Portrait Photography Unit - Art 7

Reflection Questions for Portrait Photography Unit

1) I took this photo along with some of my friends. My inspiration for this photo graph was to somehow take plants or nature and incorporate that into my photograph. We initially tried to do this with some of the plants nearby. We did not uproot any plants, therefore, it was very difficult to get the picture I desired. So we took a leaf that was lying on the floor, and used for my picture. I focused the camera on my friend, and the picture turned out to be very creative. This picture is a frame inside of a frame picture. This means that there is a second frame inside the main frame of the camera. After I took this picture, I did some editing to it. I cropped a few parts out of the picture and very slightly edited some of the lighting behind it.
This is my final photograph:

2) This is my Exposure Photograph. Exposure is how much light you let into a picture. This picture is closest to "0" in exposure. An overexposed photograph lets a lot of light in. Therefore, it sets a more energetic mood. An underexposed photograph lets less light in. Therefore, it sets a moody, dark, and gloomy mood. 

This is an example of a picture taken in exposure close to "0."

3) I think that my reflection picture is one of the best photos I took. In this photo, I used a mirror to create a reflection of me taking a picture. I feel as though this is creative and my angles and lighting suite this picture very well.
Here is my picture:

4) the background and the lighting are very vital because they set a mood for the viewers. If you take a picture in a dark place with surroundings that look unfamiliar or haunted, then the viewers might feel "scared." On the other hand, if you take a picture in a bright surrounding with a pleasant background (such as flowers) then the viewers might feel "happy or joyful."  This can play an important role in how the audience views the pictures, and what kind of mood the artist wants to set. For example, this picture below sets a slightly dark atmosphere. This is because only half of the the person (or student's) face is lit. The rest of the surroundings are dark. I also made this picture black and white, so it adds a touch to the dark atmosphere.

Here is the picture:

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Art Keva Plank Reflection

This is an example of Cantilever

Summative Works:

Static Form: 

Static form was slightly easier to build. This form usually has a solid base and a stable structure. We made a hexagonal shape form he base and slowly tarted to narrow in the shape. Then we set some planks vertically and then built a triangular prism on top. This form is very straight forward with definite shapes. We really enjoyed building this!

Dynamic Form: 

This form took imagination and perseverance to build. This type of structure does not have a solid structure and "plays with your eyes." My team mate and I attempted to build a "bridge like" structure. We first made our horizontal structures and made cantilever to connect the two. Our structure fell down a few times, however we finally managed to stabilize the structure and finish the masterpiece. We got inspired to build this by looking at a dynamic building online. It was a curved structure, so we just made our structure look more like a bridge. 

Reflection Questions

1) My favorite part of this assignment was using my creativity to build amazing structures. I especially liked the dynamic form and cantilever because we needed to be careful and use our imagination to come up with a wonderful idea. Then we need to see how to actually build the structure. Each time, I would come up with a different time, from part of a castle to a house!

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2) Keva planks can enhance creativity because you have to come up with different designs for your structures. Many different people have various an creative structures of their own. We had to do the same when we were building our own structures!

3) In Cantilever, we used some planks to weight some keva planks in order to keep the structure from falling. If we kept a block in an awkward position where it is going to fall, then we can use the weight of another block to support it. So we would put a few planks on top it it to keep it from falling. We created many masterpieces using cantilever in our class!

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Reverse Value Drawings - Reflection

1) Reverse Value is like Optical Illusion. It plays with the retina of your eye. You can see it as 3D shapes. For this assignment, we used ink, brushes, white-out, jelly role pen sharpies, and colored pencils.

Answers for Reflection questions :

1) I think that the most challenging part of this assignment was to ensure that you reversed the value of the objects properly. For example, you could accidentally color an object white, when it is supposed to be black. I feel as though this assignment requred you to think before you started to color. 

2) 

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I like how this image plays with your retina. It looks like there are two spirals like shapes that look like tornadoes, but really they are just curves black and white lines. I like how they provided more space between the black and white lines of the spirals rather than the background. This makes the spirals show out more than the background. 

3) 

I chose to emphasize me doing a Bharatanatyam Pose. I have been learning Bharatanatyam (Classical Indian Dance) from a very young age and I have a lot if interest int this art form. I enjoy performing in front or large crowds and showing the audience my skills and talents. I think that this represents my self confidence and my love for dance.