Final Exam

4)

 

This is the photo that made my perspective and outlook of photography shift. Before when I would take photos, I kept trying to find something beautiful to capture so that my picture would look great. I would have to move things around so that every factor of the picture was placed perfectly. However, this picture transformed my viewpoint within seconds because I finally saw how simple and serene life could look. Everything already seemed to be placed in the right spot not by someone else, but by nature itself. Seeing how tranquil the world could be in this picture made me realize that I shouldn't always be trying to capture something perfect and beautiful but I should wait for that scene to come to me. Photography should be about capturing reality, not something that is pretty. I feel like I realized that when I took this picture. Although, I must admit that this reminds me more of a fairy tale than reality! 

5) Shape is described by a two dimensional space. It can be seen when color is filled into some lines and/or angles. An example would be geometric shapes like a square. Form however is described by a three dimensional space. It requires a lot more depth and an example of one would be a cube. 

6) Pattern is seen when an object is repeated multiple times in a specific sequence.  Repetition works with pattern to make the work of art seem active and unified. 

7)

 

Since movement is the path a viewer's eyes takes through art, in this photo the movement is shown by maneuvering beyond the rocks and following the river through the trees towards the light.

8) I feel like the Presentation Project was my best work because in order to take the photos, I really had to get down and dirty into the creek which made me appreciate the photos a lot more after. I believe it was my best work because it benefited me as well. Usually when I am walking (running) on the creek path, it's not because I am enjoying it's beauty, but because I am on my way to school and am probably about to be tardy. But after going down there and really visualizing it, I feel like I have been missing out. It was so awesome, I felt like I was in my own world away from school and my worries/stresses of life. It made me see how simple life is and that is what I felt I needed to capture in my photos. I felt like I really knew the place before taking the photos which really attached me to the creek. By having a connection with it, I feel like the photos expressed myself more and in a deeper way and so I felt like this was my best work. This project changed me because it reminded me to "stop and smell the roses" and just get out of my complex and crazy life once in a while and live among nature. Like Thoreau, I feel it can teach us a thing or two. 

#photoshopped

Final Project: A Dog's Life

Weebly Sites from other periods

Period 2: Rashi Ambashta
~I love Rashi's pictures of the close up faces of her friends (such as the one of Serena) because it shows such real expressions and it is so truthful.

Period 3: Lucas Williams
~ I love Lucas's last picture in his slideshow with the water bottle spewing water onto the wall. It looks like the shutter speed must have been very high to take such a great and clear picture and I respect that a lot. It also looks really cool as if the water is defying gravity!

Period 4: Tulika Mohanti
~ I really like Tulika's picture of her friend with the leaf in front of her face because it creates a sense of mystery and temptation. The expression is dark yet the colors make it deceiving.

My Final Project

My idea is to take pictures of my dog with different emotions and positions 

Here is my shotlist:

1) Active/playing/happy 

2) Sad/ missing my parents

3) Focused/concentrated

4) Sniffing things 

5) Longing 

Three Photographers: 

Jesse Freidin Link to her blog

Erin Vey Link to her blog

Michael Brian Link to his blog

These three inspired me to take fun pictures of my own dog and their pictures really made 

me want to choose this topic because a lot of them made me laugh or just made me feel 

really happy inside and if I can make someone else feel the same through my own 

pictures, then it's worth it :) Working/playing with my dog is also a great stress reliever 

for me so I'm looking forward to taking my pictures! 

Presentation Project

Check out my Weebly site!:http://msjdplavanyasnapsbyyourstruly.weebly.com/

Spring Expo Shotlist

1) My first picture is of someone taking a picture of the beautiful creek, to show that sometimes there is beauty in the picture taking process as well
2) My second picture is of the creek under the overhanging trees, making the creek look green and full of life.
3) My third picture is of a beautiful part of the creek with the rocks surrounding it, the trees reflecting off it, and the sun shining down on the perfect spot.
4) My fourth picture is of a girl sitting among the grasses near the creek and peacefully reading, creating a sense of surrealism.
5) My fifth and final picture is closing again with a picture of someone taking a picture of the creek only this time the tall trees surround her, making it look more mysterious and big. 

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Multicultural Week: Photo Story: Around the Horseshoe

First stop: Curly Fries 

                                                                           Donuts!

      Chocolate cake! See the trend? Most of the stalls

only sold unhealthy food so the students would buy them!

                                                                           Snapple

                              These hardworking students made our multicultural week that much
                                                    better with all the delicious food!

Multicultural week Pt 2

As you can see, Multicultural week is a very popular and somewhat chaotic time of the school year. Kids will do anything to get first in line for their favorite exotic food. Not only are the kids helping themselves to the exceptional cuisines of various cultures, but some are the ones selling them, trying to raise funds for their club. Multicultural week reflects multiple levels of maturity from our students from understanding of racial diversity to independence and hard work. This annual tradition will surely be remembered by many as they progress on in life. 

Multicultural Week

This week in Mission San Jose High School, we are celebrating a plethora of cultures for one week called Multicultural week. Not only do we get to eat great tasting and exotic food everyday, but we get to delve into the vast variety of cultures, learn more about them, and broaden are minds even more. We get to see various performances from different countries and see how amazing these countries really are. The spirit in our school is breathtaking as each student represents their own ethnicity with pride. The appreciation for such a diverse school is sky high and will continue to make us proud. With all the racial problems in our world today, it is crucial that kids understand that everyone is equal no matter where they are from and what color they are. Multicultural week teaches us to respect differnt races and to always remeber that we are equals. 

