0:03 The second you see the crosshair on the screen it appeals the viewer making the viewer think that there is much more behind this video

0:05 Overlapping Action takes place here when the black overlaps with the white to change the scene.

1:15 Lines in the background create a secondary action.


-Pacing in this video is based on voices in the background of the video and change of tone in people's voices

-The Colours that were used where just black and white, these two colours indicate the both sides in the conversation (good and bad).

-Many secondary actions throughout the video are very effective in making the video more visually pleasing.

-The mood of this piece is dark because of how emotional this scene is in the show the typographer had to portray this in his art making this piece have a dark emotional feel.

Lighting 

Lighting here is overall this portraits best feature, the photographer in this photo uses darks and lights to show off the curves and details in his face that work well with the black and white.

Expression 

This photo shows Robert Downey Jr. looking very concentrated at a object that could be out of frame. The photographer took this photo in such detail sort of showing the viewer a more tough side of Robert.

Background 

The background of this photo is black, I assume the photographer chose this simplistic background to contrast with the lights and darks contouring his face. 

Pose and Posture

The pose and posture of this portrait show a more relaxed side of Robert using exposed close up photography in a relaxed, mid action pose.

Eyes and Direction of Gaze 

Robert is looking away from the camera as if it isn't there, this says that he is trying to portray a more natural side of himself. 

Color and Contrast 

Color isn't a very important part of this at all because it contains no color at all, but contrast is very important here because it creates the contours around his face.

Why I picked this photo

To start I picked this photo because my favorite types of portraits it seems are close high detail photographs in black and white. I think those three components are just a very good combination, I was also drawn towards this because I think it takes real skill to perfect lighting in such a way this photographer portrayed Robert Downey Jr. here.

For my portrait, I went for pop art styling. Originally I was planning on choosing a graffiti style based off Michel Basquiat, but I came across a portrait of Michel Basquiat by Andy Warhol which gave me the inspiration to do a pop art style. Overall I feel that it was a good choice to do pop art because it seemed easier to do that art style digitally.

When making art in any medium you need to make artistic choices to bring the piece of art to a higher viewing level, I had to make allot of choices making this piece of art. The first decision I had to make was how am I going to make was what am I going to do and how am I going to make it. The first big decision was to chose I program I was going to work on, I decided to use photoshop because it's the program that I was most familiar with and it made the most sense for my project. The second big decision I had to make was what am I going to use for the background of my project, I chose a more surreal acid wash looking background to make the photo brighter. These two decisions affected my picture because Photoshop effect they way I drew myself in the picture, and the background affect the contrast between my dark outline and empty space on the picture.

When making this picture I started by looking through art by my favorite artists to get inspiration. After I chose what style I wanted I started by taking photos of myself to help myself create an outline later on. After getting the photos I traced out my photo in a gritty style. After getting down the outline and focus of the picture I started to make my background. I wanted my background to look like gray acid wash so I did just that, I got a photo of gray acid wash jeans and manipulated the photo into being my background.

Overall I am not very satisfied with the final project. I wish I was able to create a similar background with my own patterns and resolution because the photo I picked for the background ended being a very low resolution by the end of manipulating it.

                                     

Still Life Drawing

For the past two weeks, we have been working on still life drawings based on the objects put before us. First I started by sketching out the contour of the objects to get the proportions and the positioning right. Then when I was satisfied with the positioning of the lines I drew the contour of the objects with harder more clean lines, overall though the contour was quite light to keep realism in the photo. After finishing the contour I started lightly shading my drawing with an HB pencil, after going over everything with the HB I started to go in with my 2B pencil then after going in with my 6B pencil. Using these different levels of darkness in my shading overall resulted in more realistic shadows in my drawing.

I chose to do an L composition for my drawing. I chose this composition because it had the best flow of objects for what position I had of the objects.  My L composition consists of two skulls making the bottom of the L and the vase making the vertical part of the L. After drawing the basic outline of my composition I started to shade in the curtains behind the skulls to fill in the negative space. 

Go look at my slide show on earth art here.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13p42x7XUEOeKLxSdS3POh8KccQ8r0s7qbgZwc0KNduw/edit#slide=id.p

                                  Photography Basics

                                                        Shallow Depth of Field

               This shows a shallow depth of field because of high focus on the focal point and a blur                        effect on the part that the photographer doesn't want to focus in on.

Long Depth of Field

This photo shows a long depth of field because of it's long range of focus showing everything the photographer can see at that moment.

Low Shutter Speed

This photo was taken with low shutter speed, you can see this because it shows this man's entire movement instead of capturing that exact moment in time when clicking the camera.

High Shutter Speed

This is high shutter speed, you can see this because the exact moment in time was captured when the photographer took the photo. 

High ISO 

This is a high ISO photo because we are able to see all this detail in the dark (this is the camera letting in all the light as it can to let us see the picture) and because of the graininess, it creates when putting the ISO this high.

Low ISO

This photo has a low ISO due to it being relatively dark and its low amount of grain. The reason why the photo is so dark in what seems to be a bright scenario is because the camera is letting in less light making the photo look better. 

Q#1.)When Richard Avedon talks about contradiction and complexity in the face I think he is talking about the emotions in people's faces and how each face has a certain complexity to it depending on their emotion, upbringing and background.


Q#2.)When Avedon decided to go with simple, clean cut photography with a white background it achieved focus. The white background makes you focus on the subject he is trying make the viewer look at.


Q#3.) With painting even if you have a realistic painting the exact moment will never be captured because of the time it takes to produce a painting. Photographs capture that moment in time almost exactly, taking seconds to produce. I think we migrate to photography more because of how fast-moving we are, making us want results instantly.

                                                                Split Lighting

                                                        Loop Lighting (Short Lighting)

                                                         Rembrandt (Short Lighting)

                                                                    Loop Lighting

                                                                 Butterfly Lighting