Katelynn McD's photography

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Mock PSA

Education

Too many kids are not graduating from high school. These are the kids that are going to be running the country sooner than the problem can be fixed. These are the same kids that are three times more likely to end up incarcerated. Did you know that 7,000 students drop out every school day? That is 1 in 3 students not completing high school. When adding it up, it totals to 1.3 students not receiving a diploma every year. However, you can help. By supporting organizations like the YMCA and Boys and Girls Club of America, or visiting Boostup.org, you can help students stay in school. Staying in school leads to success.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Andy Warhol

Fact: these are all true facts about Andy....

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”

Fact: I tried to recreate some of his pictures with my own photography.
Fact: these are the pictures:

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Other Photoshop

In this photo (originally a shot of the creek at Mercy) was done strictly with filters. I was experimenting with the differences they were having alone and on one another.

this was done with selection of the different rocks and filling them in with different types of colors

I shot this of my brother before his formal; and this is normally what he is thinking. so i colored in some white cloud space and entered text.

this was doen by filtering the hue and saturation, after i created the blue sky i was looking for i added a yellow from the side as if it were God...( i know cheezy)

this was in honors of st patty's day comming up. just a simple cut and for paste this bad boy!

Photoshop

Clifford, the Big Red Dog

That is not actually the dog’s real name. However, my neighbor’s were kind enough to let me snap a few photo’s of them one fine Saturday morning.

This photo focuses on the use of Photoshop. In this unit I learned about many different tools of Photoshop. I learned how to make something look fish eye. I learned how to blend images. I learned how to make an images look as if it is a reflection on the water. I learned how to so much more than I had before.

In this photo I used the threshold tool and a few artistic filters. Fist, always, always, always duplicate the background shot. Then the fun begins to make this yellow lab red. The image was coppiced and the dog was selected with the wand tool. Then, the background was deleted from that layer. After, that layer is duplicated about 12 times. From there, the threshold was adjusted to various levels on each layer making sure that each layer was darker than the previous. Following, the color was adjusted from dark to light through the layers. As soon as this was completed, I merged the layers to clean up the mess and merge the layers.

After completing this central part of the image, I played with various filters and adjustments to alter the photograph. After going through many filters I decided I would keep the combination of two different filters to pick from. I chose a mezzotint which has given the picture a noisy feel to it. Then I added a filter called minimum, which cased the image to be darker. I decided to go along with this change because I feel that this enhanced the photo and aloud the dog to stand out more.

In this unit, Photoshop has been the core. I used to believe that Photoshop was only for those who were rich and famous. It allowed them to alter the photo to make the movie starts look perfect all the time. Now, I know that Photoshop can be used to alter photos to look more real or unreal depending upon t the desired outcome.