Typography Images

Our current project in G.T is called Typography images. We are creating typography portraits which is where we use the shape of a portrait of someone and put words inside to deliver a message. It can be used with images to make a lasting impact because you can use inspiring words and show who said it at the same time. For example, you could use Martin Luther Kings picture and put in his "I had a dream speech" throughout his head. In that case, more people would pay attention to it because of how interesting it looks. So far i'm really enjoying this project.
                    Innovator 
At first when I seen how our final outcome should look, I got scared. From never doing this before, it looked pretty challenging. But over the days, after watching some tutorial videos, I realized it was a fairly easy project. I think after three years of being in G.T., i'm being able to understand and comprehend things a lot faster which made every step an easy follow along kind of thing. So most of the project was easy enough for me to follow along but hard enough to get me thinking. I Probably struggles the most with my "Me" example, because my portrait I used for it didn't have very much highlights. After posterizing my image and adjusting the contrast and some other things I had a little more highlight but still not the amount I wanted. I went on with the project so as to not get far behind and finished it up, but still the highlights weren't enough. Instead of restarting the project, I did what our teacher, Mr.Sanderl, recommended and selected my shadows and made it a different color (The blue area) and it made my image five times better.
                                                                     
The image above, is an image of Benjamin Franklin created by text. The text aren't just any words but they are information all about him. Since I made the text really small, I copied the first amount of text I got, and repeatedly pasted it until the words covered the whole page.

I think my favorite out of my three is "Me" because of how much more detail and layer effects I have compared to the other two. I also love the "Me" the best because you can see a lot of the words clearly and it explains me well.

                                                                                                                            Me                                                                           Teacher

I love the way me "Me" came out! I would definitely change some things the next time but I love it!

I also love the way my "Teacher" Came out! Love the way the colors fade together!

Double Exposed Portraits

Our new project consists of having a profile view picture of ourself and a couple landscape images that symbolize us. During the process of starting this project, we first learned what portrait photography is. It is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. The focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included. It can relate to profile view and silhouetting because the focus of a profile is also the persons face. So although it does not focus on the mood of the face, it is still used to show the outline of the face and some emotion.

Double exposures are created in Photoshop with a few simple steps. The first step is to get your images. You need one profile view and 2 or more pictures to put inside of you. Then you load it into Photoshop and make the area around your face completely white. When you are done with that, you can put one of your images on top of the profile view of you and change it to screen mode. Screen mode usually works really well, but if not you can try some of the other ones to see how well it is. Then you can add your other pictures and also make it screen so that it looks like the opacity is low. Then when you are done fitting all your pictures nicely, you can crop your image to exactly how you want, and save it. It's really interesting to make because of how original you can make it. You can put whatever it is you want in your head.

For my example, I used a picture of a small waterfall at Lumahai beach. I used that picture because of I love waterfalls and the beach, so that picture fit me perfectly. I also used a picture of a bunch of plumeria flowers. I used that picture not only because of the fact that I love flowers, but because of the color in it. The bright yellow in the flower kind of symbolizes how happy I am when I am with my family and friends. I loved the outcome of my work but to improve it, I could have added more effects to my images in my face.

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HDR Photography

HDR is short for high dynamic range. In my opinion, using HDR photography is super interesting. You can turn your normal pictures into a beautiful, saturated image. HDR uses 2 or more images with each image at a different exposure. For this project we took 7 pictures starting a low exposure and took 7 pictures moving the exposure higher. We then imported the pictures and put them into photoshop, but you can also use other programs. After taking some time to edit my pictures, that is my final product. I'm actually very happy with my outcome. I love the sunrise landscape because it really looks like a painting. I think taking a landscape of the sunrise or sunset is really cool because they're are many colors. The only difficult thing is keeping the camera still and your horizon line straight. I also chose Lele to be my subject because of the color of her eyes. Her eyes have multiple colors in them just like my sunrise.

Movie Poster Promo

In our movie poster, you see the two main characters. Leslie acting as Malia and Miles acting as Ziggy. They are two strangers that meet and become best friends. Mutual feelings develop, but only for one person. Malia and Ziggy spend many days together enjoying themselves, but then things take a turn. Their friendship becomes nothing.

The title of our movie is "Young and broken hearted" because these two teens are only in high school and already get the feeling of being broken hearted. I used kerning in my title because it helps make thing more customized and interesting. Kerning is adjusting the spacing between fonts and letters.It really helps to make things original.

I used a lot of layer effects, one of them was adding a blur to make the main characters pop hop. I also used the color dropper to make a color scheme and kind of tie everything together. All of the different layer effects definitely helped my poster look more outstanding and unique.

                                      

Proactive or Procrastination

"Are you proactive or a procrastinator?" thats a question that I got asked. Thinking about it, I realized I am a procrastinator. But it does depend what i'm doing. When it comes to school, I have to admit that I am a procrastinator. Although, when it comes to doing certain arts and crafts, i'm proactive.  Overall though, I would say I am a procrastinator because of a lot of distractions. Usually instead of doing homework, cleaning, or anything else I go on the internet and listen to music or look at some friends pictures.

When it comes to comparing my amount of free time with my productivity, I know that the more free time I have, the less proactive I am. That may sound weird but when I have more free time, I tend to do other things before important things and I end up not even doing the important things. But when I have a limited time to do something, I do my important things first because that is all thats on my mind. It may be a bit confusing but I just tend to take advantage of free time, so having less time is better for me because it keeps me on track.

If I were to change some of my work habits, it would be to spend less time watching tv or on the phone. I would also keep my priority on doing all my homework or cleaning before doing anything else. To do that, I would first of all ask my mom for help. She tends to understand me very well, so I would ask her to remind me to do my homework before any phone time. Then I would organize y planner more because for right now, I am very unorganized which makes me loose a lot of my work. And loosing my work makes me stress, like a lot. But again, it is my fault for not being organized. Hopefully I will become more proactive.

My Visual Poem

My visual poem is about enjoying life. I wanted to tell people to enjoy life and do things that make you happy. For my visuals, I used a lot of pictures but they still show feeling. In most of my pictures you'll see someone laughing or smiling. You can really see that they're enjoying life. 

To make the mood of my poem a little more exciting, I added an effect called Ken Burns. This is a type of panning and zooming effect used on videos. So for most f my pictures I zoomed in on someone laughing or smiling to show that they are enjoying life. I think the ken burns helped show what I was trying to show in my pictures.

I am kind of satisfied with my results. I definitely could have made it better by using more videos and less pictures. It was kind of difficult for me to do this poem though because of how short it is, so the time for videos or pictures was very limited. I think next time I could think out a better way to show happiness and fun instead of all pictures.

Real World Report

The story I was interested in is called "No Death Penalty for Dad Charger in Toddler Death". This story is about a father leaving his toddler in a car for about seven hour. It was said that while his son was in the car, his father was sending nudes to ladies in his office. He not only sent nudes to women of age but also to underage women. The jury states that without 100% evidence that he intended to kill his son, they would not give him the death penalty. But he is facing murder charges.

I feel that he should be charged with two life sentences because if he got charged with only one death penalty, its a possibility that he could get out and that is not really fair. I feel that if he was capable of letting his own blood child suffer in the car with no air while it was very hot, he should stay in jail and be treated like a criminal. He should suffer just like his son did. In my opinion, people like that should suffer instead of just being killed easily. They should serve time around other criminals that can make him suffer.

I think people should be aware of this story because it is very cruel. People should see how important life is and how ones life can be taken at any time of day for any reason. It is also important for people to see this story so that they can see how dangerous our world is. There is a lot of people in the world that have really cruel minds and we need to be careful on everything we do.