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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.

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:

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. 

Hey Look At These COOL Pictures!

FishEye!

The wonders of photoshop

Statue in front of City Hall (San Francisco)

Landscape Photography

Big shot after Photo shop

Big shot before photoshop

Abstract

Detail

Architecture

Location 3 - Saint Gregs

Location 3 - Saint Gregs

Location 3 - Saint Gregs

Location 2 - City Hall (SF)

Location 1 - The Peach Dome (Palace of Fine Arts)

7: 15 on a Friday

LAND-ESCAPES!

Subject: the place
Focus: the natural world without humans
-generally more formal
-have many principals of designs

Landmarks in Landscape Photography

• the first inspirations was looked for in the land
• Carleton E. Watkins 
• 1829-1926
• wanted to capture the american west
• opened a gallery in SF in 1885 
• 1861 - photographed Yosemite
• first to be called art
• Ansel Adams 
• 1902-1984
• also inspired by Yosemite

Photographing the Landscape

-Thinking Artistically 

• composition very important
• most important part of that is composition
• position
• high/low
• zoom-in/zoom-out
• goal: best value
• Value (especially in black and white)
• what mood are you looking for?
• more tones = more dramatic
• narrower = more contemplative
• variety
• balancing unity and variety if done well is great
• if not done right can look chaotic

-Camera Settings

• stopt the lens as far as it will go
• f/16, f/22, f/32, f/64
• with longer speeds a tri-pod is necessary!

-Light

• top 2 best times: sunrise and ...... yep you guessed it!..Sunset!
• the colors are just astounding - 
• direct light is best for focusing on distant objects
• the direct light with the shadows gives things a 3D look
• however overcast is best.

-Film

• digital oriented is best
• 100ISO with a large format to get the best/ sharpest image
• B&W shows the value, line, shape, texture, and patterns
• color can sometimes over power images like this

-Lens

• wide angles lens are best for scene
• can focus close and far hours
• Macro lens are useful for close up images and abstract shots

- Filters 

• yellow filters bring out clouds
• other filters will emphasizes the different things
• along with polarizers

-Camera Support

• Use A TRIPOD!

The Grand Landscape

• the "Big View"
• any location (especially parks) is good
•  landscapes include wide lenses and expansive scenes
• with the horizons - rule of thirds

Landscape Details and Close-ups

• japanese parks are best 
• sometimes parks can be too busy
• overcast is best 
• John Sexton refers to it as "quiet light"

Abstract Elements in Land Scape

• abstract elements = images from lines shapes values and textures
• formed by getting really close to a subject
• try and get as in depth as possible
• use a tripod

LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHER BIOS

Timothy O'Sullivan

(1840-1882)

• 1886 - learned by working for matthew bradely
• sent to shoot the civil war (haa ha, get it? shoot- civil war? lol)
• 1862- own studio
• principal for book - photo sketchbook of the war 
• first to photograph beyond the mississippi
• died at 42

Carr Clifton

(1959-present)

• has spent 30 years in photography
• startded in the late 70's 
• learned from his neighbor philip hyde
• he is famous for his out door photography
• he often shoots boats and has his photography in museums. 

Chapter 8 Notes

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• Indirect portraits: buildings of the people inside/ and creators
• similar to landscape photography

Looking Back

• architecture has always been popular
• 1840's Charles Negre - painter used photo's as sketch
• started to see photos as end product - not "sketch"
• Frederick H. Evans (the greatest) 
• photographed English and French Cathedrals in the late 1800's early 1900's
• Eugene Atget started took up photography in his 40's (1840's)
• self taught
• took pictures of Paris and surrounding areas 
• Good friends with Bernice

Photographing the Built Environment

- Thinking artistically

• Can be used as recording of the building to exploration of abstract images
• Pay attention to the lines in the photos - can divide picture/lines/texture
• Be aware of surroundings
• edges
• structure
• the composition of the building
• every building has a pattern: the repetition of the elements in the image

Camera Settings

• for 35mm use f/11 to f/22
• the bigger the camera the f-stop (for the most depth)
• Slow films (100 ISO or less) produce gainer grained images than fast films.

Value and Texture

• With black and white photography, value is most important
• determines shapes of objects
• Contrast: greater the difference in value
• stronger/ more powerful shot
• more 3D
• Depending on the value, texture plays a big role
• Texture: the "touchablitly" quality of the object in the photo
• texture enhances the quality of the photo

Film

• Color shots - focus on color and setting
• Black and White - focus on value, shape, and texture
• Two types: commercial and artistic

Lighting

• Lighting is crucial for interior shots
• Different light bulbs create different colors in the shot
• filters can help capture the true colors
• example: incandescent  = orange shots different
• deep blue 80A will correct the orange

Lenses

• Wide angle lenses work best for architecture
• Sometimes you cannot back up far enough to capture what you want
• a wide angle lens can cause distortion

Camera Support

• for taking shots of buildings, may be not need a tripod
• mono-pods (single legged stands) work best for this
• if using a slow/ fine-grained shot with lots of depth
• tripod is necessary
• especially for interior shots

Filters

• Filters can enhance photos through color and texture
• example: using a yellow or orange filter will enhance the colors of the sky clouds
• Polarizing helps as well
• example: darkening a sky / eliminating a reflection from a glass or window

The Big View

• Big View: wide angle or overall view
• usually you must be further away as well to take the desired shot
• Perspective Distortion: when an image appears to have strong converging lines
• while the sides of building in the photo are toward each other - not parallel
• farther one stands from the building - less distortion
• Angle:
• shooting strait on - the shot will appear flat / 2D
• shooting form and angle (side-lit) - the shot will appear to have more texture/dimension/shadows/ form/etc.

Shadows

• these make shots more interesting
• lines and shapes make the object more interesting in the photo

The Detail Shot

• Detail Shot: features the individual elements of the shot
• these shots become indirect portraits of those who made them
• look around! most shots are of those above eye level

Interior Views

• two types: overall shots and the focus on smaller details
• wide angle lens are best for overall views
• want to be between 4 and 20 feet when taking pictures in doors (detail or overview shot)
• with interior shots - the smaller the room is harder to capture -limited space to place the camera
• detailed shots are better for smaller rooms
• for detailed pictures think about: 
•  depth /field/ f-stop
• complications of small room detailed shot:
• a lot of depth of field is necessary
• higher f-stop = slower shutter speed
• slower shutter speed = need a steady hand

Bernice Abott
(US 1898-1991)

• self taught artist
• in 1918 moved to Paris
• worked as an assistant to Man Ray
• By 1925 was a portrait photographer
• Became friends with Eugene Atget who photographed architecture details
• she liked his photography and molded her work after his
• came back to NYC in 1929
• she had work published and devoted the rest of her life photographing architecture