and it made us think and find something interesting.

Contact Sheet

The picture that I like the most is the one titled with "Rule of Thirds". This is because it is the best looking one for me and it was also becuase it was the first one I took since the beginging of the year. The trick that I may be using day to day photographs would probably be macro. This is becuase, we would be able to see the nice textures of things that you couldn't even imagine. The least favorite of the photographs would be Simplicity. This is because it was hard for me to find a simple background but an interesting emphasis. The photo that was the favorite or that I really liked was the Rule of Thirds this is becuase his expression really made it look fantastic.

Compostitional Trick #8 Fill in Flash

Fill in flash really affected my photos although they really didn't affect them that much. Though you could see the difference between where you can see the background and where you can see the background and the emphasis. You use fill in flash whenever you take the picture and you cannot see the emphasis or you cannot see the bakcground. You use it in order to see both the background and your emphasis.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing With Light

This compositional trick really sets all of the other photos apart because with this you can see the light that you can get in a very hot and sunny place. The feeling that this picture really gives me is that his shirt is so bright that you can see it shine and with his shirt shining you can be able to see his face clearly. It makes me feel that it is a really nice place to have sun and have some shade at the same time.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

What framing really does is that it makes you see what is your emphasis and it makes you concentrate on it the most. The frame in my photos is okay although the first one isn't very good looking because I could have made him be more in the center. Although the photo right above is okay although I could have looked for it to be a little darker place.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme Angles is a very good compositional trick to know because you can make other people see things in a different kind of way. This is because something that is small or short you make them see it from the bottom from an angle that you have never seen them before. I really don't think that my extreme angles pictures are very good this is because I could of made them look more dramatic then what they look like now.

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity

What Simplicity really means is that it has a simple background that makes the emphasis be more visible. Although I didn't do a very good job in these two simplicity shots. Though the things is that simplicity does not mean that the picture is boring its that the background is just calm and not a lot of things are happening behind your emphasis. Simplicity is a very good trick because it makes your emphasis more interesting. You would use it to make them look a little better