These are my forced perspective photos. I only have two, and the second didn't come out the way I wanted it to.
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Graffiti is a type of art that is very public, and is often used in an expressive manner to portray thoughts and opinions. I personally like the art, but only when it’s not inappropriate or portraying a message I strongly disagree with.There are a few small key locations where you could see some graffiti, but not enough of it where we could call it popular. Graffiti is more often covering cities and urban areas, versus small towns like Millis. I consider graffiti as both art and vandalism. It is most definitely art, a very expressive form of it, can can often be quite creative and appealing to the eye. I would only consider graffiti vandalism if it portrays a negative message or vulgar imagery, but more often people simply leave their mark around cities.Considering that it is, in fact, against the law, if they were caught they should be forced to apologize to whoever’s property they have vandalized, and should they want it removed, the “criminal” should have to remove it by whatever means necessary. If the walls of my house were painted with graffiti without my consent, while I would be a little bothered, I would also think it was kind of cool. Although I don’t know if my parents would agree. The point of Exit Through the Gift Shop was, I thought, to show consumerism and the effect street art or commercialism has on society, and the pull it has on people. I don’t think it matters if the whole thing was staged because I still see it as an accurate representation of consumerism and commercialism.
For this piece I only used about 9 or 10 photos, but I took multiple pieces from each one. I tried to show the progress of the girl walking down to the water, between showing the progress of her boots and her head and body moving along with them.
I used a picture I had taken of a beach and used the original picture as a canvas. I copied each layer I made, and made each photo subsequently smaller, and rotated it to mimic the effect of a kaleidoscope.
With this photo, I took a picture of a display at the Dana Farber Cancer Instituted and made the photo take up a quarter of my canvas. I reflected the photo down and to the sides, creating a
4-way symmetrical effect. I took this photo at a hotel in Newport on New Years Eve. To create this effect I used the tool on Photoshop that allows me to create new layers from a selection made from the original photo. I arranged them so the relatively lined up to look like the original picture, but made it so there were a lot of jagged edges so it looked more like Hockney's work. I added a small drop shadow to make it look like one picture compiled of different photos.
Depth of field is the distance between the closest and the furthest objects from the lens, and how the lens processes the distance that will create a focal point in an image. The higher the aperture is set, the less things will be in focus. When the aperture is high, the things closest to the lens will be in focus, when the aperture is low, the things both close and far from the lens will be in focus. In these images, I have used different crayons and made them into the focal points of the pictures by changing how clear they are.
The light source in all of these pictures was the sun. I took the first picture at an angle that allowed me to get the girls feet in the picture, which is showing what was casting the shadow. The second picture was taken from behind a basketball hoop, and the shadow looked as though it took up a big part of the court. The last photo was literally taken on the ground, and even though the focus of the picture is probably the acorn, I felt that the shadow brought a strong component into the picture, which is why I included it in this gallery.
Elements of art and principles of design interact in photography to create focal points and organization in the photos taken. It is difficult to take photos that only apply to one element of art and one principle of design because pictures and subjects can be put in so many categories. For example, the picture of the picnic tables can go under shape, line, or texture just for the elements of art, and under pattern, balance, or proportion for principles of design. Each picture can fit into so many categories, and it becomes difficult to determine which category to put it in.
The seven main genres of photography are Art, Photography and War, Digital Truth, Presidential Image-making, Persuasion, Social Change, and Cultural Identity. Art includes new and old photographs, often of objects or things that are happening around you. Photography and War is photography based around life, death, and violence. Digital Truth is truth or reality shown through raw, unedited photos. Presidential Image-making is basically the political side of photography. Persuasion in photography is most commonly used for advertisement and campaigning. Social Change is photography that is showing a problem and is used to convusing people to change it. Cultural Identity is a type of photography that shows someone or something that could be associated with or showing a certain aspect of culture. Most of the pictures I take tend to fall into the art category. |
AuthorMy name is Abigail, I'm a sophomore in high school and this is my Phoblography. Archives
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