Shutter Speed and Everything After

From Lens Blog: 1) The photo had fast shutter speed because the picture has a truck in motion and it's clarity is very good

2) Rules of composition: Leading Lines and Rule of Thirds

3) Element of Art: Space because there is a lot of area between and around the trucks 

4) Principle of Design: Movement because the trucks are moving in the picture 

^ shutter speed: 1/120s

Principles of Design~ Variety

Principles of Design~ Unity

Lens Blog NYtimes~Best picture representing Unity

We chose this picture:
Documenting the Blues in the Mississippi Delta #12
We felt that it represented Unity from the Principles of Design the most because the bed has a very
calming and contemporary aura around it. The symmetry and balance in the picture makes it feel whole and complete. There is an overall sense of harmony in this photo. 

Principles of Design~Rhythm

Principles of Design~ Proportion

Movie Monday~Gordon Parks Parts 3 & 4

1. My definition of successful is to be happy and content.
2. I would give anything to be what I think is successful.
3. Parks gave up his family and personal life to be successful.
4. A rich businessman
5. He was advanced $10,000.
6. $500,000.
7. Parks thought that Muhammad was going  to influence him and didn't want to represent something he didn't believe in.
8. The Learning Tree was the first major motion picture written and directed by an African American.
9. Shaft was the first African American superhero who inspired other young African Americans to not be deterred by the onslaught of racism in the communities. 
10. His weapon was a roll of film and a camera.
11. Genevieve said that Gordon was always involved in a lot of trouble and she got tired of taking care of him. He held her back from her career and was never at home.
12.  Twelve Years a Slave
13. He was the son of Gordon Parks.
14.  My favorite Gordon Parks photo is American Gothic.
15. I will remember that Parks was the first African American to create a major motion picture as well as the African American superhero Shaft.

Movie Monday~Gordon Parks Parts 1 & 2

1. The doctor placed his body in a tub filled with ice water.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that he wasn't college material.
4. He was fourteen.
5. He moved to Minnesota to live with his aunt after his mom died.
6. Yes
7. He worked for a women's clothing story.
8. Double exposure is a photography method that creates a ghost image.
9. Joseph Louis Barrow was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
10. Gordon played the piano.
11. The purpose of the Farm Security Administration was to help combat American rural poverty.
12. His first assignment was to go to a theater and watch a movie.
13. She was an African American woman that Gordon took a picture of.
14. His inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was the American Gothic House.
15. He learned how to approach people and take pictures of them
16. The FSA shut down in 1943.
17. Gordon Parks shot for Vogue magazine after he moved to New York.
18. The picture editor of Life Magazine was Wilson Hicks.
19. Park's first major story was about a Harlem gang leader named Red Jackson.
20. Gordon was influenced by Degas, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Chagall.
21. Parks took pictures of the model while she was walking at slow speed.
22. Park's concerto was performed in Venice.
23. Park's second wife was Elizabeth Campbell. She was a model. Her father worked for Ebony magazine.
24. Flavio de Silva was 12 years old when Gordon Parks met him.
25. Parks met Silva in the early 1960s.
26. Flavio lived in a shack when Parks first met him and his family.
27. Gloria Vanderbilt's son is Anderson Cooper. Her ancestors include Corneilius Vanderbilt, who made a railroad empire.
28. Vanderbilt described their relationship as spiritual and full of connection

Principles of Design~ Pattern/Repetition

Principles of Design~ Movement

           The colors from the chalk can be movement because it leads our eyes to the end of the bricks.
           In this picture, I increased the whites, vibrancy, saturation, clarity and blacks. 

Principles of Design~ Emphasis

Principles of Design~ Balance

Elements of Art~ Texture

Elements of Art~ Color

Elements of Art~ Space

Elements of Art~Form

Elements of Art~ Shapes

Elements of Art~ Lines

Lens Blog Favorites

1) Bellal Bhai fishing in water
2)Bellal Bhai's family and food situation
3) Bellal Bhai's boat
4) Nurjahan Khala and education
5) Nurjahan Khala and work

Multimedia Poster (2)

Answers to Movie Questions

1) The Photo League's credo held that the camera was more than a means of creating reality, it was a device with a potential to change the world.

2) The Photo League separated from the Film and Photo League

3) The workshop was what the classes, lectures, and teachings were called in the Photo League

4) Sid Grossman

5) Serving my community through Girl Scouts

6) The Harlem Document was an ambitious multi-year collaboration between 5 photographers.

7) Aaron Siscand

8) Michalangelo Menx del Caraveggio

9) It looked like it was by the painter because the sunlight hit one of the kids making it seem special

10) Lewis Hine was the epitome of the forgotten man. He was a pioneering social photographer. 30 years earlier, he had invented the type of photography the photo league was now engaged in.

11) Weegee was the photo league's quirkiest and least hygenic member (flash photography). He was a nighthawk and a loner who lived in a police headquarters where he often in his clothes. He smoked 20 cheap cigars a day. His business was murder and mayhem.

12) When the Nazis took over, many people mistook photographers for spies because of their cameras. They refused to hire non-americans. They used their cameras in support of the war effort.

13) They used their cameras in support of the war effort by taking photos of those going to war, what would happen to them. They became more involved.

14) Siskind changed after in that he brought the concept of abstract realism to photography.

15) It was an American photography and journalism publication that featured some of Photo League photos.

16) She was an American member of the photo league who focused on modern dancers in her pictures.

17) The Photo League's photographers were blacklisted due to being included in a government list that includes communist, fascist, and anti-democratic organizations.

18) It was the communist idea that could spread quickly.

19) W. Eugen Smith did

20) The League ended when Angela Calumns testified against them claiming that Sid Grossman recruited her into a communist ideology.

Multimedia Fest Poster 2015